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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You
Rascal You Is Subject OF Sermon

The depression has caused a grad
ual diminishing Of the pastors flock
and for that reason, r. Gems TO
have started a novel system Of ad-
vertising. The little church. about
600 yards away from the university
campus, when packed, has a seating
capacity of about 100, but the de-
preston, lack of interest in the ser
vices. and general tendency to
backsliding, have all entered IN to
such an extent that the Rev; Mr..
Bordley has rarely seen an audience
numbering over twenty-five sitting
before him in the last several
And then last Sunday night some
thing happened. One hour before
the sermon started the little church
was packed and iammed. Even the
Lincoln college students who are
burning the midnight oil preparing
and examining for mid-term examln,
ations-even they, about fifty o.
| Continued on Page d
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
'Esskaye' Order
New Khan Racket
OF Organizers

NEW Y0RK-The three former
high moguls of the Infamous Ku Klux
Kian were in New York last week
seeking to fan into life new organ
ization which they have named the
"Esskaye" and which is built upon
the lying embers of the old organi-
cation of h a + e d and intolerance
which swept through poor white
America until it amassed 100000
knights who worshipped in night
shirts and hoods at secret conclaves
and sought to govern this country
through devious and dubious meth
DDS.
Colonel William J. Simmons,
founder and Imperial Wizard, E..
Y. Clarke, the promoter and high
powered salesman who became I'M
perial Kleagle, DR.. IL. w. Evans, who
succeeded to the mantle of Simmons
and still serves as head of the near
w dead organization were the three
| formerly powerful figures who es-
tablished themselves in downtown
hotel and disclosed their plans for
a new and more potent under cover
secret society.
Clarke when interviewed by re.
porters for daily newspapers, sac
that he had felt the pulse of the
country and that things were now
right for an organization which
would lead the people out of eco
nomic depression and political incom
petence. He told how they expectet
to enroll 100000 members, rol
up a treasury of $10,000,O00 t.
sis. 100000, expose political corrup
ton, swing national elections ans
gain power through local, state an
national governments.
Membership in the new body ha
been made more elastic. Negroe
will not be admitted, but Catholic
> and members of the Jewish faith wi
be eligible Though they were uanne
from the Ku Klux. 1t IS reporte
that a group of delegates from va
rious sections of the country met an
approved the plan at secret NEE
ing in Jacksonville, Fla, nearly
wear ago. Since then extensive pref
larations have been made for develol
ment. Memberships are to cost frol
s $1,000 to $4,000 Statesmen out
e work are being solicited to serve
= solicitors for the new body. III
e sale of memberships will be one
k the cardinal activities of the presel
e program. The aims of the body
al was said include also the buildir
of a "nation wide fellowship" al
e. the providing of free employme
,r bureaus for their members.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Wife Colored
White Husband
Hears In Court

NEW York; modern version
of the story of Moses's mother work
sng in the household OF fharaon,
where her son had become a young
raster. was revealed here last week
when a brown skinned mother came
forward in court and testlfled thao
tbe slain wife of William Thomas'
white, was her child.
Thomas, who is 35 and who is
charged with killing his pretty. &C
tress wife, cried out in the Homicide
Court that this was the first time ne
had heard anything about his VIE
being the daughter OF coloreo
woman, and was SO affected that ne
had to be carried out OF the cour'
room for a few minutes.
Worked Around House
According to Thomas, the age'
,cotbar Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, hat
haan working around the house as
sarvant at times during the fou
wears of their married life, but h.
had never been told that she was III
mother-in-law.
The late Mrs. Thomas, known ]
New York as a burlesque actress, wa
STABBED 10 death in a domestic alter
cation with her husband in the
APARTMENT at 83 Post Avenue, Jal
uary LIST. A. ~,
Mrs. elizabeth Jones, had taken u
witness stand to testify that she M ~
ofEen heard Thomas threaten to <
bis wife when the jurist asked n
what interest she had IN the cas-
siThe dead woman was my daughter
was the reply of Mrs. Jones. :,
Thomas was held without BAN
face charge Of murder.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Colored Gas Company
Has Two More Wells

JACKSON, Miss. - The Pioneer
Oil and Gas Company of this city
has brought in two more big natural
gas wells known as Motor No. / and
Green No. 1 The company, largest
colored controlled in the country,
now ranks as the third largest pro-
Queer in the Jackson field.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
League Protests Naval
Officers Statement

BOSTON, Mass. - The National
Equal Rights League has sent let
ter of protest to President Hoover
against the statement of Rear Ad-
miral Pratt in connection with the
Hawaiian murder of native by navy
men. The officer said that the navy
had frequently taken the law in its
own hands when its women were
insulted.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Heads Investment Company

SUMTER, s. C.-At the annual
meeting of the $4,000 Sumter In
vestment Association held in Sumter
last week, DIR. j. J. Starks, president
of Benedict College at Columbus,
was elected president.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
Baby Contests Net 81, 900

NEW YoRK.-"The Tenth Cru
SADIE" conducted by the N.A.A.C.P.
in 1881 for most popular babies,
brought in over $4,000. The total
amount received from all contests to
date is over $87, 900.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
(Enterprise News Bureau)
THE SONG


THE SONG
an be glad when you're Dead
You rascal, you.
ri be standing high and dry
When they bring your body by,
I'll be glad when you're dead.
You rascal, you.
al took you ir my home, but
You wouldn't let my wife alone,
Pll be glad when you're dead,
You rascal, you.
'I'm gonna see what's that you got
Makes my wife think you're SO hot
III be glad when you're dead,
You rascal you"
LINCOLN, Pa.-The Rev. George
T. Bordley of the Hosanna A. U. M
p Church, Lincoln University, Pa
mot the college proper but the com
munity), is a business man II noth
ing else.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-01-28
HOWARD u. PRESIDENT ACCUSED
lUory and
Gold
By Melvin J. Chisum

Editors Note: The opinions ex-
pressed by Melvin J. Chisum in tins
column are not necessarily IN con-
formity with the views of The Enter
prise and its editor assumes no re-
sponsibility for Mr.. Chisums views.
He is a much travelled and we'll
known writer. This column is print
ed in this newspaper, because The
Enterprise believes its readers Will
appreciate the opportunity of fol-
lowing Mr.. Chisum's comment on
widely diversified subjects.
In the year 610 A. D., when ma
rauding tribes overran England, they
exacted money from the people for
exempting their property from de,
struction. This tribute was called
"blackmail" because anything unlaw-
full was named black and NAL was
the Saxon word for rent-tax. Later
the word became blackmail.
n
Morris A. Cowan, proprietor OF
the Booker 7. Hotel in Harrisburg
Pa. is one of the city's most use.
full citizens. Mr.. Cowan organized
that unique institution the Natlona
Walters Association, of which he is
president. Using his office for thu
benefit of his fellows, he has beer
able to place colored workers in no
tells in many important houses in thu
East during the last two years ant
this is service which counts. Mr.
Cowan and his charming wife main
| -. -. 80 +ho f;pasf homes in Penn
svlyania at GLIB Foster Street, Har
risburg.
There is not enough real money
to carry on the business of the worlc
Why not validate the money existing
instead of Mr.. Hoover giving ava
billions of our own limited supply
Facing deficit of a billion fiv
hundred million, we should be sio'
+ Continued on page 81
The daily worker., 1932-07-05

of what a wonderful sanatorium or
rest home it would make for workers.
I gaze at the lake that cost 100000
to build, with no one using it.
1 think of the Soviet Union, where
it W as exactly such estates that were
taken from the nobility and the rich
class and turned over to the workers,
Hamilton Fish also knows about
the Soviet Union. He too has large
estate, near Garrison, New York.
Herein lies one of the answers for
Fish's campaign against the Commu-
mist Party and all militant workers,
Fish is afraid that the Communist
Party will lead the workers, as they
did in Russia, against the American
nobility and rich class and tear down
the signs of private property such as
those on his and his cousins estate
To tear down those iron walls around
land, natural resources and instru-
ments of production and instead to
have signs stating Property of the
entire working class. All welcome
who toll and produce. All parasites,
like Fish, keep out, under the penalty
of workers law"
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
Albert Coates Directs
Souiet Composers Concert

Reports from Moscow describe one
OF the most important events Of the
current musical season; the concert
of Soviet composers at the Bolshoi
Theatre on June under the direc-
ton of Albert Coates. The program
presented several recent compositions
Of outstanding Soviet composers and
included the Twelfth Symphony of
Nikolai Miaskovsky a piano concerto
of Samuel Feinberg, and suite from
the ballet, "The Golden Age" by
Dmitri Shostakovich.
In his Twelfth Symphony, which
is said to be closely allied in spirit
to his Sixth which was reaction to
the events of the october Revolution,
Miaskovsky "delineates the struggle
for building socialism (second move
ment), and its achievements dhird
movemenD as contrasted with the
old, Revolutionary Russia first
movemenD".
Speaking Of the Shostakovich work
the Moscow News writes:
The exceptional creative talent of
Shostakovich, coupled with his youth
(the forming of his creative person.
ality took place in the years Of the
Revolution, would lead one to ex-
pect to find in his suite from the
ballet The Golden Age the greatest
degree of apurosch to the problem
The daily worker., 1932-07-05

Of utilizing in the service of the Re-
yolution and Socialist Construction,
all the mastery and technique which
have been inherited from the old
musical culture. In actuality, we have
quite the reverse. Shostakovich = in
his music to the ballet The Golden
Age, whose content deals with the
trip of a Soviet sport team to the
capitalist countries does not only
fail to affirm Soviet musical theology
but is ensnared in the methods of
contemporary western European art
All his rare technical mastery, the
richness of his creative fantasy
which he uses with unusual dexterity
and facility, he employs in the crea-
tion of ideologically imperfect grotes-
ques and in the invention of instru-
mental tricks.
"The conductor was Albert Coates
who did all in his power to reveal
the essence of these compositions
This loader, without whose difficult
and responsible work no musical
composition could have artistic life
made execution worthy of the COM
positions presented"
Coates is scheduled to conduct the
Stadium Concerts The last four week,
following Van Hoogstraten, who di-
rects the first part Of the season.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
The Milwaukee
Socialists Sabotage
Mooney Defense

MILWAUKEE.-M Frank Weber,
Secretary of the Federated Trades
Council and leading member of the
Socialist Party, refused to give Gre
dentials to speakers of the Mooney
Scottsboro Defense Committee for
visiting and organizing trade union
locals and membership for the Mother
Mooney meeting-to be held in the
Milwaukee Auditorium Plankinton
Hall, July 6.
The refusal of the Socialist Labor
Bureau practically means that no
speakers or committees with leaflets
for the Mooney meeting can be ad-
mitted in the union halls.
This action on the part of the So
cialists is at the same time an ex-
preston of their fear of the growing
interest shown by the rank and file
workers in the Mooney -Scottsboro
defense and against the general be-
trayal of the Socialists, which control
most of the A. F. of L. locals in the
city.
Despite this the rank and file
workers are in favor of the defense
of Mooney and give their support.
The workers of Milwaukee plan to
meet Mother Mooney and Richard B.
Moore at the Milwaukee st. Paul
(Union Depot at pm.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
HIGHWAY SLASH
HIT BY 1000
Commissioner Say S
He's Not Concerned

PORTLAND, Ore, July 4.-The
State Highway Commission headed
by the millionaire department-store
owner, Governor Meier, proposes to
slash wages on all state relief jobs,
from $500 to $1.50 per day, When
the workers protested to Leslie Scott,
Chairman Of the State Highway
Commission and heavy stockholder in
the reactionary mouthpiece, "The
Morning .Oregonian," that the low
ering of wages would reduce the
standard of living of the workers to
that Of coolie, he replied THAT
is no concern of ours. Men will not
receive less money than formerly but
will work twice as long for it. They
will keep in condition for heavy labor
Men would rather be employed at a
low wage than loaf four weeks out of
five"
Immediately after the proposal had
been flashed throughout the state
that the State Highway Commission
was to take definite action on june
goth, the Trade Union Unity League
and the Unemployed Council issued
thousands of leaflets calling upon the
workers for mass demonstration in
front of the Multnomah Hotel when
the commission was reported to be
convenings Over 1000 workers, des-
spite police terror rallied in protest
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
HIT SOCIALISTS
AT SHARON MEET
Speaker for S.P. Says
Don't Beprlldge Rich


SHARON, Paw orkers in Shen-
ango Valley made the Socialist doc
tor, Van Essen very uneasy here on
June 80. The doctor had just COM
pleted lecture on unemployment and
conditions of the working class in
which he said the workers should not
begrudge Hoover, Mellon, Davis and
the rest of the millionaires' private
fortunes. When question upon ques-
ton was shot at him the doctor was
forced to admit that the Social
ist Party was not leading the masses
in struggle.
The socialist doctor admitted that
Communists were leading the work.
ers in strike struggles whereas the
Socialist Party was doing nothing in
this direction.
In regard to the Negro question the
lecturer was forced to admit that
there was nothing in the socialist
platform concerning the struggle
against jim-c -crowism to his knowl-
edge.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
Mass Pressure Frees
JObless Worker

BERKELEY, Mich.-The Interna-
tional Labor Defense scored victory
in Justice Baldwin's court here lass
Friday where an unemployed worker
was tried for assault and battery. The
court was packed with nearly hum
dred militant workers.
The welfare had refused the work.
er's family meagre starvation r3-
ton that Oakland County doles 1oht to
the children of the unemployed. This
father did not intend to go hungry
so he attempted to help himself. IIe
was then arrested and charged With
assault and battery.
The prosecutor seemed very dis
tressed over this worker taking the law
in his own hands. He said THAT he
thought such action would encourage
the setting up of a Soviet govern
ment here in America.
The worker was defended by an
l. L. D. Attorney Berg. The jury was
out long enough to get hungry and
came back with verdict of not guilty.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
Ground for Workers
Cultural Federation
Laid in Detroit, Mich,

DETROIT, Mich.-At a meeting of
delgates from Workers Cultural
Groups held Sunday, June 10, at
Workers Camp, the groundwork was
laid for a permanent Workers Cul-
tural Fedration to include all cultural
organization of proletarian character
in Detroit and vicinity.
TIL delegates represented 26 organi-
zationS and AZ individual groups, such
as singing, dancing, and dramatic
societies, orchestral and educational
groups, and artists and writer's groups
The purpose of the Detroit Work
er's Cultural Federation is to act as
clearing house for and to coor-
indate the cultural activities of al
workrs' organizations, to encourage
free interchange of talent, and tt
extnd such activitis wherever pos.
sible.
Dfinite plans for fall activities viii
b formulated during the summer
Any organization or group desiring te
affiliate is invited to write to the Fed
Grafton at the John Reed Club Rooms
1920 Twelfth Street, Detroit, Mich.
Such organizations may elect ons
delegate to sit on the Executive Com
mittee of the Federation, next meet
ing bsing held Friday evening at
o'clock July 9th, 1882, at the above
address.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
.Seamen DenOunce
Kennedy Arrest
Spirited Demonstra-
tiOn in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Md, July A.
Aroused to action by the brutal at
tack upon James Kennedy by the po-
lice and by his arrest and that of
other seamen when they peacefully
picketed in protest against wage
cut on the Munson SIS. Line last
Sunday, over 1900 workers answered
the call of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union and the International
Labor Defense in protest demon
stration last night at the foot of
Broadway
L. Berker of the International La
Dor Defense exposed the wave of ter
ror directed aaginst the workers,
pointing out especially the vicious
ness of the Dies Deportation Bill
Roy Hudson, national organizer of
the Marine Workers Industrial IN
ion, was the main speaker. He de-
nounced the police terror and con-
graduated the Baltimore seamen for
their militaney A motion was en-
Enthusiastically and unanimously ac-
cepted, calling for city wide dem
onStration to the City Hall to force
Kennedy's release and to compel the
opening of the Recreation Pier, prop
erly equipped for lodgings and meals
for unemployed seamen, at the ex-
pense of the ship owners and the
City Administration. A committee
was Immediately elected from among
the assembled workers to make the
plans for this march on the City Hall.
Applause broke, out when a telegram
was read bringing a pledge of Soli-
darity from hundreds of New York
seamen who demonstrated in New
York City, protesting Kennedys ar
rest, and demanding his immediate
release.
Speakers, representing number of
different working class organizations
pledged in the name of their organ
i7ations, untiring support in the
struggle for the release of Kennedy
and the other Jailed seamen.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05

PROVIDENE, r. L, July a
When confronted with the statement
of Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
date for president, that the Commu-
mist platform demand of "Self-de-
termination for the Black Belt is very
dangerous, bad socialism, and an in
vitation to race riots" James w.
Ford, Communist candidate for vice.
president, replied that Mr.. Thomas
is unable and unwilling to under
stand the Negro question and the
problems of the Negro people. Thom-
as sees them only in the light of the
white upper classes. His whole argu-
ment is taken not from the point of
view of the needs of the Negro mass
es, but from the point of view of
what might happen to the white
land owners of the South
The Communist candidate smiled
as he read aloud Mr.. Thomas's edi-
torial in the official organ of the So
cialist Party. Very dangerous, bad
socialism, and an invitation to race
riots. Thomas means that the south
ern white ruling class would rather
instigate a war against the Negro
masses in the Black Belt than per-
nit themselves to be ruled by the
majority Of the population which
happens to be Negro"
at is better, according to Mr.
Thomas" continued the Communist
candidate for ce-president, that
the Negro majority in the Black Belt
be ruled. oppressed, lynched, and ex-
plotted by the white slaveholding
landlord minority than that the social
calamity of self-determination of the
Negro majority overwhelm the white
ruling class of the South"
Socialist Incites TO Riot Against
Negro Masses.
"When Mr.. Thomas condemns the
right OF the Negro masses to govern
themselves in the Black Belt" con-
tinued Ford, he actually incites and
justifies riots and lynchings Of the
Negro masses in the South. If you
have watched closely the Socialist
technique against the masses, you will
find that the first ones to talk riots
and lynchingS' are the Socialists
They do it even before the ruling
class commences TO club and lynch
In this way the Socialists pave the
way for riots and mGssacrcs, and
then, of course, blame the militant
masses. In the Scottsboro case, we
find the capitalist press quoting
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
JOB AGENCY Is
BLIND TO LURE
WORKING GIRLS
Empire State Agency
Recruits for Slave
Traffickers
lnE a WORKER CorrespondenLl

NEW YORK.-The following eX-
p9V- -snces Of a young worker is but a
typical story of many others.
The worker vent to a job on 18th
s., through an ad in the pap5rs for
factory workers two years ago. Upon
arriving there she found a cosmetic
factory with few bottles and labels
lying around The boss of the Ulace
tired to make familiar advances tC
her and asked her to come back the
1.ext right at 7 o'clcok She decided
not to.
Last weak she applied for a job
through the Empire State Employ.
nent Agency on Sixth Ave They
sent her to the Jay Dee Network
Company" is E. Tenth ST. Upon ar
rival there she found "Mr. Gold" to
whom the letter was addressed but
net the Jay Dee Network Co." II
wss the same gentlsman she had met
several years ago. Being a member
of the YCL she went back to the
agency and demanded her money
back, and accused them of being in
cohorts to get girls into the hands
Of a blind" for prostitute traffich-
e.s. They denied this but refunded
her money, saying that no other girl
he'd made such a complaint Several
ether girls have reported that they
have not received a job from this mfr.
Gold" and have been told by him to
,eall back many times over.
.- Many Such Agencies
Working women have reported 9TH
err agencies sending them to tea
shops which were nothing more than
blinds and open house III some cases.
The Unemployed Councils will help
sny workers fight if they are victim
i2ed by these Job sharks and any
egancy that is found directly respon-
s.ble for this particular offenss will
be demonstrated against and the IL
c2nss buro visited to demand the can
collation. of their license.
The daily worker., 1932-07-05
Postal Rates Go Up
Beginning Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-To cover its deficit,
created by huge war appropriations,
the government, beginning tomorrow
at 1901 am, puts through an in
crease in postal rates from 2 cents
an ounce for first-class mail to three
cents. At the same time air mail
rates will jump from 5 to 8 cents for
the first ounce, with 13-cent boost
for each additional ounce.
At the same time thousands of
postal workers are being ruthlessly
fired to carry out Hoover's fake econ
omy program.