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at the ceremony,

Pendergast would not say if
he is a New Deal Democrat or
a Jeffersonian Democrat. He
would not discuss conditions in
Kansas City or the recent gang
Staying of John LaZia. his right
hand man.
He divides his time between
his political headquarters, where
he sees an average of 800 OF
the favored daily, and his con-
crete company plant, which sup
plies most of the concrete for
public works in these parts. He
goes to bed early, rises at dawn
and is at work at a. m.
He has no hobbies-"Politics
| is my recreation"-and eats SIM
pie food. He has one of the most
palatial homes in Kansas City
and a garage filled with expen-
sive cars which he drives with
out a bodyguard."
Time and fate have been kind
/! to the boss, he admitted to
FRANK, and the newspapers nave
disturbed him only once. That
was by repeatedly printing his
picture in formal morning coat
and a high silk hat.
II wore that to my daughters
wedding" he growled. at was
the first time | ever had one of
them damned stovepipes in the
house. l got a lot of kidding,
but if my other daughter wants
me to wear one when she gets
married, I'll be if
! don't wear it,
and unless you get a-hold of
some Republican skunk, you'll
never find man who'll tell you
that Tom Pendergast broke a
promise"
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"Full FEELING"
After Neal

Here is how TheoGord. =,
Draught proved helpful ,, a'a !.
Archie w. Brown, Of For. " y u
Fla: Il have taken Black.DS,asSsa
when I have felt dull fr,n' a- s
eating or eating too hurjcGlr%. W.
writes. Small doses rig'S, Z
meals rid me Of gases and "a
feeling. I am a great beIfar -:
Black -Draught." :
Thedford's BLaCK-DRarcv,
Purely Vegetable Layatir"A
CHILDREN LIKE The SyUrs
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
MAN GUSTS SKUNK,
AIR REMAINS PURE

STONINGTON,, Conn, Sept. 26.
(UP).-The school board voted its
thanks to Charles Palmer for
evicting a skunk from the newly
decorated high school without SUI
lying the air.
Palmer, inspecting the building
with Judge l.. ID. Fairbrother, ST.,
discovered the animal, placed a
box over its head and a piece Of
cardboard beneath the box and
rushed the skunk to the river.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
Mondays Menu

BREAKFAST: Grape, ce-
real, cream, bread crumb pan
cakes. honey, milk, coffee.
LUNCHEON: Baked reg
etable hash, lettuce and egG
sandwiches, peach cottage
pudding, milk, tea.
DINNER: Rolled flank CT
beef, ten-minute cabbage,
banana and peanut salad, bak-
ing powder biscuit with fresh
grape conserve, apple tapioca
pudding. milk, coffee.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
MISSOURI BOSS
TELLS OF LIFE
All His Ward Workers
Have Money to Buy
Necessities For Poor
B, DAN ROGERS
I,;ts5 Press Staff Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 20
1JPI-How does big shot pc
IiticaI boss get that way anc
how does he do his boSslng!
II took 4 dauntless young pc
lice reporter from downstate
Frank Rhoades Of the Spring,
field Leader and Press, to oearC
Thomas Joseph Pendergast IN ms
Guarded office and succeed wnefe
citv scribes had failed.
Rig Tom" ear Of prepon'
derantiv Democratic Kansas City
and overload Of Missouri 5 state
house. Opened up" for Frank.
Pendergast. u living person.
fication of a Mast cartoon de-
melting bossism, met Frank stand
ING in his cubby-hole office. HIS
bulldog face was stern. a care
fully-tailored blue suit which
Prank said must have cost 6
small fortune" encased big
Toms heavy figure.
The boss of Missouri Democ-
racy had no word Of greeting Tor
the young interviewer. w nat
kind of a story d'ya want ne
raSped. -
A bit of flattery changed his
blustery front.
"I want facts about you, not
political comment" the astute
Frank told Pendergast. The IRON
fsted politician grinned boylshly.
LAW, I'm not the man to give
out that story" he evaded. go
to anybody who knows me,
They'll tell you about Tom Pen
dergast."
He rose to dismiss his caller,
Frank protested, pointed out
that many great men, including
Ben Franklin, had told their own
stores. PendergaSt sank into :
huge chair and obliged with q
well, where do we begln?'
AT BIRTH" said Frank, seiz
ing his pencil.
Pendergast reviewed his birth
in "St. joe" Mo-, 81 years age
and his education in Catholic
schools until he was 10. Their
he was a clerk for the Burling'
ton railroad for four years. Next
came his entry into Kansas City
politicS-as an humble deputy
constable.
Now, ne has no title, no Of
fetal position. But governor:
and United States senators cal
him "boSs" and mean it.
In 1900 he was made stree
commissioner here by James A
Reed. Then he entered the
wholesale liquor business, made
a modest fortune before prohi
bitiOn was voted.
"A couple of months aftel
that, l picked up the politica
reins where my dead brother
James, had left Off" Fender
CAST recalled. "You can see VIVA
] have built out of that"
Big Tom leaped from hi
chair, a string of Oaths ripped
from his heavy lips, when Franl
asked him of reports that h,
once tended bar were true.
Whoever told you / eve
tended bar for a minute in m!
life is a .. liar" he shouted
Cooling down, he continued:
Now this is ego, mind you
and ! admit it is. Pm where
am today because of my owl
ability. / know ali the angles o.
organizing and every man NEE
becomes a friend. | know how
to select ward captains and
know how to get the poor.
Every single one of my ware
workers has a fund to buy food
coal, shoes and clothing for tn,
poverty stricken. When a poo
man comes to old Toms boys TO
help, we don't make one of thos
:. Investigations hk
the city charities. By God, W
feed 'em and we vote 'em.
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ed 500 and costs by justice
Of the peace here for using ax-
plosives to catch fish in Rac-
coon Creek. Arrests had been
made by game wardens.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
SEA LIONS SURPRISE TOWN

MAFLETON. Ore. (UP).-Sea
lions today surprised residents of
this mountain village. They came
up the Siuslaw river, which drains
into the Pacific ocean.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
FREAK TOE REMOVED

JEFFERSON, Ore. (UP).-An
operation performed on seven
year-old Gene Powell removed 4
freak sixth toe on one Of his feet.
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RELIEF
NOTES

High Spots of Welfare Activi.
ties as Prepared by Hender.
son County Emergency Relief
Administration.
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Yesterday And
TODAY
WHO WOULD want to go back to the standards
of even a generation ago? We have Travelled far
since then Inventions and scientific discoveries
have furnished the principal vehicles: New con-
veniences, improved merchandise, better foods
added heath-cOnserving means.
But the thing which has FASTENED us on The
knowledge and acceptance of their benefits IS
ADVERTISING. It has brought new things
quickly to all of us and sped us toward differ
ent, better mode of living.
Modern advertising sells us, not only things
but lDEAS The advertising of soaps has sold us
the health advantages of more frequent bathing
The advertising of modern bathroom equipment
has made bathing singful pleasure.
The advertising Of improved razers and
beard sOfteners has made whisking off whIskers
operation
Tooth-paste, toothbrush and mouttl-waSI
manufacturers and retailers are saving US HI
told aches and years Of married smiles, BY ad'eF'
Using the importance of oral hygiene
f. ar;.. .sF@4toc
AS a result of the advertising of food manu-
facturers and purveyors we have escaped from
the drowsy dullness caused by heavy break'$SiS
and are full of forenoon vim and clear-heaaeo'
ness.
...n 4 4"
The clothes we wear, furniture we use, lne,
we burn, car we drive, telephone we've installed
all these would not so quickly have come none
to us, were it not for the silent but irresishF
force of advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-26
FINED IN BLAST-FISHING

GALLIPOLIS, O., Sept. 20
CUP)-Three brothers, Fred,
Carl and August Roth, We're fin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
BrOwder in Wire
DenOunces Murder
Of Manila " orkers

NEW YORK.-A telegram of
protest was sent yesterday by Earl
Browder in the name of the
Communist Party, U.S.A., to the
Governor General Murphy of
the Philippine Islands, denounc-
ing the shooting Of cigar strikers
by government troops.
The telegram follows:
Governor General Murphy,
Manila, P. I.
Indignantly protest murder
three strikers wounding dozens
more by armed forces under
your direction stop miserable
starvation wages % cents per
day forced upon Filipino work
ers by rule q. S. imperialism
equally strikes at conditions
American workers stop we arc
calling upon workers to de-
nounce your criminal oppres-
sions and support heroic fight
of Filipino workers for better
wages conditions comma a fight
which must finally lead to indie
pendence un der leadership
working class as only guarantee
against such crimes of which
you are guilty,
EARL BROWDER,
General Secretary,
Communist Party, US.A."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19

it. Every time mention of immediate strike was
made it was greeted with big applause. Why was
the motion for strike not put to a vote Immediately?
The three National Silk Dye Shops in Paterson
are on strike. The dyers in Pennsylvania and in
New England are out on strike. The silk workers
in Paterson are on strike; they calling upon
to join the strike and help fight for agreement
for silk and dye workers to expire at the time
NOW are working scab goods while our
~ brothers killed on the picket lines fighting
for better working conditions, The newspapers say
that the bosses have refused our demands at our
last conference
What chance have we to win our demands In
the New Agreement in october when the General
Strike is over? Iniunction2 We are still free men
and not slaves to be ordered to work or threatened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19

THE Daily Worker endorses the appeal of the
Dye Workers Club of Local 1888, U. T. W., Pat
erson, calling upon all dye workers to join the tex
tile strike.
The New Jersey dye house bosses have secured
injunction in the courts prohibiting the dye
workers from striking or picketing.
The leaders of the U. T. w. dye workers locals
are delaying action, advising the workers to await
orders from Washington where action is being sys-
tematically sabotaged.
Such policies contribute toward the defeat of the
textile workers as whole. Certainly they prevent
action by the dye workers at a moment when,
together with the other workers in the textile in
dustry they have the greatest chance to force the
granting of improved conditions
The Communist Party urges the dye workers of
New Jersey to heed the following call Of the mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
Especial to the Daily worker

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. ID
Five thousand knitgoods workers
were called out on strike here this
morning, and picket lines, aug
mented by textile strikers, we're
thrown about 81 mills, Bernard
Levinson, spokesman for the strike
committee, said most of the shops
would be closed by Thursday At
the Superior Mill, riot squad ap-
peared, allegedly responding to a
call from scabs. No pickets were
arrested.
Last night police arrested two
workers near the Parker Wylie Car
pet Mill charging them with at
tempts to injure the plant. A state
ment by Colonel Willard Brown,
president of the Philadelphia Tex
tile Manufacturers Association, in
dicated this morning that this was
but the beginning of reign OF
terror.
From now on we will assume
aggressive tactics" Brown said after
a meeting of manufacturers IN the
striking divisions of the textile in
dustry.
With the strike in its third week,
and no relief received from national
strike headquarters, local strikers
will face a serious problem shortly.
Unemployment Councils, after
forcing Governor Pinchot to prom
Use full relief to strikers without
discrimination, yesterday issued a
lesflet pledging support in forcing
the county relief board to live up
to that promise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
A N DIT o RI AL

tant rank and file dye workers, organized in the
Dye Workers Club
AT OUR last membership meeting on Saturday
n we were set for strike action. We were all set
to become part of the General Strike and to
carry out the decision of the last U.T.W. conven-
ton. At this convention II delegates from our
local voted for the strike. The General Strike
started September l. But we are still working
Who is violating the convention decisions?
Who is holding back the dyers from joining the
General Strike?
The meeting held on Saturday showed very
clearly that our officials against the strike. Our
officials made four trips to Washington-for whatP
To standby and wait until the general strike is
over?
Are We ready to striker The last meeting proved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19

with jail! The bosses use injunctions to us,
from striking for better conditions. We defeat
the injunction by picket line of all the dye work.
ers.
The Dye Workers Club, members of Local 1888,
urge you to act now. Demand immediate strike
action from our officials to force New Agreement.
Shop Chairman and Delegates: Turn the Chair
mans meeting into meeting for strike action!
Fellow members: Instruct your delegates and
shop chairmen to vote that local join the Cen
eral Strike!
While the National Silk Dye Workers on
strike, many of us workers are working scab or
ders. We are all organized into Industrial
Union. defeat to the National Dye Strikers will
be an injury to all of us,
Let us join the General Strike
l.. Issued by the Dye Workers Club of Paterson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
n. Y. Mass March
For Relief Is Set
ByI,OOO Delegates
Webster Hall Meeting
Spurs Action Against
Mayors Tax Plans

NEW YORK.-Nearly 1000 del
egates and members of unemployed
and relief workers organizations
filled Webster Hall Monday night to
plan action against the LaGuardia
relief tax schemes and to prepare
the mobilization of their members
for mass march to City Hall Sat-
urday to demand adequate appro-
priations for winter relief.
Enamel Levin, organizer Of the
United Action Conference on Work,
Relief and Unemployment, in the
main report outlined the present
plans for Saturdays march and
exposed the LaGuardia tax pro-
gram as one which prepares the
way for future relief cuts by the
very inadequacy of its scope, and
at the same time lays the basis for
further taxation of the masses.
Council Reports on Rally
While Levin was concluding his
report, nearly hundred members
of the Thirteenth Street Unemploy-
ment Council, just returned from
a demonstration of more that
thousand workers at the home of
Alderman Fassler, filed in amid
tumultuouS applause. Julia Miller,
member of the local, reported on
the demonstration and outlined the
plans for torchlight parade and
mass meeting for tomorrow night.
The march will assemble at Seventh
Street and Avenue A at 8 o'clock,
and march to Avenue D.
Representatives OF the Recrea-
tional Leaders Association, whose
members had already voted to par
ticipate in the Saturday march to
City Hall, reported that at the
Henry Street Settlement House,
members Of the Association who are
also members of the Fourth As
sembly District Fusion Club, Mayor
LaGuardia's own political machine,
would assemble in body Saturday
and join the march to City Hall.
Delegates Pledge Support
Delegates elected at an earlier
meeting Of the Associated Office
and Professional Emergency En-
ployes pledged the support of
their membership in the march
to City Hall and announced
plans for a stoppage on all organ
lied projects.
One Of the high points of the
conference was reached when a
twelve-year old boy, from the
Grand Street Settlement House,
speaking to the assembled delegates
said: 1--WE boys and girls in my
neighborhood will form in line
at Rutgers Square Saturday and
join the parade with your boys
and girls"
Plan TOrchlight Parade
Another torchlight parade for to-
morrow night, to assemble at Sixth
Avenue and Blocker Street at $50
o'clock and march to Assemblyman
Pelegrino'S home to demand ade-
quate relief was announced. The
parade will demand that he bring
all possible pressure to bear
for providing adequate winter re-
lief, and will mobilize the work
ers in the neighborhood for Satur-
days march.
Plans for the march to City Hall
Saturday call for the mobilization
of all working class organizations
and unorganized workers in the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
Ward Line
CuiltShOWn
At Inquiry
1000 Hear Indictment
In n. Y.-BrOwder
Speaks for C.. p.

NEW YORK.-An inquiry COM
mission, selected from organized
and unorganized, employed and I'M
employed groups of seamen and
radio operators, meeting at Irving
Plaza Hall, Monday night, placed
full responsibility for the Moro
Castle disaster, which cost 1874 lives,
upon the Ward Line. They charged
that the hfe-saving equipment on
the line was defective, that there
was no constant night watch, and
that Acting Captain Warns did not
send out an 8. o. s. call until the
fire was beyond control.
More than 1900 workers, at least
rs per cent of whom were seamen,
crowded the auditorium to hear
members of the crews Of the Moro
Castle and the Andrea F. Lucken-
back which went to her rescue, give
testimony at the open hearing con-
Quoted under the auspices of the
American Radio Telegraphists' AS
ISOLATION and the Marine Workers
Industrial Union.
Earl Browder, general secretary
Of the Communist Party, was heart
lily applauded when he charged the
official government inquiry with try
ing to cover up the guilt of the
Ward Line and making an unwar-
ranted attack upon Communists.
Boat Carried Explosives
The testimony upon which the
commission based it's decision in
cluded the charge that the Moro
Castle frequently carried explosives
in storerooms near the crews quar-
tiers where smoking was permitted
William O'Sullivan, deck store
keeper on the liner, charged that
on a previous trip to Havana the
ship carried $500 pounds of gun
powder in fifty pound cannisters in
the storeroom. This was a direct
violation of the law passed in 1915
which permitted the shipment of
munitions only in specially con-
structed compartments. At the
time Of the disaster combustible
paints were carried in a store
room which was in the middle OF
the crews quarters.
The decision of the commission
indicted the Wark Line on ten
counts, charging that:
Ten Count Indictment
1.-The life-saving equipment on
the Moro Castle, including fire.
hose and lifeboats, were defective.
The buoyancy tanks on the boats
were rusty to the point of being
unseaworthy. The releasing gear
on the lifeboats was broken with
rust. They were merely painted
over to hide the corrosion.
2-The liner was so undermined
that there was no constant fire
patrol at night.
3-The U. S. Shipping Commits
sion permitted men to sign on as
seamen who didn't have the re-
quired A. B. tickets.
4. The seamen were not assigned
to fire stations, and the fire and
boat drills were never carried out.
Passengers Not Instructed
5. The passengers were never
given instructions on what to do in
case of accident or fire.
s. The captain did not send out
an SOS. call until the fire was
beyond control This was a major
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
Office Workers Strike
at Macaulay, Charging
Breach of Agreement

NEW YORK Breach of contract
by the Macaulay Company, publish-
ers, of 3S1 Fourth Avenue, caused
the calling yesterday of the second
strike in three months. by the Office
Workers Union. The union charges
that by discharging of Clara Kittas.
Minna kaufman, Frances Ellis and
Susan Jenkins without consulting
the shop committee, as specified in
the agreement with the union signed
by L. F. Furman, president-treas-
urer OF the company, Macaulay
Company broke the contract.
The strike took effect yesterday
morning when a picket line of more
than so workers, students and au-
thors was on duty through the day.
In addition to the workers Of the
Macaulav Company. employees Of
the Viking Press, Vanguard Press,
Covici and Friede. Modern Library,
Mcmillan Company. Scribners. pub-
fishing houses, and Dauber and Pins
and other bookstores were on ths
picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
Police, Thugs 81 Knitgoods
Attack Pickets Shops Closed
At Passaic Mill inPhiladelphia
Especial to the Daily worker

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 49,
Several hundred striking silk work
ers, including many women, were
brutally attacked by Botany thugs
and Passaic police when they be-
gan to picket at the Botany Wor-
sted Plant in Passaic today. Silk
workers who at their mass meeting
earlier in the morning had de-
manded that the Paterson dye
shops be picketed were ordered to
Passaic by Eli Keller and other Of
ficials.
Responsibility for what happened
in Passaic was placed by workers on
Eli Keller, manager Of the A. F. Of
S. w. and leaders who, after calling
on workers to picket the Botany
plant in Passaic, provided only one
truck and several small cars for
transportation. Hundreds of Pat
erson silk strikers we're unable to
join the picketing because of this
and the size of the line made it pos
sible for police to attack the work.
ers and break up the picketing
After mobilizing the few hundred
workers when they arrived in Pas
sale, they marched to the Botany
plant, where they were met by a
number of armed deputies and local
police.
Police and Thugs Attack
The picketing in front of the
plant had been going on for about
ten minutes when police. together
with many thugs who had been
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