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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa:-I am a little girl 8
years old. 1 go to school. 1 am in
the second grade. l want for Christ
mas a new dress and doll house and a
set of baking pans and lot Of candy
and some nuts.
MARY L. MORELAND.
Gormania, w. Va, Dec. IS, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
girl eight years old and in the third
grade. l have a little brother four
years old. want big doll and lit
tie broom and little doll house. My
little brother wants a little gun and
a little car that winds up for Christ
mas. ALICE WILL.
Westernport, Nd, Dec. II, 1898.
Dee est Santa:-I am Just a little
boy with white hair and blue eyes.
Fo. Christmas l would like for you
to bring me a violin, because the bow
is worn out on the one l have. Also
bring me candy and nuts. Please
bring "Pop' a new pipe.
Oh yes, don't forget my cousin Paul
lie. Die waits d pOpSull W iuiC wv
with next fall.
l am, your little 7a.,
RAY SWEITZER.
Third street, Oakland, Dec. IS.
Dear Santa Claus an, q little
girl II years old. I would like to
have a pencil box and some candy and
nuts. MARGARET DEAL.
McHenry, Md, Dec. IS, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am little
girl six years old. would like to have
a rubber doll, some candy and nuts.
MARY RUTH DEAL.
McHenry, Md, Dec. II, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
boy nine years old. would like to
have a pocket knife and some candy.
HARRY DEAL.
McHenry, Md, Dec. II, 1888.
Dear Santa:-I am a little girl 2
years old. l am a good girl. | want
for Christmas a sleeping baby doll, a
balloon and some blocks and new
cap, some oranges, candy and nuts
and some new rubber tires on our
wagon. Now, please, Santa, don't
miss us or any other little boys or
girls. ALICE LOHR.
Oakland, Dec. IS, 1888.
Dear Santa:-I am a little girl six
years old and l go to school every day.
| would like you to bring me a school
bag, a book, ball, baby doll and
tam, and anything nice you may
have; also candy, oranges and nuts.
MARY E. LOHR.
Oakland, Dec. IS, 1888.
Dear Santa:-I am little boy four
years old, and l would like to have
a truck, tool box, q knife and a ball.
Some new overalls or unionalls, candy,
oranges and nuts. Now please don't
miss us. Oh yes, Santa, we would like
the weather to be pretty so We can go
to grandma'S.
ARTHUR LOHR.
Oakland, Dec. Is, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
boy years old, and in the first grade
in school. l would like you to bring
me train, some candy and nuts. I
thank you for the toys you brought me
last year. A Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
BRUCE F. HUMBERSON.
Selbysport, Nd, Dec. IS, 1888.
Dear Santa Claus:-I want a flexi-
BILE flyer sled and round wrist watch
with leather strap. Please put
some candy, oranges and nuts in my
stocking.
Wishing you Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year.
ALLEN NAYLOR.
Oakland, Nd, Dec. 20, 1893.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21
Tuesday, January 8, 1884,
Notice of Stockholders
Meeting
The First State Bank of Grants
vile, Maryland

The regular annual meeting of the
Stockholders of THE FIRST STATE
BANK OF EVANSVILLE, MARY
LAND, will be held at it's banking
house in Grantsville, Nd, on
Tuesday, January 9, 1884,
at 200 o'clock P. NJ, for the purpose
of electing Board of Directors for
the ensuing year and for the trans
acting of any other business that may
be brought before them.
Asst w. L. THOMAS, Cashier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-I want fexi-
BILE flyer sled and round wrist watch
with a leather strap. Please put
some candy, oranges and nuts in my
stocking.
Wishing you Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year.
ALLEN NAYLOR.
Oakland, Nd, Dec. 20, 1898.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21
Tuesday, January 9, 1884,
Notice of Stockholders
Meeting
The Farmers Bank of Oakland,
Maryland.

The regular annual meeting of the
Stockholders of THE FARMERS
BANK OF OAKLAND, MARYLAND,
will be held at the banking room of
the corporation in Oakland, Nd, on
Tuesday, January 8, 1884,
at Hoo o'clock A. NJ, for the pur-
pose of electing Board of Directors
and transacting such other business
as may lawfully come before the said
meeting.
BERNE TETER, Cashier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
girl eight years old and in the third
grade. l have a little brother four
years old. l want big doll and lit
tie broom and little doll house. My
little brother wants a little gun and
a little car that winds up for Christ
mas. ALICE WILL.
Westernport, Md, Dec. IT, 1898.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa:-I am a little boy four
years old, and I would like to have
a truck, tool box, u knife and ball.
Some new overalls or unionalls, candy,
oranges and nuts. Now please don't
miss US. Oh yes, Santa, we would like
the weather to be pretty so We can go
to grandma's.
ARTHUR LOHR.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21
Tuesday, January 8, 1884,

at 1000 o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose
of eiecting a Board of Directors for
the ensuing year and for the trans
acting of any other business that may
be brought before them.
43-5t A. H. RUSH, Cashier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
girl six years old, and this is my first
year in school. For Christmas l would
like you to bring me pair of slippers,
a sewing box, a box of paint. Please
bring my little sister Sue a sewing
box and color book and crayons, and
also some candy and oranges.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-I am a little
girl five years old. My home at Sun
nyside was sold, so now l live at Loeb
Lynn. Don't forget l have baby
brother; and please don't forget any
of us. l am a good girl. help mother.
HELEN MAE MOON.
Mt. Lake Park. Dec. Is. 1898.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus am little
girl II years old. I would like to
have pencil box and some candy and
nuts. MARGARET DEAL.
McHenry, Md, Dec. IS, 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

NOTE - The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Joint Stock Land Bank of Baltimore
will re-fnance the purchase of the
property for a reasonable amount on
the Farm Loan Plan.
Advertisement 42-4t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa:-I am a little girl 5
wears old and / want you to bring me
4 table and chair for my doll and set
of dishes and lots of candy and nuts
and oranges. Do not forget my sis
ters and brothers.
HELEN L. MORELAND.
Gormania, w. Va, Dec. Is, 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21
Deer Park, Dec. IS, 1888.

Dear Santa Claus:-I will be a good
girl and go to bed early Christmas
Eve. I would like for you to bring
me some nuts and some candy, too.
would like to have big doll 25 inches
tall with real hair and have it cry and
go to sleep, and sewing machine,
too, and don't forget my little baby
brother
| wish merry Christmas to all.
BEATRICE GROVES.
Deer Park, Dee. Is, 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-I am boy just
past seven years old. Last Christmas
you were so good to me, l must thank
you now.
There are some other boys and girls
who live near me who are very poor;
please don't forget them on Christ
mas, and whatever you think a little
boy should have who likes playthings,
will suit me fine.
Your little friend,
CARROLL EDMUND HARVEY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

NOTE = The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Joint Stock Land Bank of Baltimore
will re-fnance the purchase of the
property for a reasonable amount on
the Farm Loan Plan.
Advertisement 42-4t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dear Santa Claus:-Will you please
bring me a set of dishes, pair of
skates and big doll, and please don't
forget my little brother. He would
like little car. Don't forget to bring
some candy and nuts.
MARTHA GROVES.
Deer Park, Nd, Dec. Is, 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

Dea est Santa:-I am Just little
boy with white hair and blue eyes.
Fo. Christmas l would like for you
to bring me a violin, because the bow
is worn out on the one l have. Also
bring me candy and nuts. Please
bring "Pop" new pipe.
Oh yes, don't forget my cousin Paul
inc. She wants popgun to hunt deer
with next fall.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

L. H. STEUART, Secretary.
Advertisement 44-2t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21

: Dear Santa Claus:-I am a good lit
tie boy four years old. l would like
for you to bring me for Christmas a
set of A B C blocks, horn, wrist
watch some oranges, nuts and candy,
and, Santa, don't forget my little
brother Bobby. He is two years old;
bring him something.
Your little friend,
CLAUDE HINEBAUGH.
Friendsville, Nd, Dec. 16, 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-12-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS


Published first time December 7, 1913
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Home Relief Buro
Aids Chicago N.R.A.
to Cut Union Wages
Letter of Director
Orders Wages Under
Union Scale

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 27.-A letter
to Home Relief Bureau supervisors
here. showing that relief officials are
helping to compel union members to
have their wages reduced and to
work for starvation N. r. A. wages,
has been sent out by J. L. Moss,
Director of Cook County Relief.
Moss quotes W. s. Reynolds Of the
Illinois Emergency Work Relief Com
mission, under the heading, Relief
clients, members of unions" II can
see no reason" instructed Reynolds,
"for extending relief to the worker
who Is offered a qualified Job by an
employer who complies with the N.
r. A. code. In case the earnings OF
workers on part time on such Jobs
are less than the required amount
to support the worker and his de-
pendents, such relief should be ex-
tended only to bring the income to
the amount necessary for a liveli-
hood"
As result the union member will
be compelled by the Relief to ac-
cept wages not only less than the
union rates, but even less than the
minimum provided under the N. r.
A. Then the worker will be dis
charged from the relief rolls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Shoe Mass Meet
to Fight Bosses
Phil. Natl Local Joins
Industrial Union
en- Masse

PHILADELPHIA giant mass
meeting to fight the bosses attempts
to smash the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union will be
held here Tuesday, Nov. %, at New
Garrick Hall. 507 South Eighth St
Fred G. Biedenkapp, general secre-
tary of the union, will be the main
speaker
This meeting is to mobilize all the
shoe workers against the attempts
of the bosses, aided by the corrupt
Boot and Shoe, to deprive the work
ers Of what they gained during the
last strike led by the Industrial
Union, and to further reduce the
wages.
The Philadelphia local Of the Ma
tional Shoe Workers Association has
recently Joined the Industrial Union
en- masse, repudiating the leadership
Of the National, its criminal negl-
gence and corrupt policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Two Job Racketeers
Arrested Charged
AS White Slavers

JERSEY CITY, N. IA white
slave ring, operating through crooked
job agencies by which Negro and
white girls from unemployed fami-
lies are being transported from
Pennsylvania and Baltimore to jobs
either non-existent or misrepre-
scented, was disclosed by the arrest
of two men here.
The men, Valentine Poyderaz Of
.Bobstown, Pa, and Nicholas Milcho-
yich OF Stockdalc, Pa, are charged
with having brought sixty girls to
New York City during the past si;;
weeks.
These girls, in most cases minors
under Is years of age, applied for
jobs as domestic servants. Their
unemployed families paid for the
Jobs and carfare to New York. When
the jobs we're found to have been
fakes, a few of the girls, after wan
dering about the city, reported to the
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Key Aircraft Men
Strikers Seeking
TO Form New Union
Compel Sikorsky Plant
to Fire White Guard
Scabs

HARTFORD, Conn.-Organizng to
form an independent industrial I'M
i'm, the Sikorsky Aircraft strike
committee called a mass meeting
attended by 400 workers last week,
exposing the strike5reaking activi-
ties of Egan, A. F. IF L. represent
tatiVe in Connecticut.
In Stratford, the 5ikorsky strikers
presented such a militant front to
the officials that they were forced to
fire White Guard scabs when the
workers demonstrated in protest.
Sikorsky himself is a Russian White
Guardist. The key men in the fac
tory are. out on strike and the pro-
duction schedule cannot be completed
until their return.
The strikers are reading the Daily
Worker and eagerly await its arrival.
They are cheerful and confident,
mainly because they have been
"wised up" to Egans' bag Of tricks
and to the fact that the N. r. A.
board is on the side Of the bosses,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

plete absence of any struggle against
the employers.
In 1881, even after the collapsed
strike, the men in groups carried on
struggle against certain grievances.
like the speed-up tactics OF certain
foreran, bunpy floors, etc. They
won seine OF their 6emanjS, and the
paper b-eaths5 with struggle around
day-to-Gay grievances. The Octobar
1898 issue might just as well be merely
the official organ of an opposition
group whose sole interest is fighting
the leadership, without any clear
program Of struggle on the docks.
But this is Communist Party paper,
and must champion the day to day
struggle OF the workers first of all
against the bosses, and as part of
that struggle, against the misleader-
ship which protects the bosses. This
is right sectarianism-a complete re-
action to the left sectarianisn of 1881
The Communist Party is not once
mentioned in connection with its
working class role nor are any of its
campaigns given attention.
Care Needed in Makeup
The Dock Worker has the max
| ings Of an excellent revolutionary
paper. Take up the struggles on the
docks against the boss. Explain the
functions and activities OF an opposi-
ton group and give instructions or
how it can be built up. Revive your
excellent former practice of urging
the workers to write for the paper
and give them an address to write
to, as before. Be careful of YOU
technical makeup the Dock
Worker" in 1881 was one of the best
looking and most clearly' arranged
shop papers in the entire country
Today your very excellent material i:
lost in the messy makeup of the
paper. You succeeded in provoking
the President Of the 7. L. A. loca
to write you a stupid letter, and YOU
reply is very we'll done but it /.
played down in the manner in which
1t is presented. Such letter deserves
a big headline-and you have none
at all Such reply deserves a SHARP
but dignified editorial. You give your
reply inconspicuously as an editors
note to the letter
Where are the jokes, the pictures
the neat layout of two years ago.
Where are the wise-cracks that in
1881 captured the spirit of the dock
workers. Such a heavy mass OF
monotonous material so badly done
on the mimeograph, that 1t is scarcely
J legible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Oregon Lynch
Verdict Upheld
Jordan, Innocent, Tor
tured for Confession

SALEM, Ore. Nov. 23.-The lynch
verdict Of death against Theodore
Jordan, Negro worker who was
framed on charge Of numbering q
railway conductor, was upheld by the
state supreme court in a decision
handed down last week. Justices
Rossman and Kelly, two of the seven
justices, disSented.
Jordan, whose innocence was con-
clusively proved by the International
Labor Defense, was repeatedly tor
tured with an electric machine which
burned his body severely, to make
him confess. The National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People withdrew from the case a year
ago, with bitter denunciation of Jor-
dan because he insisted on accepting
the support of the LID.
The LID. is now conducting q
mass campaign demanding freedom
for Jordan from Governor julius
Meier, at Salem, Ore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

These, Of course, were never kept,
and the I. L. A, affiliated with the
A. F. of L., did nothing to make the
bosses keep them.
The disgust OF the dock. workers
with the leadership OF the I. l.. A.
evidently caused the unit on the doc,
to believe that the 1. L. A. was a
dead organization. 1t urged the rank
and file lockers. through its paper,
to abandon the I. l.. A. and join the
M. w. I. U. In the, second issue, it
is advocating the formation OF dock
committees of the M w. /. IT,"
which may be a step nearer the cor
rect policy, but still very confused.
The fourth issue, in Sept, 1891,
urges the men to refuse to join the
I. l.. A., which had in the meantime
been sending organizers in from Buff
falo and other lake ports, to counter
act the activities of the revolutionary
workers. Had we had a correct policy
then, of working within the I. L. A.
we would by now have an infiuen-
tial opposition group with most prob
ably, some excellent results in fight
ing the I. L. A. misleaders. There
can be no doubt of this, in view Of
the successes Of the oppositional work
within the gangster controlled Paint
ers Union in New York at present,
after years of painstaking and cour-
ageous work on the part of our COM
rades in the Union.
The 1882 issues 81 hand august
and October, have taken up the work
| in the !. l.. A. in earnest. They
advocate the formation Of opposition
groups. They also advocate the
formation of Grievance Committees
ON specific grievances on the docks
They put forward the industrial char
acter of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union, without encroaching on
their oppositional work within the
| I. l.. A.
Role of Industrial Union
But what happens year later?
Judging from the October 1888 is
sue, there is loss of balance in union
work. The formation and strength
ening Of oppositional groups is put
forward, it is true, but so vaguely
that no worker can get wise as to
what they stand for and how they
can bring results. Nowhere is the
independent role Of the M. w. I. u.
In supporting the struggles of the I.
L, A. opposition group or its indus
trial character mentioned. But the
worst feature Of the present union
tactics Of the paper is the complete
absorption with the struggle against
the 1. l.. A. leadership, and the COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

The opening of the new school
this year will eliminate these de-
1ects, according to the local school
committee. An inaccessible To-
cation has been found in the heart
Iof the city, at 1924 Prospect Ave.
Carpenters are even now at work
installing partitions
A fund of $500 has been set to
ct the headquarters in shape. Of
~, $500 has already been raised,
mostly through new forces who have
cen drawn in to help the school.
Various groups now raising funds,
gillA climax their activities with a
anquet and house warming on
Sunday, Dec. 8, at 8 p. m.
The School plans to open with
n enrolment of 400. One hundred
re to be drawn from the Party,
mother 200 from the Young Com
Imunist League, trade unions, and
other mass organizations, and work
RS and intellectuals not yet con-
fected with the movement are ex-
nected to make up the last 100.
In addition to the regular politi-
al courses in Principles of Commu-
nism. Strategy and Tactics of the
Trade Union Movement, etc, there
will be many practical courses, such
as sign painting, which teach a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

1.-THE first Negro the Khan in our
county whipped lived in another
county. We were called upon to
go to that county. We rode about
eighteen miles to the place where
the Negro lived. We got him and
it was the impulse of every man of
us to kill him. We we gave him
200 lashes and told him if another
day found him in that section it
would be bad for him. He left
and did not return.
"a few months after the KlanS
had become busy, new sun arose
for the South. The glory of the
Anglo-Saxon shone in every mans
face"
In Scottsboro, in Tuscaloosa, all
over the South, they are trying by
violence and lawlessneSs to establish
the glory and power of the Anglo
Saxon. An ominous silence that is so
loud it is alive, stirs around the
courthouse in Decatur. Men go quietly
about their business, just as they did
the day before Pippen and Harden
and Elmore Clark were taken out to
be shot in the night.
The shooting of those boys was
done at the junction of three coun-
ties. When asked about it, the
sheriff of Tuscaloosa said, "If must
have been men from another coun-
try came in and did it," The old
XII Klux technique.
Is this technique to be used in the
Scottsboro trial? Are people being
kept quiet until the Scottsboro boys,
their defenders, t,se lawyers in the
trial, and any wlv-lesses can be got
to the borders or across the borders
to another county, so that grand
jury investigation can say, after they
been shot to death, 'It must have
been men from another county?"
GLORY of Anglo saxon?"
So that the "glory of the Anglo
Saxon" may shine on the faces of
the murderers, and those who in
stigate the murders, the political and
economic owners of the state and the
counties?
AS member OF the National Com
mittee for the Defense Of Political
Prisoners, as a Southerner, as a
writer, call on all intellectuals to
examine this trial, to follow it closely,
and to express in writing, and in as
many other ways as possible, insist on
adequate protection for the Negro
boys and for those who are defending
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27
Terre Haute Forced
Lab0rers on Roads
Wait10Days for Pay
(By Worker Correspo1dcntl

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.-The work
ers Of TeTre Haute were not long in
discovering that the road building
program was Just what it implied
to make better roads, not to better
the conditions Of the working class.
After working five-day week, the
workers are forced to wait seven to
ten days for their money, and, when
they apply for more relief, they are
told that the new laws goyernir g
relief disbursements prohibit grant,
ing of further aid before 30 days
after receipt of the public works
payment.
The workers are loud in their de-
nunciations, declaring the program
to be just another political racket
like the reforestation project. The
assurance Of two weeks work per
month has turned cut to be just an
other politicians promise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-27

ana Uleu unemployed, Vetef-
ans organizations, to the authorities,
and resolutions adopted by many
workers organizations throughout the
city.
Demands Of Marchers
The Hunger Marchers on Tuesday
will demand coal, clothing, medical
supplies; no shutting of Of gas and
light Of the unemployed: an end to
all evictions for non payment Of rent;
stopping the deportation of Negro
families from Allegheny County; no
more sales of mortgaged homes; for
increased unemployment relief and
especially the enactment Of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The march is also held In support Of
the Negro Scottsboro boys now being
rushed through their trial at Decatur
on framed up charges.
$4,000 On Welfare List
Seventy-five thousand families are
now on the welfare lists Of Allegheny
County. There are six thousand
children in the care OF the social
agencies. Twenty-Five per cent OF
all Pittsburgh school children are I'M
dernourished according to the adnlis-
sion of the government authorities.
In 1929 there were 656 tuberculosis
cases reported to the Pittsburgh city
health department; in 1882, this had
risen to 1902 cases. The rising prices
and increased unemployment and
wage Gust have made the conditions
of the unemployed and part time
workers in the county increasingly
desperate.
The parade begins at 1870 (noon)
at the Fifth Ave, High School at the
corner of Fifth Ave. and Dinwiddie
ST., and goes down Fifth Ave, through
the main streets of the town TO the
West Park Bandstand. Workers from
the mining and steel towns through
out the country will march into Pitts
burgh. This is the first time that
a permit for a parade through the
main streets of the town has been
forced from the Pittsburgh authors
ties.