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Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
June 81, 1918

San Diego and Los Angeles real
estate operators are opening offices
in FL Centre and it appears the
fall will witness an invasion of the
dealers from outside points. A
crop of boosters on the outside will
prove of great assistance.
The interior department refuses
to recognize validity Of land claims
based on occupancy of government
land which has been withdrawn,
the non-occupant having the same
rights as those who went on the
land in violation of the order of
withdrawal.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
LEGION INVITES PERSHING

WATERFOWL, S. D. fU.PJ-Gen-
eral John J. Pershing has been in
vited to attend and be the princi-
pal speaker at the annual South
Dakota American Legion conven-
ton TO be held here Aug. II, Is and
Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
TEN YEARS AGO

A bond issue Of $4,000 was vot-
cd by Brawley a few days ago to
reconstruct the school building re-
Gently damaged by an explosion.
Plans are being rushed in order
that construction may begin soon
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press Inc, 625 State street,
e. Centre. California. w. c. Costello business
manager. Telephone Is, business office; 700 edi-
torlal department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

SUBSCRIPTION RATES -- Delivered by carrier
per month, SIS cents; by mail, so cents per month
in advance Entered at Ell Centre, California, post
office as second-class matter. Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. M. C. Mogen-
son, national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

Inmates of the county Jail we're
treated to a bang-up watermelon
feed yesterday through the gener-
osity of Holtville rancher. More
than so melons were distributed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

WASHINGTON, June q. - Now
that the President is away the
White House is as sleepy an old
mansion as it was during Franklin
Pierce administration.
Most of the puttering about Is
done by Secretaries Louis McHenry
Howe and Marvin H. Mcintyre.
The executive cars are at their dis
posal and they have plenty of time
ior evening drives If their whims
turn that way
The Three Hours for Lunch >
club is in full tilt among the at
taches. Colonel Howe, after II to
1e hour days during the pell-mell
rush of the special session now has
time to chat with any friends who
drop in.
Inc new cooling system makes
the executive offices as comfortable
as the congressional chambers.
Some Of the staff fear that an ex-
ira clamp will have TO be put on
the length of appointments. The
effect of the cool air is TO stimulate
conversation, prolong it, and post
pone as long as possible any de-
rarture into the hot blast of hu-
:nidity outside.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
COUPLE SAT ON SAME JURY

AUBURN, Me. U,PI-William II.
Gross and his wife, their names
drawn from a venire of 80, sat OH
the same jury here recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

Raymond B. Stevens, officer of
the French Legion Of Honor. COM
mander of the crown Of Italy and
former foreign affairs adviser to
the King of Siam is now member
of the federal trade commission.
A mysterious individual, who fits
here and there, suddenly appearing
in Washington TO get sworn in and
as suddenly vanishing, Stevens was
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS

whole. We will nave to expect some
squabbling, but it should be kept at
minimum.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
June 81. 1918

Material for repairing damage
to Sharp's Heading is being rushed
to the scene and a large group of
Workmen is working pumps to
drain the canal to allow repair to
the floor of the structure.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27
NOT / PRETTY PICTURE

GRANTING that there are times when
" divorce decree is the only solution to
marital troubles, the havoc which it can
cause family relations was demonstrate
ed last week in Boston
A prospective bride sought a court or
der TO prevent her mother from attend
ing her wedding, fearing that she would
create a disturbance which would mar
What is supposed to be a happy occas-
ON. The prospective bride was support
ed in her action by her father
For prospective bride to take legal
action to prevent her mothers presence
at her wedding-generally recognized as
an occasion when most girls desire their
mothers to wish them WELLS somewhat
novel.
Even more so was the reason why the
mothers presence was not wanted and
why her daughter and the latter's faith
er resorted to court action to see that
she did not appear upon the scene-the
mother is the divorced wife of the man
whom the daughter was marrying.
1t is pity of course, that such a sit
uation can develop. 1t is even more pit
iful that so many of us take even such
an occurrence as this a matter of course.
Remembering Steve" and Rosie,
none of us should be surprised about the
latest ASMH hoax.
Last night was an uncomfortable night
feeling sorry for the poor folks back
N the heat belt.
The governments efforts to cut the
cotton crop will never be as successful
in doing so as the postwar slump in
. price was.
With such large group of brains as
sembed in Washington, and congress
out of the city, perhaps we will begin to
get some place.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

In Washington tomorrow morn
ing a great human lottery will be
staged to determine the order in
which 100000 young men of 81 and
% go to camp to fight for their
flag and all that democracy holds
sacred, Draft numbers will be
posted on the bulletin board of The
Press for the convenience of valley
regiStrantS.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

The prune crop at Gilroy, Santa
Clara county, will probably be light
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

With such large group of brains as
sembled in Washington, and congress
out of the city, perhaps we will begin to
get some place
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

Last night was an uncomfortable night
feeling sorry for the poor folks back
n the heat belt.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

The governments efforts to cut the
cotton crop will never be as successful
in doing so as the postwar slump in
price was.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-27

Remembering Steve and Rosie,
none of us should be surprised about the
latest ASMH hoax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-13
Story by Hal Cochran

sswell," Santa said, T guess that we can all get busy as can be right over in the little shop where fine toy pets are made.
 why, I have baking dogs ga- lore. and cats that crawl along the floor. Course. they are only stuffed ones, so you needn't be afraid"
 s.Say! Even if they were alive, I would be afraid. cause I've had lots Of cat and dog pets" shouted Duncy, with q grin.
 ssJust lead us to your little shop. wen work away, and will not stop until the task is finished. am anxious to begin"
 For quite time they had no rest. The Tinymites all did their best to see that every pet worked fine. Said Dotty, "This is fun.
 ssOne cat was cute as 1t could be. # seemed to cuddle up to me. And then I turned a little key. You should have seen it run!"
 .sOne dog I had parked in my ear" cried GO1dy. Tt filled me with fear. cause ! forgot twas just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-13
By Blosser

toy. I made it bark, myself. Look! will make it bark right now" She punched 1t and 1t went "bow, bow" ''It works just fire." said Santa Claus. Nov. put it on the shelf"
 Then Coppy said, "I am a cop. Let me make traffic start and stop. I see a lot of toy machines. I'll run them on the floor" "All right" said Santa. Wind them tight, and then see if they work all right. Pretend you're at a corner. You can use a sema- phore."
 The semaphore was brought right out. The Tinymites heard Coppy shout, '.A1l right, look out for traffic." Then he squatted on the ground.
 Soon toy machines were whizzing by, and Coppy shouted, sLookiti l can turn switch and stop each car, no matter where it's bound."' (Copyright 1883 NEA Service. Incl
 (Scoufy takes charge of the Boy Scout drill in the next st0ry.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-13

(Scoufy takes charge of the Boy Scout drill in the next story0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

gagged in the field of Intoxicating
liquors and members Of the Civic
Federation, shall not be elioih-a to
membership in the United Mine
Workers of America"
This. Of course, was many years
ago, in the old, militant days of the
United Mine Workers Of America
during the days of Virden and Mother
Jones.
"America Must Not Barter Away
Its Principles for Soviet Cold" are
words which the National Civic Fed
Grafton long ago inscribed on its gilt
trimmed banner. Periodically, some
times over the signature of Ralph
Easley, sometimes over the signature
of Matthew VOL, the Civic Fedora
ton sent out f1amboyant releases"
written with the hysteria which char
acterizes the announcement of "the
Second Coming Of Christ" by the
disciples of Judge Rutherford.
One of these releases, dsted Dec.
1, 1880, was headed with the rhetori-
cal question: Shall We Recognize
Soviet Russia?" The answer came,
quick as flash, MOI
Three thousands representatives
men and women-voted against it
lin answer to Easley's QUESTIONABLE
S. CD Also, they voted in favor of
legislation to protect our government,
seeking its destruction, and to save
our basic industries from democrat
ization through MoscowS dumping
program"
One OF. these representative men"
was none other than the famous
Joseph E. Grundy, notorious tariff
lobbyist for the Pennsylvania Manu-
facturerS Association, who was shown
to have bought his seat in the United
States Senate.
Easley-Friend of Criminals
Easley, chief Of the Civic Fedora
ton, has had the benefit of intimate
contact with some of the slladiest
characters in American political
(criminaD history, including Boris
Brasol and CASTOR B. Means. It was
Brasol, Russian monarchist and
Jew-baiter, who was responsible for
the forged Protocol of
Zion" among high officials in vari-
Gus departments in Washington and
among diplomatic representatives of
various foreign countries and through
out the U. S.
Brasol, incidentally, was associated
with George Creel, who as chairman
Of the Public Information Department
during the war helped poison the
minds Of the masses and make them
to the imperialist war prop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
Needle Union To
MobilizeInSupport
OF Tailors' Strike

NEW YORK.-At MIRA tleadquar-
tiers yesterday Grover Whalen repu-
dated his promise to the custom tail
ors strike delegation that he would
publicly condemn the Merchant Tail
ors' Society for violating the blanket
code which the bosses had signed, If
he failed to persuade them to ACCEPT
the offer of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union to conduct an
immediate referendum to determine
which union the strikers choose to
join.
Wha1en did not receive tn strikers.
Evading responsibility, he informed
the strikers through his representative
Wolff that he had exhausted all
means and could do nothing further
IN the strike.
I'VE don't believe in the NRA. It's
a strike-breaking agency for the pur-
pose OF aiding the BOSSES" said the
strikers to Wolff. When the strikers
demanded that Whalen issue a state
~ mt rs he had promised, Wolff eva
ID bly, said he would take 1t up.
Che strikers produced a letter is
Eised by the Merchant Tailors entitled
Lead and Destroy" in which the MIRA
b definitely implicated in strike
breaking. The bosses declare that
Whalen urged them not to recognise
the union. Whalen has never repu-
dated the letter.
Charging that Grover Whalen and
the MIRA was aiding the Merchant
failors' Society to hold out and re-
fuse TO concede the demands of the
gtriking custom tailors, Alexander
hoffman, strike leader declared that
the strikers would not rely any longer
On MIRA promises but would inten-
ffy their fight TO win their strike.
At . strike meeting yesterday at
Irving Piaza the custom tailors de-
-ided TO issue q public statement ex-
losing whalen's strikebreaking and
howing that the propaganda he is
preading about abolishing sweatsf1op |
swsatslaops is false.
The whole Needle Trades Union will |
b Mobilised In support of the tailors'
strike at forums in every branch Of
The trade to be called by the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
carly next week to carry the fight |
against the Merchants Tai3ors TO a
finish
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
WOULD RATHER MISS A MEAL

Brooklyn, N. 7.
Dear Con1rade Editor:
AS a regular reader of the Daily
since it moved to New York, 7 want
to express my thanks to the staff in
putting out the Daily in its pres
ent form.
1t is now pleasure to read OF the
struggles Of the workers everywhere
for the better1nent Of their living
conditions.
I would much rather naiss q meal
than miss q single issue Of our
DAILY"
No efforts must be spared to see
that the Daily gets into the hands
Of the workers.
Shock brigades could be organized
to establish house carrier routes, those
getting the largest number OF sub
scribers being rewarded with q BAN
ner or set of books or map Of
the Soviet Union to be hung In the
clubroofns.
And how about q little time table
when the movies startp Il ID un-
pleasant to so to the movie In the
middle of the picture. This, of
course, refers to the Soviet movies.
With the best wishes for tenfold
circulation, ! am, A COMRADE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
By SENDER GARLIN

The National Civic Fedora
ton, whose latest demand is
for the suppression of the Daily
Worker by the u. S. Govern.
ment as a pre-condition to rec.
ognition of the Soviet Union, ha.
carried on an unceasing, vicious an.
ti-Soviet campaign since 1917.
Backed by many prominent hnan-
ciers, and having the moral" sup.
port of the labor heutenants o!
American imperialism, the Civic
Federation has whipped itself into
frenzies of hatred against the Work.
ers' and Peasants Republic.
1t has not stopped with mere bonn
bastic publicity releases, and with
rabid speeches at banquets of Manu-
facturers' Associations and Chambers
of Commerce.
1t sponsored one of tic most
paipable fOrgeries ever exposed:
the sO-called Whalen documents,
which sought to prove that the
Arntorg Trading Corporation was
engaged in "subveTsive activities"
BY means OF this torgery-whiIe
hoping to strike blow against the
Soviet Uni0n--the leaders of TIE
Civic Federation hoped to push
Through whole series Of repres-
siye legislation to fingerprint and
deport militant foreign-b born work.
ers and TO outlaw the Communist
Party and the revolutionary trade
unions.
Easley and his crew chortled over
the Whalen revelations, and one O.
their many releases on the subject
declared that
'If it should find the WhaIen
photostats genuine, it would nat
uraly be expected, in view of the
Infamous character of these docu-
mentS, that the Americana
Chamber of Commerce wculd lead
all true Americans in the demand
that the whole bunch Of reds at
PSI Fifth Ave. (Amtorg-Editor) be
taken out and shot"
Organized back in 1901 as a get
together" movement of labor and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

capital, it has worked hand-in-glove
with the open shop bosses, has taken
an active part in Strikebreaking and
has carried on venomous "anti-Red"
campaigns against militant work.
ing class organizations for years.
Seventy-five-year-o Ralph Mont
gomery Easley, a high-salaried pro-
fessional patriot of long standing,
is the chairman Of the Executive
Council Of the National Civic Fed
Grafton and is the most vociferous
and rabid of its officials.
A close second to Easley is Mat
thew Vol, acting president of the
federation. Vol is also vice-presi-
dent Of the American Federation of
Labor, president of the Photo En-
gravers Union-a small group OF
highly skilled workers, organized on
the basis Of complete cooperation
with the bosses. For pin money Vol
runs the Union Labor Life Insur-
ance Company.
Its Leaders
1t was once remarked that the
Executive Council of the National
Civic Federation looks like a page
out Of the Directory Of Directors. The
Council, 1t LIS interesting to note, Is
divided into three groups: ION Part
OF Public" "On Part of Employers"
and "On Part of Wage Farmers"
Heading the open representatives
Of the bosses are: Nicholas F. Brady,
president of the Consolidated Gas
Co., Of New York: r. Coleman Du
Pont, chairman Of the Executive
Comm. Of the Equitable Office Bldg.
Corp. Otto M. Eidlitz, OF the Build
ing Trades Employers Association;
Marshall Field, banker; and Daniel
Willard, president OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and author Of
the famous B. and o. Plan which
put form-fitting straightjacket on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

p6hy.
Representing the Public"
the public" is represented in the
National Civic Federation by such
personages as Elihu Root, former
Secretary of State and author Of
the proposed reactionary new con-
stitution for the State Of New York
which was rejected even by the most
loyal supporters of capitalism; Col
Theodore Roosevelt, until recently
in the Philippines as pro-consul for
American imperialism and Nicholas
Murray Butler, whose university is
supported by the millions. from the
House Of Morgan, and other leading
capitalist institutions.
The most interesting group, OF
course, is the one alleged to be rep
resenting the interest of "the wage
earners." This includes such horny
handed sons Of toll as Frank Feeney
president of the International
Union of Elevator Constructors;
Thomas F. MacMahon, president of
the United Textile Workers, whose
officialdom has just betrayed the
strike of the Paterson silk workers
William D. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees in America, and
above all-Matthew Vol, that slick
medicine-fakir Of the A. F. of L.
The directors include such men as
Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the
Treasury under Hoover and T. Cole
man DUPONT, both Of them executives
OF powerful open-shop corporations
which have used labor spies, armed
guards, state police, private thugs
and strikebreakers in their vicious
campaigns against labor.
Get Millionaire Backing
That the National Civic Federation
cannot be dismissed lightly-in spite
OF the fact that its spokesman is such
a wild type like Easley--is shown by
the fact that 1t has the backing of
powerful &aanciers. On the exec
uttve committee of the Federation is.
for example, Nicholas F. Brady, who
Is president of the United Electric
Light and Power Co.: president of the
New York Edison Co.; director of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company,
Atlantic and Gulf Petroleum Co.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., National
City Co., and U. 8. Tire Co.
Mr.. Ellis Searles, editor of the
United Mine Workers Journal at a.
salary of $4,000 q year from report
of Treasurer Kennedy of the U. NJ
W. Al is chairman of one of the
National Civic Federation Commit
tees.
How John L. Lewis, president of
the U. M. w. A., would be able to
reconcile Searles' activity in Easley's
outfit with his editorship of the
unions official publication would be
extremely interesting, for a resolution
ADOPTED at one of the conventions Of
the U. M. w. A, some years ago
characterized the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON as ian auxiliary of the cap
italist class in the exploitation Of the
workers, and an agency to forge fet-
tiers on the limbs of the workers"
And the constitution of the q. M.
w. A. puts the thing rather tartly:
mime managers, top foremen, OPP
commissioners, persons en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
Letters from
Our Readers
THE 10OTH DAILY"

chicago, LII.
Comrade Editor:
Today, | celebrate an important
occasion, it is the reading of the
one-hundrdth copy of the Daily
Worker. Some people read thous-
andg of numbers of newspapers
yet don't think anything of it, but
find that by having read one
hundred numbers of the Daily" ]
have learned more about the labor
movement and the class struggle
than in many years as a member
and supporter of the Socialist
Party.
The presidential election of 1882
altogether disillusioned me. found
that the S. P. as the political or
ganizer and leader of the working
class doesn't mean thing, and
that the Literary Digest, in deco
rating it's front covers with the
faces of the three graces was quite
correct, since the tribune are the
servants of the same master, the
capitalist class, each in their
sphere of influence, and the sooner
the S. P. members will learn what
General Pershing already knows
that Norman Thomas land his
parity is not dangerous Ito the
capitalist class) the better off they
will be.
The Daily Worker has improved
considerably in the last three
months, not only editorially but
also geographically and is much
better to read.
Yours truly, j. L,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
Mooney Plans Appeal
To us. Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17.lIhe
San Francisco Examiner carried q
report today that Tom Mooney plans
to make an appeal to the U. s. SUI
preme Court next month In the IT.
year-old battle to break down the
frame-up by which he was railroad
ed to Jail for life in connection with
the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing.
Despite overwhelming proof Of
Moneys innocence, Gov. Rolph Of
California has twice rejected appeals
for pardon for Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

marcn on Rome and HltlerS brown
battalions probably never even drearnt
of plans so elaborate and precise as
those which guide the Roosevelt war
and anti-labor machine.
A more important difference, how
ever, at this stage of the American
fascist crrysalis is that the objective
domestic situation is not so for
midable as that which faced the
Italian and German capitalists.
Until the increasing militant aware
ness Of the workers is considered
dangerous to the present half masked
capitalist dictatorship, the various
Roosevelt representatives will con-
tinue to go through the motions OF
listening to strikers protests when
not dickering secretly with inanufac-
turers) and will even allow steel
workers to protest of the record"
privately against the campaign Of
bullets, tear gas and the use Of a
company brigade of diseased prosti-
tutes, the latest strike breaking tactic.
There is still time to use den1agogic
instruments to lull many workers into
false sense of security-time to dot
the country with NRA Regional
Labor Board Impartial Chairmen
who can be trusted to settle" strikes
at their point of origin: time to fuse
owners associations into one con-
centrated mechanism SO that Co
ordination" will not be necessary;
time to deport foreign-born labor
leaders; time to persuade workers
back to the mills on the promise of
union elections" many weeks later;
time to gull the unwary with en-
ployment and wage Statistics" which
bear no relation to the workers real