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Evening star., 1932-04-16
u. s. WORKERS COLD
|. TO HOOVER'S PLAN
Agree "in Principle Only
With Five-Day Proposal,
Officials Say.

The National Federation Of Federal
Employees today was not WholehcartedIV
in accord with President Hoovers prc-
poSal to put Government workers on 2
five-day week basis. officials said they
approved the Presidents plan in "prin-
ciple" only, but are opposed to any
reduction in salaries
IF the plan meets with approval. -
commented Luther B. Stewart. president
of the federation, "the employees would
have to bear the cost of it."
Stewart said the organization ALWAYS
has been firm believer in the five-dav
week plan"
Pay Called Inadequate.
However" he emphasized. with py-
isting pay scales. which have never
been adequate, We are not in favor of
the plan as suggested by President
Hoover
Therefore, the federation's position
is that we are in favor of it in prin-
Ciple only. but We see no reason why
the employees should bear the cost of it.
It became known at the White House
Yesterday that the President intends to
press his plan for a general five-day
week for all Federal employees and is
confident that it will result in providing
worl. for as many as 10000 to IS coo
additional workers although net saw
ings on salaries will amount to SIS ,000.-
600 or $50 000000
The National Federation Of Post
Office Clerks viewed the President s
proposal on the same plane as the en-
p,Oyes organization. not only agreeing
with the views of Stewart. but adding
that lit would be a step backward in
our efforts toward economic recovery. -
I'VE will oppose vigorously" declared
Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treas-
urer of the post Office group, ANY move
that has as its motive a reduction OF
wages and employment"
No comment could be obtained from
officials of the American Federation of
Labor, because the national headquar-
ters was closed today in observance Of
its five-day week plan adopted some
time ago.
Evening star., 1932-04-16
1900 LOSE CITY JOBS
Mayor Cermak Orders Discharges
to Save $4,000 Monthly.

CHICAGO, April Is up. - Nearly
1900 city employees lose their Jobs TODAY
to save Chicago S1l5,OOO a month in
salaries.
News Of the discharge was not made
public until last night, although Mayor
Anton Cermak ordered it before leav-
ing for French Lick. Ind, Thursday
night to rest after an arduous primary
election campaign.
The cost of government Is too high.
It must be cut" he remarked before de-
parting, as he quoted figures to show
ne had already reduced payrolls by more
than $7000000 in the year ending
April l.
Evening star., 1932-04-16
Prison Fire Hero Freed.

DETROIT, April Is up. .- George
Joyce. 35. a hero of last years fire in
Ohio State Prison, where he was an in
mate, was freed yesterday when Her
man Milsk a jeweler, declined to prose-
cute a five-year- old bad-check charge.
Joyce was arrested on the charge on
March 26, when he completed a five-
year sentence for forgery in Ohio.
Evening star., 1932-04-16
TURFMAN DROPS DEAD

w. P. Gaines Was Preparing
Stable for Exposition Racing Card.
AURORA, Ill, April Is (Py.-W. P.
Gaines. Kansas City turfman, dropped
dead of heart attack yesterday. He
was so years cid, and one Of the best
known horsemen on Middle Western
and Southern tracks.
He arrived at Exposition Park, Aurora.
recently with his stable to prepare for
the exposition racing program.
Evening star., 1932-04-16
Word ''Depression,"
Banned by Board,
Costs Two Fine

BY the Associated Press.
LUDINGTON. Mich, April IS.
The word depression" just isn't
being used by the Mason County
Board Of Supervisors. 1t costs
them ST each time they utter it.
Frank A. Morse, Sheridan town
ship supervisor. was the first VIC
tim of the rule. He used the
banned word in a speech.
Supervisor Karl L. Ashbacker
Immediately was on his feet.
supervisor Morse used the word
depression, " said he, and I de-
mand he be fined 81"
Supervisor Ole Clines arose
from his seat.
And you repeated the word"
said Clnes, so let's have a dol
lar from you. too"
Both men paid.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
General Condition Thru
out The Country Haze
Forced Many Roads To
Reduce Trains And
Working Hours To Meet
Current Expenses.
N PURCHASES
AIR
LINE
Understand Buk Of Re-
duced Appropriations
- Will Come To Spencer
Shops; Force To Be m
creased If Possible.

Reports reached The Waterman
late Thursday night that all the shops
of the Southern railway had been
placed on a running repair basis and
that all major repairs were to be made
at Spencer, N. c..
Since the shop forces have been cut
to 4 days. Spencer and Knoxville have
become the leading shops of the sys-
tenn and will maintain the present
force of men working 4 days to the
week.
Of recent date the forces at Spen-
Ger have been increased. During this
month machinists, boilermakers, cleo
tricians and helpers have been added
to the force at Spencer. These men
have been brought to Spencer from
other shops on the Southern system,
where shops have been cut to running
repair forces.
Recently the railroads of the coun-
try have been in bad shape and have
cut their forces in an effort to meet
current expenses. Curtailment of trains
have been noted in the western states.
The Southern Pacific now has only
one train operating between New Or
leans and San Francisco. This is the
Sunset Limited and it now leaves New
Orleans at night in place Of its form
er morning schedule.
The M. and O. railroad is now in
the hands of receivers and many OF
the smaller roads over the country are
on the verge of bankruptcy.
1t is understood that the Pennsyl-
vania Railway will purchase the Sea-
| board Air Line.
A large proportion Of the savings
gained by the Southern adopting
four day schedule have been received
at Spencer and unless unexpected con
ditions confront the local Spence
shops will maintain the present force.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
Citizens Also Protest
Scheduled Game Be-
t1Veem Durham And SAL
isbury BASEBALL Clubs
Sunday Afternoon.
SECOND
GAME
IN N. CAROLINA
Indications Are That
Plans Will Go Forward
For Staging Sunday
Baseball Event At Maple
Grove Park.

There'll be no Sunday baseball in
Rowan county if there is any way
under the law to stop it, according to
Sheriff Cal Miller, who so advised The
Waterman Thursday night.
This statement was made by Sheriff
Miller when advised that the Durham
club of the Piedmont league and the
Salisbury club Of the Granite Bel,
league would stage a game Sunday at
ternoon at Maple Grove Park, with
an admission charge of twenty-five
cents per person.
Sheriff Miller did not divulge by
what method the scheduled game
would be prevented, but intimated
that warrants would be issued or an
injunction served prior to the begin
ming of the game.
County authorities were deluged
Thursday with protests against the
baseball game scheduled at Maple
Grove park Sunday afternoon between
the Durham Piedmont league club and
the Salisbury club of the Granite Belt
league.
Two methods to prevent the game
were advanced:
l. Injunction.
2. Intervention by police authori-
ties.
Consolidated Statutes, section 1855,
provides, among other things, that no
game or sport shall be INDUCED in on
Sunday.
An Indictment may also be brought
under the common law, charging all
participants with a misdemeanor. This
matter has been tested and ruled on by
the supreme court in 81 N. c. $50.
|. The only way Sunday baseball would
be legal in Rowan county would be by
special act. of the legislature, it was
pointed out by Solicitor ]. A. Dunn
when interviewed by a representative
| OF The Waterman.
The game is scheduled to be played
at Maple Grove park, beginning at
$3.50 Sunday afternoon.
Announcement that the game had
been scheduled was made Thursday by
Walter cCanless, owner of Maple
Grove park.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15

While the 4S states and district OF
Columbia were consuming 15,4oS,-
600, 900 gallons of gasoline and re-
ceiving $36,397,45s in gasoline tax
during the calendar year 1881, North
Carolina consumed 249,609,024 gal
Ions subject to tax and received IN
x on it $14,O24,303, after all de-
ductable refunds had been made, the
current issue of Public Roads,, pub
lished by the United States Bureau OF
Public Roads, shows.
North Carolina with II other states,
showed a decrease in gallons of gaso-
line taxable in 1881, as compared with
1880, but the decrease was negligible,
only f~our-tenths of mt per cent. This
state was 10Th in the 4S in number OF
gallons consumed and 18th in among
of tax received from it in 1881. Only
four states had a 6-cent rate, includ-
ing North Carolina, which increased
from five cents April 1, and only two
had a 7-cent rate. One had a IL
cent rate; 10 a. Scent rate; l6 a 4
cent rate; II a Scent rate, and tive
including the District Of Columbia
had a 2-cent rate. Twelve states in
creased rates in 1931-
The same publication shows, tha'
North Carolina had, as Of May 81
completed Federal Aid highways o:
2,222.S miles; had under construction
l76.1 miles, estimated total cost 81,
3s6,1o4.se, of which $67o,155.41w wa
Federal Aid; had 1911 additional mile
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
? KRIS KILLED BY U T

z N1TNLO J. III I1O "
Lois Lee Thompson, IS, Greensboro,
was killed and two companions badly
hurt in the overturning of a roadster
driven by her. Clara Wise, 16, of
Mays Head, was instantly killed in
the overturning of a car south of Nor
folk, Va.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
Diamond Mills
To Begin Work
Next. Monday

The Diamond Cotton Mills, pur-
chased recently by Rowan Cotton
Mills, will resume work Monday, &C
cording to an announcement Thurs
day by Arthur E. Davis, general man
ager. .
Resumption of work by this mill
will give employment to approximate
ly so persons.
Recently an addition was added to
the mill and approximately $4,000
in new machinery installed.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
DEMANDS CURTAILMENT

A curtailment of fully 100000
in state government costs for the COM
ing year, is asked by Treasurer John
P. Stedman in a letter to the COVER
nor to escape suspension. of salary and
current expense payments. Cut of 20
toy per cent in pay Of state en-
ployes is forecast.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
Decrease In
Use OF Gasoline

approved for construction at a cost
of $33S,402.S2, of which $169,2o1.-
50 was allotted from Federal Aid. This
State had available for new projects
$3,710,893.71 more in Federal Aid.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15

JUDGE DIES OF INJURIES
Injuries sustained in an auto wreck
on May 20 near Burgaw, were fatal
to Oar M. Jolly, Kenansville, judge
Of the Duplin county court.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
GOOD
MORNING
TAXING HI PEOPLE

'NS
Tax the people, tax with care,
Tax to help the multimillionaire.
Tax the farmer, tax his fowl,
Tax the dog, and tax his howl.
Tax the hen and tax her egg
And let the bloomin' mudsill beg.
Tax the pig and tax his squeal,
Tax his boots, run down at heel;
Tax his horses, tax his lands,
Tax the blisters on his hands.
Tax his plow and tax his clothes,
Tax the rag that wipes his nose;
Tax his house and tax his bed,
Tax the bald spot on his head.
Tax the OK, and tax the ass,
Tax his "Henry," tax his gas;
Tax the road that he must pass,
And make him travel DER the grass.
Tax his COW, and tax his calf,
Tax him if he dares to laugh;
He is Just a common man,
So tax the cuss just all you can,
Tax the laborer-be discreet
Tax him walking on the street.
Tax his bread and tax his meat;
Tax the shoes clear off his feet.
Tax the pay roll, tax the sale,
Tax his hard-earned paper kale;
Tax his pipe and tax his smoke
Teach him government is no joke.
Tax his coffins-tax their shrouds,
Tax their souls beyond the clouds.
Tax the farmer, tax his flocks:
Tax the servants, tax their socks.
Tax the living, tax the dead;
Tax the unborn, ere they're fed.
Tax the water, tax the air
Tax the sunlight if you dare.
Tax them all, and tax them we'll.
Tax them to the gates of hell!
But close your eyes SO you can't see.
The coupon-clipper go tax free!
H. A. Gootsck
IF YOU CARE TO KNOW
A liar is a husband who
Swears he still can be cheerful,
While bout his faults his loving wit
Is giving him an earful!
SIMPLY SPINSTER
Miss Pert-Do you think Gpstick
carry microbes, Miss Prim?
Miss Prim (severely)| conside
those who carry lipsticks mere mi
-crobes.
"I'll print a kiss upon your lips
Said William to Miss Flora Fess;
mo chance!" called father, who ha
heard,
Its too late now to go to press.
Boy Friend: II have some great new
for you-I'm going to marry vol
sister,"
Little Johnnie: 'Humph! That ma
be news to you'll"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
News Briefs

MANY. DIE IN POWDER BLAST
A guard Of 40 soldiers and many
civilians were killed in the explosion
of an ammunition depot on the out
skirts of Marking, Chinese capital.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
WINS $1,000 VERDICT

WINS $4,000 VERDICT
A $4,000 verdict was given at
Winston-Salem for Mrs. Alexandra
Hawkins who sued her father-in-law,
7. R. Hawkins in a sensational case FOR
$4,000 for alienation of her hus-
bands affections.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15

HOLD 2 FOR AUTO DEATH
:. Floyd Huffman and Ira Heffner, of
Catawba county, have been arrested
on manslaughter charges in connec-
ton with the death of Carl Wine
barger of Conover after an automo-
bile wreck.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
FRANKLIN sURRENDERS

Lola Franklin, Madison county, sur
rendered to officers after being sought
for the killing from ambush of 'Son"
Landers. Franklin was suspected of the
crime when his cane was found near
the spot from which the fatal shot
was fired.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
Saving OF $4,000
Effected By City
During Past Year

The seo22175 increase in the budget for the 1912 period was due to
the fac that 81, 100000 of long term water bonds maured on October l,
1881. recurring the water department budget o be increased, as no sinking
fund had been provided to etre the bonds. Hence the net increase OF $780,
221Z5 in expenditures for the year 1912.
In spite of the increase in the budget for the year 1912, the general fund
was reduced BY s8,o23.s6. A further saving of 13,41793 was effected in
the administration of the general fund as follows. The appropriation tor the
u,~ n tbe general fund was s17OO3900 of which only $B7521.o7 was
pent leaving a balance of $13,41793.
According to Mayor B. V. Hedrick, the city budget will be made up at an
ea1v date and all municipal operating expenses will be reduced.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
IVEY IS B. Y. P. u. LEADER

Rev. James A. Ivey, West Asheville,
was at Ridgecrest, chosen president of
the B. Y. P. U. in North Carolina.
Cooleemee won first: prize for general
excellence, Mars Hill for college lead
ership, Hickory for city union first
place, and CASTOR county for associa-
tional leadership.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
u BREAKS NECK

c. c. Coddington, Jr., 10, SON Of
the late leading Charlotte automobile
distributor, died instantly, when he
Owed from a boat into shallow water
of an Oslow county pond and broke
his neck.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15

IF YOU CARE TO NOW
A liar is a husband who
Swears he still can be cheerful,
While bout his faults his loving witt
Is giving him an earful!
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-15
HOLDUP MEN NET $1,000

Two holdup men took $1,000 in
collections away from two chain groc-
cry officers at Greensboro and are yet
uncaught.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
BY ROBERT MINOR
III. (ConclusiOn)

pUT the important thing is not the actions of this or
that individual much as the historical role of the
Mooney in the development of the class struggle,
and the organized instruments Of the workers, the
trade unions and the revolutionary party of the
workers.
The socialist party still coldly refused to have
anything to do with the Mooney No response
from Hillquit from Algernon Lee or any Of
the present leaders of the socialist party except
think formal acknowledgement of receipt of letter
to the National Executive Committee. Later. when
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist who a leading
figure in the defense of Mooney, indicted for
der by the San Francisco Grand Jury a means of
striking at the defense organization, and to make
conviction of Mooney easier, Hiuqut did consent to
act purely a lawyer to oppose the extradition Of
Berkman.
is interesting to note that the attitude of Morris
Hilquit, who willing to be a lawyer but not
political defender of the Mooney group, with the sly
covering up of his political role later showed its real
essence when Hillquit voluntarily went before the
Grand Jury to ask the indictment Of Communist
editors myself included, with VIM. F. Dunno and
Moissaye J. ogin) in New York City.
But the movement around Mooney constantly grew
and became tremendous mass volume. The entry
of the United States into the world and the
campng down of the police wartime terror caused
much Of the revolutionary opposition of the workers
to the wal to find channel of expression through
the Mooney Defense movement. There 81
CARNATIONS affiliated to the American Federation Of
Labor which, in spite of Gompers efforts to stop them,
openly affiliated with the International Workers De-
tense League. The masses of the membership of the
socialist party already with us and just as the
Gompers' bureaucracy decided that they could no
longer withhold official word in favor of Mooney,
the socialist party bureaucracy sent John Spargo to
California to investigate" the Mooney case.
met Spargo when he came to San Francisco and
soon learned that he hadn't the slightest intention of
investigating" and this trip to California merely
q blind to cover up the intention of the social
list party leaders to put through formal endorsement
of the Mooney defense a means of answering the
flood of attack that being heaped upon them by
the rank and file. Even before this, the fiercey
belgerent attitude Of the rank and file Of Jewish
trade unionists had compelled the leaders OF the
Hebrew Trades to endorse the defense Of Mooney.
After the official endorsement of the movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

treachery Of Fitzpatrick, Nockels and others who
worked through the weakness of Ed Nolan who had
been co-defendant with Mooney and who had be-
come tired Of the fight"
Why this excursion into the past history of the
Mooney caseP
Because it is necessary now to look and see what
has led up to the present role of the socialist party
At the end Of 1918 came the split in the socialist
party with the two left wing conventions in Chicago
out of which grew the formation of the Communist
Party of the United States Of America. And in these
conventions in Chicago-every single figure Of the So
Calist party who had played leading role in the fight
for the defense of Mooney TO be found lead
ing figure in the split from the socialist party
formation of the present revolutionary party of the
working class, the Communist Party.
This is true with the exception Of Eugene " Debs
Debs was sent to prison and the cruel treatment of
the aged leader practically destroyed him physically
Debs went to prison declaring: From the crown of
my head to the soles of my feet, am a Boshevk"
Debs remembered Tom Mooney as one of the staff of
campaigners who accompanied him the Red
Special train in the socialist party campaign of 1908
But the socialist party bureaucracy with the kind as
sistance of the United States prison authorities who
gave them every possible access to DebS succeeded in
confusing the old and preventing his joining the
Communist Party. Seymour Stedman, the "Caliban"
Of the socialist party and its presidential candi
date in 1920, was instrumental in wheedlng pebs.
SCeonan appeared as the leading tlgure In aiding the
prosecution of the revolutionary workers in Detroit
by means of parallel civil suit
But, aside from Debs, every other single figure in
the struggle for Mooney in these dark days when the
club and the gun and murder indictments we're the
penalty for being for Mooney has ceased to be figure
in the discredted reaconary sociafascis organiza-
ton headed by Morris Hillquit and the Reverend
Norman Thomas, and now more calously than ever
busy at strike-breaking and helping the American
capitalist rulers to place the burden of the economic
crisis the working class.
1t is necessary TO remember these things if we are
correctly to guide the movement TO victory in the
freeing of Tom Mooney It is necessary for the work
to know that those who whispered to the prosecu-
tors and police chiefs in 1916 in order to clear their
skirts Of the young Red labor leader, Tom Mooney,
and who have continued that course through sixteen
more years Of reachery and strike-breakng, cannot
do anything else than betray the struggle for the
liberation of working class martyrs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

afterward, 1 gained the conviction
that the Japanese military clique
would not have moved at this time
without Sub-rosa encouragement
from Europe"
A faithful servant of American i'm
perialism, Close attempts to cover up
the role of American imperialism in
forwarding the present robber war on
China and hypocritically presents
the United States as standing for
the unity of China He admits the
growing antagonisns and intrigues
between the imperialist powers over
the division of the loot in China, and
sees the European powers in an at
tempt to isolate the United States.
He declares that the Japanese i'm
perialists are preparing to challenge
the United States for domination of
the Pacific and warns that Japan
"has thrice made war before declar-
ing it,"
He speculates on the probability
of the Soviet Union and the United
States fighting on the same side in
world war, which he admits has
already begun in China. He pre-
diets a revolutionary upslrge in
Japan itself as result of the strain
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-15

to defend Mooney grudgingly given by the socialist
party bureaucracy its whole role nevertheless the
role Of killing the movement TO the extent pos
sibe. Always the socialist party press the hard
est to get any space from Always the socialist party
officials gave only so-much support" they could
not avoid If they were to retain their hold upon their
members.
The Russian proletarian revolution in November,
1917 electrified the working class especially the masses
of membership in the Socialist Party and crystalzed
the revolt against the treacherous burocracy which
could defend itself only by being temporarily, "for
Lenin as they became "for" the young California la
Dor martyr as soon as they could no longer hold back
the masses from his defense
At the same time all factors of the Mooney defense
began pouring into mighty flood of revolutionary
feeling and action The general strike at Seattle
most intimately connected both by the personnel of
the leading rank and fiers in the strike and in the