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Evening star., 1932-04-17
FIVE F0SHAY ASSOCIATES
FINED IN MAIL FRAUDS
Judge Grants Years Stay to De-
PENDANTS and Puts Them
on Probation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS. April Is.-Five as
socia.es Of Wilbur B. Foshay, in the
promotion Of his enterprises, now in
receiverShip, today were fined $1,000
each on mail fraud charges. The fines
were stayed one year with the defend
ants on probation.
Judge Joseph w Molyneaux of
United States District Court accepted
pleas Of guilty from two of them and
nolo contendete from the other tree
before the second trial of Foshay and
H. II. Henley, who recently were con-
Ncted OF mail fraud and sentenced to
serve IS years in prison
The five stood trial with Foshay and
Henley in the first case which ended in
disagreement of the jury They are
Harry E. McGinty. Clarence w. Sails
bury. H. r Welch, Palmer V. Mabry
and R. J. Andrus.
World Commerce week in Berlin il
49,.
Evening star., 1932-04-17

town Alumni Club of the State. Two
former Governors, Flynn and Higgins
also are members of the Alumni Cub
The White Debating Society of the
college is sending a team to Boston
this week to debate the Manchurian
question with the Marquette Society
of Boston College The contest will
be held Friday night. Robert Myers,
George Guilfoyle and Howard Gum
locke will represent the White Society
The senior ball of the college will
take place Friday night at the Ward
man Park Hotel
Evening star., 1932-04-17
Final Debate Set.

FINAL DeDdLe SIT
THE final prize debate of the season
! i will be held May 6, it was an
nounced last week at a meeting OF
the Pi Chi Club, a girls organization
Of Columbus University.
Those selected TO compete in this
debate are Irene Bontz and Sarah
Moriarty of the senior class. and Bessie
Squires and Mildred Hope of the fresh
man class. The subject will be: Re
solved That the Federal Constitution
be amended granting Congress the ex-
elusive power to enact uniform mar
riage and divorce laws in the United
States"
The senior team will argue in the
affirmative, while the freshmen will
uphold the negative. Judges have not
yet been chosen.
A dance. sponsored by the Venetian
Society, social organization of the Co
lumbus University School of Ac-
countancy. was held last night at the
Roosevelt Hotel and classes of botr
the School of Accountancy and the
School of Law were represented. The
dance was arranged by committee
composed of Bernard F. Gallagher
Patrick Geagan and Thomas Coates.
Graduation Plans Set.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW
w senior class is beginning its
preparations for the graduation
exercises in June Edward C. Radue
president, last week appointed chair
men of committees as follows: Pic
ture, John E.~Chadwick; cap and gown
Eugene E. Cole; program, Michael B
DriscOll; music, Florence f. Brown;
baccalaureate sermon, Clara l.. Borjes;
commencement speaker. Jane G. Nc
Harg: class rings, Anna T FratantuOnO,
school memorial, Ernest F.. Parkinson
James I. Carr has been appointed to
act as liaison officer between those re-
Ceiving masters degrees and the senior
class
Both law and equity divisions Of
Practice Court were in session or
Saturday afternoon. A damage suit
was tried, with Ray L. Smith as COun-
sci for the plaintiff and Michael B
Driscoll representing the defendant. Ir
a Municipal Court case Leo TeplOV
and Wilbur Smith were counsel. VIII
liam R. Tyers, jr., and Gertrude H
Smith were heard in a probate case
In the equity branch Paul CT. Sadona
and Edward c. Radue were opposing
counsel in a case to abolish a nuisance
OlilcT attorneys Trying cases WEI
George M Fisher. Pasquale j. Federico
Florence E. Brown and Arthur D
Bailey.
The freshman debating class yester-
day afternoon held two debates on cur
rent questions. The first, Resolved
That all the countries of the world
should Immediately stop all trade with
Japan" was argued by Alton E. Wise
Nicholas J. Halpine and John v
Hughes in the affirmative and Hildreth
B. Smith. Dorothy L. Wolff and Irwin
w. Schultz for the negative. The sec
ond debate was Resolved, That
Thomas Mooney should be pardoned .
The affirmative was upheld by Henry
Heyman. Jennie Welland and Sara A.
Donohoe. while Cora B. Ferebee. HUI
bert L. Lewallen and David T. Burgh
argued the negative side The final de-
bate of the year, known as the fresh
man prize debate, VIII be held on
Saturday. May 81, The contending
teams have not as yet been announced.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter
Of Sigma Nu Phi Legal Fraternity gave
a bicentennial dance last night at the
college in honor of the graduating
members Of the fraternity and its
pledges.
Evening star., 1932-04-17

We all know our country has bright
future. that when this business de-
preston is over our country will go
forward at great speed as it has after
every period of depression.
THE capital now waiting for in
vestment once set to work will greatly
increase employment and bring cheer
to thousands now out of work. I hope
the great financiers will change their
present practice of holding their money
in the banks where 1t is now said to
be a drug and place it where it will
keep industry busy.
IF this is done and our people will
work together as they always do. this
great and powerful country of ours.
which was the last to feel the cold.
hard grip Of depression, will be the
first to recover"
Curtis lauded particularly the work
Of President Hoover. Charles G. Dawes
the president of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. and Frank Knox.
the chairman of the drive against
boarding.
Evening star., 1932-04-17
Cites Immigration Figures

He cited that rigid enforcement Of
the immigration law last year permitted
the entry of only 1858, while 80 1876
departed including 1888 who were
deported
The Vice President also declared for
whoSesale Government reorganization
as the best step for economy and pro-
posed that full authority for this be
given to the President
Evening star., 1932-04-17

World Commerce week in Berlin il
April 1924.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
"THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
SPEAKS" AND OTHER
POEMS.

THE NOWN SOLDIER
SPEAKS. BY George Jarrboe.
With an introduction by Jack
COnroy. Published by B. c.
Haaglund, Holt, Mirs1. Reviewed
by HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
THIS fourth pamphlet Of poems
1 sponsored by The Rebel Poet IS
at once a subject for praise and
censure. The worth Of certain
poems is obvious. 1.-THE Unknown
Soldiers Speaks" has been repub-
lished from one of the Rebel Poets
anthologies in an important Rus
sian anthology. 1t is undoubtedly
q powerful poem. Much can be said
for certain others. THE Bells Of
BeesAs'' Loos and Out Of 1t All: 1917"
From Ditch Before Amiens: 1918,
and ITO the Young Rakehellers of
Flanders" But when one has said
this, one wonders why the devil the
author Of so many splendid poems
had to include such lines as "Auntie
dear is roosting here, may she give
the earthworms cheer" Such stuff,
while displaying a juvenile clever
ness, has no place in booklet Of
revolutionary poems. Jarrboe should
know this. One gets the feeling
it was flung In to fill out the pages.
If so, an unfortunate mistake was
made. However, the booklet (price
25c) is worth buying and reading,
for the half dozen poems included
in it distinctly worth while.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
EYEWITNESS REPORT
OF MANCHURIA GRAB
IN HOLMES PAMPHLET

GALL eyes are on the ceaseless
n movement of the Japanese
forces towards the frontiers of the
U.S.SR." are the words with which
W. M. Holmes, Of the British
Daily Worker" correspondent in
Manchuria, closes a description OF
Japanese army concentration in
Hardin in a sensational exposure
of the situation in Manchuria,
just issued by International Pub
fishers under the title, An Eye
Witness il Manehuria.
Holmes succeeded in getting at
first hand the real situation in
the country seized by Japanese
imperialism during his travels
through Manchuria as a news
paper correspondent. This Is the
first complete, first hand account
that has gotten by the sharp cen-
sorShip and espionage of Japan and
its puppet government which is set
up.
He tells Of the Japanese mill
tary occupation. the setting out OF
the japanese military expedition
from Hardin down the Sungari
River towards the Soviet border, of
the movement of troops along the
Chinese Eastern Railway, of the
continual drive towards the bor-
ders of the U. S S. r. Holmes
shows that the bandits whom
the japanese are fighting are in
reality insurgent Chinese bands
fighting against Japanese penetra-
ton. He describes mass strikes on
the part Of the Chinese workers
and Russian workers in Manchuria,
which have never gotten beyond
the censorship before.
The pamphlet is now on sale at
all workers boorshops at Is cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

BENICE MICHAELsON.
A PICTURE of the corroding eff
n fects of unemployment upon
individual workers = that is the
most outstanding contribution in
Fired" by Karl Alloys Schen-
Finger, a German writer.
From the high-paid banker to
low-paid salesgirl-we get a sharp,
moving description of the lives of
various characters caught in the
engulfing disaster brought about
by mass lay-offs.
There's the hopeful and naive
engineer, Bruno Steffens, who is
unable to grasp the implications
of the economic turmoil which
throws him out OF his job; his
landlady, whose weak-willed, pitt
able husband resorts to shady bust
ness ventures, and whose daughter,
thin, emaciated girl is thrown on
the scrap-heap after a period in
a sanitorium where she was sent
to recover from the health-break-
ing grind of the department store;
Herr Aue, the proud, confident, but
no longer secure banker who,
rather than appropriate the rest
of his daughter Marquis life-sav-,
ings to gay a debt, hangs himself;
and finally Margot herself, Office
secretary and Steffen's sweetheart,
rendered sterile from an abortion,
rather than marry into loveless
life with her fathers successor,
grabs at a straw, and opens lit
tie shop in the face Of cut-throat
competition from department.
stores around her.
IRON the lniddle-class, down to
/ the proletariat, we see the con-
fusion, terror and despair which
envelopes these jobless individ-
uals-fired! by no means a new
word. People had always been sub
ject to discharge. =. Employees
themselves had made changes. But
this was different. People were
not only discharged, their positions
were wiped out. Wherever one
looked old industries lay fallow.
Those involved lay stricken with a
fear, which spread like a plague.
And even as in time of great cpl
denies, SO now, each person exam
lined himself for symptoms of in
lection, watched his neighbor, COM
pared his neighbours work with his.
own"
Although the book has obvious
merit, the author deals very in
adequately with the mass move
ment of organized workers in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

struggles to combat their starva-
ton eXiStence-and with the grow
ing strength of the left-wing move
ment in Germany. Only twice does
he gives recognition to the mill
fancy or organized workers-at a
protest demonstration on the Ber-
lin streets, and at a political de-
bate of both Nazi National So
cialist, or Fascist, and Commun-
list representatives.
The author, instead, concentrates
upon the reactions Of individuals
to whom organization is often
sive something which they are
reluctant even to discuss = and
when his hero inipulsively does de-
eide to "join," he goes over to the
reactionary Hitherto party. II be-
lieve I am moved neither by con-
viction nor by emotion" he tells
his cousin, a National Socialist.
what drives me toward your side
is simple, naked misery further
proof of weakness and confusion.
Schenziger, using the cousin as @
mouthpiece, gives his views on the
fascist and Communist programs.
ct (the Communist Party has big
ideas and big shortcomings. Our
ideas are grand, too, and no less
grand are our flaws. But both cur
rents are young and powerful.
Perhaps they will mingle some
day."
This is simply an apology for
open fascist dictatorship instead
Of bourgeois democracy, which is
concealed dictatorship. The au-
thor deliberately conceals the
class basis Of fascism by implying
that fascism and Communism are
two classics currents that may
under certain circumstances flow
into one channel.
The fact that the author has
selected a hero who goes over to
the Nazis is a clear indication Of
his political viewpoint. Despite
the fact that the author may be
subjectiveiy confused, he is OBJ
jectiyely defending the fascist
program.
AS a novel of present day Ger
n many. millions of whose work
ers are now in the class of the
Fired" the book is weak in its
treatment of the organized move
ments against unemployment in
the militant trade unions and I'M
employed organizations: on the
other hand, it is an excellent des-
cription of the other side--the side
Of the bewilderment and hopeless
ness of those who have not yet
learned the lessons of organiga-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

TT has often been started that
l American coal is blood stained"
The slaughter of 81 miners in the
Shafer Mine at Moweaqua, ILL.,, on
the day before Christmas, just adds
new emphasis to the fact, and adds
also the important detail, that this
killing was in an old abandoned
mine used for make work" ''em-
Urgency work relief work" The
men killed were unemployed miners,
driven into what they knew was an
extremely dangerous, burning, gas
filled mine by the cries for food OF
their hungry children.
PREVENTABLE
They were denied other relief by
what is probably the richest mining
state in the world, and further
more a state, whose employers and
state militia had just smashed a
strike against a wage cut which
was reported first as 10 per cent,
but now appears to be at least %
per cent.
IT regard to the Moweaqua mass
l murder, Daniel Harrington, chief
of the U. S. Bureau Of Mines
safety department, stated Dec. %
that safety provisions were almost
lacking, men worked with naked
lights, there was no rock busting,
etc. He stated fatty that the &C
cident could have been prevented,
and added that 80 per cent Of the
explosions in coal mines can be
avoided.
MINERS SLAUGHTERED
The death of these 81 was not
an isolated incident.
Labor Research Association, 80
East 18th ST., New York, in its
December, 1882 monthly news let
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Lenin and
the October
Revolution

I ENNIS writings and speeches
~ during the period Of the develop
ing revolution in Russia in 1917 are
contained in Toward the Seizure
of Power, Volume XXI of the Col
lected Works, which has just been
published in two books by Interna-
tional Publishers, New York,
His writings in this volume cover
the period between the overthrow
of the Gar in March and the over
throw of the Kerensky government
and the establishment Of the Sow
let power in November. Under the
leadership of Lenin, the Bolshevik
Party during this period won over
larger and larger masses Of the
workers and peasants and the
troops and prepared the successful
uprising of November Z.
The articles which he wrote for
the Party press from day to day,
taking up all the problems of the
developing revolution, are included.
The volume also contains his larger
works, such as, Will the BOlsheviks
Retain State Power? and The
Threatening Catastrophe and How
to Fight 1t. A new and sorely
needed revised translation Of Len
ms classic, State and Revolution,
closes the volume.
IF special interest to all revolu-
5ionary workers are the speeches
i. Lenin before the Bolshevik Cen
trail Committee during the two
weeks preceding the uprising in
which he argued for the armed in
surrection. The minutes OF these
meetings are included in the APP
pendiceS, which also contain COM
prehensive explanatory notes, short
biographies of all the people mem
toned in the volume, and impor-
tant documents Of the revolution.
This material helps greatly to I'M
derstand the revolution and Len
ms part in it.
This volume is one Of Collected
Works, which when complete will
contain all of Lenin's writings and
speeches and will number 80 vol
umes. International Publishers
has already issued five volumes e
books in this series. The regular
edition Of Toward the Seizure of
Power sells at $3.50 for each book
and may be obtained at all work.
ers' book shops or direct from In
ternational Publishers, 381 Fourth
Avenue, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Caring for the
Unemployed"
BY ROBERT DUNN.

AFTER his strenuous labors in Or
- ganizing textile manufacturers
to improve their profits, George A.
Sloan, president of the Cotton-TeX-
tile Institute, sailed recently "for
vacation in the mountains of Switz-
erland". His parting statement
contained this piece of wilIfuI ly-
ing: Having served during the
past year on the Clifford Unemploy-
ment Committee, we know from
contact with relief agencies
that generally speaking the unem-
ployed have been cared for" This
would make an appropriate cpl
taph over the graves of the 1000
who died from starvation in New
York City alone in 1881. Mr.. SIoan's
industry has contributed as much
or more than any other to the cur
rent starvation. Even those few
workers who were lucky enough to
have jobs averaged only $40 a week.
Nominal wages of cotton workers
are back to 1918 levels.
Recent reports to a conference
Of the Southern Summer School
states that most o. the Cotton
mild village children are under
nourished and rachitic, while a
large proportion of the adults are
pellagra stricken. And a report
on the inadequacy of relief, printed
in the super-class magazine, For
tune, says that North Carolina has
100000 unemployed textile workers
with another 100000 on the pay
rolls Of closed plants, most of whom
are begging on the roads, having
long ago exhausted their savings
from low wages paid them before
the depression"
This is the way Mr.. Sloan's in
dustry has cared" for it's job
less.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
"RELIGION IN U. S. S. r. +"
NEW POPULAR
PAMPHLET

A booklet which should serve as
"A a handy tool with which to
overcome the influence of religion
and the christmas spirit" among
the workers, has Just been issued
by International Publishers.
1t Is called Religion in the U. S.
S. H. and is written by E. Yaro-
slovsky, an old Bolshevik and head
of the League Of the Goddess, a
militant atheist organization in
the Soviet Union. In this book
he exposes the uses to which reli-
gion is put by the ruling class
under capitalism and shows how
the workers in the Soviet Union
are rapidly overcoming this opium
under the Soviet Government.
1t can be obtained at all workers
bookshops for IS cents. A very
attractive red cover, showing the
angels Of capitalism" being des-
troyed by class conscious workers,
should help in distributing this
pamphlet widely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
SYMPATHY STRIKE IN ROSSITZ
DISTRICT

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia.-A gem
eral strike in sympathy with the
striking miners has taken place in
the Rossitz district, This strike was
organized by the revolutionary unions
and carried out in the face of a
brutal pelise terror. Almost all fac
tories were closed down by the strike
and the workers marched to four
meeting places. At the electricity
works soldiers guarded the doors and
refused to permit the workers to
leave the buildings. Over 5000 strik-
ing workers took part in the meetings
and were addressed by the leaders
of the revolutionary unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
"SEND ME BOOKS TO.
THIS PRISON CELL"
Some Personal Experiences; Vivid Letters
from Class War Prisoners

but by some Of my comrades OF
struggle also, which are imprisoned
with me in this county Jail. We
have established here in our cell
block a lecture group and as the
majority Of the prisoners are Moth
ing else but working class elementS
it will be much better If you kindly
could send instead of the kind you
sent books relative to the class
struggle. We will appreciate espe-
cially if in the next bundle you
send us books written by Karl
Marx and Engels. Please see
what you can do to send us the
Daily Worker" every day. and the
Labor Defender magazine. We APP
preciate in all its value this
help. =.
Mike Bmich, in the Allegheny
County Jail. Pittsburgh, writes:
Il enjoyed these books and I sim
'cerely hope that you continue to
send me other books. I am q menu
Der OF the working class and 1 pre-
fer history and facts about my
class. History of strikes. In your
book Of Living PHILOSOPHERS,
liked Theodore Dresser best. Please
send me books by such writers as
Dresser, Scott Nearing, Lenin and
Marx"
Mike Michlan from the county
Jail in Bellefonte, Pa, says:
Those books that the commit
tee has sent me we're very inter-
esting. I would rather have some
fiction story books, because they
are interesting in place like this"
WANTS MARKHAM CLASSICS
Oscar Ericsson, Imperial Valley
prisoners in San Quentin, (now
freed wanted books on the
class struggle from the MARKHAM
standpoint, and adds, Including
also books which give authentic in
formation on the different phases
of the social, economic and political
struggles Of the workers and on
the U. S. S. r. Then there are
novels and stories written in the
same spirit" He mentions the cen
sorship, and that books barred by
the warden are usually sent back to
the sender.
John Lamb, one OF the Centralia
boys sentenced to 40 years back in
1919, asks for Sinclair's novels, and
says: Il think that establishing
your committee is a wonderful
idea"
jim Mcnamara, sentenced to life
on a frame-up by William ]. Burns
and the Los Angeles open-shoppers,
thinks that such a committee must
be composed of freaks, or else, why
should they, in a Christian com
munity want to do anything for
workers in Jail? Are not the CAPT
talists Christians? But he says:
Inform our good friends that If
We should ever get out and they
should get in, we would do the
same for them"
Edith Berkman, while confined in
a hospital in Massachusetts, facing
deportation for leading textile
strikes in Lawrence, wro.e: 1.-The
Writers Report on Kentucky" and
The Labor Fact Book" and eSpe-
cially requests the committee to
send some to Keith in Deer Island.
She says: Il think that your Or
ganization is very much needed"
Warren K. Billings, sentenced to
life after the Preparedness Day
frame-up in San Francisco, wants
a German grammar and some kind
Of German first reader" He is
learning the language while in jail.
You see, they want, and they
need, all kinds Of literature. And,
in Jail, they make the best possible
Use Of IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
"Fired">>A Literary Apology
for German FaSciSm

TIRED" BY Carl Alloys Schen-
Finger. Century Coz 271 PIP. 50
Reviewed by
BENICE MICHAELSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
THE JANUARY COMMUNIST"

L. Forward the Line ECCI-Edoal.
StruggeThe Winning the Masses
-Jac
Capitalist Sterilization Basic Tasks the
British American Sections of the C. I-by T. Gusev
" j. Jerome.
Spnoza Marxsm--by NJ. Mitin
8. Reviews
PhlOsopbic IdeasmA Milton
Howard-Class Cultural Review by W. Phelps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Song of the Hunger March,
Bx ALBERT GALATskY

FROM the cities from the farmlands,
Where the wolves of hunger run.
Came the armies Of the workers.
Onward, on to Washington.
Round about them stretched a country
Fat in cattle. rich in grain,
Who could here conceive of hunger
Must have had a madmans brain!
Yet in every town and city
AS the Hunger Marchers passed
In the halls and on the sidewalks
Hungry, freezing workers maSsed.
Every city, every village,
Cheered the Hunger Marchers on,
Sent delegate to join them
On the march to Washington
White and Negro one united
In the face of gas and gun
Men and women, all undaunted
onward marched to Washington.
White and Negro one united,
With single firm demand
OF relief from cold and hunger
For the workers of the land
Clubs and hardships could not stop them
White and Negro fought as one
Till they staged their demonstration
On the streets Of Washington.
Let these marchers be the vanguard
OF greater march to come
When the battlecry of workers
browns the sound Of fife and drum
And the proletarian armies
Strong in freedom newly won
Raise aloft the scarlet banner
On the dome Of Washington