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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
GREEN URGES LABOR CONTRACTS
Union Chief Declares They Are Best Guar
antee Against Strikes

Conditions will continue to be
bad, he predicted, until equitable
contracts are arranged through
employer-labor negotiations.
Green said that labor always
has stood for preserving inviol-
late contractual relations. He point
ed to the Full Fashion Hosiery
Workers branch of the Textile
Workers union, which remained
at work despite the strike of their
fellows because they have a con-
tract with employers.
Discussing the possibility of a
nationwide general strike. Green
said
mo general strike would be pos
sible except in most extreme
emergency because we can't ask
men to violate contracts"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
Junior Chamber To
Hear Neuu Coach

w. S. Taylor, head football coach
at Central Union high school, will
be guest of honor and principal
speaker at the meeting of the Ell
Centre Junior Chamber of Com
merce to be held at the California
hotel at GAS o'clock tonight. Tay-
lor will speak of Spartan prospects
on the gridiron this fall.
Don Ketchen. vice principal of
Central Union. will also be a guest
at tonights meeting. He will out
line what progress has been made
in the campaign to sell season tick
is for the football season. This
campaign is sponsored by the local
Junior chamber.
Committee reports are expected
on the reception for the school
teachers, tentatively set for Septem-
Der %, and other matters of inter-
est to the organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10

CHICAGO, Sept. 10. lU.P)-Presi-
dent William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor today out
lined a plan for bringing a fair
degree of permanent peace" to
labor r-employer relations.
He said that contractual agree
ments covering wages and condi-
tions of labor and arrived at
through collective bargaining have
prevented strikes in the past and
can prevent much, If not all, in
dustrial warfare In the future.
Green, here for two speeches be-
fore the international Typograph-
ical union convention, said the
textile strike is simply a manifes-
tation of the evils of employers
failure to negotiate wage contracts
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
COURT
DECISION IN
LA|MS0N CASE
Members OF States Highest
Tribunal Assert No Truth In
Bay City Report.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. U.P)
The San Francisco Chronicle in
copyrighted story said today that
the California state supreme court
has decided to grant a new trial
to David Lamson, Stanford Univer-
,sity intellectual convicted and sem
fenced to die on a charge Of slay-
ing his wife.
The Chronicle said that an opin-
ion written by Justice William H.
Langdon will be handed down
within few days.
According to the Chronicle the
reversal of the sentence of the
Santa Clara county court is based
on the presence of county dep
uty sheriff on the jury which found
Lamson guilty; on alleged pre-
judicial activities of jury matron;
and on a court error in ruling out
certain technical testimony of E..
O. Heinrich, noted investigator and
No. / defense witness.
Lamson at present is in the con-
demned prisoners row in San Quen-
tin prison.
The case, which attracted nation
wide attention, began with the
finding of Allene Thorpe Lamson's
body in the bathroom of their cam
pus home on Memorial day, 1888.
Her husband was brought to trial
last summer and was convicted OF
/ first degree murder.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. U.P)
Two justices of the California
supreme court today denied a
copyrighted story published in the
San Francisco Chronicle, which
said that David Lamson, convicted
wife slayer, had been granted a
new trial.
"It is absolutely untrue" said
Chief Justice William H. Waste.
Each of the justices is studying
the case, individually. There will
not be any decision reached until
the end of the month" 3
Justice William H. Langdon also
issued a denial. He said that he
had not written the decision in
the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
OFFICER
TEST|F|ES At
INVESTIGATION
Warns Tells Inquiry Board Of
Finding Previous Blaze Aboard
MORO Castle.
SOBS DURING TESTIMONY
Believe Dead In Latest Ocean
Disaster Will Reach Total OF
1T Or More.
Bq JOE ALEX NORRIS
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Lending
color to fantastic rumors that the
appalling Moro Castle fire was an
act of sabotage, Chief Officer Will
liam F. Warns, who commanded
the death ship testified today that
a fire on August 27 was in his opin-
ion incendiary.
Warns declared, before the gov
ernment's inquiry board sitting at
the New York customs house, that
on the previous occasion he found
charred newspapers near cardboard
bundles where the blaze was discov-
cred.
II believe the fire was set by
someone" he declared.
The fire that swept through the
big cruise ship Saturday morning,
he said he was informed, was like
a burst of kerosene or gasoline"
Warns, deeply moved by the
tragedy as he recounted the events
of the fateful night, wept. On oc-
casions his testimony was inter-
rupted by sobs and he could not go
on for several seconds.
Warns had described the death
of his captain, Robert r. Willmott.
few hours before the fire, and his
taking over of the command. Again
he broke down as he related the
tragic details of Willmott's death
and the burden Of control 1t threw
upon himself.
Questioned regarding the possi-
bility Of insubordination or labor
trouble, the chief officer said there
had been no indications of such
trouble.
Uncertain On Orders
The only oil or gasoline carried
en- board the MORO Castle was the
authorized amount for use by the
ships motor life boats, he said.
Warns told how he shouted for
stewards to close fire doors soon
after the blaze was discovered. A
man was at each of four fire doors
to close them but Warns was un-
certain whether they were closed.
All doors on the starboard side
of the decks were closed due to the
storm.
Fire started a few minutes be-
fore a. M, Warns said. The emer-
gency stand by" call by radio was
sent out at 3:15 a. m.
Warns then told the inquiry
board that he was led by the explo-
sion in a writing room locker to be-
lieve the fire might have been start
ed purposely. r
He admitted he had little evi-
dence to support that theory, and
that it was possible dropped Gig
aret might have been responsible.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
Baseball Scores
National League

At New York.
Pittsburgh 200 201 1863 10 l
New York Obj 01O 1907 II 6
Hoyt, Meme, Grimes, Birkofer
and Padden: Schumacher, Hubbell
and Mancuso.
At Philadelphia
st. Louis ..002 900 020- 9 l
Philadelphia 1000 010 000-1 S 0
J. Dean and Delaney; Collins,
Davis and Wilson.
At Brooklyn--rrhl
Cincinnati a.u040 200 000-6 II l
Brooklyn 100 030 101-5 9 2
Stout, johnson, Prey and Lom-
bardi; Babich, Munns,o Clark and
Berres, Lopez. ~
Chicago at Boston, played former
date.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
American League

American League
At Chicago
Washington .,.0l0 002 400-7 10 l
Chicago ......- 100 020 010-4 8 0
Russell and Sewell; Klaerner,
Kinzy% Tietje and Shea, Madjeski.
At Cleveland
Philadelphia ....0l0 205 1903 13 l
Cleveland 200 OH 030-6 8
Caster, Mahaffey and Hayes;
Winegarner, Lee, Brown and Berg.
At Detroit
Boston ................1 100 900 O00-l 3 0
Detroit 400 900 1912 5
Rhodes and Ferrell; Auker and
Cochrane.
New York at st. Louis postponed,
rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN
United Press Staff CorrespOndeI

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 10.
The luxury liner MORO Castle.
death trap for nearly 200 men.
women and children. smouldered
on the beach of this pleasure re-
sort today.
Authorities ashore labored to
care for the living and dead among
the 588 aboard after swift and
deadly flames raked the holiday
cruise ship from stem to stern in
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10

Chicago at Boston, played forme
date. y
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-10

New York at st. Louis postponed,
rain
Evening star., 1934-12-16
SALE--AUTOMOBILES.
CLEARANCE SALE

ILEAKANOE SALE
On Trucks and Pleasure Cars.
All makes and models from S25 up;
duals. singles. open and closed bodies. light
deliveries stakes. roadsters, coupes and
sedans. Terms to responsible parties. Rob-
ert Herson's Auto Exchange Inc. 72
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

specres of mortgage and debts were
already beginning to haunt the
farmers. And also, they were be-
ginning to search for way out.
Joined Communist Party
Knute joined the Non Partisan
League. Then the Farmer Labor
Party. Then the Liberty Party. But
none of these organizations provided
the solution for the farmers prob
lens. He felt that he was butting
his head up against a stone wall.
But in the election campaign of
1882 he heard William 2. Foster
speak on the Communist position
on the farm question. The next
spring Knute joined the Communist
Party.
Then followed a year of militant
struggles of the farmers to save
their homes. Mortgage foreclosures
had increased until over so per cent
of South Dakota farmers we're ten
ants Mass evictions were going on,
but in Roberts County the United
Farmers League, under the leader
ship of the Communist Party,
stopped every eviction and there
have been none since.
In the spring of 1884, Knute and
is other farmers were arrested for
helping prevent farmer from be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Los Angeles Pioneers
Organize Children's
Symphony Orchestra

LOS ANGELES.-A Children's
Symphony Orchestra has been or
ganized in Los Angeles through the
initiative of the District Pioneer
Bureau. This orchestra will fulfill
the great need for some organized
musical activity for workers chill
dren who have no recourse to the
bourgeois music establishments, and
for appearance at working class af-
fairs. Professor Sabatella, of Eu-
ropean and local fame, has volun-
teered his capable instruction on
every instrument suitable for band
and symphony, at the low price of
Is cents per lesson. Lessons have
been in progress for three weeks al
ready, and registration will close in
six more weeks. This orchestra is
open to children between the ages
of 8 and. IS, and classes are held
for beginners and advanced. groups.
Registrations are taken on Sat-
urday mornings at 1854 Wabash
Ave, and applications from other
parts of the city besides the East
Side should be left at $50 S. Spring
Street.
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WORLD Of the THEATRE

ton of "Thaelmann." Too coldly
logical, too precise, it arrests the
attention but often fails to move us.
Furthermore, unlike "Newsboy," it
did not seem TO me to represent any
great progress over the works I
have seen the "Proletbuhne" pre-
sent two or three years ago.
'Dimitrov," if it had been acted
with any competence, would have
proved the more effective of the
two, I am sure. 1t had simpler,
homelier, and therefore more af-
fecting moments. Unluckily, the
comrades of the L w. o. were not
equal to their task.
The dancing of the 'Natur-
freunde" group had freshness, and,
in the second number, at times a
true dramatic power.
AS to the Unity Theatre. This
is the second performance of theirs
1 have seen. The other was the
dull-oh, so dull-"Jehovah." This
new playlet, cut to the running
time of about fifteen minutes,
would make a middling fair vaude-
vile skit. Since the members Of
this group are obviously young pro-
fessional actors, I shall have to
treat their work from that point Of
view: it would have been found
passable in a tenth rate stock COM
pany. And finally, returning to the
material which they have chosen so
far for production, the Unity The
atre must apply its young talent to
more important scripts if it expects
much longer to be considered in the
roster of Workers Theatres.
There were also songs by the
Shock Troupe of the Workers Lab
oratory Theatre, and short piano
recital by Rudy Smith, which was
very warmly received.
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T U n IN G. n

100 P. .-WEAF-Politics in Relief -
Representative James w. Wads-
worth Jr. Of New York
wOR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
wJZ-Amos m Andy-Sketeh
wABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
7;l5-wEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WJZ-Concert Orchestra
wABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
3o-WEAF-Minstrel Show
WOR-Jack Arthur, Baritone
wABC-Jack Smith, Songs
7:45-wEAF-Frank Bucks Adventures
WOR-Dance Music
wJZ-Shirley Howard, Songs
wABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
8:o0-WEAF-Vallee' Varieties
woR-Little Symphony Orchestra
Philip James, Conductor
WJZ-Lumber Psgeant-Sketch
WABC-Easy Aces Sketch
s l5-WABC-Campaign Issues-Colonel
Henry G. Breckinbridgc, Constitu-
tional Party candidate for Senator
s:30-wJz-Internation Trade and Do
nestle sperity-Secretary Of
State Cordell Hull, at World Trade
Dinner Hotel Commodore
WABC-Johnson Orch. Edward Nell,
Baritone; Edwin c. Hill. Narrator;
Speaker, P. w. Litchfield, Presi-
dent Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company
9o0-WEAF--Capt. Henry's Show Boat
WOR-Campaign Talk-Frank ].
Taylor, Democratic candidate for
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Biography Of Knute WaIsted,
Workers Farmers United Front
Candidate for Governor Of S. d.
Life of Hardship and
Toll on Western
Farms

KNUTE WALSTAD was born in
IA 1871 in Fillmore County, Min
nesota, of Norwegian parents. In
Norway, his mother had lived on
the estate of big landowner, with
others Of her class, known as "hus-
mands,' or serfs. They had come
to America seeking the golden
land" but here they found the
same life of toll on small farm
Of their own in Minnesota. Their
dream of the golden land" faded,
and in its place they faced the
stern, grim hardships of frontier
life.
When Knute was only nine his
peasant mother died, and the fam
lily was broken up. Poverty forced
the boy to make his own way from
that day on. He wandered from
place to place, working at whatever
he could find.
Soon he drifted to the ports on
the Great Lakes and worked at
everything from polishing brass to
longshoreman. At the age of %,
while working as a longshoreman,
strike of the longshoremen was
called in Duluth. Knute took an
active part in the strike. Scabs
were brought in and protected by
the guns Of the National Guard.
The strike was broken and the mil
itants we're put on the blacklist.
Knute was one of these.
Golden Land of Wheat
For a time this forced him to
leave the waterfront. But after
working for several years on thresh-
ing crews on Minnesota farms, he
returned and was employed as a
lather and dock worker. Work was
scarce and wages we're low. Re-
ports were drifting in Of fertile farm
lands to be had for the taking
of golden land of wheat.
So in 1896 Knute, with his newly
welded wife, left the city and
pushed toward the West. They set
tied upon a homestead in Roberts
County, South Dakota. In a log
house here they raised a family Of
four children.
But here again was life of hard
ship and toll, with the rewards
eaten up by the price which the
farmers were forced to pay for
everything they bought. The twin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Reviewed by
LEON ALEXANDER

THEATRE producers, playwrights
and critics have grown gray over
the problem of abolishing, literally
or figuratively, the proscenium arch
which stands like a wall of fog be-
tween the audience and the per-
formed play. But last Sunday night
an impudent, cocksure little puppet
with a broad Yiddish accent &C
complished this giant task without
an effort.
Of course, he was among his
"own" people; his problems were
their problems, his enemies, their
enemy. He was an old friend. He
shared his troubles with his audi
ence, and they took him warmly to
their collective heart.
The puppet plays we're the high
point of an evening of productions
by workers threatre organizations
affiliated with the League of Work
ers' Theatres. We all know that
Yosel Cutler and the Bunins are
master puppeteers, but we always
re-discover with establishment that
these little figures can create such
exciting entertainment-and how
much superior they are to the hui
man actor in satiric playlets-as
provided, for instance, by the Unity
Theatres American Nightmare.
The quality of easy communion,
referred to above, between the per-
formers and the audience, unhap-
PLY was not achieved by the Work
ers' Laboratory Theatres produc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01
Philadelphia Council
Members to Be Trained
At the Workers School

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 28.-
Forty workers who have been active
in the struggles of the unemployed
workers here have been assigned by
their Council locals to be trained
as leaders at the Workers School
which will soon start classes.
The students are being selected
by their own membership in the To-
Gals on the basis of their past work
and their ability and readiness to
fight for the working class. Each
local plans to pay all expenses for
their own students.
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VIGIL in HUNGARY
BY ONARD SPIER
dedicated to Matthias RakosD

what of the night? AS murky as the hearts
OF Horthys guards, rolling with red clouds low
And grim as Horthys crimes.
rumble of carts
Glutted with moldy wheat is the night we know,
And links of taxes clankng from our wrists,
The shame of people bauished from their lands
To wander dead-eyed through the may mistS
Of foreign hills in search of friendly hands
THE night grows chill A dwindlng of the flames
Of Magyar pride becomes TOO evident.
All fruits hang overrpe All hopes, all aims
Seem limp and coldy dead passions spent.
o but it will not last this night! Break soon
Red dawn over the land of Bella Kun"
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Contributions received to the
credit Of David Ramsey in his
Socialist competition with Jacob
Burck, Mike Gold, Harry Gan
mes, Ann Barton, del and the
Medical Advisory Board, in the
Daily Worker drive for $4,000
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Pen e. Hammer .....S .S9
Previously received ..... 1885
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CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

ID L. BERGOFF, head of the Bergoff Detective Bureau
has up to queer that swell expose Eddie Newhouse
running in the Daily Worker of the activities of the
strikebreaking detective agencies in the country.
Perhaps Bergoffs clipping bureau sent him the files
Of the Daily" with Newhouses Scathng articles
this scabherde strkebreaker psychology
keeper must have said himself What? Another
What the hell this bnbo make writing them
why should let him the rakeo?" the kngpn
strkebreake in his New York headquarters down
self for the capitalist press-at much expose"
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THEATRE NIGHT,
Presented by the League of Work
ers' Theatres, at the Civic Roper
tory Theatre.
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Controller
wJz-Death Valley Days-sketch
wABC-Gray Orch; Annette Han-
shaw. Songs; Walter O'Keefs
9.l5-WOR-Larry Taylor, Songs
9:3O-WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketeh
wJz-Fareweu Address by Gene-al
Evangeline Booth, Commander in
Chief. Salvation Army, on Eve OF
Departure to England. at Mass
Meeting, Madison Square Garden
WABC-Wsring Orchestra
s;45-woR-Campaign Talk-Rob. Moses,
Republican candidate for Governor
10:0 0-WEAF-Whiteman Music Hall with
Helen Jepson, Soprano, and Others
WJZ-Canadian Concert
WABC-Forty-f Minutes in Holly-
wood; Music; Sketches
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Events-H. E, Read
O:30-WoR-Vsriety Musicale
WIZ - Industrial Incentives and
Wealth Distribution - Prof Rein
hold Niebuhr OF Union Theological
Seminary; Professor Jerome Davis
Of Yale Divinity School
10:45-WABc-Frey and Braggiotti, Piano
1900 EAF-Berger Orchestra
WOR-Moonbeams Trio
WJz-Madriguera Orchestra
WABC-yera Van, Songs
1:15-wFAF-Jesse Crawford Organ
wABC-Little Orchestra
l.oU-WEAt-DanCe MUSIC tAlSo on WAbO
WIZ, WMCA, WOR, WEVDl
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Paying the Price

LIES the long time this Bergof He has
III Chicago his brothers Arthur and
with That gratihed his old mothers heart
technique worked thousands his
with authority the profession of buchery
Of the that fills his
stained with the blood shot strikers
this successful scabherder is! As stupid,
brutal provincial pocecaptan under
gaftdden 1t is the old saying that smaller eas
minimum rketeer racketeers
nfnum They muscle" complains, the graft
They supply skebreakers with the booze and the
go with strkebreakng
officials the graft Poor
Bergof Somebody playing politics. he complains But
King the racketer grated
racketeers.
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Advisory Board, Ann Barton,
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DERGOFF unhoy agao" His the unions
work the conservative They play them of against the mill
workers This Of Bergofs technique under the
R. A. his routine His firm
pgeonng simpler language
1t is the militant who always cooking Ber
gofs goose.
King skebreakes would only think moment
will deal to thank the militant
future older inevitable that
committed will back to haunt him. The ghosts
will He sweat His will
turn money will become hateful to him.
happens best muderers Doesn't the Commissioner
believe murderer always back to the scene of his
that ikebaker de luxe PL
gof. thank the militant workers They'll his
Of racketee they'll strike
business completely and they'll ure" his employers
completely and all the Kings thugs will
put together again!
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me strikebreaker Confesses


REOFF with the raneSs of and the ethical blindness
hyster lawyer story
break the strikes of workers how supplies the trusts
capitalism with explain
attentive scepca
ing industrial system.
With charming modesty himself
strkebreaker America Workers very
this They thought that the equally
A. F. of and the Roosevelt they
Bergof brings
Steel Corporation Cotton Textile Association.
The misguided working class thought that strike
breaking equivalent numbering stealing
from the blind You'd imagine would quiet about the
he helped wenyx strikers Mcees Rocks
sopmen
kings Bego After ALL the murder officially sanctioned
by the Nobody brought
congratulations
and the public officials his loyalty the nation his civic
rghtness
a very workers capt.
asm, insanity the State exacts
the penalty breaking the chair But
you wenty-sx strikers you this with generalization
striking workers receive garlands
Presidents big fat checks from the bosses!
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THE COMMUNIST NTERNA-
TIONAL, Oct. 20. 1884, Vol. XI
No. 20, 20 PIP; semi-monthly
organ of the Executive Commit
tee of the Communist Interna-
tional; 10 cents per copy, $500 per
year; Workers Library Publishers.
Reviewed by
JOSEPH NORTH