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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06
LINGERING SUPERSTITION

I1NGEhlNG SUFCho l14AON-
There is one thing about which al
most everybody lies and that is sup
erstition. Nobody admits being super
stitious, many deny it, and yet two
scientists in an exhaustive survey
have found not one person absolutely
free from belief in the supernatural.
This generation prides itself on its
Intelligence and knowledge and conf
IDENTIFY believes that it has freed It
self Of the last vestiges Of barbarity,
and yet it carefully walks around lad
ders, worries because a black cat
crosses the path and avoids the num-
Der 49,"
Many accepted legends apropos the
weather are superstitions and there
are elements Of superstition in the
other mans religion whether modern
or ancient. Superstitions have crept
into politics, governments and nation
al customs, as well as into most oc-
equations. ~,
One would hardly expect to find SUI
perstition in the sciences, and yet they
exist there. Some Of the worlds lead
ing scientists have been as supersti-
tious as sailor.
= Superstition as defined by the die
tionary-an excess reverence for, or
fear of, that which is unknown or
mysterious-is a state of mind inher-
tied by modern man from his uncivil-
ized and ignorant ancestors. It was
but century or two ago that all was
superstition and it will be more than
q century or two before there will be
no superstition.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

team placer second.
Chloe Hembree was Sunday guest
If Beatrice Hacker.
S. G. Foraker and family were
Sunday guests at the w. E. Hacker
home.
Mrs. Fred Sands and Mrs. Ben Van
Patten and children were Sunday din
ner guests at the F. w. Hembree
home.
Jack Downey drove to Yakima Fri
day and came back Sunday night.
Miss Helen Turman left for her
home in Hoquiam, where she teaches
school. She has spent the summer
with her mother, Mrs. E. M. Truman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Kenney and
family of Liberal, Kansas and Mr..
and Mrs. John Kinney Of Turbin. Ok
lahoma are visiting at the F. w. Hem
bree home. They plan on living here.
Miss Eunice Foraker came home
from Yakima last Thursday, where
she has been employed. She plans to
leave next week for Pullman, where
she will enter W.S.C. 81
Bobbie Mitchell was a weekend
guest of Kenneth Foraker. .>s
N. L. Foraker and family and w.
L. Foraker and family enjoyed a pic
mic at the mouth Of the Yakima river
Sunday.
Peggy Paden was an overnight
guest of Lorraine Giles Wednesday.
Mss Loah Ludwig of Portland has
been visiting at the Frank Lampson
home. 49,.
The Frank Lampson family were
Sunday evening guests of Lee Lamp
son and family. -e H..r
Rosa Lewis and Lorraine Giles at
tended the Walther eLague conference
over the weekend in Snohomish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Barg and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Drum of Bremerton, former
Highland residents, were guests at
the Fred Giles home Saturday.
Glen Doering returned home from
Nez Perez, Idaho Saturday.
The Highland drill team met with
Melvin GLASGOW Tuesday. I.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Meir of Top
penish were Saturday and Sunday
guests at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Barney Mauch and family.
"A group of the grange women met
with Mrs. Clark Tuesday afternoon
to make the regalia for the officers.
Chris Christensen and Tom Christ
ensen have left for the Dakotas and
Chicago, where they will visit for the
next three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Paulson and
Amyanad Harry drove to Cashmere
over Labor Day. Amy will make an
extended visit.
Pomona grange is meeting at Nona-
Benton grange Saturday. All grang-
ers, who wish to go, please be along
the highway about o'clock.
Mrs. Celeste Lutes Of Tacoma spent
the weekend visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Dale Smith. Her daughter, Patty,
who has been visiting Smiths for sew
eral weeks, returned home with her.
J. Rudder and family moved to
Sunnyside last week.
Dale Smith and Burchel Taylor
made business trip to Yakima Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Del Bergen and Mr..
and Mrs. AL Williams spent the day
Labor Day in Seattle. Mildred Boz
gen returned with them after visiting
with her sister, Audrey.
The Highland Home Makers Al
cub met Wednesday with their lead
er, Miss Eunice Foraker. Plans were
completed for tea to be held for
the mothers on Wednesday, Septem-
Der IL.
The Kennewick Highlands grange
will meet Thursday evening, Septem-
Der 13 at eight o'clock. All members
are requested to bring an apple pie
for refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Story, Mr.. and
Mrs. William T. Knight, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

BIG BUSINESS -. a
By general agreement, American
Big Business is regarded as the most
efficient Industrial organization the
world has ever known. American Big
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

Brakes-or their use-seems to be
more needed by automobiles than
streamlining.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

Repentance: The uneasy feeling
that stops when You decide that no
body knows about Il.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

Consumers may picket, court has
held as food prices 60 up. The trouble
is that picketers have to consume.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

As final blow at Wall Street, the
government might get out . bulle-
tin teaching people not to be suckers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06
Local Boys Place Second
T.. in Stock Judging Test
HIGHLANDS

Duane McNall, John Stafford, Aar-
on Foraker and Fred Beigel accom-
panied by F. L. Barbee attended the
Columbia County fair at Dayton Sat-
urday. The boys represented the high
school at the stock Judging contest
put on for Smith, Hughes boys. The
team placed second.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

It may develop that Hitler is only
the Huey Long of Germany.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-06

Edo Stump and Lewie Engletree
drove to Yakima Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
: IN EDITO RIA l.

Here is the demand for universal scabbery and
open shop reaction.
This is direct demand for the free choice"
of the open shop and the company union, a de-
mand that Roosevelt's deliberate ambiguity in Sec
ton IA be now replaced by blunt anti-unicn de-
fniton.
Second, the employers demand a nation wide
drive against all wage levels, demanding an imme-
date lowering of all wage scales, particularly in
union industries
In two distinct places, the employers demand
the immediate lowering of wage scales Discussing
the prospects for increasing Wall Street markets
abroad, the employers demand: Recognition of
the fact that increase of domestic production costs
lessons ability to compete in foreign markets"
To drive this point home still further the en-
ployers demand the removal Of artificial restraints
curtaiIing volume and increasing costs whether of
material of labor"
This is direct blow at the union scales in tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

This 11-point program shows very clearly at
just what positions the employers expect to strike
at the American working class in their newly or
ganized ant-labor offensive.
WHAT are the main proposals of the 11-point in
w dustrialists united front" program?
First, the employers demand that the revised
MIRA. codes shall make bluntly plain that the Mr.
A. definitely supports the open shop company
unions, and full powers of the employers to smash
trade unions. The act" demand the en-
ployers, shall require provisions giving to labor
the right deal with employers either individually or
collectively directly through their representatives
of their own free choice without intimidation or
coercion from any source :"
AS if to remove any doubts as to their 1aning,
the employers will demand of Roosevelt md Con-
gress that "nen shall be protected in their right
to join refrain from joining any labor organza-
tion" ).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

IF ANY recent development makes clear the urgent
need for building the most inclusive united front
of all workers, it is the 11-point program which
has just been agreed upon by the secret conference
of leading capitalist employers at White Sulphur
Springs.
In this program, have the united 'front.'
platform of the Wall Street monopoes and lead
ing manufacturers from every corner of the coun
try, carefully worked out by special committee,
including Owen D. Young, of General Electric;
John j. Raskob, of General Motors, and Silas
Strawn Chicago financier.
This united front" 11-pont program of the en-
ployers is not merely some academic statement
1t is the definitely worked out plan which the
most powerful industrial groups, called together
by the U. s. Chamber of Commerce and the Ma
tiona Association of Manufacturers after the recent
Congress of American Industry in New York, have
finally agreed to present to Roosevelt and Congress
for immediate action!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
LID. Wins Appeal
Step in U. S. Court
On HerndOn Case

Application for hearing Of
the appeal in the Angelo Hern-
don case by the U. S. Supreme
Court was granted today by
Chief Justice Richard B. Rus
sell of the Supreme Court OF
Georgia.
This decision means that with
in a short time the United States
Supreme Court will hear the ap-
peal being taken by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense against the
10 or 20 years chain gang SEN
tence on charges of melting in
sulrection." hanging over the
young Negro working class lead
err.
Herndon, now out on SIS, 900
cash bail raised in a mass cam
paign by the International Labor
Defense, is on a speaking tour
for Scottsboro and his own case,
on the West Coast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
BAN SOUGHT
AGAINST C. P.
V. F. W. Official Gives
Memorandum to House
Committee

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 90
Another call for the "outlawing Of
the Communist Party" was made
today in a special memorandum
submitted to the Dickstein House
Committee investigating "un-Ameri-
can" activities, by G. K. Brobeck,
national legislative representative
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Brobeck's proposal, made without
any consultation of the wishes Of
the rank and file of the organiza-
ton, follows similar proposals made
recently by the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce and the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers.
Brobeck proposed a six-point plan
to Crush Communism" His plan,
in addition to the "outlawing Of the
Communist Party" includes a
wholesale attack on all foreign
born workers together with a de-
portation drive. He also attacked
the bonus marchers who gathered to
demand their back pay, and called
for the closing of all Communist
children's camps, and the registra-
ton and finger printing Of all aliens
in nation wide police system.
B-obeck cited the Daily Worker as
an example of what he would like
to see suppressed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
IMMEDIATE
LEGISLATION
is PLANNED
Conference Will Discuss
Findings of Business
Committee
By Seymour WaIdman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 20
Conferences between President
Roosevelt and "the Business Con-
ference Committee" appointed by
multi-millionaire owen D. Young,
and the ninety-nine other big bust
ness men and bankers who have
just concluded their White Sulphur
Springs snti-working class re
covery" deliberations are to be held
"at the earliest moment" it was
stated today in high administration
circles.
Judge c. B. Ames, head of the
Texas Corporation, the big petro-
leum refining and distribution con-
Germ which operates in the United
States, France and Venezuela, and
George Mead of the Mead Corpora
ton, a leading paper and pulp con-
Germ whose clients include the j.
P. Morgan dominated Crowell Pub
locations, are the emissaries who
will report and discuss the find
ings" of the recent meeting called
by the United States Chamber of
Commerce and the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers.
The findings" recommended fur
ther cutting of the meagre sub
sistence now being given by Fed
eral relief called for the outlawing
of general or sympathetic strikes
as the first move in a campaign
which has as its ultimate objective
the outlawing of all strikes, and
among other things, attacked the
militant movement for genuine ma
tional unemployment insurance as
"unsound legislation" which "at
this time would prejudice the pos
siility of securing a satisfactory
solution in the future"
1t is significant that the impend-
ing Big Business confer
ences will be held in sufficient time
before the delivery of the Presi-
dents opening message to Congress
to incorporate in the message what
ever is decided upon. The impor-
lance of this message becomes clear
when one realizes that it is ex-
pected to outline to the Roosevelt
legislative machine what general
measures are to be discussed or
passed. President Roosevelt in
dicated yesterday at his press con-
ference that he is waiting for the
big capitalists spokesman by avoid
ing questions on the present steel
negotiations and on labor generally.
The business conference COM
mittee" will hold its first meeting
in New York on Jan. II.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, Dec 20.-Following the adop-
ton of its 11-point program, the
secret session of ninety leading in
dustrialists here, including Owen D.
Young and John j. Raskoo, yester-
day delivered these proposals to
Roosevelt at the White House for
immediate consideration and action.
The 11-point program, as out
lined in the final draft agreed upon
by representatives of every indus
trial group in the country, includ-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
LYNCH NJ 0 B
STORMS AREA
Negroes H o m es Are
Barricaded as Bands
Raid Village

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 90
Negro residents of this town were
barricaded in their homes today as
the result of a reign of terror
launched by local lynch gangs
which yesterday stormed the court
house in an attempt to lynch a
Negro prisoner, E. K. Harris.
Threats have been made to dyna-
mite the Negro section, several
square blocks of shacks and cabins
The attempt to seize Harris dur
ing the proceedings of typical
lynch trial in which a defense mo-
ton for change of venue on the
grounds of local feeling against the
defendant was brusquely denied
was 1eate d when National
Guardsmen, attacked by the lynch
ers, fired into the mob, killing two
lynch leaders and wounding several
others.
This unusual procedure of the
guardsmen so Infatuated the lynch
ers, many of whom were drunk, that
they burned down the courthouse,
after the guardsmen were with
drawn. The withdrawal of the
guardsmen deliberately left the I'M
armed Negro population at the
mercy of the lynchers, who invaded
the Negro section of the town last
night, and Unfortunately beat up
men, women and children and set
fire to a Negro hotel.
Reports that several Negroes were
critically wounded by shots fired by
the mob could not be confirmed to-
day, as the Negroes are keeping to
their homes, behind barricaded
doors.
The attack on the courthouse oc-
Cured on Wednesday as an all
white jury was being picked to rush
through the trial of Harris, who Is
charged with criminally assaulting
a 14-year- white girl. All the
known evidence in the case points to
frame-up of the Negro worker on
the traditional charge of rape"
used by the white landowners and
other employers when Negro work
ers demand wages for labor, and
show other signs of militancy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
ankers Confer With Roosevelt on Anti Labor PROGRAM
MONS REBUFF GREEN on JAN. ) Farley
U. S. Students Sail
Abroad Tomorrow
for Anti ar Farley

The American delegation to the
International Student Congress
Against War and Fascism at
Brussels, Belgium, will leave on
the S. S. Olympic from the West
14th Street Pier tomorrow at 10
p. m. The delegates will be given
rousing send-off by New York
students, members of the Ma
tional Student League, Student
League for Industrial Democracy,
and the college anti-war COM
mittees, all of which have been
active in making possible this
delegation.
Among the delegates there are
two Negro students from Howard
University, one, Carlton B. Good
lett, representative of the entire
student body, having been en-
dorsed by the Student Council
of the school. There will be a
delegate from the University of
North Carolina endorsed by the
entire Student Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Fox Movie Workers
Strike i'm Answer
to Company Threat

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Dec. 90.
After the Mitchell Camera
Company, a Fox-controlled con-
Germ, locked out 40 of its me-
chanical workers for demanding
a ten cents an hour increase, the
workers, members of the Mo-
ton Picture Workers Industrial
Union, met and promptly turned
the lockout into a strike. Reg
ular picketing is conducted.
A strike committee composed
Of rank and file members has
been formed, and a program for
militant strike activity outlined.
One of the first measures taken
was to place the tools of every
striker in a bonded warehouse,
so that no one returns to work
until the settlement is made for
all.
Hollywood workers are watch
ing the strike with great interest
since it is we'll known that the
Mitchell Company is attempting
to break the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
NRA HINDERS
UNION VOTE
Labor Board Plan Aids
Company Union in
Cadillac Plant
BY A. B. Magil
Especial TO the Daily worker)

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 20.-Elec-
tons for collective bargaining rep
resentatives at the Cadillac Motor
Car Co., General Motors subsidiary,
held yesterday, resulted, as predicted
by the Daily Worker, in a victory
for the company union, despite the
fact that it received only a small
percentage of the total votes cast.
Nearly one-third of the 1880
workers whom the Roosevelt-ap-
pointed Automobile Labor Board de-
clared eligible to participate failed
to vote at all, despite widespread
publicity campaign and all sorts of
pressure exerted by the company.
Of the rest, the overwhelming ma
jority cast ballots designating no
preference for any union. For col
lective bargaining purposes these
will be treated as a group, which
means that the company will be
able to deal with them in its own
way without interference from any
trade union.
1916 Undesignated Ballots Cast
One thousand and seventy-six
such undesignated ballots were cast
out of a total of 1892. Of the rest,
157 voted for the company union,
the Cadillac Employees Association;
143 ballots were blank or void; 90
voted for the American Federation
of Labor; 20 for the Mechanics Edu-
cational Society of America; z for
the Society of Designing Engineers;
and 1 for the Auto Workers Union.
Yesterdays elections nominated
two candidates in each of 16 dis
tricts into which the plant was di-
vided. Final elections will be held
December %, the sixteen successful
candidates constituting the collec-
tive bargainin5 agency.
Despite protests, the elections
were held inside the plant. The
character of the elections is evil
dent from the fact that in Dis
trict IA Father Charles E. Coughlin,
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
GREEN STAND
ON INSURANCE
is ASSAILED
N.R.A. Research Group
Aims To Sidetrack
.JObless Issue
tDaily Worker washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 90
Joining the drive against the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance being waged
by the dominant bankers and bust
ness men and William Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, the Brookings Institu-
ton, capital research" front for
the new deal, made snide attack
today on the Forthcoming unem-
ployment congress.
The Bookings sniping, released
one day after Green's red-scare out
burst against the congress, is in
corporated in a study of "the Brit
ish attack on unemployment" It's
authors are DR.. Isador Lubin, Com
missioner of Labor Statistics of the
anti-strike Labor Department, and
A. G. G. Hill, Jr., who is connected
with the National Recovery Admin
stration. "The study" the Brook
ings publicity Office explained, was
undertaken" before the authors be-
came a formal part of the new
deal.
Green's Stand Raped
John Anderson, chairman of the
A. F. Of L. Rank and File Trade
Union Committee here and head of
the Washington Arrangements Com
mittee of the Unemployment Con-
gress, today answered Green's at
tack, which charged that an at
tempt is being made to tie up the
A. F. of L. offlcialdom with the
congress.
"We invite all persons interested
to scrutinize the list of 2,400 local,
state and international bodies of the
A. F. of L. which have endorsed
the type of unemployment and So
cial insurance which we favor" re-
piled Anderson. He added: THE
sponsors of the National Congress
for Unemployment and Social In
surance have never claimed that
Mr.. Green nor other top officials of
the A. F. of L. are in favor of the
genuine unemployment and social
insurance which is demanded by the
rank and file of labor On the con-
trary. the record of those officials
has been one of constant opposi-
ton to unemployment insurance.
Although they were forced to
change their stand of open opposi-
ton at the Cincinnati convention
of the A. F. of L. in 1882, they have
since then advocated scheme OF
alleged unemployment insurance
which has been repeatedly rejected
by the membership of their unions,
when they have had a chance to
express their choice. ?. Our group,
representing the rank and file of
labor, seek benefits at the average
rate of wages. Mr.. Green, accord
ing to his own official pronounce
ments in the American Fedora
zionist, is willing to let the already
low living standards of American
workers be cut in half by accepting
benefits equivalent to so per cent
of workers normal wage. We are
demanding that all unemployed
workers, without discrimination, re-
ceive benefits as long as they are
jobless.
mfr. Green would limit benefits
(Continued on Pace y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
ROUPS NAME
)ELEGA { S
N 81 STATES
lore Socialists Support
National Congress on |
Unemployment

NEW YORK.-Local unions Of
he American Federation Of Labor
ontinued yesterday to override the
.ecision of William Green to boy
oft the National Congress for I'm
employment Insurance, which will
meet in Washington on Jan. 5 to
and elected official delegates.
Representation yesterday was re-
ported from five more States, Okla
aoma, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico
and West Virginia, bringing the list
of States to be represented at the
National Congress to 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Big Business Front Program for Action

building industry, and follows similar demand
recently expressed by several leading Roosevelt
spokesman.
Giving final emphasis to their demand for cut
ting wages to starvation levels, the employers
demand that the wage rate paid for work relief
shall always be substantially less than the rate paid
for similar work in private industry. y"
BOUNDING out this newly organized offensive
against the whole American working class, the
employers outline in just what direction the RooSe
welt government will move in its relief measures
which affect the welfare of than 100000
workers and their families.
Their program demands an immediate and
drastic crtailment of all Federal relief appropria
tons to the states an end forever to any Federal
plans for nationwide relief. the placing of al re-
lief responsibilities on the localities and on private
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

An increased circulation of the
Daily Worker will develop more
powerful struggles on the part of
workers for adequate winter re-
lief, against lay-offs, ard for bet
ter working conditions. Get rev
readers, and ask them to subs
scribe 10 the paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

II is not enough that you read
the Daily Worker. You must get
others TO read the paper, and to
subscribe for it.