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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17
THE CAUSES OF FIRE.

Safeguarding America Against
Fire" publication OF The National
Board of Fire Underwriters, publishes
list of the known originating causeS
responsible for the largest fire loss In
each state. They should be OF inter.
est to every citizen.
Matches and smoking seem to be the
greatest offenders, accounting for the
largest loss in 10 states. Defective
chimneys and flues were high in IL
states, and stoves, furnaces, boilers
and their pipes, in seven states. Mis-
use Of electricity and spontaneous
combustion led the rest in two states
each. Sparks from machinery, in
cendiarism, explosion and sparks or
roofs were the major causes of loss
in one state each.
The interesting thing is that every
single one of these causes must come
under the head of strictly prevent
able" The most dangerous of them
all, matches and smoking, represents
pure carelessness on the part of the
individual. Defective chimneys and
heating systems are possible only
through inexcusable negligence. Mis-
use of electricity is the product OF
abysmal-and also Observation-Disclosures
ance or of sheer carelessness.
More than 80 per cent of fires could
be prevented with the exercise of a
little care, little Judgments little
intelligence. Various public and pri-
vate organizations have labored
nightly to instruct us in fire preven-
ton and to pound into us the duty
we owe to ourselves and our COM
munities. The rest is up to us.
thinking people cannot continue tt
countenance waste that takes 10000
lives and half billion dollars ii
property values each year.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17


buck-passing, with threats OF taking
the matter ITO the people" made by,
at least, one member of the Board.
We still think, says the Lewis
County Advocate editorlally, that with
from ten to fifteen million dollars a
year to spend, 1t is going to be i'm
possible to eliminate politics. From
what we have been able to learn from
various parts Of the state, Director
Humes has done better Job Of fund
ALLEGATION and road building than has
ever been done In this state, and we
do not get this from administration
friends either
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17

when April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into flush
or scarlet flowers"
THE Fountain
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE
STATE BUSINESS.

The 1881 Legislature enacted law
providing for classification of logged
off lands suitable only for reforesta-
ton, placing such lands in separate
class for purpose Of taxation. This law
became effective in June of this year
but, due to failure of the Legislature
to make an appropriation for carrying
out the necessary work incident to ex-
aminations of tracts to be classified,
only limited amount of this work has
been possible.
Fire losses adjusted for the year 1880
numbered 5,6l3 and represented in
value OF property ss2,07s, 3ss.14 and in
value of contents s34,S53, O6768. Losses
paid by companies amounted to &c.
485, 331.70. OF this huge total 3,496
fires occurred in city and farm dwell
ings, 1872 in cercantile establishments
and 16 in schools.
One would gather from the Oregon
newspapers that the Oregon Highway
Commission plan is creating quite a
nice little squabble in the Commission
itself, with the Oregonian asking that
the fight be stopped and the governor
threatening to take a hand in the
affair. There is a fine display of
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17
HISTORICAL QUESTION
r. e. Stafford.

sss IS .
l. Who made the midnight ride
with Paul Revere?
2. Who is regarded as our most
notorious traitor?
3. What general was known as the
Swamp Fox"p
4. Who won the battle of Manila
Bay?
5. Who was the first governor of
Washington2
6. What battle was fought two
weeks after the treaty of peace had
been signed?
7. Who was the leader of the
Green Mountain Boys"2
8. Where was the Maine sunk?
9. Who was leader of the Rough
Riders"p
TO- Who is known as the Father of
the U. S. Constitution
ANSWERS to questions on page 81
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17

II we are not approaching tax crisis
"a point beyond which we canont pay.
And he is liable to come to the con-
clusion that the progress of the coun-
Try demands government retrenchment
and economy, not in a vague future
but right now.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17
Heredity Exposed.

Instructor: your son has great
thirst for knowledge. Where did he
get it?"
Mother: He gets the knowledge
from me and the thirst from his
father"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-03-17
HOME EDUCATION

"The Childs Is the Famiy'-Frobe
Issued by the National
BADNESS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

scented Louise Thompson, whom they
saw as a representative Of the new
American Negro woman, with a pa
rama" costume declaring it to be "a
symbol of our former slavery"
In Tashkent and Samarkand, the
group visited the silk and textile mills
and the big agricultural works; also
the new industries in Bukhara, Ash
kabad, Baku, and the Central Asian
collective state cotton farms, talking
with the workers and farmers. They
saw the development of the economic
basis Of the new society.
In Turkmenistan the Negro group
was given the same warm reception
by the liberated people who were
much affected by the visit from men,
bers.of the 13,oo0,0o Negroes still en-
shaved by imperialism in the United
States. AS in Uzbekistan and Aver
baidjan, the president of the Turk
menistan Republic welcomed them as
guests of the republic. The group
attended the National Theatre, the
Opera, and the public schools in the
various native languages and the Sc
markand University, witnessing the
big cultural advances made since the
proletarian revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
Imperialist Lackeys
Butcher Is Young
Workers in China

Twenty-Five Chinese young workers,
including three girls in their teens,
were executed in Canton, South
China, yesterday in the campaign of
bestial terror which both the
Canton and the Marking wings of
the reactionary Kuomintang party
are carrying on against the revolu-
tionary Chinese workers who are re-
sisting the Kuomintang betrayal of
China to the imperialist brigands.
The young workers were charged
with membership in the Communist
Youth Corps.
Chinese Workers correspondence
from Shanghai and other cities re-
port that hundreds Of executions of
revolutionary workers are taking
place daily at Hankow and other Chi
nese cities, still under the rule of
the Kuomintang lackeys of imper-
ialism. The imperialist press, which
supports the bloody Kuomintang OPP
preston of the Chinese masses, is
generally silent on these atrocities
but make a great to-do when some
missionary agent Of the imperialists
is captured and imprisoned by the
Chinese Red Armies in their victori-
Gus advance against the Kuomintang
troops, armed by the imperialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

Free feeds are a novelty to the
rank and file veterans.
As consequence, many hungry
working class veterans, to whom the
bonus issue is vital one, were side
tracked from the conference by the
prospect of an immediate meal and
free entertainment. The free supper
and dance was planned, called, and
given wide publicity among the work
ers within twenty-four hours of the
rank and file conference.
Local Marches
But a wide representation of vet
Grams responded to the call to plan
a struggle for payment of the bonus,
and against the bosses hunger pro-
gram for the winter. The committees
are beginning activity at once. Among
the plans enthusiastically adopted
were for a local demonstration and
march to protest the gradual curtail-
ment of veteran relief which will be
held Nov. 3, and a state march to
Salem to demand of Governor Meier,
millionaire department store owner,
endorsement and support of the boz
nus march.
The state march will take place on
November 7th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
Threaten to Throw
Farm LabOrers from
Shacks This Winter

LAUREL, Del.-The usual influx
of farm laborers, mostly Negroes, for
harvesting the sweet potato crop, is
facing rough handling this fall in
Laurel. There is not enough work
and the city authorities are looking
upon this influx as an invasion Of
undesirables." The men are erecting
shacks and naming the lanes, pre-
pairing to shelter themselves for the
winter.
The attitude Of the officials toward
this homeless army of unemployed is
best expressed by THE Baltimore
News" of Oct. 81:
"The end of the potato harvest is
expected to take a few of these I'M
desirables from the town, but firm
and drastic orders will be issued to
those remaining, as the town can
not tolerate this class during the
winter"
So what the heck is an unemployed
man going to do during the winter
just when he needs shelter most?
During the summer, when the town
and surrounding countryside needs
their labor, this class" Of undesir-
ables can be tolerated-as long as
they can be of use. Then, after the
work is over, they can be thrown out.
L. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
NEGROES HAIL LIBERATION OF COIORED PEOPLES IN USS
BLACK and White Film Group Welcomed Nnionattcs
O

The latter part of their trip in
Guided a visit to TiflLs and also to
Dnieprostroi, mightiest power plant
in the world.
Return for Revolutionary Anniversary
The whole tour was arranged at
the suggestion and at the expense OF
the Mesrabpom film company who
arranged it so that the group could
return to Moscow for the huge No
vember celebrations of the 18th ami
versary of the Revolution.
Langston Hughes, famous Negro
poet, deeply impressed on how the
Soviet Union is successfully solving
the national problem, is remaining
in Uzbekistan for several months to
collect material for book. Mean
while, he is contributing articles to
"1zvestia" and the rest Of the Soviet
press.
Loren Miller, who has already con-
tributed series of articles which has
been we'll received by the American
Negro press is now writing a PAM
phlet giving the experiences and i'm
pressions of the group with the U. S.
S. r. and its policy Of national lib
Grafton for the peoples formerly op-
pressed under Tsarist capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

gro Film Group went they we're well
coined by delegations at the railway
stations and at meetings by the City
Soviets, in workers clubs, factories,
and on the huge collective farms,
In Uzbekastan, they were the guests
of the president of the republic, Ak
hum Babaev, native of Uzbek and
former cotton tenant farmer whose
lot under the rule of Czarist imper-
ialism was similar to that Of the Ne
gro share troopers in the Southern
states of America today. They were
also greeted by the wee president of
Uzbekistan, q woman of Uzbek who
was the second person in the country
to have the courage to throw aside the
yelled costume known as 'paranja"
and all the customs of the East that
bound women for centuries.
One thing especially interested all
the group. Because of the bad con-
ditions imposed upon women, and
especially the Negro women, in the
United States, they were especially
impressed by the liberation and new
life among the women OF these for
merly oppressed nationalties. A del
erstion Of these freed women pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
ORDER MATERIAL,
NOW FOR THE
HUNGER MARCH
Joint Conferences to
Come from Struggle,
On Burning Issues

NEW YORK The National Com
mittee of the Unemployed Councils,
80 E. 18th St., New York, asks these
questions of all unemployed councils,
branches, united front organizations
for the National Hunger March, and
workers organizations supporting the
demands Of the marchers for unenn-
ployment insurance and $50 winter
relief
Did you order sufficient quantities
of the Manifesto (call for the March,
for distribution2
did you order a bundle Of builet-
ms?
Did you set up joint finance
committee?
Hold your United Front Confer
ence2
Arrange for open-hearings?
set up a Speakers Committee to
visit organizations7
Secure ads and greetings for the
National Magazine?
"Set up a committee to secure
trucks and autos?
united Front Conferences. Let us
know the date and place of all united
front conferences, past, present and
future, preparations, etc. What are
you doing to penetrate the unions,
mass organizations, Unemployed Citi-
zens Leagues.
1.-THE following weaknesses have
been evident in connection with the
conferences. Local struggles have
been postponed until the united front
conferences, instead of the united
front conferences developing as a re-
suit of these local actions in the
neighborhoods and localities. The
united front conferences should in
tensify and unity these actions on a
larger scale.
United front conferences should
not be called around too many de-
mands. Chicago called a conference
on a correct basis, raising the major
issue confronting the workers in
Chicago-the so per cent cut as the
major demand. The conferences
should be called on the most burn
ing issues. The approach Is too mar
row in the development OF united
front with the workers on the imme-
date issues in the neighborhoods and
localities. We do not involve our.
selves sufficiently in the neighbor-
hood struggles, the rank and file OF
the Unemployed Citizens Leagues
and similar organizations, around the
neighborhood demands. Neglect of
the drawing in Of A. F. Of L. branches
in the struggle for immediate relief
and unemployment insurance and
involving them in our united front
conferences. These Shortcomings must
be overcome in order to carry through
real united front from below In
the struggle against starvation and to
prepare for the National Hunger
March"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
International
Notes
BY PETER HENRY
PRUsSION SOCIALISTS AS WARD
HEELERS OF REACTION

PRUSSION SOCIALISTS AS WARD
HEELERS OF REACTION
LEIPZIG.-In the recent suit OF
the ousted PrusSian Government
against the Won Papen Reichs
Government before the German SUI
preme Court, the attorneys for the
Socialist ex-ministers Braun and
Severing tried to prove that the So
cialist cabinet had done as much as
anyone to fight the Communists. thus
proving their fitness for office"
Otto Braun, olisted Socialist Prime
Minister of Prussia. in a letter to
the court, wrote:
For ten years I supported the
policies Of the Federal Government,
irrespective of the composition of the
Reich Cabinet, often to the injury OF
my own party's propaganda, which in
the Reichstag opposed measures for
which voted in the Federal Coun-
Gil to further close cooperation be-
tween the Reich and Prussia. And
it is bitter to be kicked out of office
now like a servant accused of stealing
who isn't allowed to enter the house
any more. 1t is all the more bitter,
since it is done at the order of a man
(Hindenburg, for whose loyalty to
the Constitution vouched with all
my reputation and who owes his re-
election as President Of Germany
largely to my efforts"
Could che want a clearer statement
of the part played by the Socialists
in betraying the German working
class since the 1918 Revolution than
this brief of one of the outstanding
leaders of German socialism, who
today heads the Socialist ticket in
every election district in the coming
Reichstag election? The role of so
cialists is the same, all over the world
preparing and paving the way for
open, undisguised Fascism. This may
well be a lesson to the American
workers who are still misled by Tho
mas, Hillquit and their gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
HUNGER
MARCH PRECEDES
NATIONAL MARCH
Struggle Against Pay
Cuts and Evictions
Rousing Masses

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 31.-OVer
500 delegates from AL kinds of
workers organizations met here and
laid plans for two great movements
Of the unemployed for relief.
One is the Detroit Hunger March,
Nov. S, and the other is the state
wide mobilization of the Michigan
sections of the National Hunger
March.
The conference elected a committee
and sent it with demands to the city
administration for no more evictions
and for increased winter relief. Mayor
Murphy met the committee, and
sneeringly rejected all their demands.
The conference had forseen this, and
had made plans for the city hunger
march to bring pressure on the city
government. The march will start
its main section from Ferry Hall,
Ferry and Russell, Saturday, at l
pm, and other sections will join at
Grand Circus Park at pm. Com
munist candidate swill lead the vari-
Gus columns.
Besides the demands of the un-
employed, the Detroit Hunger March
will protest the wage cutting program
of Ford Motor Co. and other automo-
bile companies and will help organize
the workers for strike against wage
cuts.
In preparation for the National
Hunger March, public hearings, mass
meetings, and local struggles are in
creasing, and delegates for the Ma
tional Hunger March are being
elected.
Columns OF national hunger march
ers, concentrating on Detroit to join
Column l of the National Hunger
March there on November q, are to
start from four main points in the
state. One is the main route through
southern Michigan of the National
Hunger March column itself. which
reaches Kalamazoo from South Bend,
Ind, on November 26 and goes on
through Jackson and Ann Arbor to
Detroit. Another column starts from
Holland.
Two other columns start from Kali
amazoo and Holland on November %.
join at Grand Rapids. and go on
through Lansing to Detroit. From
the north a column leaves Saginaw
on Nov. 26, and comes down through
Flint and Pontiac to Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
Chats with Our
WOrCOrrs
Suggestions for Home Owners.

Suggestions for Home Owners.
The World War veteran, who faces
the loss of his home in Long Island,
is naturally seeking some organiza-
ton which can protect him. This
worker, already deeply in sympathy
with the aims of the Unemployed
Councils, should not be thinking
about separate organization, but
some form of home defense group
under the Unemployed Councils. He
should get in touch with the New
York headquarters of the Council at
10 E. 18th ST., and talk the matter
over with the comrades there.
No doubt resistance can be organ
lied against the eviction of this
worker from his home. AS to the
legal transfer of his property from
himself to the mortgage, some form
of struggle must also be evolved there,
depending on the situation in this
particular case. The Unemployed
Council will find some means of COM
batting this swiftly growing menace
of robbery of workers who are home
owners, under the slogan: mo taxa
ton of small home owners; no fore
closures"
In Detroit the Worker Home own
ers' Protective Association" is grow
ing rapidly, and as soon as we are
able to gather more material on its
activities, how it intends to struggle
and how it is linked up with the gen.
eral labor movement, the Daily
Worker will explain the form of or
ganization and its demands to the
workers throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01
British Fear For
Capitalism in Japan

LONDON, Oct. 31.-British i'm
perialist circles, sympathetic to ia
pans robber aims in Manchuria, are
expressing grave concern over the in
creasing catastrophe nature Of the
crisis in Japan. 1t is admitted in the
imperialist press here that the Japa-
nese yen is steadily losing in value,
having fallen further during the past
few weeks and that both the security
and commodity markets in Japan are
showing signs of considerable un-
easi11ess.'
Since workers also read the i'm
perialist press, that press is careful
to add the much-peddled lie of IAN
underlying feeling of confidence" in
the condition of capitalism in Japan
and elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

and the relief order will be reduced.
The single workers who are unem-
ployed also don't receive any.
The different things the workers
once bought and enjoyed. such as
radio, automobile and good furni-
ture, are also doomed. These work.
ers are told to sell them to support
their families.
Under the capitalist decaying sys-
tenn today, if unemployed workers
families need relief, they will have
to be in a ragged and starvation
condition to get some miserable re-
lief. And even this is at the expense
of the employed mine workers in the
anthracite, who are forced to give
81 every month from their pay to
help the unemployed miners, but
most of the funds goes in the pock-
cts of the grafters in the locals,
And then take look at this clip
ping from the TimeS-Leader of Oct.
10. Talk about forced labor!
beginning today and continuing
each day this week, ten residents
Of West Pittston will receive work
on the street force in connection
with the relief plans formulated
recently by Wyoming Valley NUM-
cipalities. Instead of receiving
money for the work, the men will
get orders honored at any store"
NJ. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

ship with the millions and millions
OF colored peoples oppressed and rob-
bed by Americans, British, French
and Japanese imperialisms in Africa,
India, China, the Philippines, Latin
America, etc. These people are all
told by their oppressors that they
are not fit to govern themselves.
However, we saw with our own eyes
how our brother peoples in the So
Wet part of Asia and the Near East
are making tremendous progress and
proving before the whole world what
the oppressed peoples can do once
they have won their freedom and the
right of self-government."
The group expressed the unani-
nous opinion that the Soviet Union
is the one country where all races
and nationalities enjoy full rights and
opportunities They expressed them
selves as much struck by the active
support given the peoples OF the ma
tional republics by the entire work.
ing-class of the Soviet Union, the
Communist Party and the Soviet
Government.
Everywhere Welcomed BY Masses
Everywhere the members Of the Ne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

Tie City, etc.
The following headline and article
was published in a New York paper
on October II:
Hundreds of home owners op-
pressed by overdue and called mort
cages, and buoyed until now by OPP
timistic propaganda which indicat-
ed that foreclosures would be halted
by the opening OF home loan banks,
today had their hopes wrecked. ;"
Well, saps, including myself, what
are we going to do about it? A Ger
tain mortgage company has informed
me that they intend calling my mort
gage which shall be due shortly. If
cannot get renewal and no help
from an institution established by
the government to save its citizens
from being thrown on the streets,
also to keep them sitting by the fire
side this coming winter listening to
the radio and anticipating the chick
en- dinner to be served "a chicken in
every pot)-what are we going to do
about it?
Now is the opportune time for ev-
cry small home owner, every tenant
living in fear of eviction, to band
together with the other. Let us form
a Home Defense League, to fight for
our families, demand a moratorium
until conditions get better, according
to the newspapers they are getting
better every day. ? 2?
SO the loan sharks won't have to
wait very long to receive their hard
earned principal which they have in
vested in mortgaged and firetraps.
Comrades, awake! Fight for your
families and homes.
World War Veteran.