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The Washington times., 1933-05-08

BALTIMORE, May 8-Date for
the execution of Fuel Lee, also
known as Orphan Jones, Eastern
Shore colored farmland convicted
of the murder of Green K. Davis,
of Taylorsville, will be set by
Governor Richie "in a day or
two"
The death sentence pronounced
by the Baltimore county circuit
court last october % was affirmed
by the court of appeals April s..
Counsel for the convicted man
will appeal to the U. S. Supreme
Court, Governor Ritchie has been
informed. The governor said he
will not set an early date for the
execution, as he does not want to
change it later because of ap-
pelate proceedings.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
Debs Awaiting
Bow at Court
Not TO Smoke
MRS. STAFF ORD

LONDON, May 8 Q.N.s).
American debutanteS and ma
irons waiting to be presented
to King George and the Queen
at Buckingham Palace in
Thursdays court reception will
be forbidden to smoke, it was
disclosed today.
It was understood this re-
striction was directed by the
royal couple, who are said to
consider it undignified for
women and girls in court dress
to puff cigarettes while sitting
in automobiles waiting their
turn to curtsey before the
King and Queen.
This year, instead Of being
compelled to wait outside the
palace gates, the automobiles
bearing the socially elect to the
browning point of their careers
will be permitted to line up
inside the palace quadrangle
and forecourt.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
TIME EXTENDED
FORFERRY

An extension of time for the
commencement and completion of
construction of the ferry across
Chesapeake Bay between Chesa-
peake Beach and a point near
Hudson, Md, on Trippes Bay, was
granted the Chesapeake Beach
Railway Company by the Inter.
state Commerce Commission.
The railway company was given
until November / next to begin
construction Of the project, and
June 30, 1885, to complete it.
The extension was the sixth
given the company since it under
took the project August i, 1890.
The commissions order stated the
extension had been granted "for
good cause shown
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
j. 8. JOBS BILL
DUE TOPROvE
BOOMERANG
Residents of District, Four
States Would Lose Out
Under "Trick" Clause

The tricky apportionment pro-
vision in the independent offices
bill, which appears to have been
inserted inadvertently by a Rep
resentative from Iowa, which
State will suffer from it, will be
opposed vigorously, it was evident
today, but it may be harder to
get it out than it was to get it in.
Under the provision, residents
of the District, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, Iowa and Vermont who
have jobs in the classified depart
mental service would be among
the first to go in a reduction of
force. 1nasmuch as raising the
question of jobs at this time,
when hungry constituents are
clamoring for them, may have the
effect of getting members of Con-
gress to try to satisfy the de.
mand, the scheme may find con-
siderable support.
Old Question Up
II raises anew q question that
was aired five years ago, in an
investigation of the Civil Service
Commission by a select committee
OF the Senate. That investigation
was inspired by former Senator
Helm of Alabama, who wanted
to know why the District had so
large a representation among Fed
eral job holders.
1t showed that District neonle
came in largely during the boom
times of the World War, when
residents of Mr.. Heflin's State
and others were making too
much money to be interested in
Government jobs. Consequently,
District applicants were the only
ones available and they got the
jobs.
Another factor, which also re.
appeared in the boom times of
1927 and 1928, was that there
are a great many poorly paid
jobs in the Government service,
and applicants do not care to
cross many State lines to get
them. Young people living in
their parents homes in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia
could take them, and did.
Peak After War
District jobhoiders in the civil
service reached a peak shortly
after the war, then the number
declined. A new and higher
peak was reached in 1928.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
ADVERTISEMENT
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed in
the Morning Karin to Go

II you feel sour and sunk and the world
looks punk, don't swallow a lot Of salts.
mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing
gum and expect them to make you suddenly
sweet and buoyant and full Of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only move the
bowels and q mere movement doesn't get at
the cause. The reason for your down-and-out
feeling IL your liver. It should pour out two
pounds Of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
II this bile il not flowing freely, your food
doesn't digest. 1t just decays in the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have o
thick, bad taste and your breath is foul,
skin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head
aches and you feel down and out. Your whole
system 10 poisoned.
Il takes those good, old CARRIERS
LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
pounds Of bile flowing freely and make you
feel up and up" They contain wonderful,
harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing
when it comes to making the bile flow freely.
But don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Carters
Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Carter's
Iittie Liver Pills On the red label. Resent q
Substitute. SSc at al stores. 9 1881 C. II. Co.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
FALSE Teeth
"Stay Put" Says Druggist

with my gums gradually shrinking
had difficulty keeping my plate in
position with various denture powders.
Most of them lasted only few hours.
Now 1 use FASTEETH and what diff
ference! T now wear my plate for "a
hours with absolute security and COM
fort. Fasteeth does not wash away or
become thinned out, but STAYS PUT
until I am ready to remove plate.
FASTEETH is tasteless. Does not sour
or cause foul breath. Holds false
teeth all day long.
Accept only FASTEETH to enjoy
false teeth comfort like you've never
had before. Ask for FASTEETH at
Peoples Drug Stores or any good drug
store.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
Forest Corps Starts
NiQht School Course

LURAY, Va, May 8.-Night
school for 200 Conservation Corps
men begins at Camp Roosevelt
tonight with a lecture by Capt
Henry Wilkinson on Russia. A
talk on forestry will be given
tomorrow night by w. C. Slice.
superintendent of forestry pro-
jects. Wednesday night Charles
Champman, principal of the Lu-
ray High School, will talk on
American history.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
Press TO Pay Honor
To E1aUOu BOLUers

Claude G. Bowers, United
States Ambassador to Spain, will
be rendered a farewell luncheon
by men and women representing
the press of America.
The luncheon will be given in
the Waldorf-Astoria, New York,
tomorrow at noon, with Arthur
Brisbane, of the Hearst papers,
one Of the principal speakers.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
NERVOUS

keep any food on my stomach" said
Mrs. Katie Mahaney of Ali Pennsyl-
vania Ave. 81 used about three bottles
of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in
all and it built me up and strengthened my
entire system. It drove away that nervous,
weary condition and gave me wonderful re-
lief from the stomach complaint. had a
good appetite after its use and was not trou-
bled as before with Indigestion
Write to DR.. Pieree's Clinic, Buffalo,
N. Y, for free medical advice.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
3 Schools to Meet
At GLeHln1Ont Fete

Three schools, Laytonsville,
Colesville and White Oak, will be
guests at the annual Community
Day of the Glenmont School May
10, it is announced.
The Parent T teacher Association
is to hold its meeting Thursday
night.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
Clarendon Citizens
Studu POWer Rates

Discussion of proposed public
utility matters will occupy the ses-
sion of the Clarendon Citizens AS
ISOLATION tonight at their meeting
in Democratic headquarters in the
Rucker Building, Clarendon. Two
speakers will discuss electric
power rates in Arlington county,
according to j. V. Swecker, presi-
dent.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
Mrs. Charles Wood
To Talk on Travels

Mrs. Charles Wood, noted
traveller and lecturer, and wife
of DR.. Charles Wood, associated
with the Church of the Covenant,
will give an illustrated lecture,
"From KaShmir to SIAM" Wednes-
day at $3.50 p. m. in the Mayflower
Hotel. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
is one of the patronesses for Mrs.
Woods lecture.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
TOMATO ACREAGE

Reports of canning firms and
growers indicate the acreage Of
tomatoes in Maryland this year
will be about the same as was
harvested in 1882, $4,000 acres, it
was said today at the extension
service, University of Maryland.
The Washington times., 1933-05-08
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These are symptoms which often harass rum
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that S.S.S. is very useful.
Modern medical research stresses the need of
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Don't take chances. Infectious diseases strike
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SS.S. is proven Tonic by experience for
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The Washington times., 1933-05-08
ADVERTISER EMIT
INDIGESTION

Cumberland, Md.
II was in a
dragged out condi-
ton, couldn't sleep,
was very nervous and
irritable and W S
weary and WORKOUT
all the while. / suf-
fered terribly from
snGl:nnnAsoA na.a1l..1L
The Washington times., 1933-05-08

ADVERTISED EMIT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22

class. But, unlike Tom Mooney, he
is not yet convinced that the key
to his freedom is to be found only
in militant and well organized mass
pressure of the working class, to-
gether with those intellectuals, lib
erals and others who sincerely sup
port the struggle for the release Of
Mooney and Billings.
This is the reason why Billings
has not yet associated himself with
the courageous and militant appeal
issued to all working class organiza-
tons by Tom Mooney--an appeal
for united front Of struggle which
alone can break the determination
of the California bosses to hold
Mooney and Billings in prison.
When told about the new trial
which Tom Mooney had won, Bill
Ings did not Immediately declare
his intention to ask for q new trial
for himself. But there can be no
doubt as to his intense interest as
to the outcome of that trial and
the effect it will produce. Neither
will Billings fail to notice the de-
velopments which brought about
this new trial for Tom Mooney.
FREE TOM MOONEY CONGRESS
1t is not an accident that Tom
Mooney was granted this trial on
the remaining indictment against
him, shortly after he had issued
his call for the Free Tom Mooney
Congress" to be held in Chicago,
and at q time when hundreds of
organizations and tens of thousands
Of workers rallied in response to
local united front conferences in
preparation for this Congress-
The struggle for the release of
Mooney and Billings Is now being
developed on the most extensive,
the broadcast and most militant
basis in the history Of the case.
Hundreds of thousands of work
ers, veterans, and farmers, fighting
against the Roosevelt Wall Street
hunger program, know that the is
sizes involved in the case of Mooney
and Billings are tnseparably linked
with their own interests, and with
liRG SllCltS SSIubs1G VI G1iS bOLilIlS
masses against capitalist terror, OPP
preston and exploitation.
This is exactly the reason why,
despite Governor Rolph's declara-
ton that the Mooney case was
"closed"-the California courts
have been compelled to grant a
new trial for Tom Mooney.
WOULD BAR NEW TRIAL
If mass pressure is strong enough
to block the present efforts of the
prosecution to bar the new trial
for Mooney, If this mass pressure
is increased 20 such an extent as
to make this new trial a means for
mobilizing additional millions for
the struggle to free Mooney and
Billings-then a new trial for Bill
ings can also undoubtedly be re-
allied, as another step for the COM
plete smashing up of the frame-up.
One thing is certain. The name
OF Billings has become inSeparable
from the name of Tom Mooney and
the entire case. The fight to free
Mooney is the fight for Billings as
well.
The working class will not relax
It's efforts In this fight until both
are free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22
p. C. OxMAN,

shoppers and had bought with cold
cash the leaders" of the A. F. l..
electrical workers union. The strike
was fought not only against the
employers, but also against these
traitors In the labor movement.
During the course of this strike,
in 1912, the first attempts OF the
bosses to frame Tom Mooney were
made. They succeeded in planting
a suitcase full OF dynamite on Bill
lingS, and railroaded him to Fol-
som prison for two years. But at
tempts to frame Mooney in the
same manner failed. The bosses
redoubled their efforts to get"
him.
PIONEER IN MASS DEFENSE
Clumsy attempts we're again
made to frame Mooney in 1918 and
1914, when he was active not only
as strike-leader, but was also the
outstanding figure in the old Work
ers International Defense League
Mooney did pioneer work in build
ing up a working-c class defense or
ganization in this country to protect
militants from the class justice of
capitalist courts. He was in the
lead in the defense of Joe Hill,
framed and executed in Utah; Ell
tor and Gioyanniti, leader of the
Lawrence textile strike; Ford and
Suhr, railroaded to prison in Cali
fornia for their activities in an
agricultural workers strike.
But all attempts to frame Mooney
failed until 1916. In the early part
of that year the employers Of Cali
fornia modified all their forces
for what they hoped would be a
final smashing drive against the
unions in general and the militants
in particular. They were preparing
for war, and they saw as their first
task the crushing Of al working
class resistance to the imperialist
slaughter
A SpeciSl meeting of the Chamber
n of Commerce of California was
called, so-called Law and Or
der Committee" was set up, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22

diately brought him into conflict
not only with the reactionary,
graft-ridden bureaucracy of the
American Federation of Labor, but
also with the conservative, middle
class leadership of the Socialist
Party. He soon dropped out of the
last organization, and devoted him
self to trade union activity.
The bosses of California at the
time we're engaged in vicious
onslaught against the working
class; it was the California open
shop war, and it was being fought
by the bosses with a bitterness and
a fury that was to come to a grim
climax six years later with death
sentence for Mooney.
LEADS MILITANT
SHOE STRIKE.
The A. F. of J.. officialdom was
working hand in hand with the
bosses. Tom went into the unions
as an agitator and an organizer
of the left wing. He built up or
ganized opposition groups and Gre
ated a network Of contacts with
militants not only in the state but
nationally as well. Gradually all
the revolutionary elements began to
crystalline around Mooney as the
central leader. Under his direction
a monthly paper, THE Revolt,
began to appear.
WARREN X. BILLINGS, a young
W shoe worker, was drawn towards
Mooney, and when the San Fran
cisco shoe workers went on strike
in 1911, he called on Tom to lead
them, Billings became his closest
co-worker. The shoe strike was
fought with militancy that in
spired the workers of the entire
city, and when it was won, Mooney
emerged as the outstanding figure
in the local labor movement.
The electrical workers, employees
of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co,
went on strike next and asked
Mooney to lead them, which he did
gladly. The P. G.. and E. was one
of the most vicious of the open
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22

ing sentence on the same charges
OF criminal syndicalism.
We saw Mooney that first day,
as we were waiting to be finger
printed and given g prison number.
we recognized him from his pic
ture; of medium height and we'll
knit. His hair was thinning and
turning gray, but his eyebrows
were still bushy and black. He had
been behind bars then for four
teen years, and we had expected
to find him broken in health, be-
cause we knew even before we got
there that prison beans and stew
and prison labor didn't make for
physical well-being.
But Mooney surprised US, SIN
robust, he walked with q firm,
springy step. His back was as
straight as rod, and he carried
himself with g. bold confidence
which was ample proof that four
teen years had only strengthened
his determination to fight against
the frame-up system Of capitalism.
WHY BOSSES HATE MOONEY
This vas cur impression from
afar. When we met him, and shook
his hand, and talked with him, we
understand more fully why the
bosses OF California hate this
worker with bitterness and q fury
that only q dying class fearful OF
its existence can display. Ths
forcefulness and vigor of Tom Moo
ney, his dynamic personality, his
courage and audacity, make him
a natural leader, leader Of such
integrity, Steadfastness and power
that the bosses hate him with an
intensity born Of fear and despera-
ton. .."77
THE qualities Tor which the bos-
L ses hate Tom Mooney are the
very ones which inspire the work
ers' admiration for this victim of
class justice. His militancy, his
consciousness and his unswerY-
ing loyalty to the working class
more than qualify him for the role
he has come to play: the symbol
Of the revolutionary working class,
its aspirations, and--ltS oppression.
He was expecting us, saw lis when
we came through the great steel
front gate thanked by guards and
covered by machine gun towers,
the same gate that had changed be-
hind him so many years before.
He greeted us with mingled
pleasure and sorrow: glad to see
militant workers with whom he
could talk. yet sorry TO see them
behind prison walls.
WARNS OF STOOLPIGEONS
He took us around, introduced us
to Jim Mcnamara and Matt
Schmidt, serving life sentences fol-
lowing the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion, Mcnamara with twenty
one years in a prison cell, still fiery
and confident Of the ultimate VIC
tory of the working class
For each of us Mooney had a
box with razor, soap and tobacco
things that he knew we would
need and which he had collected
for us before we had arrived. And
he gave us good advice, about
stoolpigeons, etc.
After the first few days we did
not see him very often; his work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22
Labor Sports Union in Street
Rams for Scottsboro>M Mooney

NEW NDRk. Scores of athletes
all over she United States will come
out into the streets in Free Tom
Mooney -Stottsboro Boys Street Runs
throughout many cities of the United
States, the Labor Sports Union ma
tiona1 oface announced here. Ath-
letes viii run with the slogans pinned
on their Jerseys: Free Tom Mooney!
Free the Scottsboro Boys!
Probably the most dramatic OF the
street runs will be that scheduled for
Hsrlem,s the densely populated Negro
section, OF New York. This run, TAX
ing place Saturday the 2sth, exactly
the same date as the opening of the
Free Mooney Congress in Chicago,
will include some of the best run
ners in the city. Athletes from
Amateur Athletic Union clubs and
Labor Sports Union clubs will COM
pete. If1iar Prim, former national
A.A.U. 5000 meter champ, will prob
ably take part. The run is being
held under the auspices Of the East
srn District of the Labor Sports
Onion and will start from the Vesa
A.C. clrty house, Is w. 126th st.
r. L. Doherty, sports editor OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22
Fate of Warren Billings
Tied Up with Tom Mooney
Imperial Valley Prisoner Gives Portrait Of
Warren K Billings

The prison population is COM
posed mostly Of those who had
served in prison two or more times.
Those who enter Folsom, come in
to stay for minimum of two years,
These factors, in my opinion,
have had a great bearing on the
views and opinions which Billings
has held in the course Of these
years Billings associates himself
Fundamentally with the working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22
BY CARL sKLAR.


FOLSOM PRISON, where Warren
/ K, Billings is confined, is To-
catedl;in the Sacramento Valley,
California, about 100 miles inland
from she Pacific Coast. A heavy
stone wall, clamped like a horse
shoe.ragainst the side Of the rocky
American River, encloses the cell
blocks of Folsom which holds 5000
prisoners.
Billings entered the prison at the
age Of %, and there he has spent
II Of she best years of his life.
On June IS, 1880, T. Horiuchi,
Japanese worker, and 1, both OF US
convicted for our efforts to organize
a union of agricultural workers in
the Imperial Valley, and sentenced
to serve three to forty-two years
in Folsom, were taken through the
same prison gates which Billings
had entered so many years before.
About the same time six Of our
comrades in the Imperial Valley
case were entering the San QUEEN
tin prison to become fellow-p prison
ers with, Tom Mooney.
We were, of course, eager to meet
Billings. Prisoners told us that he
was working in the prison laundry.
We came up to the fence which en-
closes, the laundry yard and asked
one Of the conyicts to call Billings.
A few minutes later, on the other
side of, the fence, stood Warren K.
Billings,. whom we Immediately rec
ognized from the many photo
graphs we had seen.
WARREN X. BILLINGS
In front of us stood a short. sturdy
man, about 5 feet, inches in.
height, with blond hair and blue,
eyes, beaning good nature. In the
two years we spent with Billings,
we found this good nature and in,
domitable spirit to be one Of his
outstanding characteristics. His
quick firm movements and ready.
speech immediately stamped him
as q nam OF great energy, and this
impression was also confirmed as
we csTiae to know him better in the
months and years that followed
vc,r-,
DIGFTTS9or political prisoners are
II not recognized in Folsom prison,
as they are not recognized any,
where else in the prisons of the
United States. But the prison it
self is such as to impose special
hardshps and restrictions upon the
prisoner!
FOLSOM. is prison for SECOND
timers those who had been con
victed two or more times. Prison
regulations are especially stringent,
and Billings has been no excep-
ton.
These circumstances have greatly
restricted his contact with the OUT
side world, and have, in effect,
practically isolated him from his
friends and the fighters for his
freedom in the labor movement.
Not only, the established prison
rules, but. also the very character
of the prison itself is such as to
greatly increase the effects OF $50
lstion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22

C. oN leading witness against Mooney told
bomb the Of the explosion though later
he 30 miles This letter friend
brbed by the frsme-up The letter xeeAss
Ed Rigan
GRANVILLE,
Ed
Has been long time hurd n. I q
to to Frisco e witness
You will only hsc qucstones and will Post
them You will get mieass and all that
probly 100 in the clear will
this Hotel and will the Balance Is all O.
witness. Let know
Please keep this confidential. Answer
Trxly
r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22
Demonstrate on May lst for the Release of Tom Moor
eve KneqV Tom Mooney
in San Quentin Prison"
Class-War Prison Mate Tells Of Torture Of
Frame-Up Victim

TOUR Of Us landed IN San Quen-
i tin in June, 1880, to begin sent
ences Of 3 TO 20 years because we
had organized the agricultural
workers in the Imperial Valley in
to the revolutionary Agricultural
Workers Industrial League, affili-
ated to the Trade Union Unity
League. Two OF our comrades had
been sent to Folsom. while two
more were still in the Valley await