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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28
GRONINGEN

The Midsummer picnic Sunday at
Slentons on the shore of Grindstone
lake, was very we'll attended, the
weather being ideal. A very good
program was rendered by the Dell
Grove Sunday school class and few
old Swedish songs were sung by the
older people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nystrom and Mr.. and
Mrs. Jewel Nelson spent Saturday
evening at the Ben Nelson home.
A. c. Haglin and family of Duluth,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28

Lamson and Reinhold be appointed
to make arrangements for bonding
the district to pay off the old bonds.
A motion was made seconded and
carried that we insure against tor
nado in the Firemen Insurance Co.
On motion carried the board ad-
journed.
H. NORTRUP, Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28

School board meeting June 81, 1884.
Members present were Melberg,
Albrecht, Ogilvie and Nortrup. Abb
sent were Ehmke and Guessing.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved as read.
Ogilvie acted as chairman of the
meeting. On motion carried the fol-
lowing bills were allowed:
w. w. Ogilvie, expenses $50. $500
Alvin Albrecht, expenses 49,. 1900
j. l.. Currell, taking inventory 500
Lillian Olson, taking inventory 800
Minnie Bochek, taking inventory 800
William Ehmke, taking inven-
tory .............. 5.OO
A E. Gustafson, for speaker -. 1900
MINI. Power & Light, service. $50
w. M. Wells Manufacturing Co.,
diplomas .............. $3.50
F.. Nj. Peters, helping janitor :. 1000
j. ID. Burns, hot point range :. 1000
Barnum Hdw. Co., wire, switch
DOX ........... 1I.6O
Firemen's Insurance Co., lorna
do insurance. .154 90
E. b. Linsley, ballots and blanks $50
NJ. L. Melberg, expenses, etc.. 1.50
H. Nortrup, postage .......... SIS
University Printing Co., tests. 2.39
1t was moved, seconded and car
ried that Mr.. Currell's salary be
raised one hundred dollars (S100.O0)
for the coming school year.
On motion made and carried the
meeting adjourned.
H. NORTRUP, Clerk.
st. PaurS Luth. Church, Willow River.
There will be no services or Sum
day school next Sunday.
Shop through the columns Of the
Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28

Shop through the columns Of the
Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28

st. PaurS Luth. Church, Willow River.
There will be no services or Sum-
day school next Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
From the Diary of a
Relief investigator

tea" she replied. And We have
about three cans Of beans. We've
been getting by on stuff Ike that
for the past three weeks. I guess
We can manage few days longer. 3"
Then she burst into tears. I glanced
at her application card. There are
three children in the family five,
eight and eleven years old, respec-
lively.
FEB. 20. 1932.-something hap
pened today which, I am sure, will
help jar the bureau out of its vacil-
lation and shoulder-shrugging For
a week there have been street meet
ings Of the Unemployed Council
across the street from our ONCE
despite the bitter cold. Today there
was another one, but instead Of dis
banding, the meeting marched in a
body across the street and up to
the gates Of the school The cop on
duty, acting on Mrs. Portman's or
ders, refused sdrnittance to a dele
cation. He sent someone in to
phone for more cops and meanwhile
stalled the 300 or more who had
marched across the street.
When re-enforcsments arrived
from the nearby police station and
shouldered their way through the
crowd to take up a defensive Posi-
ton, the lieutenant in charge an
nounced, Mrs. Portman doesn't
want to see any Of you. co on
home now"
The big woman who was chair
man Of the meeting and leader Of
the delegation turned to the crowd
and shouted, IF Mrs. Portman
won't see a delegation, we'll all go
in" AS she spoke two cops started
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

Fulton Towers Prison,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Comrade Lass:
This morning 7 received your in
teresting and encouraging letter.
Am somewhat better in health, but
not as well as I should be.
Your apology was unnecessary,
because I realize that there are SO
many things happening Of late that
it is very easy for some Of our re-
sponsible comrades to underesti-
mate the importance Of certain
cases, but am sure that once they
have been reminded, steps will be
taken to avoid this in the future
AS far as my person is concerned
the apology was not necessary.
However, In view Of the impending
sharp class battles it is imperative
that we organize a much better
movement TO enforce the rights Of
all political prisoners as such. No
doubt you are aware Of the criminal
and horrible way they are forced
pressive walls Of capitalist prisons.
One who has been incarcerated for
his activities in connection with the
fight for a living under a system
that is no longer able to provide
even a small subsistence for it's
slaves, is huddled up with the most
hardened criminals and degener-
ates. And in most cases is treated
much worse than the others are.
Although they are not anxious to
give politicals the treatment they
should have, nevertheless, they do
in one way or another look upon
them as different from the others.
But. of course. that is only done
after pressure has been brought to
bear upon the brutal f1unkies.
known as officials Of prisons.
For example, when I was first ar
rested and before I was convicted.
I almost died from the horrible ex-
periences was forced to 90
through. Since then, although am
in the death house, they have been
very cautious in their treatment Of
me after their plots to murder me
we're frustrated But to say this is
not to exclude their general line Of
brutal and savage tortures And
am convinced that if the movement
for my freedom and better treat
ment had been much broader than
hitherto, my position now would be
much better. Being in the death
house is not an easy thing to en-
dure when you are right in the same
cage with people who have been
condemned to death (some of them
innocent), and you must witness a
steady parade of them to the states
execution chambers.
Nothing could be more barbara
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

to hustle her down the stairs. Other
policemen plunged into the crowd
Standing at the head of the stairs I
had a good view. The blue uni
forms we're engulfed. The crowd
surged toward the door and away
from it as the cops numbered
their billies. The crowd thinned out
and fell back. But about two dozen
women. instead Of retreating. moved
forward to meet the murderous at
tack They locked with their blue
coated adversaries, clawing. slap
ping, kicking. They were unarmed,
save for their knowledge of where
to kick.
It ended after still more cops
came and FIVE women we're corralled
in the vestibule. They screamed
their announcement to those on
the outside. The cops tried to 81
lence them with blows. I saw one
cop adjust his black jack so that
it protruded from his clenched fist
for about quarter Of an inch. Then
he pinned a screaming woman
against the wall with his left hand
and swung his right hand in short.
murderous jabs against her mouth.
He appeared to be hitting her with
his fist, but actually he was bang
ing her teeth loose with black jack
blows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

who probably doesn't give damn,
they burst into tears. It's painful.
But Mrs, Portman, our supervisor,
isn't embarrassed. She's a hard
boiled little Greenwich Villager
from a private social service agency
who has traded in tears for q long
time. Don't let yourself be n1isled
or confused by tears" she tells us.
They don't mean a thing. Very
often, the louder they weep the less
they need help" And to staunch
the flood Of tears which has been
playing hell with Office routine she
advises: Don't show them any
sympathy. A little kindness makes
them cry more quickly than the
sternest treatment you can man
age"
JAN. 10, 1932-The flood of ap-
plications is swapping us. I think
I understand now how the drowning
man feels when he discovers that
it's only straw he's clutching,
Every applicant is nervous and
jumpy as If the long drawn-out in
security which has been lowering
over him will suddenly resolve it.
self into horrible certainty of
destruction. Those families already
ON relief are in an even worse frame
Of mind. The weekly food ticket
has become their only resource and
the bureau is so disorganized. cha
otto. short handed, because the
money has TO go to the bankers,
that we can't write food tickets fast
enough. But even worse is the fact
that the daily money allotment to
our bureau is far too small When
we've written $4,000 worth Of tick
cts for the day we've got 20 stop
The result is q flood of sel1i-hy-
stericel but absolutely justified COM
plants. We've been working over
time almost every night.
FEB. 8, 1932.-The flood of appli-
cations has been so great that we're
still way behind in our i1vestiga-
tons despite the fact that our doors
have been closed for more than two
weeks. After we re-opened, Mrs.
Portman tried q new wrinkle to de-
termine which applicants are de-
serving of emergency treatment. We
ask each one, Have you enough
food at home to last through to-
morrow"
One woman answered eyes" in
trembly voice. What have you
at homer" I asked "Oh, bread and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the US.

school On the Northwest Side with
special attention to railroad workers
and on the South Side Of Chicago
with special attention to the stock
yards.
The main branch of the Chicag go
Workers School will be moved to q
more centrally located place and will
become the training school and the
center to improve the quality Of our
teaching and to offer more advanced
theoretical study to the workers Of
Chicago.
The conference will launch a cam
paign for $1,000 which will be used
to develop libraries in each of the
schools, to improve the material and
generally to extend and improve the
much needed education and training
Of new forces for the class struggle.
All mass organizations are urged
to take this problem up in their
branch and make the campaign
truly campaign of the entire work
ing class Of Chicago. Further details
on this will appear in the press.
THE Boston Workers School is or
l ganizing four weeks classes ir
Fundamentals of Communism In
Quincy and in Lynn, charging 9
very small fee for each lesson. They
are doing this to lay the basis fol
building real branches in these cities
as well as in Cambridge, in the fall
They are recognizing their School
Committee so that it functions as q
so-called social club during the sum-
mer months, with the main purpose
of recognizing schools in the fall
To put this into immediate effect
they have organized a picnic for the
last week of school.
The Workers School in New York
is launching a 81 900 Drive this week
to prepare fund for the fall term
A campaign will be conducted in the
classes, private parties for the bene-
fit Of the Drive are planned BY
groups Of students, and six prizes
are being offered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
PHILIP STERLING


DEC. q, 1951-I've got job, I'm
to report on Jan. for work Is an
investigator in the Bureau Of Home
Relief in the Department Of Public
Welfare. I'm not clear as to my
duties but I'm going to get "a great
big dollars a week. My emotions are
mixed, though, when I begin to
think Of all the things Ill have to
do with that money. I better not
dwell on the matter or I'll be dis
couraged before I start.
JAN. 10, l932.-For two years now
I've been reading newspaper reports
of increasing unemployment and
hardship. I've watched the business
index go down, down-like a plum
met, but I haven't known what I'M
employment means. I'm beginning
to understand it now in human
terms. Our bureau is in the bor-
ough Of . It covers an area
Of approximately nine square miles.
We're taking about 200 spplica-
tions a day. The Office is mad
house. No equipment, no tele-
phones, desks, Office supplies. When
get to work at am. the gymna-
sum of the school building in which
we are uusrtered. is crowded with
men. women, children.
sit down at my desk "a long
plank on two saw horses and the
interviews begin. Name, address,
wife's maiden name, previous ad-
dresses, employment record, names
and birthdays Of all the members
of the family, names and addresses
Of relatives, information on insur-
ance, past financial resources, etc.
Every question brings not only the
simple answer necessary to our in
flexible, high-speed routine, but an
irrelevant Ito the Home Relief Bu-
reaW outpouring Of pent-up misery
1--WE used to have money in the
bank" MY husband can't work, he
got gastric ulcers, and my girl can't
find a Job, she's Just out Of high
school, MY boy is in T.B. sari-
tsrium, I'll have to bring him home
now" The children are going to
school in canvas sneakers-and in
such weather" I can't make them
stick to my questioning routine.
And as they suddenly realize
they're telling all this to a stranger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
TUNING In

ZOO wEAF--Basebsll Resume
WOR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-Arrios m Andy-Sketch
WABC-Vers Van, Songs
7:1s-wEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
woR-Talk-Harry Hershfeld
WIFI Imports stopped--F. W.
Michel, Vice President Inferno
tional Business Machines Corp.
wABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketoh
7:30- WEAF-Shirley Howard. Songs; Trio
WOR--Mixed Quartet
wJz-Yvette Rugal, Soprano
wABC-Armbruste Orchestra
7:45-WEAF-The Goldhergs-Sketch
WOR-True Stories Of the Sea
Sketch
wJz-sketoh. With Irene Rich
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
800 WEAF--Jack Pearl, Comedian
woR-Wallenstein's sinfonietts
wJz-Every One Dies Once-Skctch
WABC-Men About Town Trio
s15-wABC-Easy Aces-Sketch
$780, WEAF-Wayne King Orchestra
WOR-Frank Mum, Tenor Orch.
WJZ-Carlos Gardel, Baritone
WABC-Everett Marshall, Baritone
45-wJZ-Baseball Comment-Babe Ruth
300 NATURALIZATION Orchestra; Fred Al
len, Comedian
wOR-Italics-H Stokes Lott Jr.
WJZ-aay Knights Cuckoos
WABC-Nino Martini Tenor
$780, Subsidiary Bslkin
WJz-John Charles Thomas, Songs
WABC-L ombardo Orchestra, Burni
and Allen, Comedy
e.45-WOR--Rohison Orchestra
1900 WEAF-Hillbilly Music
wJz-LopeS Orchestra, Male Trio
WABC--Fiorito Orchestra
0:15-wOR--Current Events-H. E. Read
1880 EAF-Jewish National Fund Din
ner. Hotel Aston
wOR--Dorothy Miller and Garfield
Swift, Songs shackley orchestr'
WJz--Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich
man, Songs
wABC-Albert Spalding, Violin Con
rad Thibsult, Baritone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

and inhumsn, for it has q great
mental effect upon anyone But
such a foul and stupid act is re-
vesled the hideous plots Of the re-
veneeful slave masters to break my
revolutionary fighting spirit But if
they we're human enough they GER
tainly should know that the spirit
and morale Of anyone who has been
forced to live a horrible life almost
parallel to the one at PRESENT. cam
not be so easily broken, for the
sharper the oppression, the more
determined he is to work for the
destruction Of such a system that
imposes unspeskable horrors and
bestisl conditions upon humanity
The long tedious days behind
these bars are excrucisting enough
but I know that it must be much
worse in those dark pits and SEMI
prisons where the oppression is felt
the greatest, even though they may
have access to the air and wide
open spaces which I am now de-
prived Of So this is what makes
me take my medicine like q man,
for I know that some day not far
distant we shall have some Of the
same medicine back down the
threats Of those who are now giving
1t to us. And 1 know too that if !
did have access to the free air and
wide-open spaces, l would be Of
much more use in helping to turn
the medicine back into the mouths
of those who should get It,
I am glad to know that you who
come from a petty-bourgeois family
understand that your place is in
the ranks of the revolutionary
working class. Yes, I receive the
Daily and you may send me mag
azines, etc. I shall let you know
later about the books. Would also
like YOU to send me a few stamps
and Sender Garlin's column in the
Daily Worker about my case.
Write again soon.
Comradely Yours
ANGELO HERNDON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
Stage and Screen
4. Myself" Coming to Mans
field May 8; Noel Coward's
Bitter SUeet" Here Mon 7

6tCter SUeet Here MGY Z
II, Myself" new play by
Adelyn Bushnell, is announced for
next Wednesday night at the Mans
field Theatre by Pearson Baruch,
a new producing group. Charles
Trowbridge, Regina Wallace, Frank
Wilcox and Walter Baldwin head
the cast.
Evelyn Herbert and Allan Jones
have been engaged by the Shuberts
to sing the leading roles in Noel
towards operetta, Bitter Sweet"
which will open here on Monday
night at the 44th Street Theatre.
Pirates of Penzance." instead of
Patience" will be revived by the
Gilbert and Sullivan group at the
Majestic next Monday night. pa
tience" will be presented later in
the season. The current operetta
at the Majestic is "Iolanthe.'
THE Shining Hour the Keith
winter drama, Is now in its last
weeks at the Booth Theatre. Fol-
lowing its run here, Max Gordon
will present the company headed by
Gladys Cooper, Adrianne Allen and
Raymond Massey in London.
There will be a special perform
ance on Friday afternoon of "She
Loves Me Not" at the Forty Sixth
Street Theatre for the benefit of
the Actors Fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
Books Sent Angelo
Herndon Stolen In
Prison, Is Charge

ATLANTA. ca. - Although
there is no official censorship in
Fulton Towers, yhere Angelo
Herndon is imprisoned waiting
for the State Supreme Court TO
hand down a decision on the ap-
peal from his sentence Of 13 to
20 years on the chain-gang.
books sent to him are now being
Systematically stolen.
Two copies Of Our Lsnin."
have been sent to him by Inter
national Publishers, and stolen
by the iailors.
Got no book was the laconic
written answer Of the jail ward
en- to Herndon's request that the
book be turned over to him.
Other books sent to Herndon,
including 2 copy Of Chinese
Destinies" and Power, have also
been stolen by the guards-whose
ability to read them themselves
is doubtful.
Protests should be sent to the
warden Of Fulton Towers, At
lanta, Ga, demanding that all
books sent to Herndon be de-
livered to him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
+. CHANGE
THE
| WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

Michael Gold
Recently sreemeeng Yorkvie listened to girl a
member Party She twenty-five and she had that
blaze of which hand nstnctvey
salute Her face dark bitter and yet calm the intensity Of
its purpose with the large the mouth wide and twisted
face wopper OF symmetry would have called her beautiful
but she nevertheless
Standing the ladder facing the people Of them hos
tile she Of the buchees and the Of hate lies
and stupidity which they attempting spread in Yor through
out the city She described the conditions Of workers in Yorkve and
elsewhere tong twelve hours day cked dubbed soft
scped blinded endlessy their sly and syyed masters and she
exhorted the mist from their heads put
their and link shoulders and in iron ranks ever
advancing.
thing of watch her Of the crowd
voice-nvsbe from the strength
bodyhammered gathered greater
visible steel could have been because the
emotion forged to swinging pene
traion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

J. ARCH speaks on Peace and Plenty
in the Soviet Union at Prospect Mansion,
722 Prospect Ave. near 155th st. Auspices:
Lower Bronx Br. F.sU. $50 P. NJ.
JOE WANG speaks on Soviet Russis"
at wilkins Hall, 1880 wilkins Ave, $50
p. NJ Auspices: East Bronx Br. F.SU.
REHEARSAL Daily Worker Chorus. 35
E 18th st. 5th floor, 8 P. NJ. Important.
Every member must attend.
DAVID ScHRIFTMAN speaks at Open
Forum How to Defend Ourself in Court
at Tom Mooney Br. LID, 323 E. 18th st.
P, NJ. Admission free,
Thursday
COMRADE WEISS will speak on his
Personal Interview with Tom Mooney at
1870 w. 23-d St.. P. NJ. Auspices: Fifth
Ave LID
MEETING of delegates to Festival and
Bazaar, Communist Party at so z. 18th
St. Room eos, 8 p. NJ
THEODORE BAyER speaks on THE
Revolution Of 1917 and the Struggle for
Power" at Midtown Bf. T,E.U., II W. 18th
St.. $50 p. NJ.
OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club, ia
w 21st St. e;9o P NJ Lecture on Boy
Scout Movement in U.s.A" BY John Brsnt.
THE CHINTS,I PE0PLG IN AMERICA
their life ard struggle Lecture BY Wen
Shin ct friends Of the Chinese People, ies
W. 2e-l St. Room H., sac ?. M. AdInis-
sion Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
Detroit Film and
Photo League Opens
Photography Glass

DETROIT. The Film Photo
League announces a class In Ele-
mentary Photography to open al
the Workers School, May 8, to run
for 10 weeks, every Tuesday from
7:30 p. m. to pm. No experience
or equipment is required. The
course will be a practical one, with
the student learning by doing
things for himself, although part Of
each class meeting will be devoted
to study of the basic principles
involved in Photographic technique,
Registration takes place every
evening at the Workers School. 1923
Erskine st. The fee for u weeks Is
So. The instructors will be J. Att
ringer and j. Hudyrns, who worked
in the Mejrabpom studio in Odessa
for a number of years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
"TroUGtore" at Hippodronte
Tonight; Samson" on
FrirIr,Y

III Trovatore" has been substi-
tuted and is presented instead Of
THE Masked Ball" at the Hippo
dronne this evening. The cast in
cludes Anna Leskaya. Bruna Cas-
tagna. Pasauale Ferrara and Joseph
Royer. Other operas of the week
are: la Traviata." on Thursday
evening; Samson and Della" Fri
day evening; Barber of Seville. =
Saturday afternoon; La Fora del
Destino," Saturday evening, and
La Boheme" on Sunday night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02

BIUuLcllS VI bllC Nbl MID k9SAlOOAS'
such as training of instructors, out
lines, etc. The first article follows:
BY A. MARRIOTT
THE Eighth National Convention
of our Party demonstrated that
the problem of political education
within the Party as we'll as within
the trade unions and mass organiza-
tions is q very urgent and immediate
task at the present time. The Party
has made considerable inroads into
the basic industries winning num-
bers Of proletarians from the basic
industries into the Party, the Young
Communist League, and revolution
airy unions. There is crying need
for additional leading forces in the
movement. The material for the
development of forces is here; it is
only question of getting busy with
our theoretical training of the many
new elements in our movement.
The Commission on Schools set
UP at the Convention discussed this
problem under three main divisions;
the inner Party education, the
Workers School, and educational
work within trade unions and other
mass organizations. At this time
we wish to deal with the Workers
Schools.
The Workers Schools constitute
very important instrument in the
work Of our movement. 1t serves
two purposes,-tlle spreading of the
Marxist-Leninist teachings among
the broad section Of the population,
and the training of many rank and
file members of the Party and the
League. A thorough examination Of
the character and the work OF Our
schools is essential. Due Jo the
shortage of time the Commission ca
Schools was unable to 90 into this
problem. We must examine our
achievements end shortcomings. for
only by a thorough analysis of our
work will we be in position TO i'm
prove the work. We, therefore,
propose to our comrades engaged in
the school work to utilize the weekly
column in the Daily Worker for
discussion Of the tasks before us.
The articles should not be more than
300 words.
The Commission at the Conven-
ton adopted a motion to call re-