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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

A. Philip Randolph, president of
the Brotherhood Union, has proven
himself a wonderful leader. Capa-
bic far beyond the average, bril-
liant of intellect, with a grasp Of
railroad affairs unequalled by any
man of the group, an orator the
peer of any, with an outstanding
personality, he is honest, infiuen-
$hi: and unnurchasable. He has
been answering in his allegiance
and has fought the fight of the
:loVlV Randolph and his sincere
helpers have brought the Brother
hood from the darkest days into
the light of present possibilities.
1t should soon rank with the other
mighty unions of the land. He has
won, and should have, the support
of every man and woman in the
railway service.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
SERVANTS REMEMBERED

soul in life and greater soul III
The world has stopped marvel because she remembered
well her ced servants Marie Dress deeper fo
with $4,000 cash. the Dressle
and sverwar will perhaps be published Knowing he"
trbulaton disappontmen and then tn
e monumental realize that she would
nstncvey her real friends and would reward them hand
somey in the end
Average remembered cash settlement
figures wills people than Marie Dressler He
those Negro her closes
friends, who had stood by her in the leaner days.
sad that hart has passed. but some of
happy that condans hepmaes during her life
eoord people and that she did not forget to reward them we'll
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

One of the benefits to the Negro
group coming out of the New Deal
results from the amendments to
the Railway Labor Act. The
original legislation did not include
the Pullman Company in it's pro-
visions. The Brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car Porters has consistently
fought to have this company CONS
within the preview of this law.
A. Philip Randolph, executive head
of the Brotherhood, with the help
of the American Federation of La
Dor, has succeeded in having Con-
gress to so amend the Act as TO
include the Pullman Company.
President Roosevelt has signed it.;
it is now law.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

session last week in the Bethesda
Baptist Church, Minneapolis, This
convention, organized IA years ago
by the then pastor of Bethesda,
the Rev. H. C. Parsons, saw by
far it's best gathering in the ses-
sion just concluded. Organized to
cement more closely the Baptists
of Minnesota and to give purpose
and unity of program to the de-
nomination, it has had a more or
less hectic existence during the
major portions of these past years.
1t seems, now, to be coming into
it's own and is achieving a larger
and more gratifying understanding
among it's followers. Departments
for women and for the young
people have been added and are
functioning successfully. Absence
of the frictions and misunder-
standings that have marred, some
what, the past efforts were very
evident in the meeting of this year.
This is most commendable. The
work of the young people has been
especially free from clogging sus-
picions and personal resentments;
it has developed a vision of future
usefulness that promises great
things for themselves, the churches
and the communities of the Twin
Cities.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
Personalities
BY Nellie Dol son

ROCK GAM and his crew Of
musicians are doing a swell job Of
it out at the Ell Patio. Last Sun
day night there wasn't space
enough to squeeze a toothpick in
within block of the place. That
theme song is worth cover charge
alone, Ell?
HERE AND THERE: JOHNNY
DAVIS, the personality boy with
Fred Warnings orchestra, may be
somewhat of an embarrassment to
his sponsorers, the Ford people.
Johnny ,frives Pontiac. . Don't
fool with that mixture Of aspirin
and coco-cola for a kick, if you
have jumpy heart. Most of the
women at the stage door during
the War.cg engagement were
har giNg around to adore those two
handsome blonde twins who toott j
sax in the orchestra. No foolin'.
Wedding bells may ring out in
October for a former South High
track star and st. Paul deb. .
No one is going to Chicago this
year. How come? ;. The beauty
honors for out-of-towners went to
ALIEN GORDON of St. Louis
and ALICE WILSON of Seattle.
. And one of the school teachers
decided she wouldn't stay for Sec
ond quarter of summer school after
she found out o. GRANTHAM
wasn't in town. Haw! BILL
THOMAS has gone back to II.
Carolina :. I've been thinking al
along that JOHNNY ARMSTEAD
went with SUE ELLIS, when he
goes with VIVIAN. / hope | have
it Strengthened out this time
b'gosh.
You Northsiders have been very
delinquent about sending in news
notes, and you deserve good old
fashioned spanking. What about
card parties, house parties, and
visitors Of course, you have
them, so why not let somebody
know about it. Call me at Regent
1855 or mail items to me at 300
Third Street South, Minneapolis
Spokesman office. Don't be so
dawggone bashful!
And that Minneapolis lad who
parked in front of a certain young
lady's house lawst Wednesday
night, and determined that if she
went out with another sheik it
would be over his dead body, waited
until a late hour. What he didn't
know was that the gel and St.
Paul Gable had slipped out the
back door ages before. Smarty!
Out at Excelsior the other night
'NETTE WILLIAMS was having
a try in one of the shooting gal
leries. And is she ever good! She
aimed at the target and hit the
ceiling She aimed at the ceiling
and hit the target. Fer heavens
sake!
See you next week!
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

A Chinaman writing to Golfers
Weekly complains that the publ
cation has printed two stories of
Chinatown in one week. Says the
writer: "Give us a break as you
give the Japs by not publishing
any Jap stories. Just because We
Chinks never have anything to say
for ourselves the public still love-
Chink stories, and you guys pla9-
ter it on thick"
/ wonder if there is not a lesson
we can draw from the Chinaman's
complaint.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
FIGURES IN A FIGURE AGE

candidate public paid program,
further demonstrate his good WILL purchased drinks
drink friendly byands The candidate figures,
The waiter strong charging The price $780, When Sh
ton called it changed $2.70. = - =
figures paid the s27O also nGH; times
five SIS Figures don't e and if
be called a
Paul Record
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

One is inclined to look hopefully
to the future when these young
people will assume full response
bility for the Christian work o.
the state in which they have en-
gagged with so much of earnestness
and sincerity.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

After some months of rest l find
myself back again in the writing
game at the old desk. Hard 20
teach an old dog new tricks-so
comments under the old headlines
on things I hope to make inter
esting to our readers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Protected absolutely by the law
they may do this without fear Of
loss of employment. If they fail
to do so they will deserve to lose
The sympathy so generously given
by their fellows.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
Other Editors Saw


approximately coored America Many
them their tim and effort
civic equality for their people
Like other professional group there shysters
lawyers excellent class OF
citizens serving always the ghe and best interests the community
in which they live.
the oashioned ethics their exploits
unheradd general bic of them. Then
continue believe in the fac
contradictory evidence that oored
effective service.
lawyer much
instances for his clients those of other
is time that cored people abandon their old ideas
ing ced lawyers being able when the evidence
shows they do.
Thousands of people gypped' by
other things, colored
honorable and their employ themPhade
phia Tribune
newspaper in the long dsinte
ested than it's If the
essentially good the lacks public spirit
of freedom from pull the whether fagranty syy
inevitably the truh-Hapgood.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Up to the present time the eff
forts of the Brotherhood to effect
4 nation wide organization of the
)crters and maids in the Pullman
service have been bitterly con-
tested by that company. Many IF
he employees, for safety's sake
have joined the company union,
giving up their rights of indepen-
lent action rather than risk their
obs. Uniting with the Brother
hood, for the most part, has been
done only by stealth. Under such
circumstances the failure of men
20 stand up for their rights car
be understood and perhaps con-
doned. But there is now no ex-
cuse for such failure. Under tn
law they may now join the
Brotherhood and fight for whatever
hey consider their due.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Don't be sucker, get your local
news in the paper which unst lfshly
seeks to build your community.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

When love and skill work to-
gether expect a masterpiece
Ruskin.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Under the terms of the amend,
ment porters and maids in the
employ of the Pullman Company
are permitted to bargain collec-
lively with the employer, through
representatives of their own choos-
ing, and the company is prohibited
under drastic penalties, from inter
fering with or coercing that choice
Neither will it be permitted to
discharge employees because OF
any union affiliations they make.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Use our Letters Column to air
your opinion on important topics.
Your idea may be "the idea"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

The Minnesota Baptist conven-
ton held it's fourteenth annual
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Help the newsboy by refusing
to lend your copy of the paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

Mail your news items direct to
the office.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
FRATERNAL NOTICES

Ames Lodge, No. los, l. b. r. o.
E. W., meets first and third Mon.
days of each month at Elks' Rest,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10
Weekly Bible Gem

the foot of pride against and let
Of the wicked drive awGy.-Psalms 36a1.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

14S Hyland Ave. N. J. w. Pate
exalted ruler: DIR. M. j. Richard
son, financial secretary. Phone
HyIand 1926. Visiting brothers
welcome. NJ
This newspaper goes direct inte0
+ba homes of consumers who spend,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-10

II seems 70 me managers OF the
professional charities should issue
a card of thanks to those Ameri.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Claim Deputy
Killed Sheriff
Experts Say Ball From
Gun of ki1nball's As
sistant Was Fatal One

Uncertainty took a hand in the
states preparations for trying
Ralph Davis, Lexington outlaw, for
the Staying of Sheriff G.. c. Kimball,
near Statesville, when ballistics ex-
perts reported the fatal bullet was
fired from the gun of Deputy R.
L. Gilbert, the sheriff's companion
on the raid.
Kimball was killed and Gilbert
wounded when they attempted to
trap him at a farm home. Two
witnesses said Davis killed the
sheriff, but Charlotte and New
York ballistic experts both nov re-
port the bullet came from Gilbert's
gun.
Solicitor Zeb v. Long said he
would not let the finding interfere
with his plans for prosecuting
Davis. He said he could not &C
cept the theory that Gilbert shot
his chief accidentally during the
gunplay, and would seek some
other explanation. =
Gilbert himself, greatly disturb
ed by the report, said:
"I don't see how it could have
happened"
He spoke from his hospital bed.
Davis has been held at States
prison in Raleigh since his capture
at Concord, which followed a chase
into Virginia, where he abandoned
a stolen car in which he made his
getaway from the shooting scene.
He protested his innocence of the
shooting, but was positively identi-
fled by several persons as the gun
man.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
1ckes To Conduct
Hearing Sept. 10
On Park Highway

Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes has announced he will go
to Asheville on Monday, September
10, to conduct a hearing on the
route for the parkway between the
Shenandoah National park in Vir-
ginia and the Great Smoky Noun
tain National Park lying partly in
North Carolina and partly in Ten
nessee.
Secretary 1ckes announced that
he would allow North Carolina and
Tennessee each one hour and thirty
minutes to present its case, with
the ALLEGATION of that time left en-
tirely to Governor J.. C. B. Ehring-
haus of Norh Carolina and Cover
nor Hill McAllister, of Tennessee.
1t has been the contention of
North Carolinians all along that if
they could obtain a personal inspec-
ton by the secretary they would
have no fear of the result.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Kept Taking Cardui
+. Until She Got Rid
of the Severe Pains

When Mrs. Ida Hege, of Edin-
burg, Ind, was in a painful, run
down condition, she took Cardui,
with the results she describes be-
low: 1T had just been what one
might say dragging around, feeling
miserable and all out Of sorts. I
remembered how Cardui helped
my aunt. I sent for six bottles Of
Cardui and when I had taken them,
I was much better and stronger. I
did not suffer so much pain. I
continued taking Cardui until I had
taken nine bottles. ! do not have
the severe pains" -. Thousands
Of women testify Cardui benefited
them. If it does not benefit YOU,
consult a physicia1y
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
War Department
Buys 1000 Autos

Washington.-The War Depart
ment has announced award of con-
tracts for 1000 motor vehicles to
cost more than $4,000 900. The
Chevrolet Motor Company was a.
wared contracts for 1881 trucks
for $910,407.S7. Fargo Motor Cor
poration, Detroit, was awarded
contracts for 492 trucks and pas
senger cars for $256,055.94.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

What People Looked Like 5000
Years Ago. Remarkable Hoard of
Statues Unearthed From Ruins of
the Mysterious Sumerians. Read
About 1t and See the Photographs
in the American Weekly, Which
Comes With the BALTIMORE
AMERICAN, Issue of September
9. Buy Your Copy From Your
Favorite Newsboy or Newsdealer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

The business experts tell us that
the outlook for prosperity is full of
promise, but of there was a little
less promise and a little more pay
up of old bills, the business folks Of
Salisbury would be better pleased.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

NEW OPTIONAL GAS SCHEDULE NO.. 2
Rate
First 200 Gu. it. Or less used per month S1.55.
Next $500 Gu. #. used per month 1871 cents per hundred Gu. #,
All over 5000 Gu. it. used per month 9 cents per hundred Gu. #.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

OLD OPTIONAL GAS NO.
Rate
First 800 Gu. it, Or less used per month 81 SO. +
Next 600 Gu. it. used per month, 1919 cents per 100 Gu. fl,
Next '143,o0o Gu. #. used per month 10 cents per 400 Gu. #.
All over $4,000 Gu. #. used per month 9 cents per 100 Gu. #.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

This rate is available for water heatingS provided the wa,
Of storage capacity for one kilowatt of heating capacity a
Of the company a d may be limited to fifteen hours out of
~ cents per XVI for the first
1 cent per XVIII for all over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

ity and sell-out character of the
U.M.W.A. leadership, the paper in
stead, in a long article on unions,
attacks this leadership only for sit
ting at tables with the bosses and
smoking 60-cent cigars. This article
filings out the slogan of rank-and-
file control of the A. F. of L. unions
without telling how to go about it,
and on what issues to mobilize the
workers around the opposition. This
is true also of letters from the steel
workers in various plants.
Unity of Negro and White
Another example, worker writes
of many grievances in the Ensley
steel mill, but points out particularly
that the Negro workers labor longer
hours for less pay at the very same
work as the white workers. Here's
our chance to explain the boss tao
tic of divide and rule" on a con-
crete situation, and bring forward
the Communist Party program. In
another letter the contemptuous at
titude toward Negroes on the part
of the company store in the Wylam
No. Mine is complained of. An
other chance to bring forward our
program of unity of black and white.
Instead, in the articles enumerating
economic demands, the slogan of
equal pay and conditions for Negro
and white is put forward without
any explanation. In the article emu
merating the planks of the Party
platform. the slogan of complete
equal rights for Negroes is put for
ward without any explanation. We
cannot fling out among these white
Southern workers, who are filled
with the traditional bourgeois hatred
and contempt for the Negro, the
slogan of complete equal rights for
Negroes, without a single word of
explanation of why, from the point
of view of the interests of the white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

the workers; the leaders of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers trying to
mislead the organized and morgan
lied steel workers; the leaders of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea trying to sell out the coal min
ers; the leaders of the International
Union Of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers trying to keep their ore
miners and smelter workers from
struggle; and no foothold to speak
of, as yet, for the militant industrial
revolutionary unions; this is the
situation facing the "TCI Blast"
when 1t sets out to organize the
workers for struggle for better work
ing conditions in the plant, and to
challenge the power of the entire
corporation, and of the government
backing the corporation, with the
slogan of Soviet America.
Struggle On Concrete Issues
This is the first issue Of the "TCI
Blast" Considering that the work
ers getting it out have had no ex-
perience in such work, it is on the
whole a good issue. 1t tries very
hard to balance its shop material
and political material, but in do
so, 1t separates the two. In its very
handling of the profuse and excel
lent shop material, the "TCI Blast"
fails to draw organizational and po-
litical conclusions and to give lead
ership in struggle for either the
immediate shop demands or for the
ultimate aims of our world Com
munist Party.
There are three articles giving
aims, program and demands - the
introduction for the paper, a list
of shop demands, and an article on
the REDS There is also an ar
ticle of general nature on unions.
There are two full pages of excep-
tionally fine shop material in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

workers themselves, this is neces-
sary And this is true of all our
political slogans in the paper.
If the proper conclusions are
drawn from the shop conditions, in
future issues, then our demands and
programs, now being put forward in
this issue as general articles,
divorced from concrete shop condi-
tons, will not sound so much like
an enumeration of certain platonic
ideas, but will have flesh and blood
and a good solid bony skeleton.
Build the Revolutionary Unions
The handling of the organiza-
tional situation inside the plants
seems to be mclear. The fight
against the company union is clear
cut, although not enough was made
of the fact that a successful strug-
gle had been carried on against it.
There is nothing in the paper, how
ever, to awaken the workers to the
very elementary realization of the
need Of economic organization of
some kind. They therefore would
tend to become confused at our tao
tic of organizing them into the re-
formist unions, at the same time
criticizing the leadership Of these
unions, and criticizing not on the
basis of shop conditions. Then there
is nothing of a definite concrete
nature to guide these workers to put
into effect the slogan of rank-and-
file control of the A. F. of L. and
Railroad Brotherhood Unions.
Fundamentally, it is not correct
to have blanket policy of putting
all the workers of this widespread
company into the A. F. of L. unions.
In those plants where the A. F. of
L. has strong or predominating in
fiuence, the policy should be to
rank-and- opposition work while
organizing the workers into these
reformist unions. In the other plants
the policy must be the building of
our revolutionary unions. On the
railways, of course, the Railroad
Brotherhood Unity Movement is the
vehicle through which the railroad
workers must be organized as op-
position groups within the Brother
hood, for struggle and rank and file
control.
But no matter what the organiza-
tional policy is with regard to union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Jersey City Police Ban All
Communist Party Meetings
Socialist Party Heads, Acting in Unity With
Police, Refuse Hall for Meeting

The Communist Party three weeks
ago planned an anti-war meeting at
the Socialist Labor Lyceum for
March 18th. Two days before the
meeting was scheduled the police
came down to the hall and ordered
the hall to close its doors, otherwise
"the police will find it necessary to
come in and physically break up this
Communist meeting" The order
also was given that no Communist
meeting was to be permitted any
where in the city. Nevertheless the
Party carried on its preparations
and on the night Of the meeting
was ready to carry it through. At
the hall the police were we'll mobi-
liked. A fire hose was prepared
across the street. Twenty-Five de-
tectives were on hand at the hail
A number Of radio cruisers stood at
the door ready for arrests.
The Communist Party at Jersey
City, N. j., has in the past had the
greatest trouble in holding any sort
of meeting, indoor or outdoor
Whenever such meetings were plan
ned the police either closed the hall,
or used other methods of terror such
as visiting every workers home in
the vicinity of the hall and terror
izing the workers with threats of
arrest.
The Labor Lyceum, although
owned in the name of an individual
member of the Socialist Party is
the official hall of the Socialists in
Jersey City. Although previously
they had agreed to permit us into
the hall, on the night of the meet
ing they acted with the police, and
locked the doors. Many workers
came. Especially were Negro work
ers noticeable. All were asked their
names and addresses and whether
they were Communists.
Mayor Hague Opens Drive for
Hlegality of Party
This city is ruled by Hague, who
was previously connected with the
car of the labor racket, BRANDED.
Hague has been Mayor for 20 years,