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The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29
HARMONY NEEDLE CLUB
GIVES PICNIC HONORING
MRS. CATHERINE MINSHALL

The Harmony Needle club gave a
picnic at the home of Mrs. Grover
Hart on Elm street, Tuesday evening.
The event was given in honor of Mrs.
Catherine Minshall who is leaving
London to take position as matron
of the Sophia Huntington Parker
Home, Pythian Sisters at Medina,
Ohio. Mrs. Minshall was presented
with lovely gift given in token of
the high esteem accorded her by the
members of the club.
The following members of the club
were present: Mesdames A. B. Brock,
w. H. Culpeper, Hartford Garrard,
George Shoaf, Augusta Kilgore, 10y
Snyder, F. E. Caldwell, w. j. Ed
wards, M. H. Wallace, L. S. Farquhar,
S. H. Reed, Charles Lohr, G. f. Hart,
Edward Speasmaker, Robert Arm
strong, S. H. Turner, B. M. Beatty,
Cora Watson, O. 7. Turner, William
Dalbey, w. l. Foster, William j.
Speasmaker, r. V. d. Coons, Cyrus
.Hamm, Harry Steele, and her guest,
Miss Helen Williams, of Pataskala,
Misses Mabel and Erma Pringle and
the guest of honor, Mrs. Catherine
Minshall.
Wide Awake Club
The August meeting of the Wide
Awake club will be held Tuesday eve-
ming, August 2, at the home of Mrs.
Dave Hanson, Xenia road. The hus-
bands of the members are also invited
to attend this meeting. Assistant hos
tesses will be the Misses Florence and
Frances Hanson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Ramey, Mrs.
Earl Ramey and son Jimmie, Mrs.
Pearl Ames and son, Donald, and
daughter Mary Ellen attended the
Citizens picnic at Olentangy park on
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Ames and chill
dren, Betty Jane, Donald and Mary
Ellen, spent the week end in Waynes-
vile, the guests of Mrs. Ames'' aunt
/. and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Lewis
and family. Miss Betty Jane re-
NAMED for visit.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29

Husbands may have their rights,
but it's their wrongs" their wives
raise so much Hail Columbia about.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29
]. HI. ASHER AND GRANDSON
CELEBRATE JOINT BIRTHDAY

J. H. Asher and his daughter, Miss
Pauline Asher, are entertaining Mrs.
w. f. George and her son, Billy, of
Chattanooga, and the past week had
for their guests, Mr.. and Mrs. c. B.
Asher and their family, of Washing
ton, ID. c.
During the visit, Mr.. Asher cele-
brated his eightieth birthday which
occurred on the same date as the sixth
birthday of his grandson, Billy George
and in their honor, these additional
guests were present for family din
ner given by Miss Pauline Asher: Mr..
and Mrs r. H. Gittins, of Mt. Ster-
ling, and Mrs. c. A. Sayre.
~ ~
Bridgettes Club
Miss Alice Amrine will entertain
the Bridgettes club Saturday after
noon.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29
Young Family Reunion

The descendants of Frederick Young
and Lucinda Young will hold their an
nual reunion in the shelter house at
the Neff-Anderson Spring park, on
Sunday, August 7. Bring your bas-
kets we'll filled and your sweet dispo-
sitions and have one more good time
before corn cutting.-Committee.
The Thomas reunion will be held at
the Madison county fair ground, on
Sunday, August 14.-Bertha Taynor,
secretary.
The fifty annual Cosgray reunion
will be held Sunday, August 7th at
what is known as Henry Conrad's
place, one and one-half miles south
west of Jerome and one-half mile
north of Cyrus Freshwater home.
All relatives of the Cosgray family
are cordially invited to be present.
Please bring your table service
Grover Cosgray, Pres; Michael Dort,
secretary.
The Dominy reunion will be held
Sunday, August Il at Pastime park.
Bring plates, cups and silverware.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29
REUNIONS

The Plymell family reunion will be
held on Sunday, July 81, at the home
of c. A. Gregg, Kingscreek, Cham
paign county.
The Speasmaker family reunion will
be held on Sunday, July 81, at the
Neff-Anderson Spring park, near Mt.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-29

Stationerv-Printed or Plain. The
Madison Press Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

WASHINGTON, Aug, 12.- Ten
Negro workers were ordered held for
the grand jury yesterday in an at
tempt to frame them for the death
of Milo j. Kennedy, park policeman,
who died last Sunday of fractured
skull after attacking a group of Ne
gro workers on the street. The at
tack was part of a general terrorizing
drive launched against the Negro
workers Of this city as an after
math of the murderous attack by
the Hoover government on the war
vetreanS.
The jury Of white bosses, sitting
in an inquest into the death of the
police thug, charged Joseph Jackson,
Irving Murray and Ralph Holmes
with first degree murder. 1t Or
dered held as accessories Lewis
Murray, Henry Duvall, Leroy Robin
son, Leroy Brazier, CASTOR Baylous
and Walker Murray. 1t also named
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
HOW BUFFALO WORKERS RAISE
FUNDS FOR DAILY"

A comrade in Buffalo tells how
Buffalo workers are mobilizing for
the Save the DAILY" Drive. AT one
of our Buffalo unit meetings the ap-
peal for the Daily" was read. We
realized the danger in which our
paper is and the dire need for rails
ing funds Immediately. After dis
cussion of the possible ways of help
ing to save our paper, we concluded
that each member of the unit should
raise 81 by the next meeting in the
following manner.
Each member takes a block. He
gives out back copies of the Daily"
to the workers on the block and tells
them that he will be back the next
day at the same time. The next
day he discusses the paper with the
workers and appeals to them to con-
tribute their pennies, nickels and
dimes to Save the Daily" Fund. We
believe that it is far more important
for 1000 workers to give a nickel
each than for 100 workers to give
81 piece"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
International
Notes
PROTESTS AGAINST BUDAPEST
DOUBLE MURDER


VTENNA.-Short protest strikes
took place in Budapest against the
murder of Imre Sallai and Alexander
Fuerst, Hungarian Communist
leaders executed on July 29th.
Prior to the trial of the two Com
munists, large numbers of leaflets
were distributed in Budapest despite
the extraordinary precautions taken
by the police to prevent this. The
police succeeded in arresting only
two of the numerous distributors who
wore uniforms of the post Office en-
ployees.
Owing to the threateing attitude
of a large crowd which Immediately
collected, the two were able tc
make their escape amidst the cheers
of the crowd who prevented the
police from chasing them.
After our comrades Lassai and
Fuerst were executed the Central
Committee of the Hungarian Demo-
cratic Party issued a statement con-
demning the hanging as mot being
in accordance with humanitarian
principles" The main significance
of the statement was however the
appeal to the workers mot to take
any action in order not to endanger
the unity of the working class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
THE STRIKE SITUATION IN
BELGIUM

BRUSSELS.-The strike Of the
coal miners in the Linburg district is
continuing. Intense pressure is being
exerted by the authorities on the
foreign born workers in order to force
them back to work.
The efforts of the reformist lead
ership to persuade the coal miners in
the Liege sector to return to work
met with no noteworthy success.
The Communists are working hard
for the election of pit strike commit
tees and district strike committees
were already elected in a number of
districts including Charleroy and
Liege.
The police received reinforcements
in the districts affected by strikes.
The German Communist member
of the Reichstag, Sobotka, one of the
revolutionary miners leaders, was ar
rested together with an editor of az
Humanite" A number of prominent
communists were arrested in Brus-
sells.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
JObless Council Will
Boycott Calf. Goods;
Propose Other Tactics

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. 12.-
The Unemployed Council of Greater
Little Rock at its meeting August
voted to boycott all California pro-
ducts until Tom Mooney and the
Imperial Valley prisoners are re-
leased.
Editors Note while the inten-
ton back Of this decision of the IN
employed Council is a good and mill
tant one, a local boycott is neces-
sarily ineffective. The Unemployed
Council would do better to use all its
forces to rally mass demonstrations
to prepare meetings for the Mooney
campaign speakers, to send kilograms
demanding the release Of prisoners,
and to build its own ranks for other
action.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
HOOVER SILENT
ON BLOODY ACTS
Reports Program of
Starving Jobless
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

imperialist war.
u. S.-Japanese Conflict.
Stressing the virtues" of the Bri-
and-Kellogg Pact "outlawing" war
Hoover revealed the rivalry existing
between United States and japanese
imperialism. Without referring speci-
fically to the Japanese adventure in
North China where it came into con-
flict with United States imperialist
positions and aspirations, Hoover SAID
that he supplemented the Kellogg
Pact by Transforming it into an in
strument for mobilizing public opin-
ion against any aggressor.
The efforts of United States i'm
perialism to encourage the japanese
military preparations for war against
the Soviet Union while discouraging
the occupation of North China, were
indirectly indicated by Hoover when
he praised the principle that acqui-
sitions made through war could not
be recognized by the United States.
This principle did not commit
United States imperialism to any ac-
ton which called for the use of force
to maintain peace, declared Hoover
showing quite clearly that United
States imperialism is not concerned
about maintaining peace and pre-
pares for war.
Against this program of hunger
and war as outlined by Hoover, the
Communist Party offers to the work.
ers the program of revolutionary
struggle for social insurance, at the
expenses of the government and the
bosses, for defense of the Soviet
Union and China, against imperialist
war.
The workers muM rally around
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
MAN NOW DOES
TEN TIMES WORK
OF 5 FORMERLY
Communist Ell e ito n
Meeting Will Hear
Convention Reports

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug,
12.-Credentials for t h c
swarm of delegates from work
ers in steel mills and metal
manufacturing plants are
pouring into the national office
here of the Metal Workers In
1ustrial League. The dele
gates will open three day ses-
sion tomorrow here to form
the Steel and Metal workers Indus
trial Union. The latest credentials
received were from Birmingham, Ala
While this is going on, news comes
in of the bitter life of the steel
workers. James Kirk, go years old
committed suicide in hunger and
desperation in the town made famous
by the great Homestead strike years
ago. He did it as his fellow workers
were energetically planning the or
ganization for the next great strug-
gle. A local of the proposed Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
is already functicntng in Homestead
The Pittsburgh Steel Foundry at
Pittsbu1 IN has Just anncIiliced a new
system in its sheet mill, by which
one man produces go to 90 tons daily
as compared with FIVE men producing
EIGHT to nine tons daily under the
old style.
The meetings of James w. Ford,
Communist candidate for vice-presi-
cent, in the nearby steel towns will
be made rallies also for organization
of the metal workers. Reports of
the convention will be made in Ford's
Monday meeting, and his meeting
Tuesday at Bluthedale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

out Of Newark back to the South.
Mr. Puryear, weu-fed, well-paid
"liason" between the city government
and the Negro masses, is out to
round up Negro families for depor-
tation.
Mr.. Puryear's heart is touched BY
the suffering Of the Negro workers
in Newark. He does not like to see
them suffer poverty "in loneliness"
in the North, so he is going to help
them suffer poverty among friends"
in the South-the friends" of race
hatred and lynching terror. Mr..
Puryear is the one, through man
.oeuvering and soft-spoken threats, TO
persuade the Negro families to be
thrown out that it is better for them
to go voluntarily" than to go at
the point Of a policemans club or
gun. Thus, cover of Humanitarian
ISM" to carry through one of the
most atrocious policies against the
Negro workers.
But Mr.. Puryear is not alone.
There is now group of Negro BUSH
ness men, ministers, and politicians,
who, under cover of attack upon
Puryear for his open" support of the
Negro deportation policy, are giving
indirect support to the government to
enforce this policy This group is
not opposed to election Of the Ne
groes ION principle" 1t is, presum-
ably, opposed to deportation "by.
force" and deportation only to the
South, instead of to all sections of
the country.
Equally with Puryear, this group
of petty bourgeois reformists fight
against any call to the workers for
mass struggle. and thus serves the
purpose of the capitalists Just as
well. 1t differs from the Puryears
only in the methods to be used, and
with its skillful demagogey is even
more dangerous and must be the
more sharply fought.
communism oil ~ CdilS IOr FIgnLs
Only the Communist Party and the
Unemployed Council have raised
the clear-cut issue of uncompromis-
ing struggle against all forms of de-
portation of unemployed workers
from Newark, and mobilizes Negro
and white workers to fight for I'M
employment relief, unemployment
insurance, against all forms of dis
elimination against the Negro work.
ers.
A mass conference is now being
called in Newark, to mobilize the
Negro and white workers for united
struggle against the new deportation
scheme of the bankers government,
a scheme, which can be defeated
only by the mass action of the
workers themselves.
1t is especially necessary to make
this battle part of the basic strug-
gle against national oppression, for
absolute equality for the Negro peo-
plea struggle which will bring mas
IS of Negro workers into the reyo-
lutiOnary fight against the entire
capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
1000 Neav Readers Gained
in Sub Drive Since July IS
But 953 Cancelled Subs Reveal Big Weakness
in Drive Apparatus

of
readers
able lack OF funOnn
conditions
subscribing and reading the Daily
E Ns
The failure of the districts
last
S of
n
N
mi tant union
Is lin
" Wisconsin, This district formerly
Gently established of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

as accessories" two other workers
who have not yet been arrested
William Wood and Stanley Clark. 1t
gave orders for their arrest.
All of those charged with the Kill
ling of the policeman or as access
sories to the killing face the death
penalty under local laws. They are
being defended by the International
Labor Defense whose attorney Ber-
nard AIDES arrived in the city yes
terday.
Information obtained by the LID
shows that the dead policeman was
regularly terrorizing Negro workers
in the vicinity of the park at Logan
and Circle where he was killed.
The Washington Board of Trade
has issued a lynch Indictment call
demanding a "clean up" of Negroes
in the parks. Many homeless unem-
ployed. Many homeless Negro work
ers have nowhere else to sleep but
the parks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13

1 $4,000
estimated that over 80 per cent of
the Negro workers in this city are
unemployed, compared with an APP
proximate estimate of so per cent
unemployment for the city as a
whole, These figures give glaring
proof of the discrimination and spe-
cial oppression to which the Negro
toilers are subjected.
New Form of Discrimination.
Now a new form of discrimination,
a new method of oppression has been
devised by the bosses city officials.
who refusing to touch one cent of
the profits of the rich for unemploy-
ment relief, are busily searching for
new ways of throwing the burden of
the crisis more heavily upon the
shoulders Of the impoverished mas
ses, particularly on the shoulders of
the Negro workers.
Negro workers, out of whose bitter
toll and suffering huge profits have
been piled up for the capitalists, are
not Citizens of this fair city if they
have lived here less than five years.
Negro workers who came to Newark.
driven by hunger out of other states,
in the vain hope Of find.ng jobs, of
finding protection from the race
hatred and lynching terror of the
South, only to find themselves here.
as throughout the country, the OBJ
jects of severe persecution and op-
preston, are now to be thrown out
of the city like so much rubbish.
1t is said that there is a "law" of
Interstate Commerce prohibiting the
election of unemployed workers from
any city or state; but according to
Egan, Newarks red-baiting director
of public safety, "The police would
do the work." law or no law.
The capitalist class anticipates
sharp struggles of Negro and white
workers for unemployment relief, as
hunger and misery increase through
out New Jersey. Under the scheme
of deportation, militant Negro work.
ers can be singled out for attack,
and the threat of election from the
city held as a club over their heads
to prevent militant action.
1t is significant that while the first
public statement Of the policy indi-
Gated that Negro and white families
would be evicted, now the principal
emphasis rests upon Negro families.
BY this method the city government
hopes to divide the ranks of Negro
and white workers, set them against
one another, and thus place SER
ious obstacle in the way of united
struggle.
Urban League Backs Move.
To carry through this program,
the city officials have enlisted the
services of the New Jersey Urban
League, through its secretary, Mr..
r. L. Puryear. This bosses agency,
betrayer of the Negro people, known
nationally for its strike breaking ac-
tiVity, is now working hand in hand
with the police and poor departments
of the city to drive Negro families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
Spanish Workers Protest

DENVER, Col, Aug, 12.-The
Denver Spanish Workers Club en-
protested against the action
of Hoover calling the troops against
the ex-servicemen in Washington
and pledged to support the veterans
in the struggle for the bonus and I'M
employment relief A telegram Of
protest was sent to President Hoover
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
METAL WOr! TRS G.
PITTSBURGH Today
THE WORLD LOOK TO.
FORMING new UNION.
of Hunger, Suicide and Speed
IRE Already Being Organized
Credentials Pour in Along With
Up in Steel To, &c; New Loca.
Foster In Call To
Action To Miners,
Railroad Workers
CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE

lied for a while on the open and
undisguised treachery of the Rail
road Brotherhood officials" said
Foster, referring to the agreement Of
the officials to ten per cent cut
beginning Feb. LIST, of this year. This,
Foster pointed out, was in line with
the wage cutting plan of all indus
try up to the middle of this year.
1t proceeded from departmental to
direct assistance by the Hoover gov
eminent. But now when nation wide
slashes in the railroad workers pay,
and the second cut in the same
year, is intended, the Brotherhood
and A. F. of L. officials want to
pretend a little more than usual
to be "for the workers" President
Green of the A. F. of L. has pub
lished statement against the wage
cut" and the lesser officials of the
A. F. of L. and the heads of the
Brotherhoods will follow suit. The
Musteites and Socialists are in the
same class, for they approved of the
action of the Brotherhood officials
early this year while the latter we're
still pretening to oppose the February
wage cut on the railroads.
Foster brands all this as fake
show of resistance" and points to
cases, as in the mines and textile
strikes, where A. F. of L. officials
even lead strikes, in order to mis-
lead and betray them, and use very
radical and militant" phrases
meanwhile.
The Watson Parker law is ideal
for their purpose now Hiding be-
hind it, Green ard the Brotherhood
chiefs can shcIt to the skies against
the wage-cut. Meanwhile, the mex
orible government machinery will
grind along, month after month, and
produce the wage cut with all the
authority of the Hoover government
and the federal courts behind it.
Law
And the A. F. of l.. officials and
the Brotherhood chiefs are respons-
ible for the law. They got it passed.
Labor" official organ of the rail-
road shop crafts, went into ecstasies
over the law when it came before
Congress in May, 1926.
The law was framed, by their own
admission, by the labor bureaucrats
in session with the employers. The
1925 A. F.. of L. convention lauded
the Watson-Parker law as perhaps
the most pronounced progress made
this year."
The law itself dts official name is
Railroad Labor Act'D is an anti
strike law. Strikes are absolutely il
legal until the machinery Of the law
has run down, and any strike
against the decision is illegal after
that.
Prepare To Fight
The railroad workers must move
at once to avoid another wage-cut.
They must build their National Bro
therhood Unity Committee movement
in every division and shop and on
every railroad system. There must
be mass organization of the rank
and file for strike, against the will
of the A. F. of L. and Brotherhood
officials, against the wage cut. And
big Communist vote during the
progress of the Watson-P Parker ar
bitration will have powerful eff
feet. The slogan of the railroad
workers must be Against this fake
arbitration No wage-cut! Strike
against a wage cut"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
YoKINEN CONTRIBUTES

August Yokinen, once expelled from
the Communist Party for white
chauvinism but later readmitted
upon his changed attitude as ex-
emplif1ed by his activity among the
Negro workers, has contributed IS
to the Save the Daily Fund with
the following note:
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed you will find S. for the
$4,000 Save the Daily Fund. In the
fight for equal rights for Negro work.
ers, the Daily Worker stands in the
forefront. We cannot let the Daily
suspend" I want to take the OPP
portunity to say that I am glad our
Party has nominated James w. Ford,
a Negro worker, for vice president
Of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
FORD MEETINGS IN Mine TOWNS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
white workers, and of struggle for
the veterans bonus. The crowds Of
part-time workers and jobless greet
his words with cheers. Many of them
join the Communist Party, the Ma
tional Miners Union, and form new
locals for the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union, which will be
formed in a convention beginning
tomorrow in Pittsburgh.
Below are incidents from some of
the towns recently visited by Ford.
FOLLANSBEE, w. Va, Aug. 12.-
Over 400 miners and steel workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
Vets in Hibbing, MINI.
Deuounce Hoover And
Build Bonus Committee

HIBBING MINI, Aug. 1.-Two
hundred war veterans protested here
against the murder and the attack
on the war veterans in Washington.
When the speakers pointed out
that the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League is the only leader of the war
vets, and explained how they are
fighting for the bonus many vets said
this is the organization we want.
Plans are now being laid 20 organ-
lie Bonus Committee in Hibbing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-13
Washington Bosses Pushing
Murder Frame>Ub OF Negroes
Nine of Ten Held by Police Indicted, Jury Or
ders Arrest of Two Others
LID. Attorney Arrives in Behalf of Workers
Held On Charge of Killing Cop
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON D. C, L.
representing the International
the right the Washington
of
Col Peak
admission the the attorneys,
prevent their prisoners
Mass sentiment growing around the Patterson declared
"The death of Kennedy efdense climax
a sustained terror against Negro