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The Washington times., 1932-04-02
And Thus A Story
There are thousands Of jobs
in your coal bin"

There are thousands Of jobs
in your coal bin"
This was the expression that
greeted me when we strolled into
the office of the Griffith-Con,
sumers one day last week.
1t was Mr.. Charles H. st.
John, vice president, speaking,
and, as usual, he was literally up
to his neck in work.
This time, however, he was not
so much interested in coal sta.
tiSticS. he was more concerned
with how his company could help
along in this vital problem of un.
employment. He said:
"The most serious need in
the entire world today is work
common, everyday labor and
its attending dollars for thou
sands of idle people"
MANY TO GET WORK
In Washington and outside,
there are labOrerS, truck driv-
erS, mechanics, storage men,
clerks, miners, railroad men. ..
thousands upon thousands in
all who will soon become a
part of the vast army of the
unemployed unless more people
than ever before provide them
with, employment by storing
their coal this summer.
Every ton of coal you put
in your bin now helps some
one, for thousands of people
are engaged in the production
and handling of it. You are
helping, along with other coal
users in Washington and else
where, to keep countless i, Idi-
viduals at work.
For two years we have seen
busines5 and industrial stagna-
tion,. the spectacle of men,
money, materials, and markets
idle, with the inability to put
them to work.
Few Of US have been spared
in this twisted economic con-
ditiOn.
INDUSTRY HARD HIT
Everyone realizes that the
coal industry has been hit
dOubly hard during the past
year-because of the decreased
consumption due to an unuSu-
ally mild winter. Right at this
s--Oment, thousands of families
dependent upon the coal indus
try are faced with prolonged
MINER layOff."
Mr.. st. John went on to point
out that buying coal in the spring
is always a good investment be
cause prices are at their lowest
coal is at it's best. and deliveries
can be made to suit the home,
owners convenience.
This year. with the prices of
certain sizes at the lowest in a
decade, the coal user is offered
the opportunity of a lifetime. But,
he said:
"ThiS is not the big problem.
Prosperity seems over reluctant
to return, and the responsibility
for speeding it's return rests
squarely on the shoulders of
each one of us.
REAL TO HELP
'If our company can play a
small part in relieving this. un-
employment situation and help
to contribute to general cheer
fulness, we shall feel greatly
repaid for any efforts which
we may expand"
And, so, I knew why I was
greeted with the expression.
There are thousands of jobs in
your coal bin"
1t was indeed refreshing to find
and to meet an executive who is
giving the welfare of the country
such serious thought and placing
it above immediate personal gain
My stick concurred with me on
this, that Griffith-C Consumers
Company is to be congratulated
in taking the initiative in such a
movement, so far as it is con
cerned with the industry with
which they are affiliated. - R
j. w.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
DRAW
AFTERL|GHT
!. TRAINING

NEW YORK, April 2.-Sammy
Fuller, the chunky Back Bay
lightweight who has been chris
tened "the little John L. Sullivan
OF Boston" resembles the i'm
mortal John l.. in more than
one respect. He can duck all
training for an important bout
and still get by.
A membrane in Fuller's nose
was broken in a bout eight days
ago, forcing him to forego spar
ring entirely this week. Yet he
stepped into the ring at Madison
Square Garden last night with
Jack kid Berg, of England, and
finished fast to gain a we'll
earned draw at the end of ten
rounds of furious milling.
More Stamina Than Berg
Master Sammy actually had
more stamina than Berg, the
human dynamo" who had
trained carefully for the bout.
The Briton, after piling up an
early lead, wilted rapidly near
the finish and was holding on
desperately in the last round.
Two more heats and the Boston
sharpshooter would have scored
q knockout.
Berg was dropped to his finger
tips for no count near the end
OF the eighth round. In the
1nth he went down for a count
OF five from left hook Just
below the belt. This blow cost
Fuller the round, but apparently
did not hurt the Briton, for he
got up and fought back fiercely.
Free Butting Contest
Berg himself was guilty of
illegal tactics in repeatedly but
ting his opponent. This billy
goat warfare made Fuller's in
jured nose bleed freely and
opened nasty cut over Sammy's
left eye in the second round, the
damaged optic being practically
closed for most of the fight.
Forgetting his broken nose and
closed eye, Fuller loosed a bar
rage of sweeping left hooks to
the body and jolting right crosses
to the head that offset the
Briton'S relentless attack. Fuller
landed the cleaner and harder
wallops, and his body-punching
attack had Berg'S knees sagging
at the finish. Berg weighed 1882
pounds and Fuller 1854.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
CROSLEY OFFERS
NEW MODELS

Recent developments of the
Crosley radio engineering and re-
search laboratories are the "Tyna-
mite" and the "Bonniboy." Both
of these models are equipped
with four-tube superteterodyne
chassis which incorporates the
latest radio engineering achieve
ments.
The former set is a table model
type of distinctive design and re-
tails for the lowest price of any
of the many Crosley sets. The
latter is of the console type.
Both will be placed on the mar
ket complete with tubes and ready
for operation.
According to C. P. Hill. of Dou-
bleday-Hill Electric Company, It's
Twelfth st. N. W., an outStand-
ing feature of these two new
Crosley models is their balanced
Image Suppressor Pre-selector" by
which troublesome and annoying
"twospot" reception is eliminated.
incidentally, these two sets are
said to be the lowest priced super
heterodyne table and nSole
model radios on the market.
Another development of the
Crosley radio engineers is the
Crosley Dual Dynamic Speaker,
which is now part of the stand
ard equipment in three Crosley
models, the "Merrymaker," the
Announcer" and the "Playtime."
This new feature is optional
equipment in the Happy Hour"
model.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
PICTURE
MADE IN HOME

Talking and sound motion pic
lures are no longer a thing eX-
cluSively for the theaters.
Under the direction of Paul D.
Hellyer, the Washington Motion
Picture and Stereopticon Com
pany, with offices in the Homer
Building, COL Thirteenth st. N.
W., furnishes the private user
with portable sound ensemble.
This firm Specializes in supply
ing banquets, conventions, schools,
churches and meetings of all
sorts, either social or professional,
with sound equipment and films.
This equipment can be either
rented or purchased from the or
ganization with a guarantee
against imperfections in material
or workmanship.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
BUY COAL NOW,
SAYS AGNEW

Now is the time for Washing,
tonians to buy coal. o. G.. Ray
mond, of the John P. Agnew
Company 728 Fourteenth st. N.
w., said today. He added:
mot only is coal cheaper
now than It has been in many
years, but thrifty buyers can
help the general business ma
terially by buying now.
Many thousands of employees
of coal companies and mines
are threatened with unemplOy-
ment for several months unless
the demand for coal is Stimu-
lated by orders.
'PriceS of egg, stove, nut and
pea, the popular sizes of an
thracite, have been drasticaIIy
reduced for April delivery.
Some of these have been cut
as much as $2.35 a ton.
"The first of May will see
the price starting upward again,
rising monthly through the
summer.
1T is doubtful if the present
low leveI of prices will again
be reached. They are certain
not to be retained. This is
normally the slow time of the
year and is the time when the
wise home owner or permanent
tenant lays in his supply for
the coming cold months"
The AgneW company has inau'
gurated a system for receiving
orders for delivery the following
day. This applies to fuel oil as
we'll as coal. A call to National
3O68 or metropolitan $500 will
bring one of the company's large
fleet of trucks to the right ad,
dress promptly.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
PRINTING FIRM
IS EFFICIENT

The sales force of E. M. Bryan
Company, Inc, printers, station
ers and engravers, 813 Thirteenth
St. N. W., is efficient because it
is stimulated. E. M. Bryan, head
of the firm, believes that compe-
tition is the keynote in the sue
cess of any business. For this
reason he has established the
practice of having sales compe-
titions between his statesmen each
month, awarding the winners sub
Stantial prizes.
The company was incorporated
in 1926, and this month it will
issue it's thirty-first dividend to
the holders of preferred stock.
These dividends, paying 8 per
cent, have been issued quarterly
since the firm was incorporated.
Not only has the company con-
tinued to operate to the advan-
tage Of all concerned with it, but
it has neither had to lay off any
of it's employees nor cut wages.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
Boat Club HOnOrs
AU-High Bdsketers

Featured by two attractive bas-
ketbau games, the Potomac Boat
Club will mold it's annual cele-
bration in honor of the all-high
basketball players tonight at
George Washington gym. Follow
ing the games a dance will be
held.
The Boat Club Scholastics,
composed of the Eastern High
team, will engage the Central C.
Club in the main event. The
preliminary starting at 7:45
o'clock, calls for st. Johns Vic,
tors, 130-pound champions of the
city, meeting Eastern Reserves.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02
LmOIe1n1 Company
Carries Large Stock

One of the largest linoleum
showroom spaces in the city is
that belonging to the Keystone
Linoleum Company at SOL G st,
N. w.
This company carries a COM
plete line of Armstrong and Seal
eX floor coverings, in all colors
and designs, and constructed to
meet every Iinoleum need.
The Washington times., 1932-04-02


of
Riggs National Bank continues
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-02
More InjnnctionS

prtTE m of rnctons AGAINST striking
passage AntInjcon Bill gives no relief from THIS
hailed by the L the of this bill is clearly
exposed the issuance Of two sweeping luconS acsSC
workers New York.
Tbese workers have been carrying and militant fight
against one reactonary bodies of employers IN the country
ean panv union control system and host OF
against continuous wage cuts
They have already won number OF victories
the particularly fierce against two OF the
kew shops industry the workers have been able to rep
The effectiveness of the strike in the Geler
particularly as the season is
the employers have oted to their
choice weapon order to crush the strikes What they
could Constitutional League and other paid strike
accomplish means
be not only from the
fact that the Federal Department Labor has been called in in order to
secure injunction the sweeping terms contained in it.
pckng orders the strikers 10
keep within directs the police to break up any
CONVERSATION prevents the workers from talking TO
employees them to leave the shop and even
the calling up of workers on the e
phone visiting workers at their homes
The employers through experience that the militant shoe
workers injunction but they hope to be
split the workers and to make the Job OF their PAID
agents easier.
AGAINST this the shoe workers will respond
they others united action they can under the lead
ership fighting industrial union, win the battle
the injunction not only the fight OF the
all sections of organized and
organized possibilities for wide united front against the
reptile the debate around the passage OF the
George Wharton Pepper OF pennsylvania stated
against federal courts because
injunction eff unchecked might easily develop
revolutionary sentiment"
The capitalist corruption been recently
exposed ercey hated by the working
class the interests of the working class
and unemployment it
possible organize united front struggle To this task not
workers must strike this vicious
cute Of the hands the employing class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-02

onies under American rule. We
denounce the Hare and Hawes-
Cutting Bills as maneuvers to keep
the Philippine Islands under the
permanent control of American
Imperialism.
We denounce Santiago Iglesias,
the Socialist Party leader, and the
other Porto Rican bourgeois lead
ers as agents of American impe-
rialism to preserve Porto Rico as
a colony of American imperialism.
We demand the withdrawal of
American warships and marines
from China, where the Oahu"
an American gunboat fired on
1000 Chinese; from the Philippines
and Hawaii, where they constitute
a threat against the Chinese people
and the Soviet Union, and from
Latin American waters, where they
are used to maintain The supren-
acy of Wall Street in Latin AM
erica.
We protest against the terror
employed against the anti-iinpe-
rialist elements in the Philippine
Islands, in Peru, where hundreds
are still in Jail as a result of the
Peruvian naval revolt, when 8
sailors were executed and fourteen
others sentenced to from ten to
fifteen years, and in the other
colonies and semi colonies, and par
ticularly in Cuba, where the ter
ror increases daily We demand
the stepping of the war against
Sandino's Army, and the, with
drawal of American marines from
Nicaragua. Recognizing the spe-
cial responsibility which the revo-
lutionary workers of New York
State have assumed toward the re-
volutionery movement of Cuba, this
Nominating Convention pledges
that it will, during the campaign
link up the question of Cuba and
other colonies with the other is
sues in the campaign.
Fight against the terror in the
colonies! For immediate and un.
conditional independence for the
colonies! For the solidarity of the
toiling masses of the United States
with the oppressed masses in the
colonies!
Anti-Inperialist League of the
United States
w. Simons, Secretary.
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Capitalist
Cure-AH Doctor
Chicago, June 80.

Cnlcago, June 80.
Dear comrades:
In today's Herald Examiner" Hen
ry Morganthaw has an article en-
titled: Forced Economy will bring
United States better prosperity"
High prices, high wages, reckless
spending" were the cause of the pre-
sent crisis, Morganthau says in his
article. And the cure, he states, will
be period of careful adjustment,
during which we must painfully re-
build on a stable basis"
That basis, according to- this dean
of American economic life,' is sim
ply the saving of pennies and nickes.
Before we are quite aware Of it,
he concludes, the reservoir of capital
fund will be filling again. We shall
have saved ourselves rich"
1t is evident that this Henry is
the spiritual brother of Henry the
First, of Detroit, who just some time
ago advised us workers to raise cab
bage in our backyards if we want
any thing to eat this coming winter
1t is also evident that these two
are clear types of all our merchant
princes, industrial barons and finan-
cial kings.
Are we workers going to vote for
their hirelings this fall2 Let us say
NO in an effective way. BY building
up the Unemployed Council and win
support for the Communist Party.
E. L.
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Letters from Our Readers

us to be one of them.
Let me cite an instance. While
signature collecting, visited a FAM
lily of sympathetic, class conscious
workers, but they were not members
of the Party simply because they had
never been actually drawn into the
movement. 7 remained there about
three-quarters of an hour. When I
was going out I saw that they were
not quite ready to sign an applica-
ton, so / said that 1 would come
back in a few days with Hungarian
conlrade ethey are Hungarians). A
sister-in-law was there at the time.
In a few days I visited her and
her husband. We became very
friendly. Finally she brought me
into her neighbours, for she thought
that these workers would also be in
terested in the Party. We all spent
some time there and finally planned
to meet some day next week, these
six workers and myself, at which
time would also bring with me the
Hungarian comrade had told them
of, and they all promised to join the
Party.
When I was leaving, one of the
women said: Isn't it a shame that
we realize how critical the situation
is-how much there is to be done,
and yet we have been out of the
movement"
I came across a Negro family who
at first told me he was a Tanmany
man. have seen him three times
The last time he told me to come
after the Rutgers Square demonstra-
ton and he would sign to put the
Party on the ballot.
Yes, We must spend more time with
the workers. And in order to do this
we must make the time for it.
ISABELLE WALTERS.
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Methods of Work and Some Tasks of the Party

opment of correct forms of organ
ization. The Southern workers have
a poor organizational tradition,
their main experience being the
church and bourgeois controlled
lodges. At the same time there is
strong militant spirit along in
dividualistic lines and our task
must be to collectivize it.
Under the prevailing semi-legal
conditions, the small committees in
the neighborhoods and factories
are the main organizational forms
with which to develop mass move
ment Here it must be said that
the conception of one of our lead
ing comrades in Chattanooga that
we can be legal only if we do not
develop a mass movement is a rot
ten liberal approach which was
sharply condemned by the Party.
The block committees of the I'M
employed are one of the avenues
through which we can feel the
pulse of the masses, initiate joint
activity and develop a mass move
ment and leadership from the
ranks. The unemployed commit
tees must develop the committee
form Of fighting for needy families
and tie this up with city-wide Joint
committees and demonstrations on
burning issues (such as cutting re-
lief, etc.,, which concern every
worker, Negro and white. The I.
L. D. in most Southern cities must
be built on a neighborhood COM
mlttee basis and has the particu-
larry important task among others
OF winning the support of the work
ers in capitalist controlled organ
izations and breaking the hold of
the takers. particularly on the
Scottsboro campaign and local de-
tense struggles. In the election
campaign a wide network of cleo
ton clubs must be established.
bringing the issues directly to the
masses, breaking the hold of the
Democrats, Republicans and Social
lists on the workers in the mass Or
carnations. Here, too, fight must
be put up for the right of all Ne
gro and white workers and farmers
to vote, In Alabama, in order to
vote, person must own $500 tax
able property, or 40 acres of land.
Our election campaign, linked with
the immediate struggles, must be
used to break through the under
ground position of our Party.
Alongside Of these clubs must 60
women and youth social and sport
clubs, which can also help in the
Party campaigns through patient
work and guidance, in this way
breaking the hold of the churc,
and the bocs-controlled orsaniza-
tons
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Into the Shops Ely Patient
Everyday Work.

AT the same time all our energy
"a must be centered on our basic
task of getting our organization in
the big factories and mines. Other
wise all cur work is spoiled. With
out committees in the big factories
we cannot work effectively under
the occasional outbursts of police
terror nor are we able to mobilize
our forces to lead strikes and to
fight against capitalist war.
The work requires hard plugging,
due to the organizational inexperi-
ence of the Southern workers. 1t
means day to day personal con-
tact, convincing the workers, show
ing them how small committee
can grow and fight for better con-
ditions, showing them that we are
trying to protect them from spies,
and utilizing every concrete issue
and grievance to politicalize the
struggle for Negro rights. against
fascism and social fascism, for de-
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Bulgarian fascisrn and imperialism.
During the last nine years this
band has been responsible for the
murder of more than 1000 Mace
DOMAIN workers, peasants, intellec-
tuals and artisans.
The Government Is Respons bic
1t Expresses and terrorizes the
Macedonian population in the Pet
ritch district. levies taxes by force
and with the aid of it's weapons
suppresses every protest against
these crimes or against the general
fascism ruling in Bulgaria.
Since the present government,
calling itself Peoples Bloc has
come into power, this band of muir
derers has committed dozens Of
murder attempts against Macedon-
ian fighters for freedom who have
led the struggle for the independ-
ence Of Macedonia and for the Bal.
kan Federation.
Intellectuals and Workers Organ
izations Protest
The kidnapping of the Macedonian
leader Kavrakiroff has aroused the
utmost indignation in all progress
sive circles. A number of eminent
persons, such as Karin Michaelis,
Albert Einstein, ETC., as we'll as Or
CARNATIONS such rs the Red Aid,
the Union for Free Balkans, League
Against Imperialism, have sent pro-
tests to the Prime Minister IN Bull
garia.
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the prejudice of the Southern white
workers.
United Action On Mass Starvatioo.
TODAY with the crisis gripping
millions of employed and I'M
employed Negro and white work.
ers and farmers our main immedi-
ate task is to develop united strug-
giles on the basis of the burning
needs of the masses. At the pres
emit moment our success in the
South depends on our ability to
develop these united struggles,
otherwise both Negro and white
workers will sink more and more
deeply into the morass of starva-
ton. And not only will we fail
to win the white workers, but the
Negro masses will lose confidence
in our movement unless we prove
to them that the white Southern
workers will take the initiative and
sincerely join in the struggle for
Negro rights. While the struggle
for the economic needs of the
masses gives us an excellent instru-
ment for linking up the struggle for
Negro rights and for the Scottsboro
defense, we must utilize every act of
oppression against the Negro masses
as an instrument in itself to de-
velop solidarity protests and strug-
giles. 1t is a fact that one of the
key questions in saving the Scots
boro boys depends on our ability to
win the white Southern workers to
join with the Negro masses in the
fight for the freedom of the Scots
boro boys, because only united &C
ton can help to smash lynch and
all Negro oppression.
Our OrganizatiOnal Forms Must
Reach the Masses.
ANOTHER basic custom in our
"A work in the South is the devel-
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land in the Black Belt. At the same
tirne work must be done among the
white choppers to feel their senti-
nlelt, to organize them, etc, other
wise the landlords will try to use
them for the lynch nlcbs against
the fishting Negro troopers. We
must el1o raise the question of
self-determination sharply in all
indrss-'al conter7 in TIE South par
ticularly those linked up with the
Black Belt as one of the funda-
mental problems of the American
p-cletarian revolution in which the
industrial workers play the lead
ing part,
Build the Party.
TUT Of all these activities and
struggles. the building Of the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League stands in the
forefront. The Party must in prac-
tice become the most disciplined,
organized and militant section Of
the Negro and white workers in the
South. So far because we have not
led many struggles we have not as
a rule won the best southern work.
ers and poor farmers for the PART
ty, although we have some splen-
did Negro cadres who are Develop
ing very we'll. But this only means
that when we develop struggles still
better mass workers both Negro
and white can be drawn into the
Party. Alongside of this must go
the theoretical development OF our
new workers on the most simple
lines of study linked up with their
actual experiences. At the same
time collective leadership and self
criticism from top to bottom will
help in. developing leading cadres
of Southern workers and a mass
Party capable Of doing its duty in
the gigantic class battles.