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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
By JOHN l. SPIvAK

FRESNO, Call thought
of these things which I had
learned from local charity
organizations while waiting
for Mr.. Ledbetter to finish
talking with the old farmer. Fin
ally, the county charity director
turned to me with a warm smile.
I'D like some figures on the num-
Der Of applicants for aid and
amounts expended" I said.
The smile faded. A frown spread
over his Wrinkled forehead.
What do YOU want them for2o
I'm making a study Of charity
increases or decreases throughout
the country"
For what purpose?"
For a book"
What kind Of a book?"
Does it make any difference?
These are public records. are they
not?"
They are. But for what purpose
are you going to use these figures?
I'm not going to give out any fig
ures that might be used for red
propaganda"
Again I had come across the red
jitters-even in the charity depart
ment.
After creating a bit of a scene he
finally showed me the records-such
as they Were-but before giving
them and other figures gathered.
perhaps I'd better report another
instance Of the red filters as an
additional illustration, though I
found them to a greater or lesser
degree everywhere in this area.
In the Office of the Community
Chest when I asked for figures the
young lady at the desk filled with
application cards said.
What do you want them for?"
I'm making a study Of charity
increases or decreases in the coun-
try?"
For what purpose?" she asked
suspiciously.
For red propaganda l shrieked.
She laughed, her suspicious gone.
"You know, we've had a lot of
trouble with red agitators." she
confided, "and we're not giving out
anything they could use to stir up
more trouble"
Because I had said I wanted it
for red propaganda she did not be-
lieve me and showed me the records
also such as they were. But from
the various charity groups and
there muddled records I was able to
piece together some essential facts
about charity conditions in the
city and county:
Charity in the county here in
creased slowly following the depres-
sion. Most Of it's tremendous Jump
came after 1881. Migratory workers
who we're the class that felt the
pinch Immediately, we're shunted
about or deported so the actual des-
titution in the first year or two
after the depression began, Is not
recorded except for comparatively
small numbers who got aid from
religious groups like the Catholics
IT WAS In 1881 that the native
white Americans, either farm or
city workers. began to feel the
pinch of extreme want and applied
for charity With the exception of
the Catholic group distributions the
records show that those who got aid
we're from 30 to IS per cent native
white Americans. Most Of these ap-
plicants at first were Of the I'M
skilled laboring class. AS the de-
preston deepened the ruined small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

DO You Want These Figures
To Stir Up Red Propaganda"

farmer and the skilled union man
we're added to the hS
During the period between the
latter part Of 1892 and the begin
ming of 1884 charity expenditures
for the county alone averaged
around $4,000 a month for direct
relief. This excludes Office and
overhead expenditures. From other
charity organizations scattered fig
Ures were available which we're IN
sufficient TO form a clear picture Of
the extent except that an average
Of one out Of every three persons in
the city are living on charity. &C
cording to the estimates Of the va
rious charity directors,
AS an illustration Of the growth
Of charity. In January, 1923. before
the depression. yet after consid-
cradle loss Of the grape trade which
is one Of its chief products. there
were about 300 applicants at the
Department Of Welfare. In Jan
usry, 1888, the number Of cases
handled by the county itself botalled
over 3.500-and this at a period
when many county residents had
become migratory workers and left
the county.
Federal work relief projects re-
duced the number Of applicants 50
that for the month Of February.
1O2A for sv-4og,oo Al o,-o ry.ora - b1,.A
$500. But, though the old appli-
cants were being taken of the list
a constantly growing new group of
destitute workers and farmers were
being added at the rate OF $50
month. So actually the number of
destitute was increasing instead Of
decreasing for those dependent
upon federal relief Jobs may be-
considered charity cases-only the
government gives it instead Of the
county.
The Community Chest, which has
six Of its ten affiliated groups, Civ
ing direct relief, has only scattered
records which would take a week or
two to arrange before a clear pic
ture could be had Of their charity
expenditures, and I did not have
the time to devote to this particular
thing. 1t would have been neces-
sary to gather the records Of all
the affiliated groups and then hire
an accountant The Catholic chart
ties, for instance, merely list the
number Of food orders issued dur
ing the year. The record does not
show the total number Of families
applying for aid It is dificult
therefore, to know definitely
whether more families applied for
aid. Also, when a decrease is shown
in the food orders issued, one does
not know whether that decrease is
due TO drop in the number of
applicants or whether the charities
were unable to raise enough money
to give the dependents as much as
before, or whether some got gov
eminent work relief Jobs, or were
deported, since the Catholic groups
had a high percentage Of Mexican
applicants.
The Community Chest says, how
ever, that there has been a great
decrease in the contributions. both
In size and number, because PEG
pie simply haven't got the money"
Ito Re Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

LOS ANGELES. - The January
tour of the Film and Photo League
for the Western Worker, resulted
in 81 subs for the Western Worker,
% members for the Communist
Party, $136 in collections for the
Western Worker, and $20.55 for the
Party. In addition, 4,400 workers
Jaw the END Of st. Petersburg, !"
md local class struggle films deal
ng with the FL Monte Berry Pick
7rs strike, the anti-war demonstra-
ion in San Diego, and the great
los Angeles County Hunger March
demonstration.
In Modesto a showing Of the Los
Angeles films was announced Feb.
Is. Three days before the showing
she C.W.A. laid off 700 in Modesto,
and Modesto bosses did not want
these workers to see films of the
lass struggle, as the fired C.W.A.
men were in a fighting mood. I'M
nediately a campaign on the part
If the bosses and the fsscists was
started to sabotage the showing of
he Film and Photo League. The
Public Library advertised counter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Fe Aft Is Featured at Workers Dance
League Recital Next Friday EVening

NEW YORK.-A rich program of
revolutionary dances will be pre-
sented at the recital by the Workers
Dance League 20 be held at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music next
Friday evening, April 20.
Five groups of the Workers Dance
League will participate in the pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

the false and vicious tradition OF
the commercial theatre which de-
liberately portrays Negroes only as
prancings clowns, docile slaves, or
horrible criminals.
Such play is a significant
event. declared Richard B. Moore.
general secretary of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, "for it
mirrors and expresses the breaking
through of the vital and powerful
forces which are shaking the en-
tire structure Of national and social
oppression at its very foundations.
This play should be greeted with the
enthusiastic support of the broad
masses of Negro and white workers
and of all elements sympathetic TO
the liberation of the oppressed Ne
gro people"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
ssSTEVEDORE,' NEW THEATRE UNIONPLAY.
IS CHEERED BY WORKERS AT IT'S PREVIEW

A special pre-view performance
of "stevedore," the gripping, pow
erful play by Paul Peters and
George Sklar. marked the opening
Of this second production of the
Theatre Union. This performance
IL given for the benefit of the League
Of Struggle for Negro Rights on
Saturday night at the Civic Roper
tory Theatre, 14th st. and Sixth Ave.
The production of "Stevedore"
marks a tremendous advance in the
reslist portrayal of the life of the
American toilers in the theatre.
vividly portraying the stark life
and bitter struggles of the Negro
and white longshorenen on the
docks of New Orleans this vital
drama effectively smashes through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Annual Concert and
Dance to Be Held by
Boston Music League

BOSTON. - The Workers Music
League, Massachusetts, District, will
hold its second annual concert and
dance on Wednesday, April 10, at
8 p. m. at the Ritz-Plaza, 21s Hun
tington Ave.
Twelve choruses, English, Jewish,
Lithuanian and Russian will sing
separately in their national Ian
guages and then will be merged
into a mass chorus Of four hundred
fifty voices.
Carl Sands, composer musician
and revolutionary music critic, will
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
WHAT'S ON
MOndnH


MAY DAY LECTURE by Comrsde Tab
man at 81 Bay 25th, Brooklyn. Auspices
Unemployed Council Of Bath Beach. Ad-
mission free.
"STEVEDORE" - Mondays presentation
Of the Theatre Union play is for the bene-
fit Of the once workers Union and the
Daily Worker. Tickets for sale at Box
ONCE Civic Repertory Theatre) and the
ONCE Workers Union Ola W. 14th ST.
BROWNSVILLE BR. FSU regular mem
bership meeting at 100 Glenmore Ave,
Brooklyn. viii be followed by the third
Of the series Of lectures on contrasting
conditions in o. s. A. and u S. S. R. BY
Alfred Morris, Lecture tonight on Youth
in U. S. A. and in the U. S. S. R. Ad-
mission free. $40 p. m
Tuesday
COMMUNIST POSITION ON NEGRO
QUESTION at 261 Schenectady Ave,
Brooklyn. 8 p. m. Admission free Aus
pieces Unit 2, Section 8, C. P
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

gram, and the noted dancer, Fe Alt
will appear as guest soloist.
This outstanding event is being
held for the benefit of the Labor
Defender, monthly pictorial of the
International Labor Defense, and is
being sponsored by the United Front
supporters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
"The ShoD-Of" at the
Jefferson Tuesduu

1.-THE Show-Off" with Spencer
Tracy and Madge Evans will be
shown at the Jefferson Theatre on
Tuesday and wednesday. Moulin
Rouge featuring Constance Bennett
and Franchot Tone is on the same
program. On Thursday and Friday,
the jefferson will present, I've Got
Your Number" with Joan Blondell
and Pat oBrien; also Voice in the
Night" with Tim Mccoy and Billie
Seward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
TRANsLATORs WANTED

NEW YORK.-The national Office
Of the John Reed Clubs needs as
sistance in translating numerous
critical articles on Marxism and
literature and art from the Russian,
German, etc. Translators who are
willing to contribute their services
should communicate with Alan
Calmer, acting national secretary,
430 Sixth Avenue, New York City.
Texts, including volumes of criticism
and files Of magazines such as
Linkscurve and the Literary Gazette
U.S.SR.) are also needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Hell On Earth" Anti-Wnr
Film At EmDire Theatre. Br.

In both technique and subject
matter, Victor Trivas has fashioned
new sort of anti-war film. He
has made motion picture which
in conception and execution is in
ternational in Hell On Earth"
which is now being shown at the
Empire Theatre. Westchester Ave
nue. and 161st Street, Bronx,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Two. BAND NEEDS MUSICIANS

CLEVELAND.-The International
Workers Order Band needs more
musicians for the May Day cele-
bration. All musicians, male and
female, Negro and white, are in
vited to attend the I. W. o. band
held every Thursday eve
ming at 2645 w. 18th St.. Cleveland,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Film~Foto Tour on Coast Brings Subs
forWesternW Worker, Members for C.P.

showing of bourgeois f1ln1s-free of
charge. The American Legion or
ganized a parade to march to the
hall where the showing would take
place to intimidate the workers. At
the last minute the fire chief was
sent in to inspect the building 4.
at night The fire chief could find
nothing wrong with the building
and stayed for the showing of the
workers films, not leaving until the
showing was over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Stage and Screen
Gilbert and .SulLiUdn's
"Pindfore" and "TriaI Blu
jury" at Majestic TOnt0ht

The third offering by the former
players of the Aborn opera group
will be "Pinafore"and Trial by
Jury" a double Gilbert and Sullivan
bill, which will be presented for one
week beginning tonight at the Ma
iestic Theatre. William Danforth.
Herbert Waterous, Vera Ross, Roy
Chopper and Vivian Hart head the
cast. Beginning Monday, April %.
the company will again offer The
Mikado,' the operetta which opened
their repertory season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
TsaIEE
BY MICHAEL GOLD

As THE CRISIS deepens, the cult of nudsm grows in
"A America. Maybe it's because more and more Amer
leans find impossible to buy clothes Or maybe it's be-
the morals of the bourgeose breaking down in
the depression.
Or maybe it's genuinely for health reasons 1t is true
that plenty of sunlight the body makes
better myself sun-worsipper and much sunlight
why you it
circles something metaphysical about
bathing AS matter Of
you get sunlight you pair of tights
Of those Florida smsuts for
Anyway grows will lot more OF
than businessmen with hotels that were bank
pt racket brings lot Of bust
writer's, all the swarm OF
intellectual adventurers hocking to the honey.
fields been nudss but never
develop phioopc They
Just do In Russian always bathing
about 1t OLD peasant CUSTOM
people simple natural In this bourgeois
civilization things the of usm and
really quite nportant however alongside OF
issues affect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
There Were Three Million in Germany

interesting however that Germany there formerly
groups. The cult
expression of protest against the old bourgeois German pasmes
ber-drnking health and though
foolish unnecessary extreme it tied with
the ideal Of healthy social order.
suppressed societies at
perert butcher Of the vorngclass
offended by the that od psychological and physical
joy exposing bodies Without doubt sunbathers
with instincts to the dark alb
normal Hilers of this world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Communists Are Everywhere

MANY camps Germany
w interesting that everywhere the nudists
actually organization this with headquarters
Washington, D. which itself the American AntNudty
League.
Recently Dr. Coates coats)
hot letter protest to the Governor of Virginia.
that nudists have planning establish
colony Herndon Fairfax county Virginia.
I'VE calling attention to the fact that within the bom
Virginia purity
nobility principle there being established nud
colony" the says.
cannot labor prison
charges unemployed capitalist
orshes mery with sristoeraic Vignan trimingsin this
state of all States people abandon their bathing
Coates silent all her fifty years probably
daily inisces Virginia leaps
on the matter O bathing
somebody bathing and let
what is really in her mind
For Mental Nudism
WISH there would be kind mental physical
nudism really
capitalist liar stripped of rhetorical clothes
Suppose you oratory
away from would left2 nudist fact that
trying to the cruel system of private profit
Suppose took the linen theology
preachers every
body gross
aooed dolar-sgns They spirituality
mortality only superficial clothes body
meath is capitalism.
the school teachers the literary
cultural policemen of capaisrn-wha
into clothes with which hide their horrible beliefs
servience to the exploiters of capitalist systm.
Carlyle developed this theory mental nUdism
called SarOr Tory
revolution
worsdng-class satiris could do with this theme.
Evening star., 1934-06-21

PLEASE DO NOT PARK DOUBLE!
regulations
solving
Evening star., 1934-06-21
FOUR-YEAR COURSE
PUPILS GRADUATED
288 Are Graduated at East
ern High-3-Year Student
Ceremony Tuesday.

Two hundred and eighty-eight four
year students were graduated from
Eastern High School at exercises last
night. Commencement for students
taking the three-year course had been
held Tuesday evening.
The ceremonies were simple and
dignlfied. There was no address to
the graduates, the only formal speech
being the valedictory delivered by Lii
Ian Friedman.
George M. Whitwell, member OF
the Board of Education, presided. and
Allan Davis. principal of Roosevelt
High School, presented the diplomas
to the senior students. Charles Hart,
principal of Eastern, announced re-
cipients of awards.
A list of the graduates follows:
Yetta Abelman, Silvia Abraham,
Thelma Clement Adams and Gather
inc Louise Androulakis.
Edith Wade Barry, Anna Battinieri,
Margaret Belnick. Eleonora Josephine
Bergling, Josephine Frances Bertolini,
Mary Bisker. Eunice Irene Bissonette,
Margaret Elizabeth Bohrer, Bernice
Adele Boutwell,, Margaret Hunter
Brannock, Alice Lucy Bright. Mary
Marguerite Brinsf1eld, Ruby May Bun
yea, Frances Mae Burroughs and Vio-
let Elizabeth Bush.
Rose Loretta Callow, Ethel May
Garfield, Dorothy Chace, Margaret
Ellen Chamberlain, Anna Elaine
Chase, Virginia Helen Christen, Helen
Elois Clum, Martha Jane Colbert,
Dorothy Marie Conover. Christine
Cook, Ellen Adelaide Costello, Ruth
Mary Creal and Margaret Cecilia
CusSler.
Mary Eleanor Darling, Clara Louise
Davis, Margaret Adelaide Davis, Con-
tstance Catherine Deenihan, Marjorie
Frances DePoy, Margaret Adella De-
Rieux, Julia Long Draper, Adele Cres-
cent DreSlin. Hazel Geneva Dronen-
burg, Grace Earline Dygert and Vivian
Gladys Dyson.
: Helen Augusta Early, Lillian Gaddess
Ely, Kathlyn Elizabeth Erwin and
Marjorie Elaine Estes.
Eleanor Virginia Faust, Ruth
. Daphne Fink. Dorothea Lee Fletcher,
Margaret Teresa Flynn, Winnifred
. .Madelyn Frame, Elva Marie Freyman
and Lillian Friedman.
Carol Gels, Claudia Blanche Cali
her, Frances Geller, Thelma Marie
Gioyannetti, Evelyn Ethel Girling,
Edna May Gleason, Ruth Louise
Glenn, Ethel LaVerne Godfrey, Mil
dred Elinor Gore, May Irene Gray.
: Fern Murle Greenslaw and Julia
Kathryn Griswold.
Aileen Crosby Hanback,, Ida Mary
. Harmon, Elsie Naomi Hartman, Helen
Druscilla Hayes, Mary Frances Hemp,
garet Hepner. Ruth Mildred Herriotts,
: Dorothy Virginia Higham, Elizabeth
Frances Hinegardner, Jeanette Celia
: Hoddes, Sudie Marie Homan, Beatrice
Mae Hooker, Eileen Margaret Hunt,
Elizabeth Ann Hunt and Ida Ann
Hutchins.
, Rose Jenny Jacobs, Bertha Janof-
: sky, Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, JEAN
nette Mary johnson and Marian Ger
! trude johnson.
. Lilias Zaida Keim, Alma Virginia
Kirby, Grace Kirby Toni Mary Kratz,
Katherine Mary Kraus and Esther
] Margaret Kurtz.
Evelyn Frances Lacey, Mildred Eliz-
abeth Lenhart, Esther Eunice Levy,
: Cleo Margaret Lewis, Pauline Virginia
{ Lewis, Marion Frances Leb, Emily
Continued on Tenth Page.)
Evening star., 1934-06-21


Ind
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-10

A scene taken from the recent
celebration of May Day activities
on the campus of the Woman
College of the University of North
Carolina. Those shown IN the
picture. left to right, are as to!-
lows: Miss Bernardene Johnson
Asbeville; Miss Sally Jordan
Pleasant Garden; Miss Susan
Gregory. Greensboro; Miss Max
inc Allen. HenderSonville; Miss
Margaret Winder, Elizabeth CITY;
Miss Patty Leake, Rockingham
Miss Margaret Spencer, Hlgn
Point; Miss Elizabeth Sockwel'
Greensboro: Miss Sarah Burton
Clegg, Greensboro, Queen OF
Nav; Houston Teagre and Betsy
John Hurley. Greensboro, tran
bearers: Miss Octavia Smith. Will
mington: Miss lone Perry. Wlr-
ston-Salem; Miss Catherine lay
lor. Enfield: Miss Adelaide For
tune, Greensboro; Miss Sarah
shores, Rockingham: Miss Marga-
ret Peasants, Aberdeen; Miss
Helen Cornwell, Dallas; Miss
Katharine Maynard, Wilson.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-10
Judge Webb Bars
Bond Recovery
Of Mortgage Firm

AsHEVILLE. May 10.-The
limited States Fidelity and Guar
antv company, of Baltimore. ID.
7 Weaver and Young M. Smith,
receivers of the Federal Mort
gage company, of Asheville. ct al.
should not recover 100000 Tor
alleged defaulted bonds from the
Standard Accident Insurance com
pany, of Detroit, and the Century
indemnity company. of Hartford
Conn, Federal Judge E. Yates
Webb of Shelby, held in three
equity opinions filed in district
court here yesterday.
The three DEGREES covering suits
between the compliments and the
Standard company for $3.50, 600.
and between the compliments and
the Century company for $780,
600 and for $4,000, stated that
the bonds for these amounts had
not been defaulted since the de-
pository of the principal. the Cen
trail Bank and Trust company here
failed on November 20, 1880, af-
ter the time limits of the deposi-
tory bonds had expired, and that
the bondholders had not served
due notice on the bonding COM
panies in due time according to
contract.
Judge Webb also decreed that
the compliments should pay the
cost of the action in the suits.