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and Graham Ave. to protest against
the terror organized by the landlord
and the Police against the tenants of
1855 Scholes ST., who are now strik-
ing against the high rents A COM
mittee eli the striking tenants and
hungry families we're elected to go to
see Mr.. Breitenbach to protest against
the miserable conditions in his dis
t1ict and to demand stop to evic-
tions Immediately; to demand free
rent, gas and electricity for the I'M
employed; for immediate cash relief
to be given to all unemployed; and
to stop the terror of the police and
landlords against the workers.
Mr.. Breitenbach, aSsemblyrnan OF
the 18th District, tried to run away
from the committee, but we found
him a block away from the demon
stration on the sidewalk. When we
asked him what he would do for the
starving families in his district, his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
Police Org a ize
Reserves" to Club,
Shoot Down Workers

NEW YORK.-That the police
are organizing reserves" to shoot
down unemployed workers, is the
information sent to the Daily
Worker by a sympathizer. This
worker writes: "A short while ago
friend of mine was called by the
police department to register.
There he received a shield and
revolver for duty in what they
call emergency cases to do ser
vice in the police reserves. He
showed me a card which was
headed Police Reserve Associa-
ton The name Dawkins was
signed as president and Cam as
secretary. Cam is known as a
police captain.
He informed me that his duty
would be to assist the police in
breaking up radical demonstra-
tons and to use his billy freely.
They will receive IS pay for
every job performed and they
will be paid by their employers
while away from work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
JOBLESS FIGHT
GYP AGENCIES
Food Workers Union
Builds Council

NEW YORK. - Intensive activity
among the unemployed food workers
by the Unemployed Committee of the
Food Workers Industrial Union is
rallying hundreds of unemployed
food workers to the program of the
newly organized Food Workers IN
employed Council In preparation
for drawing in the employed and I'M
employed food workers to the Feb
ruary 4th demonstration the Council
is holding open air meetings every
Wednesday at $50 a. m. in the heart
of the district where the food en-
ployment agencies are found. 9th
Ave. and 40th st. Every Monday at
10 a. m. the Council holds open air
meetings at 18th st. and 4th Ave.
close to some hotel employment
agencies. Indoor open forums are
held on Wednesdays at 2:30 p. m. at
the union headquarters, 5 East 10Th
Street.
The Food Workers Unemployed
Council has already shown itself TO
be a Stalwart supporter of the I'M
employed food workers in their
grievances against the gypping of the
employment agencies. In several in
ctopoac the Council hoe c,IcpacSf,Jl1xy
secured the return of exorbitant fees
to workers who have been sent to
jobs which last only a few days.
The Food Workers Unemployed
Council is organizing to resist robber
employment agencies and their allies,
the police and the bosses. The Coun-
Gil meets every Tuesday and Friday
at 2:30 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
FLOOR SCRAPERS
WIN ALL DEMANDS
T error Methods of
Boss Fails

NEW YORK.-Friday morning the
floor scrapers strikers of the Self
Mechanics Flooring Co. at 125th st.
succeeded in taking down one more
scab after the boss broke the agree
ment. The pickets Immediately put
out signs again and started picketing
the building.
The boss called police and the po-
lice tried to drive the pickets off the
street, intimidating and terrorizing
them, and finally arrested the organ
izer and one picket. The boss also
managed to summon 4 strikers to
court in suit for $1,000 each in
damages.
The picketing went on in spite of
this. The boss seeing that he
could not terrorize the strikers, called
upon the strike committee of the
shop and signed an agreement grant
ing all the demands of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
What's On

TUESDAY
February 4th, Before and After
will be the topic of a lecture Of the
Wight Workers Open Forum at 1OS
H. l4th st. at pm. Admission free
The fremont workers Club. 2O75
Clinton Ave, Bronx. holds it's man
dolin class for beginners and ad-
Vanced every Tuesday at $50 pm.
U~h 10, Section 8, win have an
open meeting at o'clock at 46 Ten
Eyck St, Brooklyn. All neighbor-
hoodworkers are invited. There will
be an important discussion on the
struggle for unemployment insur-
ance and immediate relief.
The Alteration Painters. Bronx
section, will hold their regular forum
at 10 ain. at 1925 Southern Blvd.
Many important questions will be
discussed, Admission free,
The Two. Youth Dramatic Group
will meet at 80 Union So, at pm,
Leon Dennen will speak on New
Youth Club. rs Thatford Ave. corner
Pitkin, Brooklyn, at pm. All work
srs are invited.
The F.s.U. study Glass of Brighton
Reach will meet at $50 pm. at 211
Brighton Beach Ave. All those who
have signed up for the class are
asked to attend,
"WEDNESDAY
The dress strike, Trade Union
Unity Leaue and the a r. Of L. will
be discussed at the Prospect Work
rrs' Club, l57 Southern Blvd, Bronx,
at $3.50 pm Admission free.
The Brighton Beach Branch, F.s.U.,
viii have an Important membership
meeting at Eli Brighton Beach Ave.
At $50 pm. All members are re-
quested to attend and bring their
membership books.
An open forum viii be held at the
fremont Workers Club, POTS Clinton
Ave, Bronx, at $3.50 pm. All work
ers are urged TO attend.
A meeting of the Allegation Paint
ere Of willisnsburgb will be held at
so Cook St., Brooklyn, at s pm.
The East Bronx Branch of the
F.S,u. win meet at Ambassador Hall,
l72 Claremont Parkway, at 5 pm.
~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
HANDS OFF SALVADOR, SAYS
ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE

and semi-colonies. determined to
suppress in blood the upward surge
Of the revolutionary movement
United States Imperialism has al
ready murdered hundreds of the
best worker and peasant fighters in
FL Salvador. COME TO THE AID
OF THE WORKERS AND PEAS
ANTS STRUGGLING AGAINS T
OPPRESSION,
Demand the withdrawal of Amer
lean warships! Support the struggle
of the masses of FL Salvador. Pass
resolutions of protest Immediately in
your organizations, in your factory,
unemployed council, union, fraternal
order, etc, and at mass meetings.
Send them to President Hoover and
to Congress. Give full publicity to
your action. Have your organiza-
tons send resolutions demanding
Hands off Chinal Protest against
sending warships to China! Defend
the Soviet Unionl Defend Soviet
Chinal Elect anti-War committees
in the shops! But at the same time
let us assist the struggle of our fell
low workers in the Latin American
countries, and particularly now in
Ell Salvador.
Raise this issue at every Feb 4
demonstration in the United States.
Send copy of the resolutions you
adopt to 799 Broadway, Room $50.
Make the Feb. Anti-Imperialist
mass meeting at Manhattan Lyceum
a demonstration for the complete in
dependence Of Salvador. Elect dele
gates to the Anti Imperialist Con-
ference, to be held Feb. 81 at II am.
at Irving Plaza Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02

NEW YORK.-In calling on the
American workers to support the
struggles of the workers and peas
ants of e. Salvador, the Anti-Im-
perialist League has issued the fol-
lowing statement:
"The Anti-Imperiaist League of
the United States calls on all anti
imperialiSts and their organizations
to give full support to the struggle
Of the masses of workers and peas
ants of Salvador against the oppres-
sion by the imperialist powers and
their native agents. Raise the cry
of GLANDS OFF SALVADOR. De-
mand the immediate withdrawal of
the United States destroyers Philip
and "Wickes" and the cruiser
Rochester" and all other imperialist
battleships and marines.
While American and British i'm
periaism engage in struggles against
one another, making and unmaking
the local governments to suit the
purposes of each against the other,
the masses of workers and peasants
are being reduced to greater misery
and starvation. The workers fight
for life, against unemployment and
against wage-cuts, the peasants
yearning for land-these explain the
present uprising of the masses
against the Martinez government
and against British and American
imperialism.
At the same time that the i'm
perialist powers proceed to dismem-
Der China, and to prepare to attack
the Soviet Union and crush the Chi
nese Soviet Republic, they are in
tensifying their terror in the colonies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
'KARAMAZOV" IN LAST DAY
CAIN" OPENS WEDNESDAY

"Karamazov," at the Acme The
atre, will close with today's showing.
The picture, which is screened from
the novel by Dostoyevsly by Fyodor
Ozep, has drawn well at the Acme
The story has been much condensed,
but the director has not satisfied
anything which is essential to the
story. In fact, Ozep has here Gre
ated a dramatic tale that holds your
interest by this shortening. The
ideas of the author are more clear
to the onlooker.
Beginning Wednesday the Acme
will present Cain" the story of an
English stoker who rebels against
siciety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
New Plays Presented
For the Benefit of
Striking KY. Miners

A Workers Theatre Night for min
ers' relief will be held on Thursday
evening, February 4th, at Manhattan
Lyceum, &c East 4th ST., N. Y. G.
An unusually fine program will be
given, including the Artef, the
Prolet- Buehne, the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre of the w. I. r., a jew
ish workers dram-section, and the
Ukrainian Workers Dramatic Circle
will present workers plays. The Red
Dancers will perform the w. I. R..
Brass Band will play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
CALLFIGHT ON
IMPERIALIST WAR
ON CHINA, U.S.S.R:
Friends Soviet Union
Hits War Moves

NEW YORK -The National Com
mittee of the Friends of the Soviet
Union holds the United States Gov
eminent responsible, together with
Japan, for The invasion and forceful
annexation of Manchuria and the
seizure of China to establish a fas-
cist dictatorship and to prepare for
the invasion of Soviet Russia.
The Friends of the Soviet Union
gives the lie to Stimson's correspond
ence which is an attempt to mask the
direct help given through shipments
of ammunition to the Japanese war
forces and the rushing of additional
troops and battleships.
The full statement reads as fol-
lows:
"Imperialist war is on in China!
This war is not war of Japan alone.
1t is the war of the capitalist rulers
of the world directed against the
revolutionary struggles of the Chinese
masses. 1t is the war of world i'm
perialists moving faster in their plans
for the invasion and looting of the
Soviet Union.
American troops, French troops
English troops. Japanese troops, aero
planes, battleships and war tanks are
in China to conquer the markets Of
China and Manchuria. World i'm
perialism, through Japan, seizes
Shanghai and Hardin, to direct the
murderous fire against the Red Army
of the Chinese Soviet Republic - to
establish a fascist military dictator
ship through the massacre of millions
of Chinese people. Then to utilize
this fascist war base in the Far East
to invade the Soviet Union in order
to loot and partition the Workers
Republic in the same manner as has
been done in China.
Japan moves forward, with the
consent of the American Wall Street
government. The League Of Nations,
the Kellogg Peace Pact and the Nine
Power Treaty are exposed as the hoax
of the bloody rulers who hide their
numerous deeds behind peace con-
ferences while they spend billions on
ornaments
Japan has seized Hardin and the
Chinese Eastern Railway as a direct
provocation against the Soviet Union.
In Mongolia the White Guard Gen
eral. Semonoff, sworn enemy Of the
First Workers Republic, stands ready
with his White Guard army of $4,000
to invade the Soviet Union"
Flight to stop the bloody invasion
and division of China by the capital
lists OF the world.
Demand immediate removal of all
American and other foreign battle
ships and troops from China.
Support the revolutionary struggle
Of the Chinese workers and peasants
for freedom led by the Chinese Soviet
Republic.
Organize in every shop, in every
Trade Union and on every street,
committees of Friends of Soviet China
and Soviet Russia.
of the Soviet Union.
Join the Friends of the Soviet
Union for the support and defense
of the Chinese Soviet Republic and
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
TAIL0RS TO ORGANIZE MARCH TO
FEB. 4th JOBLESS DEMONSTRATION

answer was, Nothing, and if you
don't like it go to Russia
But the delegation told him that
we were born here and we are going
to fight right here to better the
conditions of the workers and fight
for Unemployment Insurance.
We appealed to all workers in
Williamsburg to demonstrate on
February 4th in the National Demon
stration for unemployment Insurance.
The Williamsburg Council is mob
ilizing the workers to join in the
demonstration. The workers of Will
hamsburg will gather at the Unem-
ployed Council headquarters, 81 Ora
ham Ave, at 10 a. m. and will march
in a body to the Grand st. Extension,
to join the rest of the workers of
New York at Union Square at l: 80
p. m.
John Reed Club To Join March.
The John Reed Club of revolution
airy artists and writer's has passed a
resolution endorsing the February 4th
demonstrations and calling on all its
members and Sympathizers to join in
the demand for unemployment in
Srance and to rally the masses for
struggle on February 4th.
All members of the club will meet
at the headquarters Thursday at IL
noon and march in a body to Union
Square where the main demonstra-
ton will be held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
British Weayers Vote
for Immediate Strike

MANCHESTER, England 300 of
the $4,000 textile weavers in the
Burnley mill district here have voted
in favor of an immediate strike
against the bosses who have broken
the agreements on wages and hours
Of work. The strike will start on
Saturday if the bosses do not agree
to abide by the agreements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
Two Kansas Banks
, Close With 100000

KANSAS CITY.-Two more banks
close in Kansas today, the First Ma
tional Bank of Pittsburgh wiping out
deposits of $1,373,725 and the Citi-
zen's Bank OF Hutchinson with de-
posts listed at $1,O73, 785.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
TAXI LINE SALE.
RUM0R PROBED.

Assistant Corporation Counsel
William A. Roberts was named
today by the Public Utilities Com
mission to conduct an investiga-
ton into the reported sale of the
Black and White and Yellow
Taxicab Company to a Chicago
cab corporation.
Although William J. Brown,
president of the local cab COM
pany, has denied the sale, rumors
regarding it have been so per-
sistent for the last few weeks the
Commissioners determined to as
certain whether the La Toilette
anti-merger act has been violated.
Meanwhile, the commission in
the face of a threatened rate
cutting war, has decided to sit
tight until appeals from its recent
taxicab order have been settled
in the District Supreme Court.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick,
chairman of the commission, said
no attempt will be made at pres
ent to prosecute the Black and
White and Yellow Company for
ignoring the commissions order
by reducing rates to 20, 40 and so
cents under the zone system.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
ALL SET.
FORDR|VE

None who deserves shall suf.
fer" is to be the keynote of speak.
ers in the Community Chest cam.
paign which starts Sunday.
At the final rally of the speak,
ers' unit at the Raleigh Hotel yes.
terday, Edward F. Colladay, chair.
man of the general committee, ad-
viSed against the use of generali.
ties in appeals and urged employ
ment of specific instances of help,
fulness on the part of the chest.
The speakers unit this year will
keep 1900 engagements, Joseph D.
Kaufman, chairman, said.
H. L. Rust, jr., chairman of the
metropolitan unit; Elwood Street,
director of the chest, and Mr..
Kaufman addressed final meet
ings of Regions 2, 3 and S last
night.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20

A plan for the creation of an
$8,000-a year job for supervisor of
the building inspectors office, the
electrical department and the
municipal architects office is be-
ing considered by the District
Commissioners, it was learned
today.
y Strict secrecy is being main
tanned by the officials regarding
the plans. Ali queries are re,
ferred to Acting Engineer Com
missioner Donald A. Dawson, who
today flatly declined to comment
on the plans. He did say, how,
ever, that the plans are now be-
fore the Personnel Classification
Board for consideration.
The job idea is said to have
originated with Commissioner
Herbert B. Crosby. 1t is rumored
q retired Armv officer friend of
General Crosby and F. M. Davi,
son, maintenance engineer of the
highway department, are being
considered for the post.
The new position, if created,
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
D. {. MEASURES
SCHEDULED

Democratic leaders have Sc
lected next Monday as the date
when District legislation will be
considered on the floor of the
House, Mrs. Mary T. Norton CD
of New Jersey, chairman of the
House District Committee, ad-
vised members of her committee
at a meeting today.
The only two bills ready for
consideration on the floor pro-
vide for the incorporation of the
District George Washington Bi-
centennial Commission. and would
relieve the District Commission
ers of detail by permitting the
secretary of the board to sign
certain papers.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
RILEY PROBERS
HALT HEARING
FOR STUDY
House Members Fear Giving
Too Much Power to
Welfare Board

Fear of placing too much
power in the hands of the
Board of PUBLIC Welfare is
holding up the investigation
of the boards alleged laxity
in handling the Riley case by
the House subcommittee, of
which Representative Vincent
L. Palmisano (D.) of Mary
land is chairman. The probe
has been temporarily halted.
Representative Palmisano said
today that he would not call a
second hearing of the case until
he and other members Of the sub
committee had had time to inspect
minutely the records of the Riley
case and to discuss between them
selves what ought to be done.
Records Are Presented
The bulky records of the case of
Edith Riley. dating back to 1925,
were placed before the subcom-
mittee yesterday by Miss Patricia
Morss, director of child welfare,
for the board, following her tes-
timony on the stand.
She did not reply to Represen-
tative Frank L. Bowman of West
Virginia, who demanded to know
if there we're other Edith Rileys
in Washington suffering similar
abuse without interference by the
authorities.
Representative Bowman said:
"It remained for some one
outside the board to disclose
the true facts Of the case.
"There was just one agency
in the District for the relief OF
the child and it failed to act.
"How many other children
in the city 'lave been over
looked in the same manner?
"This is a case that has
Mortified the entire Nation. We
intend to discover why the
Board of Public Welfare, an
agency authorized by Congress
and supported by Federal funds
failed to act"
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
| On 6 ISLAND,
n. J. SUSPECTS.
AREFREED
Loudoun Authorities Get Hot
Tip From SperryViIIe, Va;
Maryland Clue Also

While all suspects in the
dual murders of Mrs. Spencer
Hsley, social registerite, of
MiddIeburg, Va, and her
maid, Mrs. Nina Buckner, of
near Rockville, Md, had been
released today, authorities of
Loudoun county were follow
ing clues which directed the
search for the slayers to
nearby Virginia and Maryland.
Commonwealth Attorney John
Galleher was at Sperryville, Va,
today following a "hot" tip that
George Crawford, negro, one OF
the suspected slayers. was seen
in that vicinity yesterday.
OvercOat Found
At the same time Montgomery
county (MdJ and Washington
police were seeking to establish
the ownership of an overcoat
found yesterday in the woods
near Derwood. Md, which is de-
scribed as corresponding to that
worn by Crawford when seen at
Middleburg the day before the
murders.
Release of Pat Green, colored,
at Riverhead, L. l.. and an un,
identified negro at Linden, N. j.,
was reported to Sheriff E. S.
Adrian at his office at Leesburg,
Va. The sheriff said:
81 have been notified that
while each of the negroes re-
SembleS Crawford so far as de-
ScriptiOn is concerned, their
fiLger-prints do not tally with
those of the suspect. We are
now hard at work on some
clues which place Crawford
within 100 miles of this county"
Roberts Trial Today
Trial of Joseph Roberts, pho
tographer Of The Washington
Herald, and State Trooper T. F..
Stafford on charges growing out
of melee during the funeral of
Mrs. Ilsley Friday was sched
uled for today at Middleburg.
Roberts is charged with re-
sisting arrest, while the police
man. who felled Roberts with a
rabbit" punch, is charged with
assault.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
7 Ak K { s
P, j, {. OATH
CUNNINGHAM

The oath of office was admin
istered today to Rily E. Elgen
as a member of the Public Util-
tiles Commission. He succeeds
Harleigh H. Hartman, recently
resigned.
Frank E. Cunningham, clerk
of the District Supreme Court,
administered the oath.
Immediately after the cere-
mony Commissioner Elgen pre-
pared to take over his duties
later in the day.
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
ELECTRIC RATE
SLASH LOOMS
FOR RD|STR|CT>
Old Figures of AZ Expected
To Drop to 3.6 as Result
OF Today'S Compromise

The Public Utilities Com
mission and the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company today
reached a temporary compro-.
mise for the fixing of 1882
electric rates. The commits.
sion had the company agref
to a sum of $860,00O as the
basis for rate reduction.
1t is estimated that under the
figures set up in the compromise,
the present rate of 40 cents per
kilowatt hour will be slashed tc
3.6 cents.
Initiated by DIR. Marvin
The compromise was reached
as a result of conferences initi
ated by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin.
president of George Washington
University, several weeks ago,
who is also a director of the
electric company.
The final conference was held
today with William Ham, presi.
dent, and S. R. Bowen, chief
counsel of the company; Gen.
Patrick, chairman of the Commits
sion; Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride; his assistant, Will
liam A. Roberts, and Peoples
Counsel Richmond B. Keech in
attendance.
The compromise is effective
only until the appeal of the COM
pany from the commissions order
OF last summer, setting up a new
scale for fixing rates, is finally
decided by the courts.
Public Hearing Monday
A public hearing will be held
next Monday to determine how
the $860,00O will be distributed
among the various rate schedules
OF the company.
The company's statements Of
earnings for the year showed a
net profit of $5,267, 900. Under
the sliding scale in the consent
decree, by which rates have been
fixed since 1925, approximately
100000 of this amount would be
the rate reduction basis. Under
the scale of the June order of
the commission, approximately
$1,000,0O0 would be used for rate
reduction.
Compromise Decided
At a lengthy conference Off
cials sought to have the commits
sion agree that $830,OO0, the same
amount used as the basis of rate
reductions last year, be used
again this year. The commission.
refused and it was finally de"
cided to set up the sum of $780,
900.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick,
chairman of the commission, in
a statement regarding the COM
promise, pointed out that the
compromise sum is $4,000 more
than the reduction made at the
end of 1880 and 100000 greater
than the reduction which could
have been made under the con-
sent decree,
The Washington times., 1932-01-20
CiUitan Club MOUes
To Relieve Distress

Decision of the Civitan Club to
ally itself with 'The Old Lady
Who Lives in a Shoe" to see that
every needy person in the District
is well shod was made at the
monthly meeting at the Lafayette
Hotel last night.
Plans were also made to enter
tain delegates to the national
convention in Baltimore in June.