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The Washington times., 1933-05-20
TWO GO TO PRISON

Guards from the Virginia State
Penitentiary today removed War
rem Jones, colored, serving 30
years for murder, and Melvin
Barber, colored, serving five years
for perjury, from the Alexandria
Jail to the penitentiary to begin
their sentences.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
Bolivia Asks League
To Discipline Foe

GENEVA, May 20 GN.SO .-Bo-
livia today rejected League of Ma
tions efforts to arbitrate the
Chaco boundary dispute with
Paraguay and demanded that the
League Council Immediately put
into effect the sanctions provided
under article 16 of the covenant
on the ground that Paraguay had
declared war,
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

illogical Museum in South Ken
Sington, the Kings speech will
go to the international tele-
phone exchange in Faraday
House, whence the address will
be sent to all the capitals Of
Europe.
Every part of the British
Empire will hear the king via
the Rugby radiotelephone SER
vice, which will also relay it to
the United States.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

better. The machines Of war
cannot be stalled quickly, but
nothing can slow them down
as well as action such as this.
Mrs. Gait is certain paciflsm
is becoming a strong interna-
tional movement. She is pres"
ident Of the Committee on
Cause and Cure of War, Amer
ica's most dominant pacitlst
organization.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

Carrie Chap
man c a t t ,
veteran suf-
frage a n d
p a C iii S t
leader. She
said today:
"A m or e
v a l Il a bic
S t a t e m e mt
than this has
n e er been
uttered by the
leader of any
nation. 1t is
a bold mes
sage. Nothing
CO ul d be
8 tr Onger or
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
Dolores Del Rio Sails
For HdIUQiian Isles

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 20.
N.NS0.-Dolores Del Rio, motion
picture star, and her husband,
Cedric Gibbons, art director, to-
day were aboard the steamship
Lurline, en- route for two-weeks'
vacation in the Hawaiian Islands.
Another celebrity who sailed
aboard the same ship was
Marjorie Crawford. aYiatrixs
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

here W i t h a
er b al bou-
quet to h e
modern girl
and an out
spoken brick
bat to h e r
coll e g i a tie
brother W h o
says there is
no place for
h i m in the
b u S i n e S s
world of to-
day.
V a u C lain,
chairman of
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
Mrs. Gait Lauds
Roosevelt Message

NEW ROCHELLE, May 20.
President Roosevelt's philippe
against war struck a respon-
sive chord in the heart of Mrs.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
Son of President
To judge Club ShOUU

WINCHESTER, Va, May 20.
James Roosevelt, son of President
Roosevelt, and Rear Admiral Cary
T. Grayson will serve as judges Of
the Loudoun Hunt Club annual
horse show at GreenWay. near
Winchester June 5. .. -
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
PICNIC WILL GET
PAPERS BY AIR

Newspaper delivery by airplane
will be one of the special fea-
ture of the Board of Trade out
ing at Bay Ridge, Md, today
Through arrangements with
Chester Warrenton, sportsman
flier and president Of the War
renton Motor Company, and The
washington Times, plane flown
by Warrenton will take off from
College Park airport and go to
Bay Ridge with a bundle Of
late edition Times. They will be
dropped on an open lot near
the picnickerS.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

MRS. PEAKL BUCK Wllbur W,
Smith, pastor of the church,
made public a letter to DR..
Robert E. Speer, New York city,
senior secretary of the board,
notifying him of the step.
The letter charged Mrs. Buck
"has been proclaiming nothing
less than purified paganism."
1t also assailed the Board Of
Foreign Missions for failing to
protest Mrs. Bucks anti
Christian" teachings.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
CHILD is TOPIC

Colored social and educational
leaders of the city are holding
seminar on the adolescent
child today at the Morgan School
under the leadership of the Fed
Grafton of Parent-Teacher AsSo-
Citations,
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Church Group Rebels
Over Pearl Buck Case

COATESVILLE, Pa, May 20.
The CoateSville Presbyterian
Church has withdrawn Support
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
King George to Talk
BY Radio June II

LONDON, May 20.-The
opening of the World Economic
Conference by King George on
June IL will be heard over the
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
VaucIain, IT, Lauds
The Modern Girl

PHILADELPHIA, May 20.
Samuel M. Vauclain observed
his seventy-seVenth birthday
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance. $402, ,4671-
1877: expenditures, $40, ,130.-
3sO.53: customs receipts, $12,544.-
J 793.49.
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
WILL ROGERS Saus:

It's marvellous the way this fellow Roosevelt
handles bonus armies-feeds 'em, talks to em, does
The Washington times., 1933-05-20

He also stops banks from racketeering in trus
holding companies. 1t really sounds too good t.
Copyright 1898. by McNaurht syndicat.>
The Washington times., 1933-05-20
TO TALK ON JOURNALISM

John w. Tulloch and E. E.
Lawler, jr., will address the Alex
andria High School students on
journalism as a profession Fri
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Camps Used to
Take Jobs from
Forest Workers
(By a Labor Camp Correspondent

ny LaDOr camp correspondent
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK,
MONITOR the past month we had
been eating corn willy and hard
tack and only this week has there
been an Improvement. We are start
ing to get meat now and bread. The
bad weather and this consistently
poor food had a lot to do with the
young fellows leaving last week. And
now again there's a few more who
want to go back. AS far as I'm con-
cerned, I'll just do as much work as
I think should for 81 day, just
when feel like it.
The captain is very unpopular with
the men here. My opinion of him
is that he tries to economic so that
he will make good name for him
self with the army officials. 1 raised
he'll this morning because they didn't
fill my coffee cup, and there was
more for everybody at dinner. The
more you holler the more food you'll
get.
We have been very busy fighting a
forest fire which started Wednesday
morning. There are about 1900
men at work, most Of them CCC
boys from the camps in the vicinity.
The government saves lots of money
by using us, to fight fires, as other
wise they would have to hire men
at IS cents an hour. They have
some Of these men here, as this is
a very big fire, the biggest in 10
years in this section. Every day
some of the men are getting hurt
one way or another.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

the Metal Workers Industrial
Union" to recognition of the
workers to return to work in a
BODY, the strikers spontaneously
shouted a unanimous mo"
On the motion of an older Ameri-
can worker, the strikers unani-
mously voted to carry on the strug-
gle for no discrimination, no hiring
or firing without union consent, no
compromise on the wage-scale pre-
sented to the boss. Under this scale,
the biggest raise goes to the lowest
paid workers, a condition which the
boss is fighting most strenuously.
Durable Workers Strike
There are no strike-breakers in
the Majestic Metal shop, the COM
mittee reported. The boss has sent
his work to the Durable Metal shop,
whose workers, when they found
this out, walked out in solidarity
with the Majestic workers.
Contributions for the support of
the strike are being solicited by the
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
which has appealed to workers of
all industries to help the Majestic
and Durable strikers to hold their
ranks solid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Tammany Whites Reap
Fat Harvest IN Harlem
Negro Democratic Voters Find Whites win
Leadership in Primaries Each Year

ers spells from him. Lavalle collect
ed the Signatures Of enough regis
tered Democratic voters in the Negro
election districts to have himself
named as district leader, replacing
Healy. Lavallo, a good" Democrat
could then give out judgeships and
appoint the nominees to the local
tickets. Six hundred thousand dol
lars in political patronage, which
should have gone into the Golfers
Of the Harlem politiciang, was being
distributed to other Tammanyites
August %, Lavalle took his petit
tons to the Municipal Building
where the Board of Elections is To-
Gated. He had just fifteen minutes
to make the "deadline," which was
II o'clock midnight, for turning in
the petitions. He found only one
elevator running in the building. The
operator said he had instructions not
to let the Negro lawyer up. Lavalle
and the delegation of Negroes with
him were threatened with violence
when they attempted to walk up to
the election offices on the eighteenth
floor. So they left, and Wednesday
in the New York Supreme Court
Building at Pearl and Center Sts.,
Tammany Judge and ex-borough
president Julius Miller reserved" de-
cision on the validity of Lavalle's
petitions to make himself the district
leader.
Thursday Miller definitely denied
the validity Of the petitions and re-
fused Lavalle the right to register
them.
In the 2lss district, Thomas Muir
ray, a white man, in like manner
also reigns supreme over the Negro
masses.
Two white district captains, a
brother and sister, are each holding
$4,000 jobs. Charles .Horowitz, resid-
ing at IS Hamilton Place, is assistant
corporation counsel at $4,000; Pat
OConnell, custodian in the Board
of Education at $15,633; William c..
Fullen, 800 Convent Avenue, is at
tached to the Board of Transporta-
ton at $13,39O.
Hundreds Of other whites occupy
posts as city marshals, deputy COM
missioners, tenement house inspectors,
while even the small jobs, like clerks,
are monopolized by the white hench-
men of Tammany Hall.
Meanwhile the Negro workers of
Harlem, even some in the Tawawa
Club itself, are looking towards the
only Party which stands heels, head
and shoulders for the Negro people,
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Old Negro
Ala. Boy Tortured
and Spirited Away
(By a Negro Worker
Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - This is
what happened to a 15-year old
Negro boy who they charged stole
a bicycle. His father and mother
are today unable to find any trace
Of him. They went to the jail
about getting him out, but were
told he was not there. We don't
know what happened to him.
On Aug. 13, about $50 pm. the
Claw" went to Wesley Harris home
1904 Omega st. and arrested the
boy. They came in rough, took him
out of bed and hand-cuffed him
wouldn't allow mother or father,
either one to talk. The policemen's
names is Moser and the other one
we don't know his name.
They carried him all up and
down the avenue and streets, tore
his clothes from his body, parading
the streets with his naked body
After whipping him on the streets
and avenues, they carried Davis
Harris, Is years old, to West End
Woods, tied him to a tree, and
beat him unmerciful, The boy
was in a serious condition for three
to four days And still in a bad
condition. His head was swelled
twice as large as usual. His mouth
was twisted around. They beat
him all over his head. His spinal
was swollen. Don't expect him to
be any more account
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Furniture Workers
Trial Postponed to
Collect evidence"

NEW YORK.-Again the trial of
Jerry White, who was framed on the
charge of "concealing dangerou1
weapon" at the recent Illegal raid OF
the Furniture Workers Union meet
ing, was postponed by the proSecut-
ing police, who are having difficult
time proving their charge, for this
morning at $50 in the Magistrates
Court, End Ave. and End ST.
The New York District Interna-
tional Labor Defense is making every
attempt to have the defendant tried
as soon as possible in order to expose
the MIRA police, who are working as
strikebreakers under Whalen's orders.
Workers are called upon by the In
ternational Labor Defense to be
present at the trial in order TO de-
mand the release of Jerry White,
young militant worker, and to pro-
test police terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Accidents Bring
Many Deaths in
Arkansas Camps
lBy a Worker Correspondent

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Accidental
deaths have killed several G. G. G.
young men recently. One worker
was found dead in the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad yards at Newport, run
over by train. Papers in his pock-
cts identified him as Joe Webster, Of
Camp Slatington, in Montgomery
County, near Mena. He was be-
lieved to be from st. Louis, as all
boys in this camp are from there.
And four more from this camp were
injured as a truck carrying % en-
route back to st. Louis collided with
q farmers wagon near Corning.
Last week C.C.C. worker from
a camp near Russellville had his left
ankle crushed as part of the train
jerked ahead, telescoping the cars,
when coupling broke. Near Mena,
at Shady, boy died from injuries
received in a baseball game. Another
worker in the Eagleton G. @. G. camp
died from injuries in a truck acct
dent in the forest.
Desertions are frequent. Young
men can be seen on the highway
and freights every day. They speak
of miserable conditions. Officers
sent. out scouting cars TO bring back
deserters. However, many are dis
honorably discharged for leading pro-
tests and disregarding military dis
cipline. Seventeen were discharged
frgm q camp near Mena recently for
descriptive activity"
The railroads are getting harder TO
Rde. Train crews are compelled to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Officers Stay Away
from the Camp Food

by a Labor Camp Correspondent
PROFIT GAP, Idaho.-We work
five days week and are supposed
to have Wednesday and Sunday Of
every week off. On Wednesday, we
have inspection, which means you
must make your bunk and stay
around for inspection. If you are not
there you are subject to KIP. duty,
or they hold trial and you are
fined So out of your IS. You are
subject to work seven days a week
if the officer feels like it.
Sometimes the cooks burn the
food. They do not try to replace it.,
but serve it, and, if you can't eat it.,
you do without. Some of the food
being served at this camp is not fit
to be eaten by pigs Mostly all the
forestry men who used to pay SIS a
month to the mess of $50 are now
eating in an eating place Just out
side of the camp. They could not
eat the food they give u.s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Columbia Metal
Shop Recognizes
Shop Committee

NEW YORK. - Another metal
strikers victory, this time at the
Columbia Metal Shop, was won on
the sixteenth day of a tenacious
strike which proved to the bosses
the futility of evading direct nego-
tiations with the shop committee.
The demands conceded by the
bosses may be summed up in part:
a 40 hour ,5-day week! 10 per cent
increase in wages over the original
pay on the old so hour week basis,
recognition of shop committee and
no discrimination against strikers.
The victory at the Columbia shop
is threatening the other strikers to
further efforts. Other bosses are
now applying for negotiations with
the union and shop committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

When the men get sick or get
poison oak they are forced to work
just the same.
The men are given 50 credit out
Of SIS they receive. This credit is
good in the camp exchange only. In
this camp exchange the prices of
soap, tobacco and cigarettes are
double the price they are in civilian
stores.
There have been two strikes on bad
food, but the captain fooled the
workers by giving them good food
for one day and big line Of bull,
but the next day the food was the
same as always rotten!
I believe that If small grievance
and action committees were organ
lied in the camps we workers would
be able to help ourselves.
In the morning the men must get
up at $50 am. and stand roll call,
and also stand in line is to 20 min
utes before they get their breakfast.
Their dinner they eat on the Job and
they also have to stand in line Is to
20 minutes for supper. The men
are loaded on trucks to go to work
because 1t is long way from camp.
They load about so men on a truck
at one time, which is not safe for
the men on the mountain roads.
There have been quite few men
hurt on account of speed-up and
hard work. Men have had their feet
and hands smashed from the heavy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
FurrierS Union
To Establish
s. Hour Week

NEW YORK-The campaign TO
put the fur industry or the 35-hour
basis took a new aspect when the
shop chairmen's meeting of the Fur
Department of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union approved
the concrete proposals of the organi-
cation to bring about the shorter
week in all the shops Of the in
duStry.
The attempt of the Fur Trimmers
Association to drag on the nego-
tiations indefinitely will be brought
to head. A letter will be sent to
the association pointing out that the
conditions in the industry require
the immediate establishment CT the
35-hour week.
Meanwhile the union will begin
to enforce the 35-hour week in the
Associated Fur Manufacturers
shops and in the independent plants.
The Industrial Union intends to
take firm steps to establish the
short week for all workers by the
middle of September,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
ALL Heads Fear to
Stop Silk Strike
at Wagner Request

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 3. =
Senator Wagner, for the MIRA,
sent wire to A. F. of L. officials
here to call off the strike of the
5000 silk mill workers, and to hold
conference to mediate"
Fearing the resentment of the
workers, the A. F. of L. officials
did not call off the strike but de-
cided on sending a representative
to Washington to meet with the
representatives Of the employers
association to discuss mediation.
On Friday, a committee repre-
senting the National Textile Work
ers Union, the United Wrappers
League, and the Twister's Club,
went to the strike committee of
the A. F. of L. to propose united
strike of these organizations. The
A. F. of L. leaders rejected the
proposal, and accepted representa-
tives only from the United Warp
ers' League and the Twister's Club.
Tuesday night at p. m. there
will be mass meeting called by
the National Textile Workers
Union against government medi-
alton and to raise the question of
demands for the strike. The meet
ing will be held at Carpenters Hall,
Sc Van Houten st.
A mass meeting was held Satur-
day of 800 workers of the Wied-
man Dye Shop where a decision
was made to strike if the demands
presented by committee of so are
refused by the boss on Tuesday
morning. Other dye shop workers
took similar action. At the same
time the A. F. of L. held a meet
ing of dye house workers. A COM
mittee of the NTWU was sent to
the A. F. of l.. meeting to propose
united front strike, and to dis
cuss demands. They were refused
the floor. The A. F. of L. leaders
told them to come to a conference
on Monday night. Instead of call
ing a strike of daye workers. the
A. F. of L. is going to Washing
ton to discuss" the question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
By DAN DAVIS

NEW YORK.-An inkling of the
corruption with which Tammany
keeps white district leaders in con-
troll of the 21st and 18th Assembly
Districts covering almost the whole
Of Negro Harlem was uncovered yes
terday by the Daily Worker.
The 1880 census showed that
though the Negro people make up
one-eighth of the city's population,
they constitute one-sixth of the city's
voting strength. This is so because
there are more native born Negroes
than white people in New York City.
Tammany understands this and
therefore uses all its powers of cor
ruption, of niscounting, sending its
ward heelers into the booths with
voters, etc.
In the 18th District, running from
18th st. north to 18th st. and
East and West from Eighth Ave. to
Madison, Martin j. Healy, Tammany
leader who pocketed $4,000 in 1927
for putting Judge Ewald on the
bench, reigns supreme since 1924
Healy, like other TaInmany leaders
throughout the city, appoints the
local candidates for whom the Negro
masses of Harlem are to be misled
into voting. He can elect white
man against Negro in Harlem any
time he chooses, except when things
are too raw. Then a Negro politician
who is willing to do the white bosses
bidding is elected as blind.
How is Healy as white man able
to maintain his power in Harlem?
Very simple. Members to the county
committee who elect on the primary
ticket the district Democratic leader,
are themselves elected through petit
tons in proportion to the number of
voters in each election district.
Strange as it may seem, though all
but five of the thirty-four election
Districts in the 10Th Assembly Dis
trict have no white people living in
them, the county committee con-
tains no Negroes. Less than one per
cent Of the people in the entire as
sembly district are white. But Healy
is elected district leader each time.
He is elected by padding the ballots
in the five white" election districts
so that they have a two-third vote
against the remaining twenty nine
Negro election districtsl
Louis A. Lavalle, Negro attorney
and executive member OF the Tawawa
Democratic Association, a Negro po-
litical club in "Healy's district" at
tempted to wrest the Tammany lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Ptomaine Poisoning in
Montana Labor Camp
(By Labor Camp Correspondent,

(By Labor Camp Corresponding
CAMP ---, Montana.-In our
camp one fellow died from poison
food and lot got ptomaine poison
ing. The first couple of weeks
everything was fine and then 1t got
worse and worse. They are filling
the hospitals with our fellows.
The chow is terrible and the boys
have to walk around the camp for
weeks in bare feet before they get a
pair Of shoes.
We had a few minor riots about
the food, and they sent the mess Of
ficer away, and now it is getting
better.
lost all the weight gained. and
couple Of more pounds besides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Tobacco Strikers
Reject Arbitration

NEW YORK.-To test the spirit
of the tobacco strike which is under
the leadership of the Tobacco Work
ers Industrial Union, a group of
manufacturers proposed to the
strike committee to send the workers
back into the shops pending arbi-
tration on the basis of the NRA
The workers unanimously rejected
this proposal at meeting of the
general strike committee,
At the same time a settlement
with the Brono Cigar Company at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
1870 in Quarantine
for Typhoid Fever

(By a Worker Correspondent
SAN ANTONIO, Texas.-One
hundred and eighty young men,
comprising Company 1872 of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, are
under quarantine for typhoid fever
at Camp Bulls, located near here.
Seventeen of the boys are actually
infected, three are in a serious
condition and one is not expected
to live. The young workers had
been employed ON a state park
project near Hamilton, some 300
miles from here.
Authorities have failed to give
any reasons for the development
of the epidemic, but it is generally
believed that the lack of sanitary
facilities at the camp is respon-
sible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

So Grand st. is announced by the
union. The workers won from 10
per cent to 30 per cent wage in
creases, and recognition of the To-
bacco Workers Industrial Union,
In connection with the Tobacco
strike the Home Relief Bureau has
been acting as scab agency taking
unwary tobacco workers on its I'M
unemployed list and sending them
on scab jobs in striking cigar shops.
Most of these workers when they
discovered that they were to scab
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

order men off the trains. Most of
them merely do so as q formality.
Others are cruelty brutal. Railroad
dicks savagely sap" up on transient
workers, especially Negroes. There
nave been found dead six young men
m the last two weeks, as reported in
the press, from various parts of Ar
kansas. While the newspapers report
various excuses, the fact remains
tnat most Of them We're forcibly
elected from speeding trains.