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Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
District Board
Holds Meeting

The regular weekly meeting of
the irrigation district board of di-
rectors was held in the board room
today All members were present
and the morning session was taken
up with the discussion of district
leases and other routine matters.
1t was stated that the matter of
the Coachella agreement might be
brought up for discussion during the
afternoon session as it must be rat
flied by both boards before be-
coming effective.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
Grapefruit To
Be Pro-Rated

r. l.. MacRae of Los Angeles,
Imperial Valley representative for
the California Arizona Citrus Mar
keting agreement has arrived in the
valley to look into the pro-rating of
local grapefruit.
MacRae has a desk in the agri-
cultural commissioner office at
the court house and will be glad to
interview any grower or shipper or
anyone else wanting information
relative to pro-rating marketing
agreement.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
Knight Funeral
This Afternoon

Funeral services for Weldon
Knight, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
Knight, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident Sunday night, were
held this afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
from the funeral chapel of B. E.
Lemons.
Rev. Day of the Four Square Cos
pei church delivered the sermon,
and there was special music. Bur-
ial took place in Evergreen ceme-
terry.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
First Asparagus
Shipment Made

Breaking all previous records
for early shipments, the first
crate of spring asparagus was
shipped to Los Angeles today.
Sawdey- Hunt of this city
shipped this crate which they
believe to break all records by
at least two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
DR.. A.. B. Hanson, dentisJ. New
Professional Bldg. Phone SO pti

Divorce Decree Granted = On
grounds of Willful neglect and non
support, Margaret Greer was grant
ed an -interlocutory decree of di-
vorce from Jack Greer, by Judge R.
D. McPherrin yesterday.
Blue Moon Hotel under new
management. All outside rooms
with private bath. Popular prices.
Special rates. Anice Vedeler, Mgr.
3tf
Rev Oliver Reported StOlen-A. L..
Graves, 632 Orange, reported to po-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
The Weather
LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight; morning fog; We'd
nesday increasing cloudiness; mod
crate temperature with little
change; increasing humidity; gen.
tie to moderate westerly wind.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer for the United
States weather bureau.
Maximum yesterday .......................79
Minimum today ............................ 80
Reading at Noon Today
Temperature .................................. So
Humidity ............................ "a
Reading at a. m. Today
Temperature .................................. Al
Humidity So
Reading at 6 p. m. Yesterday
temperature so
Humidity 48
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

bre Colt revolver was stolen by a
| proWler.
Wednesday Chicken pie day
SherWoodS. t W tt
Missing Girl Sought - The sher-
IFS office has been asked to help
ind Naomi Alexander, 13, who left
school in Holtville yesterday after
noon and did not go home. Rela-
tives of the girl are anxious as to
her present whereabouts.
Wednesday = Chicken pie day.
SherWood's. t w If
Car Reported Stolen = A report
sent to the sheriff's office states
that a Chevrolet sedan registered to
j. T. O'Brien, 763 Brighton avenue
was stolen here last night.
DIR. II. c. Clenons. dentist pro-
tessional bldg. Phone 245.
NJ W I tt
Thief Takes Harness-The theft
of saddle and four brides from
the Connolly ranch south of Holt
vile was reported to the sheriff's Of
flee last night. The report states
that the thief was traced across the
border into Mexico.
Private and class instruction at
reasonable rates at Carmen Gibson
music studio. New classes now form
ing for second half of year. 473
Brighton. Phone 286-J. 23t2
Chain Gang Started-After a re-
cess of three years the city chain
gang was put into operation again
this morning to work on the city
streets. About 18 present guests of
the city are eligible for membership
on the gang and 10 of these were
sent out this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

Bakers Draw Fine-P. Pelonis and
Andrew Lisiecki of Calexico were
each fined $50 in local police court
yesterday afternoon when found
guilty of improperly labelling bak-
cry products, selling bread without
a label on each loaf The fine was
suspended on condition that the de-
PENDANTS comply with state laws in
this matter for the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

California Hotel Coffee Shop -
Charcoal broiled Steaks and Chops,
from 5 to p. m. Open all night.
2tf
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
Perishable Shipments

Perishable eShipments-Shipments
of perishables yesterday, according
to B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner, were 149 carloads lettuce
two carloads cabbage, eight carloads
carrots, one carload peas, two car.
loads green's, two carloads mixed We
getables, and three carloads grape
fruit.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

lice that while he was absent from
his home last Thursday a .38 cali
bre Colt revolver was stolen by a
proWler.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23
@UNIYBRIEFs @UNIYlBRIEFs

Fined For Drunkenness D. Rod
riguez and Charles Baker pleaded
guilty to charges of drunkenness in
police court this morning and were
sentenced to pay fines of SIG each
or spend days in the city jail.
WOOD - Dry Eucalyptus, any
length, 4 cord $500, 12cord $3.50.
Prompt delivery. 366 Olive avenue.
telephone "a. 1912
Sues On Account = A complaint
was filed in superior court this NOR
ming by the Union Oil company OF
California against j. F. HallaWell,
asking $1,380.47 due on account for
goods delivered.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

Auto Loans --Jno. H. Robertson.
77T Main Lowest rates. l5tf
Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-23

DIR. r. c. Clemons. dentlst pro-
tessional bldg. Phone 245.
NJ NJ II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
CHANGE
THE
WORLD 81!
7 ~ E
By MICHAEL GOLD

NO ONE living in New York and who has any money to
spare for the theatre should miss seeing John Weeys
powerful drama of the Scottsboro case, They Shall Not
Die"
it for the first time the other night and found
most moving experience The old Theatre Guild which
has wasted technique feeble costume
ONe similar pituaities"
the empty bogeo exhibited kind of
youth in this production.
Like the which after 20 of lilac Tche
ROWAN lamenaton suddenly brushed the flaming
Revolution inspired beautiful strength
that the Theatre Guild is entering life
It dead and has been rerTected by this play Let
hope that this
temporary shot Of electricity through the veins of cadaver New
York mature strong incorporating that
political passions time
the Theatre the host theatres this There
Guild also with remarkable
approach problems It well
Volksblhne Berlin its doesn't
like this, it really ought to die and it VIII die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
BY PHILIP STERLING

IT APPEARS to be a law of revo-
4 lutionary development that every
workers struggle. whether won or
lost, leads to another struggle OF
equal Importance. Thus, 10000 min
ers of Utah and New Mexico, re-
covering from the most gruelling
strike within their memory. find
themselves faced with the task of
freeing Charles Guynn and Paul
Crouch, two of the strike leaders
from charges Of criminal syndi-
calism.
For the first time In years the
fighting tradition of the western
miners f1ared into life last fall. Ten
thousand of them went on strike
under the militant leadership of the
National Miners Union. They faced
a reign of terror which threatened
to reach the proportions of the Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company's
bloodiest hey-day.
The strike was settled late In
November after three months of
undaunted picketing under the very
nlachine-guns Of company gunner
and National Guard units. In New
Mexico, the miners won IS of their
is demands at two of the mines. In
the three others they also won sub
stantial victories, including recogni-
ton OF mine committees. For the
first time in American labor his
tory, freedom of arrested strikers
was successfully made condition
for the settlement of strike.
All this was in New Mexico. In
Utah, the finishing touches of the
strike picture were not so bright.
They proved again that there are
no advance guarantees of victory in
the class struggle. The massed CO.
horts of the National Guard and
deputized company thugs presented
q greater physical force than the
workers of such an isolated area as
Carbon County could overcome
without outside helm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
What WexIey Has Done

John WIEY the difficult victories
wright has accomplished managing the Scotsboro
into play theme which
handicap He ppreSened for liberal audience the revolu
onay aspect which needed and decacy And he has actually
had mdersteethe scotsboro bray
beyabe that playwright who presented them the
accused of carcature.
Wexey for all his understatemen has actually
exaggerson the abby sheltered
He has also been called journalist It true this
but certain point this kind socaed Journalism
the chords universal "ar" than all the paich
tons will Mary
now Hundreds of college graduates Shakespeare written
this kind of But 'They Shall Not Die venture
will be in the American tradition of literature
Cabin Sawyer" heartbreang
the greatest American MISUNDERSTANDING struggle
that will free the Negro
The play has esthec faults episode
related to the composition the
defending attorney political blunder
did ku job Of defense but the real story of Scoboro the
of the Negro militant white
joining with them to fight that
white
But who has written the revolutionary play
AS nobody John Weey anyone
has shown high and nor passion in his
of the southern Negro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
| THUrSd0
OPEN &c
a. ~ o.

Sible for me to overcome a lot of
disadvantages would have other
wise) I am enclosing a couple of
clippings from the capitalist papers,
which give you a glimpse of the
trials. In the one on Crouchs trial.
where they report about the little
boy testifying for Crouch, I wish
you could have heard him. What
fearlessnessw
The reference to the testimony of
the little boy in Rae Guynn's letter
concerns 12-year-old Carl Nema-
mich, son of striker, who was
placed on the witness stand to tell
what he saw after deputies at
tackled the demonstration in Helper
during which Crouch was arrested.
When the District Attorney tried
to get him to admit the reason he
came to testify for Crouch was that
he liked him personally" Rae
Guynn's letter continues, "the boy
answered, No, I don't like him any
more than I do like you, except
that he fights for the working class.
It sure made that District Attorney
choke. So much so, that he pulled
out of the case that night and left
the smaller dogs to try it. He ad-
nitted that to our attorney. Of
course, little Carl's testimony was
not the only thing that made him
pull out. He admitted that he saw
no case and could not prosecute.
These trials are the greatest
education for our workers here. -
Meanwhile the fight for Guynn's
freedom goes on. It will go to the
State Supreme Court if necessary
And the education which the Utah
miners are deriving from the trials
they are applying to the first prin-
ciple of revolutionary struggle
solidarity. They are calling on the
organized working class the coun-
try over to aid them In their de-
Tense of Charles Guynn and Paul
Crouch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the US.

A COURSE for Children's Group
n Leaders has been added to the
curriculum of the Spring Term Of
the Harlem Workers School, which
opens next Monday, April 18th The
course will include organization
principles, story telling based on
the history of the Negro People,
arts and crafts. There is no fee
for this course.
They have also added a course
In Political Economy B, given by
Williana J. Burroughs. Director of
the Harlem Workers School, a course
in Marxism Leninism, by A,
Markoff, National Director of Work
ers School, a. course in Spanish by
Marie Alex, and a course in Trade
Union Strategy and Tactics.
OF the two classes in Principles
of Communism, one is given in
English by Grace Lamb, and one
in Spanish by NJ. Lamar, as was
done during the Winter Term.
Registration for the Spring
Term is now going on at the Har-
lem Workers School, 200 West 1876
st., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
A Miner Faces A Capitalist Court in Utah

There were hundreds Of arrests
during the strike. Both in Utah and
in New Mexico military concentra-
ton camps were established. In New
Mexico, the prisoners were released
following settlement of the strike.
In Utah, however, the mine operat-
ors were apparently determined to
make examples of Charles Guynn
and Paul Crouch for giving leader
shipp to the militant defiance of
the miners during the strike.
Today, after arrest and re-arrest
during the strike, and after bitter
legal battle during the past three
months, Guynn still faces a long
jail sentence. Asad with him the
workers of Utah face the necessity
OF smashing the Fascist criminal
syndicaliSm law which threatens
every organized activity.
In the eyes of Utah's laws, die
tated by the mining interests, riot
ing is an act of criminal syndical-
ism" and rioting itself may be de-
fined simply as any mass Of people
with riotous intent, And anyone
familiar with the use of govern
mental machinery against organized
workers, knows how easy it would
be to frame proof that any assembly
has "riotous intent
cUYNN was arrested with Charles
" Wetherbee during the strike, fol-
lowing the passage of civilian
martial law" ordinance by the com
missioners of Carbon County. The
ordinance forbade the gathering of
more than three persons at any
place.
After the arrest of the two. there
was a demonstration of the striking
miners on the main street of Price.
Utah. Paul Crouch. one of the lead
ers of the demonstration, was
among those arrested when depu-
ties attacked the gathering with
tear gas and clubs.
When Crouch came to trial sew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
By JOHN 1. SPIYAK

FRESNO, Cal. 49, Health
authorities are utterly indif-
ferent to contagious diseases,
for to quarantine a camp
means to ruin a farmers CROP, and
the county health authorities are
apparently not in business to ruin
their neighbors' crops. In one camp
I was in, four miles from Mendoza.
two of the homes" had signs tackled
on their doors: Scarlet Fever. The
health authorities had not told the
residents to stay out Of the infected
houses. The result was that in
stead of one baby who had Scarlet
Fever originally, there were. when
I was there, three babies with the
disease. And the camp was about
to break I'D for its trek north to
the pea fields, taking with it the
Scarlet Fever babies to spread in
those areas.
And there are 100000 migratory
workers living like this in Califor-
MIA.
Their earnings. too, are incredible
A whole family, working in the
fields. from nine in the morning
until they are told to quit. which is
usually near shutdown. can earn ST
or So a week, if 1t is a good week.
Otherwise they average nearer to
IS. This is the total earnings for
a family-father, mother and chill
dren able to work.
They make this much when they
work. Time is lost on the trek
from field to field. Just how much,
in the course Of a year, no one
knows. 1t all depends upon the
work available and the distance the
migratory workers have to cover.
Federal laws against child labor
might just as well never have been
enacted, so far as these migratory
workers camps are concerned. IL
have seen children Of eight picking
cotton-the same children who will
go on to the pea fields to pick
peas, grapes, lettuce-all vegetables
and fruits. The farther the camp
is from a sizeable town or village,
the greater the number Of children
worked in the fields.
The law says they must go to
school, but most of the children are
only registered at the local school. |
That is for the records, should any
one become too inquisitive. They
cannot go to school. 1t is too far
from the camp, as rule, and the
few cents they earn cannot be spent !
for gas and oil to take the children |
to school and call for them, so
thousands grow up illiterate. Cali
fornia has low percentage Of H. |
literacy, and it is mostly among
the migratory workers and their |
children. If you ask county officials |
they will tell you that all migratory
workers children go to school. See
here are their registrations. But
If you go into the fields. you will |
see them there, instead Of in the |
class rooms.
With the coming of the NR.A. !
and the rise in food costs. their |
expenses naturally increased. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
A Moving Play

THERE tears in the parents
imprisoned boys visit
Mammal Mammal" and the
themselves at their unfortunate children and suddenly realize the
full horror of this the horrible bourgeois
South that wants to elecocu hdenhden Of 10 and
because they come from suppressed class
The which Brodsky Rokof as he called
the pay defends the International working
class policy of masacton the boys
rabe scene on American stageone of the
1t strange to hear Theatre Guild ap-
ppaud like this The workngcass
sty museum OF bourgeois decay which
has entered You must play most bourgeois
theatres presenting such play the Theatre Guild
to try to win worngass audience 1t maintains big publicity
staff and spends much money trying get
will not out of its organize working
carefully and pesteny probably believes should
be grateful enough to of its accord.
Yet how the militant workers play unless
tell them about it, tell They are buster
about more serious things than the borgoe
much trust in Broadway they reached and am
writing this review the revolutionary inteect1als
10 and this play
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
WHAT'S ON
Kpdnpsdnu

" ennRS0Uy
HIGHLIGHT5 Of the weeks news Dis
cussion Group. 140l Macombs Road, corner
roth St.. Bronx Auspices Mt. Eden Br
p s. u, $50 pm Admission 10c.
THE GROUP SYSTEM in the ]. L. D
will be discussed at membership meeting
Of ssceo Vanzetti Br I. L. D., 792 E, Ire
mont Ave, pm. NJ. Gould, speaker.
OPEN FORUM Price. Value and Profit
at Tom Mooney Br l. l.. D, 1913 E. 18th
St, BIS pm Admission free-discussion
GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON lectures on
Everyday Life in the Soviet Union" al
Cheerful Cafeteria. 713 Brighton Beach
Ave, $50 pm. Auspices oceanside Br.
P. S. q.
REHEARSAL DAILY WORKER CHORUS,
IS E. 18th St.. 5th Floor, pm. All old
and new members are urged to come.
I L. D. CHORUS meets at Boro Park
Cultural Center, $500 18th Ave, Brooklyn,
$3.50 pm. Be prompt.
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING,
Film and Photo League, $3.50 pm, at 70
E. 18th St. All members must be present.
Election Of officers.
SAM ORNER'S REPORT on Taxi Strike,
followed by Concert Cooperative Audi
toriun, 2700 Bronx Park East $40 pm.
Auspices: Musicians Concert League and
Harry Sims Br. W. I. r. Proceeds for
hlacklisted strikers.
SUNNYSIDE BR l. L. D. open Forum.
Joshua Kunitz speaks on The Intellectual
rs Revolutionary. 43I3 Attn ST., near
Foster Ave. $50 pm. Admission l5c.
Thursday
OPEN FORUM. Pen &, Hammer Club,
ia W 21st st. Edward Amden speaks on
Type Psychology and Capitalism" $50
pm.
SOVIET CHINA sUN-yAT- sEN1sM in
the development of the Chinese Revolution -
Friends Of the Chinese People. 1853 W. 23rd
St., $3.50 pm. Admission 15c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

eral weeks ago, he was convicted
of unlawful assembly and was re-
manded for sentence. Guynn, who
was released on bail following his
first arrest and rearrested on the
rioting charge which he now faces.
was convicted on Feb. 10, but is
now awaiting a new trial.
The Importance of the cases of
Guynn and Crouch rest not on the
vengefulneSs of the mine operators,
who know that their victory over
the miners was temporary and
fiimsy, but on the fact that the Utah
criminal syndicalism law has been
evoked against workers for the
first time since it was passed.
Viewing the situation from a dis
lance of 1000 miles, one might be
inclined to under-rate the import
ance of the trials, but such false
Judgment is readily refuted by re-
ports Of the intense interest of the
miners in the case.
The Importance attached to the
cases by the working class, and par
ticularly by the miners of Utah,
may be gagged best by letter from
Rae Guynn, wife of Charles, who
was herself arrested in her home
after the strike had ended.
-. The courtroom was janined
with workers all the time. Each
trial (Crouch's and Guynn's) lasted
five days. At first the authorities
tried to discourage the workers by
making them register and barring
non-citizens, but the workers per-
sisted and they got in most of the
time. Finally after vigorous protest
by us, they let everyone in. Even
when the jury was out, and in
Charles case it was out from about
$50 to almost midnight, the work
ers stuck it out and waited for the
verdict and when it came, they first
cried and then sang the Interna-
tionsle on the way out.
We sure have wonderful bunch
OF workers here (this makes it pos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
To Tighten Bond
With Trade Unions

The conference elected a School
Advisory Committee of 20 and
adopted a resolution to recruit 400
to 500 students for the fall term,
and to establish a closer bond be-
tween itself and the trade unions,
and cultural and fraternal organi-
cations.
Between now and the fall term.
the Boston Workers School will get
after those organizations who were
invited to the conference and did
not send delegates, particularly such
organizations as the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union and the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
The st. Louis Workers School.
which Is successfully conducting
six classes in its first term of ex-
istenoe, is also running forums.
and weekly affairs every Sunday
night at 1243 Garrison ST., where
Negro and white workers meet TO
dance, eat, play games and enjoy
themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
EnrOute With Shock Troupe
From Letters Received

from Letters Heceived)
1.-THE Shock Troupe Is discovering
hourly the real significance of its
name. The fms of our performance
at Lakewood at l a. M, found us
packing our props at lightning
speed, gorging a sandwich after an
S-hour fast, and riding off before
one had an opportunity to say
gotta cigarette?' -. The 500 mile
stretch from Lakewood to Youngs-
town had begun. Did I say stretch?
The stretches were few and far be-
tween. Seventeen hours of sitting is
absolutely ruinous to the famous
Bio-mechanic process of tension
-. The John Reed Club of Youngs-
town had just been organized three
weeks ago with the enormous mem
bership of four. These comrades
made OF real revolutionary mettle,
issued publicity and made all the
arrangements themselves and man
aged to bring down 300 people to
the performance. It seems that this
affair was the first of its kind and
we were certainly made to feel the
importance of our work because
after the performance fifteen people
made out applications for member
ship in the John Reed Club -"
AT $50 a. m, Wednesday, we
stopped at Gettysburg to do some
interior decorating eating to you)
On York st. we saw a restaurant,
Famous Texas Lunch by name: in
we popped and were told that Ne
groes would not be served at the
tables, but must eat in the kitchen.
We walked out en- masse. Farther
down the block we encountered
another restaurant where we were
promptly served. Holy Father
Abraham Gincoln)i Jim-crow tao
tics are not alien TO us, but in the
town where 'Fourscore and seven
years ago. etc. Dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created
equal I. = gave their last measure
Of devotion
The Shock Troupe is now in Chi
cago playing to workers clubs and
will compete in the national COM
petitions Of the National Theatre
Festival beginning on Friday the
18th.