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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-08-23
Delayed Letter Gave
Great Son to "Nassau"

Delay In the delivery of q letter
gave TO Princeton university a dis
tinguished son who later became its
president. according to family pa
pers recently brought to light The
graduate and recipient of the de-
layed letter was Rev. Ashbel Green.
eighth president of Princeton. and
the papers those of the great-grand-
son, Ashbel Green.
The document revealed that the
future President Green wrote to
a friend at New Haven for In.
formation about Yale. No answer
came, and In the meantime another
person had ascertained "the state
of Nassau hail." which apparently
was pleasing. and young Green
matriculated there Two weeks
later the long-expected letter from
New Haven arrived. II had been
lying In q post Office.
Had ! received IL seasonably,"
President Green wrote, 81 should GER
tainly have gone to Yale, and
not to Nassau hall. Now here In
the point toward which my long pre-
amble has been tendIng-the whole
Of my subsequent life has taken its
complexion and, Its course from the
college with which | then became
connected. Thus, my SON. the over
ruling providence of God often as
signs us our allotment in this world.
not only without our Continuance,
but in opposition to II and the disap-
pointment of our fondest Wishes
New York Times.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-08-23
Pruns Industry Growers

The prune industry was started
in the eastern United States In 1854,
bur failed because the climatic con-
ditions were not favorable for the
production of the desired qualities
About 1863 the industry started In
California and grew rapidly. In
1910 the annual output was 10000
600 pounds, Of which nearly half
was exported. Before the industry
grew In California France was the
chief producing nation of the world.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho also
grow good prunes, as do Serbia, Bos-
MIA, Germany, Spain, Australia and
South Africa. ~......
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-08-23
Many Acres of Lettuce
Seeded in Lower Valley
SECTION SEVEN

Approximately one hundred aers,
of fall lettuce has been seeded IN th;s
district, which will mature abort
October /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Endorsement Given by
Three A. F. L. Unions
and Militant Group

lutions in the State Legislature,
giving the unemployed in cash re-
lief the amount stipulated in the
unemployment and social insurance
bill, H R. 1898, until such time as
this bill becomes q federal law. This
conference will also prepare for the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance which
will be held in Washington, D. c.,
Jan. 5, and 7, at the opening of
the 74th Congress.
You, as one of the above-men-
toned organizations, organized for
the purpose of improving the we'll
being of your members, are called
upon to send two delegates from
your organization to the statewide
conference which will be held Sat-
urday and Sunday, Dec. 8 and 9, at
the Arcade Hall, Is East State
Street, Trenton, N. j.
"Fraternally yours,
United Unemployment and
Relief Workers Associa-
ton of New Jersey
I'VE also ask your organization
to give contribution to the Con-
ference Fund, and thereby help to
defray the expenses of accommodate
ing and feeding unemployed dele
gates. We ask you to contribute as
much as your organization can af-
ford. but not less than 81 per dele
gate"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

The month of December for relief,
s13 ATS ,897, and it indicates that the
humber of families in the month of
December will increase from 294, 900
In November to $4,000 in Decem-
be-.
In its announcement it finally
declares:
Whether or not the Federal gov
eminent grants the Commissions
request for funds probably will not
be known for several days"
The chief of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Commission. Harry
Hopkins, is in the city and he al
ready announced in the press that
his coming to Chicago is for the
purpose of tightening up the
procedure of relief administration
in IS States of the central west. +"
That his main objective of coming
here lis to institute economy meas
ures."
All this clearly shows how organ
lied and planned is the attack upon
the masses of the unemployed in
the city of Chicago and in the
whole central west. The only an
sWer the working class can give is
the unification of its ranks for a
real militant struggle for relief and
unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
lie ctio n of Delegates
to National Congress
Urged in Call

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 23.-The
United Unemployment and Relief
Workers Association of New Jersey,
in a statewide call addressed to all
organizations of the unemployed,
farmers. veterans, Negroes, women
and youth, and to all organizations
and individuals DESTROYS of obtain
ing the enactment of genuine un-
employment insurance, have called
a conference on relief and social
insurance.
The statewide conference will be
held Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8
and 9. at Arcade Hall, Is East State
Street, Trenton.
The call, which urges election OF
delegates for tho National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance
to be held in Washington on Jan.
5, 6 and Z, and which is endorsed
by the Painters Union Local TIT,
Bathhouse Workers Union Local
1902, the Carpenters Union Local
119 and the Newark Rank and File
Committee for Unemployment In
surance, follows:
I'VE are entering the sixth year
of crisis with unemployment stead
lily increasing. In spite of the at
tempt5 and promises on the part of
the government and the industrial
lists to solve the crisis, the unem-
ployed are faced with more hunger
and bitter cold with the coming of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Colorado FERA Jobs
Stay Closed as Fight
On Wage Cuts Goes On

DENVER, Colo, Nov 23-Colo-
RADIO relief officials are still trying
vainly to start FE.R.A. projects in
Arapahoe County after the men
struck last month. Despite the
much heralded reorganization of
the State relief administration"
and increased Federal appropria-
tons, the drastic so per cent wage
cut against which the men struck
last month has not been restored.
When the men in Arapahoe
County struck, they marched in a
two mile-long motorcade to nearby
Denver projects. The police did not
modest them until they had enthu-
siastically accepted the aid of the
Communist Party and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Projects were
shut down completely as the flying
squadrons advanced. Suddenly the
police attacked, firing so shots at
the strikers.
Sam Brown, one of the strikers,
was shot in the hip. He was held
for 70 hours in the Jail without
medical aid. The LID. is defend
ing the fifteen workers who were
arrested, and due to broad mass
campaign that has been developed,
the police have been forced to let
down on the reign of terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Legislature in Texas
Closes Without Acting
On Problems of Relief

AUSTIN, Tex, Nov %, - The
fourth special session of the Texas
State Legislature to be called for
the purpose of voting relief meas
ures has adjourned without enact
ment of the necessary legislation.
At a past session it voted to place
relief under the State Board Of
Control with the ultimate aim of
abolishing relief altogether. Fol-
lowing this, vast numbers were cut
from the relief lists.
The last special session created
the Colorado Valley Authority. This
provides for completing the Buch-
anan Dam, which was started by
an insult company and cropped
when insults power trust bubble
burst.
The session also showed that
$S3 100000 has been spent by the
State on relief, of which about 20
per cent was used for administrative
expenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Political Club
Scores Arrest
Of3inEvictiOn

TURTLE CREEK, Pa, Nov. %
The deep indignation of the work
ers here against eviction of unem-
ployed families and Jail sentences
for those protesting the evicti0ns
found expression at the meeting of
the local Democratic Club here with
the passage of a motion to protest
the arrest and prosecution of John
Hutsko, Meredith Mauk and James
Snyder.
The three workers were arrested
for participating in a demonstra-
ton organized by the Small Home
Owners Association to protest the
intended eviction of a Turtle Greek
family last June. Their trial is set
for Nov. Is. Protests should be sent
to District Attorney Park, Court
House, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The meeting Of the Democratic
Club was addressed by one of the
defendants and a representative
from the International Labor De-
tense. One of the points of dis
cussion was whether the protest
should demand or ask for the re-
lease of the three defendants. One
member advocated a legal prayer
for the defendants, declaring that
anything else would be contempt
of court Many of the members
took sharp issue with this view
point, pointing out that the judges
are pubic servants and paid out of
the taxes collected from the work
ers, both indirectly and directly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

The lowest sum in four weeks
was received from Nov. 16 to Nov.
% in the $4,000 drive!
1t is $3.50! Only on three occa-
sions since the drive started has
less money come in during whole
week.
Only four districts sent more than
500. Nineteen districts sent less
than $50.
Chicago has reached only So per
cent of its quota; Pittsburgh, SO
per cent; Milwaukee has acquired
81 and Cleveland So per cent. Min
neapolis, California and Seattle
have not even raised half of their
quotas.
1t is necessary to reiterate what
such inactivity means. 1t means
that these districts are failing in
their responsibility to the Daily
Worker.
1t means that unless these dis
tricts swing into the most vigor-
Gus, alI-encompassing action AT
ONCE, they will not fulfill their
quotas by Dec. l!
New York, which is still in sew
enth place, contributed only S1,855.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Right To Jobs
For Negroes
Is Demanded
Chicago ALL. Locals
Join Fight Against
Discrimination

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. pa move
ment is developing for a struggle
for the right of Negro workers to
jobs, which is embracing locals of
the A. F. of L., the American Con-
solidated Trades Council, a union of
Negro workers. The Negro workers
in the city of Chicago are discrim-
mated on jobs in the shops on the
building projects, etc.
Right now there is a project be-
ing proposed on the South Side of
Chicago in the heart of the Negro
neighborhood slum clearance job in
view of it on the initiative of the
American Consolidated Trade S
Council, a provisional committee,
with representatives from the fol-
lowing organizations participating,
S. L. Tucker, brickmason of the
A. F. L., F. Mcclure, cement fin
isher, of the A. F. L., E. L. Doty, of
A m erican Consolidated Trades
Council; E. Walker, a carpenter; H.
Washington, electrician of the A.
F. L., B. M. Jennings, steamfitter,
E. H. Hislup, Building Trades In
dustry Union; Joseph Howard, a
lather. The headquarters of the
Provisional Labor Committee is 248
East 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois.
The Provisional Labor Commit
tee, on the South Side of Chicago,
adopted as its basic policy the fol-
lowing resolution:
That no discrimination be prac-
ticed in the allotment of proposed
slum clearance jobs on the basis of
color or creed and that Negro
artisans be employed on all public
and private projects in Chicago and
vicinity. That definite stipulations
be inserted in all contracts TO insure
the employment of the proper pro-
portion of Negro labor, skilled and
unskilled, on all projects in Chicago
and vicinity. That Negro craftsmen
who cannot join or become affiliated
with many local unions (but who
have shown desire to organize)
be given A. F.. of L. affiliation. That
all Negro labor, skilled and un-
skilled, receive the stipulated wages
endorsed by the building trades.
That the discriminatory policies of
the Emergency Relief be discon-
tinued in the allotment of jobs.
That Negro tradesmen be repre-
sented on all boards and commit
tees that have to do with Negro
labor problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Socialists Act
With Hartford
C.P. on Terror
Unite on Three-P Oint
Program Against
Police Shooting

HARTFORD. Conn, Nov. %. -
The Hartford Branch of the Social
ist Party and the Communist Party
section of Hartford have established
definite three-point United Front
Program around the wanton police
shooting of Joe Allen, young Negro
C.C.C. worker, and discrimination
against Negroes in this city. Fol-
lowing are the three points of the
program agreed upon:
l. The raising OF mass protests
through mass meetings and
demonstrations.
2. The mobilization of all or
CARNATIONS around the Socialist
Party and the Communist Party
in this issue.
3. The mobilization of liberals
and other groups around the case.
The agreement pledges support to
the defense of Allen, who has been
framed up by the police on charge
Of breach of peace" although six
witnesses testified that the young
Negro worker was shot down with
out the slightest provocation by a
white policeman. The defense is in
charge of the United Front Joe
Allen Defense Committee, composed
of representatives from the Inter
national Labor Defense. the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, the Hart
ford Ministerial Alliance, the Negro
City Council and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights.
The Committee is arranging an
open hearing on the Allen case and
other cases of discrimination and
brutal attacks on Negroes. The
hearing will be held Friday even
ing, Nov. 80, at the Arsenel School.
Protests from the committee and
participating organizations, as we'll
as from numerous mass meetings
and rallies, have been sent to the
mayor and police commissioner of
Hartford,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Pennsylv ania
Aged Seek Aid
Under Pension

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. %
Some of the characteristics of so
cial legislation" as enacted in Penn
sylvania we're made evident during
the past week as around 10000 aged
men and women in Allegheny
County sought to take advantage
of the "old-sge pensions" measure
passed by the legislature at a spe-
cial session early this year.
From Tuesday on, an average OF
TOO applicants for the pension were
summoned to the County Office
Building each day in order that de-
partment workers might certify the
pauperism of men and women work.
ers and housewives, the majority
Of whom have given the best days
of their lives, directly or indirectly,
in wage slavery to the steel and
coal barons.
In order to insure against the
"old-age pension" measure having a
bad effect on the workers of the
State in fostering a desire to retire
too young. the liberal Governor Pin
chot and his followers wrote in the
provisions that applicants must be
70 years of age before they are
eligible to draw the pensions. An
other proyiso allows no more than
$50 per month to be paid to any
individual. Only SIS per month ad-
ditional is available for otrer mem
bers of the family eligible for as
sistance.
To qualify as one worthy of draw
ing this sum. it must be proven to
the States satisfaction that the in
dividual is INDECENT" totally de-
void of all or any means of SUBJ
sistence.
First the applicant is made to file
his name with the "Old-Age As
sistance' department, after which
an appointment letter is mailed tell
ing him when to appear at the city
office for an interview. N filing,
the applicant must swear to any
sources from which he now receives
relief; bank accounts; the value of
any real estate owned by himself;
plus the number of children alive,
dependents, etc.
After this formal application rep
resentatiyes are sent to the house
of each applicant to investigate gen.
eral living conditions and the We
racity of statements made in filing.
On the report filed by this rep
resentative following the visit, de-
ponds the granting of assistance in
the particular case.
Pension payments will not begin
until Jan. l, 1885, only $s5, 900 hav-
ing b zen allotted to Allegheny
County for that month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
German Workers Fight
Force Relief Levies

BERLIN, Nov. 23.-Farmers and
city workers are offering serious
resistance to the efforts of Nszi re-
lief officials to shift the burden
of relief provision from the gov
eminent to the already overtaxed
pockets of the citizenry. Farmers
are refusing to part with any of
their produce to relief collectors.
The more intense the pressure by
officials becomes, the more deter
mined does the resistance of the
population become to giving up part
of their meager resources to save
the bankrupt Nazi government from
the pressure of the jobless who face
a severe winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Minimum Wage Law
Violated by Owners
Of Cleveland Laundries

CLEVELAND FP) - Wholesale
violation of the state minimum
wage law has been revealed IN
Cleveland.
Fifteen laundries have been called
before the police prosecutor for
paying less than the 271ac an hour
scale prescribed by the law for their
industry. At least II more are
scheduled to be called in for lectures.
Eighteen dry cleaners have also
been found guilty of paying less
than the &c an hour wage pre-
scribed for their industry.
Although the law has been on the
books for more than a year, the
bosses pleaded that they didn't
know it. The prosecutor has let
them off with warning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

movement of all workers organiza-
tons can change the present situa-
ton and bring about an improve
ment in the miserable conditions of
the unemployed, get the bonus for
the veterans, and safeguard and
bring about better working condi-
tons for the employed workers.
The unemployed have sought in
hunger marches, demonstrations
and strikes on so-called relief pro-
jects" for union wages and adequate
cash relief. Through these years
many organizations of unemployed
workers have been established.
Through these organizations, the
unemployment and social insurance
bill, known as H. R. 1898, was
brought into Congress and to many
state legislatures. At the present
time, when the Roosevelt admin
stration is attempting to establish
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense of the workers, the unifica-
ton of all organizations into one
federation and united action of all
working class organizations is nee
essary to force through the unem-
ployment and social insurance bill,
H. R. 1898, which calls for genuine
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense of the employers and the gov
eminent.
The United Unemployment and
Relief Workers Association of New
Jersey is initiating a statewide
conference of all unemployed or
carnations. trade unions, farmers.
veterans, fraternal, women's and
youth organizations for the purpose
of acs~cving the adoption of reso-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
United Front Ticket
Receives 500 Votes;
Becomes Legal Slate

TAYLOR SPRINGS, III, Nov. %.
Incomplete reports as to the re-
suits of the elections in Montgom-
cry County indicate that the Work
ers' Ticket received over 500 votes.
The Democratic Party received over
1000 votes, and the Republican over
5000 votes.
Five hundred votes for the work
ers' ticket is an important gain and
places the workers ticket as legal
ticket in the county, by receiving
more than 5 per cent of the total
votes cast in the county.
The workers ticket consists of
Socialist and Communist parties in
the county, trade unions and organ
izations of the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

preparation for the April 1 struggle
and joint action with the rank and
file of the United Mine Workers Of
America for a Sc scale, 6-hour day.
5-day week, for organizing a strug-
gle to force the passage of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, HR.7598, endorsed by the con-
yention Of the Progressive Miners
Of America, for the elementary
rights Of the workers, the right to
strike and picket, and for the re-
peal Of the Criminal Syndicalist
Law.
The Communist Party calls upon
the miners to support the follow
ing rank and file candidates:
Slate Of Officers
President mo nominee write in
the name of Charles Schultz Of
Belleville, Local 8; vice-president--
Frank Skibinski. zeigler. Ill; secre-
tary-Joe Burrell, Gillespie. Ill;
special accountant - Adam Churs,
Local /, Bend, Ill; auditor-Victor
Renner, Panama, III.
District No. s: Alternate Board
Member-Phil Hopley, Witt; scale
committee - James Hopley and
Claude Sherry; trial board - VIM.
Davidson, Stanton, III.
District No. I: Alternate Board
Member H. Gibson, Beckemeyer,
Ill: scale committee - Earl Call,
Collinsville, III.
District No. 9: Scale Committee
Clyde Monasco.
Although all of these candidates
may not support the above program
in its entirety, they are all good
rank and file miners and endorse
a program of struggle and are
against the class collaboration poli-r
cies of the officialdom.
1t is necessary to note that the
list includes the name Of Joe Bur-
rell who has been associated with
the Musteite group. The Musteites,
having refused to enter a united
front with the Communists, made,
it easier for the reactionary ma -,
chine to prevent the nomination Of
rank and file candidate for presi-
dent and neither Pat Ansbury, the
Musteite candidate for president,
nor Charles Schultz, candidate OF
the rank and file opposition, suc=.
ceeded in getting nominated. In,
spite of the fact that the Musteite,
group refused to enter the united
front, the Communist Party and
the militant rank and file have de-
cided to support Burrell on the
basis Of his support to the rank
and file program in the last PIMA.
Convention.
Pearcy and Keck, instead of COM
tinuing in their old offices, have
decided to exchange. Pearcy wrote
a letter to the locals appealing for
votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Georgia Will Replace
Direct r eIief with
Forced Labor Scheme

ATLANTA Ga, Nov. 23.-Direct
relief will be abolished throughout
the State of Georgia after Dec. l,
and vast system of forced labor
to include all relief clients who are
'nlployable" will be established,
Relief Administrator Gay B. Shop
person announced today.
Average weekly wages on the work
relief jobs in Georgia amount to
about eight or nine dollars a week
on a strictly forced labor budget
system.
While federal officials at Wash
ington declined to state whether a
mandatory system of work relief
will BIZ set up throughout the coun-
try, Federal Relief Administrator
Hopkins expressed complete salts
faction with the turn to outspoken
forced labor in Georgia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
CHICAGO RELIEF FUNDS ARE CUT AS UNEMP DYED LISTS GROW
mactiUe Districts Place
Daily DriUe in Danger
Denver, Newark and New Haven Promise to Fill
Quotas Soon But Trade Unions and Other
Mass Organizations Trailing Behind

Its sections are moving to finish
their task, but the trade unions and
mass organizations in the district
have raised little more than one
third Of the $4,000 that is required
of them. The language groups, par
ticularly the Jewish Workers Clubs,
are trailing badly.
New York, however, expects to
complete its $4,000 assignment at
the New York Daily Worker Ban
quot on Thanksgiving Eve, at the
New Star Casino.
Denver Holly Pressed
Denver, which has been within
reach of the top for the last few
weeks, remains $32 short of its goal.
New Haven now has 81 per cent,
only l per cent less than Denver.
Newark, with 81 per cent, is the
other district hot on Denver's heels.
Chicago Section Pledge
In Chicago, Section 9, which, like
many of the other sections in that
district has been tagging, has
pledged to finish its quota tomorrow
night, at its affair at che Peoples
Auditorium, PAST Chicago Ave.
The district table follows.