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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
Cherry
/" Where with eux
we tell the truth
shout many things. sometimes pre-
foundly. sometimes AIppantly.
sometimes reckIessiy. +.

A hurricane sweeps across belt
of states. There is vast destruction.
Houses and barns are blasted TO-
splinters and sheared apart, as if by
some demoniacal giant.
Reconstruction requires work.
The charity forces of nation go
into action under forced draft.
Money is raised. Stricken human
ity is fed
Maybe they had job before the
storm, maybe not.
A hurricane has come. Now there
is food
And there will be wages for those
who must do the work of building
anew where the storm cut through in
its cyclonic desperation.
Strange, what hurricane will do.
Strange, too, what a difference the
cause of suffering makes.
Figures show unemployment, ma
tionally, stopped in its tracks. There
is slight upward movement
This is tremendously good news.
But be not fooled, citizens. Be not
fooled.
This is help, not cure.
A great part of the work found to-
day is called "made" work work that
doesn't actually have to be done. It
does not produce commodities.
The great American mechanism for
production of commodities is still out
of gear
That needs fixing before we have
cured anything.
| Two instruments of fixing are
needed. Roughly 35-hour work
week and generally higher wages.
Until there is fundamental read.
Justment we shall have no cure.
However, let us give thanks fo1
every bit of relief in the form OF
work.
1t puts food in mouths and with
that done there is chance to mus.
ter thought and prepare for organ.
lied effort to manage industry so that
it shall provide joy for man instead
of leading him life of uncertaint,
and oppression.
The wiZardry of modern industry
should free man, not enslave anc
punish him.
Today it is not wholly uncommon
for contracts to contain a speciica
tion that hand labor, not machinery
be used
That should show us how wrong
some things are.
A thought: With laber's anti
injunction bill made law, why shoult
there not be great national labor
festival day, upon which to hold joy
Gus funeral services over the deceas
ed injunction?
Why should there not be happ.
burial of the thousands of old injunc
tions that will lose their force ant
meaning?
And why should not the autocrati
power of dyspeptic judges be hkewis
inferred?
With very special plot reserve
in which to dump the moldy and re
pugnant remains of the yellow do
contract.
Why not a great holiday for tn
marking of one of the greatest meas
ures of liberation any nation has eve
taken peacefully?
It's thought. 1t could be trans
lated into action.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
Tuning In on Sweets

"At last got something | want on
the radio" cried the man of the house
what was it?" inquired the wife
curiously.
Somebody" grinned the grouchy fel-
low, "left box Of candy on the cab
met"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
Football Stuff Now

"Times certainly have changed" re-
marked the Thoughtful Guy.
"Yeh," said the Old-Timer, when
was a kid we used to hear Of the
coach and four, but now it's the coach
and eleven" n."-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
An Effective Cure

An EHective Cure
docs your husband still bring un-
expected guests home for dinner In
the evening with him?"
"Tll say he does not! l cured him
of that by always leaving the table
for him to clear up and the dishes
to wash and wipe alone after the
guest had gone"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
just 4 Passing Token

Cassidy hesitate to mention it,
Mrs. Cheatum, but your husband
owed me $40 when he died.
Widow-You don't say I know that
you are glad now that you have
something to remember him by.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
Time to Rest

when it's afternoon here" said one
weary tramp, "it's midnight in Lon
DON"
mo wonder" sighed the other hobo,
II always get SO sleepy this time of
day."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08
YES, ORGANIZE-WHY NOT?

Again the old, old message
organize a union.
Why not?
Don't we believe in unions?
Of course. THEN ORGANIZE!
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Mrs. A. with newspaper)-It says
here that Cooks are often decorated
in France
Mr.. Al sometimes feel like
crowning the one we've got.-Boston
Transcript.
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The druggist danced and chortled
till the bottles danced on the shelves.
s.What's upf" asked the soda clerk.
do you remember when our water
pines were frozen last winter 7"
"Yes, but what /"
sWell, the plumber. who fixed them
has lust come in to have 8 prescrip-
ton filed Chicago News.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-08

W. E accept the princi-
pie of providing for local relief
through local contributions.
The heavy burden which this
entails on all communities is
well recognized, but there is
no other way than to assume
the obligation. The activities
which are necessary to tide
over the unemployed and to
take care of them and their
families must be maintained.
II have often thought how
great is our obligation to the
welfare societies ;. :. which
are serving so well to main-
tain our community life dur
ing a period of distress. 1t is
most fortunate that there are
so many trained and efficient
workers in the societies that
make up Community Chests.
/ do not know what we could
do without them
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, ~ Second Class Mail Matter.
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than to
assume the
Obligation

(From statement by the Press
ident of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
BY X. b. HUDSON
PART 2 (COncIusionl

Severe international competition, the acute
ness of the world situation and the possibilities
of war, compel American Imperialism to make
every effort to see that the merchat marine is
fully developed and is an efficient war auxiliary.
Not only are old ships being scrapped and new
ones being built conforming to naval specifica-
lions, but the entire industry is being organized
on war basis special war board has been
created composed of leaders OF the industry and
j. P. Ryan, president of the Longshoremen's AS
ISOLATION, and Andrew Furuseht, president Of the
International Seamen's Union
Most of the large companies compel their Of
ticers to belong to the naval reserve and the
International Seamen's Union has long advocat-
ed the passage of Naval Reserve Act which
would compel seamen to belong to the Naval Re-
serve and even offer this as solution to the I'M
employment problem. In December, 1881, T. V.
O'Connor, chairman OIL the Shipping Board
speaking before the Propeller Club, stated IAN
other effective aid for relief of the sbipowners)
would be a complete functioning of the Naval
Reserve to include the entire personnel of the
merchant ships, which is so necessary in times
of war. Legal authority for the establishment of
this form of defense has already been given by
Congress but unfortunately the necessary funds
have not yet been appropriated"
In the militarization Of the industry special
attention has been paid to building up proper
personnel The percentage of foreign born sea-
men has been reduced from 81 per cent in 1918
to Al per cent now and at the end OF 1882, on
ships built under the Jones White Act two
thirds Of the crew must be Americans. national
blacklist system is utilized for wedding out the
militants. Deportatons especially has been a
powerful weapon to terrorize the foreign born,
over 100000 seamen now having this club hang
ing over their head Ex-navy men are given pref
ale ;,,
every port. supported by the ship owners, are
maintained to prevent organization and to guard
against and counteract all propaganda.
Forty per cent of the seamen are now unem-
ployed and all longshoremen are working part
time. Checkerboard wage cuts have occurred on
some companies for both seamen and longshore-
men, and speed-up naturalization and under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
DEFEND THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS! SMASH
THE REFORMIST MANEUVERS

Iating"
One of the fruits of Mr.. Whites activities in
modifying the press against the fight to save
and free the boys is seen in the current issue
of the Pittsburgh Courier. This organ of the
Negro bourgeoisie which originally joined the
Southern lynch bosses in branding these innocent
boys as ''rapists" now discovers that the Scots
boro boys are being made martyrs of LID
Cause"
In a front page article by its New York cor
respondent, Floyd J. Calvin, the Courier echoes
the demands of the Southern white ruling class
that George W. Chamlee abandon the Scots
boro defense This article says:
George W. Cham1ee should resign the Scots
boro defense after the outrageous public meet
ing held by the International Labor Defense in
this city Sunday, at which Mr. Chamlee was
personally present. according to reports in the
daily press"
And what made this Scottsboro protest meet
ing SO Outrageous" in the eyes of this bootlicker
of the imperialists? Because, says Mr.. Calvin:
"The meeting definitely linked the scottsboro
case with the Communist International And
what is MIR. Calvin's proof" that the Scottsboro
case is linked up with the Communist Interna-
tional? Says Mr.. Calvin:
"Proof that the Scottsboro boys are but fuel
for the CommuniStic propaganda flame was fur
nished by several speakers j. Louis Engdahl
secretary Of the LID declared at the meeting
that their task is to tie up the Scottsboro case
with the struggle against landlords, with the
struggle for bread and for jobs, so that we can
eventually draw 100000 American workers into
the class struggle and move on to victory"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
War and the Marine Industry

manning have occurred, but the ship owners
have been very skillful in their introduction of
bad conditions. The Hoboken strike precipitated
by too rapid introduction of speed up taught
lesson to the owners.
Although there has been steady Worsennig
of conditions of the marine workers, it is of i'm
portance to note that no general wage cut has
been made in the marine industry. The marine
workers have felt the effect of the crisis less than
any workers in all basic industries Seamen, de-
spite the great unemployment are relatively
better off The bosses do not rely upon the gen.
era1 charity rackets for providing them with re-
lief. The capitalist press states they realize the
special need OF the seamen and ask that special
steps be taken to raise special sailors fund"
Other homeless" men are only given a few
meals and lodging and then they are forced to
move on. Not the seamen, the bosses plans con-
template providing steady relief to seamen. A
special committee, with representatives of the
large shipping interests on 1t, has been organized
to raise special fund for the seamen The
"liberality" of the bosses is explained by the
press "spokesmen of the sailors are demanding
food and shelter matter of right and have
backed up these demands with a demonstration"
There is marked tendency in giving relief to
keep the seamen together as a favored group
The fact that the industry is highly subsidized
by the government is insufficient to explain these
facts. Two things offer adequate explanations:
/. 1t is war industry.
q The desrability of maintaining the marine
workers as politically reliable group
OF great Importance in this connection are the
international Seamens Union and the Interna-
tional Longshoremens Association, both affili-.
.ated to the A. F. of L. The ISU although now
weak numerically, played an important part in
the last war, supports the creation of a large
navy, advocates passage of the Naval Reserve
Act and is utilized by the ship owners to coun-
teract the impression made upon crews of YES
sells visiting the Soviet Union. r. v. O'Connor,
head Of the Shipping Board is responsible for
the organization of the port of Philadelphia by
the LILA. in 1926 (see minutes of convention,
LILA, 1920 In 1916 the LILA. was existent
in many ports on the West Coast but it was re-
vived in order to fit in with the war plans which
demanded politically safe labor With govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21

From the very first, the apologists and de-
tenders of imperialst oppression of the Negro
masses have attempted to cover up the lynch
terror nature of the Scottsboro death verdicts
which would burn eight innocent Negro children
in the electric chair as means of terrorizing
the Negro masses into submissio- to the starva-
ton program of capitalism, into submission to
the outrageous robbery and enslavement of the
Negro majorities in the BLACK Belt" by the big
landowners, merchants bankers and their hang
ers-on.
The international Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights have cor
rectly and consistently pointed out that the
struggle to save and free the nine innocent vic
TINS of class justice, is at the same time strug-
gle for absolute and unconditional equality for
the Negro masses in this country, against land
lord-captalist oppression and plundering of the
Negro masses, and against the starvation sys-
tenn which forced these working class boys to
bum their way on freight trains in a desperate
hunt for work in the effort to help their starv-
ing families, and then caught them up in the
net of vicious frame-up and lynch terror.
1t is on this understanding of the Scottsboro
frame-up that millions of Negro and white work
ers and poor farmers in this country and thru
out the entire world have rallied in mass defense
of the nine innocent Negro boys. More than
ever now, it is necessary that the world working
class thunder its angry protests. against the at
tempt sof the imperalists and their white and
Negro lackeys to carry through these hideous
lynch verdicts. Workers! Demonstrate your
furious resentment against this brazen class JUS
tice! Hold meetings everywhere Demonstrate
against the lynch terror Send protest kilograms
to the Alabama Supreme Court! Defend the
Negro masses! Demand the immediate and I'M
conditional release of these innocent working
class children! Smash the lynch verdicts!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
BY CYRIL BRIGGS.

FIGHT innocent Negro boys are facing legal
lynching in Alabama. All the hell of capt.
talsm is modified in furious attack on the de-
dense as the hearing opens today before the
Alabama Supreme Court of the appeal filed by
the attorneys of the boys and the international
Labor Defense against these hideous lynch YER
diets
Capitalism modifying All the rotten agents
and boot-lickers of imperialism bling rushed into
the attack on the ScottSboro defense. The Ala
bama Supreme Court itself is an instrument of
the ruling class it exists to maintain the robbery
of the workers and poor farmers and the brutal
suppression of the rights of the Negro masses
Investigators of the International Labor De-
Tense are thrown into Jail or ordered out of town
Vital evidence proving the innocence of the boys
is seized and suppressed by Huntsville, Alabama
police. Pressure is being made on Chamee
including an attempt to dsbar him, to force him
to withdraw from the ScottSboro defense Every
effort is being made to disrupt the defense. In
the South these efforts are organized and led
by Stephen Roddy an acknowledged attorney
of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
In New York City, Walter White, national
secretary of the NAACP is similarly engaged.
Following the forced withdrawal, under the pres
sure tot the masses, the boys, their parents
and other kin, of the pretense that his organiza-
ton was defending" the boys Mr. White has
been busy visiting the offices of liberal pub
locations and flooding the Negro press with vi
ciouS attacks against the Scottsboro defense He
has attacked the boys as Ignorant and vacil-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
LENIN CORNER
NAME FOR OUR PARTY WHICH WOULD
BE SCIENTIFICALLY AND CONDUCIVE
TO PROLETARIAN CLASS THINKING

| AM coming to the last point. the name Of our
party. We must call ourselves the Communist
Party-as Marx and Engels called Themselves
Communists
we must insist that we are AIarxistS and that
we have as a basis the Communist Manifesto
which has been perverted and betrayed by the
Social Democracy on two important points: %
The workers have no country: national de-
Tense" in an in1perialist war is betrayal of So
cialism; 90 Marks teaching about the state has
been perverted by the Second International
The objective needs of capitalism which has
grown into imperialism have brought forth the
imperialist war. This war has brought mankind
to the brink OF precipice, TO the destruction of
civilization, the ruin and Capitalization of count
less millions of human beings.
There is no other way out, except proletaran
revolution
And just when that revolution is beginning
when it is taking its first awkward timid. weak
unconscious steps, when it is still trusting the
bourgeoisie at that moment the majority Gt is
the truth, It is a fact) of the SCI
leaders of the Social Democratic parliar--r E
ians OF the Social Democratic papers in a word
all those who could spur the masses to action, or
at least the majority of them, are betraying So
cialism, are selling Socialism, are going to fight
the battle of their national bourgeoisie
The masses are distracted, baffled deceived by
their leaders.
And should we aid and abet that deception by
retaining the old and WORKOUT party name
which is decayed as the Second international?
We want to rebuild the world. We want to end
this imperla1ist World War in which hundreds
of millions of people are involved and billions Of
dollars are invested, a war which cannot be end
ed in truly democratic way without the great
est proletarian revolution in history From, The
Revolution of 1917 by. Lenir, published by the
International Publishers, New York;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21

nent backing the IS.U. grew to a membership OF
100000 during this period and will be revived in
the same manner when the occasion arises The
merchant marine is a naval auxiliary and the
IS.U. and LILA are utilized to maintain safe
crew for this important section of the navy.
Thus, the shipping board in interceding and
breaking the deadlock was motiVated by the fear
that the proposals would provoke general strike
on the coast and cause:
/. Increased militancy OF workers
2 Complete exposure of the leaders OF the
LILA and possibilities of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League gaining greater influence
The shipping board is organically part of the
government and the shipping board dictates to
the rest of the shipping interests the method Of
introducing wage cuts speed up and even their
size. The I.S.U and LILA are not only the means
OF introducing these bad conditions but they are
also the organs for maintaining the workers as
politically reliable group, and as such are sup
ported by the government
Thus, in the third year OF the crisis, with It's
deep going effect upon the industry, we find
the ship owners have delayed, and have been
extremely careful and skiful in attacking the
conditions of the workers. and that these tactics
are determined by its being major war indus
try and OF the necessity of maintaining organiza-
tonal and theological control of the marine
workers. SO important in the transportation OF
troops and munitions and supplies in the event
Of a war
But as the recent wage cuts indicate, they are
nevertheless out to make ever greater attacks
upon the workers and with the deepening of the
crisis to further worsen their conditions which
does produce increased rehabilitation.
The perspective of future DEVELOPMENTS and
pcscihilitieS of ha cIoe
tanned by the government, the tremendous array
Of forces and the Importance of this industry in
defending the Soviet Union, place enormous
tasks squarely before the Marine Workers In
dustria1 Union and demands that the TU.UL.
and Party turn its face sharply toward the
waterfront and actually begin to put into effect
the decisions OF the Pittsburgh meeting of the
National Committee of the T.U.UL. and the 18th
Plenum Of our Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21
Rv A. PETERSON

Besides the under estimation Of the role Of
shop paper there are other causes which hinder
the shop-paper work in the district, causes which
I am going to mention hereafter. but under
estimation is the main cause
/ am not going here again to write about the
role of & shop paper as a political instrument.
1 would like to face our comrades from top
down to the nucleus and put before them
squarely the question: What is a more impress
sive approach to worker, street corner speech
where in many instances the worker goes away
With the lnpression-"weu I heard enough Of
tor printed reading material which is
mostly read at home when the worker is at rest
can concentrate his mind and there is a better
possibility that the essence OF what he or she
reads shall penetrate into the brans2
want to ask the comrades from the nuclei
how great are your opportunities to talk to your
fellow-workers in the shop or at home Off you
have the address,? Is not the shop paper the
best way by which you can approach your fell
low-workers from the shop-on the daily prob
lens and issues confronting them, be the guide
and adviser, point the proper way for organiza-
ton and action and become the leader of any
move for struggle in the shop? Is not the shop
paper, issued by the Communist nucleus, the
best way for bringing the face Of the Party be-
fore the workers In the shop, and on the basis
Of facts and their own experience to prove to
them how important it is to have Communist
PartyP
Is not the shop paper issued by the Communist
shop nucleus the best instrument where agita-
ton, propaganda and organization can be brought
before the workers in the shop the exact mean
ings Of the current events Of the world Ito eradi
cate the poison from the capitalist printing ma
terial which the workers are reading); the mean
ing of the Party campaigns in relation to the
experience Of your fenow-workers in the shop?
Who is more than you comrades qualified to
know how to approach the workers with whom
you are In constant touch7 Who is more than
you qualified to know their state Of development
and their mode of thinking?
Why do some shop papers in the New York
District fail to appear for months and why is it
so hard to establish a shop paper where there is
a basis for it? The comrades in the nucleus
claim that they cannot write. Especially is it
too hard for them to write political article.