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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
CAMPAIGN
OPENS IN
T EARNEST 7
Roosevelt Fires Firs t
Gun In Speech AT Col
> umbus, Ohio.
ASSAILS PRESIDENT
Democratic Leader Says
Administration Played
With Wall Street.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

by ACDEh1Sh n. olonM
United Press Staff Correspondent
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 20. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt today charged
that Herbert Hoover and the Re-
publican party, while possessed of
accurate knowledge, played the
game of the Wall street gambler" !"
then when the crash came, delib-
erately misled the people.
He promised, as the Democratic
candidate for the presidency, that
the next administration will
neither by word nor deed seek to
influence the price of stocks and
bonds,' but would exercise the
horse sense" that needs no legis-
lation to restore confidence of the
people in the honesty of their gov
ernment.
The address was the New York
governors first since the accep-
tance speech of President Hoover.
1T formally opened the Democratic
presidential candidates speaking
campaign.
Roosevelt spoke before the Ohio
state Democratic convention at the
Columbus baseball club stadium.
He minced no words in laying the
blame for what he termed the col
lapse of the nations economic
structure squarely on the front
door steps of the White House.
This administration has risked
the lives and property and welfare
Of the people through a policy of
disastrous governmental specula-
. tion,' he said
II assure you that high officials
in the next administration will
neither by word nor deed seek to
influence the prices of stocks and
bonds. The government has access
to vast information concerning the
economic life of the country.
1.-The present administration has
c all too often issued statements
which have had no relation to the
scientific information which it
possessed. This has shaken public
confidence
Roosevelt charged the Hoover adj
ministration with not telling the
p truth to the people when it knew
the economic crash was nearing.
He charged also that
l. The administration encouraged
speculation and overproduction
through false economic policies.
2. 1t attempted to minimize the
crash and mislead the people as to
its gravity.
3. 1t enormously charged the
cause to the other nations of the
world.
4. 1t refused to recognize and
correct evils at home which had
brought it forth, delayed relief and
forgot reform.
The Democratic nominee then Of
fered his remedies. "They will pro-
tect not the few but the great
mass of average men and women
who, I am not ashamed to repeat,
have. been forgotten by those in
power" he said.
He outlined them as follows:
l. Truth telling that requires def
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
Orchestra Leader
And Actress Wed

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20. U.H-
The film colony learned today OF
the marriage of Bette Davis, mo-
ton picture actress, and Harmon O..
Nelson, jr., of Whitinsyille, Mass,
which took place in Yuma, Ariz,,
Thursday.
Miss Davis, 25 years old, and
Nelson, eastern orchestra leader,
met while both attended the Cush-
ing academy In Ashburnham, Mass.
Nelson is graduate of Massa-
chusetts State college.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
Depression Fires
Brought To Halt
By State Officer

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug 20.
aJ.P) = A threatened epidemic OF
depression fires" in Oklahoma has
been checked by the state fire
marshal's office, the semi-annual
report of j. T. Jones, head OF the
department, says.
The first six months of 1882
Jones and his deputies investi-
gated 210 suspicious" fires. Arrest
of 40 persons suspected of arson
resulted in seven convictions. Two
suicides following exposure and
commitment of one pyromaniac to
a state institution for the insane.
Jones blamed depressed economic
conditions for the incendiarism
Most cases were found to be efforts
to collect insurance, he said.
In southeastern Oklahoma, a
number of strange fires puzzled
Jones. Non-insured buildings con-
sumed, recurrence of three OF the
fires in the same location and alb
sence of an apparent motive led
officers to believe a pyromaniac
was responsible.
An insane person was sought.
Close watch was kept in the yicin-
ity. A 17-year- youth, not nor
NAL mentally, was questioned.
Investigation disclosed that he
had a mania for the excitement OF
q fire, and was responsible.
A cleaning and pressing war in
Chickasha brought about much ILL
feeling. Jones was on the lookout
for firebugs. The occurrence OF the
first blaze was the occasion of
prompt investigation.
Three we're arrested. One con-
fessed and implicated the others.
All were bound over to the district
court for trial. The fires stopped.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
Safety Pin Taken
From YOungster

ALBANY, Calf. Aug. 90. U.P)-
Baby Charlotte Ivers' mysterious
ailment-one that paralyzed the
left side of her body--has been
solved.
Doctors, who operated on the
two-year-old youngsters throat in
an effort to enable her to talk,
found two-inch safety pin en-
bedded in her throat. The pin,
which was open, was lodged in the
pharynx, with the point caught in
a tonsil.
Brass poisoning, resulting from
a rusting away of the pin, is be-
lieved TO have caused partial par
alysis. s..
She will recover. #
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
Road Improvement
Contract Awarded

SACRAMENTO. Aug. 20. W.P)-
A contract for oil treating 24.7
miles of shoulders along the Foot
hill boulevard and the Ell Centro-
San Bernardino lateral near San
Bernardino was under award to-
day to F. w. Teschke, Hollywood,
for SIS, 400.
The state department of public
works also awarded a $7488 con-
tract to Theodore Johanns, San
Francisco, for erection of an addi-
ton to the district highway office
building in Redding.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
Believe Banning
Girl In Valley

Sheriff Campbell last night was
asked to assist in the search for
Ruth Brown, 17-year-old Banning
girl, who left her home wednesday,
August II, and is believed to have
been headed in this direction.
She is described as being five
feet, two inches in height. Her
weight lis pounds, her eyes hazel
and her hair light brown When
last seen she was clad in a rose
print dress, white, low shoes and
wore no hose.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
MOLLISON WILL
NOT ADHERE TO
ORIGINAL PLANS
Flyer AbandOns Idea OF
Quick Return Trip To
Homeland.

Copyright, 1882, BY United Press
ST. JOHNS, New Brunswick, Aug.
20. U.Rl = Capt. Jimmie Mollison,
flying bridegroom who piloted a
Puss Moth plane across the Atlantic
alone, the first to make that deadly
westward crossing, has abandoned
his three-day round-trip plan and
will fly to Montreal and Ottawa.
He will fly back home later, he
said.
The 27-year-old Scotsman told
the United Press today that he
would not arrive in New York be-
fore o'clock p. m. Sunday.
I'm trying to catch up on sleep,
you know, and would if you hadn't
called me just now," he chuckled.
Thoroughly exhausted after bat
Ting heavy fog in the first non
stop solo flight from Ireland to
New York, the husband of Eng
lands foremost woman flyer, Amy
johnson, said he had been invited
to address the imperial economic
conference at Ottawa on the SUBJ
ject of aeronautics. He will stop,
however, at Montreal at the behest
of Col. w. A. Bishop, famous Can
adian ace, who is his friend, he
said,
Captain Mollison landed at Penn
field Ridge, near st. Johns, at
1880 p. M, Eastern Standard Time,
after 80 hours and 10 minutes in the
air. He flew the Atlantic in a
plane SO small he could hardly
squeeze into it. The tiny Puss
Moth monoplane, which he has
called Hearts Content" was be-
ing checked and refueled at the
st. Johns airport this morning for
his departure
Praises Ship
"It's a fine ship he told the
United Press. "It didn't miss
lick. All the way over I felt as
though I had a trusted servant
beneath my feet. And when I
landed, the plane was apparently
in as good condition as when
started"
Captain Jimmie" as he Is
known to all of England, made
aviation history when he COM
pleted his flight. The east-west
crossing of the Atlantic has cost
more lives than any other flying
course. Since Nungesser and Coli,
many men and women have per-
ished trying to reach America from
Europe. Yet Mollison flew it, and
having flown it, didn't seem greatly
excited about it.
Il didn't think would get SO
tired" he said. But there's no
sense in a mans making fool of
himself"
Once he reached st. Johns from
Pennfield Ridge, Mollison's first
thought was of his wife. He asked
the United Press to get the news
to London quickly. Then he put
in transatlantic telephone call.
An hour later he talked to Amy
johnson. She had stood on the
beach at Port Marnock, Ireland, to
watch him speed into the haze, the
great unknown over the Atlantic.
She told him when he called that
he should go to bed and get some
sleep. That he tried to do later.
She told him, also, that in view
OF the fact that he would not be
turning back for England immedi-
ately, she would take ship today
for New York, to join him in the
United States.
I'll be in New York about a
week, I think" the 17-year- old
Scotsman said. "Oh, yes, I'll fly
back. But Mrs. Mollison won't be
with me-"
st. Johns citizens had arranged
several receptions for Mollison. He
declined them all, save a dinner
given for him by local newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
ASK RADIO CHANGE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. W.R)-
The James McClatchy Co., opera
tors of Station KMJ, Fresno, Calf,
applied to the federal radio COM
mission today for authority to
change its frequency from 1910
kilocycles to $50 kilocycles, increase
its power from 100 watts to 500
watts and make changes in its sta
ton equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
OFFICER SAVES MOTORIsT

PASADENA, Aug. 20. W.P)-Carl
Berkus, attempting to push his au-
tomobile from interurban tracks,
failed to notice the approach of
speeding train. Traffic Officer
Ray Broadstone did. He leaped
from his motorcycle and made
flying football tackle at Berkus,
which sent two of them sprawling
within inches of the trains wheels.
The automobile was demolished.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
BETTING OPPOSED

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20. U.P)-
Petition for an injunction to pre-
vent Secretary of State Frank c.
Jordan placing an initiative meas
ure on the November ballot which
would legalize pari-mutuel betting
ON races in California was on file
in the superior court here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20
n A IL Y N EW G
~ IN TABLOIDS "
By United Press

BY United Press
. HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Aug. 90
Conrad Nagel, motion picture star.
was recovering today from injuries
received when his automobile COL
lided with another around a sharp
turn in Santa Monica canyon.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 20. = The
United States navy auxiliary dirigi-
BILE base here was threatened when
a bomb, dropped at target, start
ed brush fire on the Camp Kear-
ny mesa. Sailors from the naval
training station and marines from
La Jolla extinguished it.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-20

Continued On Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Chicago Children
Win Free Milk by
Militant Action

CHICAGO-I am a member of
the milk committee, so am going to
write an article about how we got
milk for the Workers Childrens Art
School.
The committee elected at the first
class failed to get milk. so at the sec
ond class new committee was elect
ed. When we were about to go to
Bowman Dairy, the largest and the
nearest to us, someone suggested go
ing to Alderman Jackson, who had
been visited by Free Food Fighters
Committee week before in connec-
ton with Thanksgiving.
We went to his luxuriously furnish
ed first floor flat on South Park and
asked him to come with us to a
dairy. Although the committee was
small, he remembered the larger
committee that had come; two kids
that came to see the alderman a
week ago we're with us now. He de-
cided that he would go to the diaries
himself.
Now we are getting four gallons of
milk for every class, which is enough
for cup or two apiece.
A member of the milk committee.
James Mishkis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
PROTECTIVE ON
WAY TO CHECKOFF
Calls Shoe Factory
Heads to Meeting

HAVERHILL, Mass, Dec. l9.-This
is the home town of the Shoe Work
ers Protective Association, where that
company unionized outfit was found
ed in 1899. Mr.. Kelleher, its leader,
calls conference of ITO shoe manu-
factuers on Dec. 81, to put through
a collective agreement for the whole
industry around here.
This call follows close after Gov
ernor Ely's declaration, Nov. II, that
New England manufacturers should
cut wages and labor laws should be
suspended to enable better COMPETE
ton with other states.
The Shoe Workers Protective lead
ers have for years worked with spe-
cial privileges Of the factory owners,
and as their agents. Such col
lective agreement as they may sign
will surely be nothing more than
bargain in which Keleher gets the
right to check-off, in return for
whatever he can do to help lower
wages.
The question will be brought up
at a meeting of unemployed shoe and
textile workers, 10 be held soon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
5000 DEMAND TOM
MOONEY FREEDOM
Hear Callicotte at Los
Angeles Meeting

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 26.-
A Tom Mooney mass mee,,1r held
here Friday, at which Cal cotte
again submitted evidence to prove
that he was responsible for the bomb
explosion which was used to frame
Mooney and Billings, saw one of the
largest indoor gatherings in this
city:
Around 5000 workers and sympa-
thizers damned the Labor Temple to
witness the cross examination of CAL
licotte by Attorneys Beardsley and
Packard. AS ON previous occasions,
Callicotte's story remains mistaken,
although at this mass meeting CALI
cote gave his second public testi-
mony, and kept his story unchanged
in the face of number of other
grillings by the San Francisco police
officials as we'll as representatives of
the I. L. D. and other organizations.
The militsncy of the audience pre-
vented customary interference by the
Los Angeles Red Squad. After
hearing the speeches of Sam Good
win, Irving Goodman, Charles
OBrien, Lawrence Ross, Robert
Whitaker and Dan Regain, the meet
ing made stormy demonstration in
support of the resolution demanding
an immediate new trial for Tom
Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27

the Negro masses by the bosses, name
ly discrimination, segregation, Jim
Crowism, lynching, disfranchisement
ETC., is to give comfort to the bosses
in the oppression of the Negro work
ers."
The resolution states that these
ideas of Kramer are detrimental to
the interests of the working class and
to the union" 1t condemns such an
attitude, and decides that ''reSolu-
tons alone" will not be enough and
that the union must put forward
the demands of the Negro workers
and fight for them, and for full So
cial, political and economic equality
for Negroes.
Union Decision
A workers jury declared Kramer
guilty Of the statement, asked his re-
moval from office and expulsion from
the union, and in addition assigned
him some special tasks in the strlg-
gle for Negro and white equality be-
fore his application to re-join the
union would be considered. The reso-
luton approves the verdict, except
that part whcih calls for Krsmer's
expulsion from the union, but calls
on him to carry out the tasks as
signed him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
DICTATOR FOR
SHOE WORKERS
ALL. Unions Board
Lifts Local Charters

BROCKTON, Mass, Dec. 2l.-The
General Executive Board of the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union (AFL) on
Dec. IS simply grabbed the charters
of its eleven locals in this city and
appointed John F. Grant, agent of
the Massachusetts State Board of
Cancellation and Arbitration to be
dictator over these locals and make
the new wage cutting contract with
the employers association.
To Speed Negotiations
The statement in part of the board
by which this extreme violation of
what little trade union democracy
was left in the Boot and Shoe Work
ers is as follows:
with this in mind and recogniz-
ing that crisis is facing our mem
bers as well as the manufacturers,
the general executive board has de-
cided that in the interests of eco
nonny and to simplify methods of
handling the affairs affecting the
relationship between our union and
the Brockton manufacturers, the gen.
eral executive board will take over
the management of the unions in
Brockton, combining the present II
unions into five, with one business
representative and two assistants
who will be under the direction and
supervision of committee of the
general executive board.
Eve are all facing difficult prob
lenlSs drastic methods must be used
to meet and overcome them, cour-
age and faith is essential"
The Boot and Shoe Union is scarce
ly less company unionized than is the
Shoe Workers Protective Union, but
however bad their officers, at least
until now the various locals, each
taking in one trade, have had some
chance to protest the actions of their
various agents, one for each local,
as he made the agreement.
Now, not only is Grant the sole
contract maker, but the Mixed and
Lasters' locals are merged, the sole
feathers workers, sole fasteners and
edgemakers and heelers locals are
merged, the vampers and stitchers
are merged, cutters and skivers are
merged, and the finishers, treers,
dressers and packers are merged. The
executive board has appointed fin
ancial secretaries over each, all their
other officers, including their agents
and executive board are fired.
The charter of the Joint Shoe
Council Of Brockton is lifted and the
council dissolved, all its powers being
given to Grant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Red Cross Clothes
Get to Few Workers

EVANSVILLE, Ind.-This town has
population of 100000, with large
proportion Of Negroes. Practically
every other shop in town is closed
down.
The majority of workers here are
slowly starving. Those who are on
the county relief receive a grocery
order ranging from 81 to SO per week.
Three dollars is the most anyone gets
if they have a family of ten it makes
no difference. They also get rs BUSH
els of cheap nut coal that has to
last for month.
The Red Cross is claiming that
they are furnishing clothing, but so
far few have received any, and far
from sufficient at that. Hundreds
of children are unable to attend
school because they lack food and
clothing.
We have families living in old
sheds and factory buildings that are
not fit for stables, and old buildings
where several families are forced to
live together, in fact every known
misery is being forced upon the work
ers here.
The workers, both employed and
unemployed, must rally together and
fight in the Unemployed Council for
more relief and better living condi-
tons.
"A Worries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
FURNITURE WORKERS ON
RECORD FOR FIGHT FOR
FULL NEGRO EQUALITY

NEW YORR.--A resolution adopt
ed by a meeting of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union and signed
by T. Goldenberg, president, and S.
Borodkin, secretary, Of the union ex-
plains the need of the fight for equal
rights for Negroes, and criticizes
sharply an officer of the union who
said that such a struggle was mot
important"
Opposed Bronx Pool Struggle
The resolution tells how its vice
president r. Kramer recently stated
on the occasion Of a demonstration
against jim Crowism of Negro work
erS by the owners of the Bronxdale
Swimming Pool in the Bronx that
it is not important to fight against
discrimination, to fight for equal
rights for Negroes in times of de-
preston because there are other fac
tors which are more important to
be fought for, namely, the fight for
bread"
The resolution says: This theory
of Kramer amounts to a refusal to
fight persistently for equal rights for
Negroes. The union realizes that to
fight for bread for Negro workers
without at the same time fighting
against the whole vile oppression of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Stores Get Rake-Off
i'm Baltimore Relief
Racket on Workers

BALTIMORE, Md.-The City Of
Baltimore has a new racket to ex-
tract money from the workers for the
welfare. They have what they call
$3.50 emergency certificates which
they are selling here from Dec. 20 to
"a. This is to relieve the Honorable
Mayor jackson from the duty to the
unemployed.
They sell these certificates to the
workers for one dollar each. They
can buy SO cents worth of merchan-
disc for that dollar, and the other
fifty cents goes to the welfare.
They even try to sell them on the
waterfront to the seamen, but let
these same seamen try to get some
relief when they need it. They tell
us they can't give us anything because
we are wards of the government, and
the city can't do anything but give
a flop and coffee-and' for few hours
work.
But the seamen are uniting in the
Unemployed Council and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union to fight for
better relief.
j. J, C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Woman Starves. Sleeps
in DOOrways, ''Steals"
ilk to Live On

NEW YORK, N. Y.-T'he downtown
apartment house where live keeps
the hall door open day and night.
This morning when the milkman
came to collect for the week I told
him that he had forgotten to leave
milk the morning before.
"Oh, the old tramp woman who
sleeps here in the hall on cold nights
must have taken It," the Borden man
informed me. He said that he often
found her sleeping in the warm hall
way-the poor old woman evidently
has no other shelter.
Here Is the richest city in the world
where our mayor has assured us that
no one shall suffer this winter from
lack Of food or shelter, this worn
old woman must creep into Railways
to keep from freezing to death, and
depend on milk stolen from doorways
to keep from starving. Hers is nc
isolated case, she is one Of the mil
lions Of unemployed and homeless
workers for whom the National Hun
ger March to Washington demanded
$50 cash winter relief and federal I'M
employment insurance.
am planning to keep watch for
the old woman before she goes back
to the streets in the cold early morn
ing, so that can bring her to the
local neighborhood Unemployed
Council where they will help her
force the city to give her immediate
relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
GOVT FLOUR IS
PEONAGE SCHEME
Penna. Worker Shows
How It Is Used

FARRELL, Pared Cross flour is
being given to the workers, only in
exchange for two hours work on city
job for each sack. And on each sack
reads Not to be sold, by Act Of Con-
gress." Widows also have to slave
for this flour.
There is a gang Of stools going
around to the workers houses, whom
the bosses call charity Investigators
If they find more than SO pounds
for which the worker has already
worked, they report the worker to the
bosses, and he is arrested and charged
with boarding flour, and has to serve
in Jail. The charity agents call the
the workers charity racketeers. The
workers could not sell the stuff II
they would try.
On the county jobs there are more
than a thousand men employed. Some
chop wood, some clean up grave
yards, some build parks, ETC., for re-
lief. On most of these jobs they have
slop kitchen, where the worker car
ries his own bread, and at noon he
is given tin cup of the lousy slop.
The workers are allowed one ton
of coal every months and SIS worth
of groceries month at the most
even if there are Is in the family
and for this they put in Is to Is
days a month. The groceries are
given in store orders and only certain
articles are allowed to be taken.
A comrade went to Mayor Joseph
A. Frank and secured permit to hold
mass meeting for the report OF
the hunger march delegates. The
Mayor saw that the purpose of the
meeting was to expose their dirty Sys-
tenn, SO he tried to refuse.
The Unemployed Council is contin-
uing the fight and is growing strong
er every day.
Worker.