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Evening star., 1934-04-29

bunch of-of riders coming down the trail
Where'd you say your camp is? How many
men are there? Any guides or are you all
tenderfeet?" He shot the question at her ur-
gently.
Camp? I've told you had a crack-up
I'm one of the womens air-derby flyers. My
engine died and I had to land on snowbank-
Terrible mess. I'm bruised from head to foot,
and I've been wandering around for hours
trying to find human being. It's dreadful.
And who are these riders that you're afraid
off"
mo camp." He stared confusedly. drop
ping down out of the clouds! Good gosh,
what mess! And not man within so miles,
barring these birds on my trail
"I don't know what I can do with you
You ought to've stayed up in the sky while
longer instead Of dropping yourself right into
the middle of mess of trouble. And look at
Pride He can't carry single much longer, let
alone double. He's just about exhausted"
The horse had answered Rodwell's whistle
and trotted across the fiat. His master ap-
preached him gloomily enough, patted the
dropped neck, examined the widened, bloody
nostrils, and finally looked at the wounded
thigh.
"Yeah, we'd have stopped soon, anyhow.
You're through Pride" He stripped the sad
die and blanket from the foam-fecked back,
took off the bride and slapped q wet flank.
Git" he commanded. The horse
luctant to move, but Rodwel urged 1t, finally
chasing it, much as he had the bear to the
edge of the woods. There he threw saddle and
bride into a clump Of underbush and came
back toward the girl.
"Oh," she said, I'm so sorry. He seemed a
friendly animal. He seemed to be ashamed
of failing you"
"It wasn't his fault" Rodwell glanced and
listened again with painful attention. Luck
lily the other horses are just as tuckered. They
were mile two behind me. Ought to be
along any minute. The men aren't rightly
hillsmen. Maybe they won't notice for while
that I've left the trail. Then they'll come
back and follow Pride. That ought to give us
q little start. Come on"
"I? You don't mean that-that I'm to go
with you?"
Sorry. Can't leave you here" There was
fnality in his voice.
But I'm hurt-lame-I can hardly walk,
and I've already come miles and miles hunting
for somebody to get out Of this scrape.
These men-they have horses-theyn be here
in a little while. You've done something very
wicked, I suppose, or they wouldn't be chas-
ing you-shooting you. What was it?'
Wen talk about that in the woods. This
Is a bank robbery, and anybody caught in it
Is in jam. We're at least going to try to
get to some place where we can hole up, and
where If we're found can shoot it out and not
just get the two Of us massacred." He took
her arm. Lets see how lame you are"
She jerked away. IF you're thinning Of
adding kidnapping to your other crimes" she
said. furiously, "this will teach you better"
Her gloved hand very efficiently punched
as it struck his diversified nose. She did not
Evening star., 1934-04-29
Who: S afraid of the
big brown bear?.
Well this girl was.

She blinked from the smart sting OF her
many scratches, but did not protest. Indeed.
her eyes took dreamy far-away expression
despite the pain, and her red lips parted with
anything but diSapproval. Kneelng there to-
gether, he suddenly kissed her.
Why" she gasped, you don't-you don't
even know who am"
"Sure I do. You're an angel who dropped
out of the skies. But if it comes to that you
don't know who am, either. In fact, you
think"
II do, too. Those men-you weren't listen-
ing. They called you Pet Rodwen.'
He laughed. Pete, not Pet But it's all
right with you I've no objection. Pet it is
to you. Now tell me who you are and Wen
make tracks away from here before those gaza-
bos come riding back. They'll be bad medi-
cine when they get here"
"Janet's the name. The rest is Macumber"
Rodwell blinked. Not the girl who few the
South Atlantic?"
You see her. Or rather you don't Lie
still, please and keep your head on your arms"
He heard the rip of cloth and felt the soft
warmth of something silky against his flesh as
she dressed the wound in his side. The little
handbag contained among its manifold contents
roll of adhesive tape. She had just finished
her work when he caught gasp Of dismay and
jerked erect
A MONG the shadowy boles Of trees farther
back in the woods a darker shadow moved
hesitatingly toward them. Like fash the girl
had abandoned him and was on the far side
Of the log. He scrambled after her.
Honest" he told her, ''it's Just the way I
said. He's Old Peanuts. Everybody knows him.
Tourists feed him"
But all thought of Old Peanuts abruptly end
ed, for the clatter Of horses hoofs was near at
hand coming swiftly up from Black Bob Gulch.
voice, even nearer shouted to the approach
ing men. Rodwen and the girl could catch the
words plainly.
Here's his saddle. He's hidin' I'm the un-
derbrush. Spread out to the left all of you,
and keep your eyes peeled. When you spot
him shoot FAST he's two-gun man"
The men came almost Immediately, and with
a rush. not spread out as the voice had ordered
them but in compact group of half-a-dozen
riders. The grouping and the hurried progress
showed a more than respectful fear of Rod
wells revolvers. They were still some distance
away when he fired.
Shouts and an answering scattered fire re.
sponded, but the horses did not charge. For
a time there was a lively exchanged of shots,
interpersed by more than one cry Of pain.
Janet could bear the suspense no longer. Her
head began to lift. Rodweu pushed it down.
and the sniping went on.
They're off their horses" he said "rook
to the trees Going to be long siege"
He was interrupted by q little to one
side of the log. Old Peanuts galloped clunlsily
out Of the shadows and charged away from
the log. Horses snorted and galloped, men
Continued on Fifteenth Page.
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OnAA
0OLD
PEANUTS

. HE echo OF a horses hoofs in the
narrow. precipitous canyon was like
the thunder of charging cavalry. A
hundred men might have been GAL
Looping down the winding trail. But
beyond the canyon, where Lucky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
ELECTION PROMISES
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEWARK, N. J.-During the
campaign for Commissioners in
Newark, N. j., an Italian candidate,
Anthony F. Minisi, ran for Com
missioner. During the campaign
the usual promises were made to
the Italian workers.
He was elected. The italian
workers, remembering the promises
made, went to his office for as
sistance in alternating their suffer-
ings, but the door was slammed in
their face.
One man received help, and that
was Frank Loria, of Ordine Figli
D'Ogira Mutuo Soccorso, a society
of italian workers which gave him
1000 votes, thus actually electing
Minisi Returning to Frank Loria,
he bought off 1000 votes in the or
ganization. AS a result of politics,
Loria gambled his $4,000 barber
shop and lost. Also, $3.50 was taken
out of the treasury of the society
and used for the election campaign
of Minisi.
Frank Loria was the only man
to get help as a result of Minisi
being elected. He was placed in the
City Hall for short time and then
fired. At present he is without
work, his business has been lost as
result of politics. Nevertheless,
he still insisted on playing politics
by trying to join and make connec-
tons with political club, which
was turned down. Now this is the
New Deal for Minisi and the N.R.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
BY an Electrical Worker
Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Each morning
gathered in groups around the Cen
fury Electric plant are the defeated
and misled remnants Of a strike
called on June 29th. They wait
and hope that the N. R. A. Labor
Board will take militant action
against the Century Electric Co. and
force this company to re-employ
them and abide by the decision of
the Labor Board which already has
called the electric company unfair
in its dealing with the employees,
thereby admitting the Just cause of
the employees in their walkout.
The Regional Labor Board thus
has exposed its weakness in dealing
with the situation, since the COM
pany has at no time altered It's
plans of hiring whomever they wish.
The Labor Board has given the
company an excellent opportunity
to rehire those most loyal and most
needed in their production work in
every department which will make
possible 1e-establishing the produc-
ton schedule.
I can now easily understand why
the labor and arbitration boards al
ways hob-nob back and forth with
the company, while breaking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Rifle Teams
at Servel Are
Hand-Picked
By a Worker Correspondent

EVANSVILLE, In Regarding
war preparations at Servel, there is
nothing visible, but this shop has
a modern machine shop, Pressis
Shears, which could be converted
into war machine in "A hours.
But they are feverishly preparing
for the approaching war with en-
ployees by organizing interplant
competitive rifle teams, as reported
last week.
I was just informed that ServeFs
riflemen are hand picked and their,
activities are secret. One worker
told me he had tried to get in on
team since the start and can't
so much as learn the location of
the outdoor range. But this worker
didn't see the significance of this
until I explained it to him.
I told him it was brutal prepara-
ton to murder workers if they re-
fuse to work and starve, which they
are now doing, and this worker says
they are using army rifles 5000
and army ammunition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Plating Room
Floor Splashed
by Chemicals
By a Worker Correspondent

DN q hhlhEA pOiAuChk
NEW BRITAIN, Conn-Since the
N. R. A. slavery act" was intro
duced, unusual speed-up was placed
upon the workers in the plating
room at the Stanley Works, espe
cially on chromium plating.
The speed is such that the chem
icals poured into the wooden tubs
splash so that they soak through
walls and floors, which is dangerous
for anyone to walk through. And
there is such a stink in that de-
partment that the place is fit for
no human being to work in.
The workers about 10 months
ago had hopes in the A. F. of L.,
which came in to organize them,
and succeeded in getting around 60
per cent of the Stanley Workers
into their unions.
But when the workers saw that
the leaders sabotaged their strug-
gle when it was time for action
and they found themselves disor-
gained more than organized be-
cause of the craft unions that were
being created, they began to lose
hope in the union.
The Stanley workers have not yet
learned what an industrial union
can do for them. But the sooner
they learn and make their union
rank and file controlled union
9NA turn it into an industrial union,
the sooner they will be able to bet
w. mel CCnol0ionS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
MORE DISCIPLINE URGED

New York City.
Dear Comrades:
A few lines about the discipline
Of some of our comrades. was one
of the committee assigned on the
LIST of August to keep order in Union
Square and I was very much dis
appointed at the discipline of our
comrades. Although it was in the
Daily Worker on the LIST page Aug.
LIST, urging the comrades to pay at
tention to the speakers, they were
doing otherwise. The separate meet
:ngs and the conversations were
worse than before. Many of the
comrades on committee got disap-
pointed. asked one of them what
he thinks CT it. oh" he says, "they
make me sick. I will not bother
with them any more" One worker,
the first time in our demonstration,
said to me, pointing to separate
groups, You Communists have no
discipline" l think, comrades, that
suggestions to have committees for
that purpose is a good suggestion
We must not be disappointed from
the results of the first time.
Comradely yours,
A. D,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
MORE DISCIPLINE URGED
New York Cit,


Dear Comrades:
A few lines about the discipline
of some of our comrades. I was
one of the committee assigned on
the LIST of August to keep order in
Union Square and l was very much
disappointed at the discipline OF
our comrades. Although it was in
the Daily Worker" on the first
page August LIST, urging the COM
rades to pay attention to the
speakers; they were doing other
wise. The separate meetings and
the conversations were worse than
before. Many of the comrades on
the committee got disappointed. l
asked one of them what he thinks
of it. oh" he says, they make
me sick, I will not bother with
them any more" One worker, the
first time in our demonstration said
to me, pointing to separate groups
You Communists have no disci-
pine" I think comrades that sug-
gestions to have committees for
that purpose is a good suggestion
We must not be disappointed from
the results of the first time.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

Three More Orphans
BY HELEN LUKE

SO after all Mrs. Antonio, con-
victed of the murder of her hus-
band, has been electrocuted, while
adulterers Of food, prisoners OF
cosmetics, killers of strikers and
other mass murderers run around
loose and carefree. Ruling class
justice Is running true to form.
We can recall offhand the case of
the wife of a Cleveland manufac-
turer (Kaber) who was convicted of
numbering her husband, and given
merely a prison term for it: but
we cannot recall one instance
where woman of the upper crust
has been executed for numbering a
husband-or for any other crime
Nor. for that matter, can we re-
call that any man of the monied
class has ever paid" for any crime
in chair, moose or lethal chamber
The death penalty is reserved by
the capitalist State for those who
do not belong to the class that
rules.
Commenting recently in the n
Y. American on the Antonio case,
that gallant and magnificently
well-heeled gentleman, Arthur Bris-
bane, out of the boundless depths
of a benevolent and compassionate
Christmas spirit, had these char
table remarks to make:
There is no excuse for her,
although it was shown at the trial
that her husband was peddler
of drugs, therefore a dangerous
public enemy, and that he beat
and otherwise ill-treated her"
No doubt the money-soaked
dollar-logged Brisbane figures that
if she was beaten and otherwise
ill-treated" by her spouse, Mrs. An
tonic (mother of three small chill
dren) should simply have left the
brute. On what would she and the
children have lived, in this case?
All, what quibbling? A truly great
soul would not pause to worry about
such great picayune details. Un-
NuSSg4O11cb4y bl4C pun WOlAldlA SOuAN
have cot JOB sharpening the
magnanimous Brisbane's Hearst
II sod l79d-pclc.1-.
With which he also, incidentally
Sc -coled into the same article some
lines (by way of carrying out the
ruling class policy of keeping the
public" sex-conscious at all costs
in order to keep the proletariat oc-
cupied with questions of no sig
nificance) marveling at the differ
ence between women and men con-
victed of murder; this remarkable
fact having been deduced by the
astute Brisbane because the two
men ordered big dinners before
facing the chair, while Mrs. An
tonic didn't care to cat.
The major lesson to be drawn
from this and similar cases is the
one emphasized over and over again
by our leaders-that individual
methods of rebelling against oppres-
sion end in such tragic failures as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Rebuilding Furnaces
to Eliminate Jobs
Working Special Order for High Carbon
Steel for Government

ton local officials they tell you
that the stoppage was for a couple
of weeks only. SO the other day I
had a chance to ask one of them,
since he was so sure that prosperity
is here, why is it that nothing is
on the up and up, for instance, at
the Gary and Grown Point trac-
lions.
But these takers can't and will
not see it and I told them that we
were getting from five to seven
days pay and some departments
are getting only three or four days.
Then right away they stated that it
wasn't their business what the mills
are doing
Fellow workers, what is taking
place in Al Glooming mill and how
do they work their men? One works
from eight to four. Then they come
the next day from twelve to eight.
We make a high carbon STEEL, or
slabs, as we call it. They roll them,
chip and ship them back to be re-
heated for special material for gov
eminent use, and you can decide
yourself where that stuff goes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

in the country. The call for unity
of all workers, Negro and white,
native and foreign-born, was
cheered by the workers. Hundreds
of the workers remained long after
dark, asking questions about the
Soviet Union and discussing their
own problems and living conditions.
The unit of the Communist Party
distributed l 200 copies of the Daily
Worker, with a leaflet attached to
each one calling them to the meet
ing and pointing out what the
workers here must do, and can do,
to prevent the bosses and their gov
eminent from carrying out their
war plans.
Every copy of the Daily was
eagerly taken and many workers
asked for copies long after the
supply was exhausted.
We must have many more and
bigger meetings like this one, and
they must be followed up with the
building of strong fighting unions
in the chemical plants, the organ
ization of committees against wal
and fascism. the drawing in OF
women to the daily struggles, and
the organization of the youth.
1t means the further building ur
of the Niagara Falls Employed AND
Unemployed Protective League, &c
demand adequate relief for all I'M
employed-unemployment insurance
paid by the bosses and their gov
eminent and to demand that al
war funds be given to the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

did Mrs. Antonio's ill-advised eff
fort to escape her husbands dom
nation and at the same time pro-
vide a living Through collection
of insurance. for herself and her
children.
The bourgeois wife and mother
wishing to get rid of an unwanted
husband simply goes to Reno or
some other divorce -dispensary, gets
legal release and slimony, and
everything is hunkydory.
The working class woman is only
theoretically free, privileged to do
likewise. In actuality she is bound
and helpless, because Of the pow
erty to which capitalism condemns
her; and will remain so until she
organizes with the working class to
overthrow that capitalism which
binds her down.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Labor Board Is Trick
to Wear Out Strikers

police are furnished by city or state,
so that pickets and strikers wear
down and strike breakers can be re-
employed unmolested.
Such playing for time is especi-
ally favorable to the bosses and
unfavorable to the strikers, and is
just another reason for the need
of unemployment insurance to all
without discrimination of 81 week
to be paid by the government and
employers as outlined in your plat
form. The government always
protects the rich (multi-millionaire)
whenever necessary, and this I'M
employment insurance must pro-
tect the poor in case Of strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Villages Decay,
Crisis Deepens
in Farm Area
By a Worker Correspondent

by WORKER Correspondent
GENEVA, Ohio, is a village of 5000
U in northeastern Ohio, three miles
from the shores of Lake Erie, 1t is
in the heart of the grape belt but
there is also considerable general
farming. I have been coming here
for several summers and I see it
undergoing decay.
In former summers the village
library kept a fairly good assert
ment of current periodicals. APP
preparations have been cut. There
are few magazines of the slightest
consequence; there are no new books
except in the field of stage and
drama, which are furnished by a
former resident who is dramatic
critic for a Cleveland paper. There
is nothing on economics of the
least Importance.
The telephone is rapidly disap-
pearing from the homes of farmers
Primitive methods of pioneers days
enslave the farmer and the farm
er's wife. The new farmer (there
are few cannot afford to install
electricity. He uses oil lamps. He
cannot pay the required assessment
for running water. He uses the
pump. The weekly washing is per-
formed almost as in colonial days.
The A. F. of L. has established
three locals to cover the village in
dustries; the principal ones being a
fork and hoe company, metal
wheel, and a hardware company.
But the workers are dissatisfied with
William Green's racket. If they
wish to have an outside speaker,
they must pay handsomely to Sc
cure the services of one of Mr..
Green's henchmen, and then they
are told nothing. so they are be-
coming discouraged with their first
contact with this type of labor
union.
A delegation of speakers, repre-
senting the Ohio Farmers League,
visited the neighboring village of
Austinburg recently and submitted
| q 1A1AlibelI4I R1O6A dill Wll1S1l Od1lCQ 1Ol
cancellation of all farm mortgages
They also showed pictures of farm
ing under the Soviet planned econ
omy Despite the intense heat and
the poor lighting facilities, it was
like ray of sunshine breaking out
of dark clouds.
Efforts should be made to dis
tribute literature advertising the
League to every village and hamlet
Many of the farmers and workers
are curious about progress in the
Soviet Union, but radical contacts
have been few and there still re-
mains stone wall of intense con-
servatism. However, the deepening
economic crisis will break this, anc
wise distribution of agitational anc
propaganda material will hasten the
day.
| Those Party members and sympa-
thizers, who are lucky enough to be
on vacation during the summer
must not neglect the opportunity tc
spread enlightment in villages and
farming communities. They will fine
small receptive groups everywhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Ambridge Terror
Directed Against
Daily Worker Sale
BY a Worker Correspondent

Of hOAhEA Correspondent
AMBRIDGE, Pal have been
informed and advised not to sell
the Daily Worker on the streets.
The rotten burgesses of this town
gave orders to the police to ar
rest every one who is found sell
ing the paper. Two weeks ago
they arrested two comrades who
were holding meeting.
James S. Coughlin Steel Co.
put up posters in the mills that
for any worker to suggest how to
improve production should do SO,
and any worker who makes a
little mistake on a job has to
pay a fine, getting a week or
more off, or losing the job, and
the workers are so scared they
don't dare talk about the union.
I heard from one worker that in
the last presidential election
that some workers talked against
Hoover and got arrested for that.
I'm going to ask all my friends
to get the yearly subscription to
the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Builders of Military
Reservation Road
Strike for More Pay
By a Worker Correspondent


LEBANON, Pa.-If there ever was
just cause for strike, that was
the strike of the men who built the
road at Indian Town Gap for the
Military Reservation. They got IS
cents per hour, crushing stone I'M
Ger the hot sun with a 12-pound
sledge hammer. They had to pay
Is cents for transportation No
time was given for rest or meal.
If ever a strike promised sue
cess this one did. The military
clique was in hurry to complete
this road, as the militia was ar
irving on July IA for training. The
workers were worn out and dis
gusted with the job and agreed on
the previous day to join on the
next morning.
Wednesday morning, June 81, one
section failed to resume work. In
reply to the contractors inquiry,
they enumerated their demands.
The contractor told them he would
make no decisions, but would for
ward the demands to Harrisburg.
State troopers arrived and started
to chase the strikers away from
the premises. Some of the strikers
lost heart and started one by one
sneaking back to their job By
noon time the few remaining
strikers in disgust went home to
Lebanon.
Notwithstanding this. the strike
was a success after all, and the
proofs are that the next Monday
a new road was started and the
conditions given are those requested
by the strikers-5o cents an hour,
paid TRANSPORTATION, etc.