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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-11-17
RUTH ELDER DID
! NOT WITNESS
FIGHT

RENO, New, Nov. II Q.N.S).
While two prominent Renoites
nursed black eyes and bruised
faces today, Ruth Elder, noted
aviatrix, expressed regret that
she had missed the melee which
asSertedly climaxed a party eel.
ebrating her graduation" from
the Reno divorce colony.
Kendrick Johnson, Reno attor-
ney and one-time star athlete at
Santa Clara University, was cited
into police court on a charge
OF assault and battery preferred
by NJ. j. Holland, who said John
son BACKED his eye during a
party which followed Miss Elders
divorce from Walter Camp, jr.
Went to Apartment
Miss Elder planned to leave for
New York probably tonight and
At was considered unlikely she
would appear at the assault trial,
which was postponed a day or
two at JohnSon's request.
Meeting Miss Elder and "boy
friend" in a Reno night club,
Holland said that he was invited
to Johnson's, apartment, where
johnson, he said, started to beat
up" Miss Elder. Holland said he
suffered the. black eye when he
interviewed.
johnson, displaying swollen
lists and skinned knuckles, adj
united having been in, a fist fight,
but denied he had struck Miss
ELDER. a statement which the
beautiful aviatrix corroborated.
johnson said he had cut his
mead ION radiator or something
during the scuffle."
Left the Party
! Miss Elder declared:
81 saw the fight coming, so
4 asked q Reno policeman who
vas present to take me home.
Mr.. Johnson started cutting
Holland as the officer and I
= were leaving"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-11-17
New Mules at LortOn
To Bear Names
Of NOtGbleS

Much speculation was rife at
the District Building today rela-
tive to the names for eight
mules bought yesterday by the
District Commissioners to be
put to work at the District Re-
formatory at Lorton, Va.
Among names suggested in
cluded those of the Commits
sioners, Brig. Gen. Pelham D.
Glassford. Gov, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, AL Smith and others.
Officials insisted the pur-
chase had no political signifi-
nance. The name of President
was not suggested.
Each mule cost $238.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-11-17
FOX film SUED
FOR 100000

NEW YORK, Nov. II U.N.S) .
Suits aggregating 100000 were
on file today in Supreme Court
against the Fox Film Corporation
and its subsidiaries. Instituted
by Aronberg-Fr Inc. builders,
the action charged breach of con.
tract because the film company
halted work on the erection of
proposed theaters in New York.
Newark, N. j., and Philadelphia.
killing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-11-17
MAN SERIOUSLY
HURT IN FIGHT

Following an argument last
night in the 300 block of Indiana
Ave. N. W., william y. Pratt, 80,
of the 1000 block of Portner Pl.
N. W., was taken by police to
Emergency Hospital with a pos
sible skull fracture received when
he was hit with crank handle.
Lawrence Miller. 90, a chauf-
feur was arrested as Pratt's as
Sailant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
TACTICS IN THE
HUNGER OFFENSIVE

The amount proposed is a maxi
mum of SO weekly-for period of
not more than 10 weeks in any one
year-if so per cent of a workers
wages would be more than $40
weekly. If so per cent of the workers
wages comes to less than $40 per
week, then he receives the smaller
sum for 10 weeks, no matter how
long he may be out Of a job.
But to qualify even for this pit
lance a worker must have a job,
when and IL these proposals become
law. This automatically eliminates
the 100000 now jobless in America
from any insurance even if these
proposals became law tomorrow.
Governor Roosevelt's schemes
do the others-piaces the greater
part of the control of the unemploy-
ment insurance funds-to be built UP
by setting aside one or two per cent
Of the payroll--in the hands OF the
employers. The government connec-
ton with the scheme is much like its
supervision of the various state laws
for dealing with compensation for
injuries in the course of employment
In other words words, the employers
are to be given an additional weapon
against the workers since 10 benefit
worker must have been employed
for certain length of time. The
payments are to be made by the firm
or corporation aud this feature alone
shows that the proposals have the
purpose Of tying workers closer to the
boss, making strikes for better con-
ditions more difficult by threat OF
the loss Of even the miserable sums
allotted for unemployment.
All of these proposed measures are
not eevn the smallest of sops thrown
to the working -class--they furnish
only an opportunity for lying prop
uganda about and against the Work
ers Unemployment Bill of the Unem-
ployed Councils-but in actual fact
the enactment of such "unemploy-
ment insurance" legislation as that
favored by Governor Roosevelt, Pin
chot and other presidential possibi-
lities would leave the working class
worse off than without it.
The main purposes of these pro-
posals, we repeat again, are to give
capitalist party demagogues an OPP
portunity TO capitalize the growing
mass misery of the hungry millions
Of men, women and children of the
working class to halt and weaken the
struggle for genuine workers unem-
ployment insurance for every worker
in the United States divert atten-
ton from the role OF federal gov
eminent as tho chief executive com
mittcc of the capitalist class--and to
frame proposals that even If enacted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
SOVIET UNION IN STERN
WARNING DEMANDS JAPANESE
- HALT WAR PROPAGATION

against the Soviet Union. A Tokyo
dispatch to. the New York Times
quotes japanese spokesman as Sug-
costing that the Japanese Army,
having heard of Russian concentra-
ton, might have intended its request
as a counter move" The japanese
imperialistS have themselves previous
ly admitted that there has been no
concentration of Soviet troops. The
lie of Russian concentration" is used
in an attempt to justify the mon
strous provocatio against the SOVIET
Union by the Japanese imperialists.
This provocation is admitted even in
imperialist circles.
The New York Herald Tribune de-
clared in an editorial on Sunday:
"The excitement which Japanese
operations in Manchuria have
aroused in the PrimOrSk Province
the Siberian Far East-is not diff
cult to understand. The Japanese
attitudetoward the Soviet Union has
become decidedly provocative"
Workers! Demand that the Jap
anese troops get out of China! De-
mand thatthe diplomatic representa-
tives of the Japanese imperialist rob-
bers b edriven outi
War Aimed at Working Class and
Soviet World
Workers! The Wall Street gov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
Metal Worker Exposes Fake Job Publicity

he is not in good enough health to
get a Job there although he worked
there before. When John asked the
doctor what was wrong with him he
refused to tell him.
John then went to a private doctor
Joseph A. Dimedio, of 81 w. Third
St, Chester, Pa, whotold him that
he is in perfect condition. On receiv-
ing the doctors certificate, John went
to the company doctor and showed
him the certificate but the doctor
ordered a man to throw him out,
which was done.
The Chester Times, a local CAPT.
taliSt sheet for number of weeks
printed news items that the Sun
Ship Yard was going to hire workers.
John, too, read this news and there
fore went to the Chester Times with
his story. But the city editor of the
Chester Times fatty refused to print
the story on the ground that it is a
personal argument. In this way the
Chester Times proved that it will
print lies of the Sun Ship Yard about
fake jobs but will not print the truth
when the workers come to them.
John Stremal realized that the only
way out Of starvation by the workers
is to organize and fight for Unem-
ployment Insurance.
Join the Unemployed Council which
meets every Thursday, II a. m. at 100
W. Third St.. Chester, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

eminent is supporting the japanese in
their butchery Of the Chinese masses
and war provocation against the So
Wet Union. The Wall Street i1nper-
iahSts who have thrown over twelve
million workers on thestreets to starve
are now trying to throw the working
class into a new and bloodier world
slaughter. This war is aimed at the
working class at home and abroad,
and especially at the victories of the
working class in the Soviet Union and
in the Chinese Soviet districts.
The robber war in China and the
war plots of the imperialists against
the Soviet Union, are aimed at your
interests, workers, at your living
standards at home, at your class VIC
tories in the Soviet Union.
War means not only the slaughter
ing of millions and the manning of
other millions. 1t means the most
intense hunger starvation, destruc-
ton of living standards, increased
terror against the working class and
murderouS destruction Of life, both at
the front and in the cities thousands
of miles from the front, by the mod
ern devices of slaughter. Workers.
Rally to the fight against warl Join
the Communist Party which alone
Leads that fjphtl Demand hands off
China! Hands off the Soviet Union
Demand the withdrawal of all i'm
perialist forces and warships from
China! Demand the expulsion of the
diplomatic agents of Japanese imper-
ialism which is enacting the role of
spearhead in the butchery of the Chi
nese masses, in the armed attack on
the Chinese Soviet Republic and in
the war provocation against the So
Wet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNED

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
SS per cent of the States pOpula-
ton. The state department OF
agriculture reports the principal
products of the State even lower
than in 1910. Building con-
struction is Is per cent less than in
1881 and 81 per cent of skilled labor
is unemployed more concerns
failed In 1881 than in 1890" New
York Evening Post, Feb. 25.-Re-
port of Charles ii. johnson, State
Commissioner of Public Welfare.)
We submit the above as a picture
given of the economic situation in
the richest state in the union, where
are located the main offices of the
wealthiest corporations in the United
States-a picture given, it may be
remarked, by one of the beneficiarieS
of the capitalist system.
Given such situation the condi-
ton of the working population and
their dependents necessarily is one
of utter misery. In other states the
situation is the same or worse
notably in the southland below this
general level of poverty are the Ne
gro masses.
Therefore a will-o-the wisp in the
form of unemployment insurance" is
held out to the hungry millions Of
workers. They are supposed to fix
their eyes on this, forget their pres
sent sufferings and follow with
grateful gaze the progress Of the
proposed measures through the laby-
rinth of legislative procedure, taking
as their champions the conscience
less demagogues who are trying to
coin mass misery into political pre-
ferment for themselves, and to DEM
onstrate to the big bosses that their
particular formula is the best for
further fooling the masses and post
poning the day of reckoning. for
capitalism.
The proposals for unemployment
insurance" by the Governors Com
mission of N. Y. State and by re-
cent conference of governors of some
five six states have two features in
common:
First: They make absolutely no
provision for the more than 100000
workers at present unemployed in the
United States.
Second: They fix the weekly in
surance payments, and the amount of
the total payments so low that it is
clear these proposals are based on
the existing starvation income of the
American working class in the crisis
period. In other words, these "unem-
ploymcnt insurance" schemes re-
present studied attempt to stab
Iize wages 1t poverty lsvsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
"SELF DETERMINATION"
A LA TOXIC

der whom the editor of the Osaka Mainichi
thinks he was deceiving by following the
above by saying:
"That government (Of Manchuria) has
nothing to do with Japan. We need to
make this point clear once and for all.
Needness to say, the people of Manchuria
have their own right to self determine
tiOn."
And to make quite clear that "self deter
mination' of the Manchurian people is a
passionate aim of the Japanese government,
the editorial closes with:
"There cannot be any sort of meddIing
with Third Power in the formation of
the new Manchurian government. And
there can be no room for doubt as to the
relations between Japan and this new gov
eminent
No, indeed! There can be no doubt! Not
while the "self-determination of the Man
churian people" is the object of such solici-
tude by the armed forces of imperaist
Japan!
Such workers, is the independent repub-
lie of Ankuo," established for the deliberate
aim of being used by world Imperialism to
make war on the Soviet Union in the Far
Easti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

Most of KiangSi Province is now in
the hands of the revolutionary Chi
nese workers and peasants and their
Red Army. Kuomintang troops we're
driven out of Nanchang, capital of
the province, about two weeks ago.
Kwangchow, in the extreme south OF
the province, is now being besieged
by a Chinese Red Army. A Wash
iNgton dispatch reports that four of
the six Americans there have been
evacuated. The other two are re-
ported prepared to leave on short
notice"
While yesterdays dispatches from
Shanghai carefully omit mention of
the rising mass revolutionary move
ment in that city, the dispatches re-
port the foreign imperialists as pre-
pairing to evacuate their nationals
from the International Settlement.
This indicates growing fear on the
part of the imperialists of the reYo-
lutionary mood of the scores Of thou
sands of starving refugees and unem-
ployed workers in the city. Previous
dispatches reported the rapid growth
of Communist influence in Shanghai
Chinese workers at the Aston
House Hotel in Shanghai yesterday
went on strike in protest against the
arrest by the Japanese of an Ameri-
can-born worker. The Japanese were
aided by a Russian White Guard
employed at the hotel as a bell-boy.
A Shanghai dispatch reports.
@Angered, every Chinese empIoye
In the hotel quit work. Plead as
they might, the guests had no SER
vice between noon and pm. The
Chinese returned to work only after
the Russian bell-boy was dismissed.
The militant action of the Chinese
hotel workers indicate the temper
Of the Chinese masses in Shang-
hal"
Russian White Guards, dressed in
the uniform of the Japanese army,
are reported arriving in large num-
bers at Shanghai to fight in the
Japanese forces against the Chinese
masses. White Guords are employed
in large numbers as police in the In
ternational Settlement, controlled by
the United States and England.
Financial Chisis Gets Worse
In Japan.
The financial crisis in Japan, al
ready grave, is growing worse. The
war appropriations and the extern
sive initiation of the currency have
placed ne wburdens on the backs of
the already starving Japanese work.
ers and ruined peasants. A Wash
ington dispatch reports:
Predictions that the operations
In China will seriously aggravate
Japan's already strained financial
situation was received today from
HalIeck A. Belts, commercial at
tache at Toxic.
Butts informed the Commerce
Department domestic loans prob
ably would be necessary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
NY. Dress Strikers
Contribute $500 to
the Daily Worker

Three dollars has bene coutri-
buted by the strikers Of the Smart
Form Dress Co, 463 Seventh Ave.
New York, to save the Daily
Worker.
1.-TWO of our fellow workers, Hy-
man Workman and Meyer Mar
GUS" says the letter from the
strikers. "were convinced to serve
seven days in Tombs prison on
a frame up by the bosses of the
Smart Form Shop. In honor Of
the release of the comrades we
contribute So to our Daily and
pledge to fight on for better living
conditions and against slavery. We
are in the fifth week of our
strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

oIAllCd uuCCCly dO CllS OIuIleSG OOVlSG
Republic and tn eChinese Red Armies
whose victories against the Kuomin-
tang tools of the imperiaists are
alarming the imperialists.
Hand in hand with the Japanese
offensive against the Chinese Soviet
Republic, the Kuomintang militarists
are to attack the Soviet districts
from The South and East. Chang
Kai-shek's generals and the Canton
clique are now mobilizing huge
armies in the four provinces of
Szchuen, Kweichau, east of the Sow
let districts, and Kwangsi and
Kwangtung, to the south of the Sow
let districts.
Warns Imperialist Masters of
Leftward Trend of Masses.
DR.. H. H. Kung, Marking Minister
of Industry and Commerce and
brother-in-laW of Chang Kai-shek,
yesterday warned his imperialist
masters of the revolutionary trend of
the Chinese masses and of the neces-
sity of the Marking government put
ting up show of resistance against
the japanese invaders. He declared
that the Marking Kuomintang gov
ernment was the only organized
hulWark against Communism" and
urged the granting of credits and
war supplies by the Wall Street gov
ernment. A Shanbhai dispatch, re-
porting his appeal to Wall Street,
says:
"Dr. Kung forecast Communist
rule in China, of Japan's military
machine brushes the Chinese forces.
He pointed out that the Kuomin-
tang government party was the
only organized bulwark against
Communism, and said that If its
troops we're defeated the country
would fall an easy prey to the
Communists"
Attacks Revolutionary Masses,
Not Japanese.
The Marking trops are now being
used against the revolutionary masses
in the Chinese Soviet districts in
stea dof against the Japanese in
vaders is admitted by Kung, who
warns the imperialists that the Nan
king government may be forced to
withdraw some Of these troops to
send against the Japanese-in order
to save the face of the Kuomintang
and stem the fury Of the masses,
whose opposition to the Kuomintang
is growing stronger daily. The
Shanghai dispatch says:
"The reinforcements for the Chi
nese defense forces at Shanghai,
DR.. Kung said, would have to
come from Kiangsi Province, south
west of Shanghai, thus abandoning
that area to the Communists, who
have been active there for some
months. DR.. Kung said the
withdrawal of government forces
from this area would make possible
consolidation of Communist in
fluence there with the Communist
areas Of other adjoining provinces"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
by a Worker Correspondent

CHESTER, Pa.--John Sternal, a
worker rs years Of age who has been
unemployed few months in Chester,
Pa. Having worked previously in the
Sun Ship Yard for three years max
ing about s2oa week as a regulator
setting heavy plates in the ships, he
returned tothe Sun Ship Yard try
ing to get job. The employment
agency sent him to the company doc
tor who Informed the worker that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

into law providing for the payment
Of the pittance mentioned will
strengthen the position of the en-
ployers as against workers and their
organizations.
Contrast such proposals with those
continued in the Unemployed Coun-
Gil demands:
IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES.
L, That a system of federal Unem-
ployment Insurance be Immediately
established by an act of congress
and made Immediately effective,
guaranteeing full wages to all work
ers wholly or partly unemployed
through no fault of their own, for
the entire period of unemployment.
FOR ALL WORKERS--NO DIS
CRIMINATION.
z. That Unemployment Insurance be
paid to every unemployed worker,
adult and youth, industrial and
agricultural, Office employee and all
other categories of wage labor, ma
tive and foreign born, citizen and
non-citizen, Negro and white, men
and women, and without discrimi-
nation against any race, color, age
or political opinion. No worker shall
be deprived of Unemployment In
surance because of refusal to take
the place of strikers or to work for
less than union rates of pay.
INSURANCE AT THE EXPENSE OF
THE EMPLOYERS AND THE
GOVERNMENT.
3. That the full funds for UnempIoy-
ment Insurance shall be raised by
the government from funds now
set aside for war preparations and
by taxation upon the capital and
profits of corporations and trusts,
and also by taxation sharply gradu-
ated upward upon all incomes over
$4,000 per year, In no instance
shall there he any contributions
levied upon the workers in any
form whatsoever for this insurance
ADMINISTRATION BY THE
WORKERS.
4. That the Unemployment Insurance
Fund shall be administered and
controlled by the workers, through
committees elected by the workers
themselves.
FOR OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL
INSURANCE.
5. That social INSURANCE be paid to
workers to the amount of full wages
to compensate for loss of wages thru
sickness, old age, maternity, etc.
1t is against these demands and
the militant struggle for them that
the new drive of reaction is di-
rected.
To assist the capitalists in lowering
the living standard of the American
working class-already at the star
Walton level--but to do it under the
pretense of raising the standard and
relieving distress-this is the main
purpose of such unemployment in
surance" proposals as those made by
Governor Roosevelt's commission
and by the recent conference of
state governors.
Even these proposals have to dc
with the dim and distant future and
neglect entirely the needs of the more
than 100000 workers-and their
families-now Jobless and hungry in
the richest country in the world.
(The next article win be "unmask-
ing The Give a Million Jobs Drive" y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

measure for entrance into titanic
struggle for financial supremacy with
French imperialism.
The -Steagall Bill provides for
the "liberalizing' of all credit ennis
sion restrictions formerly in force for
the twofold aim of permitting twice
as much paper money to be issued as
can beissued at present and for
freeing" approximately S9OO,OOO,0O0
of gold now tied up in the vaults of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
Japanese and Marking
TraitorsPldn JointAttdck
Against Chinese SoViets
Marking Official Asks for Wall Street Loans
and Munitions for New Attack on
Chinese Revolution
DIR. Kung Warns Imperialist Masters That Chi
nese Masses Are Turning to Communist
Leadership
BULLETIN.

NORFOLK Va Feb "a japanese ship sailed from this
in
The u mperiasts only supporting the i'm
perasts Chinese
against the Soviet Union but American imperialism rushing
paratiOns for bombing
explosion bombs light night of
bombing practice heard all Norfolk though it
place several miles from the city.
Under the pretext of stopping reinforce
ments from the Marking government, which
are nos forthcoming, for the heroic defenders
of Shanghai, the Japanese yesterday an
nounced their intention of pushing the robber
against China into the interior Additional Japanese war
ships to be sent the Yangze River Bombing planes
to be used to duplicate the Upper Yangze buchery
and campaign of fghtfuness neashed by the Japanese
against the revolutionary workers of Shanghai The move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29

This Is the fifth Of a series of six articles
by Harrison George OH the Japanese seizure OF
NIanchuria in its rObber war against China
and prOvocatiOn against the Soviet Union. The
war in the Far East is of vital concern to
every worker.
Already, the United States War Depart
ment has ordered rush printing of thirty
three million draft blanks in preparation for
the drafting of American workers to fight for
the interests and loot in China of Wall Street.
Every worker should read this series of short
articles. Order your copy of the Daily Worker
in advance. Contribute your share to save the
Daily Worker, to guarantee that the Daily
Worker will not be froced to suspend.-Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
Admit Glass-SteagalI Act
Initiation and War Move

NEW YORK-In public statement accompanying his
signature of the GassSeaga Banking Bill President Hoover
openly admitted the two major purposes Of this last Of series
desperate financial cures to be the provision for
currency initiation in the United States and preparatory