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The Washington times., 1930-01-04
THE OFFICIAL WEATHER

Fair and somewhat colder, with lowest
temperature about 26 degrees tonight;
Sunday fair and warmer; diminishing
northwest winds, becoming sOutherly
and increasing Sunday. Temperature
esterday-Highest, So: lowest, 3S.
High tides today: 1850 .. M; 4;21 p. m.
Full weather report on page 2S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
Washington Ticker
BY CLINTON COFFIN,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

Accommodating data on the national
business situation is giving officials and
industrial leaders more ground for main
tenance of their conviction that the
country has escaped successfully the
sort of industrial depression which has
been sequel to most of the stock mar
ket collapses of the kind experienced
last Autumn. Particularly does 1t seem
to those most anxiously observant OF
the matter that the Winter is passing
over without what can be termed a
seriously distressing degree OF unem-
ployment.
1T does seem that the Nation is
emerging from the threat OF business
difficulty which was faced month or
so back" Secretary of Commerce La
mont remarked in reviewing some OF the
reports reachin- him. I'VE may have
some emergency to face even yet. but
it appears to be fact that already two
or three of the pivotal industries most
and first affected are beginning to re-
build working forces.
Thus, Roy d. Chaplin of the Hudson
Co. writes me that the automobile plants
generally are taking on more men, that
their extreme low point of operation was
probably experienced during December,
and that output is likely to run q little
higher as the season advances. 1t is
agreed throughout the industry that
production is going to be matched more
closely to actual sales of cars than ever
before, but, in spite of the determine
ton of the makers to turn out no ma
chimes unless a market can be found,
output is increasing.
Even more stimulating is the con-
dition reported from the rubber indus
try. Tire makers tell us that their
crisis passed during relatively early
months last year, and that in recent
weeks surplus of tires has been grad
ually reduced by dealers and branches.
The result of this is perceptible trend
toward calling back working forces in
Akron and other rubber centerS.
Possibly by February or March the
institution of building campaigns in in
dustry, transportation and public affairs
will clear up the whole situation as to
unemployment. We have high hopes
of that"
Supplementing Secretary Lamont's
comment is a telegraphed report from
Matthew S. Sloan, head of the National
Electric Light Association, to Julius H.
Barnes, chairman Of the national buSi-
ness survey conference called by Presi-
dent Hoover last month, as to electric
energy consumption in the United
States. Indications are that electrical
current requirements of the country
| are continuing to increase.
For November " tabulations show
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
STOCKS IRREGULAR,
BUT TRADING GAINS
Market Readily Responds to
Better Financial News
Soft Spots Appear.
BY STANLEY w. PRENOSIL,
Associated Press Financial Editor.

NEW YORK, January 22-Bullish
sentiment was more pronounced in TO-
days stock market, although there were
enough soft spots scattered throughout
the list to give it the appearance of
1rregularity Extreme gains of / tn
10 points established in the morning
trading were fairly we'll maintained.
with trading showing a moderate in
crease in volume.
Business news had a more cheerful
tinge. Reports of further upturn in
steel mill activity and a reduction in
unemployment were buttressed by some
good 1929 earnings statements.
Freight car loadings in the week
ended January IL, showed a substan-
tial increase above the week before
but were below those of the correspond
ing week last year, and the lowest of
any similar period since 1922. The
loss, however, was entirely in the ship
menC OF grain and grain products, all
other commodities showing a gain.
Iron Age estimated that the two
leading producers we're operating at 70
per cent of capacity. with the average
rate for the country around 81 per
cent. 1t states that the week has
brought the steel industry a further
gain in both demand and production
but. points out that Improvement in
business Is not spectacular"
Farm implement manufacturers re-
Sponded to reports that leading manu-
facturers were increasing their require
ments OF steel. j. I. Case ran up 10
points and Advance Rumely common
and preferred, International Harvester
and Oliver Farm Equipment sold 2 to
312 points higher.
Chain store and merchandising issues
attracted good following, Spiegel May
Stern advancing nearly points, r. H.
Macy 4, and Montgomery, Ward, United
stores and Schultz common 2 points or
points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
R0SSLYN STEEL FIRM
HAS ANNUAL MEETING

At the annual meeting of the Rosslyn
Steel 81 Cement Co., the following
directors were elected: p. r. Bailey.
Ralph. A. Drain, c., Emory Galliher, G.
H. Galliher, w. G. Galliher, w. G.
Kiesler Arthur j. Linn and Malcolm S.
McConihe.
after the stockholders meeting and
elected the following officers Ralph A.
Drain, president; p. r. Bailey, vice
president; w. G. Galliher, treasurer.
Arthur j. Linn. secretary.
The stock and bonds of this company
are widely held in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22

that there was 6.3 per cent gain in
electric current consumption over the
same month last year." Mr.. Sloan's
message said. For December the cur
rent output consumed was per cent
greater than that Of the same month
last year, while for the first two weeks
In January the consumption is running
ahead of that during the same period
OF 1929 in spite Of some industrial re-
cession. 1t appears that the estimate
OF $865,00O,0 900 to be expended on new
construction this year by electrical
utilities, which was furnished President
Hoover last month, will actually be
exceeded"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22

Ontario, announced that two official
representatives of the Ontario govern
ment will leave for New York City soon
to study methods of trading in stocks
and securities in the Wall street stock
and curb markets The government
observers, Price said, will bring back
recommendations for improvements in
Ontario trading that will be incor-
porated In bill to be presented to the
Ontario Legislature at its next session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance
announced today as of close of business
January 20 was $1O4,576, 71o.s6. Gus
toms receipts for the month to date
were $25, 179, $3.50. Total ordinary ex-
penditures, $8,953, 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22

ing OF the Amert-
can Security di-
rectors, following
the annual meet
ing of the stock
holders, these Of
hcers W ere re-
elected.
Corcoran Thorn,
president; B. F.
Saul and Howard
Moran, vice presi-
dents: Frederick P.
H. Siddons, secre-
tary; Charles E.
Howe, treasurer;
David N. Houston,
trust officer: Will
liam L. Beale, real
estate officer; j.
-"Js
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
APPLE SHIPMENTS HEAVY

There were 1886 carloads of apples
shipped from Virginia in the five
months ended November 80, 1929, ac-
cording to the Department of Agricul-
ture. Greater part of the fruit was for
export.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22

Will Study Trading Methods.
TORONTO, Ontario, January %
CIV. H. Price, attorney general of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
Sales Of Stocks on New York Exc

AV.s0 SU6SOO 1900 Noon. 1875, 700
A.oV @NA'''''' 1'o1S'oOO 2:1O PM i, 799, 800
rates as given in the above
latest
OF trading than
yssr IN SGx Passss IL scrip 90
SrSs IN casn or stock Plus l0 in STOCK
eass in stock So in STOCK AiuS >" In sock mFus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
Trading on d. C. Exchange.

Trading was moderate on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange today. Ten
shares of Riggs National Bank stock
sold at SIS and Is shares of CONNER
cial National at 245. Capital Traction
sold to the extent of five shares at SO.
Ten shares of Merchants Transfer &
Storage preferred came out at 1907,
and Peoples Drug moved at recent
levels. Bonds were in fair demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
THREE D. c. BANKS /.
ELECT OFFICERS
Revival of Market Activity
Forecast by Fisher in
Gotham Statement.
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Three local banks, American Security
& Trust. North Capitol Savings and
Chevy Chase Savings, organized for
the year late yesterday At the meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
Our March 9Th Was as Militant
as Any

HOUSTON, Texas. = The Daily Worker
stated that we applied for permit at the City
Hall for the demonstration of unemployed
which we held here on March 6. This is not
correct. We did not apply for permit. We
had crowd of over 1000 workers The police
stopped us from speaking and dragged me into
the City Hall.
The crowd howled protest and demanded
that we be allowed to speak. The MAYOR then
ordered the cops to put me back on the steps
and let me speak. When | got through speak
ing the police ordered me to dispense the crowd
This l refused to do.
Our demonstration was just as militant as
any in the country, and if they had not let me
speak there would have been the biggest riot
and the cops would have gotten the worst of it,
too.
The general sentiment was with us, and the
crowd was ready to fight. The Mayor and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
BY TOM JOHNSON.

Under pressure Of the growing crisis and the
SITTER competition coincident to it, the giants
of the steel industry are again turning their
eyes to the South
Republic Steel of Youngstown is the latest
to announce an expansion program in The
South. Republic already has controlling in
terest in Gulf States Steel whose main mill
IS located in Birmingham, and which is now
completing a new plate mill in Gadsden, Ala
bama. Now it is reported that Republic is
negotiating for the purchase Of the Woodward
Iron Co. at Birmingham.
One does not have to look far to find the
reason for this migration to the South par
ticularly in a time of crisis when price cut
ting is the order of the day. 1t is to be found
in these figures:
In 1927, the last year for which govern
ment statistics were available the years
wage of the average steel worker in the
Birmingham district was S932-some S175
under the national average For the state
of Alabama as whole average wages in the
manufacturing industries of the state in 1927
reached the unbelievably low level of $685.
for a years toll.
This was two years ago Since that time
wage cuts in the steel industry have become
common place. Today the going rate for Ne
gro labor in the Woodward mills, on which Re-
public casts an envious eye, is "a cents an
hour In other mills single men are paid %
cents while the generous" company pays mar
ried men 30 cents. In all mills wage rates for
Negro workers range from A to cents per
hour under the rate paid the white workers.
Along with these starvation wage rates the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24

L. U. Council.
Besides the workers correspondence call, it
would be highly desirable were we to organ
ize the exchange of materials dealing with the
preparations for the Fifth Congress between
the various publications, and the different en-
terprises in the given country, and also be-
tween the factory papers being issued in the
capitalist countries and the U.S.S.R and es-
pecially between those factories that concluded
agreements on the International Revolutionary
Competition.
The preparatory campaign for the Fifth
RIL.U. Congress should be utilized to review
all our revolutionary trade union publications.
The revolutionary press should not only be a
powerful engine to promote propaganda of our
principles and the practice of the revolutionary
trade union movement but should serve as
means of coordinating all our activities. The
review of our papers should form an integral
. part of the preparatory campaign for the
Fifth r. l. l.. U. Congress.
The campaign should not only aim at ascer-
tanning how far the revolutionary trade union
publications have succeeded in popularizng
and giving publicity to the decisions of the
Fourth R.l.L.U. Congress and the Strassburg
international Conference, drawing attention
simultaneously to the principal drectives of
the R.IL.U, but should endeavor to ascertain
how far the papers have been reflectng the
growing activity of the workers at large and
the new rise of the revolutionary wave whether
the revolutionary papers took up in timely
fashion the various political and practical ques-
tons, how far they served as the mouthpiece
OF the masses and means of encouraging
proletarian criticism and self-criticism in the
revolutionary trade union movement
This review of our press must also ascer-
tain how far our papers have really been
answering and meeting the needs of the broad
masses. 1t should be the starting point to
overhaul radically and seriously all the work
OF our revolutionary trade union papers, in
creasing their circulation among the masses,
turning them into militant weapons to pro-
mote the political and class education of the
workers, to organize and mobilize them for the
struggles ahead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
BY JORGE PAZ.
part H.

EVE HUNDRED years were necessary, and
perhaps more, for the men of occidental
culture which in its superlative form Is capl-
tast culture, to take note that there have
existed, far beyond the columns of Hercules
and the Hellenic archipelago, thousands OF
years before, other civilizations not inferior
to that of ancient Greece, but on the con-
trary of superior type-if we may draw any
comparison In the telluric resources IN which
the Indians lived they rooted their civiliza-
ton, which the feudal invasion of the con-
querors came to destroy with their harque-
buses and cataputs.
Four centuries the whites conquerors fought,
motivated by greed and infected by
hatred, to overturn the primitive institutions
of the Indians And though we may give it
little thought, we see that they attained their
object. The sad and disrupted story of Latin
America is the tragedy of this struggle.
The Spaniards invented new means. To
the invaders, and according to their social
positions, were given the communal lands, ac-
cording to the orders of the king of the i'm
perialist metropolis, whose notions of just
what the Indians were, were most vague. To
Herman Cortez in Mexico, was given by royal
order: GAIL lands are thine until where vision
ends"
Cortez climbed to the top of tree and his
vision reached the horizon. There he went,
where his vision reached and again climbed
tree. Thus one of the grandest valleys of the
world, the Valley of Oaxaca, became his. In
Peru, Almargo and Pizarro did the same. Thus
were born the great lati-fundsts and feudal
senores in Latin America: adventures and
captains. 9..
Besides the lands until where vision ends"
"a measure originating in the illiteracy of
feudal SPAIN, these adventurers were given,
or took, since these people asked or took
ders from the Council of "savages" residing
at the court of Seville, Indian slaves in suf-
ficient number for the exploitation of the
land. Thus was born the slavery of the
Indian.
The officers of the army had the right to
two until where vision ends" that is, to climb
trees twice to find the horizon. The cavalry
soldiers had right to 10 "caballerias," equva-
lent to 1893 acres; the infantry soldiers had "a
right to 'peonia." To this repartiton of
the land was added the robbery and sharing
up of animals of all kinds, and the gold of the
temples and the ornaments of the Indians.
Booty was the one thing in mind. 1t is said
that the poorest mouse makes hole in
the cheese. But the natives remained to be
dealt with.
The Spaniarls were obliged to yield land to
the natives. The Indians fled to the noun
tains and rejected the new civilization. In the
mountains they fought. The Spaniards needed
people. No other immigrants came than ad-
venturers, soldiers and criminals. They were
not sufficient to work the lands of the feudal
warlord who making fortune to enjoy
it later in the metropolis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
Steel Turns South

big companies force the workers to pay exor-
bitant rent for filthy little shacks one cannot
dignity by calling houses, and insist on the
worker spending at least fixed portion of his
pay at the company commisary. Prices in these
pluck me" company stores can be we'll
imagined
As wages go down hours are heightened and
the speed-up is increased. The 8-hour day, won
by thousands of steel workers in this district
as result of the 1919 strike, is thing of
the past. 10, II and even longer hours are the
order of the day now. Production per worker
mounts steadily-and mainly at the expense of
the hard driven workers and not thru use of
improved technical processes. In the manu-
facture of cast iron pipe in this district the
value added by manufacture increased 429 per
cent in the past 10 years while the number of
workers which produced this added value grew
only SO per cent. Many similar examples
could be cited
In the face of these attacks the southern
steel worker has but one recourse-organiza-
ton and struggle Already the Trade Union
Unity League and the Metal Workers Indus
trial League are gaining a substantial foot
hold in this open shoppers paradise The
dream of the steel magnates of unlimite ex-
ploitation of docile working class in the
Sunny Southland will be shattered by the shock
OF approaching class conflicts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
For Defense OF the Soviet Union

of the grating, hypocritical U. S. imperialism
and its priestly Socialists" and trade union
lackeys.
These oppressors of the workers, these char
latans in priestly robes and rabbi caps, these
traitors to the working class are carrying out
their preparations eor a military attack against
the U.S.S.R, under the guise of the struggle
for freedom, civilization and morality" In
their own land these parasites have thrown into
the streets 100000 workers, leaving them the
freedom to die from hunger.
In their own land these defenders of 'civil-
ization" are beating, arrestng and shooting
the unemployed who demand Work or Wages.
In their own land these defenders of morality"
are brutally exploiting women and children,
lynching Negroes and are booming the workers
to hunger, sickness, degeneration and DEATH
We unanimously declare that we will under
the guidance of the Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade unions, affiliated with the
T.U.U.L. fight against class oppressors and
the entire despicable capitalist system and for
the establishment Of the government of the
toers, the Soviets of Workers and Farmers,
IN the United States.
We demand Work or Bread social insurance
against unemployment to be covered by taxa
ton Of the capitalists and controlled by the
workers themselves.
We demand the lmnled ate liberation OF all
the working class fighters who are languish-
ing in Jail only because they have fought for
the working class.
We appeal to all workers to strengthen the
Communist Party, the revolutionary trade
unions and to struggle in an organized manner
against the speed-up, for increase in wages.
We demand complete equality for our BROTH
ers, the Negro workers and farmers and the
right of self-determination for them and the
colonies of American Imperialism, Haiti, the
Philippines and Others
We protest against the persecution of the
foreign-born workers, against the new attempt
of the capitalist oppressors to smash the unity
of the workers by means of racial, religious
and nationalist prejudices and hate
We demand the cessation of deportations, the
abolition of the criminal syndicast laws and
we will fight against the attempts to intro
duce exceptional laws against the foreign-born
workers.
We will build the revolutionary trade unions
and will fight for the seven-hour day and for
the increase in wages.
We promise to use every effort for the pre-
paration of the National Conference of the
Unemployed which is being called by the Trade
Union Unity League and the Councils Of the
Unemployed for March 20. ----..-,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24

A meeting called By the Russian Peoples
Mutual Aid Society in the cities of Lowell,
Lynn and Maynard, at (which comrade Boris,
editor of Novy MIR spoke, the folloaoing reSo-
luton aoas unanimously adopted by the as
sembled Russian, Lithuanian and Polish
qOorkerS. A similar resolution q0as also
adopted fetO days before at meeting of
the PdsSdic Workers.
Resolution of protest against the crusade
of the world imperialists and clergy against
the Soviet Union.
We, workers of Maynard, Lowell and Lynn,
in mass meeting assembled for the purpose of
protesting against the crusade of the imperial
ist robbers and the obscurantst clergy against
the Soviet Union, are sending our flaming
greetings to the toiling masses of the Soviet
Union and declare that our proletarian hearts
are beating with pride for the conquests of the
October Revolution and the great accomplish
ments of socialist construction of our father
land. We pledge to defend these great con-
quests and accomplishments to the last drop
of blood.
We express our deep indignation and anger
at the mean SANDER and persecution of our free
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics on the part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24
T>ATIN-AMERICAN INDIANS
AND THE PEASANT PROBLEM

I'm the first part of these t0o articles,
the ancient land tenure of the inca and
Aztec Indian Civilizations a0ere dealt a0lth,
and their conquest by the Ssdnidrds, the
surUiuaIs an land tenure Of the feuddt con-
querors being sho1vn as still existing m the
present feudaI economy of Latin America
acith its enslGvement of the Indians.-Edl-
tor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24

the police knew this. The Daily Worker gave
us very poor write-up, and did not publish
the facts.
Never before has anyone got up at mass
meeting and demanded complete racial equality
the overthrow of the capitalist government and
recognition of the Soviet Union, in this "Ione
Star State" of Texas. Comrade Minor will
tell you this if you ask him.
| wish you would tell the Daily Worker to
correct this mistake and write the truth about
our demonstration. I never was yellow dog
and ! never will be one, and protest against
our paper, the Daily Worker, putting in such
crappy article. The article implied that we
soft-pcddled the issue. This is not so, and we
want this corrected.
Fraternally,
j. S. Moran.
Editors Note:--The Daily Worker is only too
glad to give Comrade Morgan's correction,
pointing out that the only information it had
was from capitalist press dispatches, and draw
ing the attention of all comrades engaged in
such activities that it is their duty to inform
the Daily Worker themselves, since we can not
get the facts by clairvoyance or mental tele-
pathy, and without cooperation from our own
comrades are forced to rely, willy-nily on I'M
reliable reports of capitalist press news agen-
ces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-24

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hundred Proletarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!