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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
New Relief Program
Based On Eligibility

Relief work this winter will be
handled strictly on the basis OF eligi-
bility of applicants, it is indicated in
a communication from w. w. Dillon,
district administrator of the Washing
ton Emergency Relief Administration
to the Priest Rapids Valley Democratic
club. This organization has been en-
deavoring to determine in what man
ner relief work would be handled this
year.
The relief cases will be cared for
by work program. Such a program
will depend upon available funds and,
should it develop, will differ from the
CWA in that only cases on relief Will
be eligible for employment and all
such cases will work on budgetary
basis Eligibility will be determined by
the county relief supervisor and as
signments made on the basis of her
findings.
Miss OMalley has been appointed
relief supervisor for Benton county,
Jay Perry, county commissioner, said
Monday. She will have charge of the
investigation of all relief cases IN this
county.
Projects will not be considered for
work programs unless there is relief
labor to take care of them.
Under the federal emergency relief
administration, courses are being Of
fered for adult education. Possible
courses which are open include agrl-
cultural subjects, art, commercial, cur
rent events, educational forum, foreign
language, home economics, music, par
ent education, physical education, So
cial subjects, governmental problems
rand other subjects. To be eligible FOL
courses in commercial SUBJECTS an ap-
plicant must be on relief and must not
have had previous training in subject
or have earned through practice OF 1t
| Further information on these adult
education courses may be secured from
Mrs. D. S. Wilkinson.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
Careful! The Ghost
Will Walk Friday

An all-school play, "The Ghost
Walks" will be presented by the stu
dent body of the White Bluffs high
school Friday evening, November 2, at
8 o'clock. This is the first program
offered by the high school so far this
year, and is expected to draw a large
crowd. The performance is being given
in the interests of the basketball teams,
who are endeavoring to purchase new
suits this year.
The play will provide at least two
solid hours of entertainment and
thrills. It is sparkling three-act COM
edy written by Watkins E. Wright, and
contains more than the usual supply
of laughs, combined with a great deal
of entertainment. The plot itself is
not original, being quite common to
mystery plays, but the action and dia-
logue are developed in such a way as
to leave no dull moments. 1t concerns
the efforts of a young actress to carry
out the terms of an uncle's will and
keep the poultry farm she has inner
tied. Because of many wierd happen
ings, she and others in the farmhouse
are led to believe that an "evil influ-
ence" is working to scare her away
The climax is surprise, and the play
ends in a way to satisfy even the most
skeptical.
Josephine Westling plays the lead
ing feminine role, that of Helen Adams
the young actress. Ray Wade, as Don
aid Clark, young New Yorker inter-
ested in aviation, plays opposite her
They are supported by Jack McCotter
Alma Walker, Ray Broughton, Helen
Meeker, Nina Jean Griffith Fred Gill
huly, Ruth Stoddard and Aloha Meek
Immediately following the play. a
dance will be given in the high school,
gym. The public is invited to attene
either the play, the dance, or both, as
they may desire. Admission to the
play is as follows Adults, 25 cents
high school students, is cents; grade
school students, 10 cents. Admission
to the dance will be Is cents a couple
for adults and Is cents couple fo1
high school students.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
THE WEATHER

A high wind and heavy rains were
the only evidences in the Priest Rap
ids valley of the storm which, on Sun
day, brought property losses amount
ing to o million dollars to the Pacific
Northwest, killing 10 persons, injuring
a score and battering ships and tearing
down houses.
Rainfall during the past week was as
follows: October 10Th, .03 of an inch;
goth, 10; 21st 03; 22nd, 81; 23rd, .O8,
and Oath, trace.
The only damage reported from the
high wind Sunday was the falling OF
a power pole near the old Hostetter
tract in the north end Of the valley.
Two transformers on the pole were
damaged and it was necessary to cut
off the power for some time.
Temperatures during the past week,
according to the Hanford weather sta
ton, were.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
HUNTING SEASON
OPENS WITH BANG

The opening of the 1884 hunting
seasons was a pleasant one to local
duck shooters, but not so nice for
upland bird hunters Duck hunters re-
ported good luck on Friday, the first
day of the season, both here and along
the Yakima river, with more ducks In
the air than for several years past.
While more birds were observed this
year than in previous years, the high
wind Sunday deprived many pheasant
hunters of the first days bag limit,
and kept many less enthusiastic sports
men at home. On Wednesday, the sec
ond day of the season, larger bags
were reported but not so many hunters
were afield.
The duck and goose season Will be
open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sun
days only, until the 23rd Of December.
Pheasant and other upland bird season
will be open October q, % and 81, and
November 3, and z.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
Apple Code Delegates Approve
Continuation And Enforcement

minimum of $50 to a maximum OF $25u.
The marketing agreement at present
provides for reduction Of 45c per ton
or 1c per packed box to be paid by
the growers and to be collected by the
shippers. This latter assessment Is
purely arbitrary and there is nothing
to prevent the director of agriculture
or his successors from increasing 1t at
will
"In signing the license, the appli-
can't must specifically waive all right
of legal protest against any and all
future actions of the director or his
successors, no matter how arbitrary
or unreasonable they may be. In other
words, the shippers and dealers are
advised by legal counsel that if they
sign the application for license to op-
crate under the act they preclude for
themselves for all time during the life
of the act from legal recourse from
any marketing agreement or rule, reg
ulation or order issued under the act
by the director or his successors.
COLLECTIONS to the license are: The
applicant signs away all control OF the
vital departments of his business. The
applicant is forced to become a party
to an agreement without knowledge
as to it's terms or limits. The director
of agriculture is given the power to
legislate for the industry, to interpret
his own regulations, to enforce these
regulations, acting as both prosecutor
and judge Finally, he can by his de-
cision completely and without the right
of legal appeal put anybody out of
business by cancellation of his license
Such measures are obviously Of doubt
full constitutionality. They involve UNI
necessary and unwarranted expense in
both compliance and enforcement.
COLLECTIONS to the marketing agree
ment are: This phase Of the act is OF
chief interest to the grower. It is
largely his responsibility because any
unwise or unfair provision will react
directly against his interests. The as
sessment of 45c per ton or 1c per boz
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
Prizes Offered At
Halloween Masque

The White Bluffs Band will give it's
annual Halloween Mask Ball at Lib
erty Hall Saturday evening, October
q. This event is an annual affair and
the band boys are taking great pains
to make this one their best. The hall
will be decorated and placed in fine
condition to receive the big crowd they
are expecting.
The boys have formed themselves
into committees and each committee Is
striving to Guido the others. Leroy
Codding, chairman of the supper COM
mittee, says that they will have sup
per that will taste like mothers sup
per and will not break Dad when he
pays for it. The ticket office will be
in charge Of Harry Anderson and
Ralph NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as the
watchdogs of the treasury. Thomas
Wade and his little brother Ray will
guard the door and check up on the
efficiency of the ticket Office. Kenny
Gibbins has charge of the Fountain
of Youth. He and his committee will
OG TCaOy W 0C1VC yON WAVAA CSASAOS~~
cider made from Priest Rapids valley
apples.
The Gilhuly boys with their moan
ing saxaphones, John James Keal with
his delicate touch and technic, JACK
McCotter, the ryhthm beater, assisted
by Mrs. Bromling and Walter Mykol
will furnish the music for the ball.
Admission will be As cents, supper
and cider extra. The money is to g
to help buy a much needed bass hor1
for the band. All band boys have tick
cts for sale, and those who canno
come to the dance are urged to bu,
a ticket anyway, as it will help tn
band and make the boys feel tina
their work is appreciated.
Five prizes will be awarded durin
the evening; one for the best dresse'
lady, one for the best dressed gentle
man; one for the lady representa-
the best character, one for the gentle
man representing the best character
and one for either the lady or gentle
man representing the most conics
character.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
MRS, MIKE ROLLINGER
DIES AT ELLENSBURG

Word was received in Hanford Of the
death of Mrs. Mike Rollinger, mother
of A. NJ Rollinger, at her home in
Ellensburg Sunday. Mrs. Rollinger Is
survived by her husband, three sons,
A. M. Rollinger of Hanford, Jake Rol-
liner and Nick Rollinger of Sunnyside;
and four daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Ha-
gen of Joseph, Oregon, Mrs John
Berren of Grandview, Sister Josepha
of Aquinas Academy, Tacoma, and
Mrs. Evangeline Walsh.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
BIG TB SEAL SALE
EXPECTED IN STATE,

Faith in the people of Washington
to increase their support OF the sale
of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals this
year was voiced recently by Mrs. r,
G. McCredie of Sunnyside, state Seal
Sale chairman for the Washington Tu-
berculosis Association.
"No one can see the Christmas Seal
with it's design of the first sanatorium
in the United States" said Mrs. Nc
Credie, without catching something of
the unselfishness and devotion Of DR..
e. L. Trudeau, whose work In the Adir-
ondacks will ever remain one of the
great inspirations of the tuberculosis
campaign.
Living in remote region, smitten
with disease for which no cure was
vet known or scientific treatment de-
veloped, DR.. Trudeau through his read
ing and study Of his own case, evolved
the fundamentals essential for cure.
Nor did he overlook the foundation for
prevention, education. Thirty years ago
he said in an address, The first and
greatest need is education education
of the people and through them OF
the state
"Today" added Mrs McCredie, "our
association through funds from the
sale Of Christmas seals and in CO.
operation with our county tuberculosis
leagues is carrying an educational pro-
gram against tuberculosis to the four
corners of the state.
II have every faith that the people
of Washington will respond more gen.
erously than ever to the sale this year
Our work must proceed"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
CRATER LAKE AND OTHER
STAMPS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

Four new stamps have been received
by j. E. Leander, White Bluffs post
master, and are now on sale. These
are more of the series announced early
in the summer and include the eight
cent Zion National Park, the six cent
Crater Lake, the four cent Mesa Verde
and the sixteen cent special delivery
air mail stamps.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
Among those who have been in va

Among those who have been in va
kima during the past week looking for
work in the fruit warehouses are Mrs.
r. D. Barge, Marjorie Holecek, Mrs.
j. Holecek, Mrs. Beth Beyers, Mrs.
Paul Schicka, and Louise, Dorothea
and Lillian Shinn Mrs Schicka, Mrs
Holecek and Mrs. Beyers all have found
work.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
snecial to The Spokesman

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Urging the valedictorians and saluta-
torians from high schools to "use their
brains every day as they whiz through
University" President Lee Paul Seig
of the University of Washington held
conference with the outstanding first
year students on Wednesday. Among
those who were honored by this meet
ing with the President was Elroy Wiehl
of White Bluffs.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25
Euents Of the Week
Saturday. October 2G

Saturday, October 26
Woman's club bake sale, White Bluffs
Trading company store.
Bands Halloween Mask Ball, Liberty
Hall, 9 pm.
Sunday, October %
Church-See announcements.
Wednesday, October 81
Democratic rally; Hanford, $3.50 pm;
White Bluffs high school auditor
ium, 800 pm.
Thursday, November
Ladies' Aid
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25

Hagbert Eilertson, brother Of Charles
Eilertson and former White Bluffs
resident, passed away Monday at a
Kennewick hospital. An obituary for
Mr.. Eilertson will be published in next
weeks Spokesman.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25

Mass will be said at st. Mary's at
1920 Sunday morning, October 20, &C
cording to Rev. M. l.. O'Meara. Father
O'NIeara was here on Wednesday and
said that Rev. MacAhleer was improv-
ing and would probably be the one to
come here on Sunday. No definite ar
engagements have yet been made as to
a. priest for this or the Othello parish.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25

The first regular meeting OF the Jul
nior Women's club was held IN the
basement of the Lutheran church Fri
day, October 10.
There were fifteen members present.
At the close of the meeting cake and
coffee were served by Mrs. Lille Moody
and Mrs. Edna Wagner.
All those interested in the art de-
partment will meet at the home OF
Mrs. Elsie Schwisow at 2 pm. Friday
October 26.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-25

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
BuildingUniOn
Loses Aga ain
I'm Arbitration
Realty Board Members
Refuse to Live Up
To Agreement

Threats Of strike on the part Of
officials of the Building Service
Employees international Union,
without as much as consulting the
membership, and refusal by spokss-
men Of the Real Estate Board to
live up to provisions of the agree
ment reached q month ago, marked
the first sessions, yesterday and
Thursday, of the arbitration COM
mittee set up at the time.
The Real Estate Board retained
Walter Gordon Merritt, notorious
open-shop and injunction lawyer, to
represent 1t. Edward MCGUIRE rep
resented the union, and Harry H.
Curran, chairman, presided.
Reporting to the shop chairmen's
meeting Thursday night at Webster
Hall, 119 East 18th ST., James J.
Bambrick, president of the union,
stated that the question of wages
was out altogether as far as the
real estate interests were concerned.
Considerable resentment to the one
man union idea as practiced by
Bambrick and complete lack OF
democracy characterized the stormy
meeting of the shop chairmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

plete literacy of the population.
During these years, with the help
of state and Soviet social organiza-
tons, $1,000, 900 persons became lit
crate.
National Regions Advance
The national regions, which for
msrly were especially backward,
have achieved enormous successes.
For example, Adigei Autonomous
Region, which had only three per
cent literates in 1917, had practic-
ally liquidated illiteracy in 1881.
Ingushetia before the revolution
with under one per cent literates
now has wiped out all illiteracy.
General compulsory education is now
operating in all these regions.
A country which had inherited a
barbarous and pitiful legacy from
Tsarism has advanced with unpar-
alleled energy along the path of
real mass culture. In the struggle
against illitsracy the trade unions
played great role Significant note
should be taken of the increase in
the expenditure of the trade unions
towards the liquidation Of illiteracy
In 1928 the trade unions expended
for this purpose 1,56S,O00 rubIes, in
1929 they spent over 5000, 900 rubIes.
in 1880 and 100000 rubles, and in
1884 over 25,00O,O00 rubles. Tens of
thousands of peasants and workers,
who were recently illiterate or semi
illiterate, are now teaching others
in the management of collective
farms and factory shops, have be-
come the engineers, technicians, and
asronomists, or work in the Soviets
or in the trade union and in the CO.
operative societies-in every way ad-
ministering their workers state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

the textile industry, but in the A. r.
Of L. steel, coal, needle, musicians,
and many other A. F. of L. unions.
Strikes Bitterly Contested
The strikes of 1884 were bitterly
contested. A score were killed for
picksting in the textile strike alone.
Workers were murdered by govern
ment armed forces in Toledo, Mime
apolis and West Coast strikes. In
the South, where big strikes &C.
CURED, workers were murdered in
the ore and coal mine strikes. Fas-
clst terror against strikes increased.
Inc workers found that they had to
struggle for the very right to strike
Itself, for the right to organize, to
picket, to meet and speak. The gov
eminent, using the N.R.A. apparatus,
attempted to crush these elementary
rights of the strikers. The war prep
parations Of Roosevelt proceeded
hand in hand with these attacks
On the workers. Injunctions CAS- in
many New York City strikes be-
came common. National guard
troops were called out by the state
governments in all these big strikes
of the year. An army OF armed thugs
We're turned loose against the picket
lines. The company unions grew I'M
der the protection Of Roosevelt
tauto settlement) and the MIRA,
boards. Roosevelt had the army
ready on a war footing in New
England during the textile strike.
The strikehreaking activity of the
government succeeded, through such
compulsory arbitration Boards as the
Steel, Auto, Textile Labor Boards, in
preventing, a general steel and a
general auto strike. These govern
ment boards succeeded in defeating
the demands of the workers tenn
porarily also IN the textile industry
They succeeded only through the
help of the A. F. of l.. national lead
ership, which tried to prevent the
growth of the strike wave, and fail
ing that. as in textile, beheaded
strikes wherever they could.
AS the year ended, a bitterly
/ fought strike of the Los Angeles
street car and bus employees took
place. with numerous tear gas
clashes as police attacked picket
lines.
Strike Growth Admitted
The great growth Of the strike
wave was admitted by the Depart
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
" orkers Showed Mill
fancy in Biggest Strikes
Country Has Seen
BY Carl Reeve

More than one million and a half
workers walked out on strike in 1884.
in the most powerful strike wave in
the history OF the country. AS a new
year begins, the great unrest OF the
workers, the tremendous fighting
capacity and rehabilitation turned
against the attacks OF finance cap
ital, in the past year, has in no way
receded. In the basic industries of
the country-steel, coal, auto, tex
tile, rubber. etc.,-the workers re-
alize that their problems have not
been solved under RooSevelts N.R.A.
and are preparing for even bigger
struggles in the immediate future.
The strike wave of 1894 was
marked by the largest strikes in the
history of the country, by the ex-
IRENE militancy and radicalizat ton
of the rank and file of the strikers,
and by the bloody repressive meas
ures of the government and the en-
ployers' hired bands Of gunmen. The
strike wave of 1884. directed against
the conditions brought about under
the N.R.A. were of high political
content and were in the main
directed against the decisions of the
Roosevelt government boards, and
the conditions brought about under
the N.R.A. codes.
The great general textile strike, of
far more than a half million work
ers, and the San Francisco general
strike in sympathy nth the West
Coast marine strikers, with las ZOO
on strike in all. stand out as the two
most significant strikes of the year.
These two strikes symbolizsd the in
f1ux of hundreds of thousands of
workers into the A. F. Of L. unions,
and the reputation by these masses
CT workers, OF the class cooperation
no-strike policies Of William Green
and the American Federation of
Labor.
On the West Coast the longshore-
men won some concessions as a re-
suit OF the strike because the
militant rank and file Leadership
partially overcame the terror of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
Strikes We're Directed
Against the Conditions
Brought by N.R.A.

ment of Labor figures, which were,
however, a great under estimation
OF the number on strike. These
figures admit that in the first nine
months Of 1884 alone. 1,1o5 strikes
took place with 1,19T,334 workers
out on strike. Not only do these
figures leave out many strikes, but
for example, the number out in the
textile general strike was greatly
under-stated. Undoubtedly million
and half struck in this period
alone, and in the last three months
Of the year many thousands more.
The workers enter the coming
year faced with the necessity of
sharper and bigger strike struggles.
The Roosevelt government is at
lacking all along the line, preparing
wage cuts, company unionism, lay
offs and relief cuts. Fascist meas
ures are increasing. The red scare
is raised in every struggle. Suppress
sion Of the rights Of the workers in
tensif1es. The workers are deter
mined to fight against spesd-up, low
wages, compulsory arbitration, COM
pany unions and bad worsening con-
ditions and suppression of their
rights.
In these coming struggles, the 1884
strikes chow, the greatest necessity
is the building of the rank and file
movement inside the A. r. of L.
unions. The millions Of workers in
side the A. F. of L. are radicalized
are fighting against the attempt Of
finance capital and it's government
to lower their living standards and
suppress their organizations.
To win further gains in the COM
ing year, the Rank and File move
fnent in the A. +. Of L. must be built
up, the militant masses of workers
III the A. F. of L. must take charge
OF their own organizations, repu-
date the class collaboration policies
OF Green, and sweep ahead to defeat
the attacks of the Roosevelt gov
eminent and win better conditions
through militant fighing, class strug-
gil policies.