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Evening star., 1934-07-29

ward to pay the thousand dollars row past due
on the mortgage
Elmer Carver was tan man. always gloomy
except when selling q cottage. He played golf
with left-handed clubs and righteous and
just, always being extremely exact in keeping
his score and always expecting every one else to
be equally exact. This quality Of stern justice
caused him to that it was unjust for him
to hold $50 mortgage on a house that was
worth only 81, ,000, and he haG been writing a
lot of letters TO Edward urging him to pay
81 900. As 1t was hard for Edward to believe
there were $1,000 in the world just then, he
did nothing but worry about it.
It while worrying about the mortgage
that Edward remembered he had Aunt
Emma. He had not seen his Aunt Emma for
years, but, after all, aunt is an aunt when
you need money. Edward wrote her long
letter, incloSing q picture OF the cottage and
suggesting that nov was the time for all good
aunts to come to the support Of their nephews.
He addressed this to Cleveland, Ohio, where
his aunt raised Russian wolfhounds when
she was at home which was hardly ever.
OF this letter Edward had said nothing to
Frances, not wanting to raise hopes that might
be quickly blasted. He felt. too that it would
be nuisance to explain Aunt Emma to
Frances, because all he remembered about her
was that she 8 mans hat, strobe like
man. and occasionally
AS Edward went down in the elevator from
Mr. Dowley's ofhce, he considered who he
would ask to make up the foursome for Sstur-
day. He played a 1o-handicap game himself
and his golf chums were all to IL
handicap fellows, bat for moment he con-
sidered asking a couple of old 30-hsndicap
buffers who would play worse than Mr. Dowley
ard thus make him feel fine.
THEN he recalled that Mr.. Dowley was par
ticularly interested in the sixteenth hole
and he remembered also the effect that one
poor player has on another. He decided that
what was needed was two of the best he could
get. II one man. and a second man and a
third man stepped up to the tee at the six
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This pretty wife OF yours says We nave 10 get 10
this club at / O'Clock. What's all this about
females being shut out on Saturday."
There had been no opportunity for Edward
tn saw he was glad 20 see Aunt Emma or to
give her any other welcome, and she gave him
no chance now.
II came ia this of -the-map place Of yours To
,olay that sixteenth hole of yours Eddie" Aunt
Emma said The Devils Ditch, amt itf
There's a terribly anRoyin' woman out home
played that hole and Dragged till she was red
in the face about it. Sally Blane-your wife
says you don't know her-but told Sally
Blame there wasn't hole made that couldn't
play If she played it. Conceted old dame!
said"
But you can't play it today, Aunt Emma
I'm awfully sorry" said Edward There's
positive rule"
oh rulesi" scoffed Aunt Emma There
are always rules. I've got to get my boat
at midnight, Eddie, and no telling when III
be back. I'm going to play that Devils Ditch
this afternoon, Eddie. Women Do look
like woman? I'm your Uncle Dudley this
afternoon, Eddie"
AS there was no budging Aunt Emma from
her determination TO play golf, Edward tele-
phoned Sam Doane and broke his engage
ment with him.
Frances chose to stay and clean up saying
she would find them at the club later, and Aunt
Emma took Edward in her car.
Mr. Carver was waiting the club veranda
Mr. Dowley was also waiting. and Edward
greeted him with a wave Of his hand as he
introduced Aunt Emma and Mr.. Carver to
each other.
MY Uncle Dudley from Cleveland Mr..
Carver" Edward said He Is going to blav
around with us. and" he added quickly IT
see our other man yonder. III just get him.
What do you play around in?" Mr.. Carver
asked gloomily, and Aunt Emma stated frankly
that 100 her gait.
when I'm going good" she added honeStIv
but I don't care what I do this course In
came here 20 play the sixteenth hole; heard
about it."
ITS . very difficult hole" said Mr.. Carver
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Dowiey. You couldn't ask MFR Dowley To
come the next Saturday." tN'a=
That's . thing that can't be done."
Edward said. "I'll have 10 chance Il.
I've got to be at the club at | O'Clock
unless I'm dead. II she gets here I'm time
can explain. and II she doesn't you can
be sweet to her. Frances. and haul her
around to the club. III look you up
after the ninth hole. I've got to teie-
phone Billy waveriy now and get him
for the foursome. Elmer Carver Is going
to play"
But youm never get Billy 70 play with
Mr.. Carver" Frances said. ana she was
right. It was only after Edward had
asked four others that he got q promise
from Sam Doane. an l8-handicap man
who never would be anything better.
CATURDAY dawned . glorious day.
- rather hot but perfect for golf. and
at 9 O'Clock Edward was at the Outer
Skyview Station in his runabout. waiting
for Aunt Emma. ..t.sssss
One train after another came in with
out disgorging Aunt Emma, and the 1902
had arrived when the station master
came out.
"Your name Is westway--is that
right?" he asked Edward your wife
wants to speak to you on the phone In
the station"
Ed, DEAR" Frances said. please come
right home-Aunt Emma Is here. She
drove out-she drove all the way from
Cleveland. Hurry home, Ed
Edward hurried out and got into his
car. He r'asted no time on the way
home. Aunt Emmas car, costly affair.
blocked the driveway. Before he could
get out of tie car Frances came hurrying
to him. She seemed excited and worried.
"She didn't get your letter" she said.
"She's upstairs now putting on suit OF
your clothes. She came to play golf.
Ed. and I can't do anything with her.
She just will play golf this afternoon"
Golf" said Ed Where's she going
to play golf?"
That's it." said Frances. "Shes going
to play Pebble Brook. told her she
couldn't, Ed"
And she can't" said Edward. Women
can't play there Saturdays"
That's why she's putting on one OF
your SUITS" said Frances despairingly.
"She says II she can't play as a woman
she'll play as a man."
Aunt Emma was just coming down the
stairs. She had a golf cap pulled down
on her forehead. Her shoes were stout
and mannish, and her handa we're thrust
into the pockets of Edwards second-beSt
golf coat.
Hello. there, Edward!" she greeted
him. "Your wife told you the news?"
Wed better sit right down to lunch,
Aunt Emma, said Frances nervousiy.
1--WE can talk while we eat.
And I could eat an OK" said Aunt
Emma sWen how It's good to see Youl
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I'D like to try that hole" MIR. Dowiey said
~How about Saturday, Westway?"
''Fine!" Edward said. Shall we say O'Clock?
Meet me on the club veranda?"
Excellent" declared Mr.. Dowley ~I'n be
; there
''In make up a foursome" Edward said
~Only foursomes allowed Saturday"
Good said Mr Dowley. And about this
JOHN go into that next week. IN have to
talk TO Grotz about it. The chances are good
Westway-quite good"
That's fine, Mr Dowley" Edward said and
arose. Thanks lot"
"Oh-wait a minute!" said Mr.. Dowley rais-
ing his plump hand again. One other thing
no women, Westway."
Il beg pardon?7 said Edward
mo women!" Mr.. Dowley repeated In the
fourSome-no women. I can't play with women
They fuss NE"
That's safe enough Saturday" said Edward
smiling pleasantly. Women not allowed
the course on Saturdays"
THE Edward westways were nice young
couple. and when they had been married a
year they bought the charming little cottage at
Outer Skyview. not far out on Long Island
They bought there because both Frances and
Edward were golfers and the famous Pebble
Brook Country Club was there. The price was
$4,000
In buy ng the cottage Edward paid 81 900 in
caSh-w -lich was all the money ne had-and he
gave Elmer Carver mortgage for 50 0o0 Mr.
Carver being the builder and developer who
had built the cottage. On this mortgage Ed
ward was to pay 81 900 a year This had
seemed easy enough because Edward had a good
Wall Street job. but along came the great crash
Eds employers had little crash OF their
own and Edward was out of a job just when
IEFaEl s~t~-
time Outer Skyview real estate was suffering
and Edwards $4,000 cottage was not worth
more than sSooo-with no one wanting to buy
--and Elmer Carver quite properly asked Ed
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Aunt Emma and the Devils Ditch
A Different Sort of Golf Story BY Ellis Parker Butler

ECAUSE 50 much depended on
making q good impression on Mr..
Dowley. Edward Westway began
by mentioning golf,
Il see you play golf. Mr.. Dow
ley." he said, for on Mr.. Dowley'S
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- Il see you play golf. Mr.. Dow
ley" he said, for on Mr.. Dowley'S
desk was a box of golf balls.
Golf" repeated Mr.. Dowley. "Oh.
golf Yes. I play tt play at it, I'm
new at u, but I'm enthusiastic. Wonder
full game, golf"
lisa greet game" said Edward West
way with the proper fervor. And a great
Help in business Great way to make
valuable contacts
"You play2 Where do you play2" asked
Mr Dowley
Pebble Brook" said Edward "If you
haven't played Pebble Brook-or il you
have, OF course-
pebble BROOKE" queried MIR. Dowley,
instantly more alert That's where that
tricky hole is, isn't it? Satan's Ditch, or
something?"
The Devils Ditch" said Edward "Our
sixteenth hole. AS a matter of fact, that
hole is
He was going to say that the sixteenth
dA0le at Pebble Brook was nothing to
worry anybody, but he remembered that
MFR Dowley was not a star golfer and
that he had come to him to get a job,
If possible, so he said instead:
AS q matter of fact, that hole is a
tricky hole It's a mental-hazard hole"
You don't have TO tell me anything
about that hole" said Mr.. Dowley, raising
his plump hand. Il know all about it.
Very tricky hoIe-trickiest in America,
my sister says. She played it. You didn't
happen to meet her, did you-Sally
Blame, Mrs Henry G. Blame of Cleve-
land Ohio? She was visiting a family
named Carver out there-Elmer Carver
last week"
mo, did not meet her" said Edward.
''Yo1 see, I've been so busy job-hunt-
ing"
She did that hole as slick as a whistle,
Sally did" said Mr. Dowley. "She Dragged
until she was nuisance She did it in
,. Three's par, amt it?"
"Yes, that's par Edward said.
e DID not add that he had done the
hole in 1 on two occasions, or that
he often did it in 2 The sixteenth hole
at Pebble Brook was nothing for an expert
golfer to worry about. It was gully so
or so feet deep, and at the bottom was
q shallow pond made by choking the
Pebble Brook. On one side of the ditch
b was the tee and on the other side was
the green large and half moon in shape,
trapped on its rim An easy mashie shot
carried across the ditch and dropped the
ball on the green, where one or two puts
would hole out, making it-except for
the mental hszaro-the easiest hole on
the course. But poor toss sent the ball
into the depths and usually into the
pond.
I'D like to try that hole" MIR Dowley
~How about Saturday, Westway?"
'Fine!' Edward said. Shall we say OF
Meet me on the club reranda?"
Excellent" declared Mr. Dowley. Il
there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
Would Deport C.W.A.
Workers to Convict
Caribbean Island
By a Worker Corresponden

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-On the
evening of July 80 the city governor
called a public hearing on the bud
get, which was held at the hall
of records. Mayor John w. Murphy,
who presided, announced that for
1885, it will cost New Haven 81 ESQ.,
900 to take care of the outside poor.
He stated that there are 5000 per-
sons directly living on the poor
rates. If that is the case, with
each one averaging one dependent,
that will bring the list up to 10000.
Then take the associated charities,
and the community chest, who, ac-
cording to their own statements
are taking care of over 10000 more.
That is ample proof that out of
every four people in this city one
is living on charity.
During the meeting certain j..
M. Clark said, 81 have been study
ing these c. w. A. buns, and I
have come to the conclusion that
they are not of any consequence.
I only wished I had my way. I
would have the Federal Govern
ment purchase an island down in
the Caribbean Sea, and have every
one of them and their dependents
rounded up and transported, and
put under forced labor"
At this point the A. F. of L.
Mayor Murphy, the working mans
friend" got to his feet and said,
Mr.. Clark, I can assure you that
these c. w. A. buns you speak of
consider themselves very important,
Leave it to them, they know how
to get on the c. w. A. payroll, and
get hurt in the slightest way, to
put in claim for compensation"
He and his cohorts throughout the
hall laughed. Mr.. Clark presented
the appearance of regular boss
with his $40 suit, his gold eye
glasses, his fat belly.
Let us hope that the day is not
far distant when the workers can
say to Mr.. Clark and his rotten
crowd Of parasites, Come now, it
is your turn to go to the Carib-
bean"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
Facts About Hartman

ployed by Emory River Peach Co.
for so cents for an 11-hour day.
Adults for 81 for a nine-hour day.
Prices on food, clothing and all
manufactured articles are higher in
Hartman than in the cities of
North and East.
Theresa Voiles was shot in her
home. She is striker. She was
not seriously injured by the COM
pany gun thug. Justice of Peace
refused to issue warrant
Company had once paid 10 per
cent bonus for full two-week work
but this was changed to a 5 per cent
penalty for not working the full
two weeks.
Three strikers attended the High
lander Folk School (so-called work
ers' school, S. P. influence) six
weeks summer session. When they
returned to Hartman few DAYS
ago, small mob waited at bridge
for them, but they came in earlier
and we're safe in their homes.
A. E. Whitson, striker, refused to
give any information to the Chat
tanooga Times reporter, branding
the paper "scab." A reporter from
this same paper spent one day last
week visiting the Highlander Folk
School at the invitation of his per-
sonal friends, Myles Horton, Direc-
| tor, and rupert Hampton, staff
member, H. F. S. Both are left S. P
leaders and organizers.
One striker, Boyd Whitson, re-
marked today: Boss papers only
tell us lies about Bolsehvism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08

There's a Design for Revolution
by a Pioneer, Harold Sosnow, and
among the letters from readers one
from a London Pioneer. How's that
for getting around? But there's
more yet: letter from Soviet Pho
neers describing a creche or sort of
Children's Village, attached to a
Moscow factory Frazer) for max
ing cutlery and cutting instruments.
Half a dozen clear, interesting
photos showing activities of Soviet
kids go with this article.
The Pioneer" might also serve
well as sort of dictionary of revo-
lutionary Technology. Newcomers
to the movement, all at sea in a
welter Of white chauyinism," "op-
portunism, "jingoism," or other
terms rarely used or misused by
the bourgeois press, might find the
key in the lucid little stories and
articles that appear.
That's where I for one got at
least part Of a proletarian educa-
ton! And if should ever be a
forcibly detained guest at one Of
those city, state or national hotels,
I wouldn't complain. provided I get
my copy of the New Pioneer regu-
larry.
Later-Oh, no! At the supper
table Comrade Husband informed
me what good magazine the
Pioneer" is and how fine the ar
ticle on Madame Curie, from which
he learned how she made a con-
tribution to dialectics with her dis
ccveries about the dissolution Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
By q Worker Correspondent

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-From 600 to
700 mems clothing workers here
face a permanent lay-off from the
Fashion Park shop, following the
refusal of the Amalganated Cloth
ing Workers Union officials to
protect the jobs of &c cutters and
five trimmers fired a month ago.
No answer has been given by the
impartial chairman" or the N. R.
A. Board in response to their ap-
peal for reinstatement.
In order to terrorize these work
erS into accepting being cut off
from the shop, the Amalgamated
officials offer ION the quiet) 5000
to any of them willing to "sell his
job" Fearing loss of both job and
the $500. the majority of the cut
ters have already accepted the
brihe. This money comes direct
from the workers unemployment
Insurance fund-none of which was
paid out TO the unemployed during
the past 20 months.
AL EAAOAb - 6ASC AlclIC W 4OASC
workers in the section from which
the job "a sold" that they repay
half Of the 1900 to the union. on
the grounds that lay-offs OF others
give those who stay more work"
Workers resistance has prevented
this from becoming general.
Because Of the speed-up and low
wages, earnings average only 81 or
IS a week. Because the Amalga-
mated co-operated with the Cloth
iers' Exchange. workers lost their
interest in meetings or in paying
the high dues of $1.75, whether
they work or not. In December,
dues payments for the city fell to
$1,000. Manager Chairman became
alarmed for his $50-a-week salary
and threatened the lay-off Of those
behind in dues. This brought a
jump in payments to $4,000 in
January. But this again slumped
as terrorism failed to have it's eff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
Press Harder
On .TObIe SIS
Of Allentown
By a Worker Correspondent


ALLENTOWN. Pa. - On Friday
July 20, gang of strong-arm men
broke into the house of James Gal
lagher, 40 Turner ST., Allentown.
They knocked Mrs. Gallagher down
to the floor, beat up their 15-year
old boy, handcuffed Mr.. Gallagher
and took every piece OF furniture
out of the house.
James Gallagher is a silk worker,
a loomfixer by trade. He bought
the furniture from the Harold Fur
niture Co. of Allentown and Read
ing. AS he Joined the army of the
unemployed silk workers, he found
it difficult to meet the payments
on the furniture. OF the original
sum of $1,000, he had already paid
to the Hearold Furniture Co. over
$500 and now he lost all his furni-
ture.
Another member of the Unem-
ployed League was given warning
by the sheriff that if he will not
pay the rent by Aug a. his furniture
will be taken away. When this
member reported this by the chair
man of the central evictions COM
mittee of the Unemployed League,
the answer he got was, Were in no
position to hold demonstrations"
The top leaders of the Unem-
ployed Leagues are not only incap-
able of organizing any mass action,
but do not even care to do it. All
that these leaders who are mem
bers of the American Workers Party
are interested in is to fight
against the Communists and build
their little sect. The two full-time
of the U n m ploy d
Leagues in Allentown are both mem
bers of the A. w. P. and all they
are interested in now is to line UP
delegates for the Unem-
ployed League convention in
Columbus.
The unemployed workers of Al
lentown are facing new attacks by
the landlords. In order to stop
these attacks the members of the
unemployed leagues must take mat
tiers into their own hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
Shoe Union Officials in Boston Sign Away Workers Rights
Union Heads
Help to Fire
ShOpChairnral
BY Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. The letters writ
ten in the Daily Worker by I. Mil
Ter workers told the truth about the
wages we work for, and also told
the truth about the A. F. l.. Boot
and Shoe Union. I will write what
happened to the fitting room chair
man we had elected few weeks
ago.
After the chairman was elected
he told us that the B. and s. U.
officials are like business men, that
they are out to make money. He
also told us that we ourselves would
have to fight for better conditions.
The next day Squire, the super
intendent, told the chairman that
he will have to do what the bosses
tell him to. A few weeks later the
chairman was framed up. When
he went up on the seventh floor
to the restaurant to have lunch, a
stool pigeon purposely stretched his
feet out so as to make the chair
man trip, and fight began. The
stool pigeon beat him up.
The boss Immediately passed a
rule telling the workers that any
one who will fight in the factory
will be fired, and therefore he fired
them both. A few days later both
were reinstated. The chairman
came back with black eyes.
The B. and 8. U. also promised
to give the chairman a better job
than at I. Miller as soon as they
will have one. The chairman quit
the 7. Miller shop with hopes that
he will get better job in diff
ferent shop. The B. and S. U. fired
one of the workers in the Gsrside
shoe factory and replaced him with
this I. Miller chairman.
This gave the B. and S. chance
again to push in Sazarsky as chair
man. Two stool pigeons we're NOM
mated, and so it did not matter
which was elected as both are the
agents of the boss. Only few
workers voted.
NOTE:-By this letter the 1.
Miller workers see how the COM
pany actually controls the B. and
S. u. 1t proves that the union
officials pretend they help the
workers by getting the chairman
reinstated. Actually it was a
move by the b. and S. U. to get
the chairman out of the shop.
The small number of voters
proved that the workers have no
trust in the b. and S. u. But
by staying away they did not help
the situation. The correct tactics
is to organize in the B. and S.
opposition group, which would
have met before and selected an
honest worker to run for chair
man. Then by voting in a body
they could have won the election.
Only by organized opposition can
the /. Miller workers force the B.
and S. to bring forward their de-
mands.
For more information write to
the Daily Worker, so E. 18th St.,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
ACW Buys Silence
OF Laid-Of Workers
Offers 5000 Out of Insurance Fund to Those
Who Do Not Com plain about Disn,issaIs

feet. So Chairman decided to follow
the lead of John L. Lewis and
started the check-off system, with
dues deducted from the pay en-
Velopes by the bosses.
No vote on this was allowed in
the locals. It was put across by
the officials calling a meeting of
"actives" (members Of executive
boards and minor officials, must of
whom support the machine because
given special favors). Even here,
the Steam-roller couldn't prevent
four from voting against and many
from abstsining.
Up to 1888, earnings were re-
duced IS per cent. In order to fool
the workers that the New Deal"
would help them, a 20 per cent in
crease was granted in 1888, follow
ing agitation by local opposition
groups to the machine. But out of
this 20 per cent. a deduction Of Is
per cent was made as 8 loan" to
the company. Mass protest smashe<
this loan proposition after one
year. Instead, 7 per cent Is de-
Quoted (in addition 70 dues check
off. OF this, 5 per cent is a loan
to the company (Which is never to
be repaid, according TO past expert
ence) and per cent goes to the
unemployed insurance fund, which
also is not getting into workers
hands.
Rights Of striking or even Of call
ing stoppages have been taken
away from the workers, nor are
they allowed voting power on any
important questions, such as agree
ments, check-off, lay-offs, etc. And
within a few weeks, in proportion
to the fired cutters, nearly thou
sand more workers will be forced
out of the Fashion Park factory.
This is the way that Sidney Hill
man of the strike breaking N. r. A.
board is keeping his promise to
Rochester workers made on July %
in Convention Hall.