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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-21
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events Of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

was taken to Sabillasville, Md,
on Monday, for treatment.
Andrew Muirehead, of New
York, was the weekend guest
of VIM. M. Pogue and family,
Miss Sara Brokaw was home
from the University of Mary
land, College Park, during the
Easter holidays.
Announcement has been
made of the marriage of Louis
Zucchine, of Calvert, and Rose
Lee Boyd, of Rising Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. u. thinner
man and Sonny spent the Eas-
ter vacation with the formers
mother in Palmyra, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Price, of
Queenstown, Md, formerly of
Elkton, on Tuesday, April IL,
quietly observed the fiftieth an
niversary of their wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Buffings
ton and Mrs. Mary Pownall, of
Swarthmore, Pa, visited Ris-
ing Sun relatives and friends
on Thursday.
Miss Marian e. Fehr, of
George School, Newtown, Pa,
spent Easter weekend at her
home in Rising Sun, and Sun
day with friends in Freehold,
New Jersey.
Ralph M. Reed, son of Mr..
and Mrs. David T. Reed, of Ris-
ing Sun, who graduated from
Eckel's Embalming College,
Philadelphia, has just passed
his Maryland State Board ex-
aminations and expects to start
into business in the near flu
ture.
Joseph Devonshire, 10, and
Frank Stephens, %, both of
Perryville, are being held in
the county Jail, at Elkton, to
await a hearing, charged with
assault upon Mildred Adams, a
I6-year-old girl of that town.
Frank Adams, the girls father,
Drought the charges against
The two men.
Given a hearing before Mag
lstrate Daniel H. Garrett, of
Elkton, charged with drunken
ness and assault and battery
upon his wife, Harry d. Jack
son who operated a garage
near Fair Hill, was sentenced
20 six months in Maryland
House of Correction. He was
arrested by Chief of Police
Potts, of Elkton, after he had
struck his wife.
The State Forestry Depart
ment has shipped to the Perry
Point Reservation 1000 locust
and 500 white spruce trees.
Boy Scouts, working for the
Forestry Badge, assisted in
planting them. In addition to
the above trees, 200 loblolly
pine, 200 white pine, 100 COR
sican pine, 100 arbor vitate and
100 Norway spruce trees have
oeen planted at Perry Point.
At the meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners on
April II, the organization of
the Cecil county unemployment
Committee was effected, with
Joseph F. Grant, chairman;
Paul Sweet, Secretary and Rev.
John r. Diehl, Treasurer to ar
range for work for heads of
needy families, to be financed
from any loan smade by the r.
F. c., when received. Work to
be done under direction of the
County Commissioners.
Ten members of Rising Sun
Troop, No. %, Boy Scouts of
America, camped at the Horse
shoe Farm, in the Browning
Memorial building from Thurs
day until Saturday afternoon.
The Scouts were in charge of
Gwo members of the Troop
Committee and C. c. Cole.
Those who camped were: Lee
Donache, Billy Buck, Billy
Kirk, Kirk Brokaw, Kirk Gift
ford, Everett Jugler, Francis
Jugler, Raymond Jugler, Rich
lard Jenkins and Glen dip.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-21

Tuesday morning, after the
Easter. holiday.
Shad and herring are report
ed as running in the rivers and
headwaters of the bay.
Easter did not bring the
hoped for sunny skies. 1t was
drab and overcast all day, with
frequent showers, and a settled
rain by night.
April is making record as a
wet month, with rainfall al
most daily, the ground soaked,
streams running bank full and
frequently overfiowing.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, Of
Georgia, a national w. G. T. U.
speaker, will address a meeting
in Rising Sun M. E. Church on
Friday evening, April %, at
7:45. Everyone invited.
John Linton, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Lin ION, of East Dru-
more, Pa, dislocated his elbow
while cranking an auto We'd
nesday. He was taken to Ian
caster General Hospital for
treatment.
Holiday traffic was heavy
over Route No. l on Good Fri
day. Three thousand cars pas
sed over Conowingo bridge
that day between the hours of
seven in the morning and five
in the evening.
The Bank Commissioner of
Maryland has approved plans
looking to the reopening of the
Peoples Bank of Elkton on a
100 per cent basis in the near
future. The full plans will be
made public in a few days.
Elkton Rotary Club has
elected Harry Croak, delegate,
and Harry w. Pippin, alter
nate, to the Rotary District
Convention to be held in Balti-
more, Wednesday and Thurs
day, April "a and 25.
The Fishing Creek Mill prop
erty, near Liberty Square, Pa,
has been purchased by the
Flory Bros. from Mrs. Ruth c..
McCrabb, for $2,725. The prop
erty embraces 35 acres of land.
with dwelling and three-story
grist and saw mill.
While attempting to raise a
window in her home at Port
Deposit, Miss Helen Stephen
son slipped and fell, breaking
her arm badly. 1t required the
attention of a bone specialist,
and she was taken to Balti-
more.
The annual convention of
the Maryland State Federation
of Mems Bible Glasses will be
held at Mt. Rainier, Prince
Georges County, on Saturday,
April 81, with registration at
100 p. m. and afternoon ses-
sion at 2:30.
The Captain Jeremiah Baker
Chapter, Daughter of the
American Revolution. of Cecil
county, has elected the follow
ing delegates and alternates to
the Continental Congress to be
held in Washington: Mrs.
Joseph H. Perkins, Mrs. R. X.
Lowering, Mrs. James Patter-
son, Mrs. Arthur H. Owens and
Miss Debbie Jackson.
After a service of forty years
as Superintendent of the Sun
day School of Rising Sun M. E.
Church, w. Louis Ryan has
rendered his resignation. The
resignation was accepted with
regret, as Mr.. Ryan has served
faithfully and conscientiously
during his long term. For
twenty successive years Mr..
Ryan did not miss a Sunday at
the school.
The recent y organized
Young Republican League of
Cecil county, has selected Fri
day evening, April %, for their
first public social function
which will be in the form of a
dance and card party at the
Manor House on Mt. Ararat
Farms, near Port Deposit, the
home of former United States
Senator Joseph I. France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

relief list. A month after the NR.A.
came into effect in this city of the
finest cotton goods in the world, the
cotton bosses started to lay-off work.
ers day by day. Now there are more
unemployed here than before the tex
tile code became law.
Finally, the last three weeks five
mills, Gosnold, Booth, Page, Dart
mouth and PotomsIra, laid off more
than 1000 workers.
The MIA, with the aid of the
Socialist Party and the A. F. of l..
and local misleaders, Batty and
Beans, U.T.W. takers, have been tell
ing the workers that the MIRA. will
give better working conditions. But
the workers of New Bedford, through
their experience have found out for
themselves that the New Deal and
the MIRA. only brought discrimina-
ton, speed-up, starvation and high
cost of living.
Nearly all the mill bosses are vio-
lating the textile code and the Blue
Eagle laws. Workers who work 40
hours a week get SO and SO and less
right now.
The only way We workers can fight
against such miserable conditions is
by organizing into the rank and file
National Textile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
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fXlzl the nalEEleeE
1SS5#a> cons.o..o >, AZ
CONDUCTED BA
HELEN LUKE

too violently, and so prevent water
from getting into the inner pot. Boil
for at least four hours, adding water
to maintain the level. Serve warm
with milk or cream.
MY sister is sending a dime and SO
am I. because certain picture in
Time" No. 10, has no women in it.
We'd like to give a lot more to the
Daily" drive, but we are a couple
of those well-paid Moscow agents"
Comradely,
M. GOODMAN.
Comrade Goodman's letter also in
Guided recipe for stuffed cabbage,
which differs from the others I've
seen in that it also has carrot in it,
This we'll use later.
I made the above carrot pudding,
using half the amounts given. Il
have no pans big enough for all of
it,, and brown sugar, and the cloves.
1t still bubbles on the stove as I
write, but I have been nibbling a
spoonful or two. I used two very
small angle-irons to hold up the in
side pan-these I shall use later in
the construction of that flreless
cooker, in which, suspect, shall be
able to bake more carrot buildings.
AS to the picture in "Time"-right-ol
And If the women don't want things
to pan out the same way here, they'd
better step lively nowl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

but partly, also the rich and
the middle peasants. At the same
Time the bourgeoisie declared mora
torium for agricultural debts up to
October, 1888. The moratorium tenn
porarily also eased uD the situation
of the peasants because it put a stop
to the auctioning off of the peasants
property on account of arrears in
payment. These measures helped the
Hitler people to get a foothold in the
countryside.
Can the government also buy the
peasantry in the future through such
a quota system, which artificially
maintains high prices for agrlcul-
tural products, when the wages Of
the workers and the salaries of the
employees of all kinds are constantly
decreasing, when unemployment re-
lief is constantly being cut, when the
mass of unemployed, who are no
longer getting any relief at all, is
constantly increasing? That it can
not do. With regard to the morato-
rum the peasants already ask what
they are going to do when the mora
forum is raised.
What can the Hitler people give
the Electromagnetic in the towns?
The Hitler government cannot give
anything to the petty bourgeoisie in
the towns. The number of those who
want to get positions from the Fas-
cists is enormous, but the number Of
positions is limited. After the So
.cial-Democrats were driven out, the
positions which they as well as the
followers of the Center Party and Of
he Democrats occupied in the gov
ornment and the municipalities were
made available and given by the Fas-
cistS to their direct followers. It is
no wonder that here and there one
can already observe certain amount
of establishment among some Sec
tons of the Fascist voters.
The decisive point, however. is that
the economic and financial situation
of Germany has become catastro-
phicaIIy worsened.
If we take industrial production in
1923 as at 100, then production in
1919 ullLOG W 1OA AJSI Scl1G, III
1882 only STA per cent, i.e., it was
diminished by 1915 per cent.
In 1893 industrial enterprises were
only working 1873 per cent of their
capacity.
From July, 1881, until July, 1882,
out of total of 10000 stock COM
panies with capital of 24.5 billion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
How Dress Code
Allows Pay Cuts
By a Needle Worker Correspondent

By a Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK-There was in the
- 'ly Worker an article printed on
dress code, by j. Abrams, on
ursday, Nov. 16, and one of the
more important paragraphs fell out
Of print, the minimum wages provi-
sions. I therefore, would ask you to
give this paragraph space.
The code reads as follows:
Article 4, par Ito insure en-
| ployment to employees who are phys
ically or mentally handicapped or
who are otherwise subnormal in their
production, such employees may be
exempted, as the code authority may
specify, from the wage provisions of
this code, subject to review by the
administrator"
This actually means that the agree
ment made last September, that the
slow worker in any dress shop is sup
posed to get the minimum provided
Tor in the agreement, has been done
away with.
The dress trade is a fluctuating
industry, bosses open new shops and
close shops very easily, and in this
case the bosses will pick on the fast
est in the trade and the minimum
VIII become the maximum. In the es-
tablished shops, the code authority
viii have the power to specify who
ere mentally or physically handi-
capped or subnorrnal in their pro-
duction. This code authority consists
Of 10 representatives of the bosses
and only three representatives of the
union.
]. Abrams
Signature authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Letters from
Our Readers
THE COMMUNIST PARTY
FOREVER

DetrolC, MICH.
Dear Editor:
I am mason by trade, bricklayer.
A few years ago was working pretty
steady and making good money, and
thought everything I built and
made would be mine. spent 20
years of hard work in those bloody
factories and today I'm selling toilet
paper to make my living. But l only
make about so cents week.
Some time ago was going to the
barber shop and used to see the bar
Der read the Daily Worker paper.
told him that he was crazy to read
that paper, because I am a Catholic
myself and heard lots of people
tell me that was a bad paper, even
my priest told me that. But one day
I got into a discussion with this bar
Der and he told me that If have
any money in the bank go and get
out your money because the banks
going broke soon.
though for sure the arber was
crazy. But after few months later
I found out that the barber was right
now I know who is crazy. I saw
that barber the other day and ]
asked him if I can have the Daily
Worker paper to read. I think this
is the only paper which tells my
people the truth Now see that the
capitalist system is shot to hell.
Nothing is going to help it-because
the N. r. A. is making things much
worse than ever.
Seventeen million people starving
to death and Mr.. Roosevelt making
fertilizer out of pigs. Six million
pigs sent to hell. This is the N. R
A for you A few days ago General
johnson and the Blue Eagle led a
quarter of a million people through
New York streets under the slogan,
do your part for the N. r. A." The
other day Mr.. johnson and Mr..
Green, A. F. of L. member, said they
will put to work 100000 people, but
we found out different. Mr.. Green
admitted himself that 100000 men
was laid off last month or so.
can see now that the Communist
Party is the only Party fighting for
the working people. From now on ]
will be supporter of the Commu-
mist Party forever. A. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Local e. Opposition
Runs Dance to Help
Build Their Group
Girls Disillusioned by
Sellout, Plan to Fight
Misleaders
(By a Needle Worker Correspondent

NEW YOK CrTY.-I'm an under
wear worker, working in the trade for
the last few years. I neved heard of
a union, as many Of us didn't.
Two months ago Local 81 Of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, with a bunch of gang
sters, came to our shop and forced
us workers to go to the union and
strike the shop. After two weeks of
strike we got 10 per cent increase
in wages, which meant nothing, con-
sidering the low wages we got and
the rising cost CT living.
Then came the general strike, and
We young women workers TOOK the
strike seriously and fought militantly
on the picket line, pulled down shops
in order to win our strike and the
demands for a decent living wage.
In the strike hall first heard about
the Industrial Union that fought for
the workers against the bosses, while
NJ. Shore and the officials of Local
81 kept us back from fighting and
told us hard luck stories about the
bosses.
Then came the sell-out. II il
weren't for the fight Of the Indus
trial Union during the strike, we
wouldn't have gotten even that what
we won. The leaders Of Local g.
sure sold us out. All we got out oil
the strike is a good idea of what a
union should be, and that the Indus
trial Union is the only union for the
workers. At present the bosses are
already cutting the wages and taking
back what we won in the strike The
officials of Local 62 are doing moth
ing for us except collect the money
for the books and dues.
We are now realizing that we must
organize in Local 81 of the A. F. OF
L. and fight for conditions in the
shop and against the so-called "lead-
ers" and gangsters. We girls already
have a lot Of girls who are Willing
and -eodv to organize ars fioht with
us. This coming Saturday, Nov. Is
at Astoria Hall, 81 E. Fourth ST., we
are running dance in order to heir
build up our group. a.t ~
We URGE all the workers, especially
the young workers, to come to this
dance and help us make it a success
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
BY a Millinery Worker Correspondent

by NnuAIHcry WOEkcT Correspondence
NEW YORK; am not member
Of the Communist Party, but work
or in a 1nilitery shop, and consider
the Daily Worker as the only help /
can appeal to in the following case:
The More Hat Co. is, SO to say, an
organized shop, yet this is what the
leaders of Local "a do for us. For
four weeks we are after Mr.. Spector
(the organizer of our shop to come
and settle prices, but he never finds
the time to do so. When he does
come, he takes it up with the mem
bers of the bosses association" and
he prices are settled arbitrarily by
man who does not know the labor
value of hat. Out of $3.50 new hats,
10 might be settled and the settle
ment for the rest of the hats is post
poned for later date. In the mean
lime, the girls don't get paid. After
fights and terrible aggravation, they
are given, on account of their miser-
able salary, few dollars.
This serves as very good scheme
to starve the workers and, finally,
when the settlement question is
raised again, the boss says "If you
want to get paid, why don't you set
tie the prices, why don't your union
help you?"
The consequence is that the girls
knowing that the union does not help
them and they need the few dollars,
accept any price. In addition to this,
the leaders of Local "a insist on COL
Letting the dues from us, and if we
protest and show them that they
don't do anything for us, they have
the nerve to threaten us with sus-
pension.
This situation in our shop is not a
recent one. 1t is prevailing for more
than year and unfortunately it is
the same in many of the so-called or
ganized shops.
A Worker of the More Hat Co.
Editors Note:-K this worker
would get in touch with the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
131 w. 28th St., N.Y.C., she would
get assistance and guidance in or
ganizing against such abuses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Liberal Silk Mill
Boss Has Tear
Gas for Strikers
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y-The McCur-
rach Silk Mills is located at 1879
Eastern Parkway near Atlantic Ave,
Brooklyn; an unsightly, dilapidated
building of ugly red bricks.
| For over 40 years, workers have
toiled and sweated weaving elaborate
fancy jacquard designs for neckwear,
which the concern is selling for fan
Icy" prices to the most exclusive
stores.
Mrs. Mabel McCurrach, the boss OF
this concern, has always played the
Il part Of "benefactress" to her work
crs, always maintaining that not only
is she the best Of employers, but also
a mother" and we workers are her
children.
Little did good many of us think
what particular kind Of loving
mother" she happened to be until
seven weeks ago, when her weavers
got together and decided to organize
in order to be able to get better
wages and more decent working con-
ditions.
Calls for Gas Attacks
So enraged and so indignant did
this "benefactress" become when all
of her weavers joined 10000 more silk
strikers throughout the country on
strike that on the first day of the
walkout she did not hesitate to call
out the emergency squad with tear
gas bombs and has since been using
every means to crush her workers.
Mrs. McCurach is a prominent
figure in politics and society" She
| is a committee woman on the Fu-
sion Party ticket, member of the
Citizens Union, of the Chamber Of
Commerce, etc.
For seven solid weeks her workers,
lisillusioned with her soft, maudlin
assurances Of kind heartedness, have
cod out together in face of the
'neanest terrorism.
One of our active strikers is laid up
in Bellevue, brutally beaten and
blackjacked. According to doctors of
Bellevue, he will have to remain
here for some time.
Professional Scabs Used
Mrs McCurrach, who is a great
'patriot" and considers the welfare
Of her workers above everything else,
goes further than that. She has en-
| ployed out-of town professional
scabs, who sleep inside the mill on
filthy cots. She does everything to
arrest lis on trumped-up charges Of
intimidating her loyal scabs (out OF
town tramps who aren't even weav-
ers). And finally, as a last resort, she
has applied for an injunction to stop
us from picketing.
The MIRA, which has been no
tilted about these existing condi-
ions. persistently has failed to act
The N.R.A., too, has respect for high
society. The law, the courts, the DO
lice, etc, are all instruments of the
employer class.
The workers in this strike have
learned that only through persistent
struggle will they win their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

(This includes the deficit not COW
cred in the preceding years.
In actual fact there is really still
an invisible deficit apart from what
is visible. This "iov'1ihle deficit" is
estimated at two billion marks.
Less and less taxes are coming in
from the bourgeolsie and the govern
ment will still more intesify the al
ready unbeareble tax pressure upon
the toilers. All possible forms of plum
dering and robbing the toiling masses
that Is the policy Of Fascism.
In the sphere OF foreign policy, the
measures taken to institute the quo
ia system of the government called
forth reprisals from other countries,
which import German goods.
BY their aggressive foreign policy,
by their demand for armament, and
by their arming themselves at a fe-
verish rate on their own authority.
by the demonstration Of their pre-
paredness to confront an their neigh
bors with the actually CT correct
ing" the boundaries, the Fascists
have extraordinarily intensified the
relations between Germany, on the
one hand, and France, Czechoslova-
kia, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Poland
on the other. Their proyocations and
the unprecedented terror against all
the toilers, against the intellectuals
and national minorities, especially
the Jews, have earned them the en-
tirely deserved hatred of the whole
world.
Let us summarize this: Hitler came
to power on the Ua7e Ct the interest,"
flying crisis. His ra-tv cou'd net give
anything to the laaocinT masses. On
the contrary, the v2-y heavy prsc-
sure Of the bourgecisie upon them is
being still more intensified by the
Fascists. Chauvinism, which Hitler
has brought into prominence, will be
directed against him as socn as the
petty bourgeois masses will become
convinced that the Fascists have de-
ceived them, when they promised
them the Germany Of pre-war days.
The masses will unavoidably leave
the Fascists and come OFT against
them. The growtl, Of the radicehza-
ton of the Wcr...i.,g class and the
change in relation O. forces bcsyeen
the Communict Ply and the 60
Democratic Palty viii be OF de-
cisive Importance in this respect The
Hitler Party cannot save the German
bourgeoisie. On the contrary, the Fas-
cists will only accelerate their down
fall. They are leading the German
! b0urgeoisie into catastrophe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Organizers Needed
For Textile Workers
On Mills of Lowell

By Textile Worker Correspondent
LOWELL, Mass.-Something must
be done to arouse the people of Low
ell to organize unemployment coun-
ellis, to help our large number of UNI
employed who are called shiftless and
lazyv buns when they apply for re-
lief, and to stop the wage-cutting
that Is going on in the textile mills
under that ytilture, the Blue Eagle.
Organizers from Boston and Law
renee, Mass, should come and help
us to organize the textile industries
which form the main occupation of
the Lowell people. Mass meetings
must be held. Booklets must be dis
tributed to the workers and unem-
ployed. Demonstrations should be
held in front of city hall to force an
Increase in the lousy So to 81 a week
that is given to feed a family of 6
or 7 children.