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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Former Minnea polls
Boy Killed in Iewa

his mother and step-father, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walton of Omaha, Nebraska,
where he resided at the time of his
death; and a host of friends.
News was received Of the sudden
death of Richard Marshall, 18 years
old. He was struck by a hit and run
driver while travelling with an or
chestra in Western Iowa. He leaves
to mourn his loss Louis Marshall, his
father, of Baltimore, Maryland,
formerly of Minneapolis; his uncle,
Bob Marshall; his aunts, Alice Nor
gan and Mrs. s. Paul of Minneapolis;
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Twin City Tennis
Tournament Starts
Sunday August Is

Aspirants to the throne so aptly
defended by Bill Penn in the tennis
world have been pounding the courts
furiously all week in the desire to OBJ
tain every bit of last-minute polish
ing possible. Cliff Hawkins and
Stafford Lott have been burning
them over the net at Sumner FIELD
in fine form. Our reporter advises
US to keep an eye on Paul Wodos OF
the Sanity city.
Play will begin Sunday, August
18th at 6. a. m. on the Chicago Field
courts at 38th and Chicago avenues,
in Minneapolis.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Wounded Man
Dies In Hospital

John Wright, aged 80, Of 612 7th
Street North, who was taken to the
General Hospital early Sunday with
a bullet wound in his abdomen as the
outcome of a quarrel between him
and Ida Jones. The Jones woman's
brother, died in the General Hospi-
tai early Wednesday morning. The
police are holding the Jones woman
and her brother for the Grand Jury.
The woman first claimed that the
man made improper advances TO
her, but later regulated this story.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Legion Head Asks Chain
Gang for Herndon

Kenneth Murrell, commander or
No. Post Of the American Legion
in Atlanta, and A. L. Henson, state
veterans service office, made =
counter-plea to Governor Talmadge
to refuse clemency for Herndon ana
to keep the "slave instruction" law
on the statute books. They accused
the delegates Of being "racketeers,"
and heated controversy took place.
owe are not here to discuss econ
omics or political theories" the writ
ers told Governor Talmadge. eve
are here to protest the injustice Of
the sentence against Angelo Herndon
whose only Crime was to ask for
bread for the hungry. We are here,
also, to ask the repeal of the Slave
insurrecsion' law, which has come
down to US from re-Civil War days
and which is cle7riy unconstitution-
al"
Henson, who is cad of the Fulton
County Americanism Commission,
pleaded with Governor Talmadge to
send Herndon to the chain-gang. The
Americanism Commission is compos-
ed of the American Legion, the Men
of Justice-an organization whoss
slogan is: "Let Eevry Race Stay in
It's Place"-the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Daughters
of the Confederacv, the Masons, the
Junior Chamber Ct Commerce, anc
other groups. The Commission
boasts that it includes among its
members the solicitor-generaPs staff.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Reu. II. M. MarbLy
" rites On the Negro
And Economic
Conditions
CAN THE NEGRO SAVE
HIMSELF IN THE PRESENT
ECONOMIC STORM?

The Rev. H. M. Marbly, B. S. Lit,
pastor of Camphor Memorial M. E.
Church says he can.
Because a Cromwell, a Shake
speare, Milton, a Gladstone, Lin
coin, has lived, l may be any one, I
may be all. I may add a brighter
gem to the brightest crown. Every
great soul, it matters not of what
ever realm, slumbers in you. The
best man is not more than humanity
at its best. Be joyful; no man has
ever climbed mountain peak which
is so high that you may not follow
him. Be careful; no man has ever
gone down to earth's profoundest
depths but that you may not sink to
the same mean level Thou hast
wrapped up in thy bosom the posi-
bilities of highest heaven and deep
est hell.
All architecture, all sculpture, all
literature, all the achievements of
science, all art, all executive ability
in organization, all generalship in
the management of men, all logic,
all eloquence, all that exists in the
world today as an evidence of what
man has done in all the ages gone
by, is simply suggestion of the un-
measured possibilities, unrecognized
and unused in your own brain. Man
is what man has been. Every splen-
did man is a prophecy of a man
just as splendid.
Some one has said the strength OF
nation is in the character of its
people. Immediately upon perceiv-
ing this statement it's truth dawns
so plainly upon consciousness tina.
no one dare question it. 1t is readily
seen then that no nation can claim
to be strong if the majority of the
people who comprise it are of weak
character; and vice versa. AS with a
nation, so with race.
What is character, and when is it
strong? Webster defines character
as "the aggregate of distinctive
mental and moral qualities belong
ing to an individual or race as a
whole" A strong character, then,
would be when the aggregate men
tality and morality are strong. Men
tally may be said to be strong
when it is capable of accurately per-
ceiving, differentiating and analyz-
ing ideas; when it is able to compre-
bend principles and accurately apply
them to any given condition. Nor
atty may be said to be strong when
the person is capable of accurately
perceiving distinctions betwee
right and wrong and chooses to pur-
sue the right in preference to the
wrong.
The character of individuals Is
readily manifested through business.
In business Affairs an individual Is
quite likely to betray his true char
actor. Whether he is mentally strong
or weak, alert or dull, unselfish or
selfish, honest or dishonest the game
of business soon forces him to be-
tray his true qualities. One may or
may not be to the public eye, or In
his home, almost ideal, yet in the
privacy of the. fierce and relentless
struggle of business affairs his real
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
South Carolina National
Guards Drive 0ff
Would BeLyachers

Abbeville, S. c., Aug. 11-Natisn-
al guard troops with barred bayonets
Sunday night guarded from threaten
ed violence IL Negoes imprisoned
here on charges Of assaulting ana
attempting to kill Jim Strickland, 40,
white man. Within an hour after
the troops had thrown a Gordon Of
steel around the jail, a group Of "be-
tween so and 100 men" rolled up In
three trucks and demanded the Ne
groes. Upon seeing the soldiers, the
men departed with the threat they
would return with augmented foSs-
es.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17

Mrs. Stella W. Hatch, principal Of
Indianapolis Public School, No. 40,
spoke at the Woman's Day Program
at st. Peters A. M. E. Church last
Sunday. Her subject was "Woman.s
Influence" Mrs. Hatch made TO-
sumo in brilliant speech of the
work done by women in Art, Liter
allure, Business and Science. She
dwelt especially upon the achievs-
ments of famous Negro Women,
paying high tribute to the thousands
of sincere wives and mothers who re-
main to this day the backbone anc
inspiration of the family group.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
D.L.H.West Expelled
For 90 Year

At the last meeting Of Bison Lodge
No. 1853, u. B. F., Daniel L. II. West.
long a thorn in the side Of the mem
bers of that Lodge as well as in the
side Of the General Public, was sus-
pended for ninety-nine years. He
was charged with conduct unbeeom-
ing member in that he misinform-
ed not only the Public but the LodSe
Members concerning the Lodge,
thereby wilfully harming Bison
Robert S. Morgan is the Worthy
Master and John Harper the Worthy
Secretary of the Lodge.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17

The Wayman Home Circle Of Sc.
Peters A. M. E. Church is sponsor.
ing a baby contest, starting August
9Th. Contest will end September
Bird at the church with . prograsa.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
Mrs. Hatch To Stay
Another Week

Mrs. Hatch, who is visiting her son
and daughter-in-law, DR.. and Mrs.
Robert w. Hatch, will remain in the
Twin Cities another week before re-
turning to Indianapolis.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1935-08-17
SAINT PETERS WOMENS
DAY PROGRAM

Women's Day at St. Peters
Church was we'll attended. Morning
services, Mrs. Olivia Lewis preached.
The afternoon program was indeed
a spiritual treat.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Bill
Merits Support

OLYMPIA, Feb. z = Ranking
among the first few bills of i'm
pOrtance to reach the floor of
the House in this session, an act
designed to guarantee cOnstitu-
tional rights to the working class
at a time when pressure is be-
ing exerted upon It, was introduc-
ed by Representative George
Drew.
The act, House Bill PSI, Is a
concise restatement and empha-
sis upon the right to congregate,
to utilize free speech to propo-
gate any political or economic
creed regardless whom it may at
tack or what extents of violence
it may recommend.
Would Outlaw Terror
1t further provides criminal
penalties to any organization,
whether police or militia or vigil
ante, who denies or threatens or
attempts to suppress a constitu-
tional privilege.
Under this act all raids or at
tempts to break up labor meet
ings or strikes would subject the
perpetrator to charges of felony
and gross misdemeanor.
Workers Backing Urged
Representative Drew urges the
widest possible support for this
bill. Unless the workers them
selves exert the pressure on the
Legislature necessary for the
passage of the bill it will meet
with powerful opposition.
However, a consensus of opin-
ion selected by the Voice of Ac-
tion correspondent, discloses that
the bill has a large sympathetic
support in Senate and House and
stands a good chance of passage,
provided the workers themselves,
exert the necessary mass press
ure.
This bill, PSI, is a direct blow
at the criminal syndicalism law.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Detroit Auto Workers
Strike Against Code

DETROIT, Feb. 7. The grow
ing resistance of auto workers
to President Roosevelt's extern
sion of the industry's open shop
code flared into partial open
struggle yesterday as $50 main
tenance men went on strike at
the Murray Body plant here.
The walkout followed on the
heels of a strike by wet sanders
at the Fisher Body plant in Lam
sing which involved some $500
men by the closing of the Fisher
plant and the Odds Motor plant.
The strike movement is ex-
pected to spread steadily from
shop to shop.
The city council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor automo-
bile unions here is expected to
con slider a general strike vote
on Monday.
Extension OF the auto code
now in effect has already pro-
duced an increase in part time
work and part time pay. The
supposed provision of time and
a half for all over time exceed
ing forty-eight is proving to be
a mere paper concession, since
President Roosevelt has admit
ed that 1T is true that most en-
plOyees can work only forty
eight hours.
With two strikes under way
and the resistance of the auto
workers to the extension of the
code on the hourly increase,
William Green is proposing fur
Their delays by calling for a Con-
gressional investigation as
substitute for strike action.
The auto workers here are de-
a thirty-five dollar a
week minimum for production
men, forty-eighty dollars for skill
ed men, thirty-hour, five-day
week, abolition of speed-up and
recognition of the union.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Communist Party Exposes OFT Ant-Red Bill As
Opening Blow of Big Business Attack on Labor

people to alter or abolish It and
to institute new government lay
ing its foundation on such prin-
eiples and organize its power in
such form as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety
and happiness"
The OFT bill passed the lower
house by overwhelming vote. 1t
will probably reach the Senate
Thursday, February 7. If you
receive this handful before that
time, wire the State Senator from
your district to fight against the
adoption Of House Bill rs. And
get your friends to take action.
Get the organizations to which
you belong to protest passage
of this bill to bar the Communist
Party from the ballot.
Watch the press for action TAX
en- by the Senate. If you receive
this after the measure has been
voted on, and If it passes, roll up
a storm of protest demanding
Martin veto the bill
This measure threatens the
rights OF the people and particu-
larry the rights of labor. We must
take united action against it at
once!
Issued by District Committee,
Communist Party, District IL.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

front employers first raided the
headquarters of the Communist
Party, then the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, then the Voice
of Action, then the halls of the
International Lohgshoremen's AS
ISOLATION and the international
Seamen's Union.
The anti-labor measure was In
troduced by Representative OFT,
head Of the Americanization Com.
mittee of the American Legion. 1t
is part OF national drive under
leadership of Belgrano, Hearst's
millionaire banker friend who
heads the Legion. Final enact
ment here must be stopped be-
fore precedent for the whole ma
ton Is set. The bill makes the
Washington State Legislature the
front line trenches for the ma
tiOnal battle for Labor's rights.
What are the next steps pub.
licly announced by this Amer
icanization Committee? They are
out to kill unemployment insur-
ance Initiative 4 and lib 1881
and prevent repeal of the Grimm
al syndicalism laws. This illus
trates the vicious character of
their program.
Who Starts Violence?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

In arguing for this measure the
reactionaries charge the Com
munists with belief in the use OF
force and violence. Who forces
men to use other means than
voting If not those who vote to
keep militants off the ballot
altogether?
The measure Is so extreme
that If Abraham Lincoln were
alive today, he could not run for
office in the State of Washing
toni For what did Lincoln de-
clare? "This country, with its in
stitutions, belongs to the people
who inhabit it. Whenever they
shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of
amending it or their revolution
airy right to dismember it or
overthrow it,"
Forget Declaration"
1t was drafted by men who
have forgotten the Declaration of
Independence, which says, Gov
ernments are instituted among
men deriving their just power
from the consent of the govern
ed. Whenever any from OF govern
ment becomes destructive of
these ends it is the right of the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

draining directly from the CITY
dump and house and barns.
Windows Broken
Many windows are broken and
the roof leaks badly. A worker,
attempting to have her case
taken care of, has contacted the
relief set-up, and leading citizens
and public servants"
Mrs. Alexander, relief snoooper:
Not my case. She's INDECENT"
Grohmley, county supt. of indi-
gents: "She is being taken care
of. She receives 81 q month"
County Commissioners Rarey and
Tucker: eve will look into the
case" This was months ago and
nothing has been done yet.
Rev. Roy B. Parcel, Methodist
pastor, ex-relief head and Com
mercial Club president, Veterans
of Foreign Wars pensioner, brags
that he was feeding the poor In
his district on 81 cents per per-
son per month. He promised to
Took into" Mrs. Whiteside's case
months ago. Nothing done.
Editor "Forgets"
Harold Dibb, owner and editor
of the Winlock News, asked to
bring public attention to the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
NY. StevedOrS Plan
To Strike This Week

NEW YORK, Feb. Z, Joseph
p. Ryan, President of the In
ternational LOngshoremen's AS
ISOLATION admitted yesterday
that whole sale firing of union
truckmen, and wage cuts as a
result of the Humphrey anti
labor injunction is driving the
workers to act over the heads
of the high officials in his and
the teamsters' union, for a
strike next week.
If the injunction is signed,
there is no telling what will hap
PEN" Ryan said. IF those men
fear that they will lose their
Jobs, they will not listen to the
leaders. Why IL I tried to stop
demonstration in that event,
they'd be likely to throw me out
and put someone else in my
place"
Ryan's statement was in an
effort to explain defiance of the
longshormen to handle freight
trucked by nonunion teamstere,
and shift away responsibility
from himself. In the same state
ment he indicated the scheme
of the top union officials for
heading off a strike.
THE only thing that might
save the situation in the event
the injunction is signed" he con-
tinued, would be If it carried
the right to appeal and as tay
pending determination Of the
appeal"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

case: he forgot. G. C. Wall, post
master and ex-Demoeratic state
committeeman said he would re-
quest the commissioners to take
action. Months have passed and
nothing has been done.
DR.. Yahn, Winloek's mayor:
Not the eity's case. See the re-
lief heads"
Mrs. Whiteside's husband was
a slave. Has her condition i'm
proved since her race has been
granted "freedom?" Winlock's
ruling class admits she's free
to die of neglect, now that she
can no longer serve them.
Workers, organized, can pre-
vent such neglect.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
JObLess Leader
Hits FDR Bill

WASH, d. c., Feb. 7. 'The I'M
employed reject the Wagner
Lewis Bill since they do not
come within its provisions" Is
rael Amter, National secretary OF
the National Unemployed Coun-
ellis, told the House Ways and
Means Committee today. This
Committee is holding hearings
on the Roosevelt Administra.
tion's Wagner-Lewis bill, the
new deals legislative rejection
of national unemployment insur.
ance. The Ways and Means Com
mittee emphasized it's anti-work-
ing class character yesterday by
calling on police to eject Herbert
Benjamin, the spokesman for
the National Joint Action Com
mittee for Genuine Social Insur.
ance which is backing the Work
ers Unemployment, Old Age and
Social Insurance Bill R. 1927.
Both Benjamin and Amter
recommended H.R. 1927 as the
only workers bill OF all the mea-
sures introduced thus far in Con-
gress.
The Wagner-Lewis Bill,
said Amter, makes no provision
for the unemployed, nor even
for workers who after the bill
goes into operation are suppos-
ed to receive unemployment COM
pensation if they are laid off. 1t
merely states tibet per cent
payroll tax shall be imposed on
the employers, to be reduced to
2 or l per cent depending on the
business index. This tax will be
passed on to the worker in the
price of the product"
"As against this bill we put
the Workers Bill which provides
for unemployed and all workers
ers for the full period of disabil-
ity-at government expense based
ON taxes. high incomes, inherit
ances, etc." Amter pointed out.
David LASER, representing the
Workers Unemployed Union,
recommended the Workers Bill
and described the Wagner-Lewis
Bill as fake patent medirine."
Most of the witnesses, however,
came to support the Big Bust
ness Wagner-Lewis Bill. Samuel
Rayburn, representing the Nat
ional Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion, declare to the committee
that the Wagner-Lewis Bill SIS
a great economic and social re-
form and we don't want it to
fail" Albert Hutzler, Baltimore
department store magnate smil-
National Retail Dry Goods pro-
gram follows the Wagner-Lewis
Bill in spirit and details. 1t fol-
ows it so closely that many of its
provisions might have been writ
ten by the Dry Goods Association
ITSELF"
Oh. Hall, a member of the
delegation sent by the Philidel-
phia Local Action Committee for
Unemployment Insurance, Amer
lean Federation of Labor, inform
ed the committee that Were 60
ing to resist passage of the Wag-
ner-Lewis Bill" He endorsed the
Workers Bill.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Coming EUents
SEATTLE

Saturday, Feb. 9-Internation-
al Workers Order Dance at
Washington hall, l4th and
Fir.
Sunday, Feb. 10-Open Forum,
candidates for City Council
to speak, IOGT hall, 1109
Virginia St., 8 p. m.
Thursday, Feb. IA Young
Worker dance, joint auspices
Young Communist League (E
Madison unit and Seattle
Youth Club, Finnish hall, 9th
at Yesler, Adm. 10 and Is
cents.
SPOKANE
Saturday, Feb. % p. M, re-
port of Olympia State I'm
employment Insurance Con-
gress, 2l01 Washington st.
ANACoRTEs
TUESDAY, Feb. l9-S p. m, Low
ell Wakefield, editor of the
Voice of Action, speaks on
Unemployment ms urance
and Social Security. Eagles
Hall. Adm. Is and 10 cents.
Auspices Relief Workers
Protective Union.
TACOMA
Sunday, Feb. 17-S p. m, joint
Voice of Action, Friends of
the Soviet Union public mass
meeting against Hearst. Hall
and speakers to be announc-
ed next week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Mrs. SOmmerville,
KOski, SloverLead

SEATTLE, Feb. = With the
first month OF a three-months
contest behind them, Lydia Lauk-
kanen Sommerville of Aberdeen,
Ernest Koski of Astoria and AL
win Slower of Olympia remain
leading contestants for a trip to
the Soviet Union at the expense
OF the Voice of Action.
Many others are still in the
running, and it is not too late
now to start. The bulk of the
money needed to win has yet to
be raised.
Rules for the contest are sim
lie. Anyone except a member OF
Voice of Action staff may en-
ter Both organizations and indi-
viduals may raise money to aid
contestant. ALI funds count that
are raised for the Voice of Action,
whether from donations, sub
scriptions or affairs.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
BY ROBERT DRAKE
Special Voice of Action Staff
Corresp ondent

OLYMPIA, Feb. 7-Disclosing
conditions of extreme corruption
in the administration of the
Washington Emergency Relief
Administration, the special in
designations committee broke it's
story Tuesday, but only in very
general terms, to the Senate and
House. a.
The charges ranged from out
right theft and destruction of
records down to petty discrimina-
tion. 1t was charged that as re-
ward for voting right" entire
families were placed on VERA
payrolls at larger salaries than
they had ever before received.
The report further charges
that overhead costs were highly
exhorbitant, that contracts were
let with obvious favOritism for
the purpose of creating large
profits for firms, relate either by
family, or political affiliations,
with the administration.
Thousands of instances were
uncovered where relief had fail
ed to be provided. Families liv-
ed on starvation and subsist-
snce levels according to the re-
port, and in all cases the relief
allowances were far too low.
Conspiracy between VERA
administrators and the heads OF
associated charitable and serv-
ice organizations was sworn to.
Highly irregular exchanges of
funds and shiftings of response
bility were resorted to in order
to cover the extensiveness Of
graft.
Fear Exposures
Meanwhile the Martin political
machine, which controls the state,
was in q highly nervous condi-
ton, fearing disclosures that
would result in criminal action,
or the disintegration of party
politics, under the storm that
complete disclosure is sure to
bring.
Having finished the report, the
committee recommended that the
investigation continue with a re-
appointment of a joint commit
tee with three members from the
Senate and five from the House.
When questioned in regard to
permitting publication of the
names, amounts and instances Of
graft and discrimination, Senat-
or Rebel Murphy, committee