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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
POLICE ATTACK
MASS FUNERAL
Workers in Tribute to
Skippy Baritone

NEW YORK. -The workers OF
New York buried Skippy Baritone
yesterday. Mounted cops charged in
to them, threatened them. tried to
break up their funeral procession.
but their lines held fast, steeled by
the bonds that made them and the
homeless Negro worker, Skippy Bar
itone, comrades.
Baritone no one knows his real
name--was killed by starvation. To-
gether with about so other home
less Negro and white workers he
lived in an empty slaughter house
at 500 w. seth st. The cops raided
the place and kicked out its jobIess
occupants, arresting Is.
Cops Attack Procession
At noon yesterday a crowd Of
workers gathered at the West Side
Unemployed Council, 42S Tenth Ave
to pay a revolutionary tribute to
their dead conrade. A meeting was
held, at which Gil, organizer Of the
Unemployed Council, spoke. Then
the funeral procession started, the
hearse and two private cars in front,
with a guard Of honor consisting Of
ten workers. Leading all was the
Workers International Relief Band.
The procession marched up Tenth
Avenue to 45th ST.. turned east to
Eighth Ave. and then south. At And
st. five mounted cops tried to break
it up. AT 39th ST. again the police
charged. But the workers lines held
solid. A worker correspondent re-
ported the scene to the Daily Worker
in the following words:
This time the workers IN the
procession, together with the work
ers on the sidewalk, showed such
fighting spirit that the cops did not
dare to break it up altogether, but
forced the procession TO turn back
to Tenth Ave, marching down 18th
st. to Union Square The police gave
tickets to the private car drivers that
we're in the parade. They also told
the driver of the bearse to hurry
away or they will throw the coffin
out"
Mass Meet In Union Square
At Union Square a mass meeting
was held attended by about 1000
workers despite the rain. The meet
ing was addressed by Sam Wiseman,
organizer of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis OF Greater New York, and by
Morris Taft, of the International La
Dor Defense. They called on the
workers to keep alive the memory Of
Skippy Baritone by intensifying the
struggle for winter relief, shelter for
the homeless, against evictions, ETC.
The meeting elected delegation OF
Negroes and one a woman, to go to
Mayor Mckee and demand: I. That
the city actually turn over the empty
buildings that the Board Of Estimate
had promised to the homeless; 2.
That the city pay the funeral ex-
penses
The committee went TO City Hall,
where they were told that Mckee
was sick. His secretary tried to put
them off, but they insisted on pre-
senting their demands. The secret
airy told them that a survey was be-
ing made of the buildings. after
which something -maybe-would be
done. He refused to have the city
pay the funeral expenses.
Shppy Baritone is dead. But the
fight for immediate cash relief, for
unemployment insurance, for shelter
for the homeless and agriuyt syiak
lions goes 90 ---s S'ssss's'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
CLIFF JAMES DEAD
OF INFECTED WOUNDS:
DENIED MEDICAL AID
He Was Forced to Lie on Cold Cell Floor; Was
Turned in by RefOrmist Officials of Tuskegee
Montgomery Sheriff Won't Let LID Attor-
neys Visit Dying Men in County Jail
BULLETIN
MONTGOMERY. Ala.

MONTGOMERY, 27-CIif
died today the
police
carried jointly
the reomt heads Tuegee Institute which
Rockefeller
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 27-Hed incommunicado in
the Montgomery County jail and denied medical aid Clifford
James and Milo Bentley of the troopers by
police lynch gangs in the battle Dec. 10 at Noasuga
dying of infected wounds.
Clifford James the Negro troopers turned over to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28

toward Congress consolidating
continental antiwar front. Hail
continental proletarian solidarity
in struggle against imperialist war
and defense of Soviet Union"
Response to the call have also been
received from different bodies of
the revolutionary trade union and
peasant movements in South Amer
lea, voicing the anti-war sentiments
of the vast masses of Indian, Negro
and white workers and peasants.
Leading student organizations and
individual prominent intellectuals
have also pledged support. The or
ganizational committee reports:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
ABANDON BODIES
OF TEN MINERS
State Officer Refuses
to Search for Them

MOWEAQUA, ILL.,, Dec. 27.-Last
night John Millhouse. state mine in
spector, backed by So Illinois state
troopers, ordered all efforts stopped
to raise the bodies of ten miners
buried in the north end of the tun-
mel OF the Shafer mine. He ordered
the burning section where these men
were killed to be sealed off.
He is still pretending that there is
some hope for the last five of the
81 trapped underground when the gas
explosion took place the day before
Christmas. These five are in the
south end of the tunnel. But no one
who saw the 80 charred bodies so far
brought to the surface has any hope.
Among the five whose bodies the res
cue crews will try to reach today are
three young workers, mule drivers.
The other two are older men, timber
men.
Christmas Present
A Christmas tree has been raised
by the authorities here, right opposite
the morgue where 80 bodies lie. The
local government was too poor to
give them relief, and sent them IN
stead to work in the abandoned, burn
ing, gas-filled Shafer mine, to earn a
few cents a day instead of relief, and
to prepare the mine for work soon.
under the new starvation wage scale
esto blicbad The Tinted Mine Work
ers of America officials agreed dur
ing the summer Of an 18 per cent
wage cut and worse conditions. The
Illinois miners voted it down twice,
then struck against it. The strike was
smashed with gunner and militia.
Most of them split off and formed
the Progressive Miners of America,
but its officials now are making con-
tracts at the cut rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Special Art Program
For Center Banquet

NEW YORK, Dec. 27-William
Chopper and Yosel Dotler, both
members of the John Reed Club, are
preparing a special set of drawings
for the Workers Center benefit ban
quet which is taking place on Sun
day, Jan. 8, at pm. at the Workers
Center, 35 E. 18th st.
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great mass meetings.
Also, as part of the celebra-
ton, there will be meetings of
of shock brigades of all factories in
Moscow, on December 31st and Jan
uary LIST. Preparations are pro-
ceeding rapidly to make these meet
ings a great event The workers will
sum up at the meetings the results
of their struggle to fulfill the First
Five-Year Plan in four years, and
discuss the basis of the counter
PLAN for the coming year. At these
meetings also the best workers in
the shock brigades will have their
names announced. The winners of
the competition to be best worker
will receive rewards at another Mos
COW shock brigaders' meeting in the
middle of January.
Portraits Displayed
The workers are determined that
the whole country shall know the
names and recognize the faces of
these winners. and the Moscow Trade
Union are organizing big art gal
lery to display their portraits. Prom
inent artists have expressed a desire
to take part in the arrangement of
the gallery.
In the competition all the leading
professions, including 100 trades in
Moscow, with 10000 proletarians in
the Workers Capital City, actively
took part.
The special Winter Fete, greeting
the beginning of the Second Five
Year Plan will be held Dec. 80 and
81, in Central Park of Culture and
Rest, in Moscow.
N0TE-Shock brigades are groups
of workers who voluntarily give ex-
ira work and time and set an ex-
ample of efficiency in the building
of socialized industry in the So
Wet Union.
The Counter Plan is plan made
by the workers in the factories,
after they have seen and discussed
the official plan as it relates to
their tasks. Based ON the official
plan, they offer amendments and
set new quotas, invariably an in
crease on those offered in the Of
fetal plan.
Dneiper Station in Full Swing
KHARKOV, U.S.S.R. Dec. 27 (By
Radio The workers on duty at the
Lenin Hydro electric Plant on the
Dneiper River wrote in their diary
for Dec. 20: 1.-THE meters show to-
day that our Dneiper station pro-
duced 100 423,7O0 Kilowatt Hours of
energy"
This is the first hundred million
Kilowatt Hours produced at this
great plant, which manufactures cleo
trio power cheaper than anywhere
else in the world. 1t is the answer
by facts to the capitalist ISLANDERS in
the press of the whole western world,
that the Dneiper station is built but
not working because Russian workers
and the Soviet system are not able
to manage it.
The Dneiper electrical workers
state: Entering the Second Five
Year Plan we undertake to fulfill and
surpass the plan to produce one bill
lion Kilowatt Hours of energy in
1882
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Greek Courts Refuse
to Extradite insult

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 27.-The
Greek courts today refused to ex-
tradite Samuel insult, millionaire
American exploiter and swindler, to
the United States. insult, whose
huge midwest utilities trust crashed
to the tune of $4,000, 600, 900, declared
at the hearing that he had no pro-
fession.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
VOLUNTEERS FOR LENIN
PAGEANT.

VIII all Brooklyn workers who de-
sire to participate in the Lenin
Memorial pageant report this Thurs
day. Dec 2eth, at the Laisve hall,
4e Ten Eyck Street, Brooklyn, where
the tirst rsh s!g WY tshs plses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Jobless and Farmers
to March to Salt Lake
Colorado State Hunger March On JAM %;
Expect 1000 Delegates in California

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec 27-Commi
the
sent to the legislature there
relief the
poyed workers small
The workers farmers united
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
GREAT CELEBRATIONS
IN SOVIET UNION END
LIST PLAN; START End
Shock Brigaders of All Moscow Factories to
Meet; Discuss Increase of Production Quotas
First Hundred Million KilloWatt Hours Made
At Dneiper Plant Answers Capitalist Lies
BY N. BUCHWALD

MOSCOW, US.S.R. Dec. 81 (By Rado).-MOscow workers
energetcay preparing for Shock Brigade Day On the
initiative of many workers organizations the successful
pletion of the First FiveY Plan the commencement
the Second Five Year Plan will be celebrated January with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Ford Plant Rushing
War Order of Trucks
For the U. S. Army

DETROIT, Dec. 27.-The Ford
plant here has just completed part
Of war order of 361 Ford units
for the U. S. Army. The order in
cludes 1853 cargo trucks, so am
balances. 30 sedans and eight truck
chassis with cabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
FLU EPIDEMIC SWEEPS LINER

GLASGOW, Dec. 27-A warning
signal of sickness and epidemics as
result of hunger and restitution in
capitalist countries, was sounded on
Board the liner Camerona, arriving
from New York here today.
400 out of 900 passengers aboard
the vessel we're striker with influ-
enza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE

WESTFORD, Mass. Dec. 27-Two
children were burned to death, and
three we're regarded as in a serious
condition as a result of the fire
which destroyed the home Mr.. and
Mrs. Raoul Cote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
PARENTS LEAVE 4 CHILDREN

NORRISTOWN, Pa.-When food
and fuel were exhausted in their ten
ant home on farm near North
Wales, Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Blake took
their two-months old baby with them
and abandoned the other four chill
dren ranging from IA months to z
years, as the only means of obtain
ing relief and saving their children
from starvation. When the landlord
called at the Blake house Christmas
morning he found the four destitute
children who we're placed in the
headquarters of the Children's Aid
Society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Or. YEN AMBASSADOR TO UssR

NANKING, Dec. 27.--The Nan
king Government of China today APP
pointed DR.. WV. Yen, former min
lister to the United States, to fill the
post of Ambassador to the Soviet
Union. DR.. Yen figured in the sue
cessful negotiations with Soviet
Foreign Commissar, M. Litvinotf for
the resumption of relations between
the two countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
ALABAMA BOSSES MURDER THE LEADER OF CHOPPERS
In the Days
Neevs
PROPOSES "NIGHTRIDERs"

NEW YORK, Dec. 27-The organ
ization Of body 10000 strong and
composed of respectable citizens"
with police powers under the pre-
text of fighting gangsters," has been
proposed by former State Attorney
General, Albert Ottinger This force
according to the proposal, would ride
at night, and would in reality be used
to unlease reign of terror against
militant workers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-16
Daily Health Service
COUGH IS WARNING 80
If Simple Remedies Do Not Bring Relief, Case Should
Be Given Careful Study by Physician

Of the cough. Hot drinks produce .
similar relaxation Of the tissues, ana
since the cough is usually associated
with some infection, 1t is customary
to add the Juice of lemon: orance c.
grapefruit to help out the alkaliniza-
ton of the body and to make the 1la-
vor Of the drink more agreeable.
II q cough is associated with tne
production of considerable amount
Of material that is expectorated, the
person certainly demands most care,
full medical attention. Such nlatelial
NAV indicate an infection IN the
throat or in the lungs with the lot
nation of pus. It may indicate =
serious infection Of the nose or OF the
sinuses with the infectious mater1al
dropping back into the throat. II
may indicate an infection in tne
throat itself as sometimes occurs WITH
an abscess in the tonsils. A cough
must, therefore, be considered not as
in itself a disease, but as q warning
signal, ringing like bell. to indicate
that danger turks elsewhere. The de-
lection Of that danger, provided the
cough does not yield readily to the
simple measures that have been sug..
gested, is a problem that will demand
the most careful study OF compe-
tent physician.
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Why do you send me away for only
six weeks? Give me the same SEN
tence you give my sisters.-Mrs.
Gandhi.
X * X
Undergraduates are generation
behind the times in the matter Of
slang. - Dean Marjorie Nicholson,
Smith College.
X X X
Those boarding currency are prob
ably no safer as a class than those
who keep their money in the banks
Calvin Coolidge.
y X X
It is the simple duty Of any Ameri-
can to serve in public position If
called upon.-Franklin D. Roosevelt,
governor Of New York.
X X X
To achieve success one must make
an attempt.-Louis Marin, French
deputy.
X X X
I don't put in with the idea that
It is necessary to have experienced
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Let's Satisfy Them

Information received in Bismarck
from representative men of all po-
utical parties in all parts of the state
Is to the effect that they will not be
satisfied unless the proposal to re-
move the capital from Bismarck to
jamestown is smothered beneath an
avalanche Of votes such as has never
before been recorded In the history of
the state.
They want the result to be so deci-
sive that no one ever again will dare
@ raise the suggestion that an i'm
portant state institution, once located,
- lacked up and placed on wheels
II the main, these folks are sym
pathetic to Bismarck's position for
reasons Of self-interest and are frank
- ny %.
Jolls from Fargo say they want to
rutain The agricultural college there,
- matter II fire, storm or other un-
toWasd happening were to destroy
- g more Of the buildings already
"a uDe. They feel the institution 4
- inaportant one 70 them and "a
$50 state and that It should remain
n same attitude prevails 1t
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Grand Forks, where the state univer-
sity is located. From Minot, Mayvtlle,

Grand Forks, where the state univer-
sity is located. From Minot, Mayville,
Valley City. Glendale, Dickinson and
Wahpeton where other state educa-
tional institutions are located comes
the same story, also from Grafton,
Devils Lake and Bathgate which have
eleemosynary institutions. Folks from
Mandan say they cannot forget the
Importance to them of the state
training school, and so it goes. The
interest of persons friendly to state
institutions already located lies with
Bismarck in this battle.
From the farm the same reaction
is being reported, but for different
reason. Our biggest industry is hard
err hit than any other. Farming feels
the burden of taxation this year as
it never has felt it before. The peo-
pie living on the land of this state
are struggling grimly to hang on and
to pay their bills, including the tax
levy. The fight they are making
Is an heroic one and no one knows
the trials and the difficulties which
bar the way to victory better than
the folks who are in the thick of this
battle. They are hoping for and in
sisting upon lower taxes SO that this
portion of their burden may be eased.
To these folk Jamestown offers the
unsupported promise of tax reduction
if their city is chosen state capital.
Against this promise the farmers of
the state are balancing the fact that
to move the capital would be to aban-
don an investment of 81 400 900 which
the state already has in Bismarck.
1t is not even the contrast between
bird in the hand against two in the
bush which the old saw warns
against. 1t is contrast between one
in the hand and the prophesy Of one
to appear in the bushes at some
future time. The farmer is not
overlooking this fact any more than
is his city brother.
1t is interesting to note, too, the
reaction to the principles involved in
quarters far removed from Bismarck.
Everywhere throughout the state peo-
pie are having difficulty in the job
of making ends meet. No one, APP
parently, lives on easy street any
more. In too many cases, farmers
are losing their homes by the fore
closure route. But even those who
are hardest pressed or who have lost
the most, are not disposed to vote to
inflict unnecessary loss and suffer-
ing upon the residents of any city.
The fact that they have suffered and
are suffering misfortune and hard
ship only whets their sense of JUS
tice. They will not vote to inflict on
others any more handicaps or dis
couragements than they already face.
They object to the principle of the
thing.
These reports are encouraging and
the more so because they are being
made voluntarily, but they should not
cause Bismarck's citizens or its de-
tense committee to relinquish their
efforts. We should keep in mind the
desire expressed to us of seeing the
removal proposal showed under by
an avalanche of votes. We should
do our best to help our friends in
other parts Of the state make this
come true.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-16
Health Is Better

The United States Public Health
Service reports that illnesses Of a
week or more declined in proportion
to the employed population in 1881
by nearly "a per cent as compared
with 1929 It was about the same,
however, as for 1890. The sickness
rate for 1881, exclusive of influenza,
was 10 per cent below that of 1880
and 10 per cent less than for 1929.
On the other hand, the incidence Of
pneumonia, which often follows in
fluenza, showed a sharp falling off.
Bronchitis and diseases of the ton
sils and pharynX also show a decrease
and the same holds true, to the ex-
tent Of IL per cent, for diseases Of
the digestive system. An even larger
reduction is shown for diseases Of the
skin.
One type of illness which shows a
slight increase is that diagnosed as
neurasthenia, or nervous disorders.
The record is all the more remark
able in view of the fact that it is
taken from industrial records in these
times when every business, from
farming to the largest industrial or
panizatiOn in the land. is having a
fight to keep it's head above water.
The public health service states the
facts but makes no attempt to in
terpret them. It seems fair infer
ence, however, that people are living
more simply now than was true in
good for their health. !.
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IN
NEW
YORK
van

NcW 4OTk, reO. 4O.-NOtcS 1TOL1 u
convenient cuff:
Ho, hum! Another theatrical pro-
Queer trying to do an "Abie's Irish
Rose! Ever since the phenomenal
success of that dramatic freak, there
has been at least one"Abie" a year.
Not one of them lasted. Yet
they 60 on hoping, and someone puts
up the money. -. The latest Is called
East Of Broadway" And the
program indicates that several MEM
bers of the cast have been taken from
THE Rise of the Goldbergs'' radio
act. It would be funny II radio
fans put the show over. However,
to me the incest thing about q radio
is the ease with which one can play
critic. Just turn q knob and you
have expressed your final opinion. i. !.
I have yet to hear radio drama that
could last 10 minutes in a theater.
:. Nor even on show-boat or stock
company circuit. BY the way,
whatever became of Anne Nichols, the
gal who made her millions out Of
Able?
X X X
Speaking of show boats, Billy Bry-
ant has shown New Workers how to
bring a show-boat troupe into the big
town and make the sophisticated
gents adore it. Veteran that he
is of the country that lies between
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; or around
the bend to Charleston; or southwark
toward New Orleans, Billy Bryant
has become a Snowman worthy Of his
Broadway success.
To be a ham" actor is one thing,
but to disarm the audience by clean
admission of hammery is rare. And
Bryant came clean. On the opening
night, when half the celebrities Of the
the town were present, Billy told the
crowd: "Say, if you think this is
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turned to the handsome man oppo-
site her she began to feel singing
In her heart.
What fun to be so rich! What
fun to be driven in a limousine
wherever you wanted to 60! What
fun to stop at a smart restaurant
because you were thirsty, to be
served by an impressed headwaiter.
to have every wish anticipated.
Care and worries drifted away from
her. The hurried, clattery morning
with its clashing Of milk cans and
3angling alarm clocks seemed years
away. Here there was only peace
and beauty and leisure.
She began, did Ellen. to weave
those swift dreams Of girlhood,
those dreams that need 80 little
substance. Although Steven Bar.
clay did not guess it his own shad.
owy figure moved through those
fancies.
They drove almost quietly to
Dreamland. absorbed in their sepa.
rate thoughts. They stopped of
Broadway. Ellen carefully picked
up the box which held the precious
dress and stretched out her hand
to Barclay.
Il can't tell you," she said breath.
lessly, chow much ! appreciate what
you've done for me-"
A BOVE them. through the open
= windows. came q clashing Of
brasses and q singing Of strings.
The orchestra at Dreamland was
tuning up.
I'm glad I could do It," Barclay
replied.
He meant to stop there. But he
heard himself saying what he had
not intended to say.
II would like to do 4 great deal
more for you."
Ellsn's heart throbbed queerly
but her voice was steady as she
told him that he had done q great
deal too much already. She was
self.conscious. q rare thing for her,
- she climbed tho stairs-se!f-con
scious. and. now that she was away