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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-10
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Some times we hear folks talk about
their cause-their talks or writings
getting no space in the metropol1-
tan press-the socalled conservative
press. Every cause of any impor-
lance has a press of its own and we
wonder if there is as much grounds
for complaint as some of the up
starters would have folks believe. If
an organization or individual really
does anything it is usually recorded,
but it is easy to whine and Cry for
sympathy.
Those in America who may think
that they are entitled to the front
the press much better if they were
at the helm, should think of how
they do things nowadays over in
Germany.
An editorial in the Duluth Herald
last Saturday entitled Danger of Hit
eminent treats the press, the radio
and the news screen. 1t should tend
to remind us that we still have a
free press in America even though
some folks may think they should
have more publicity.
The Herald editorial follows:
DANGER OF HITLERISM
"Grove Patterson, experienced and
able journalist, who was commits
stoned by the Duluth Herald to go to
Germany to make a first-hand inves-
tigation of conditions there, not only
confirms the reports of terrorism
over all minorities, but also explains
why all Europe is justified in it's
alarm over the significance of Hit
lerism.
"Mr. Patterson asserts that the per-
secution of Nazi opponents is really
worse than the censored accounts
have shown. They have obliterated.
first by treachery, the National party
of industrialists which helped them
attain power, then they have exter-
minated by force all other parties
and labor organizations whose ideas
of government differed, and finally
they have eliminated through state
control even the potential resistance
Of church organizations which resent
the Nazi debasement of religious
teachings for party purposes. Any
opposition means Imprisonment or
death without trial.
German newspapers can only pub
lish such news as is handed to them
by Hitler's man GOebbels. Radio
talks and screen news are directed in
the same manner by this minister
of propaganda" More than two hun
dred foreign newspapers which have
printed the truth about Hitlerism are
not permitted to circulate in the coun-
| try. Mail is opened and censored
In no way are the German people per-
mitted to learn the truth about actual
existent conditions in their country.
Eat this very moment England,
France, and Italy are considering
Joint action in warning Germany of a
violation of international law through
the Nazi aerial demonstrations across
the Austrian frontier. Continued dem
oilSli dtioiS vi tHIS sui Cdii 'hly io
suit in another European war.
"How long Nazi-ism can Last no one
knows. That it may end without
greater suffering than Germany has
already endured is the hope of civil.
lized mankind; but until it is ended
all the world is justified in dealing
cautiously with government which
is led by such dangerous characters
as the Hitlers, the Goebbels, the
Goerings, and their kind"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-10
COUNTY FAIR
BOOKS RENO
Head of Holiday Associa.
ton Speaks at Pine City
August 18th.
Public Wedding Evening of
Aug. 10; Usual All Club
Department.

The big attraction at the Pine
County Fair this year in the speak
ing line will be the appearance of
Milo Reno of Des Moines, Iowa, ma
tional president of the Farmers Holt
day Association, as announced this
week by w. S. McEachern of Pine
City, secretary of the fair.
Mr. Reno will speak at Pine City
on Friday afternoon, August 18th, at
3 o'clock. 1t will be Mr. Reno's first
appearance in this section of the
state. He has spoken in the western
part of the state couple of times
and nearby in Wisconsin, July 4th,
when a crowd of $4,000 people gath
cred to hear him.
Mr.. Reno came into national prom
inence a year or more ago when the
Holiday Association was formed and
he was elected president. He is an
aggressive fighter and has been the
plus" for products produced by the
farmer.
Free Admission to Grounds.
Admission to the fair grounds will
be free to everyone, both afternoons
and evenings. A charge of Csc will
be made for parking cars inside the
grounds, but everyone will be adj
mitted free whether they are in a
car or walking.
The Pine County Fair will open
next Thursday, August 18th, which is
entry day. Friday and Saturday will
be two days of entertainment, both
afternoon and evening. A high class
program has been booked, consisting
of the Gibson Radio Revue with 80
talented artists, in addition to Swede
| Anderson's hilarious bucking Ford
act and other numbers. There will
be a baseball game Saturday after
noon, and dancing in the big exhibit
| building Saturday evening. One of
the features of the fair will be a
| public wedding in front of the grand
stand Saturday evening.
The Public Wedding.
The gown to be worn by Miss Evan
geline Wahlberg at the public we'd
ding is a wedding present from the
| Pine City Mercantile Co. A dress for
the occasion is being selected this
week by NJ. ]. O'Brien, who is in st.
Louis, Mo-, on a buying trip. Many
other beautiful wedding presents will
| be presented by the businessmen in
Pine City, Hinckley and Sandstone.
Details for the public wedding,
Sandstone, will become the bride of
Jos. Houska of Hinckley, are nearly
completed. The wedding ceremony
will take place on the platform, in
front of the grandstand, on Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock.
Miss Susan Pavick, daughter of
John Pavick of Hinckley, will be the
maid of honor, and Mrs. L. NJ. VAIL
berg, sister-in-law of the bride-to-be,
will be bridesmaid The attendants
for the groom will be John D. Pavik
of Hinckley, and Laurence NJ. VAIL
berg of Sandstone. The flower girls,
ring bearer and the officiating pastor
will be announced next week.
Boys and Girls Clubs.
There will be the usual All Club
department at the fair this year, not
withstanding the fact that there has
been no county leader since Mr.. Will
rett left last summer. All boys and
girls, who were formerly members
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-10
ABRIDGED NEWS
CLIPPINGS FROM
OTHER PAPERS
Sandstone-Gust Malm, janitor of

SandStOne-Gust Malm, janitor of
the local school for many years, has
been operated for appendicitis.
Pine City-Pete Nystrom was SER
iously injured when his car ran over
him. His ribs were crushed and he
was hurt internally. In cranking his
car it started forward and passed
over his body. Mr.. Nystrom is at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. John Carl
son.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-10
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of clubs, whether or not they belong
at the present time, are invited to
exhibit. A. c. Weber, agriculture
teacher at Hinckley, is in charge Of
the boys and girls department and
any information desired can be got
ten from him. There is no charge
for exhibiting in this department.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-10

Every production of genius must
be the production of enthusiasm. -
Disraeli.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
WHAT'S ON
Monday

ALL MEMBERS Of International Labor
Defense Speaking Glass please report tonight
Derense Speaking Glass report tonight at
Room 33a, 80 East It'll ST., p. m.
SPECIAL MEETING will be held at Union
Workers Center, 80I Prospect Ave. D. m.
sharp tonight. All members must be present
LECTURE by Margaret I. Lamont, Sec
rotary OF the Recognition of Soviet Union
committee, tonlte p. m. at Cooperative
Auditorium, 900 Bronx Park East Subject:
why Soviet Union Should be Recognized +"
George Powers will also speak Auspices
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
WORKERS ESPERANTO GROUP mem
bership meeting tonite at p. m. at Hun
gsrtan Workers Home, Room S, $50 East
olst st. AL members must attend.
UNUSUAL CONCERT tonite s:l5 D. m.
The Pierre Degeyter Club (reyolutionary
musicianSl presents Henry Cowell, com
poser, pianist and lecturer in a program
OF original compositions for piano. Pro-
gram starts punctuslly S:15 D. m. Adn1is-
sion IS cents. IS cents with this notice.
SIS West 10th st.
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
BAND vitality needs any band instruments
which organizations or comrades own and
do not use. They can be loaned or donated
regardless OF conditions. Get in touch
with I. Rosen. 1888 Fifth Ave. or phone
University 4-2l27 New players always well
come. Rehearsals Monday 8 p. m. at
StuyVesant Casino, 142 End Ave. near 9Th.
MASS MEETING tonite of Lower East
Side Branch w. I. R. at 1865 E. Broadway,
East Side Workers Club Prominent sneak
ers on child misery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
by a Worker Correspondent

WARREN, O.-On Feb. 1, 20 per
cent cut in relief took place. The
amount of relief was miserable
anough before, but that didn't stop
the officials. The relief after the cut
was rs cents Gin groceries) per week
for single unemployed, $50 for q
couple, Is cents for each dependent,
with maximum Of So for family.
Flour, barely sufficient before, was
cut more than half for families and
altogether for single people.
The Community Fund tried to fool
the workers into believing that the
cut was not cut. They said the
cut in groceries would be replaced by
potatoes and canned vegetables which
they had stocked up. But they for
got" to say there wasn't even a half
once, and that there were less than
peck of potatoes to go around even
10000 cans Of vegetables for 5000
families on the relief list.
The Unemployed Council got into
action right away, and forced the
City Council to arrange a special
meeting with our committee.
A few days before the special meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27

which the author hangs political
preachings. They liYe-we share their
every emotion, every action in these
hectic days.
THE author tells us that neither
L the personages nor the deeds Of this
novel have been invented" Indeed,
rarely has a work of reportage been
SO full Of pulsing, full-blooded life.
The street fighting in Wedding and
Neukoelln on May Day 1929 was not
in vain. The press reported SO killed
by police bullets; but Party Unit 145
in the Koeslinerstrasse proudly re-
ported that $50 new members living
in the alley had joined the Commu-
mist Party. THE five brothers of the
worker Schaefer, who was shot by the
police, have also joined the Party,
and took solemn oath of revenge
at his graveside."
Revolutions do not spring out Of
the brains of proletarian leaders in
full armor, like Minerva out of the
head of Jupiter. The revolution
grows out of just such apparently
isolated struggles as the battle in the
KoeSlinerstraSse, accommodating mo-
mentum as it progresses, until it rolls
along irresi1tibly, crushing all opposi-
ton in its path.
Events of this kind show clearly
how armed insurrectiOn against the
despOtic government does not mere
ly develop as an idea in the pro-
grams and heads of revOIutiOnaries,
but as the natural, the practical
and the inevitable next step of the
movement itself; a result of the
growing indignation, the growing
experience, and the growing cOur-
age of the Masses (Lenin in 1902,
writing on a political mass strike in
RusSia).
Today, when the Berlin workers are
fighting under the most difficult con-
ditions, with all leaflets and news
papers printed Illegally, with secret
Party meetings, and communications
maintained only by couriers, with
gangs of armed Nazis breaking into
houses everywhere in search of work
ing-class leaders, this novel recalls
the most heroic episode in the annals
of the German proletariat since 1928.
All workers whose hearts beat with
indignation at the Nazi terror in Ger
many will feel themselves partici-
pants in highly developed stage of
the class struggle while reading Bar
riCE deS in Berlin, And after reading
this book, they should summon all
their energies toward the support Of
the German masses in their heroic
struggle against the fascist dictator
ship, for which the treacheries of the
social-democratic leaders paved the
way. Barricades in Berlin, which the
G r m n government suppressed
shortly after it appeared, is one of
the epics of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
Peonage Holds Thousands OF Work
erS and Farmers in NeU Slavery
Established by Southern White Ruling Perpetua Slave Con-
ditiOns for Negroes
Flood and Drought Peonage Job

numbers they are held by mass ter
roriSm.
For instance, during and after the
World War, there was a considerable
migration of Negroes from the South
to the North. In their efforts to stop
it, planters and businessmen's posses
halted trains and dragged Negroes
from them, dispersed crowds OF
Negroes waiting for trains to take
them North, lynched the discomfort
ed, and arrested, moDbed, and fined
labor agents who dared hire the
Negroes.
CATASTROPHES EXPOSE
PEONAGE
A big "act Of God" is a better IN
vestigator of peonage, apparently,
than the Department of Justice, for
such catastrophes usually bring to
light peonage cases by the wholesale
In 1927, for example, the Mississippi
River flooded a vast territory includ-
ing much of the peonage country.
Several hundred thousand white and
black tenants and laborerS were
thrown on the doles of that Wonder
full Mother" the Red Cross. 1t is a
matter of record that the planters
at first refused to let their tenants
be removed from the plantations for
fear they might escape.
In the enca1npments the choppers,
renters, and laborers we're closely
watched by guardsmen. No one could
leave the camp without a permit
Several of the flood victims we're
shot, some while trying to escape.
Still, many escaped. Thousands were
conscripted into leyee building and
work for private employers on other
Jobs without pay. When the foods
teceded, the Red Cross, the National
Guard, and the overseers from vari-
Gus plantations staged a roundup"
OF the reluctant victims, flerded them
into barges and returned them to
their masters.
In 1890, one Of the worst famines
in the country's entire history fol-
lowed a prolonged drought in the
southern states bordering the Mis-
sisSippi river. Widespread peonage
was again uncovered Reports came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27

of the Village Council for the
purpose of discrediting the
activities of the workers
mayor by running the dis
torted and malicious state
ments of the Associated Press
in regards to public appear
ances of the Mayor in st.
Paul, Chicago, and elsewhere;
and
Whereas, such statements
are entirely false and are be-
ing made for the purpose of
creating prejudice and oppo-
sition to the mayor because
of his membership and activ-
tiles in the Communist Party
of the u. S. A., whose pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27

MEET In JAPAN

TOKYO, Mar. 5 (By MaiD The
japanese section of the League
Against Imperialism has issued call
for a Pan-Pacifc -ImperiaHst
Conference to be held Somewhere in
Japan.
Delegates from militant organiza-
tons in Japan, China, India and the
Philippines will attend the Confer
ence, the call for which points to the
menace of a war of Intervention
against the Soviet Union, the threat
of division of China among the i'm
perialist powers, and the suppression
Of the national revolutionary move
ments.
The Anti Imperialist League of the
United States endorses the Pan
Pacific Conference.
A mass meeting to greet this Con-
ference will be held Wednesday,
March 2sth, 8 p. m. at SS East 10th
Street.
NEW YORK.-POlice are reported
to be torturing Nap Hin, Chinese, ar
rested Friday in the demonstration
against MatsOuka, agent of Japanese
imperialism. They hope to extort a
confession" that he wanted to muir
der Matsouka and also establish some
basis to deport him. The police have
persistently denied to representatives
of the International Labor Defense
that Nap Hin is being held.
William Simons, National Secretary
of the Anti Imperialist League ar
rested for speaking at the Matsoulza
demonstration will be tried in JEFF
ferson Market Court, 10th Street and
9Th Avenue today at 10 a. m. Mer-
baum Of the I. L. D. will defend him
and workers are called to be present
to protest his arrest and attempts to
jail him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27

gram of struggle in the interests of the workers the
has consistently tried to carry out;
Now therefore, Emil C. Nygard, President of the Viii
age Council of Crosby, Mimi, call general meeting of all
workers. citizens and taxpayers to assemble at tie Crosby
Workers Hall on Sunday March g. at P NJ, where these
charges of the press and other individuals will be answered.
and where discussion will be held upon the various problems
of the working and women of Crosby.
(Signed) EMIL c. NYGARD,
President of the Village Council.
Read the Daily Worker, the only working class daily
paper in the English language in the U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
'Barricades in Berlin Epic Story
of Struggles of German Workers
Stirring Novel May Day Especially Timely Now
Book Starts Serialy in DAILY" Wednesday

raids, with searchlights playing over
the housefronts, police shooting at
every window, women trampled and
shot by police masking their own
fear under an infatuated bestiality.
The workers slowly awakening from
a feeling Of impotence to a conscious
ness of their strength; Kurt, the hod-
carrier, developing unsupported pow
ers of leadership in the emergency;
old Huebner, g. Social Democrat for
nearly half a century, shot at his
window by his policeman neighbor;
Kurt's wife Anna, torn out OF her
political indifference by the sight OF
beastly police murders-these figures
are not pasteboard dummies. The
characters do not serve as pegs on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
Stage and Screen
LIFE is BEAUTIFUL" SOVIET
FILM, RETURNS TO ACME
THEATRE TUESDAY

Beginning Tuesday, the Acme The
atre will bring back the Soviet pro-
duction, Life Is Beautiful" directed
by the brilliant Soviet producer, Pu-
doykin, creator of End Of st. Peters
burg" and Storm Over Asia"
The picture tells beautiful TO-
mantle story Of a Red commander
and his wife against the background
Of the terrible tense struggle of the
Civil War days. The film which has
English titles, will be shown to
Thursday inclusive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27

Master" With Reginald Denny and
Lila Lee.
"Voodoo," a travel film of Haiti.
produced by Faustin wirkus. is now
being shown at the Cameo Theatre.
The same program includes Song of
Life" continental film highly
praised by critics abroad and here.
Autumn Crocus," the c. L. An
thony play at the Morosco Theatre
with Francis Lederer and Dorothy
Gish Just celebrated It's 150th per-
Torrance. The play will be given at
special matinee performance for
the benefit Of the Actors Fund OF
America on Tuesday afternoon
The Franklin is now showing Nam
cy Carroll and John Boles in Child
OF Manhattan" adapted from the
stage hit; also $50 This Is Harris"
comedy with Phil Harris and Wal
ter Catlett. Beginning Wednesday the
program includes They Just Had
to Get Married" with Slim Summer
vile and zasu Pitts and Jimmy
SaYo comedy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE"
AT JEFFERSON

The Jefferson Theatre is now
showing 1.-THE Secret Of Madame
Blanche" with Irene Dunno and
Phillips Holmes and a second fea-
ture, Lucky Devils" with Bill BOYD
and Dorothy Wilson. Beginning
Wednesday, the jefferson will pre-
sent THE Billion Dollar Scandal"
with Robert Montgomery and Con-
stance Cummings and THE iron
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
Arrest 9th Worker
In Laundry Strike
Against 4th Cut

NEW YORK-Using the flimsiest
Of excuses, police recently arrested
the 9th worker involved in the
strike against the Pretty Laundry, in
order to crush the laundry workers
fight against 4th wage cut at this
plant. One worker was arrested be-
cause he informed a former customer
OF this laundry that the workers had
gone out on strike. Sam Berland,
president of the Laundry Workers
Union is held in jail, with bail fixed
at $4,000.
Despite this campaign of police ter.
ror the workers are conducting the
strike with increased determination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
BY ROBERT HAMILTON


OUR young proletarian literature is
" young, as yet in stories of armed
class war in the countries of the
capitalist world. Today, when Nazi
terror is fruitlessly trying to crush
the German Communist Party, this
novel Of street warfare in Berlin on
May Day, 1929, comes with peculiar
timelineSs.
This is the story of the Berlin
workers battle for the right to march
through the streets, of the heroic de-
fence of the KoeslinerStraSse in the
red heart Of the proletarian Wedding
district against overwhelming police
odds.
The gray, sunless tenementS Of the
Koeslnerstrasse frown down at the
granite cobblestones. Patches Of
stucco peel off the damp walls. And
halfway up the street there is the
Red Nightingale" the tiny cafe
that is the center Of the Communist
Party Unit las.
The May Day demonstration has
been prohibited by the police-for
the first time in forty years. What
not even Kaiser wilhelm had ven
tured to do had been done by a
stroke of zoergiebel's pen-zoergiebel
the Socialist Chief Of Police.
The police had turned all the
proletarian districts of Berlin into
armed camps. Armored cars rattle
down the streets, machine guns are
set up at the corners, and steel-hel-
meted police reserves are called into
Berlin from as far away as East
Prussia.
On the eve of the demonstration:
heated discussions in the Unit meet
ing, the anticipation of conflict with
the police on the morrow, the air of
nervous apprehension in the street,
in the cou-tyards, in the Red Night
ingale" In the morning, the work
ers pour out into the street under
red flags in defiance of the ban. Po-
lice charge the parade, clubbing and
beating; the workers give way only
TO reform their ranks and march on
again The police officers give the
command: "Fire!" and the workers
fall back, carrying their dead and
wounded, to plan their defensive tao
tics.
The hasty erection of barricades
at both ends Of the street to block
the entrance of the arTnored cars
"a. iron pipe, cobblestones, old mat
treSses. ash cans, street lamp posts
and building materials are piled
high from curb to curb. Night police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
CUSTOM TAILORS MEET
TONIGHT

NEW YORK-Preparing for a mas.
campaign against wage cuts, and fol
better conditions, the custom tailor:
have called mass meeting for to-
night at Bryant Hall, 1887 Sixth
Avenue, sponsored by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
BLOCK RELIEF CUT in WARREN
Unemployed Council Scores Victory

ing they raised the flour to the for
rner level. At the special meeting the
city officials announced that there
had never been cut in relief! That
now that the potatoes and vegetables
were gone they were going to raise
the relief again.
But the workers Of Warren know
that If 1t had not been for their de-
termined fight led by the Unemployed
Council the cut in relief would not
have been given back.