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Evening star., 1933-12-26
DEATH TOLL IN CROSSING
ACCIDENT REACHES FIVE
Fifth Victim Dies in Greensboro,
N. c., Hospital, While Sixth

Is in Critical Condition.
BY the Associated Press.
GREENSBORO, N. c., December 26.
Hubert Vickers, 21-year-old resident
of suburban Pomona, died of injuries
in q hospital here early yesterday,
bringing to five the death toll Of a
rade-crossing accident Sunday.
Five men and a woman were in the
automobile when 1t was struck by a
Evening star., 1933-12-26

lucky. Howard Bowman also was sent
to the penitentiary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Oh, Them Reporters

THIS intellectual intellectual
Admiral Reggie tabloid
always want know whether New
2 pretier ankles and chests than London girls
this
mals with like that often Hall
stamp ana thinking ABOUT questions to
Weh=praed
known reporter set forth for City Hall sacrifice himself
{ try and the New York Times.
City editors have peculiar the spelling
the first thing to get this out the The
little will
Ranouy- Flunkett-
His writing
ccough the
Times then asked his historic question:
Admiral you sloops
dian station Will you tell me what do with them?"
DunoHnded the Admiral question
aad been asked of admiral
leaning
Uh hu sneezed the sly reporter tickling OBien
What do?" muled the taking
what dowhat do"
like Somebody cenpede
which legs he used first walking with thousand
walk again.
what barbarism to put such cues
ton to British admiral of long ancestry. What do
blood will TELL
the reporter firmly
What do? Well explained showing
flag and try to cheer the British colonies
do they need cheering
yes indeed d the Admiral everyone cheering
now tfa
thus Give the Prince of Wales?
defeats about the British
kept stole sentlemanly 'front.' and spilled
ALL empire entitled to few
than that deaf and dumb Mayor had heard
Wait till Queen Victoria about this Ad-
miral Giving away secrets, that way rascal, you'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
w II a T
a
WOR RID!
The Empire Is Slipping
By Michael Gold

WITHOUT imperialism hearty
it before the The Teadneede
the banks are located is developing ailments
Ireland clap cosgrove Duffy
fascist uniforms That company union known the Irish Free State is
not working out WE'LL the workers beginning through
they always do eventually through form of union
In India the sacred Ghandi has fasting usual
Hndus believe
quite ssnve to this kind Of thing and would rather have Hndus
fast and be than fight
In the Near there they
during the by that great mystic British
Lawrence They given promises they
England the basis these Now Colonel
latng Homer and the Arabs left holding the bag
They restless The whole restless falling
like an old wormy boat
ing eight 8inch flying
and white flag of Vice Admiral
his you believe the
Empire is slipping It's such long, Solid ancient
like and children hope
or we nave 70 get along with surname and family name but
British arisocat generally has
you ready2 name as reported in full by the
New York Times. The commanders
Vice Reginald Ayner
WHAT'S That you in the rear you're hard of hearing? I'll
repeat for you the of this boojum who
be done with it His wife probably calls him that women t d
sensible to the morning
then yell up the stairs Breakfast Reginald
tout Punket Drax forth they gowl
Cnpes sake, come down and get it, Reggyw
WELL its solid Reggy feeling
to AFFECT him too He had terrible day in New York First he 5ad
to pasantries with Stirling
this
and boil beginning
dragged
the diplomatic
Iristmen if they hard
to talk to the Mayor The Giants baseball calling
and the Mayor who somewhat deaf dumb blind and
but otherwise quite normal politician
Admiral Reggie baseball
THAT wonderful you caught Tuesday
Grounds, = smiled the Mayor.
What spluttered Admiral 100 ever ad mentioned
that? My good man, despise polo"
explaining
but seemed be subject
thing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Participated in First
Big Fur Strike at
Age of Is

born. Ben saw the class struggle in
that strike as it has been fought on
the sidewalks of New York ever since
the civil war-workers, women as well
as men, beaten, laeerated, mauled by
cops and gangsters. Employers seek
ing new t-eacheries by which to break
the union. He knew then, probably
without realizing it, that he could
never leave the ranks of those work
ers, on strike or in the shop.
The strikers won important con-
cessions including recognition of the
union. and for a while there was
peace in the industry. Gold took adj
vantage of this peace and increased
wages which the strike won for him
to catch up on his education.
A Rare Confession
Telling the story of these early fur
union struggles from which he feels
it impossible to divorce his own early
life, Gold sat over his coffee and con-
fessed something with a Self-depre-
eating smile: IS
MY family wanted me to be a
lawyer, and fell for the idea. 1t was
decided that I should go to a private
school in the evenings to prepare my
self for college entrance. 7 was all
set for nice respectable profession
when the war broke out, but while l
continued going to school for a while,
the war sent my mind far from any
thought. of law school.
who could avoid thinking about
the WARP" Gold asked with the vagu-
est suggestion of q shoulder shrug.
Especially as it got closer and closer
to America. In school we students
talked about little else. On the job of
course, it was the main topic of dis
cussion for me and the rest of my
European immigrant fellow workers.
A Socialist Betrayal
"As Socialist Gold had Joined
the Socialist Party by this time) I
felt that we here must do something,
but this feeling didn't find express
sion in action until the United States
entered the war. Then we organized
the Student League for the Repeal
of the Consumption Act
anu III inns OTBHIliAdLlOD, says
Gold. 81 received my first demon
stration of open betrayal by Socialist
leadership. On the executive COM
inittee Of this students group was
Louis Waldrnan, who was a gradu-
ate of the school. fEost of us in the
group favored open resistance to the
draft and organized refusal to regis
ter. Waldman, however, declared that
this ought to be matter for each
individual to decide by himself.
Waldman won the day too, and the
efforts of the Student League for
the Repeal Of the CONSUMPTION Act
came to an end"
BY the time that the organization
was disselved, every radical WHO was
determined to continue his opposition
TO the war realized that he was plac-
ing himself in jeopardy. Gold under
stood it, too, but that didn't alter his
thoughts or his conduct, except inso-
far as he decided definitely and fer
vently that he did not want to be a
lawyer. The rush of events made him
aware that he wanted to stick to his
class and fight for its interests. There
are better ways of doing that than
opening law office.
Concluded Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

paid the boss ten dollars for taking
the apprentice into the shop. Ben
worked six weeks for nothing and
after receiving three dollars a week
for several weeks, he was fired to
make room for new apprentice
1t was just. one of the minor raekets
by which furrier bosses used to ex-
plot the vast supply of immigrant
labor. Ben remembered that, too.
Joined Fur Union in 1912.
A year later, however, he was
back in the fur industry, a fairly
skilled mechanic at the age of Il
The conditions in the fur and needle
trades industries under which Gold,
like hundreds of others, was victim
lied the first moment he set foot
into shop, was creating ferment
of militant resentment among the
workers. This ferment resolved itself,
in 1912, in the organization of the
fur workers union under Socialist
leadership, At first there was only
a. small group headed by Isidore
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

establishment of Pike and Rabino-
witz, " ere Cod was. an operator and
assistant shop chairman.
Ben's youth didn't stop him from
activity on the picket line and in the
strike halls, although, probably, il
did save him from several beatings
at the. hands of police when he was
arrested He didn't lack moral sup
port at home, either, during his first
strike.
His father, who might sometimes
have neglected to wake him on work.
ing days, spared no efforts to rouse
young Ben in time to get to the
picket line early.
A Proietarian Education
At no time since his arrival in New
York did young Gold have time to
go to school, but what he learned in
that first strike wasn't in any Tam
many school books.
And what he learned in that strike
brought into active play that hon
esty and courage which makes a man
stick to the class in which he was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

win Durant. Simon & Schuster,
SIPS.
Only a clever professor of philoso-
ply could put so many missbatements
and false insinuations in 1874 pages as
VIII Durant has in his book, The
Tragedy of Russia" But he knew
what he was about. He gave an inter-
view to the Moscow Daily News q
was on the News staff that summer)
which was friendly to the Soviets,
and sold his criticisms TO the Satur-
day Evening Post, where most OF the
material in the book except the
chapter on religion, appeared.
Even so, he apparently did not see
enough horrors in Russia; his book
is heavily padded with. quotations
from other books for the greater
pleasure Of the Pos" editors.
There is a snort or smoker on
every page for this reviewer, who was
in Russia at the same time-August,
l932-and stayed till May, 1888 There
are barefaced fibs-such as that the
Nizhni Auto Plant was abandoned.
when it never wasl or that only So
cialistic foreign writer's are translated
into Russian, when the stores and IL
braries are full Of James Fenimore
Cooper and other innocents.
Grimes" of the Soviet
Listing Grimes of the Soviet. Du-
rant says: 1T has speeded up labor
with conyeyor belts, mass production,
and scientific management" Yet on
another page, THE productivity Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04


Cohen, Meyer London, Max Pine and
several others. The union grew rap
idly, however, and began to be not
only an active force in the industry
but a vehicle of political leadership
as we'll
Gold, with the encouragement Of
his parents and elder brothers and
sisters, Joined the union almost the
minute it was organized and, influ-
enced by its Socialist leadership, he
began to frequent Socialist mass
meetings, headquarters and reading
Socialist literature,
His First Strike
About year later, when Gold was
Is, the first fur strike swept the in
dustry and stopped the wheels in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Ben Gold, Red Candidate for President of Board
OF Aldermen Has Record of Over Fifteen Years
OF Ceaseless Struggle for the Needle Workers

tory. The future looked a little
brighter until I reported for work
and it was discovered that l was
too short to reach the cutters table
I was sent nome.''
Later, Gold recoIects, he was ap-
prenticed to rur shop and the same
difficulty presented itself so the boss
decided to start him as an operator.
This was Ben Colds introduction in
the fur industry and, if one may
say so, the fur has been flying ever
since.
But even at that it was no cinch.
Gold recalls that there were no power
machines in those days and that it
required supreme physical effort to
turn the foot pedal, Ben's father
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
BED Parachutes OUer Nos
coW," NoEv ShowR at the
ERlbQSsU

The Embassy News Reel Theatre is
now showing a Soviet news item
called Red Psrachutes Over Mos
cow"
IL is indeed a remarkable spectacle
when the Moscow skies are dotted by
red paraehutes tossed around in the
'ssrfts 9 arsst 75sssW thenf projected human
beings. Those are the Soviet heroes
Of the air.
'Ihey are numerous SO. A
whole graduating class of the Mos
COW parachute jumping school.
The Soviet news reel at the En-
bassy provides great thrill to every
worker interested in the work of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Organization Course
Offered at Harlem
Workers School

NEW YORK.--A course specially
set aside for members of the ComInu-
mist Party and the Young Commu-
mist League, known as ''Organiza-
tional Principles" is offered at the
Harlem Branch of Che Workers
School, 200 w, 135th St., corner Sew
enth Ave, Room 212-B. Registration
for the first term of the Harlem
Branch, which opened Monday, is
still going on. ~,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday
Concluded Tomorrow

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fer all whats On" notices up to lines.
Wednesday
HARLEM Workers School, classes begin
this week, 2se w. l35th st.
CLASS in political and Social Forces
in American History given by Jack Hardy
at the Progressive Workers Culture Club,
1853 Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn
ESPERANTO CLASS for beginners at the
Bronx Workers Club $50 Prospect Avenue
at pm.
MEETING of Unemployed ONCE Workers
Association to discuss Plan Of Action in do
ing something about jobs at Labor Temple,
242 Z i4th ST., at pm
REHEARSAL Of Daily Worker Chorus at
16G Z. 14th St., at Q pm.
LECTURE by Grace Hutchinson on "Na-
ticnal Minorites and the Race Question in
the Soviet Union" Labor Temple. 243 E.
84th St. at pm. Auspices Yorkville Br.
FS.U. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Arrived in New York
as Immigrant 10y
in 1910

This is the first of two articles
on Ben Gold. one of the bestowed
leaders of the New York needle
trades workers, and now running
for President of the Board of Al
dermen on the Communist ticket
in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
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200 P. M.-Myrt and Marge
7:15-Just Flain Bill--Sketch
7:30-Travellers Ensemble
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Harriet Lee. Contralto
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9:oo--IrVing S. Cobb, Stories Goodman
Orch.
9:15-Ruth Ettinr. Songs; Paige Orch
930-Same as WIZ
l0.o0-War.ily ORCH; Harry Richman,
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11:15--News Bulletins
l1.30-Davia Orch
12:00--Davi1 orch.
1880 A. M.-Gray Orch.
100 Light Orch. a.r ~
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700 P. M-Sports-Ford Prick
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Drama
8:15-Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs
8.30-New Deal on Main Street-Sketch
9:00-Gordon Graham, Baritone; Gilman
and Arden, Piano Duo
9:l5-Macy and Smalle, Songs
9:30-Same as WIZ
1o:3o-Market and Halsey Street Playhouse
11:00-Time; Weather
11:02-Moonbeans Trio
l1:30-Scotti Orch.
12:00--Robbins Orch.
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8:0o-No. Fear Street-Sketch
8:30-Potash and Perlmutter-sketch
8:45-Red Davis-S.atch
9:00-Russian Symphonic Choir
9:30--President Roosevelt and Patrick Car
dinal Hayes Addressing National Catho-
lie Charities Convention, Hotel Waldorf
Astoria
Tirado, Tenor; Concert Orch.
llOo-Hillbilly Songs
11:15-The Poet Prince
11:30-Denny Orch
l2:00-Cailoway Orch.
1880 A. Mixing Orch
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TONIGHT'S PROGRAMS
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
Stage and Screen
Eight Bells" English MelO-
drama Coming to Hudson
Theatre; NeW Jed Harris PLAY

Eight Bells" the English melo-
drama of the sea by Percy G. Mand-
ley, now playing in London, will be
presented by A. c, Blumenthal at the
Hudson Theatre on Oct. %, Colin
Give will play the leading role.
Other players include Siegried Ru-
mann and Rose Hobart.
Spring In Autumn a comedy by
Gregorio Martinez-Siarra author Of
The Cradle Song was placed in re-
hersal yesterday by Arthur j. Beck
hard with Blanche Yurka in the
principal role. Richard Hale and
Esther Dale win play prominent roles
in the production, which is due here
Oct. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
ThurSdag

DAILY WORKER Volunteer Membership
Meeting. Workers Center, IS E. 18th St, at
8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
By JESSIE LLOYD

THE TRAGEDY OF RUSSIA, by
win Durant. Simon & Schuster
SIPS.
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Montana labor news., 1933-08-24
Firestone Tire Company Is
Living Up to Blanket Code
100 Per Cent

The Firestone Service Stores of
Butte Immediately upon receipt of in
formation from Washington, signed
the Blanket Code and put into effect
in their local stores, the full covenant
of the NRA. This effected the entire
force and required the hiring of three
new employees. This firm is enthused
over the new conditions and feels that
if every firm would abide by the code
in the proper spirit, it would be only
a short time until the depression Of
the last three years would be only a
dim memory.
The Firestone Company, at the pres
ent time is operating on a forty-hour
week maximum with a 48-hour wage,
i. e., reduced hours but no reduction
in pay. This concern formerly EN-
ployed nine workers but under the
present system employs twelve. The
stores hours have not been shorten
ed, being from 1880 a.. m. to 8 p. m.
as formerly. No overtime work is
practiced.
The Firestone Company is to be
complimented on the manner in which
it is cooperating with the President
in his battle for recovery and if every
firm showed a like spirit industry
would soon be on it's feet.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-24
MONTANA NATIONAL RECOVERY
DIRECTORS ARE ANTI-LABOR
DIRECTOR HART AN OPEN-SHOPPER AND
is CHARGED WITH "CHISELING"

Last week the Montana Labor News
discussed the character of the appoint
ees on the MIRA Board for Montana.
Since that item was published the
Labor News has received additional
information regarding two of the Of
ficeholders.
Peter Peterson of Glasgow, former
member of the Montana Senate is one
of the appointees. Mr.. Peterson voted
against every labor bill that came be-
fore the Senate, and voted in favor of
every anti-labor measure. Mr.. Peter
son is also a proponent of Child Labor
having voted against the ratification
Of the Child Labor Amendment while
serving in the Senate. Such is the
labor record of Mr.. Peterson.
Mr.. Hart, of Billings, co-owner OF
the Hart-Albins store, is another ap-
pointee whose record can give little
hope for the successful operation of
the NRA. Mr.. Hart is an out and out
open-shopper and it is due to his con-
slant struggle against organized labor
that the clerks of Billings are not or
ganized. Sam Riven, of Missoula,
George Anderson, of Billings, James
Anderson, of Helena, and President
Graham all place the blame for the
failure to organize the clerks Of Bill
Montana labor news., 1933-08-24

ings upon the shoulders of Mr.. Hart.
Reports from Billings also state
that Hart-Albin store of Billings is
chiseling on the NRA. This store
flies the blue eagle and has reduced
employee hours. 1t has also reduced
the store hours in order that no new
clerks need be employed, according to
the reporter. Yet the head of this in
stitution flies the Eagle and is a di-
rector of the NRA for Montana. His
appointment was made over the pro-
test of labor throughout Montana. We
will find out why he was appointed in
the near future. Reports are that he
is a friend of a Montana senator and
for that reason received the position.
This report is being checked.
With such labor timber in the seat
of administration, labor in Montana
will have to fight for everything it
receives under the NRA. To secure
justice Montana labor will have to
present a solid front. For this rea-
son every local in the state should at
once unite with the State Federation
of Labor, the Local Central Council
and send at least one delegate to the
State Federation Convention in Helena
on August 81. For particulars read
the State Federation call.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-24
L. Evans, Tacoma's City
Power Chief, On Mus
Gle Shoals Job

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Llewellyn
Evans, on cave from his position as
superintendent of Tacoma's municipal
power and light system, now consult
ing electrical engineer for the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, has been
canvassing the Muscle Shoals region
for prospective customers for the
power which the government will sell
from the Wilson Dam at the Shoals.
He is also checking up on the readi-
mes of the Wilson Dam to supply cur
rent to the 40 municipalities that have
thus far entered into negotiations as
to buying this power. He is to report
on plans for early construction of the
transmission lines from the Shoals to
the site of the Norris storage dam
formerly Cove Creek Dam-to be
built on the Clinch river in eastern
Tennessee.
Evans has been in charge of the
famous Tacoma municipal power sys-
tenn since 1916, during which time the
business of the system has grown
from 100000 to $2,50O,OOO a year
while rates have been kept the low
est in the United States.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-24
ANACONDA HEAD.
CANCELS
ING E
Press Association Is Disap-
pointed in Con Kelly's
Failure to Enlighten Press
On N. R. A.

The Montana Press Association was
keenly disappointed in the failure of
Con Kelly to address that august
body on the N. R. A. The press of the
state was looking to his wise counsel
in guiding it in the attitude it should
take towards the Presidents program.
Due to the announcement that Mr..
Kelly was to address the association
this year saw a record-breaking at
tendance.
No doubt Mr.. Kelly did not attend
because the organization which he
represents has so far failed in pre-
senting a code suitable to the Recov-
cry Administration. Being unable to
understand the spirit of the Act well
enough to draw up a code for his in
dustry, suitable to the Administration,
Mr.. Kelly no doubt felt that he would
not be in a position to e~nlighten, even
the press of the state, as to the spirit
and purpose of this Act. We would
like to have heard Mr.. Kelly for his
Interpretation would have been re-
ceived by the press as a revelation
from on high. Now the poor boys
have to wait a few more months be-
fore they know what it is all about.
Probably when the head does speak
the Butte Daily press will be permit
ted to print the fact that there is a
new Miners Union in Butte with more
than 5000 members.
Montana labor news., 1933-08-24
LABOR DAY PRO-
GRAM ALMOST
COMPLETED
Challenge Is Issued by the
Butte Miners Union.

The Labor Day Committee reports
that their program is almost COM
pleted and they guarantee the best
Labor Day celebration ever held in
Butte. The Finance committee urges
the unions to make their contributions
to the celebration as soon as possible.
So far the Women's Protective union,
Transfers, Streetcar Men, Engineers,
Clerks and Carpenters have made con
tributions.
The Miners union issues a challenge
to the entire labor movement to a
tug-of-war with a fine prize offered to
the winning team. We have our sus-
picions as to the nature of the prize
but if it is a warm day the winners
will no doubt enjoy it. The Miners
take in a lot of territory in their chal-
lenge and will even allow women to be
on the opposing team. But such is
the fire of youth, thinking it can whip
the world.