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The Washington times., 1932-10-19
Officials Wife
Goes to Boston
Times staff Photo

Mrs. Arthur A. Ballantine,
wife of the Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, will leave this
evening for Boston where she
will be the guest of her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cross. Mrs. Ballantine
plans to return to the Capital
the latter part of the week.
The Washington times., 1932-10-19
Mrs. Harry K. Dausherty Presents
Members to FirstLadx, Who Was
Accompanied by Mrs. Hoover, Jr.
99 8*24 y co"''"

Over thousand members of the League of Republican
Women assembled at the league headquarters in the Ma
tional Republican Club yesterday afternoon do honor
Mrs Herbert Hoover reception given under the auspices
of the membership committee
The Washington times., 1932-10-19
Mrs. Hoover Creets Republican Women

Mrs Hoover who accompanied from the White House
by Mrs Herbert Hoover jr and Mrs Stark McNIun had
charming greeting for each member of the club presented
to her. and she looked especially well in gown of
brown satin CREPE made simple tailored lines, with
touch of showing the bodice Her small brown felt
hat had low and brm and it trimmed
with shrred band of the felt scarf of sable lent becom
ing note and she cOrsage bouquet of gardenas
presented to her by the members of the league.
Mrs Daughery looked very smart in black and white
costume the gown of heavy crepe finished with deep white
collar Her hat small model of black velvet which she
at becoming angle. White gloves completed her
tune
Mrs Grosvenor afternoon gown of bottle green
crepe trimmed with black pony fur and her hat of black
velvet
Mrs Speel received in gown Of white lace with black
hat, and she pearl ornaments.
Mrs Hoover, jr, blue and white mixed tweed
tailored suit the threequarterengh coat devoid of trim
ming and her dark blue felt sports hat had brim.
The Washington times., 1932-10-19

group of Cabinet ladies' received in the assembly
with Mrs Warren Hanes of the league, making the intro
ductons They included Mrs Stmson wife of the Secre
tary of State Mrs, Mills, wife of the Secretary of the
Mrs. Adams wife of the Secretary of the Navy.
Mrs Herbert Hoover r held little court of her in
the spacious hall of the club and with her Mrs Stark
NIcMullin, who is a guest at the White House.
The reception held the main floor of the clubhouse
and the guests limited to the members of the league
served the second floor in the League of Repub
can Womens which decorated with clusters of
flowers many of which from the gardens of
Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson, lovely home Holm Hall, in Vir
gnia.
Mrs Samuel j. Prescott wife of the chairman of the Re-
publican State committees Mrs Luther H. Rechedere wife
of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia and Mrs
Edward A. Keyes all Of whom vice presidents of the
league presided at the dantiy appointed rereshment
tables, assisted by other ladies of the league
Mrs Virgil Miller chairman Of the membership committee
assisted in receiving did Mrs Harry Hull of
the league and the executive officers of the Young Men
Republican Club acted aides throughout the afternoon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
Unemployed Masses Are
Moving

THE seeds of local unemployed struggles being planted
by the National Hunger March it is making its way to
Washington.
The Hoover hunger government with the smiling, dema
gogc approval of the private citizen of Wall Street, Mr..
hoped the localities the organization and progress
duty the
washington police localities
and prevent them from coming to Washington
all of these attempts Of the national local and state police ad-
SratloS are 1aig @ he t OF iF io1 giaS S
] the de- f the Tgar march and its demands have stirred the
very depths starving workers actively
march minnesota, Cleveland
the OF the local STRUGGLES in conjunction with the
authorities change their mind about "dcoagn the
battles honorable
considered prudent yield to the
for this Years national hunger march 20 with the strug-
ole aoainsf the s in local relief against the growth of forced
eycon is precisely this which made possible
the development OF mass base and mass OF the hunger
march We also that in connection with the hunger march the be-
formulation of their demands and struggle for local grievances The Or
local The city councils must consolidate these
n struggles after marchers the
The exisngtblock committees must be strengthened DAY up
Invites be carried through fight for and poue the main de-
country growing charity relief
particularly relief have created basis for
December
9Th the day the hunger maches present demands IN WaShgton must
relief unemployment insurance in their support
brought light by the organization
the march the persistence secan habits
inability the united front broad basis
already national march has developed
CIhe growth OF local struggles
ganzationa political of the
hunger march the localities the granting OF food
lodging the of leading industrial towns
The regarding
hunger growing
the Central Committee
Party encouraging and leading this struggle.
Worng-cass history this combination of
action unemployed with the employed
battle defeat starvation worker
organization must into the battle front!
winter relief and federal unemployed insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
Why the Gods Aren't
Laughing

THE seng these the spectacle
which contradc
their Oympian
mirth.
the following from
capitalist economy their attention.
VANDERBILT already a of community
singing people the declared:
plan Let's get better plan Their plan
within the
the United States to form workable pregnant"
capitalism to talk about planning it
the wife of Frank
VANDERBILT banker suggested Beard Robert Mil
Technocracy Newton
of the planning board that is boost capitalism out
the crisis by its boosraps
mimpressed needed
capitalism available Soviet
leadership had sought induce Mrs Van
trust and put her wealth OF organizing experience
although doesn't pick the Soviet
both
Vanderip her czarist rubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
Miners Daugh>
ter Has Z Months
More in Prison

MINE strikes LAND women in Jail
wi as well as their husbands. De-
manding only the means to live
they are sentenced on charges of
"inciting to riot" Mrs. Rasefske
and her daughter Stella, now 10
years old, are serving as a result OF
their action in the Pennsylvania
Ohio West virginia coal strike.
Stella has seven more months to
serve, her mother 80 days. Mean
while the father finds himself
olacklisted and totally unable to
lind work OF any kind. He and his
three children are dependent on oc-
casional odd jobs which the eldest
hoy gets. They are destitute. And
there is still another difficulty.
stella's sister, Mary, writes:
"SteIIa wants you TO write TO her
as often as you can and TO keep
her informed Of everything in
terc ting 10 her. You see stella
Is now worrying about the time
she viii have TO serve after Mother
leaves her. She wrote saying
that she doesn't think she win be
able to stand il"
The International Labor Defense
calls on you to help get freedom
for Stella, to support this family,
crippled by the mine owners. Sup
port the Prisoners Winter Relief
Calnpaigni Send all funds TO: 80
Ezzt t1th s.. s2Sx.za ago New Work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

i'll The REQ clay Its walls were
stained with the years accumula-
ton Of grease until the very boards
seemed TO ooze Of the pots and
pans inside. Twenty feet away was
the mess hall, as blstered and as
gray as the kitchen. A deputy's
shack leaned towards two TRUSTEES
Shacks. In the easternmost corner
Of the stockade, under planks rest
ing eaves-hke on eight posts, was
the last stopping place Of the con-
vict before free legs were riveted
with chains: the blacksmith shop.
The shelter was filled with old
shovels and picks, chains, broken
halters, saws. files, bolts and nuts
ana Old automobile wheel rims.
Two hundred yards from the
Stockade gate was the warden's
house, a Slat- board, rambling build
ing with an ancient coat of paint
peeling off its walls A luxurious!
flower garden faced the ugliness Of
the wire Enclosure. Two acres Of
vegetable garden, pig and chicken
pens stretched back of the house.
On these acres were the kennels
for the dogs, the terror of cOnvicts
and the despair of those who had
been tracked down by them,
A heavy, summer stiffness hung
over the camp.
A trusty came out with two suits
of stripes.
"Git in 'en, the deputy ordered.
THE change made David resentful.
1 Ebenezer was sobered by the
wrinkIed convict suit that marked
him so irrevocably as of the chain
gang until his dying day.
From the open door of a cage a
gaunt, black scarecrow Of a man
came haltingly down the steps. He
was bareheaded ana barefooted.
His striped pants were rolled above
his ankles, and his torn undershirt
chung to his bony shoulders. He
walked slowly to them.
"Y'au got a lemon fo' sick
cullud MANI" he asked plaintively.
They stared at him. The guard
laughed.
mo, they amt got no lemons,
George" he said
The scarecrow returned detected
Iy to the cage and sat on the steps,
resting his head on his hands.
He's always askin' TO a lemon"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

MISDENGEANOR offenders may
HA not be sentenced to more than
twelve months and are kept within
the county of sentence, but felony
convicts are the states and are
allotted to counties in proportion to
their population. The Prison Com
mission, which has sole control over
the states convict camps, consists
of three men elected by popular
vote. 1t is not essential that COM
missioners be penologists, but it is
essential that they be good vote
getters.
Convict camp wardens are APP
pointed by the Commission, upon
recommendation of the commits
Sioners of the county where the
camp is located, unless the pro-
posed man has too unsavory a rec
ord.
The Prison Commission makes it's
own rules for the supervision of
convicts which are subject to no
one for approval.
A Negro doing life and a year
arrived for the Chickasaw county
camp the day David was sentenced.
The two were handcuffed together.
Ebenezer Bassett was his name and
he was in his forties. He had es-
capped several mc.lths before from
q northern county camp where he
was doing life for having killed
Negro in a braWl. He was caught
when he was arrested in an easy
house for striking the madame over
the head with a chair. He was
given year for escaping.
ALL this he chartered while they
n waited under the watchful eyes
of guard, while Bill Irvine
shopped in town for his wife. Ebe-
nezer's face was wreathed in smiles
when he talked except in moments
when his eyes clouded with a per-
picked, bewildered expression; then
he looked as though he were CROP
ing for something he did not quite
understand or grasp.
'Figger you'll escape again, Benz"
the guard asked jocularly.
Dunno, suh," he chuckled. "Sho
got long time to figger hit out!"
LIFE AND A YEAR
He turned to the boy.
''Whut you doin'?" he asked.
year" David said sullenly.
Ell wouldn't even hang nv hat up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
Mitchell Palmer Crops
Up Again Under Wing
Of New President

WASHINGTON, D, C.-"Private
citizen" Roosevelt has already indi-
Gated in more ways than one that
he will continue the Hoover program
of hunger and terror, when he takes
up the presidency in March, In his
reception room in Washington, where
he met the press correspondents,
Roosevelt boldly Haunted his friend
ship for Mitchell Palmer, who was
present in the room. Workers who
remember Mitchell Palmer's record
of terror against the workers, when
he was encouragement in the sec
ond Wilson administration, will real
ize what 1t means when this thug
crops M again under the protecting
wing OF the new president.
Palmer has been little heard OF
since 1920, when in the winter of
that year, nationwide protest
against his raids and illegal arrests
forced a senate committee to listen
for days to an exposure of his crimes
against workers.
After passing out Of the political
picture for a dozen years Palmer is
now welcomed back to the councils
Of the president-elect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

fo' dat! Me- got life an a year,"
He laughed loudly.
DAT jedge is outer his haid! How
he figger a man kin do life an
year? Wen yo' daid you cain do
no mo- time!''
LIE NOTICED David look at him
IL with a puzzled air.
Got my haid cracked" he ex-
planned cheerfully. Skull busted
wide open an brain jes' ploppin'
all over de place"
He shook his head vaguely and
added:
81 git awful headaches some
times"
He broke into another loud
laugh.
eyes, sub, cracked my skull clean
open. 1 laid in jail fo' weeks TO- I
was up an arou'."
The guard watched tolerantly
with an amused grin.
WIFE AND CHILDREN
"Jes' one thing troublin' me-"
Ebenezer said confidentially his eyes
clouded with that searching, CROP
ing look. Il dunno whey my wife
an chillun is. Dunno whose gonter
TEX care o. DEM"
He shook his head sadly.
1.-TWO Ill chillun," he explained,
holding up two fingers of his free
hand.
THREE of the Buzzard's Roost
4 eight acres were Enclosed with
barbed wire strung on posts ten
feet apart. Beyond the Enclosure
the ground sloped gently to 9 green
wall of swamp trees.
A wooden cross for the lanterns
at night faced two cages in the
stockade, huge cages with worn,
wooden steps at each leading to
the doors open like the maws OF
iron monsters. There were no pans
under them, old cages, where the
nights receptacles were kept in
side. The criss-crossed, ha1f-inch
bars on the sides were screenless.
A kitchen of blistered, gray planks
sagged on brick stills half buried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

the guard grinned. Tried to escape
a couple O. years ago an got pretty
badly beat up an he's bin of since.
Good worker, though"
He scratched a stubble of red
beard.
Make yo'sef to home. Cap'n's
gone to the house to register you in
his hotel book an it'll be a while
befo' the blacksmiths back"
DUzzARD's ROoST: red clay
u under a tropic sun. A cage for
Negroes and cage for whites.
Flies. Mosquitoes. Tiny red
ants. A cross. Two concrete
poles eight feet apart and stocks,
like heavy wooden box with
three sides missing. To David.
who had seen men faint in them
in Snake Fork, the four holes in
the wood were round eyes of
terror. And a cofEin Of thick wood
standing UPRIGHT, the like or
which he had never seen, but 10
was recognizable from the tales
he had heard in the convict
camp, of men in It who had
pleaded for q merciful bullet to
end their agony and Of enc who
had died: the sweat box.
The blacksmith came and looked
cmiously at them.
"Joe," the guard called, double
shacks TO this niger nodding
toward Rassett, IAN spikes TO the
other, You flrstl" he shouted to
David.
Continued Tomorrow
HERDED TOGETHER WITH
OTTER NEGRO PRISONERS IN
A JIM CROW CAGE, WITH TOR
TURE DEVICES STARING HIM
IN THE FACE AND HIS LEGS
WEIGHED DOWN BY STEEL
SPIKES THAT OFTEN PRODUCE
"SH5ACKLE POISON" WHAT is
THE WORK FOR WHICH DAVID
AND HIS FELhOW-SLAVES ARE
CHAINED AND DRIVEN LIKE
BEASTS OF BURDEN? DON'T
MISS TOMoRRowS install
MENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

Build a workers correspondence
group IN your factory, shop or
noishbcrhcod. Send regular LISTERS
ds ere nsily wczkn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28

LECTURE JOHN X. Club iso
Sixth Friday
GcpesiaSs Admission IS cents IA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
TESTAMENT "a

. NIFIVI
THE escaping from the slave farm o the
powerful white Jackson Negro YOUTH
na gets his release Deeng with planter
ne is on his to Macon Ga, to look when picked
up on the streets of
to months
taking him to the
badly beaten AMI sentenced additional
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Block Eviction
in Bryant Avenue
Fight in the Bronx

NEW YORK.-On Dec. 1S an I'M
employed worker on Bryant Ave. in
the Bronx received a dispoSseSS no
tice from the real estate company.
After a struggle, the unemployed
council forced the Home Relief Bu-
reau to give this worker a $25
voucher. When the worker presented
this voucher to the real estate COM
pany 1t was refused.
The unemployed council at once
began to organize the workers in
that house. AS a result the COM
pany said it was ready to accept the
check, and asked the block COM
mittee in that house to cease Its
activities.
Naturally the block committee will
not cease to function All workers
in the neighborhood Of 1901 Bryant
Ave, where the headquarters Of the
block committee are located, should
come there if they have any
grievances against their landlord.
M. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
ANTI-INJUNCTION
FARLEY CALLED
Meet Dec. 80 to Plan
State Campaign

NEW YORK-An important step
forward in the fight against injunc-
tons in a Workers Anti-Injunction
Bill, which will be discussed at the
next meeting of the Anti-Injunction
Committee to be held Dec. 80 at
pm. at 799 Broadway, Room 2S9.
The demands of the workers to
abolish injunctions, in the form of
an Anti-Injunction Bill, will be pre-
scented in behalf of all workers at
the legislature in Albany by the
Anti Injunction Committee.
In England the workers, through
mass pressure, have succeeded in
forcing through the passage Of a,
similar Anti-Injunctio Bill. At the
present time a special committee Of
lawyers connected with the Anti
Injunction Committee is inYeStigat-
ing the boss owned courts and their
hireling lawyers for the purpose of
exposing the rotten conditions In
connection with the granting of
strike injunctionS. In Brooklyn and
Queens, for example, for the last
three years not a single request for
an injunction by boss has been
denied. The Anti-Injunction Com
mittee has organized group of ex-
perienced lawyers to fight injunc-
tons in the courts.
1.-THE Anti Injunction Committee"
said Pauline Rogers, secretary of the
committee, docs not limit itself to
legal fight against injunctions,
The Anti-Injunction Committee must
also fight injunctions by means of
the strongest weapon in the hands
of the workers, mass pressure, mass
protest and mass violation of injunc-
tionS.
Every worker must see to it that
his union and mass organization ac-
lively participate in the anti-injunc-
ton struggle by seeing to it that their
delegates are represented on the
Injunction Committee"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
PROPOSE OFFICES
BE TAKEN OVER
BY COM MITTEEI
End $500 Per Job
Racket Once and
for All

NEW YORK.-A group of mem
bers of Waters Union, Local No. l,
has issued a leaflet calling mass
meeting for o'clock tonight at union
headquarters, 900 Seventh Ave, for
the purpose of electing a provisional
committee of Is to take over the
local and give it real rank and file
leadership without graft, corruption
and discrimination"
The rank and file are tremen-
dously aroused against the racketeers
in control of the union. Feeling was
brought to high point by the shoot
ing and wounding of two union bust
ness agents, Jack Lasher and Morris
Turkel, last week by Benny Glast,
an unemployed member.
Glast's act eliminated a growing
resentment among the membership
because of discrimination against
unemployed members. The racke-
teering leadership of the union has
been charging unemployed members
from 500 to 5000 each in graft for
jobs, and has been expelling jobless
members who could not afford to pay
dues. Glast is out on $500 bail.
The whole situation is to be dis
cussed at the meeting tonight, &C.
cording to the group calling the
meeting.
The capitalist press states that a
purpose of the mass meeting is to
demand q Grand jury Investigation
of the extortion rackets against job
less walters. The call for the meet
ing, however, does not propose this.
"Racketeers Must Col"
"Racketeering and the racketeers
must go" the leaflet states. "The
only way that corruption, bribery,
milking the workers of their last few
dollars for Jobs, racketeering and
other evils forced on us by our Off
Gals can be stopped once and for all
is for the rank and file to take ac-
tion," the cali asserts.
Attorney Adolph DIX, who is de-
Tending Glast, is quoted in the CAPT.
talist press as demanding grand
jury investigation. Ne has handed
over to the Assistant Attorney Gen
eral about 20 affidavits by walters,
from whom 500 to $500 each was
extorted by the officials, according to
the capitalist press.
Militant members Of the union
have begun to pint out that an in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Expect 1000 Delegates
at Banquet for Center

The Provisional Committee of the
Workers Center is expecting a thou
sand delegates from all mass or
CARNATIONS, Trade Unions, Trade
Union Groups, and Communist Party
Units.
This banquet which is taking place
on Sunday, Jan. 8, 1888, at 7 pm.
sharp in the Workers Center, IS E.
18th St., second floor, is the only
yearly affair which gives the man
agement of the building an oppor-
tunity to meet the immediate OBJ
legations necessary to maintain the
Workers Center. All organizations
which have not yet elected delegates
or decided upon contribution
should do so Immediately. 1--WE will
not be able to save the Workers
Center unless we get the assistance
of all working class organizations"
the committee said.
Earl Browder, James w. Ford, and
Joe Brodsky will be among the
speakers at the banquet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
HEWSON ARGUES
FOR WAGE CUTS
Threatens "Reds" Who
Oppose New Scale

NEW YORK. President Hewson OF
Local C of the International Typo
graphical Union here CBig 6') is
preparing for the referendum on the
book and job scale by an attack
against those who have most OPP
posed it; he is raising the cry that
they are Reds" and threatening
strong measures against them.
The referendum comes as the lat
est step in a long struggle of the
rank and file to defeat wage cuts,
and bad conditions proposed by the
employers and concwred with by the
union officials. 1t is trick re-
ferendum; there are only two ques-
tions on it, each to be voted yes or
no. The questions are: will you ac-
cept the bosses scale or, will you
call in the International Office and
leave the settlement to it? The
referendum was railroaded through
the last membership meeting.
Is 1t Disruption?
Hewson announced the referendum
officially Sunday, advised acceptance
of the scale and at the same time
launched a long statement Of invec-
tive against Communists who want
to disrupt our union as they did the
furrierS"
The fur workers in the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
have won many recent strikes, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27

in the cities; the demonstrations
which led to the March, and the
presentation of the demands for
winter relief and unemployment in
surance; the conference held on the
Highway under the lamposts, sur
rounded by police with rifles, revolv-
ers and tear gas-all are shown in
the film.
This film, titled Hunger" is be-
ing prepared for production and will
have a country wide distribution.
There will be a first showing at the
Fifth Avenue Theater, 18th st. and
Broadway on Monday, Jan. End, from
10 am. to 1870 pm.
Don't forget the time and place.
Speak to your shop mates, members
and sympathizers in your unions and
organizations. Tell them not to
miss the showing of this film.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Today at Noon
Mass Funeral
for Baritone"

NEW YORK.-A public funeral,
with mass delegations from work.
ers' organizations, will be held at
West Side Unemployed Council
headquarters at noon today, for
the unemployed Negro worker
called, because of his fine singing
voice, Skippy Baritone The
West Side Council is at 478 Tenth
Ave. From there the funeral pro-
cession Will march to another mass
meeting at Union Square.
Baritone" was one of those de-
MED housing by the Welfare De-
partment. He died of starvation
in an abandoned slaughter house
on West 39th St., and his face
was eaten away by rats before his
body was found.
Come to his funeral in mass
protest against a city government
and capitalist class that is guilty
of such horrors!