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The Washington times., 1932-03-08
OKLAHOMA TOPS
JOB-GETTERS

NEW YORK, March 8. U.N.S0
A total of 170,023 previously un-
employed persons obtained jobs
throughout the country since the
start of the drive of the United
Action for Employment group.
The latest days activities in
the organized campaign resulted
in placing 9.452 wage earners in
gainful occupations. Reports rep
resented ISL communities in 38
States.
Oklahoma led in the number of
communities represented in the
days results, with %, in which
1858 workers were given employ
ment. It also represented the
largest number represented in
any single report Of the various
States since inception Of the
drive.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
CHARGES
To Be S|FTED

The House District Committee
at its meeting tomorrow will in.
vestigate charges laid before Rep.
resentative Mary T. Norton Cd
OF New Jersey, chairman, con.
corning the discharge of 80 EN-.
ployes from the District govern.
ment, and other conditions in
municipal offices.
The charges have been made
by Mrs. w. S. Kilmer, 444O Re
servoir Rd. N. W., who alleges
that many District officials are
drawing two Government salaries
and are retained in their posi-
tionS although low-salaried EN-.
ployeS are being discharged.
Mrs. Kilmer will appear be-
fore the Committee to outline
her charges which also include al
legations that appointments to
positions in the District govern.
ment are controlled by a ring.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
HOARD|NG DRIVE
IS AIR TOPIC.

H. C. Rust, jr., last night spoke
over Station WJSV in behalf of
the anti-hoarding campaign. Dur
ing his address, he explained the
purpose of the baby bonds.
The bonds range in price from
$50 to $500. If a bondholder
wishes his money back before the
passage of a year he must give
so days notice and his money will
be returned with 2 per cent in
terest.
The bonds went on sale yester-
day at all banks in the city.
Mr.. Rust also told of the great
results being achieved by the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion and by the passage of the
emergency credit expansion law,
which placed billions of dollars in
the Federal reserve system.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
PLEASE, SPITALE
HELP Us, CRY
U.S.NQTHERS
By WINIFRED BLACK

BY W1NIFRED BLACK
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 CU.
S).-Mr. Salvatore Spitale. Luxu.
rious Apartment, the Eighties,
New York city, N. Y. (Care of Mr.
Jack Lait.)
Dear Friend and Brother:
To begin with, let me say that
every mother in America is pray
ing for you and your rather pecu-
liar partner today.
If you two men, known to the
police as racketeers and gangSters,
bring back Lindy's poor little
frightened. lonesome, homesick
baby safe and sound, / guess a
good many of us illogical, bewil.
dered mothers will go on praying
for you for quite a while-how.
ever much that may mean.
Lying Awake Nights
We've all been lying awake
nights listening for the extras
and hoping that little Indy will
be home sometime before morn
ing. ..
Up in the mountain cabins. out
on lonely farms, in stale rooms
in the crowded tenements, in
gorgeous apartments, in beautiful
country homes-all over the
United States those prayers have
risen, and are still rising.
But that's only a part Of what
want to say to you in the open
letter, Mr.. Spitale.
I am writing in the name of
the mothers of this country to
ask you a great and signal favor.
Will you send the word at once
to the United Brotherhood OF
Gangdom to proclaim an armiS-
tice or hour Of truce for our chill
dren, not only here in San Fran.
cisco, but all over this terrified
and bewildered country we used to
call the Land Of the Free and the
Home Of the Brave.
Even the grandmothers are 60 ,
ing to pieces under it, and as for
the grandfathers, they really are
beginning to be what the old
fashioned folks down South used
to call "fit to be tied"
If Johnny is three minutes late
coming home to luncheon, Grand
pa is out with his heaviest walk.
ing stick and Grandma begins to
cry.
Pleads for Hour a Day
IF this keeps on, we're going
to turn into a nation of nervous
wrecks.
And it is hard on the children,
too. They need fresh air and
sunshine. Dear. kind, Mr.. Spit
ale, won't you please fix this up
for us? Send out word by the
mysterious grapevine underworld
telegraph and give our children
one little hour a day to be safe.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
c. .O.P.A ASSA|LED
At GARNER
RALLY

LOS ANGELES, March 8 U.SO.
Leaders in the Garner.for- Presi
dent movement were repeating
gleefully today crisp and signifi,
cant statements made by the
speakers at a meeting of the ad.
visory committee of the Thomas
jefferson Club of the West last
night at a dinner meeting.
John B. Elliott. chairman of
the Garner campaign committee
for Southern California, said:
I'VE will not hear much
about Republican prosperity in
this campaign.
ERA OF HYPOCRISY
"We'II not hear much of the
full dinner pail and work and
high wages for everybody.
1--WE have been living in an
era of fraud and hypocrisy.
But this is the end Of that
period.
"Tke eyes of the country will
be on California May 3. The
result of the presidential pri.
mary here will have q great
bearing on the Chicago ncmina-
ton. If we elect the Garner
delegates, and we will, that will
go a long, long way towards
Gamers nomination"
Newton Van Why, the clubs
president, turned the meeting
over to Milton K. Young as
Though With Hoover"
Carl Alexander johnson, of San
Diego, Democratic candidate for
governor in 1925, declared that
has been under a "gov-
ernment by plutocracy, which al
ways has in itself the seeds Of
ruin and destruction"
Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, who
protested when called on that
she had never made a political
speech in her life except for
Hoover, added:
'But I'm through with them.
I've had just enough of this, /
can't stand any more of it, with
our rich country brought to a
state in which people are starv.
ing to DEATH"
Among enthusiastic Garner sup.
oorters who have been calling at
the Garner campaign headquar.
ters is L. E. Wood, of Greer, S. c.,
who today said that to him it
seemed certain that Garner has
the inside track"
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
PU-Y| HAS FEAR
!. Of THREATS .

CHANG HUN, Manchuria,
March 8 QN.SO Fear of at
tempts to assassinate Henry Pu-
vi when he is inaugurated here
tomorrow as provisional head of
the new independent Manchurian
state caused officials to take
extraordinary precautions today.
While the new ruler was en-
route from Tankangtze aboard a
special train, Changchun was be-
ing gaily decorated for the
pompoouS occasion. Hotels here
and in Mukden. ITS miles to the
south, were crowded, and many
were arriving here today from
Mukden to witness the elaborate
ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
Inquest to Probe :
Auto Crash Death

A Coroner's jury will today
inquire into the death of Anibale
Increte, 80, of 1143 New Hamp-
shire Ave. N. W., who died yes
terday at Emergency Hospital
from injuries suffered when
knocked down by an automobile
Friday night.
Vance Watts, "a, colored, of
812 Howard Rd. N. E., was ar
rested as the driver of the ma
chine which knocked Increte into
the path of a car driven by Mer-
rill Clements, 20, of 207 Thir-
teenth st. N. E.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
Have You Seen Him?

The heartfelt thanks of nation and lasting fame
aaOdits the person a0ho become the means Of re-
storing the Lindbergh baby safely to his parents
Here's how he looks and acts:
He has blue eyes and mop of light curly hair like his
famous father His other facial features remind of his
mother the former Anne Morrow. mark of ident-
ficaton is pronounced dimple in his chin
He is 20 months DID, stands feet inches in height and
weighs 80 pounds.
He talk nursery talk He is learning to todde He
has baby curiosity about the telephone and will pull
down the receiver and talk into he gets the chance
Telephone operators should be the alert for such call
He is teethng and probably cries great deal particu
ary since he in the hands of strangers of whom he
has always been tmid And when stolen from his crib he
sleeping suit of fine white babrggan six pearl
buttons down the front and three the hips the
back
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
MEETING FOR MOTHERS

The Child Study Club, spon-
sored by the Parent Teacher AS
sociation of the East Silver
Spring elementary school, will
hold its first meeting tonight at
the home Of Mrs. Boyd Brosius,
805 Violet Pl. The meeting is
for mothers of children of the
ages to 6 years.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
FASHION REVIEW

Members of the five Washing
ton chapters of Sigma Epsilon Ma
tional Sorority will act as models
at the third spring fashion re-
view and dance to be held by the
organization in the Mayflower
Hotel, Saturday, at 10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
Help Find a Job For
Unemployed One

United action for employment is getting results
Great national organizations joined sponsor this move
ment-the American Federation of Labor the Association
of National Advertisers and the American Legion.
Among the cooperating organizations fraternal So
ciees and chambers of boards building trades
workers and real estate boards churches and city officials
Join this movement and help find job for someone now
out of work
Call the District Committee Unemployment DI strict
$780,
The Washington times., 1932-03-08
J. c. CisseL
To Talk March ii

Capt. Joseph c. Cissel, Of Silver
Spring, will be the guest speaker
at the third annual George Wash
ington Birthday celebration at
Fairland. Montgomery county
which will be held Monday eve
ming, March IA, in st. Marks
Parish House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
FILIPINO SEAMEN
STRIKE OVER CUT
Institute Tries to Send
Scabs /; MWIU Pickets

NEW YORK-The Filipino engine
and fireroom crew of the S. S. West
Kebar are on strike against SIS
wage cut which would bring firemen's
pay down to $3.50 month. The
ship belongs to the Barber line and
lies now in Erie Basin, Brooklyn.
The Barber line contributes $4,000
a year to the Seamen's Church In
stitute. The Institute has begun
sending men to take the strikers
places, telling them that there is no
strike, the company is only replacing
Filpinos with Americans"
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union has thrown a picket line
around the dock where the ship lies,
and already has turned back the first
half dozen of the Seamen's Institute
requirements.
The NJ. W. 7. U. has already no
titled, by means Of a leaflet, the
unemployed workers on the water
front Of the strike situation With
in Is minutes after the distribution Of
the leaflet began, an extra squad Of
police was scattered over South st.
Tanning a Bucko Mate
A mate named Sullivan on the 8. s..
Manhattan heard OF the Unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
Fighting Unions VIII March
Into Madison Square Garden

YoRKThe militant unions of New York taking an i'm
Rally, Sunday Nov g. at
their
will their victories in the last
celebrate 18th anniversary of the
workers Russia when they threw off capitalism forever
without
Communist leader
candidates this election
other organizations and thou
of night
rally Communist
will be the celebration of the anniversary the Bohevk
II solidarity rtish
rallied
a National March
Washington the fight relief
Hathaway, Amter
well will he is not his
to the workers will be
provided w. l. X
a o a
a
FIoor,sO f. S
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OF the narrow path lined with
broom weeds that led to the house.
Good luck now, an don't you go to
gittin' into no mo- troubled"
us parents and sister were prob
Al ably at the far end of the field
for only zebulon, not yet old enough
to work, was visible. The five-year-
old boy was trying to ride pig
and at David's loud shout, fell off
with excited squeals of glee.
There was an air of peace and
tranquility here: the sun on the
white rows, that butterfly dipping
over the heavy stalks. the noises of
the field-even the pig grunting I'M
der the house added to the restful-
ness. That pig always rooted there,
right under that crack in the floor
where water from the drinking
bucket dripped to the cool ground
underneath. Bright red geraniums
in rusty tin cans and broken earth
enWare ranged the porch and gave
the drab boards an air of cheerful
ness and color. The three rooms
were spotless. The large cooking
stove, with its pots and pans scrub
bed shiny, was in the kitchen as
when he had left. Nothing seemed
changed and there was comfort in
that knowledge.
A REAL WASH
AT LAST!
He found a large cake of soap, a
towel and pair Of old oyeralls. ze-
bulon watched curiously while he
poured water into the large zinc
tub his mother used Tor washing
clothes.
"Gottuh git rid O. de lice an
crabs" David explained cheerfully.
you wouldn't want 'em crawlin' all
over you would you now?"
mo, subj" the boy exclaimed with
certainty. "Louise'd jes' smack hell
outer me if I done got lousy!"
WHEN the new clothes were left
W soaking in lye water to rid
them of any yermin he might
have brought from Snake Fork
and his own body washed, David
swung a cotton sack over Shout
der and with his little brother
chattering at his side, went to the
fields. He was needed there, and
besides, Shay PearsOn's overSeer
knew that he would be freed
man this day and the planter
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
DEMONSTRATION
in DEARBORN FOR
WINTER RELIEF
Prepare Detroit City
Wide March On
Saturday

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. IA thou
sand laid-off Ford Motor Co. work
ers demonstrated in Dearborn, the
Ford City, today, demanding $50
winter relief for families and $25 for
Single men, also for coal for unem-
ployed families and free meals to
school children.
This is the first such demonstra-
ton since March 6, when thousands
swarmed up to the gates of the Ford
auto factory here, calling for relief.
At that time Edsel Ford, in charge
of the plant, had police open fire
into the crowd with machine guns
and IS were shot down, four Of them
dead.
The demonstration today was In
front of the city hall, and a COM
mittee headed by John Pace went in
and presented the demands to Mayor
Dwight Ford, the scion of the Henry
Ford family which rules Dearborn.
The demands were also presented to
the city council. Pace is one of the
leaders of the bonus march, is chair
man OF the Veterans National Rank
and File Committee, and is Commu-
mist candidate for congress.
These struggles lead not only to
the National Hunger March, which
leaves Detroit Nov Of, but to the
great Detroit city hunger march, Nov.
the main column of which will
leave Ferry Hall at 1 p. m. Satur-
day, and join other columns at
Grand Circus Park at p. m. Com
munist candidates will be leaders
and speakers in this demonstration
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chalE gang IN connection with
the Tampa tobacco workers
strike, and another prisoner
are now in the sweatbox, where they
have been confined four days.
1t was sweatbox torture that was
responsible for the recent death of
another Florida chain gang prisoner,
Arthur Maillefert, which aroused so
much indignation that the author
tiles we're compelled to bring his
murderers to trial. These chain
gang fortunes, in which Negroes are
especially victimized, are now being
exposed by the Daily Worker in the
serial publication of the book by John
L. Spivak, Georgia Niger"
News of the torture OF Cabrera
comes on the eve of the hearing,
scheduled for tomorrow, on their
grievances which the prison author
tiles we're forced to grant the pris-
oners. The men struck few days
ago, under Cabrera's leadership, a.
gainst putting four of them into the
sWeatbox for having protested against
the vile food and inhuman living con-
ditions in the camp. The hearing will
be held before Commissioner Nathan
Mayo, head of the State Prison Board,
and its secretary, T. E. Andrews.
These, together with Governor Doyle
E. Carlton, are directly responsible
for the institution of sweatbox tor
ture in Florida prison camps Capt.
G. MuSgrove and State Prison Inspec-
tor Joseph Gates, in charge of the
Indiantown Camp, will present char
ges against the prisoners.
Cabrera and Ismael Cruz, another
Tampa class-war prisoner, are be-
lieved to be in special danger, as
LEGAL workers have been told of a
! plot to shoot them down on the way
to the hearing on the pretext that
they tried to escape. This is an old
device on chain gangs.
Protests should be Immediately
wired to Governor Carlton at ITALIA
hassee, Fla, and to Capt. Musgrove,
Commissioner Mayo and Secretary
Andrews at Indiantown, demanding
that the sweatbox be abolished as a
means of torture, that decent food be
given the prisoners, that Cabrera and
Cruz should be transferred to the
state prison until they finish their
term in January. and the release of
all the Tampa class-war prisoners.
LID. Wires Protest
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The Inter-
national Labor Defense has wired the
following protest to the Deputy
warden in charge of the Indiantown,
Fla, State Prison Camp, and to Gov
ernor Doyle E. Careton at Tallahas-
see, Fla:
Protest inhumzn conditions, bad
food and sweatbox torture for prison.
ers Indiantown Road Camp. Demand
abolition medieval torture condition,
halt victimization workingclass pris-
oners. Hold you personally respon-
sibIe safety Cabrera and all others in
camp.
International Labor Defense
William L. Patterson,
National Secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
VOTE COMMUNIST
Metal Workers Union
Will HI o | d Election
Symposium on Friday

The Metal Workers Industrial
Union will hold an election SYM
postum on Friday, Nov. 4, at Irving
Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 18th St.
Invitations were sent out to the
four political parties, Democratic,
Communist, Republican and Socialist
to send speakers to present their
platforms to the Metal Workers at
this symposium. To Date only the
Communist Party has accepted. The
Republican Party requested more in
formation as to who the other speak
ers are going to be before accepting
the invitation.
The Communist candidate for
Chief Justice of State Supreme
Court, George Powers, former or
ganizer Of the Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, who is familiar with
the problems OF the metal workers,
will present the platform Of the Com
munist Party.
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O'Brlen was speaking to
group of publishers who ara
cutting the printers wages and
job conditions by the no.
torious arbitration scheme in the
newspaper game, and by the open
posting Of wage out notices in the
book and job trade. The meeting was
in Hotel Aston, one of the swankiest
and most expensive, and was arranged
by A. J. Powers, Of Powers Photo
Engraving Co., who is chairman Of
O'Brien's publicity campaign.
Sees Rising Struggle
O'Brien suddenly launched into
denunciation Of "radicansnl" which
he said was "pernicious and evil" and
was growing rapidly.
"Are we going to wait until the
army that gathers at Union Square
has grown into force that viii turn
America into Soviet?" he asked.
'FlI promise You this: The Police
Department and the other depart
ments of the city will wage a vigor-
out warfare against such activities.
You're going to have mayor with
a chin and fight in him and Police
Department that's going to see that
this great metropolis is preserved
1.-THE Army which gathers at Unior
Square" is usually composed of thou
sands of jobless workers, starting q
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03

Seamen's Delegation to Washington
recently, with demands for relief and
against the two watch az hours a
day. system The mate announced:
Il started the two watch system on
this ship, and I'll keep it if every man
on the beach goes to Washington"
When the ship got into New York,
the Dog House News paper of the
Waterfront Unemployed Council, told
of this incident. and remarked
"Bucko mates have been stopped
before!' Now Sullivan doesn't dare
step ashore without two husky guards
to escort him to the taxi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense Of the
state and employers.
A Liberal Education = Brass
Buttons Snoob in CEN. Y.

NEW YORK.-The College OF the
City Of New York was virtually I'M
der the control Of police yesterday,
who. in plain clothes and uniform,
kept patrolling the corridors Of the
main building at 18th st.
Plainclothesmen and police also
filled the Magistrates Court at 455 w.
15lst st. and guarded the streets out
side and the surrounding roofs, when
students arrested on october rs when
the cops broke into Room 126 OF the
College while the Liberal Club was
meeting. were put on trial.
With the students, Nat Saubernan
of City College. and Karl Amat. of
Cooper Union, was Donald Hender-
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son, instructor at Columbia Univer-
sity.
The charge is disorderly conduct.
Witnesses for the prosecution, DR..
Nelson, the librarian, and a police
sergeant. suffered remarkable lapses
Of memory when questioned as to
whether or not the students in Room
1875 were discussing the expulsion OF
DR.. Oakley Johnson for his political
views. The International Labor De-
Tense lawyer pointed out that permits
sion for the use Of Room 1875 was
given by the police sergeant, and that
the students were holding an orderly
meeting.
The case will continue today at 3
PIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
Writers, Artists, Educators
Favor Communist for Mayor

Norman Lewis. Negro painter, Law
renee Brown, Lillian Lawrence, Will
lam Lawrence, Negro musicians, Maui
rice Becker, artist Sidney Hook edu-
Gator, Grace Lumpkin, novelist Slater
Brown, Adelaide G. Walker, Louis
Lozowick artist, Robert Cantwell,
writer. Patterson's candidacy has also
been endorsed by James Rorty. poet,
Louis Colman, novelist, Isidor Schnei-
der, Donald Henderson on the faculty
of Columbia University, and DIX. G.
Small,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-03
More West New York
Employees Get No Pay

School teachers, police and firemen
of West New York. N. j., have al
ready gone without pay for some
time, and yesterday 20 more en-
ployes of the city joined them in 60
ing without pay.
School teachers Of that town have
not been paid since July, and the po-
lice and flremen have not been got
ten wages for two pay days.
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Answering a call issued by group
of writer's among whom we're Malcolm
Cowley, Countee Cullen and Edmund
Wilson, for endorsements by writer's,
artists, educators Of William L. Pat
terson, Communist candidate for
Mayor of New York City, a number of
Negro and white artists, writer's and
musicians today announced that they
will vote for the Communist mayor
atty candidate on election day. They
are:
Augusta Savage, Negro Sculptrece,
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THE STORY SO FAR: Fifteen oh
INSTALLMENT 8.

THE STORY so FAR: Fifteen chaingapg prison.
erS-nine Negroes and five Ohesare herded IN filthy
steebdrred cage, 9oere they toroured by flies and
mosquitoes that enter through holes IN the screeng One
of them is DGud Jackson Negro bog finishing his
tece imposed for refusing to sign to 0ork for the oeay
white planter Jim Deering about Ohon his father had
alarmed him. Douid bids his feHoU-priSoners goodbye
and after being given cheap c0ian OUTFIT is driuen
home by the pOGrden NotO reod
VEVEN miles from Snake Fork lay Shay Pearsons sixteen
hundred Here the first Of the saggng shacks
where his troopers lived rude and diapdaed structure
bsered by heat and swept by of wind and rain
and there behind the uxurant branches of those towering
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TODAY-Two Negro at work picking
white planters miles from the village Thou
Negro in the South systematically robbed
white
books charges IS
his constantly adding
him into lifelong slave The planter also takes advantage
entire exploit the white
attempt the hte
militant with the
the HILL Ala,
Copyright by John Spyak author Georgia Ngger