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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
COTTON RETAINS
 STEADER TONE
Market Advances On In creased Spot Demand
 In The South

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The steadier tone of the cotton market yesterday was more pronounced today, owing to reports of increasing spot demand in the south and continued trade buying in futures. March contracts sold up to 23.75 or 52 points net higher, an ad- vance of seventy points from the recent low level. That delivery closed at 23.66 with the general market closing steady at net advances, of 27 to 45 points.
 The market opened firm at an ad- vance of Il to 20 points on relatively firm cables and favorable overnight spot advances. Selling on the early bulge followed reports that private re- turns indicated domestic mill consump- tion of only 500000 bales for November, compared with 532,000 the previous month, and complaint of continued slow demand for cotton goods in the domes- tic markets. Offerings were absorbed, however, on moderate setbacks, part of the buying being attributed to the trade, and prices firmed up in the aft ernoon on continued bullish reports from the spot markets and large ex- ports. December advanced to 23.26, while January sold up to 23.36 and May to 2412, or 51 to 52 points net higher. The close was within 6 or 12 points of the best.
 Several private cables were received from Liverpool reporting a better tone in that market and the advance here was probably encouraged by the higher market for Egyptian cotton abroad. Brokers with Wall Street connections were among the afternoon buyers, ,appar- ently influenced by better tone in the stock market. There also was some bullish comment on the weekend fig ure showing an increase of only 73,S67 bales in the worlds visible supply of American cotton, compared with Q gain of 207,354 the previous week.
 Exports for the day were 81,004 mak- ing 3,679,110 so far this season. Port receipts 74,944. U. s. port stocks 1,545,- $50.
 NEW YORK COTTON
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SUGAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The raw su- gar market was weaker today. Spot Cuba was quoted nominally at $5.40 duty paid, second half December ship ment at $5.02 and January at $4.77 to $4.93. There were sales of 10000 bags Cuban for clearance on December IT and 1S000 for January shipment.
 Little activity occurred in raw sugar futures. While December and January weer lower under continued liquidation and hedge selling, later months ad- vanced on covering and commission house buying. Final prices were six points lower to net higher. Decem- Der closed 583; March 293; May 3O1 i; July 311.
 Trading in refined sugar continued light, with prices unchanged at 715 to 760 for fine granulated.
 Refined futures were nominal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
COFFEE FUTURES

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Coffee futures opened today at an advance of 26 points on January but generally 10 to 30 points lower owing to rumors of a slightly easier cost and freight situa- tion. March sold off to $17.90 but ral- lied to $1S.62 on firmer late cables from Brazil and closed at $1S.55.
 The general market closed at net ad- vances of 25 to 50 points. Sales were estimated at 56,O00. closing quotations:
 December $19.5S; January $19.25; March $1S.55; May $17.S0; July $17.3O; September $16.70.
 Spot coffee quiet; Rio Is 21Ac@21A; Santos As 26c to 26ia. Cost and freighe offers included part bourbon 3s and 5s at $24.74 to $25.75.
 Rio exchange on London 1-32 pence higher; dollar buying rate 11O reis higher. Closing cables from Rio were 50 to 100 reis higher and Santos 300 to to HOO higher. Brazilian port receipts 50.000 Jundiahy receipts 19,OO0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
FOREIGN ExCuANcE

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Foreign ex- changes quiet. Quotations in cents: Great Britain demand $4.6S5s; cables $4.6SH; 60 day bills on banks $4.65I.
 France demand 5.34; cables 5.34h. Italy 6.30k;, 6.31. Belgium 4.921s; 4.93. Germany 23S1. Holland 4O.21. Norway 15.11. Sweden 26.93. Denmark 17.56. Switzerland 19.S6. Spain 14.1S. Greece 1.S2 Poland 1874. Czecho Slovakia 3.02h. Jugo-Slavia 1.5O. Austria .O04A, Rumania .52. Argentina 3S.62. Brazil 11.5O. Tokio 3Sh. Montreal 99 15-32.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
VEGETABLES


 CHICAGO, Dec. 12-Beans recepts very light, few sales yesterday of Flor ida hampers green $S.00@850. Cucumbers receipts very light. Flor ida hampers No. Is few sales, fair con- dition $5.50@6.0O.
 Egg plant Florida crates $350@4.00. Kumquats Florida crates 12@15c per quart; poorer 7c to 10 per quart. Peppers Florida crates green best $6.0OQ6.5O.
 Sweet potatoes Tennessee hampers Nancy Halls $2.25@2.50. Tomatoes Texas and Florida repacked sixes fancy $500, choice 700.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
POT NFAREET

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Potatoes trading slow market dull, receipts 60 cars. total United States shipments 473, Minnesota sacked round whites ordinary to good 90cQ$L00; mostly 9O%95c; poor s5: sacked Red River Ohios few sales s1 10 @O1.15; Wisconsin sacked round whites fair to good 90c@$1.0O; fancy shade higher, poor s5; Idaho sacked russets mostly $1.75@$2OO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
COTTON LETTERS

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 12.-Trade were principal buyers during first half hour, then shorts began cover and there was large buying by Shearson Brokers supposed to be for long account fore ing March over 23.50. The buying in the afternoon making the highs for the day looked to be further covering and local professional buying based on the rallying power of the market. Offer ings for the day were scattered and in ] cluded considerable southern selling. There was no apparent increase of con- { sequence in general outside business ! Reports of a good demand for export in Texas and exports of $1,000 bales for the day helped the afternoon bulge. The rally is regarded as correcting market that became oversold to the trade. Fundamentals appear sound and purchases on reactions seem advisable. . John F. Clark & Go.
 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-The mar ket was decidedly more active at higher prices today due to encouraging trade 1. advices from Liverpool, large exports and big spinner talSings for the week. The falling off in the movement to market compared with last week con- 2 tributed to the upward movement in values. The weeks in sight 553,000 Vs. 645,000 last week and 433, GOO last year. Private estimates as to November con ] sumption in the United States range from 500000 to 51O,00O bales vs. 533 ,00O. November was short month, three hol- idays and Sundays against two hol- idays and four Sundays last year.
 Exports from the United States now e22,000 bales larger than to even date last year and will likely soon be one million in excess of year ago. Advices from interior denote some improvement in the demand today for spots with offerings light and inquiry better. For the present market seems to be pur- chase, especially on depressions.-H. and B. Beer.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-LiverpooI was better than due this morning, Manches- ter reporting good trade and tendency to fix prices before the holidays Do- mestic business is not brisk at the mo- ment, owing to the holiday Hull in whole sale transactions, so that is not a fac tor in the market at the moment On the other hand, it is reported in the south that December commitments are larger than had been supposed lead ing to firm basis on spots. Exports today were very large and attracted some attention. The total exports for the season, are strikingly larger than last year and this is a better criterion of the movement abroad. The into sight figures of this week are 54oOOO against 676,00O last week and 367 OOO last year. The spinners takings are 467,000 against 4S3,0O0 last week and 319,000 last year. It is obvious that cotton Is still moving easily into con- sumption. Liverpool futures are due tomorrow. January 12.99. March 13.O6
 Hubbard Brothers and Co.
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 FLAX MARKET
 DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 12.-Close flax December 2s4A; January 2S6; May 2.s9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
HUBBARD BROS. & CO.

Members New York Cotton Exchanre. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Nov Members Liverpool Cotton Association, Orders solicited for the purchase and future delivery. Special consignment of spot cotton for delivery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12-Spot cot ton steady 45 points up. Sales on the spot 556 bales; to arrive 127S. Low middling 2210; middling 23.6O; good middling 24.1O. Receipts 9,620; stock 418,142.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
CHICAGO COTTON.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Cotton today was strong and closed 43 to 51 points higher trade more general. Commission houses and shorts competed for light offerings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK, Dec. l2.-Following todays high. low and closing prices of bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. and the total sales of each bond:
 United States government bonds in dollars and thirty seconds of dollars).
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
FOREIGN OIL
FLOTR MARKET

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 12.-Flour un- changed; to soc higher; family patents SS.S0d8.95 a barrel.
 Shipments 38,173 barrels.
 Bran $30.O0431.O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SPOT COTTON
SPOT COTTON NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Cotton spot steady, middling 23.70.
 LIVERPOOL. C0TTnN

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12-Cotton spot quiet; prices steady. Strictly good mid ding 1891; good middling 1856; strict ly middling 13.36; middling 1911; strict ly low middling 12.s1; low middling 12.41; strictly good ordinary 1201 good rodniray 11.41. Sales 4,OOO bales, in- cluding 3,4O0 American. Receipts 69,- OO00 bales including 55O0O- American. Futures closed very steady. December 12.9O; January 12.92; March 1298; May 13.05; July 1904; October 12.64.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
NEW YORK CURB

Total sales of bonds $1.156.0 900. NEW YORK. Dec. 12.-Following is the official list of transactions on the New York Curb EK change. giving all stocks and bonds traded in:
 INDUSTRiALS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Live poulSy firm; by express chickens 22c625; broil- CTS 35c; fowls, Leghorn 17cG20; do col ored unquoted; turkeys unqouted. No sales of freight arrivals owing to the embargo.
 Dressed poultry steady; prices un- changed.
 Butter firm; receipts 9,s75; creamery higher than extras 45c@4512; creamery extras (92 score) 441Ac; do firsts (SS to 91 score) 38c@43k.
 Eggs firm; receipts s,ss7. Fresh gath cred, extra firsts, 61cQ6S; do firsts 56c @60; nearby and nearby western hen nery whites, firsts to average extras 60c@72; Pacific coast whites extras 65c Q67; do firsts to extra firsts 6Oc@64
 Cheest firm; receipts 5O,742. State, whole milk, falts fresh average run 22c; state, whole milk, flats, held, fancy to fancy specials 23hc@24h.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
POULTRY AND PRODUCE

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Poultry alive lower, fowls, 15c@1sk; springs 2Ohc@ 21; roosters 14kc; turkeys 26 geese IT; ducks IT.
 standards 39c; extra firsts, Ssc@4O: firsts 35c@36h seconds 31c@33.
 Eggs unsettled, receipts 1,713 cases: firsts, 50c@56; ordinary firsts, 35c0 40; refrigerator extras 36hc@37A; firsts. 34hcQ251z.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
sraNDARD oIls

500 Anglo American oil ...... l7& 175 1Ih 300 Atlantic Iobos ........... 24a 25 2's 300 Humble oil CT. dix. .... s9 Ssh 9s
 42O Imperial oil, Canada ll01s lC915 ld0 49OO International Pet 22ss 2lss 22s 100 ohio oil ............... .6lH 6iH slH
 70 Prairie Pine Line .1O5'a lO4's lO5h
 20 southern Pipe Line ...... s5 s5 S5
 100 South Penn Oil ..........l29 l29 l2s zoo Standard oil of Kansas. 35Ia a5 s5
 200 Std oil of Ky. ex. div. ..l1s ll7h 1ls 1900 Standard oil or N. Y,.... 42h AZ AZ
 SO Standard oil of Ohio pfd I16iA ll5k 1l6h
 30 Swan X Finch oil Corp... 23h 23i1 23,s 17OO Vacuum oil ....,......... 1SH .SIs ..S,Is .oo,n 100 Prairie o. & G. w.L...... 49h 49h 49h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
HORSES 4

HORSES AND MULES EAST ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12-Horses and mules steady. Quotations un- changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
PORT MOVFMENT
INTERIOR MOVEMENT.

IUEaI Iouay ..I t60I4 II0I4T 3S5S I54572I Receipts-Week. S47 .25S; season, 5,457,I74- Exports-Week. 245.lS9; seacon. S.622957
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

FLAX MARKET DULUTH, Minn., Dec 12.-Close flax December 2s4A; January 2S6; May 2.S9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

NEW YORK COTTON. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Cotton futures closed steady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
Killing the Steel Workers

The story of the killing of several workers by an
explosion in the steel mills of Gary, carried in the
DAILY WORKER yesterday and ignored by all
the capitalist papers, reveals terrible condition in
this domain of the Steel King. Workers lives are
considered of such little consequence that knowl-
edge of deaths is suppressed, records are kept,
even the coroner makes no pretence of knowing
how many men are killed, while his secretary re-
marks that, of course, many bodies are never even
recovered.
Enter offices of the Steel Trust, however, and
you will find that even the pencils used by the
clerks are carefully recorded, and signed requisi-
ton is required to get new one. But the life of
workers is cheap. They are of less account than
pencils which cost few cents to be replaced,
while workers replace themselves free of charge
AL of which is carefully kept secret from the
working class generally by the capitalist press and
the tools of the Steel Trust that occupy the govern
mental positions. Only because the workers now
have daily paper of their own do those outside
the steel mills begin to get inkling into the ter
rible conditions under which the steel workers
must labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
Getting Ones Moneys Worth

81 want to get my moneys WORTH" working
man was heard to say he bought capitalist
daily paper. "The DAILY WORKER only gives
6 pages for cents, while the Worlds Greatest
Bunkshooter gives 80 pages for 2 cents"
Of course one wants his moneys worth. Pennies
are scarce and must buy as much as possible. But
this poor worker was little off his nut when he
thought he was getting it. What he buying
was 80 pages of capitalist propaganda and adj
vertising, while what he wanted was reliable in
formation. The more pages he got the worse he
was cheated.
On the other hand, comparing news item for
news item, he would have found more netDs in the
working class paper, in pages, than IN the 80
pages of intellectual poison which he bought With
out considering the quality of the information
given which is of the most vital interest to an
awakened worker he would actually get more
nes0s from the poverty-stricken workers. paper.
When a man has so cents to buy dinner, he
doesn't invest it in fertilizer just because he
purchase 100 pounds of manure for the price of a
plate of ham and eggs. But when he buys CAPT
talist paper instead of The DAILY WORKER, be
cause "he wants to get his moneys worth" he is
doing that very thing. The DAILY WORKER is
intellectual food for the working class, while the
capitalist dailies are intellectual dung prepared
to poison the workers and make them better slaves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
That Industrial Registration

Perhaps there are still few members of the
Workers Party who do not understand the i'm
portance of the industrial registration now being
taken. If so, they should read the article in yes
terdays paper by J. w. tombstone which rightly
characterizes the registration as ga step towards
real Communist Party" 1t is just that, and must
receive the careful attention and execution that
such a step demands.
Communist Party is something than
a mere eectioneering machinery, and it is also
something more than propaganda agency. 1t is
the supreme organ of the class struggle 1t is
fighting for the, elimination Of capitaistic ideas
from the minds of the workers, it is fighting for
the establishment of proletarian method of think
ing and working class ideas of how to act 1t is
struggling with the capitalist system for possession
of the minds of the working class. 1t is trying to
establish working class ideas as the leading force
in every struggle of the workers This requires
that the party shall mobilize it's forces where the
struggles of the workers are going on. This is
primarily in the shops and factories.
But the party strength cannot be organized in
the shops and factories, and in the unions, unless
there is complete registration of the members
upon that basis. The party must know where
each member works, what union he belongs to, and
how best he can be utilized in the larger scheme
of things That is what the industrial registra-
ton is for 1t is, indeed, ''frst step towards a
real Communist Party" Let every branch member
and officer make it his business that this registra
ton is carried out promptly and efficiently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12

Unity of the trade union movement of the world
is burning issue today. Four years ago the
leaders. of the reformist and reactionary unions,
supporting another in treachery in their as
ISOLATION called the Amsterdam international, were
cyncally dividing the labor movement of the world
and delivering it to the employers and imperial
lists. But the Red International of Labor Unions
was launched, in 1921, with a program of revolu-
tionary class struggle and the united front
United struggle against capitalism, the slogan
of the Red international since it's inception, has
taken a great hold upon the masses of workers
everywhere. 1t was the Red International which
pushed thru the Frankfort conference for fighting
against the Ruhr invasion, while all the reformist
officials kept silent 1t was the Red International
behind the united front with the Transport Work
ers international for struggle against war and
fascism that inspired the worlds workers until
it was sabotaged by the Amsterdam international.
And finally, it was this slogan of the united front
that brought about the formation Of a left wing
at the recent Vienna Congress Of the Amster-
damers, and forced them to make gesture toward
international unity by entering into negotiations
with the Russian trade unions.
The Russian trade unions placed the situation
before the Red International Congress, Just closed
in Moscow, and that body decided to again take
the initiative in striving for international unity
of the trade unions of the world The resolution
adopted calls for a world congress Of ALL
UNIONS, delegated the basis Of proportional
representation, which should reestablish living
unity in the labor movement disrupted by the
treachery of the old leadership and unite the
unions for worldwide struggle against capitalism.
Again a clear lead has been given to the working
class by the Red international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
Morgan Gains a Point

When Premier Herriot of France succeeded in
obtaining the approval for the French interpreta-
ton of the Dawes plan and returned to London to
continue negotiations, it meant that j. P. Morgan
had scored another point in his drive for world
hegemony One after another, the centers of re
sistance to the Morgan plan have been converted
into centers of cooperation, at least insofar as
public pronouncements are concerned Morgan is
marching ahead triumphantly. The argument Of
the American dollar carries great weight
1t is no surprise that Morgan has been able to
count from the first upon the British Labor Party,
the French Bloc des GGuches, and the German
Social Democracy, his very ablest assistants.
That Macdonald would become his chief lieutenant
was in the order of things political That the
French socialists should join hands with Ebert
and Scheidemann in approving the Dawes method
of enslaving the German workers was quite the
expected thing 1t only the logical continue
ton of their spineless servity before power real
power in the hands of capitalist money lords, and
their eagerness to lick the boots of the ruler of the
money world
More unexpected was the yielding of the jealous
nationalsm of the French, and the abandonment
of resistance by the German nationalists This is
to be accounted for from two main angles-fear
OF their own pr0letarlat, and promises from Nor
gan. In both France and Germany the COMMUNISTS
have been making phenomenal gains. The CAPT
talist and socialpatrotc parties sick with fear
of the awakening working class. Another great
struggle at this moment would hasten the revolu-
tionization of the workers. Therefore they have
distinct reason to find compromise if one is
humanity possible
The Dawes plan, furthermore, cleverly assures
the cooperation of the German capitalist class by
promising to load the reparation burdens upon the
workers. 1t gives them free hand to lengthen
hours, de-nationalize industry, and plumber the
German nation. The German nationalists sell out
their nation in return for junior partnership in
the firm of Morgan.
But all the while that Morgan presses his adj
vantages, and consolidates his position, he is I'M
consciously accentuatng the inherent contradic-
lions of the capitalist system. He is heaping
combustibles upon the European wreckage in
preparation for the great confagration that ap-
proaches swiftly and surely. The Dawes plan
averts a struggle at this moment by making a
greater and more disastrous one even more certain
in the near future. Nothing can prevent the
destruction of Europe today except proletarian
revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
Veteran Minus Leg
Plus Needle Habit:
Uncle Sam Drops Him

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1O.-Seven
years ago, when the United States
called for men to make the world safe
for democracy, James Buero respond
ed. He was a hale and husky youth.
A shell took his left leg off at Belleau
Wood, and in the months in hospitals
afterwards he was given morphine to
relieve the pain until at his discharge
he was a fully developed dope addict.
No attempt was made to cure him.
Now Buero, with his crutches, ia
in the San Francisco jail for 80 days,
going thru that dreadful ordeal known
as the kick-out cure for the dope
habit. This means simply suffering
the tortures of hell without drugs, and
then being thrown out Cured" with
$65 monthffr the government and
one leg. Buero is typical example
of what happened to hundreds of boys
who went to the war to end war-and
for whom there is no place except az
county Jail or an open gas jet in q
lodging house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
BY J. w. TOMBSTONE.
Assistant Secretary, Trade Union
Educational League.

THE AMALGAMATED CLOTHING
l WORKERS UNION is being put
to the test. 1t is passing thru its
most critical period. It's actions in
the coming months will determine, to
large degree, whether or not it is
going to mature into a real fighting
expression of the workers or sink
into the camp of the class collabora-
tors. That they are playing on the
border of the class struggle and class
collaboration is self evident, and the
next convention will undoubtedly
force the officialdom to abandon their
middle of the road policy with its
heavy leaning to the right, and either
travel the road of the class struggle
or sink into the mire of class collabo-
ration.
The A. G. w. U. is young organiza-
ton, a war baby" Like all new or
CARNATIONS, it gained it's strength thru
it's fighting ability to look after the
interests and better the conditions of
the workers it represented. 1t ex-
pressed its youth in the bold, deter
mined manner in which it met the
problems confronting it, 1t estab-
Iished itself firmly in the industry be-
cause the United Garment Workers
considered the life of labor organ
ization depended upon the goodwill
and cooperation of the employers.
OF late the A. G. W. U. administra-
ton has shown signs of weakness, of
hesitation, of Sinking the fight, when
determination and a clear policy was
needed. In New York City they sub
mitted peacefully to wage cuts and the
reduction of workers in certain factor
les. The employers, their appetites
whetted, Systematically took away
without struggle, some OF the condi-
lions gained by the union in former
battles.
The yielding to wage cuts without a
determined fight is always the fore
runner of another wage reduction.
This is the experience of labor organ