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The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16
SECRETARY CKES
ASSAILS LONG IN
PRESS CONFERENCE
SAYS He viii Withdraw Federal
Money Rather Than Turn
L Over 70 Senator

Warrington. April l6.-(R-ln .
scathing attack on Senator Long.
Oem., La.), Secretary Ickes Tuesday
threatened to cancel Ill public work
projects In Louisiana II legislation 4
passed to give the state authority over
local projects.
Referring to Long - the Emperoe
Of Louisiana" Ickes said ct . press
conference:
"PWA funds haven't been used 70
set up Z political machine anywhere
and they won't b used that way Ia
Louisiana-they certainly won't Be
used to build up Senator Longs pon.
teal machine"
Specifically. Ickes said . u 10000
pWA allotment had been made "a
the New Orleans sewer and water.
board. and Il It was dissolved there
iGnt any contract and well take back
the money"
"of course" he added sarcastical-
", 1T means keeping = lot Of people
out Of work. Apparently the senator
u IN favor OF sharing wealth but not
sharing work"
Refers - Legislaturo
Ickes referred to the Louisiana leg.
islature. now conddering Q Lone
measure to give the state authority
over expenditure Of federal funds b
localities, - the ''longlature."
Asked II other allotments besidel
the. New Orleans sewer project might
b cancelled. Ickes replied:
They might create . situation
down there where Ill allotmenta
would be cancelled"
Stating his position, lckes said:
n think Il Senator Long y goine
to dictate to VI how We shall conduct
the PWA program IN Louisiana NJ
reserve the right TO cancel our con-
tracts. We didn't make the ALLEGATION
to Huey Long o. the state Of Louisi-
CONTINUED On Page Two)
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16
Mrs. DOdds' Mother
Dies at MINNEAPOLIS

Word was received here Tuesday
Of the death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Healy
Of Minneapolis, mother Of Mrs. .. A.
Dodds, 008 Avenue D. The funeral
services win b held ct the Holy
Name Catholic church In Minneapolis
|et 10 o'clock wednesday morning.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16

URGES CONGRESS TO HURRY
Washinst ston-speaker Joseph DyTns
made . speech asking congress 70
speed work on the social security bill.
i was, the first speech he has made
since becoming speaker.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16

EPlDEAlIC 10 REPORTED
Minneapolis Children under seven
years were ordered to stay indoogl
to prevent spread Of scarlet fever,
Minneapolis has $50 cases Of the dis
ease.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16
War VETERAN DIES

WAR VETERAN DIES
Devils Lake - Major Thomas
Lounevik. 81, . veteran Of the
Spanish and World Wars, died at
his home In Santa Monica, Cailf.,
according to word received here.
He formerly was caretaker at
Camp Grafton.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16

Washington The senate
passed the Wheeler Eastman blu
giving the Interstate Commerce
Commission power 70 regulate
buses and trucks. Il now goes
to the house.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16

Helenwood, Tenn. - Explosion Of
dynamite In . storehouse during . fire
here late Tuesday wrecked this town.
Seven persons were slightly injured. =
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16
Wallace Looks to Farmer to Preserve AAA Set>Ub
Late News
Bulletins

BAER.BRADDOCK SIGNED
New Yoek-Afax Baer and James J.
Braddock were signed to meet IN 4
title fight here June l3.
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-16
ON NONSTOP FLIGHT

ON NONeSTVI kA10UV
Los Angeles Laura ingalls,,
woman aviator, who reared away
Tuesday morning on 4 nonstop
flight to New York, was seen over
Arizona Q few hours later but y
unreported since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
FebrnaryWo Woman
Presents Lively Features
THE WORKING WOMAN, February issue, cents
Reviewed by
JUNE CROLL

NO ONE who is seriously interested in reaching
~ the great masses of working class and farm
women can afford to miss reading and distribute
ing the February issue Of the Working Woman.
Written in the simple everyday language Of the
average worker its fifteen pages are cram full Of
stories and features dealing with the most basis
as well as immediate problems of working class
women
THE Heart of Milwaukee" stirring story about
the Boston Store strike in that much pubhczed
Socialist City, Milwaukee where the shoppers threw
themselves into the battle the side of the strik-
ers despite all the attempts Of the store owners
the City administration and the union misleaders
to prevent it, is a thrilling example of a united
front between women
"The Jobless Organize" dealing with the re-
Gently held National Congress for Unemployment
Insurance, stressng the special features of the bin
H. R. 1927 which provide for the protection OF
women workers, as well the article on women
in the American Federation Of Labor could not
and would not appear in any of the numerous
popular women's magazines. These are published
for the specific purpose of leading the women to
believe that their special problems can be solved
without struggling against the employing class.
The Working Woman. however, while acknowledging
these special problems, snalyzing them in an easy
understandable manner. inspires It's readers to
struggle side-by-side with the menfok for inn
mediate improvements.
The You're Telling Me" column by Grace
Hutchins world affairs is particularly good this
month. And so is the Fashion Letter and House.
hold corner. 1t is really refreshing to find one
self reading these features which provide useful
information without, other magazines do de-
grading the woman reader with the slush that
pours out of the typical, capitalist woman's maya
zine
CPEAKING from experience in organizing women
workers the writer feel that The Working Woman
is rapidly becoming an indispensable instrument
in the hands of every class conscious worker with
which to win over their fellow workers neghbors
and acquaintance. Only few words Of criticism
in this connection. Such headlines as Beware of
Illusions over the article on the Tom Mooney and
Scottsboro cases do not express the best that is
in the magazine Certainly these two examples
Of class justice have particular appeal to women
The role of Mother Mooney and that of the Scots
boro mothers it seems to the writer should have
been placed in the forefront. Somewhat the same
criticism be made Of the story on Hearsts
Red batting.
But these slight shortcomings are entirely over
Swallowed by the good points and most especially
in the proletarian love story "tSockyard Stella"
the second installment of which appears in this
months magazine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Work Relief and SIums

Question: viii the new $4,000 100000 work re-
lief program now being passed by Congress really
be used to clear the slums?-s T., Chicago
Answer: The promises Of Roosevelt and Ickes
to clear the slums only made TO cover up the
real purposes of the so-calIed work relief program
reducing the costs Of relief. war preparations and
the setting Of low work relief wages which can be
used to lower all wages
It should be remembered that in the public
works program Of 1898 the Roosevelt administra-
ton also promised to clear the slums. But out
of the S3,7OOOOO0OO that were appropriated, less
than s2O0OOO0O about one per cent Of the total,
was actually spent for housing. And even this
pitiful sum was used for housing that is far out
Of the reach Of the poor worker who is forced to
live in sum 1retraps
In the present program, most Of the money,
directly and indirectly, will go for war prepara-
tons and government construction Of the pork
barrel variety. The workers will be given sub
existence wages; the capitalists viii make fat prof.
its out of the contracts that the government will
make with them But the slums will not be
cleared.
few tenements which are on the verge Of
colapsing will be taken of the hands Of rich land
lords like the Astors. In these cases model apart
ments will be built which only middle class peopl9
viii be able to afford The sums as a whole,
however will remain untouched, and will con-
tinue to take their toll Of lives through disease,
fire etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
No. 2 of Communist
International Out

No. 2 of THE Communist Inter
national" magazine is now on sale
at all bookshops. The full contents
Of this issue are as follows:
Sergei Mironovich Kirov, by D. z
Manuilsky.
The c. P. S. U. Gains a New
Splendid Victcry CThe decisions
of the November Plenum of the
G. G. of the c. P. S. u.
The United Front-Next Steps, by
Harry Pollitt.
The 1885 Conference and the Naval
Armaments Race, by Ivanov.
Discussion for the Seventh Con-
gress of the G. I.
How to Prepare for the Seventh
Congress of the Communist
international by A. Berg.
The c. P. of Germany on the
Discussion for the Seventh
World Congress.
The G. P. of CzechoSlovakia on
the Discussion for the Seventh
World Congress.
The "Frankness" of Calvo Sotello,
by Arvikto,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Clarence Hathaway Calls Burck's
Powerful Cartoons Sharp Weapons
ID epicts W it'll Bitter
Truth the Ell erts
and MacDOnalds

N the great historic fight which the
workers of the world are waging
against their class enemy, the fact
which looms higher than any other
today is the division in the ranks of
the working class which brings them
face to face with the enemy with
their forces disunited and scattered.
Socialist and Communist workers
class brothers in whose veins flows
the blood of the proletariat, the rev.
dictionary class whose whose his
toric mission it is to break the
chains of class exploitation and
usher in new society-Surely these
belong side by side.
And today this task of welding
our class forces into one united
front against war and fascism-this
is our major task.
Does not the yoke of capitalist
wage slavery, does not the terrorism
and brutality of the exploiters fall
upon Socialist and Communist
workers and their children with
equal force? Every instinct of our
class demands that nothing must
stand in the way of our class unity.
In his drawings. Jacob Burck has
singled out with true class feeling
and keenness the high points in the
whole question of Social-Democracy
and its relation to the proletarian
revolution.
Two emotions dominate these
drawings, hatred for the policies of
the Social-Democratic leadership
which have cost the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Democracy for the Rich

DRIVEN back upon her textbooks Madame Flut-
terbye makes a last stand for her clientele bv
arguing Every trial in America is open to the
public"
1t is very true that every trial in America is
open to the public, and we would be the last to
oeny such an elementary democratic right In
TACT, find it a little confusing to think that the
poor people of Pennington were trying to DENY the
rich their constitutional rights Of course real
lie the disadvantages to the rich of a democracy
But do not think these disadvantages are very
serious. They do not seem to have interfered much
with the process of accommodating wealth exploit
ing the poor or robbing the public treasures
all social interests of the rich
On the other hand, realize that now and
then plutocrat or multi-millionaire might have
tW1nge OF desire for the old days of feudalisn
lhere to take the case of Pennington he could
convict man in his bedroom sentence him IN
ais nar.or. and have him executed in his court
yard. And all without leaving the house on a cold
morning in deep winter.
But comparing the disadvantages to the rich
and the poor under democracy don't think the
rich have much to complain of. It gave them those
mink coats and the Rolls Royces All it ever gave
the poor was a circus like the Kaufman trial
and the broken-down Model-Ts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20

THE Madame was much distressed by the demo-
cratic behavior of the people of Pennington
1t seems as though the people had neglected to
appreciate what those mink coats had gone through
that morning, what with the early hour, the cold
weather, the stuffy courtroom and all. After ALL
argues the Madame society is often. too often
censored for its trivial existence. But when
number of society people take an interest in one
of the most vital and absorbing dramas of the
day. they shouldn't be given black eye"
Which, when you come to think of it. is not
a bad ideal mean the razzberries are all right
but think of what a hit a black eye would have
made.
She feels pretty badly as you can see even
about just razzberries After ALL those mink coats
you know, they were only so attractive because
the rest of the population wore nothing but sweat
ers mackinaws, and old raooon coats.
But what did the Madame expectP That the
boys who came rumbling into town in their old
Model-Ts or Chevrolets that needed a spare tire
and new brake would give three rousing cheers
when they saw those gilded hearses. the Rolls
come rolling down Main Street? Or that the
farmers wives who have been living on potatoes
and the county relief would sigh with delight
when a trunkfull Of mink coats came breezing into
the courtroom?
1, also, remain unmoved by what Madame notes
to be new wave of social interest on the part of
the playboys and girls evidenced by their trip
to Pennington
Somehow can't get the idea out of my head
despite all the earnestness of the Madame that
the life which that set leads up on Park Avenue
and IN Mayfair is not precisely the kind of life
which you can call useful to any society or very
important to the health and progress of humanity.
1t seems to me that that trip to Pennington was
only another cocktail, new highball to keen
up the excitement of doing nothing
And as think of it, I fail to be convinced that
since that crowd reaps without sowing, and eats
without working humanity would be the loser
If they were firmly smputated forever from the
body social. This goes, cold morning or no cold
morning, Pennington no Pennington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

MADAME FLUTTERBYE, who does
H1 day to day column on the life of upper
class society for the Hearst press, has just
brought to light neglected incident of
the trial at Pennington.
Although the Madame does not make
the tale as clear as it could be, it appears that
the facts are these.
On bright morning, but cold very cold when
thousands of sightseers aywslkers rubber neckers
and souvenir-hunters were out thronging Hunter
don County, Park Avenue also decided to roll out
to the backwoods and get thrill from the big
show.
The boys and the girls and the old ladies from
the penthouse places dressed themselves warmly
in couple of mink coats got into their Rolls
Royces and started out for the Holland Tunnel.
And that's what started all the trouble The
mink coats and the Rolls Royces.
For the population of New Jersey is a notori-
ously poor one. Times haven't been good out in
Jersey any more than any place else in America.
The debbies and the playboys came roilng into
Pennington, dismounted and went into the court.
Madame Flutterbye then informs that in the
crowded courtroom those mink coats stood out
like pillars Of light" among the old rsccoon coats
and the rest of the spectators wore And among
the old Model-Ts and the Chewolets the Rolls
Hoyces l guess stood out like columns OF hre !"
Well the courtroom was crowded They we're
sitting the window stills. They were standing
in the aisles. Whether or not Park Avenue sat on
the window stills or stood in the aisleS we don't
know. But they were there, partakng in the great
national event. And there were those mink coats
and there were those Rolls Royces. They had
gotten up early in the morning for change, and
it was cold. Maybe they were proud of that. Life
was adventurous.
At what moment it happened, nobody knows
Madame F1utterbye who knows all, sees all and
tells all for the Hearst press about Mayfair and
the Avenue, keeps us in the dark about it.
But it was either in the court or outside In the
street that couple of the townspeople gave the
mink coats and the Rolls Royces good round of
old fashioned, home-brewed Jersey razzberries.
Madame Flutterbye describes the sound issuing
that cold morning in Lexington as a "paean of
hate"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Drawings Show Deep
Need for Class
Solidarity

And can one miss the revolution
airy exultation which leaps out at
us from the drawing where the
united ranks of the Spanish. Ger
man and Austrian working class
fling high the banner of solidarity
behind the barbados of class
battle?
In some of his drawings, Burck
misses his mark, where he aims at
the policies of the leadership and
fails to discriminate clearly enough
between these policies and the So
cialist Party workers.
But this is more the weakness
which has hindsred the work of the
whole Communist Party than it is
the weakness of Burck the artist.
We recognize this mistake and we
are striving to correct it.
Today we are rapidly closing the
gap which has so long divided us.
Today, on the barricades of Spain,
in the illegal shop work in Ger
many, in the streets of Paris, in the
working class quarters of Vienna,
and above all in the fight against
the Wall Street offensive against
US here at home, we are building
our class unity.
And when this happens the ruling
class has cause to tremble. In this
struggle, Comrada Burck's drawings
are our sharp weapons.
G. A. HATHAWAY.
(From Hunger and Revolt; Car
toons by Burck.J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20

such bitter penalties, and deeply
felt class need for solidarity with
the workers in the ranks Of the So
cialist Party.
IAN there be any denial of the bit
v ter truth which Burck has drawn
for us in the depletion of Ebert and
Macdonald? Can there be any
doubt as to the emotion which
emerges from the May Day drawing
where the great red banner of May
Day is cut in two, an actual descrip-
ton of what happened in New York
this year when the Socialist leader
ship turned down the united front
offer Of the Communist Party2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
TUNING IN

T:0o-wEAF-Economic seeur-
ity Legislstion-Senator
Jesse H. Metcslfe Of Rhode
Island
WOR-Sports Resume-Stan
Lomax
WJz-Amos m Andy
Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Msrge-
Sketch
T:i5-wEAF-Stories Of the
Black Chamber
WOR-Lum and Abner-
WJz-Plantation Echoes;
Robson ORCH; South
ernaires Quartet
WABC-Just Plain Bill
7:3o-wEAF - Easy Aces
Sketch
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Red Davis-Sketoh
wABC-The O'Neills-Sketch
-WEAF - Uncle Ezra
WJA-DanSero Parao2se-
Sketch
WABC-Boske Carter, Com
lnentator
S:00-WEAF-Play, the Littls
Spitflre, with Mary Pick
ford, Actress
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WIZ Penthouse Party:
Mark Hellinger, Gladys
Glad: Peggy Flynn, Come
dienne; Travellers Quartet,
Coleman Orch. Frank
Parker. Tenor
WABC-Diane 49, Musical
Comedy
8.15-WABC-E Edwin G. Hill,
Commentator
S.S0-WEAF Wayne King
Orchestra
Variety Musicale
WJz-Lsnny Ross, Tenor
wABC- Everett Marshall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20

Baritone; Elizabeth Len
nox, Contralto. Mixed
Chorus; Arden Orchestra
9:0o-WEAF 49, Fred Allen,
Comedian; Hsyton Orch;
Amateur Revue
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-20.o00 Years in Sing
Sing-5ketch, with War.
den Lswes
wABC-Lily Pons. Soprano;
Kostelanetz Orch; Mixed
Chorus
9:3o-WOR-To Be Announced
wJz-John Charles Thomas,
Baritone: Concert Orch.
WABC-George Burns and
Oracle Allen. Comedians
e:45-WOR-Berrens Orch.
io:oo-wEAF-Lombardo Orch;
Ricardo Cortes. Narrator
WOR - Literary Justice
MISUNDERSTANDING
Fidler
WABc = Peter Pfeiffer-
Sketch. with Jack Pearl.
Rich Orch; Pstti Chaplin.
lo:l5-WOR-Cugent Events
H. E. Read
WJz-Beauty-Mme. Sylvia
10:50-WEAF-Ray Noble Orch.
wOR-variety Musicale
wJz-Eson Petri, Piano
WABC-Symphony Orch,
Howard Barlow. Conduc-
tor; Toscha seideI. Violin
li;00-WEAF-Talk j. B.
Kennedy
WO3-Ncws
WJz-Kcmp Orchestra
WABC-Belesco Orchestra
il;l5-WEAF-Robert Royce.
Tenor
WOR-Mconbeams Trio
ii.3o-wEAF ~ Dance Musie
(Also wOR. WIZ. wABcl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20

Eugene Debs, as their only nom
railroad worker. Another time she
was the only woman in a group of
German Socialists. The men were
skeptical. What can woman do
for Socialism," they asked. But
they soon found out that this wo-
man could do lot.
A Stormy Life
The rest is a stormy story of
picket lines and organizing. Mother
Bloor worked in the stockysrds at
Chicago, in order to get a series
of articles following Upton Sin
clairs expose in THE Jungle She
worked in the spotted meat de-
partment, Ann Barton writes,
called that because the tins con-
tanning the meat were so old that
they were spotted with rust. Girls
inspected the tins, and woe to them
if they marked too many unfit for
USE"
Mother Bloor organized among
the coal miners. in order to get to
meetings" Ann Barton says, she
had many times to face company
gunmen,' She had to Chamber
through the coal mines, ride on
handcars, take donkeys between
camps. At this time she was near
ing fifty, but no one ever thought
it strange that she could stand so
much physical strain. Mother Bloor
always seemed to have the energy
OF a young girl-because she had
the enthusiasm.
Two Frightful Episodes
She lived through two heartrend-
ing episodes of the killing of strik-
ers' children. One was in Calumet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20
Mother BIoor: Dynamic Fighter
In the Front Ranks Of Labor
At 70 Has the Energy
and S pirit of a
Young Girl
BY Jean DOOlittle

cIXTY years at rebellion is some
y thing to be proud of. And
Mother Bloor has achieved it. Yes.
for almost sixty years, Ella Reeve
Bloor has been rebelling against
untruths and injustices. She be-
gan at fourteen by telling the ED
ers Of Presbyterian church where
they stood in her estimation-and
it wasn't very high. Now, at seven
ty-three, as International Women's
Day March 81 approaches, she is
even better at telling people where
to head in. She can give the mu-
nitions makers as hot a verbal
scorching as they ever got. And at
the head of a picket line she is
human dynamo.
The story Of the almost sixty
years between the day when she
walked out of the little Bridgeton,
New Jersey, church until the day
month ago when she stepped to
the platform of the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance, has been told by Ann
Barton, in pamphlet called
Mother Bloor," just issued by
workers Library Publishers g
cents.
It's a thrilling tale, bee ause
Mother Bloor's has been a thrilling
life.
It had placid enough beginning,
according to Ann Barton's account.
A small Jersey town, solid Presby-
terrain parents, and good old Amer
lean stock" formed her background.
But she had some forebears who
fought in the American Revlution-
airy War, which may have given
her revolutionary turn of mind
And she had an uncle who read
Ingersoll.
Shocked the Town
1t may have been Ingersol that
made her leave the church at four
teen. But it was her own lively
mind that made her look beyond
her kitchen sink when she was
twenty-four. BY then she had a
husband and children, but she felt
that the cards were stacked against
a woman, and she wrote fiery
article for the local papers on wo-
mans suffrage one day. The town
was shocked.
Tt didn't take Ella long to dis
cover that neither feminism nor
academic learning were going to
save society. She met the weavers
in Kensington, Philadelphia, who
were on lockout. She discovered
that the women were being paid
$500 week for the same work for
which men were being paid $25 90.
She knew then that the only way
for women to get justice was to or
ganize. So she joined her first
union, and started to organize the
women weavers of Kensington.
Soon after this she joined the So
cialistS, because they talked of
workers ownership of the ma
chine" And that, Ella Reeve felt,
was the answer to the thing that
she had been cropping for. AS the
Socialist Party went through it's
various phases she always moved
along with the group that was far
thest Left. Often she was the only
woman in her local party organiza-
ton. She belonged to the group of
railroad workers organized under