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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

face. Then I open ma eyes-an' bless
Gawd, twant nobody but MIR. Francis
Saunders!"
A burst of laughter swept the small
court room, which, regrettable as it may
seem, was joined by Judge Middleton.
But Suzan was unperturbed. Her aged,
black face had a shining quality of
exaltation and her aged body was erect
and powerful.
AFTER that, gemmen, the SaunderSeS
sent me to the hauspital, but nobody
'ceptin' Marse Jesus could er mended
them TO- crushed ribs wild ma broke arm.
When I fin out gittin' well, l know
right then, gemmen, done been glib
the sign. Marse Jesus was sho mighty
quick that time!"
stick to your story, Suzani" Judge
Middleton spoke little impatiently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

"M/ELL, MIR. ledge. what I has to say
w is this: This heah white gemman.
Mr. Williams, didn't blow he horn, ner
glib me ner warnin', ner nothin'! He
come LAX old man debil in ne dark,
an he hit me kerplump in the middle
O. the avenoo, JUS at the time I was
mos busy wOrkin' TO- Marse Jesus and
Miss Julie"
If Judge Middleton thought she had
finished he was mistaken.
THE mex thing I say, Mr.. Jedge, is
this: When Sue Lukes tells you all
sompin', in the name of the Lawd, hits
true! lou kin asst all the white folks
l wuck fO'. Yonders Mr.. Francis" and
she pointed toward the banker near
the door. "Ast him, and Jedge Carey"
she indicated the elderly jurist in the far
corner. "You-al is 'bliged to blieve
himi'
Before any one could move or turn,
Suzan's slender black finger was point
ing upward. Her voice was sincere and,
even to Judge Middleton, awe inspiring.
Call 10th tn spirits from they graves,
call them 10th, an ev'ey one will tell
you all the same tale: Sue Lukes is
truthful Niger"
There was a moment of utter stiffness
in the court room, then Judge Middleton
caught the quick change of expression
on old Suzan's face. She smiled and
her eyes rested kindly on Tom Mont
gomery. Son." she paused, and it was
evident again that Suzan had forgotten
she was in a court of justice addressing
the lawyer for the defense. She was
talking only to the little boy whose tears
she had wiped away, and whose briar-
scratched face she had often scrubbed
SO carefully. Mr.. Tom, 1 sho' mighty
sorry to see you startin' off on the
wrong foot"
Then Suzan suddenly turned back to
Judge Middleton so Unexpectedly she
almost caught him off guard. mr..
ledge, please, sub, don't be hard on Mr..
Tom, he gwine learn better. You see,
sub, he can't rightly 'fend that white
gemmen cause all de truf he know I
don't spank into him."
Judge Middleton was not surprised
when the jury awarded Suzan $3.50 dam
ages, nor was he surprised when Suzan
accepted only two-thirds of the award
She had had her sign" and before
another six months had passed the
Southern African Baptist Church was
baptizing its children in a pool that
Suzan and Marse Jesus and young Mr..
Williams had secured for it. -, It. ,a..,s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01
MY Hea0en
BY ADA M. JACKSON

I haze envisioned HeaUen to be
4 place of happy fo7cers,
OF healing leaVes and de7O- strung grass
And apple blossom showers;
Where amllo7cs lift their stages of gold
AbO0e singing stream,
Where da7Vn aUalks, siia'er shOd, in meGds
Where brittle kingcnps gleam;
Il place of daisy freckled fields,
OF irised rain that fills
The cups of shining cuckoo fo7oers,
And gems the dafOdils;
Where birds call, and dark 7aOlets gro7U,
Where cherry orchards rise
Like aOhite-,igged sailing ships against
The tender brOOding skies;
Where tulips 7oear their scarlet and
The hyacinths enclose
Their green, reluctant hands from round
Their bells of blue and rose;
4 place a0here noon hangs like mist
On sunsh0t blnebeH seas;
Where night by might moon sil7er bonrs
DO7Om sharb -leaUed, black bOnghed trees.
May God amend my dream, If /
Haze asked too great thing,
Who, of my looe, haze clothed high Hed0en
Like Wdr7mckshare in Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01

II Beg Your Pardon, Mr.: Webster''
ADiplomat Offers the Modern World Some
Nea0 Definitions of old Words
By H. k. We1es
HOPE-Wishng for what you don't know how to achieve
FALUREA manifestation of inadequacy, only complete
when realized
D1SSIPATION-Self- expression that gets out of hand
PERSONAL---VERY. shop window in mans of chaac-
terstics.
POLTCSThe pursuit of individual aims within the framework
of government
TRUTH-What can't be successfully challenged in the light of
available evidence.
NTELLGENCE-Th ability make of ones equipment
such way impress the public with it's superiority.
CLEVERNESS-A rather fancy makeshift for the above.
EXPERIENCE-The diet of the past digested not.
ARROGANCEA theatrical makesft for pride in those who
have PRIDE
GALLANTRY-Good craftsmanship applied to the business of
living
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01
In Due Season
BY TOHN DRINKWATER

The Spring 7oas cold, chill north, chill east,
The gric7Tng skies forbade the May.
Earth, of her Winter 7Veeds released,
Vas sullen yet IN April gray;
Bleak airs about the 7UOOdland stirred,
And tardy 1Vas the nesting bird.
Yet no40 full born is Summer seen
On branches that too long 7Oere bare,
Sleeping the 7Vilderness IN green
And dropping richness eaery7Ohere,
High Summer teeming from a prime
That gaze no bledge of Summertime.
The soul has barren seasons, too,
Or seasons that most barren seem;
Our 7Uavs are darkness, and 7Ue do
Less than the phantOms of a dream;
Then, as by stealth upon our fear,
Il Summer Of the soul is here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01
POEMS IN PRAISE or SPRING
Seen and Heard
BY WALTER DE LA MARE

Lovely things these eyes haze seen
Dangling cherries, in leaOes dark green;
Ducks as avF,ite as Winter snOaO,
Which qnacked as they aoebbed on a-rO70;;
The zwen that z0ith her needle note
Through blockthorn's foam aoili fit and float.
Clear deqos 7Uhere0n the moonbeams softly
glOdt
That sun anil sheen.
Haunting music these ears haze heard
Caykined taelgs, tn April stirred
BY the same air that carries true
T7Oo notes from africa, "Cnckoo';
And then, qUhem night has darkencd again,
The lo7e zcaa of the aorlloa0 aren,
And cricket rasbing on, "Goode'n! Goode'nP
Shriller than mouse or bird
Yes, and all praise 7Uonld l. please God, dispose
For but one FAINT saUeet coaoslip, one oOId rose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Amalganated Officials in Conspiracy
against Militant Members Of Union

wages. This shows how much these
conspirators can fall in line with
the bosses in their betrayal of work
ers.
The Climax
The most interesting climax oc-
CURED at the Cohen and Rubin
stein firm, when Blumenrich and
the bosses attempted to crush mainly
those outstanding workers who
might attempt to testify to those
mentioned facts of conspiracy and
terror-workers were threatened
the worker GrosSnan was threat
ened by Cohen that he will be next,
since Segal was forced to leave the
shop, due to his inability to make a
living under these discriminating
surroundings.
But when Blumenrich attempted
to have the chairman, jim, of the
shop, fall in line and give the boss
concessions through him the
chairman questioned that demand.
The chairman PROBABLY a good
Democrat, or loyal Republican, got
into terrific anger and shouted back
on the phone, You don't want a
good honest chairman. Come down
and do your own dirty work" and
running out of the Office threw his
shop whistle to the boss shouting,
Take it, you be chairman, it's your
union, not ours I don't want to
be just whistle blower Blow it
yourself"
Tailors must wake up and under
stand that such cases may be daily
occurrences, but are subdued be-
cause the officials and bosses don't
meet up with as fearless and mill
tant resistance as in the case of
Bernard Segal. Tailors close your
ranks against such doings. Send a
militant support to the rank and
file and all honest workers in their
fight to combat such evils.
Editors Note: Since this case
carries interesting angles, both in
the betrayal by the Amalgamated
officials of the workers, and in
the unusual militancy, we intend
to approach the rank and filer
Bernard Segal and get the actual
story surrounding all these facts
and why the tailors are subdued
beyond resistance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Defense Group
Backs Fight
OF NeuUs Guild

The National Committee for the
&efense of Political Prisoners, 156
Fifth Ave, has written a letter to
S. I. Newhouse, publisher of the
Staten Island Advance, protesting
against the firing of Alexander L.
Crosby, an editorial writer on the
paper. The letter follows:
1T is evident to any clear-minded
person that Alexander L. Crosby,
an editorial writer on the Advance,
has been discharged solely because
he joined the New York Newspaper
Guild.
1T is equally clear that member
ship in the Guild is no cause for
discharge. The Guild has already
been recognized by many news
papers; recognition by many others
is pending.
THE Guild, as we understand it,
is based on the principal that news
paper writers are employees in pre-
cisely the sense that factory work
ers, or printers, are employees. The
members of the Guild look upon
their organization as union which
fights for their rights, not the least
of which is recognition of that
union.
You are attempting to break it;
you are lining up with those cap
tains of industry who rule their
employees by making individual
contracts with them, by hiring and
firing at random, by paying the
lowest possible wage, by breaking
strikes.
I'VE want you to know that the
National Committee for the Defense
of Political Prisoners heartily en-
dorses the actions of the New York
Newspaper Guild in resisting the
discharge of Alexander L. Crosby
through all the means at their dis
posal, including picketing, and
whatever other activities they may
see fit. Your discharge of Crosby
can only be considered the act of
an employer who believes in the
open shop principle.
Yours truly,
(Signed) ALFRED H. HIRSCH,
Secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27

attempt to reverse SegaTs standing
in the shop for close to a year as
a week worker. The attempt to put
the worker on piece work and not
on his rightful section was used as
a means to decrease his wages by
half and so force him out of the
shop by that weapon.
In their desperation to combat
the new spirit Of the shop, Blum
enrich and Leppo again have shown
their hold in the open conspiracy
with the bosses by actually break
ing the measly considerable decision
of the trade board by actually al
lowing the bosses to give Segal's
work to girls who work at a rate
of $14 week or less, because many
girls work below the N. r. A. mini
mum, with the knowledge of the
union.
In Conspiracy
These officials in conspiracy with
the bosses, to avoid further expos
ures of the miserable conditions, and
their own responsibility or personal
interest and misconduct, began
using master mind methods. The de-
cisions of both the Executive Board
to uphold the workers job on week
work, and to discipline the bosses;
and of the trade board which are
still cloaked in mystery. It's done
purposely to combat both Segal and
their responsibility toward the tailors
in that case; Blumenrich, in his
attempt to escape the contempt of
the tailors, through forcing worker
on a strange section where the said
workers wages have been reduced
to two dollars a day, dishes out
statements that the worker, Segal,
will receive for few weeks work
until he gets used to the new Sec
ton, a section that the most ex-
perienced makes ten dollars less a
week from Segal's weekly status.
But when Segal inquiries to these
statements, he is told by most Of
flcials definitely that there is nc
such concession. The entire scheme
was an obvious one to justify what
may happen and this had already
proven itself when the worker, a
high grade operator was paid 81
for three days work with a fiat
loss of over 81 from his former
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Union Forces N. r. A.
to Increase Minimum
Wage Code Scale
By ID. q.

OrganiZationally, the book-pub-
fishing field presents special prob
lens. The staffs are usually small,
numbering in most instances not
more than thirty employees. Since
the actual industrial processes are
carried on elsewhere, in the bind
cries and the printing plants, it is
difficult to secure a sense of work
ers' solidarity.
The average office worker in the
book publishing industry, more even
perhaps than the office worker else
where, is taught to consider him
self or herself to be in particularly
swanky trade, which removes from
him or her the stigma" of being a
worker, a point of view that the
employers are naturally anxious to
foster. In the hearings on the pro-
posed labor clauses of the Book
Publishers Code, the bosses spokes-
man. a Mr.. Schuster, explained to
the N. r. A. officials that their
industry was special case, since
the workers did not consider them
selves as workers but as "collabora-
tors" However, at the very time
that these words were being spoken,
there were occurring struggles in
two publishing houses, and Laura
Cannon, then Secretary of the Of
fee Workers Union, threw bomb
shell into the gathering by an
nouncing it.
1t was thus at its very beginning
that the section scored a signifi-
cant victory by sending to Wash
ington the only representative OF
labor at the Book Publishers Code
Hearings, where the following con-
cessions in the basic Labor Code
were won:
A SIC minimum wage as
] against the SIS proposed, and
elimination Of all the territorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
n. Y. Street Car Union
Scores Green's Stand
On Bosses Blacklist

sion, at As Broadway, in order that
he would cooperate with said at
torneys in State Courts. This state
ment of Aug. 10th is in direct con-
flict to the statement given to us
by Brother P. J. Shea previous to
his departure for Detroit.
Then he stated that our case
has been taken to Federal Court
by the Department of Justice.)
THAT the General Executive Board
call on the Hon. William Green,
Pres. of the American Federation
of Labor, and ask him to call on
the entire labor movement of New
York City to boycott the Fifth Ave.
Coach Co. and for all labor in the
United States to aid morally and
financially the locked out men of
the Fifth Ave. Coach Co.
That the Executive Board takes
consider action against the Fifth
Ave. Coach Co. in the form of strike
preparation.
That the Executive Bard takes
immediate measures for the flnan-
cial support to the locked-out men
of the Division 1894.
That an answer is demanded to
all above demands within a week
from date. Failure to comply or
answer above demands will be deep
ly resented by our members who
have indeed reached the limit of
the patience and endurance, in the
face of continuous passing of the
buck and indifference in the past of
our responsible leaders, and we will
be compelled to take drastic action.
Fraternally yours,
NICHOLAS REANOR,
Sec.-TreaS. Div. 994
President, JOHN MAUNSELL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
BY BERNARD SEGAL

After the failure of the Amalga-
mated officials, Blumenrich and
Lippo, to silence the militant
worker, Bernard Segal, and to sup
press all other complaints of work
ers regarding the miserable condi-
tons, acts of terrorism, provoca-
tons and discrimination by the
heads of the pants firm, Mr.. Cohen
and Mr.. Rubenstein, 800 briggs,
Brooklyn, these Amalgamated off,
Gals began to show openly what
was suspected, that they were acting
in conspiracy with the bosses to
squeeze the rank and filler, Bernard
Segal, from the shop, in order to
avert the exposure and real facts
and reasons of the terrorism in the
above mentioned shop, and the close
leanings of the business agents with
the bosses of the firm.
The workers of the Cohen, Rubin
stein firm, after six day strike
over the heads of the mentioned Of
ficials against the dismissal of Ber-
nard Segal and demanding an end
to terror and miserable conditions,
forced the executive and trade
boards to recognize those unheard
of facts of terror, that was in reality
known throughout the trade all the
time 1t was established that work.
ers were hired and fired, some of
them badly mistreated, with the
absolute failure of the officials to
represent those workers. 1t was
brought out by a worker by the
name of Trossman that the boss
has thrown a shear at him. An
other was smacked with a garment
into his face. One by the name Of
Minewald was threatened with death
and he failed to come in again to
work.
Was Abused
The rank and filler, Bernard Segal,
was abused, threatened with gang
sters and with death, and in their
attempt to enforce the threats,
Cohen, one boss of the firm, raised
a head Of a Singer machine over
Segals head, threatening to kill him.
The business agents, Blumenrich
and Leppo, openly misrepresented
the militant Segal and fought openly
on the side of the, bosses in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27

MIR. w. D. Mahan,
Int. Pres. Street Garments Union,
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Sir and Brother:
At a special meeting of Division
e94, held today, Aug. Goth, the fol-
lowing motion was proposed and
carried unanimously: That his
meeting of Division 994 whose mem
bers comprise the employees of the
Fifth Avenue Coach Co. and the
Baltimore and Ohio Bus Service,
instruct our Sec'y-Treas. and Presi-
dent TO inform Int. Pres. w. D.
Mahan and the General Executive
Board members now in session and
demand Of said body the following !:
For Immediate Action
That they take immediate action
to bring our case into the State
Courts; as we have just been in
formed by Mr.. Rice, General Coun-
Gil Of the Labor Relation Board in
Washington that he telephoned to
g. Ogburn on Aug. 10th to Pitts
btrgh, informing him that the Gov
eminent had refused to take any
part in the case, and for him to call
conference with the attorneys of
the State MIRA. Compliance Divi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
Says Green's Stand Is
Disgrace to Union
Labor in America

Letters condemning the failure OF
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L. and w. D. Mahan, Inter
national President of the Street
Garments Union, to take any action
in behalf of the blacklisted workers
of the Fifth Avenue Bus Company
were sent to Green and Mahan by
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employees of America,
A. F. of L. affiliate.
The letters called Green's and
Mahan's refusal to give assistance q
disgrace to the A. F. of L. and the
New York Central Trades and Labor
Council, and threatened indepen-
dent action If no answer is received
within a week"
The union also scored the refusal
of the MIRA. Labor Board to act,
stating that as far as Section Ia is
concerned, ut has meant nothing to
us or our families. Only hardships
and despair through the miserable
home-rellet.
Last year twenty-seven members
Of the union were fired for their &C
Invites as union members.
The letters follow:
Hon, Mr.. William Green,
Pres, American Federation of Labor
Washington, D. G.
Dear Sir and Brother:
At a special nesting of Division
994 OF the Amalgamated Association
Of Street and Electric Railway anI
Motor Coach Employees of America,
held to-day, Aug. goth, at New York
City, the following motion was pro-
posed and passed unanimously:
That we instruct our Sec'y-Treas.
and President to inform Mr.. Will
liam Green, that twenty-seven of
cur members were discharged just
one year ago for trade union affili-
ations; and since that time we have
been given the run around from
New York to Washington, and to-
day we find ourselves in q worse
PCSlOAOiA Olloll WHICH, we NClC 1uSO
discharged. Insofar as the Law is
concerned, Section Ia has meant
nothing to us or our families. Only
hardships and despair through mis-
cradle home relief.
Therefore, we call upon you to
ask the entire Labor Movement of
New York City and the workers of
the nation to boycott the Fifth
Avenue Motor Coach Co.: and that
you demand that the New York La
Dor Movement and labor of the ma
ton help both, morally and f1nanci-
ally in our Just fight. Up till now
we have received no assistance
whatsoever, and We feel as though
it is a disgrace to the American
Federation of Labor to give us no
assistance whatsoever, not forget
ting even our own International
President w. D. Mahon.
Demands Answer
We demand of you an answer
within week from date Failure to
do SO will be deeply resented by our
membership and we will be forced
to use independent action.
Fraternally yours,
NICHOLAS TREANOR,
Secretary Treasurer
r JOHN MAUNSELL,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-27
OPPOSE la GuARbIA PLANS

At a convention of white collar
project relief workers, called by the
Associated Office and Professional
Emergency Employees in Washington
Irving High School Thursday night,
a resolution was passed condemning
Mayor LaGuardis's relief plans as
broadcast Wednesday night.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-05-18

a casual word or so and left him,
walking back on the uptown trail.
At Fifty-sixth Street he turned east
and made for Sixth Avenue. An ele-
waited train went roaring past as he
approached, it's lighted windows SHIN
mering in long ribbon of little
squares. Then Niles faced a green
glass door on which was lettered
"Club of Cards" He was at the foot
of a flight of narrow stairs leading
upward and carpeted in red. He as
cended, passing story after story until
finally he came out in a luxurious
ly-decorated antechamber with a coat
room in the corner. Behind the coun-
ter was blonde and powdered perfect
ion.
"Hat, mister" chanted the vision
in the Indifferent tones of the Broad
way courtroom girl, bored and highly
weary. Niles laid down his hat and
it was expertly whisked away. The
girl held out something to him and
he took it. 1t was the ace of spades.
"What's this ?" he asked curiously.
cts your card" returned the girl.
eve use 'em for checks in the coat
room."
She thrust an ace of spades from
second deck that lay beside her into
the wide band of his hat and turned
to put it way with the others. Niles
shrugged his shoulders and moved off,
slipping the card into his pocket. 1t
wasn't such bad idea, after all, and
it had the virtue of novelty. He could
see into the main premises now, and
on the walls were painted jacks,
queens, kings, aces-half the cards in
the pack. A bowling headwaiter with
an impressive face escorted him to a
table adjoining the dancing floor and
left him.
To be Continued
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-05-18

room, for one purpose.
"Pike" he said "have you ever heard
of the Club of Cards? ?"
The other shook his head and spat
"That's a new one on me chief.
know about all the dives on the Big
Drag. 1t musta opened inside coup
la nights"
eco find out for me where it is
and who owns it," ordered Niles
"I'll give you half an hour. Report
to me in the lobby of the Manhat-
tan Theatre.
80. X. Chief" smirked Pike. He
was gone, merging into the shadows
down the street.
Niles gave an angle to his hat, put
his hands in his pockets and strolled
back onto Broadway, letting himself
drift downtown along with the crowd
that was now pouring out of the
theaters and motion picture houses
He had set something in motion, but
as yet he could not tell what it was
A well-developed belief in his own
lunches was informing him that the
Club of Cards would prove interesting
The name, at least, was unusual.
Presently he smiled, an odd, confid-
ent smile.
you've got to admit to yourself
he murmured, "that the girl has con-