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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
COURTESY TESTS
MAY Be DROPPED
Slash Threatens Civil Service
Rule on West Point and
Naval Candidates.

The Civil Service Commission will be
forced to discontinue the courtesy
service" it has extended to members of
Congress for many years by holding pre-
liminary examinations for their candl-
dates for West Point and Annapolis, If
the slash recommended in the current
appropriation for the commission is
carried into effect
This statement was made yesterday
by Thomas E. Campbell, president of
the Civil Service Commission. In COM
menting on the appropriation for the
commission, which is S115,000 less than
last year, as reported to the House yes
terday by the Committee on Appropria-
tons.
The appropriation requested for hold
ing these examinations for midshipmen
and cadets was $1,000 The commits
sion has been holding these tests under
an Executive order since 1907 and ap-
proximately ITS Senators and Repre-
sentatives have annually availed them
selves of this service The members of
Congress would pay the cost OF printing,
but the commission has absorbed in its
routine work the major expense Of pre-
pairing its examinations, holding and
rating them.
elimination Tests
These examinations have served as
elimination tests" for candidates for
the service academies and were for the
sole purpose of allowing the members
of Congress to choose a man to take
the entrance examinations when more
than one candidate sought this honor
Commissioner Campbell said that the
commission would be hard pressed to
carry on the work it is required to do
under the proposed cut and that it
would be compelled to eliminate any
operation that might be deemed cour-
tesy service to any other branch of the
Government. He recently canvassed
members Of the Senate and House on
this item OF expense and of the replies
received, he said, about 80 per cent ia
vored specific provision for this expen-
diture by Congress.
Campbell also expressed regret that
the House Appropriations Committee
had eliminated provision for finger
printing applicants for Federal posi-
tons from the civil service appropria-
ton bill.
Limit Of Fingerprinting.
The new appropriation bill limits fin
gerprinting to candidates for law en-
forcement positions. Under a new pro-
July, all applicants were fingerprinted.
AS a result of this, it was found that
1855 appointees in the seven-month
period ending January 81, 1882, have
police records. This brought about SO
removals on account of convictions and
n suspensions on account of false state
ments by applicants respecting their
arrests. Seven cases were reported for
action to the department for which the
appointee was employed and in 10 cases
no action was deemed necessary.
President Campbell emphasized the
value of the flngerprinting by pointing
out that in the majority of cases an ap-
pointee to the Federal service does not
have to undergo a character examina-
ton. Among the classes SO exempted
are postal employees, who handle val
liable mail.
The commission had asked for $4,000
to carry on that work for the next
fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

The third floor kingdom was locked
away from the rest Of the house. 1t
was simply an empty upper floor I'LL
ed with old-fashioned furniture
space dreary and forsaken, now that 1t
had lost the fame of its vigorous old
life.
Tomorrow-Ch Day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

Death was attributed to q heart attack.
He was IS years old.
Mr.. Carter, whose residence is at Of
tawa, was solicitor of public works for
the Dominion Of Canada. He had been
here about a month on q vacation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
{. E. CHRYSLER DIES

Brother of Automobile Manufac-
turer Had Been Long Ill.
LA JOLLA, Calf, March 4 (P.-
Edward E. Chrysler, so, former execu-
tive of the General Motors Corporation
and a brother of Walter P. Chrysler,
automobile manufacturer, died here
yesterday following an extended illness.
Because of poor health, Cnrysler re-
tired from the General Motors Corpo-
ration in 1918 and came to California.
He lived at Los Angeles until three
years ago when he moved to La Jolla.
His wife was at his bedside when
death came. He was born in Wamego.
Kans. private funeral will be held
in Glendale. Calf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

o. S. Jolly and several ex-naval on
GERS have left England in the auxiliary
yacht Valiant for q secret destination
on the Spanish Main in quest Of treas
ure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

The proposed movie theater in st.
Lazare Railway Station in Paris will
hold $50 people. and Commute pro-
grams will be given continuously from
9 am. until midnight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

The two Estonian brothers, Atho and
Y. Walter, for whom a Torouay, Eng
land, lfeboat searched while they were
safely asleep In their yacht, have re-
sumed their 7,000-mile world voyage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
DIES PLAYING CARDS
Canadian, on Florida Vacation
Victim of Heart Attack.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March
R.-Titus j. Carter died suddenly
while playing cards with members of
his family at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Joe S. Davis, here last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
GEN. MA IN NEW
SHAM FIGHT" ON
TOKYO MASTERS
Aimed to Behead
Growing Revolt in
Manchuria

A Peiping dispatch speaking OF the
reported revolt" of General Ma
Chen-Shan against his japanese
masters, quotes Ma as declaring that
the Japanese army officers. Colonel
Doihara and Colonel Zuzuki had re-
peatedly told their puppet Chinese
officials that "as soon as Japan con-
solidates her position in Manchuria
she will invade Soviet Russia and
also challenge the United States"
In circular telegram issued
throughout China by the traitor
General Ma, he quotes General Hon
10, Japanese commander in Manchu-
ria, as declaring Japan is deter
mined to keep Manchuria and will
not hesitate to declare war against
any country interfering in Manchu-
rian affairs.
General Mas declaration of "oppo-
sition" to the Japanese follows close
ly on the hells of widespread revolts
among the rank and file of his SOL
diers, who bitterly opposed his trea-
eherous support Of the robber aims
of the Japanese imperialists.
Mas present action is merely q
maneuver to deceive his soldiers and
to prepare the way for a new be-
trayal Of the national revolutionary
struggle which is gaining tremendous
strength throughout Manehurias
This maneuver is most likely car
ried out with the approval or even
at the directions of the Japanese for
the double purpose of arranging the
betrayal of the national struggle of
the Manchurian masses and of again
using General Ma for the purpose of
affording the pretext for another
Japanese advance in force into Heb
lungkian Province which borders the
Transbaikal and Anur regions of the
Soviet Union.
That Mas move is primarily di-
rected toward affording the Japan
ese a pretext for further troop mobil-
ization on the Soviet border, is
shown by the lying reports sent out
by Japanese official sources that Ma
had established his new headquarters
at BlagovestchenSk, which Is on So
Wet territory across the Amur river
from the Manchurian town of He
lampo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
MERGERS COVER
BANK FAILURES
Eight National Banks
Consolidated"

WASHINGTON, D. C.-That the
failure of banks exceeded the $40
admitted by government officials is
contained in the report of the wave
Of bank consultations that is sweep
ing the country.
News Of such failures is hidden
behind the swallowing up OF failed
banks by LARGER ones. Mergers to
the tune of s1525 900, were reported
for the week ended April 9th.
These mergers included eigh ma
tional banks in the south, west and
middle west.
The consultations indicate that
even the policy of the Reconstruct
ton Corporation OF lending huge
sums of morey to shaky banks with
out demanding adequate security has
failed in its purpose of preventing
bank failures.
The banks reported to have been
merged with larger ones include;
First National Bank of Statesboro,
Ca; First National Bank of Wood
burn. Ore; First National Bank and
Trust Co. of Marmaroneck, NJ Y;
Peoples National Bank of Victoria,
Texas; San Angelo National Bank,
San Angelo, Texas; First National
Bank of Dallas, Texas; Desert Ma
tional Bank of Salt Lake City; Beck
ley National Bank of Beckley. w. Va
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

to be given to each unemployed
worker by the Company.
4.--Free medical aid to employed
and unemployed stockyard work
ers and their families.
5.-No discrimination against
Negro and Mexican workers In
jobs, relief and medical aid.
6.--No investigators to be sent
to workers who report for relief.
mo part time or full time
worker shall receive less than IS
dollars per week.
S.-No deduction from pay for
accident insurance.
9.-7-hour day without reduction
in pay.
10.-SIowing down the deadly
speed-up. Two Is minutes rest
periods. One In the morning and
one in the afternoon.
11.-Equal pay for equal work
for Negro, women and young work
ers.
1.-THE right to organize. The
abolition of Company police and
the spy system.
l3.--AlI maternity cases to receive
half pay two months before and
after childbirth.
14.--The company to furnish free
of charge all tools, working clothes,
and individual towels.
15.--Unemployment Insurance at
the rate of full pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

law in 1924 and which proved conelu-
sively that even the politicians re-
cognized that the ex-servicemen had
been cheated during the war.-when
1t appears that this debt is now 10 be
paid, you let out squawk like a
stuck pig, and say that these men are
demanding that the government shall
feed them. You further state that
veterans had no right to demand any
form of relief and that they are no
more privileged to ask for q bonus
than the non-veterans.
Unemployment Insurance
We as veterans do not demand
anything that we consider the nom
veterans not entitled to. We are
firmly Of the opinion that all work
ingmen and women are entitled not
only to a form Of charity relief, but
to unemployment insurance to be
paid by these same bankers, indus
trialists, .racketeers who have accu-
mulated this vast wealth at the eX-
pense of the misery Of the working
class.
The gist of your editorial implies
that sick veterans only are entitled to
relief. We say that because of vast
unemployment the majority of vete-
rams Of to-day are suffering from
malnutrition and are not treated or
given the proper care while in gov
eminent hospitals, and therefore
there is no distinction, as practically
al veterans, if not directly the result
Of the war then due to the treatment
which they have received since the
war, are now sick.
We say that all veterans must be
paid this debt which is justly due
them, called the bonus, and we chal-
lenge you to print this letter in your
editorial column and to take a straw
vote in the city OF New York to de-
eide whether the majority of people
agree that this bonus shall be paid
or if they decide in favor of the
bankers, Hoover, your moron edi-
torial staff and the American Legion.
What your paper called us.
Signed:
Heroes of 1917 and 1918.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
scowrrwuEp rsoM PAGE ONE

aCoNE1NUED ENpM EAGE ONkp
for the working class" brought
cheers from the workers.
When the parade swung into IN
ion Square the veterans were joined
with several thousand workers who
filled the square around the speak
hrs stand Resembling cheers greeted
the speakers as they urged the vets
% spur the bonus fight by mobiliz-
ing mass veterans march to Wash
ington.
The main speakers at the Union
Square meet were S. j. SLENDER and
James w. Ford of the National Com
nnittee of the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League who appeared Thurs
day before the Ways and Means
Committee in Washington.
Stember Reads Demands.
SLENDER told how the leaders of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars joined
hands with the congressman in an
attempt todeny theworker vets the
right to speak before the committee.
Only the fact that the congressman
we're made aware by the delegation
that the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
represented the demands of millions
of veterans got Ford and Stemper
the floor.
etember then read the demands
mat we're presented to congress.
These were endorsed unanimously
by the meeting.
The demands follow.
1.-The immediate payment of
the balance Of the Adjusted Ser
vice Compensation commonly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

tack upon the I. L. D. for injecting
any race issue" was a deliberate play
into the hands of the lynch Judge,
McDevitt, and helped to convict
Willie Brown.
The International Labor Defense
condemns the verdict in the Willie
Brown case as an attack upon the
Negro masses. The frame-up on
Willie Brown is link in the chain
Of mass murder, lynching and perse-
cution of the working class in gen
eral, and the Negro masses in par
ticular, as eXemplified by the murder
Of four workers in Detroit, Harry
Simms in Kentucky, the attempts to
legally lynch Orphan Jones in Mary
boro, etc.
Only the mass protest of the work.
ers can save Willie Brown from the
electric chair. Send protest kilograms
and resolutions to Judge Harry Nc
Dewitt, City Hall, Philadelphia, de-
handing the immediate and uncon-
ditional release of Willie Brown
Rally behind the International La
Dor Defense to free Willie Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
Chi. Stockyard Workers Get
Permit for Hunger March

CHICAGO, Ill.-Yielding to the
mass pressure of the workers, the
Chicago police department yesterday
issued a permit for the stockyards
Hunger March to be held Tuesday,
April IS.
The march will begin at 47th st.
and Federal at 2 p. m. Tuesday af-
ternoon and will proceed along 51st
to Ashland and 43rd where a mass
meeting and demonstration will be
held at $3.50.
The parade and demonstration will
be led by the Packing House Union
and the Chicago Unemployed Coun-
Gil.
According to information received
at the headquarters of the Unem-
ployed Council yesterday, packing
house bosses from five major COM
PAM ls have conceded to grant a
hearing to the committee of unem-
ploye6 who will, lead the demonstra-
ton.
Thu committee VIII present the de-
mands Of the workers to company
representatives at Ashland and 43rd
Street, backed by militant demon
strations of the masses.
The demands of the stockyard
workers are as follows:
Jobs for all laid off workers.
5.-Immediate payment Of
lump sum Of $4,000 relief.
3.-Ten pounds of meat weekly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16

The Willie Brown case has come
at a time of sharpening class strug-
gle. The working class, faced with
starvation and misery, is fighting
back the attempt of the bosses to
reduce them to pauperism. They are
fighting against the hunger program
of Mayor Moore and his administra-
ton. The Negro workers are join
ing nilitantly in this fight, uniting
with the white workers. 1t was
necessary for the bosses to destroy
this unity and to create an atmos-
phere of race hatred which would
split the ranks Of the working class
and defeat them in their struggles
The murder of Dorothy Lutz took
place. Immediately the agents of the
bosses "got on the job" to find VIC
tim from among the Negro masses.
Assistant Superintendent of Police LIE
Strange came out with a statement
that Negro" must have committed
the crime. The newspapers began a
campaign against this Negro" muir
derer of whom there was no trace.
Several days later, Willie Brown was
picked up on the street by a detec-
tive and after SO hours of torture
and threats of lynch mobs was forced
to make confession" The propa-
ganda against the Negroes increased.
According to the capitalist news
papers, lynch mobs were roaming the
territory where the family of Willie
Brown lived, although no such thing
took place. In this atmosphere of
lynch spirit. Willie Brown was
brought to trial.
The courtroom was likewise filled
with this lynch spirit No workers
were allowed to attend. Negroes
we're barred from the jury. Judge
McDevitt refused to allow any facts
to enter the case which would ex-
pose the brutal third degree methods
used by the police in obtaining the
confession" Judge McDevitt charged
the jury, telling them to find Willie
Brown guilty. In the meantime the
office of the International Labor De-
tense was raided, four workers ar
rested and the leaflets exposing this
frame-up we're confiscated. Mass
meetings for the Brown defense we're
broken up by the police. and any
exposure of the frame-up brutally
suppressed.
IN The other hand, the defense at
torney for Willie Brown, Mr.. Ray
mond Pace Alexander, has once more
exposed teh role of the Negro re-
formists as the hangmen of the Ne
gro workers. The atetmpt OF Alex
ander to confine the case to that of
.vese "ie al matter, and his at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
The Daily Worker
Wants to Hear from
Munitions Workers

The following are a few Of the
American concerns that made
millions on the manufacture of
munitions and arms during the
last war:
American and British Co,
Bridgeport, Conn. (shrapneI,.
Fore River Ship and Engine
Co, Quincy, Mass. (shrapneD.
Federal Arms Co., Washington
d. c. (Armor piercing proiec-
tIes.)
Union Metallic Cartridge Co.,
Bridgeport, Conn. rifle and
rapid fire ammunitiOn)
Winchester Arms Co, New
Haven, Conn. Small arms and
smmunitionl
Disston Saw Co., Philadelphia,
Pa. (Swords)
The Daily Worker requests that
workers working in these plants
write us telling about working
conditions and about the war
material that is being produced
there today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
MASS-MEETING
TOSCORE TERROR
IN TENNESSEE
Protest Against Raid
ing of WIR

NEW YORK, April 15.-More than
q dozen mass meetings scoring the
raiding Of the Workers International
Relief headquarters in Knoxville by
masked gan9sters have already been
arranged throughout New Jersey
and Massachusetts with more pro-
test demonstrations being arranged
hourly, it was announced by the Ma
ton Office of the WIR yesterday.
Bill Dunno, Of the Daily Worker
John Harvey, recently jailed for Nae
tional Miners Union activities in
Kentucky and Tennessee, cIarina
Michaelson, WIR organizer who was
held in Pineville Jail, and a member
of the Kentucky students delegation
viii be the main speakers at the r.
wing Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
Street on April 18th, at 2 p. m
The Massachusetts, schedule OF
protest meetings is as follows: Law
renee, April IS; Chelsea, April II;
Norwood April 10, and Worce~ter,
April TO- Boston plans main dem
onstration, date TO be announced.
The workers Of New Jersey viii
raise mighty protests and pledge to
continue the task Of building the
WTR at meetings in Lakewood APP
Ri IL; Newark, April IS; Plainheld,
April IT; Paterson, April 2osoPrince-
ton, and afternoon Of April "a; Tren-
ton evening of April %. fs
All branches Of the WIR are send
ing kilograms and letters ofvprotest
to Governor Horton Of TenEssee,
holding him personally responsible
for the safety Of the Workers In
ternational Reliefs members and or
ganizers in the State. The NaIion7l
once Of the WIR, In a telegram sent
to Horton, demands the Immediate
cessation OF provocative measures of
the Knoxville and State police and
the immediate suppression Of armed
gangsters and hoodlums."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
N. Y. WAR VETS IN BIG PARADE
DEMAND FULL BONUS PAYMENT

known as the bonus, to be paid
I'm cash and in full, plus all inter-
est that had been deducted from
the war veterans who had already
made loans.
1.-The immediate removal of
the two year restriction clause.
S.--PaymeDt of this money to be
in such form and in such way that
the full value Of the money will
be received and that In no way will
the war veterans be forced in any
position to discount his payment,
either at banks, loan associations,
etc.
4.-Disabled war veterans to be
permitted to choose their own
physicians at the expense of the
government.
James w. Ford, a Negro war vel
and member of the delegation tc
Washington, was the last speaker.
Pledge to Defend u. S. S. X.
Ford pointed out that the strug-
gle of the veterans was only part OF
the fight of the working class against
starvation and imperialist war
when 1 was asked down in
Washington" said Ford, ''if 1 would
fight again II war broke out, told
the congressman that would fight
but for the working class against
the capitalists
This statement was cheered for
several minutes by the masses OF
workers and ex-soldiers and sailors
Ford declared that the world was
on the eve of an imperialist war
against the Soviet Union. When
he asked if the vets would defend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-16
Veterans Score Stand
of Capitalist Press
on Tombstone Bonus
Say Veterans Must Join with Unemployed in
Fight for Unemployment Insurance
Challenge Editor to Take Straw Vote on Bonus
Question

Editorial Note-The following let
ter was sent to the editor of the
Daily News" by a group of nine
eX-servicemen who fought in the
last world war. The editor of the
News" refused to print the letter.
The veterans upon learning that the
Daily Worker" is carrying on a
fight for full and immediate pay
ment of the bonus, have asked us
to print their letter. The letter fol-
lows;
New York City.
Editor of the Daily News
Your Editorial Of March 81, 1881
proves clearly that you are either
DESTROYS of confusing the minds Of
your readers, or that you are ignor-
ant of the true facts concerning the
Adjusted Compensation Act, or Bonus
as you seem to prefer to call it
Further you deliberately misstate the
attitude of the millions of veterans
toward this so-called Bonus"
In this editorial you state In part
that Ito pay the bonus in full nov
would cost the government about two
billion dollars, thus doubling the
Treasury deficit"
This statement not only distortS
the facts, but also shows your defi-
mite partiality toward the parasitic
bankers, profiteers and racketeers
who accumulated millions and billions
during and since the last war while
the millions of workingmen were
Fighting for Democracy" at a dol
lar day or less.
Two Billion for Bankers.
When the two billion dollar appro-
priation for the poor bankers was
enacted as a law, just recently, a. the
instigation Of our beloved president
MIR. Hoover, chief flunkey of the
bankers of Wall Street and also with
the aid OF various editors of the
public press,--did you say that the
country was facing ruin? Certainly
not.
But when millions of men raise
their voice, demanding that which
rightfully belongs to them, namely
the bonus, which was enacted into