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Evening star., 1932-03-21
JOLLY POLLY
A Lesson in English.
BY JOS. j. FRIsCH.
BY JOS. ]. FRIsCH.

M. G.. L.-"What kind Of business" is
preferred to What line of business"
Some grammarians severely criticize
this use of line" If you say Il like
any kind Of candy" instead of II like
anything in the line of candy" you
need have no fear of criticism
Bomb is pronounced bum" or BON"
Standard prefers the former.
Evening star., 1932-03-21
GOOD TASTE TO-DAY
BY EMILY POST.
What We Do.

,y ,he sIae Social Personality Of Hou,e .
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Handwriting
What It May Reveal.
By MILDRED MoCKABEE.
snu @.&uA Il
I G14 Aa~/

CLOSE scrutiny of this writ
ing apparently reveals that the
writer Is of a genial, friendly
L nature. The large "c's" would
indicate an Inreserved attitude
Evening star., 1932-03-21

MONG the questions most oIeei
asked me are those about Wnal
\ to do and say after being. an
\ troduced. Very often there isn't
Evening star., 1932-03-21
Complexion Blemishes.

~OMPLExION problems are fire.
4 quently due to some disorder of
the general health, and until
~ this Is remedied any local
treatments or cnSmeficS will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
F.S.U. CONDEMNS
GARMENT UNION
Calls Resolution an At
tack on USSR

NEW YORK.-Marcel Scherer, Ma
tional Secretary of the Friends of
the Soviet Union, today issued a sta
cement condemning the resolution
adopted by the Convention of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Workers
Union at Philadelphia, on May 10th,
as "camouflaged attack upon the
First Workers Republic"
1.-THE demand in the resolution for
the redlease Of political prisoners in
Soviet Russia is ridiculous" Mr..
Scherer stated.
I'm the United States there is legal
and extra-legal persecution of works.
and their organizations, with brutal
assaults upon meetings and demon
STATIONS, the falling of workers for
struggling against wage-cuts and the
actual murder, as for instance, at the
Ford gates last month, of unemployed
workers demanding jobs and food.
In contrast to this, in the Soviet
Union there is proletarian freedom
for all workers. Those who are in
prison are there for crimes they have
committed, for counter-revolutionary
activity including sabotage, graft and
violence directed against the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
MASS DEMONSTRATION IN STEEL
TOWNS AGAINST Is PC. SLASH

EAST PITTSBURGH. Pa, May II.
The best factory gate meeting held
here in many months was conducted
by the Metal Workers Industrial
League today-the subject being the
fight against the new wage cut com
ing at Westinghouse. Although the
cut has not yet been announced, it
is certain that one is coming
Less than G0OO are working in the
entire works here now. Last week 300
foreign-born workers were laid off
Only citizens are TO hold jobs-and
not SO many of them. The company
has on a drive to make statesmen Of
the workers. Every worker including
office employees, must sell at least
one Westinghouse product during a
certain period of time in order to
hold his or her job. A couple Of work
ers on the street corner today were
saying that they would have to go
to the Soviet Union in order to be
able to sell anything.
The MW1L will hold regular meet
ings at the Westinghouse gate at
least every two weeks on the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-The De-
Won Mills Incorporated, the mother
of the speedup system in New Bed
ford is now about TO lose its fame for
its speed up and wage cuts. The
bosses of the Devon exploited the
workers by their speed-up to- such
an extent that lots of the workers
had t. o quit their jobs so as to take
care of their health because they did
not have enough time to eat their
food and were finding themselves
dropping down to the ranks of the
many workers who are in the State
Sanitorium with T, B. These same
bosses who ruined the workers
health as we'll as their children are
closing up this factory on May 26th
and are putting from to 5000 work
ers on to the streets to add up, to
the ranks of the already 10000 starv-
ing workers in this city.
: The Devon Mill is the md biggest
mill in the United States owned by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
Attack JObIeSS in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Five Who Tried to
Speak Arrested

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,-A DEM
onstration to protest against relief
reduction, wage cuts, and evictions
was held at the City Hall in Grand
Rapids, May eth. In spite of raing
weather over one thousand attended,
Every comrade who attempted to
speak was instantly attacked by the
police. The workers were more mill
tant than formerly and a scrap fol-
lowed every time the police rushed
in to seize a speaker. Five comrades
were arrested. Comrade Killip, La
Verne Briggs, Everse and his daugh-
ter Nellie Everse Comrade Nellie
Everse was seized and choked by two
policemen, simultaneously a third
cop stood behind holding her helm
less; the crowd became angry and
yelled and booed the policemen. An
other speaker, Bennett of Galewood,
started to speak but evaded the poll
ice through the protection of the
crowd.
Relief has been reduced here TO
the point of starvation and the dem
onstration was called in the behalf
of the unemployed who have lost
lights, gas, fuel and haven't sufficient
food.
The demonstration was held under
the auspices of the r, U. U. L. and
the Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
NINU IN OHIO TO
PROTEST ARREST
OF KEMENOVTTCH
u rges Organizations
To Wire Protest
To Sec. Doak

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio.-Vince Ke-
menovitch, member Of the National
Committee of the National Miners
Union, has been arrested in Wheel
ing, W. Va, and held by the Immi-
grafton authorities under $4,000 cash
bail Kemenovitch has just been
released from Pineville, Kentucky,
where he has spent three months in
jail, charged with criminal syndical-
ism.
The arrest of Kemenovitch is one
Of the long list carried on by Secre-
tary of Labor Doak to deport all
militant workers who dare to fight
against wage cuts and starvation.
Kemenovitch was arrested during a
tour which was arranged by the Dis
trict Board of the N. M. U. in Ohio
to bring forth the militant struggle
of the Kentucky miners led by the
National Miners Union.
This arrest is part and parcel of
the attempt of the coal operators and
the U. M. w. A. to prevent the N. M.
U. organizers from bringing forth a
militant policy and exposing the U.
M. w. A. leadership, who are trying
to mislead the strikers in Eastern
Ohio.
The attempts of the coal operators
and Secretary of Labor Doak to
deport Frank Borich, National Secre-
tary, and Vince Kemenovich, member
of the National Committee, is an
attempt TO drive the National Miners
Union out of the field and establish
the u. M. w. A. in order that the
coal operators will be able to put
over wholesale wage-cuts.
The coal operators realize that as
long as the N. M. U. exists it will
carry on a campaign against wage
cuts and unemployment and lead the
miners to victory. The N. M. u.
District Board urges upon the local
unions to hold protest mass meetings
and send kilograms to Secretary of
Labor Doak and demand his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14


agency created by the Wall Street
politicians for the granting of two
billion dollar loan to the bankrupt
Sasiness of the country.
OF the $1,5OO,Oo0,0OO in additional
debentures which the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is empowered to
issue, only $3OO,Od0OOO is set aside
for loans to the states for direct aid
to the unemployed. y"
The ridiculously inadequate nature
of this loan. even granting that most
of it is not seized as graft by the
corrupt politicians into whose hands
it will be placed, is apparent when it
is considered in relation to the
100000 unemployed workers and
their dependents in the United
States.
On the impossible basis that the
entire sum will be used for relief
purposes and not for-oiling. the palms
of the local politicians as happened
in the case of the New York home
relief plan, the $30O,OO0,09O actually
amounts to merely $25 for each I'M
employed worker. The mach touted
Hoover relief plan does, not even pro-
vide for relief that will last for more
than one week.
Aside from another. 100000 which
is to be used for export agricultural
purposes meaning that it will be
used to subsidize the large capitalist
exporters of wheat, cotton and other
agricultural products, the remainder
of the 81 ,50o,0oo,00o WIN go directly
into the hands of private business
firms.
The bill provides that. this $780,
100000 "be leaned to private business
for reproductive enterprises, assured
by contract" This is merely camou-
flage under cover of which Wall st.
once again will use tire treasury to
help prop up the completely and
partially bankrupt industries.
There are no industries in the
United States which arc assured by
contract" On the contrary every in
dustry is experiencing a steady fall
in production.
Auto sales dropped as per cent in
the first quarter of the. year as COM
pared with the same period for last
year. The lumber Industry is oper-
ating at 25 per cent OF Capacity. The
steel industry is operating at "a per
cent of capacity. Leading stocks have
declined 16 per cent in March and
April.
1t is clear that the money loaned
TO industry will not be used-,t to set
the factories in operation, because if
there were any such possibility they
would have resumed operation long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

turned this helpless worker over to
the tender mercies of the Catholic
church for relief" And the parish
priest relieved" this family in the
following fashion;
He put the woman tsick with de-
spair and the terror of eviction to
as cruel a crosse examination as if she
had been guilty Of major crime and
he had been appointed the state
prosecutor. 1t seems that this mild
and frightened woman had married
her husband outside the church eight
years back; and for this Crime the
priest merciless probed, with a sadis-
tic delight, into every action of her
past life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
inc c1ass

ing class.
Those who are under the illusion
that civil liberties prevail in the
United States should take a trip to
Kentucky. Waldo Frank, Theodor
Dresser, Malcolm Cowley, Edmund
Wilson, and other prominent writer's,
as well as members of delegations of
students and professional people, are
this week testifying before Sena-
torial committee in Washington that
in the mining area OF Kentucky all
pretense of democracy has been abo-
lished, together with the elementary
human and constitutional rights of
the workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
HOLD ELECTION
CONFERENCE IN
HOUSTON, TEXAS
10 Texas Delegates
Elected to Chicago
Convention

HOUSTON, Texas.-Three dele
gates from working class organiza-
tons will be chosen at q workers con-
ference to be held here Sunday, May
18th at p. m. TIL conference is TO
be held at the LILA. Hall, All Smith
Street A. w. Berry, organization Sc
cretary of the tenth district of the
Communist Party, will speak at the
conference.
Workers will also come from Gal
weston and Port Arthur TO the con-
ference. The workers will also answer
the attack by the police on the May
Day meeting at the conference. Two
open air meetings are
down town and one at
the ship channels where many ship
ments of war material are being load
ed for Japan and France.
Ten delegates will go from Texas
to the Chicago convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
Wage-Cuts Every Two Weeks in Devon Mills

the Goodyear manufacturers. The
Devon mill produces some sort Of I
fabric that IS used for the most fam
Gus tires in the United States Good I
year Balloon Tires =
A few months ago the bosses Of
the Devon gave the workers in the
Twistef Room speed-up- from II
twisters to As. = +
The bosses are also giving the
workers a series of tremendous wage
cuts which started about two months
ago. The workers WHO two months :
ago received a pay Of $500 are now
drawing wages of $500. : One of the
workers that work there told me
that they have been getting wags
cut every two weeks. r also found :
out from another worker that the !,
last wage cut was, a5l5 per. cent cut.
Workers, Join the National Textile
Workers Union to fight against the Z
miserable conditions that the capi- :
talists are forcing Us to-lpe underl :
"A Young Textile Worker. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

day Of the week. 50 that th workers
can get used to dle time and make
arrangements to be present.
CLARION, Pa May l2. 49, In an
effort to prevent ztbe fight against
the wage cut from attaining mass
proportions, the company is spread
ing runors that The. entire, works will
close down here--both coke works
and steel works. e
The highest spirit in, years in evil
dent here, with the men smarting
under the wage cut.aAt the same time
a broad Scottsboro- defense move
ment is developing. The Clarion
workers are demanding a mass de-
monstration. and plans are going
forward for it.
Only q fighting alliance of the
white and Negro workers can stop
the bloody hands of the lynch bos-
see
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
LYNCH COURTS
TRY TO BLOCK
YUEL LEE APPEAL
Maryland Prosecutor
In New Legalistic
Trick

The case Of Fuel Lee COrphan
Jones') who was falsely accused Of
murder and convicted on framed
testimony has developed very in
teresting tricks in the technique of
the capitalist courts to railroad
workers to death if they can.
The case was appealed by the In
ternational Labor Defense after the
frameup verdict of death was reached
in the boss court. and the appeal
was certified and put on the docket
for next October. Then suddenly.
without warning, the state prosecutor
himsen-not the defense attorneys,
who are the proper parties to request
a case to be put ahead in order that
the accused shall not be held too
long in jail-the state prosecutor
himself advanced the case from Oc-
tober to May, so that the hearing on
the appeal will be tried in few days
instead of next fall. And, on top of
this, the prosecution is arguing that
the case cannot now be appealed
because the application for appeal
was not made within the time limit
specified by the county court regula-
tons. This means, if the claim that
the appeal cannot be granted be-
cause it was too late is allowed, that
Orphan Jones will be hanged with
out even the appellate courts deci-
sion on the legality OF the lower
courts procedure.
The general law allowed until April
l9, 1882 for the filing of an appeal.
The LID promptly filed it's appeal
for a new hearing on February 10,
two months before the final date
set. The application for the appeal
was accepted certified put on the
October docket for hearing in the
fall. But Bernard AIDES, who has
general charge Of the case. is in
Florida, defending the Tampa VIC
Tins. David Leyinson, who is in local
charge Of Fuel Lees case, is in the
hospital seriously ill, Obviously the
first move of the bosses lynch courts
is to advance the case and have it
tried right away.
But when they find that the trial
is being challenged on the question
of the fight Of Negroes to serve on
the jury, the prosecution sought for
still another scheme. They found
that a county regulation existed re-
curing the filing of an appeal within
a much shorter time than the gem
eral regulation claim that the appeal
cannot now be heard because it was
not made as soon as the country rule
prescribes, notwithstanding the fact
that the appeal has alredy been GER
titled and put on the court calendar
for hearing.
This filthy legalistic capitalist trick
must not be allowed to succeed. We
must defend Fuel Lee against the
boss frameup courts, Workers, Ne
gro and white raise your protest
again this dastardly attempt to
legally lynch this innocent Negro
workers. Build a tremendous mass
defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
BY DOUGLAS MCDONALD

Daily Worker Special Correspondent
The seven delegates and picketers
who were arrested staging a protest
against the continued Imprisonment
of Edith Berkman, in front of the
East Boston immigration Station,
were convicted of disturbing the
peace" and given individual fines of
from $40 to $50 by Judge Barnes.
About forty demonstrators were pick
citing the immigration station with
placards, while a delegation from
their group were attempting to inter
view Mrs. Anna TilIinghast, Commits
sioner Of immigration for the Boston
District, to present their demands,
when police drove them off the side
walk.
The Assistant Commissioner, Frank
S. Abercrombie, was standing outside
with the police and plainclothesmen,
and he told the delegates "the Com
missioner doesn't want to see you
people" But the demonstrators, re-
pulsed at Mrs. Tillinghast's door and
pushed off the sidewalk, militantly
continued parading in the street.
The police rushed them, arrested the
delegates, including Norah Burke, a
girl member. Of the International
Labor Defense, and one of the picket
ers, took them to the police station,
and held them for trial.
At the trial the demonstrators de-
Tended themselves without a lawyer,
Harold Nickerson, one of those ar
rested, acting as spokesman. In their
arguments and testimony the defen-
dants exposed the class character of
the court along with the Department
of Labor and the Bureau of Immigra-
ton, a part of the capitalist govern
ment and of the Hoover starvation
dictatorship of this country. This so
angered the judge that, despite the
fiimSy charge of disturbing the
peace"-disturbing whose peace? we
might ask!-he imposed on each one
a fine of $40, and extra fines on two
Of them, $50son Joseph Leeds for at
tempting to rescue a prisoner" and
$40 extra on Harold Nevins, student,
for carrying a placard.
All refused to pay the fines, but the
trial aroused so much favorable senti-
ment that sympathizers paid the fines
of al except Joseph Leeds, secretary
Of the Trade Union Unity League of
Boston, whose fine the defendants
refused to allow paid, because they
had decided to appeal his case as
part of the protest against the denial
Of the right to picket and demon
strate.
The other arrested comrades were
Albert Daniels, of the Unemployed
Councils, Charles Hayes, a Negro
worker from the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, and Allan Nevins and Allan
Lomax, Harvard University students
and members Of the National Stu
dents League.
At the same time that these COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

ago. Instead it will be used to pay
the interest on outstanding debts of
the various industries in order to
avoid further wave of bankruptcies.
A particularly despicable part is
being played in this gigantic attempt
to deceive the masses into believing
that the federal government is doing
something by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
Vol, Green and McGrady. who
laud this fake relief scheme, are the
most vicious enemies of a real strug-
gle for unemployment and social in
surance at full wages to be paid for
by the government and employers.
The A. F. of L. Central Labor Trades
Council of Minneapolis, with Is af1ll-
lated American Federation of Labor
locals, was expelled from that organi,
cation last week for endorsing the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
Trinidad Bars
The NegroWOr
from the Mails
Governor
Declares Paper
"Seditious"

PORT OF SPAIN, May 12.-In a
proclamation issued on April %, the
slave-driving governor of this Brit
ish colony, The Negro Worker" was
declared seditious and barred from
the mails.
THE Negro Worker is the official
organ Of the International Trade
Union Committee of Negro Workers,
with headquarters at Hamburg, Ger
many. The paper is published in
Hamburg and is edited by George E.
Padmore, himself a native of Port
Of Spain, Trinidad, British West In
dies.
The publication deals with the
problems confronting the working
class and the Negro toilers particu-
larly in the struggle against starva-
ton, imperialist war and imperiaist
robbery, looting and oppression of the
colonial masses.
Several months ago, the British
government inspired raids by the
German police on the headquarters
of international Trade Union Com
mlttee OF Negro workers at Hamburg.
Large amounts of literature dealing
with the problems of the colonial
masses was confiscated and destroyed
by the police.
Trinidad is one Of the largest col
onies of British imperialism in the
West Indies. 1t is a few miles off
the coast of Venezuela, South Amer
lea. Like most of the West Indies
islands 1t has suffered from a chronic
economic crisis, now tremendously in
tensified by the world economic
crisis of capitalism. Unem, -oyment
has grown by leaps and bounds. Suf-
fering is widespread, While the Brit
lsh Government has been forced to
pay an insignificant dole to unem-
ployed workers in England, the dole
is denied to the colonial masses in
this island. Destitute workers crowd
the streets, begging charity from the
diminishing tourist trade. Every
night hundreds of homeless workers
can be found sleeping on the side
walks, Suicides Of unemployed work
'ers and ruined peasants are greatly
on the increase. Prostitution is rife,
as hundreds of working class girls
are forced to sell their bodies for the
price of meal. Foreclosures of peas
ant holdings and the sale of homes
for back taxes are daily announced
in the bourgeois press.
THE Negro Worker points out the
revolutionary way out of this terrific
misery. 1t is for this reason 1.-THE
Negro Worker" is barred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
Communists Supervisor to
Ran for Commissioner

VIRGINIA. MINI Andrew Rome,
who was elected to the Board Of
Supervisors in Sturgeon Township on
the Communist ticket. has been
nominated by the Communist Party
as candidate for the st. Louis County
Board Of Commissioners from the
7th district in the primary elections,
St Louis County was the scene last
tall Of a Farmers Hunger March to
Duluth, the county seat, where they
were greeted by 5000 unemployed
workers in a demonstration at the
Court House Square, and a joint
worker-farmer delegation demanded
relief at the session Of the County
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14
Convict Leaders of Boston
Demonstration Demanding
Edith Berkman'S Release
Workers Expose at Trial, Class Character Of
Court and Labor Department. Demand
That Edith Berkman Be Freed

rades were disturbing" the peace of
the tyrannical immigration officials,
a delegation of fifty workers were
disturbing" the Secretary of Labor
in his private Office before a roomful
OF reporters-and the Secretary did
not dare to arrest any of them. In
both Boston and Washington the
demonstrators demanded the imme-
date and unconditional release of
Edith Berkman, now on the sixth
day Of her hunger strike in protest
against her continued illegal and
barbarous detention b Doak's agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

With all that over, lie demanded
that she produced her baptisrnal
papers (Which the frantic woman
cannot fnd), Then he threatened TO
investigate the truth or fa1sity of all
her statements, and in the mean
time this weu-fed priest left this
woman and her babies and her dis
traeted husband to face absolute star
walton and eviction And as a part
ing insult, he presented them with
statue OF his god and the blessing OF
the church
We workers gave the. case over to
the Unemployed CoanciI to see that
this worker and his family get city
relief and are not e9icted. /