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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
CAMPERALL PLANS
FOR BOY SCOUTS

At meeting of the Boy Scout
Leaders Association, members decid-
I'd to sponsor camperall in the near
future. This camperall is contest in
camp activities and the winning pa
trolls will be sent to participate in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
THREAT OF EVICTION is USED
TO COERCE TEXTILE STRIKERS

Mobile, Ala.-The manager of the
Prichard Cotton Mill gave the strik-
ing operatives the alternative of GO
ing to work on lowered wage scale
or vacating the houses in the COM
pany's mill village. Seven hundred
and fifty persons would be affected
by the order to vacate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Union Head Made Member
of Relief Administration

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)-Vice Presi-
dent Joseph P Ryan, of the New
York State Federation of Labor, has
been appointed member of the state
temporary relief administration to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
MERCY HOSPITAL
CLINIC

Owing to the fact that DR.. j. F.
Batement, of Longview Hospital, will
be out of the city on Monday, June
s, there will be no psychiatric and
neurologic clinic at the Mercy Hos
pital on that date. The next clinic will
be held on July 3rd.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
QUICK THINKING WIFE

AS soon as Mr.. Jones saw Mrs. Chip
pieigh coming up the garden path he
Ned to his study and left his wife to
her fate. Half an hour later. hearing
door shut he went down and put
his head inside the drawing room.
HAS the old crow goneY" he asked.
Yes, DEAR" said his wife. about
an hour ago. And. now dear, Mrs.
Chippleigh has called. Isn't 1t sweet
OF her l"-Berliner Illustrierte.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Hum Of Telephone Wires
q. 1888, Mcclure Newspaper Dyndicat,
WNu 6NrYica

Humming of telephone and telegraph
wires Is caused by the wind. The
wire has a natural frequency of VI
bration the same as a plano string and
the wind sets 1t to vibrating. The
fundamental frequency Is too low to be
heard, but some of the harmonIes are
audible. The fundamental is given
by the wire vibrating as whole, the
harmonies by the vibrating in sections
many of these are ordinarily set up at
the same time
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
MORE RECRUITS
FOR FOREST CAMP

Sixty additional recruits from But
Ter county for President Roosevelt's
civilian reforestation corps will be
given physical examinations June 5
at Cincinnati, according to informa
tion obtained by officials of the But
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
One Exception. M.vh.

Two boys who had attended a show
at which jungle picture was the
feature were engaged In an animated
discussion concerning the different
animals.
THAT old lion was fierce, wasn't
nef' said John. 'I'll bet he isn't
afraid of anything"
Huh" spoke up his sister who had
been reading book. "Ill bet he's
afraid of his wife"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Hard on the Grindstons

Goofus-I understand that old Skin
flint, the money lender, has been hit
10 hard financially that now he has
to keep his nose right to the grind
stone.
Bloofus-Is that soY I pity the poor
grindstone.-The Pathfinder Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
er County Welfare organization.

Ter County Welfare organization.
Fifteen men will be selected from
Hamilton, 25 from Middletown and
20 from townships. 1t is understood
that volunteers who pass examina-
tions will be sent Immediately to Fort
Knox, KY, for two weeks predimi-
nary training before assigned to work
in forests.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

"Haye you any ideas as to how to
improve the government?
No" replied Senator Sorghum. ~
regard the government as such a 1ns
piece OF machinery that I'm perfectly
satisfied to keep 1t polished and In
smooth working order without looking
for inventions to improve It."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

Ethel-Did you know Josie had
thrown Frank over9
Mabel-Goodness, mol Whyr
Ethel-Oh, the wretch stopped CALI
ing and writing, and all that, I Under
stand.-Kansas City Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

ing manufacturing, mining, construc-
tion and forestry, has at last turned
upward, having advanced 2 per cent
in March. Standing at 62.5 it is 16
per cent below the corresponding
month last year, and 70 per cent be-
low the peak month in 1929.
Construction was at a new low, the
index being only 16, hardly one-third
of what it was a year ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02

She frantically)-Jack,b baby's swal-
lowed the ink.
he (absently)-I suppose that means
you want to borrow my fountain pen.
--Tit-Bits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Rush to Safety

Ofacer-What do you mean by going
so miles an hour?
Speeder-My brakes are not work
ing right and was hurrying home -
a. to avoid an accident.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Never Tried II

rs your wife changeable, old man?"
i've never tried-but I shouldn't
think so."-Tit-Rits Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Anything but That

Doctor-The beat thing you can do
10 to give up smoking, drink nothing
but water, and go to bed early every
night.
Patient-What's the next best thing.
doctori
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Brsakages

Youth-When l bought this motor
cycle you said you would replace any
thing that broke In the nrxt six
months.
Dealer-Just so. What can I do
for your
Youth want new thumb. q new
collarbona and six front teeth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
Playing Up

Playing Up
Fair Kitehsnetts-Now they say
fruits and berries have electric activ-
ity.
few currants? Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-02
ORDINANCE No. 334s

An ordinance to issue bonds in anticipation
Of the collection Of Special Assessments for
the Improvement Of Benninghofen Avenue,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
S.M.L.U. Youngstown
Convention To Have
Plan for NRA Fight
Amter, BALLET Speak
Against Forced
Labor

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. - Delegates
from nils in the Mahoning, Shen-
ango, and Ohio River Valleys will
meet in a District Convention called
by the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union for Sunday, Dec. 3.
The delegates will discuss their ex-
per1ences in the recent struggles, plan
the fight against hunger under the
N.R.A., and elect district officers for
the coming year.
Calling for organization on every
forced labor job, I. Amter, National
Secretary Of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, addressed joblesS, part-time and
employed steel workers in this city
and Campbell, last Thursday. Joe
BALLET, District Secretary of the s. M.
I. u, who spoke together with Am
ter, pledged full support of the union
in the fight for full trade union wages
on forced labor civil works jobs.
1t was decided at the Youngstown
meeting, attended by $50, to hold an
open hearing on the CIVIL Works Job,
Dec. 8, at the s. M. I. u. headquar-
tiers, at Z pm. In the meantime, COM
mittees are to be organized on each
job and delegated body established
to unite all the men on all the jobs.
Five men collapsed waiting in line
-" the Youngstown city-stste employ
ment Office for the SIS a week forced
labor jobs. The long line extended
around three sides of the City Hall,
with police herding the jobless
around. The employment Office has
been moved to the armory, where the
National Guardsmen would better be
able to smash any angry discomfort
that might arise from the hungry
workers,
The Campbell meeting called by the
Unemployed Branch of the s. M. I. U.
sent a committee to the Home Relief
with some urgent cases. Resolutions
demanding enactment of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the
release of the Scottsboro boys, of Her
bert Benjamin in New Mexico, and
against the steel trust terror in Farrell
were unanimously adopted by the
Youngstown meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28

Roosevelt in Bridgeport, Conn, the
official socialist correspondent to the
New Leader, in an article called so
cialists Get on the job in Bridge
port" makes the following statement;
1T is expected that in a few days
most Of the unemployed in Bridge
port will have been enrolled on the
public works program"
Not only Is there not a word Of
truth in this statement, but it also
proves concretely that the Socialist
press goes even further than the cap
italist press in spreading the vicious,
lying propaganda Of the Roosevelt
administration. For, the Bridgeport
Times-Star, paper owned by large
industrial interests, states editorisily
that the number of Jobs allotted to
Bridgeport is totally inadequate, III
view Of the fact that there are 4
large number Of unemployed In the
city.
True Situation Suppressed
While the unemployment statistic
are carefully suppressed here, never
theless, from the few figures avail
able, we can estimate that there are
approximately $1,000 unemployed. The
quota for Bridgeport, If the C.WA.
goes through with it is 1900 jobs. In
face of these facts, how can the So
cialist correspondent report that most
of the unemployed will be on the pub
lie works payroll. And in few days,
too, when delay and deceit are the
chief characteristics Of a relief pro
gram.
The same day also brings us this
news, from an item in the Times
>,ys.r: Fred Schwartzkopf (Socialist)
city clerk, will represent Mayor Nc
Levy, at a testimonial dinner, given
in honor Of John T. Elliano, newly
elected commander of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars"
This item speaks for itself
Now when we consider the fact
that the great Jasper McLevy has en-
dorsed the Federal Relief program as
a way out Of the depression and has
endorsed the Community Chest, to-
gether with the above facts-we,
workers in Bridgeport DO not have TO
wait, as we were asked to, by the
Socialist administration, to see what
they are going to do. We see only
too clearly that the Socialists have
been on the job; the job Of building
fascism; the job Of betraying the
workers who voted for them in the
hope of getting socialism; the job OF
collaboration with the capitalist class
The Socialist Party overlooks the fact
that they will have to answer TO the
workers for all this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
Tells of Early Days and Nights of Horror When
Union of Sharecroppers First Was Formed

! four and q half miles to get TO the
meeting. Then the crowd grew so huge
that they had to break it up, because
they all couldn't get into the house
They divided into two groups so that
those from the center of Camp Hill
could have meetings nearer home.
Landlords Sherifrs Break Up Meetings
THE first Wednesday night we had
a success. The next Wednesday night
the law came down." John Moore told
what happened when the law arrived.
A picture Of crowded rickety farm
house and a young organizer speaking
to them from the table. He, too was
a sharecropper, but from another
county.
Il know you all don't understand
what were trying to tell you yet. II
the law should come in, and ask you
what you're doing here, you tell them
that you don't know That's the truth
You don't know yet" he said.
"And it was just then that the
law broke in on the meeting. They
run in" declared John Moore.
Carl Young and all the other If
teen deputies who broke into the meet
ing were known to Moore for years.
Moore was sitting in the middle of
the floor. Armed to the teeth, pis-
tolls, rifles, blaekjacks, What kind OF
damned meeting are you having
here?" they demanded.
Hits Negro for Not Answering "Sir''
No one answered. Tom Gray and
Ralph Gray were there. Toms daugh-
ter was the secretary. The deputy
wanted to know who the secretary
was. Tom Gray said he didn't know.
''You is damn liar" yelled Carl
Young. "No, Tn not" answered Tom.
Can't you say, No SIR" yelled the law.
Young. mo" answered Tom GRAY.
Young picked up a pistol and hit him
with it. People began to run. Ralph
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28

ers struck and won wage increases in
the Republic Steel clippers strike.
Strikes in the light metal plants of
Cleveland, led by the S.MWI.U., have
won wage increases and union recog-
milton. Hundreds Of new members
have been recruited into the union
during the recent period.
In the major strike of steel work
ers (Weirton) we lost favorable
opportunity to establish our union
through neglect of constant day-to-
day plugging and work during the
so-calIed peaceful period" when the
A. A. entered the field unchallenged.
Our absence from thu field, and dur
ing the strike, enabled the A. A. lead
ers to so brazenly betray and the gov
eminent to break the Weirton strike.
Our major attention and forces
must be conferred on building the
S.M.WI.U. in the steel industry
concentrating in Cleveland on the
American Steel and Wire, Otis steel
and Midland steel.
Tasks Of Convention
Some Of the tasks facing this con-
yention which all locals and groups
should discuss are: l. How to Or
ganize the campaign against the high
cost of living and low wages dictated
by the N.R.A. 2. Relief for the I'M
employed and part-time workers and
support for the workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill" 3. How to
our forces and resources
to build the union in the basic steel
plants. 4. To consolidate the newly
formed local unions and organizing
groups and spread the union in the
particular industries. 5. Work out
q definite policy and program of work
and agitation inside the A. F. Of L.
unions and to win the independent
unions into the SM.WIU. 8. To
review the strike struggles and draw
lessons for the whole union. z. To
organize women's auxiliarieS and
youth activity in the local union. 8.
To spread the "Steel and Metal
Worker" amongst the workers and
build 1t to a mass circulation.
For further information or conven-
ton calls write to: Convention Ar
rsngements Committee, 1887 Payne
Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, or phone; Pros
pect 7os7.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28

The next night they went to Rome
The troopers carried their guns. 1--WE
walked along the road and car came
up. We all hid on the side of the
road. All except Ralph Gray. He was
brave. Ralph stayed on the road. 1t
was the deputies In the car. Where
are you going?' they asked Ralph.
Going home answered Ralph. Where
you been?' they wanted to know.
Been hunting answered Ralph Gray.
Give us your gun, Niger ordered
the deputies. TIL not answered
Ralph. 7 bought and paid for this
gun" John Moore told the story in
graphic style,
Tells Of Murder OF Ralph Grey
"They shoo at Ralph twice from the
car. He fell He leyelled his gun. He
fired with both barrels. The shots
went of. They hit Sheriff Young.
He wore a breast plate. and the shot
few all over, but even SO. he was
wounded. because the shot was fired
at such close range. The deputies got
scared, they picked up the law, and
carried him to the hospital"
That night the law organized a
gang. Nearly a hundred cars came
to Ralph Gray's shack. There were
80 to 40 sharecroppers there. They
couldn't buy ammunition. Most of
them only had two or three shells.
Everyone Clipped in their shot. The
speaker told about the International
Labor Defense, but, I'VE couldn't see
that far. We got tired of lynching
and we decided to do what we could"
Determination rang in Moore's voice.
THE gang came. For thirty minutes
We shot them off. A fierce battle, and
we run them off. We had nothing left
but empty guns. So we left. But
they came back. And they shot Ralph
as he lay in bed. They took him away
with all his bed clothes. They car
ried him to a county seat. They threw
him out in the yard, with 86 holes
in his body. What became of him !
don't know TO this day. They sent
in box TO the colored
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
Unemployed Workers
Jailed on Frame-up
By Mission Head

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Two unem-
ployed workers, Wharton and Saki,
are serving Is days in jail here, and
another unemployed worker, Ed.
Hubbard, is being held under $500
bail as a result of frame-up by
Mrs. Coveli of the Brother Toms
Midnight Mission and a police spy.
Wharton and Saki, after consult
ing with the men at the mission, had
set off to the r. F. c., which allots
40 cents day per man at the mis-
sion. McGeary, stool-rigeon, over
heard them and reported them to
the police. They were picked up and
forced to plead guilty to charges of
attempted riot, drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace. One day later,
Ed. Hubbard, unemployed youth, was
arrested at the mission for refusing to
go to the c. G. c. camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28

and Sangamon counties have not been
recognized. Lewis, the Peabody COM
pany and the NR.A., the resolutions
declared, are carrying on further at
lacks on the PIMA. miners, and at
the same time the Executive Board of
the Union is playing around with one
conference after the other. The wages
of the miners actually amount to
s3.75 per day, the resolution points
out.
The Progressive Miner. organ of
the PIMA, admits that the coal code
does not provide for shorter hours,
and higher wages or more jobs, but
leaves over the whole problem to Jan
5, where the MIRA. board will con-
tinue with its endless conferences. BY
that time the coal season will be
over.
Miners Demands
The demands of the resolution,
passed by eight local unions, in addi-
ton to the demand for special scale
convention no later than Dec. fol-
low:
l. Six hour day, five day week. Sc
a day basic wage scale for all miners
in and around the mines, with mini
mum guarantee of $50 per week for
40 weeks a year work.
2. Increased unemployment relief
and unemployment insurance to be
paid by the government and the en-
ployers.
3. The right of the miners to belong
to unions Of their own choice, the
recognition Of all unions in each case,
in every mine the recognition of mine
committees elected by the miners
without check-off.
4. The right Of Negro miners to
work on any job and live in any sec
ton of the city on equal terms with
white miners.
5. Unity of all Illinois miners, P.
M. A. and U. M. w. A. rank and file
mot imported scabs), in struggle for
the above program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
Many Walked for Miles to Get to Meetings;
Aid of Daily Worker at Meets Emphasized

cemetery, but they wouldn't let us
bury it, and we couldn't tell whether
it was Ralph Gray or not, because
they wouldn't let us open the box. .
Wholesale Arrests Of Choppers
They arrested Is sharecroppers that
night. When they finished the round
up, they had 80 men, women and
children under arrest. All they could
get. After fifteen or sixteen days.
they came to question the troopers.
DO you belong to union?" they
wanted to know. The troopers didn't
deny it, do you want lawyers?" The
landlord of the big Gin and FeIti-
lizer Company wanted to know this.
They knew he was no friend of theirs
and they refused his help.
Finally the International Labor De-
Tense came down. They an rested
then. Soon after they were turned
out of jail two at a time in the middle
of the night Tom Gray and his
boy were the last to get out. They
were in jail for two months. The
whole settlement had thought that
they would never be seen again. This
opened the peoples eyes. And then
they came in by the hundreds. They
piled into the union. That was the
Of the union" John Moore
went on to the present. He told Of
how they went from sharecropper to
to raise money to get
to the Farmers Conference in Chi
cago. The farmers have no money.
They could only get pennies to put
together. They finally got enough to
get a truck. They went to Birming-
ham. Sixteen came in one truck from
Alabama and Georgia, black and
white together to this Farm Confer
ence in Chicago.
When they got to Birmingham, they
couldn't get real truck with the
money they had. Thev had to get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
Chinese Strikers
Face Deportation
Oil Tank Crew Fought
Coolie Wages

SAN PEDRO, CaI.-The U. S. De-
partment of immigration holds 80
Chinese seamen here at San Pedro
for deportation to the British naval
base at Singapore as result of a wage
strike. Charged with mutiny, these
workers were arrested when San
Pedro and Wilmington police riot"
squads rushed their ship and herded
the Seamen into the Pedro Jail at
the behest of Captain B. G. Proteroe.
The capitalist press, which printed
lurid tales of Chinese attacking the
noble Anglo Saxon officer with a
meat cleaver, were forced to admit
that the dispute arose over wages.
The facts are these: These men
were shipped in Singapore on the
Shell Tanker Clam British registry
some six months ago and have never
got ashore since. Exploited merci-
lesSly at the starvation wage OF SIS
month, these men have been sleep
ing on deck With no accommoda-
tons.
Originally it was intended, accord
ing to the officers OF the Shell Oil
Corp, to send these strike seamen
to Vancouver to stard trial for mu-
tiny, but because of the expense"
according to Captain Protheroe. the
men will be shipped back as "indigent
seamen" to Singapore. The Shell Oil
Corp. pays the bill and the U. S.
Department of Labor "co-operates"
in sending these workers to a port
where they may possibly be be-
headed by the fascist government in
control. This is another proof of the
anti-working class nature of the
Roosevelt Administration, and shows
up the deportation tactics of Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins
The International Labor Defense
here is taking steps to defend the
Chinese seamen who are being held
for deportation
Pedro Waterfront Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
BY HELEN KAY

NEW YORK.-A sharecropper from
the sunny South Is in New York. He
tells story OF life and struggle in
the state OF Alabama that for drama
makes the plays on Broadway look
sick.
His name is John Moore. He is 81
years old. He comes from that terri
tory that has become tradition in the
revolutionary toilers movement, from
Tallapoosa county.
He Is relative of Ralph Gray, muir
dered sharecropper, and one of four
organizers on whose head a price of
fifty dollars has been set.
Tall, stocky, with stopped shoulders
from tilling the soil, he tells the story
OF those early days when the share
choppers union was first formed, in a
monotone. as though the grim horror
of those first few nights, we're some
thing apart from actual experience.
in the beginning one of my cous-
ms spoke to me. Let's go over to
Rome tonight he asked. "A fellow
over there, T like the way he talks.
He tells about better conditions for
colored people and workers, and he's
arranging for us to meet
Il didn't go that night. But went
another night. And I also liked the
way he talked. I liked it heaps. He
was talking about me. So joined.
Copies of Daily Worker Helped
They gave us Daily Workers that
night. I took a batch home to give
TO my friends. We couldn't under
stand then what the Daily Worker
said altogether. But we understood
it in spots. Anyway it helped the
speaker to show what he meant about
The working people"
John Moore told of how the meet
ngs began to grow larger How the
people from his territory had to walk !