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Evening star., 1935-05-08

WHAT IS AN ALUMNUS?
TN GERMANY, in seems, the uni
i versities have no alumni associa-
tions.
So DR.. Hans Luther. Ambassador
from Berlin, was anxious to know all
about the working of such associations
in this country when he addressed the
annual banquet of the Catholic Uni
verSity Alumni Association recently at
the Mayflower. He was enlightened
by Bishop James H. Ryan, rector OF
the university.
In his speech. following. the AM
bassador caused an outburst OF
laughter when he defined an alumnus
as "a student who has stopped study
ing"
Evening star., 1935-05-08
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
TOINCLUDE CHARWOMEN
Workers Hired at District Build
ing Brought Within Scope
of Law.

Charwomen regularly employed in
the nocturnal cleanup of the District
Building hereafter Will be brought
within the scope of the Districts re-
tirement law.
The Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved the change on recommended
ton of the District Personnel Board.
The subject was raised recently by
the American Federation of Govern
ment Employees.
The District now has 26 charwomen
regularly employed and 6 additional
engaged as alternates. Some of the
women have been employed for many
years by the District and one has held
such job since 1908.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

GUARANTEED 25 YEARS! Full 16-
mesh heavy gauge, solid bronze wire
(9O2o copper, 1919 alloy). Has stiff
ness and strength of steel wire. yet is
absolutely "RUSTPROO" and f1exi-
BILE. Costs you less per year than any
other screen wire. Meets all u. S. Gov
ernment specifications.
Also Sold at ia 18th st. NV.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
ATOM IN THE COSMOS.

TT HAS become pretty generally
/ recognized that these are days of
big money spending. The Gov
ernment tendency to drop millions OF
dollars into single projects has been
contagious-the reaction in some in
stances is amusing
For example, at the National Rivers
Evening star., 1935-05-08
WHERE TIME IS MONEY.

1<IME Is money 10 The reporters
in the press room at the Dis
trict Supreme Court, much as
L their city editors might doubt it.
For years the hands of the
old press room clock rusted in one
position. There were hopeful rumors
that the clock might be repaired. But
time went on and nothing happened.
Finally, driven to desperation, the
reporters decided to install their own
clock and pay for 1t. They still are
paying the service charges cents q
month each.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

Maybe the reason is that this barber
Is a little different.
Except to ask, "Whatll it be-hair-
cut or shaver" he never says word
when he has you in the chair. He
doesn't even bid you good-by or thank
you.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
LEGISLATIVE CANDOR.


n REPRESENTATIVE HATTON w.
n SUMMERS, Democrat. of Texas.
and chairman Of the House
Judiciary Committee. is one of the
most dignified members Of the House.
Reserved and able. he has been men
toned upon several occasions as
probable appointee to the United
States Supreme Court when some
vacancies occur.
Beneath his sober mien, however, Is
q fine sense of humor and proper
evaluation Of many Of the things
that happen in the Nations Capital.
He displayed these qualities at the
recent session of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. Testifying
briefly in support of improvement OF a
Texas canal, he concluded Smilingly
with these words:
II know this project will be urged
upon you by a delegation from Texas
appearing for that purpose. There Is
nothing 7 can say that they Will not,
but / will explain my appearance ana
that of some other Congressman IN
this way. We know there is an elec-
ton next year and If We can get our
names connected with one OF these
projects the publicity won't do us any
harm. Thank you, gentlemen"
After the laughter which followed, a
Republican voice spoke up:
1--WE knew we had you scared, but
Evening star., 1935-05-08
Warm for Scotch.

The Winter has been the warmest
In Scotland for 66 years.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

They pay it on time. II there's
any delay. they charge it to the time
the old clock lost.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Giant Fort
In Singapore

SHANGHAI, Feb. 1S.-Devoting a
long article to the English imperial
list war base at Singapore, at the
tip of the Malay Peninsula, the
Sydney Church Times" boasts that
1t is the most powerful naval and
air station in the world.
First of all, it is protected by par
ticularly dangerous ocean currents,
the Australian paper declares. The
secret of navigating in its waters
is jealousy guarded by the British
pilots, who alone have the right to
pilot ships. The base is guarded
by Notifications which have not
their equal anywhere.
Giant pieces Of artillery are hid
den away, and exceptionally power
full searchlights illuminate the earth
as well as the sky. Fuel reserves
amount to 1,250,000 tons and there
are two airplane stations. The
Church Times" does not mention,
however, that military journals have
often commented on the ease with
which British fleets could sail to
the Soviet Siberian coast under the
friendly direction of japanese i'm
perialiSm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Put Petitions
Over the Top.
Gebert Urges
Organizer Urges Final
Effort to Insure Place
of Candidates

CHICAGO, Ill, Feb 1s.-In the
face of the arbitrary decision by the
Democratic controlled Board Of
Election Commissioners barring
twenty-six of twenty-nine workers
.aldermanic candidates from the
ballot, the Communist Party today
called for an intensified signature
drive to prevent similar treatment
to candidates in the Mayoralty
election.
More than 10000 signatures have
already been collected on the may
orally nominating petitions, William
K. Gebert, Communist Party or
ganizer said, but the number, he
said, must be doubled to prevent the
candidates from being ruled out by
legal technicslities.
Because of the splendid work of
thousands of workers, Gebert said,
I'VE have almost the legally re-
quired number of names, but we
must gather our strength for one
final effort to overwhelm the Elec-
ton Commissioners with sigma
lures"
Three Defeat Challenges
The three workers candidates
who defeated the challenges to
their petitions in the Aldermanic
elections which are to be held on
Feb. 26, are David Young, Nine
tenth Ward; Hans w. Pfeiffer,
Thirty sixth Ward and James Huff
man, Fourth Ward. Young and
Huffman are Negroes.
Among the candidates who were
barred are three who stood an ex-
cellent chance of election. They
are Russell Forbes, Thirty fourth
Ward; Brown Squire, Second Ward
and George RACE, Eighth Ward.
A writ OF mandamus has been
filed in the Illinois Supreme Court
to compel the reinstatement of the
candidates on the ballot, Mean
while an intensive write-in cam
paign will be conducted for Forbes
and RACE.
To Concentrate in One Ward
The workers campaign group will
concentrate it's regular Aldermanic
fight in the Twenty first Ward
where Martin Miskerik, workers
candidate, defeated challenges to his
place on the ballot.
A protest meeting is scheduled
for tonight in the Eighth Ward in
support of George RACES candidacy,
at the Knights of Pythias Hall,
9231 Cottage Grove Avenue.
All members of the Communist
Party, Young Communist League,
sympathetic organizations, and in
dividual workers have been urged to
report daily at the city election
campaign headquarters of the Com
munist Party, at 10f South Wells
Street or to their neighborhood
campaign headquarters for the COL
lection Of mayoralty nominating
signatures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Philadelphia Council
Mass Meeting Assails
Sales Taxation Scheme

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb 10. -
In carrying out the decisions Of their
fourth National convention which
was held month ago in Washing
ton, the Unemployment Council To-
cal at 346 Christian Street here took
up the campaign against the pro-
posed sales taxes, issued a neighbor=
hood IeafIet, called the workers to a
local meeting and recruited fifteen
new members into the Council local.
Immediately that Governor Earle
announced his proposed sale taxes,
the Council local issued their leaflet
exposing the governors point
program" as one intended to drive
the employed and the iobless into
deeper misery. Seventy workers
responded to the meeting.
A motion was passed with an
unanimous and thunderous yes to
protest to Governor Earle and to
demand that he takes steps TO bring
the Workers Bill before the State
Legislature. Of the fifteen new
members recruited into the Council
local, six are white workers and
nine are Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

| live in idleness and luxury.
They seriously maintain that by
dropping the racial designation
Negro. the Negro people can escape
or, at least, tighten their oppres-
sion. Simply let Negroes stop call
ing themselves Negroes, and presto
their bonds will be brokenl This is
their magic formula, their slavish
substitute for the acknowledgements
tionary liberation struggle.
This fantastic theory has pene-
trated deeply into the ranks of the
Negro masses. 1t has influenced
even some conscious Negro
workers. 1t has given rise to a
confused babel of proposed sub
stitutes for Negro" These range
from Afro-Americans, Ethiopians,
colored people, ETC., to the vague
designation of race citizens" race
men and women" advocated by the
Chicago Defender and used in its
columns to the exclusion of Negro"
At least one Negro paper has
adopted the still more vague des-
ignation, Our Group"
Outgrowth of Wrong Theory
This theory is the outgrowth of
another theory spun by Negro re-
formist leaders: that Negroes are
oppressed and prosecuted merely
because of the color of their skin.
In the same family is the reac-
myth tpeddled by DR.. Du-
Bots, Schuyler, etc. of a solid white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

a week.
The agreement as signed by Du-
binsky does not provide for any wage
increases or other improvements.
All such questions are left to be
arbitrated by certain Dr. Rubin
whose recommendations and pro-
posals are to be binding upon the
company and the workers. 1t
develops now that this DR.. Rubin
has for years been an adviser Of
the company,
The Prince Biederman company
is very much satisfied with the ar
rangement as its workers are kept
away from the more militant mem
bers of the IL.GWU. AS the A
F. of L. union has made an agree
ment that brings no advantage to
them, the workers will now be
easily convinced to drop 1t and
stick to the company union, the
company expects. The only change
for the workers is that they must
pay dues and assessments.
However. there is a strong likeli-
hood that the company and Du-
binsky will be disappointed as the
workers themselves may yet reject
it.
Manager Abe Katovsky, sensing
the sentiment of the union mem
bers against the Dubinsky betrayal,
thus far says that he is opposed to
it, and emphasize that 1t was ar
ranged over his head. He is giving
the impression that Dubinsky,
jealous of the progress made by the
local officials towards an agreement,
beat them to It," to get the
credit"
AS his own record is not so clean
on such matters, it remains to be
seen if Katovsky will actually fol-
low up his statements with action
at the next Joint Board meeting
when motion to reject the COM
psny union agreement will be put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
To be or not to be Negroes


Around this question, about as
aimless as that of which came
first, the chicken or the egg, GER
tain groups of upper class Negroes
are conducting widespread agita-
ton.
These people have spun the
theory that the oppression of the
Negro people arises out of the race
designation, Negro. 1t is this desig-
nation that degrades the Negro
people, they contend-not the con-
ditions imposed upon the Negroes
by the lynch rulers.
AS proof" of their contention
they point to the chauvinist dis
tortion of Negro into niger
term correctly Objectionable to the
Negro people and to the revolu-
tionary white and Negro workers.
They trace the contemptuous mig
ger" of the slave drivers to the
Latin word niger" (black) used by
Portuguese explorers of the 18th
century to designate the black
people of West Africa.
They Neglected
They neglect to tell us, however,
the source of "darkey," "coons."
Surely these terms did not derive
from niger" but were exclusively
the creation of the arrogant white
ruling class of the old slave empire
Of the South for the people whose
labor enabled them to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19


Board of the union.
The motion, which followed the
report on the settlement terms by
Abe Katovsky, local manager, was
however held in obeyance until the
next meeting of the board. Mean
while the sentiment is running
high against the arrangement made
by Dubinsky over the heads Of the
local officials, which is unprece-
denied in the history of the union.
Forced Negotiations
The union after many years Of
effort had succeeded in forcing the
Prince Biederman Company, which
employs 600 workers, to negotiate
with it. All the cutters, the key de-
partment in the shop, and others
had joined the union. The company,
seeing that its company union
faced destruction, appealed to Du-
binSky to save the situation for
them.
Disregarding the local Joint
Board, and without even waiting
for the arrival Of Manager Katov-
sky, who was on his way from New
York by plane, Dubinsky signed an
agreement, establishing the Prince
Biederman company union as a
separate local of the LL.G.W.U..
under the direct jurisdiction Of the
General Executive Board, to have
nothing to do with the Cleveland
Joint Board.
In handing the Prince Bieder-
man company union charter,
Dubinsky issued statement. de-
claring that as far as conditions
in the shop are concerned, the
union has no quarrel with the
company, and praised them as
ideal" 1t turns out that outside
of the cutting room, the conditions
Of the Prince Biederman workers
are worse than those of any union
shop. Wages in the companv's con-
tracing shops run as low as $1,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
To Be or Not To Be Negroes

| thereby hampering the national
revolutionary struggle for land
freedom, equality. They seek to hide
from the Negro people the truth
that they cannot achieve national
liberation without helping and de-
veloping the proletarian revolution,
Just as it is impossible for the rev.
dictionary white and Negro work
ers to overthrow American i'm
perialism without the direct sup
port of the Negro people.
These theories express the striv-
ings of the upper class Negroes for
a solution" of the National Cues
ton within the frame work of the
oppressive capitalist system-a So
luton" that would force the white
capitalists to concede them a great
er share in the jim-crow exploita-
ton of the Negro masses. Clearly
such a solution" would not meet
the basic needs of the Negro people
for land, bread, freedom. equality
The class interests of the upper
class Negroes Landlords. business
men, etc. are inextricably bound
up with the jim-crow capitalist
system. Unable to compete in the
open market with the white cap
italists, they can develop their en-
terprises only on the basis of the
Jim Grow isolation and segregation
Of the Negro masses.
Tomorrow: Bourgeois Racial
Theories)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Workers Bill
State Parley
Held inOregOn
Delegates Put Demands
Before Committee
of Legislature

SALEM, Ore, Feb. 18.-After a
four-hour session seventy-two
elected delegates from twenty-four
organizations at the Oregon Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance
Congress moved to the State Capitol
building to place its demands be-
fore the committee on unemploy-
ment. Workers from jobless groups.
A. F. Of L. locals and farmers and
veterans assembled at the Salem
Labor Temple to face the problems
daily confronting them and to or
ganize support for Oregon's Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill
as well as the National Workers
Bill, H. R. 1927.
Kenneth Fitzgerald, secretary of
the provisional committee which
called the Congress, made the key
note address, slashing into the fake
social security" measures being
bally-hooed by the New Deal.
Dirk de Jonge, whose appeal from
a seven year criminal syndicalism
sentence is pending, reported on
the National Unemployment and
Social Insurance Congress. Harry
Gross covered the legal phases of
the Oregon bill, while many Of the
phases of the need for unemploy-
ment and social insurance we're
covered by reports of delegates.
Moving to the committee chamber
at the State Capitol, the workers
carried their struggle for adequate
security before the legislative COM
mittee M. Holmes, delegate from
the Salem Painters Local, A. F. Of
L.. spoke in behalf of the rank and
file Of organized labor.
A permanent statewide Oregon
Committee for Social Security was
set up by the Congress, consisting
Of twenty members, representatives
Of unemployed groups. farmers, or
ganized labor and veterans, with
Major L. A. Miner as chairman,
and an executive committee Of
seven. Major Miner presided as
chairman of the Congress and at
the committee hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
BY CYRIL BRIGG S.

world unitedly aligned against the
Negro people, and the idea of a
mythical, existent "colored
race omprising all the darker
peoples (the pro-Japanese Pacific
Movement of the Eastern World,
which is also known in some sec
lions of the country as the Society
for the Development of Our Own
These false and reactionary the
cries clearly give objective aid and
support to the imperialist oppressors
of the Negro people. The object of
their creators is to head off the
rising resistance of the Negro
masses to jim-crow oppression and
to divert their indignation into re-
fornist channels harmless to the
enemy. Another purpose of these
theoreticians is to smash the soli-
darity of Negro and white workers
which, under the bold, correct lead
ership of the Communist Party is
developing in numer joint
struggles against their common OPP
pressors
Deny Class Struggle
These theories deny in effect the
class struggle by Jumping together
the opposing camps of the working
class and its exploiters, the ruling
class of bankers, industrialists and
rich landowners. They serve to
cover up the burning questions
the life and death struggles-con-
fronting the oppressed Negro people,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

'ment is high against proposed
Banana Insurance Bill. designed to
benefit the Jamaica Banana Pros
ducers' Association, which has
ruined the industry, at the expense
Of the small planters and the labor-
ers. At a meeting in St. Catherine,
one Of the sponsors Of the bill. T J.
CaTley, of the Banana Producers
Association. was pulled from the
platform by his Infatuated constitu-
ents. He was finally rescued by the
police.
Similar demonstrations have oc-
CURED in many parts Of the island.
At Lorrimers, Trelawney, police bru-
tally attacked a demonstration, read
the Riot Act and threatened to in
stitute martial law.
The action of the police has been
highly praised by the Jamaica
Cleaner" a conservative paper,
and by Marcus Carney, the latter
declaring: When 7 saw the stti-
tude Of the mob most of whom
were members of his own organiza-
ton, the U. N. I, A. I saw anew
the scenes Of the car riot. I could
see fixed bayonets and hear the
sound of shots"
This attempt to induce his follow
ers to crawl before the violence Of
the imperialists and their local
agents reflects clearly the complete
capitulation of this self-styled
leader" of the Negro liberation
struggle to the oppressors of the
Negro people.
With the rising militancy of the
toiling masses, Jamaica is getting
taste of left" denagogy from a
number of candidates who are try
ing to ride into office on the crest
of the mass discomfort. One of the
maneuvers of the "leftists" is pro-
posal for a minimum wage bill,
which, however, would apply only
to certain sections where discon-
tent with starvation wages is high
est. In those sections wages are as
low as nine pence (lS cents, U. s.
per day. One of the left" candi-
dates. challenged by workers on the
weakness Of the proposed bill. re-
piled vaguely that 1T would be q
lengthy bill and could not be gone
into then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Todd IsCiven
Prison Term

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. -
Louise Todd, Communist candidate
for supervisor in the last elections,
has been sentenced to one to fif-
teen years on each of three indict-
ments, the sentences to run con-
currently.
She is the first Communist to be
given a penitentiary sentence as an
outcome Of last summers strikes
and subsequent activity. Seven
other defendants will be tried later,
the cases based on a frame-up
charge alleging false afidavits in
connection with ballot petitions to
place the Communist Party on the
ballot. Circulators of petitions must
swear they saw each signature writ
ten. but it is a common practice to
let signers take petitions and secure
signatures. This is the first time
the technicality has ever been de-
clared a perjury.
The prosecution produced three
witnesses whose signatures were on
the petition for the Communist
Party. Two of these witnesses read
lily identified their own signatures
and said they knew they were sign
ing a petition to put the Communist
candidates on the ballot The third
witness said he thought he was
signing something else, but became
confused on the witness stand.
The International Labor Defense,
which defended Todd, has filed no
tice Of an appeal. Among the seven
others facing similar indictments, is
Anita Whitney, who polled 100,820
votes as candidate for State Con-
troller last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Militant Worker Dies
In Austin, Minnesota

AUSTIN. MINI, Feb. he. B.
Ford, 7s, former Communist candi-
date for Congress in the third dis
trict of Minnesota. has died here.
Arrested 38 times for his activity
in behalf of the working class, he
was indicted five times and served
one and a half years along, with his
wife, in prison for his snti-war ac-
tivities during the world slaughter.
Though Ford published Socialist
paper the Referendum, he was a
devoted supporter of the Daily
Worker from its very inception.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Camden Labor
To Hold Rally
On Social Bill
Congressman WOlvertOn
Promises Endorsement
Under Pressure

CAMDEN, N. J., Feb. IA mass
meeting to enlist greater support
for the Workers Unemployment, Old
Age and Social Insurance Bill Oh. r.
2s27, will be held here tomorrow
night at o'clock at ZIG Federal
Street. Representatives from relig-
ious, fraternal, professional, unem-
ployed organizations and trade
unions will speak
The local action committee for
unemployment insurance, which is
arranging the mass meeting, is
planning a delegated conference on
March 10. This conference has al
ready received the endorsement Of
Charles Hollspeter, president Of the
Central Labor Union Of Camden;
Matthew Jackson. member Of the
Trustee Board of the Colored Elks,
Rev. Culbert G. Ruttenber of the
Linden Baptist Church, and Frank
j. Hartmen, of the Civic Associa-
ton of Camden.
A conference was held last week
between the local action committee
representing many labor groups and
Congressman Wolverton of the First
Congressional District.
Congressman Wolverton stated
that he considers the Roosevelt
measure, the Wagner Lewis bill, to-
tally inadequate, and that the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, H. r. 1927, is the only measure
that provides genuine unemploy-
ment insurance. He said, under
pressure, that he would support the
Workers Bill if it is fsvorsbly voted
out Of committee and onto the f1ooi
of Congress, or If necessary, he viii
sign a petition to bring it out Of
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Newly Started Union
May Close Factories
In Biddeford, Maine

BIDDEFORD, Me. Feb. 18. -
Members Of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, here have
voted unanimously to strike. The
High Shoe Company employees are
already on strike. The Saco-Mar-
conson Company has announced its
readiness to settle with the union.
The Castle Shoe Company is ex-
pected to strike tomorrow.
This is a newly organized center.
The spirit of the workers Is high.