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38 years service to his credit. and he
could, of course, under the law, apply
for retirement upon the terminat ton of
his four year tour of duty as chief of
staff this coming November.
With respect to his probable successor
as chief OF staff, four names are being
discussed at this time, and as the end
of Gen. Summeral's tour approaches,
no doubt other names will be added to
the discussion. At this time, however,
four officers are outstanding in this
connection, three of whom are ma ior
generals and the fourth. a brigsIier
general. The major generals are Malin
Craig, commanding general of the
Panama Canal department: Johnson
Hagood. commanding general Of the 7th
Corps Area, Fort Omaha, Nebr, and
William Lassiter. commanding general
of the 9th Corps Area. Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Tex. The brigadier general Is
George Van Horn Moseley, who is on
duty in the Office of the Assistant Sec
rotary of War
With the appearance of Gen Hagood
in Washington last week, service dis
cussions particularly drifted toward the
selection OF the next chief of staff
After July l. all Army and Navy re-
Will LdkS ell6Cb OH LIle
day of the month following the month
IN which the retirement would other
wise be effective Officers will receive
full active duty pay and allowances for
the full month In which their retirement
occurs. retired pay status beginning on
the first day of the succeeding month
This uniform retirement date affects
Federal personnel of whatever class,
civil, military, naval, judicial, legisla-
tive, or otherwise.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department changing dates of retire.
ment of officers whose retirement
already had been announced. Last week
the retirement date of Col H. S.
Wagner. Infantry. announced as August
IA, was changed to August 81, and that
of Col c. H. Errington, F. D., from
September %, to September So.
Navy.
Bids will be opened on August IL for
the Nays new airplane carrier. the
eva, not more than SIG 600 900 having
been authorized for the construction Of
this new addition to the fleet An in
teresting point in this connection is that
1t Will be the first airplane carrier to
be originally designed and developed as
such. The three airplane carriers now
III GAlC pOooCoSiOIi Va lllc NdNy, IIle SN-l,
CV-2 and CV-3, otherwise known as the
Langley. Lexington and Saratoga, re-
spectively, were converted ships, the
Langley originally being the old collier
Jupiter, while the Lexington and Sara
toga were designed to be authorized
battle cruisers. Construction had begun
on these two ships, however. before it
was decided to convert them into
carriers.
Though the eva will cost less than
half as much as either the Lexington
or the Saratoga, it will be able to
accommodate as many planes as either
OF the larger ships. The new carrier
will be of the "flush-deck" type and will
have none Of the distractions so con-
Spicuous on the Lexington and Sara
toga. The eva will be able to develop
a speed OF 20 knots as compared with
SO knot capacity of the larger craft.
The prohibitive cost Of the Lexington
and Saratoga together with the great
size of the personnel tied up in one
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Army.
Considerable speculation is going on
in military circles as to the probable
successor of Gen. Charles p. Summerall,
chief of staff of the Army, who will
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n ST. Gabriels Church was the seen of
IAN attractive wedding June IL, when
Miss Cecilia Agnes Dieter, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Dieter. be-
came the bride of Mr.. Joseph B. Pillen,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Pillen. The
ceremony was performed at 5:45
O'Clock, the Rev. William j. Sweeney
ennciating.
Ths bride walked to the altar with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
The Tariff and World Market

The passage of the tariff will first of all
impose heavy burden upon the shoulders of
the American consumers-the working class
and the farmers. The capitalist press itself
recognizes that after the tariff will go into
effect it will cost the American consumers
over one billion dollars. In addition to that,
however, the tariff will also have very far
reaching political effects as far as capitalist
rivalry is concerned This was very well dem
onstrated in the tariff imposed upon French
laces, which called forth serious protest from
the French lace manufacturers In turn, how
ever, French automobile producers will increase
the import duty on American made cars from
20 to 80 per cent
The most significant development has, how
ever, been promulgated of new tariff sched-
ule in Australia. The economic crisis which
has sharpened appreciably in Australia in the
past several months has its basis in the slump
in the wheat wool and other markets and has
made it impossible for the Australian govern
ment to balance its budget Australian ex-
change slumped. In the new tariff import COM
modities have been divided into three groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
Cuban Fascist Terror

HAVANA, Cuba Esperanto Servo).- THE
fascist government of Cuba had driven under
ground the National Labor Confederation of
Cuba" and Labor Federation of Havana"
On March two protest meetings were at
tended by many workers. The meetings were
held in the morning and in the evening. The
one held in the evening was characteristic of
the fighting spirit of Cuban workers. The
ing but as a strike meeting of hatmakers.
meeting was not announced general meet
However, the workers nstictively felt that it
was a general protest meeting, because they
are devoted to their organizations
The speakers (organizers of the outlawed
organizations related the events to the work
ers and explained that the attack Of the gov
eminent is directed against the entire trade
union movement, and that the government is
being helped out. by the Cuban Federation of
Labor and A. f. of L. institution. The gov
eminent is wrong if it thinks that it can
destroy the revolutionary trade union move
ment. If lawful existence is denied--it will
work underground, but keep on leading the
economic struggles of the Cuban working class.
The suggestion to call general strike on
March 20 was received with great enthusiasm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
By ANDREW OVERGAARD.

WHILE the workers throughout the United
" States on March 9th showed the tremen-
dous desire to struggle, and it was proved to
the most doubtful that the analysis made by
the Central Committee of our Party on the
rehabilitation of the American working class
is 100 per cent correct and also that our pri-
mary task is the united front from below the
Lovestone renegades are travelling further
and further into complete amalgamation with
the A. F. of L. takers and the Muste-ites.
While the rank and file miners in the United
States through bitter struggles have shown
that they will have nothing to DO either with
the Lewis machine nor with the harrington
Fishwick takers, while the great majority of
the coal miners in the South, in Ohio, the An
thracite and in Western Pennsylvania are to-
day unorganized and the only fighting force
in existence in these territories is the National
Miners Union Mr.. Gitlow, the trade union fig
leaf for Mr.. Lovestone still insists on COM
plete orientation and support to the Earring
on-Howat-Fishwick group of takers. In the
April issue of the Revolutionary Age, Mr..
Gitlow attacks the analysis made in Labor
Unity on March to the effect that ''the main
job of the miners is to smash the Fishwick-
harrington convention scheduled for March
10th in Springfield, Illinois This convention
is organized by and for the coal operators. 1t
is stOOl-pigeOn convention"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

Later on new committee elected which
put forward new specific demands: G) Rec
ignition of the union. (2) Acception of two
delegates from the union. 90 raise in wages.
Another strike was called. The owner of the
factory went to A. F. of L. takers and with
their advice fired all workers who were organ
ized-about 500. The answer of the union
was--a general strike. After one week of strug-
gle the bosses gave in Six comrades were
imprisoned, and ten other factories drawn into
the strike, with about 400 workers.
Lately the rehabilitation of the workers has
reached such an extent that the police does
not dare to use the same tactics as before. OF
course, the bosses unite together with the
police to attack the workers. This last strike
of hatmakers proves that they cannot destroy
organization easily. And the workers
are ready not only to defend their organization,
but also with united front strive for victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

Importation of commodities in the first group
is completely prohibited except on the written
consent of the Australian minister of foreign
trade and customs. Imports of the second
group are cut to so per cent OF the volume for
the year ended March 81, 1920. The import
duties on the third group have been increased
by fifty per cent. This tariff is called "bold
exl 'ment" and the highest tariff barrier in
the world" by the bourgeoisie. This tariff will
cut sharply into the export from the United
States to Australia of a whole mass of COM
modities. The highest tariff barrier in the
world" is so high that it will, despite the 1919
per cent empire preference, narrow still further
the foreign markets for British exports. 1t
will tend to accentuate the economic crisis in
the United States and in England and to sharp
en- the struggle between them for the world
markets that have been thus narrowed Such
is one feature of organized empire capital
ism" in the economic crisis. 1t is significant
not only as an individual phenomenon but as
a foresha lowing of other tariff restrictions
that will grow out of the present crisis.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
HOOVER'S MAYDAY BLABBER
BY HARRY CANNES.

MAY First Hoover made another statement
IVA about the crisis. The dates of Hoover's
blabber about the economic storm" are very
significant.
The first one in which he said "The tide
of employment has changed in the right direc-
tion," was made on January Dist, following
huge preliminary unemployment demonstra-
tons organized by the Communist Party and
the Trade Union Unity League.
Then followed another series of militant ac-
tions by the workers, under revolutionary lead
ership Again statement from the White
House, with Hoover saying (Jan. 28): "The
increase of employment is current in prac-
tcally every industry. The reports
show that the increase was distributed over
the whole industrial world 1t is an encour
aging sign"
This should have warmed the cookies of the
heart of any Couest or Christian Scientist
But it had no effect on the 100000 unem-
ployed because new recruits came into their
ranks, swelling their number to 100000, and
this was not IAN encouraging sign"
May list and March 9Th.
Then came the Notwithstanding March 9th
tremendous Work or Wages" demonstrations
Hoover was disposed to speak again. Why
was this necessary? Nearly two months pre-
vious he had assured the world "the increase
OF employment is current III praCIlcdlly every
industry" Every capitalist statistical agency
had branded Hoover's statement a scoun-
drelly lie. But this did not phase the upper
turbed Wall Street efficiency engineer. He
reached for his slide rule; made computations
and glibly announced March y:
"All the evidence indicates that the worst
effects of the crash upon employment will have
been passed during the next sixty days"
Economic Storms
The sixty days were virtually over when
Hoover made his May Day declaration. Did
he say unemployment had ended? He did
not For the first time since the tremendous
cyclical crisis of American imperialism he adj
mtted that:
I'VE have been passing through one of
those great economic storms which periodical
" bring hardship and suffering upon our peo-
pie
At every stage of the crisis he and his fell
low liars Barnes, Klein, Davis, Lamont and
Green, had denied that capitalist economy had
suffered even a flea bite. But now get
official admission of great economic storm"
that. a new name for Crisis
Liar and an Optimist.
Besides being a liar, Hoover is confirmed
usual balyhoo: 81 am convinced we have now
passed the worst and with continued unity of
effort we shall rapidly recover"
Hoover began his predictions about upturns
in industry in January. Here is what the An
nast index of business activity shows. These
figures are based mainly on government sta
tistical data, as we'll as information from CAPT
talist corporations:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

against slavery. Slavery was abolished, but the
people, those that produce, were not freed.
The institutions created in the struggle evolved
into supporters and organizers of the new
feuda ORDER of which the catholic church be-
came the expression par excellence.
In order that humanity might progress, it
became necessary to overthrow the regime of
the church. feudalism sought to save itself
through black terror and the holy inquisition.
Political freedom and bourgeois ndividualism
was necessary to develop the productive forces
and resources of the earth. The bourgeoisie
who led the masses against the church and
feudalism, error-stricken before the desire of
the masses of working people of town and
country to fully liberate themselves, went only
halfway. The possessing classes compromised
under bourgeois hegemony. Now the remnants
of the feudal order, the most reactionary land
lords ct whose interest the catholic church is
the typical representative, are in the vanguard
of the white terror regime being inaugurated
by the finance bourgeoise which has expropri-
ated the masses of individual producers and
made the masses wage slaves poems. I'm
old inqusition, the catholic church, is the
seeks to save itself by terror, just like feudal
ISM just like the slave order of bygone days.
Use Most Desperate Means.
The appropriated masses, now working by
the thousands in huge enterprises, are organ
izing to appropriate the expropriators and to
establish collective economy, Communism.
Hence as in the past, the dying ruling class
use thei- most desperate means. The feudal
classes and big capital merge into one reac-
tonary stream the cossack and the cannon,
confronted by the masses of exploited, who
Communist Party. They seek to prevent the
now have their own leadership-the world
destruction of their dying regime by combina-
ton of all possessing classes against the pro-
letariat and the peasant and peon by the use
of white terror, by "the new inquisition"
Nevertheless gentlemen, your end is already
in sight. Even the fact that all of your church
are BLESSING and sarctioning the new inquis-
es, Protestant, Jewish, reverends and rabbis,
ton" and are accepting the lea lership of the
old inGuifStion. the catholic church, is the best
best PROOFS OF that, and this time it will be the
end Of all tnquistions, not in hundreds of years,
but in NV years time will be up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

Hence despite Hoover's glowing statements
we find the Annalist forced to admit that en-
ployment had dropped to "the lowest since
August, 1922"
Worse and Worse.
What has happened since merely confirms
the view often expressed in the Daily Work
er, namely that the crisis is sharpening and
is yet to enter severer phases, in turn sharp
ening the already deep-going world cyclical
crisis. We recently printed the statement Of
the financial editor of the New York Evening
Post in which he stated that 1--WE go into the
month of May this year without any visible
evidence of an upturn."
The facts indicate even worse than this mega
tive statement They show there is every evil
dence of a further, sharper downturn.
All basic industries continue their curtail-
ment of operations Foremost is the steel In
dustry, which, in way, reflects almost every
other basic industry's activity. The latest
pronouncement on this point comes from the
Journal of Commerce MAY 2, 1990):
There is an idea pervading the steel trade
that the seasonal late spring decline is al
ready setting in. At no time so far this year
have operations surpassed 81 per cent of ca
pacity, whereas last year 101 per cent of
theoretical capacity reached about this
time of the year. Some expect that summer
business will be unusually dull e. An
analysis of the situation reveals that the
automobile industry in largest measure
responsible for the comparatively poor show
ing in steel so far this year"
Thus we account-rather badly-for two of
capitalisms main props-the steel industry
and the automobile industry.
The Drop in Prices.
AS Comrade Varga pointed out in special
article in the Communist international, one of
the most significant features of the present
world crisis of capitalism, is the continuous
drop in commodity prices This portends the
virulence of the crisis and its worldwide, ever
increasing disturbances. This is now recog-
nized by the leading bourgeois economists. The
latest issue of the National City Bank of New
York bulletin MAY l, 1930) says:
What is giving more concern everywhere
than anything else is the price situation,
which presents a problem arising from over
development of production in the principal
commodities of world trade"
Yet commodity prices still continue to de-
cline all along the line The latest Annalist
index of Wholesale Commodity Prices show
them at a new low record. During the past
week MAY 2, 1930) prices declined OF, show
ing the index at 5.5 per cent below the begin
ming of the year, and S.44 below the CORES
ponding date last year.
The most significant fact of these drops
during the past few weeks is the break in
monopoly commodity prices which began with
the sharp slump in the price of "copper" insti-
gated by the copper trust, and now spreading
to every branch of the steel industry 1t will
soon turn into rout. This will have its re-
verberations throughout the capitalist world.
And as if to punctuate Hoover's May Day
declaration with further proof of the Cup
turn" in capitalist economy, the stock market
the following day crashed to the lowest point
of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
A Large Strike of Hatmakers

HAVANA, Cuba (Esperanto-Se rvo) About
half year ago, the hatmakers organized trade
union. Later the workers presented their de-
mands to the factoryMarane Ferrero, which
refused to accept these demands strike was
called which kept up for five months, at the
end the reformists sold them out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05

In Short we see a constant decline from the
low point of January, which has continued
right down to date. The Annalist factory en-
ployment index (based on the Department of
Labor figures) shows the following:
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East l25th Street,
New York City.
1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu,
mist Party. Send me more information.
Address NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. City. ...... :.
Mail this to the Central Office. Communist
Party, 43 East l25th ST.. New York, N. 7.
The Washington times., 1930-04-04
DIR. W1LFRED M. BARToN

DR.. Wilfred M. Barton, So,
prominent local physician and
dean Of the Georgetown Univer-
sity school of medicine, died
Wednesday at the Mayo Brothers
clinic at Rochester, Mimi, after
an illness of three weeks. He
had been taken to Rochester for
an operation.
He was well known as q medi-
cal writer, having written, among
other books and articles, the
"Thesaurus Of Medical Words and
Phrases" Symptom Diagnosis,
Regional and General" Manual
of Vital nctio Mt e estin g
Methods" Therapeutic Index
and Medicine" He also wrote
a history, Road to Washington
History of the British Invasion
in 1914"
DR.. Barton was a native OF
Washington. He held degrees Of
M. D., M. A. and F. A. c. p.
from Georgetown. He served as
attending physician at George.
town, Columbia and Gallinger
hospitals.
Besides his widow, a sister
Mrs. Isaac Cans, survives him
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
The Washington times., 1930-04-04
BIR = n |
NOT ICES

Uriah and Vivian Lawson, girl
John T. and Catherine v. Kidd. girl.
William M. and Helen Constable, boy.
William R. and Grace 9; Russell. girl.
Clarence L. and Edith =. Harris, gtrls@
Adelbert W. and GLADYS D. Lee. EjrlsS55 :
Martin NJ. and Margaret !. Risman.s
girl.
John R. and Helen e. King. girl. l.
Jacob of Louise Bladt. girl ts
Pincus and Martha Rothen5erS, 9itI.s.
Edgar L. and Martha e. Burch. girl
William H. and Dorothy z. Srnith..-
boy. = =
Norris and Matte shackIetord. boy. =
Frank W. and Edith v, Sundberg.sr
boy. -
Ralph G. and Bernics R. wilsOn. boS.i
Conder C. and Frances 1. Henry. boy. :.
Raymond A. and Minnie c. Buckeys-
Harley e. and Asia Baker. boy.
Edward r. and Katherine 8. Tucker.
boy.
james 6. and Mary A. FInotti, hoy. :, \
Aiston w. ana Hazel o. GonSalsGr'
William I. and Odessa Gr.gss. boy.
Eugene and Annie Kunst hoy.
Joseph and Mollie Muchnick, boy.
Richard and Mary Hockey. girlss r.
william ana virginia Ksspsr. bOysts
(tWinsl.
Rosevslt ana Casey Austin. girl.
Harry and Minnie Hutchinson, girl. =
LIoIIiS % anu I8dICI JAInSSOn. klEbStff
William T. and Lucille Whitaker. giEi. !.
Walter and Hester Evans. girl. =
George and Drusilla Brown, girl. r
Raymond and florence Hopkins. boy.s-
Theodore and Addie Brown. boy. -
Mtias and Mary Coleman. bow. .
Ferschen and Hattie Miller. boy. -
Joseph and Maggie Campbell boy. =
Ellsworth and Thelma Davis. boy.
William and Caroline Hightower. boy. y,
Francis, and Susie Fenwick. boy.
James and Julia Miles. boy.
The Washington times., 1930-04-04
BIRTHS, ,MARRlA AeES,D DEATHS
DIR. M. H. SUTLRF


Requiem mass will be said to-
morrow morning at 9 o'clock at
the Church Of the Blessed Sacra-
ment, Chevy Chase, for DR.. Milo
H. Sutliff, 64. of 312 Cumberland
Ave, Somerset, Md, who died
yesterday at Georgetown Uniyer-
sity Hospital Of heart trouble
after an illness of two months.
Interment will be in Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
DR.. Sutliff. who was attached
to the division of plan files Of
the Navy Department for many
years; was born in Cleveland,
Ohio. ~FIe attended Worcester
College, where he was q member
of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He
was graduated from George Wash
ington University, then Colurn'
bian College, with an M. D. de-
gree.
After practicing several years
he received an appointment to
the Navy Department. He re-
manned there for more than 80
years. He was a member Of Car.
roll Council, Knights of Columbus.
Surviving him are his. widow,
Mrs. Julia N. Sutliff: two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Dean Gundrum, Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, and Mrs.
Eileen Sutliff, Of Somerset; two
sons, Milo J. Sutliff, of New York,
vice president of the Literary
Guild Of America, and Gerald
Sutliff. Of New York, and two sis
tiers, Miss Viola E. Sutliff and
Mrs. c. K. Davis, both Of Cleve-
land
The Washington times., 1930-04-04
Consulate General
From Austria to Canada

VIENNA, April 4 QNS0.-A
noteworthy departure from the.
practice with regard to the diplo-l
matte and consular relations of
the Austrian Republic with the
DominionS of the British Empire
was made by the Austrian gov.
ernment, by creating a consulates
general for Canada.
Hitherto AuStr,ia'S consular in- !;
tereStS in the British Empire. OUT
side the British Islands, have
been represented by honorary
consuls" only. In view Of theS
rapidly growing Importance Of the.
Dominion Of Canada, however. :
the Austrian government has ap-s
pointed DR.. Ludwig Kleinwaech. !
ter, former counselor to the
Austrian legation at Washing.
ton, to consul general at Ottawa.