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The Washington times., 1930-11-12
SELL
SELFFORJ JOB

For sale or hire-A young man.
That's the offer made today by
Dan Etheridge, "a, of 1924 Yer
mont Ave. N. W., through The
Washington Times Employment
Bureau.
Young Etheridge, made dcs-
perate by unemployment condi-
tions, said he wanted to sell or
hire himself to the highest bidder.
He spurned an offer by The Times
to give him a job, saying that he
is tired Of being bumped from
pillar to post" BY virtually plac-
ing himself on the market, he said
he believed something permanent
would be assured. He explained:
I'm tired Of being shifted
from place to place. l want
something permanent, some
thing that will assure me y per-
manent living. I've tried many
jobs, but they were just tein-
pOrary. So / have decided that
the best way to find something
is by offering myself for sale or
for hire. I'll sell myself out
right or by the week. I'm for
sale for the highest bidder"
The youth has been out OF
work for more than two months
His last job was working as deck
hand on a boat running out OF
Norfolk, Va, his home town. Hi
has worked at driving automo
biles, as a salesman, bellboy, store
clerk, linoleum and drapery work
shipping clerk, and at many othel
odd jobs.
He left school after his frs
year of high school and wants tx
finish his education at night.
Etheridge is feet 10 inches
tall and weighs 142 pounds.
The Washington times., 1930-11-12
SON Of SENATOR
TAKES BRIDE

Miss Mary Louise Dorroh,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. j. H.
Dorroh, of Albuquerque, N. M,
and Byron Patton Harrison, jr.,
SON of Senator and Mrs. Harrison,
were married today. The cere-
mony was Performed by the Rev.
John Palmer at his home.
The young couple will live at
Cathedral Mansions.
The marriage eliminates a ro-
nance which had it's inception
when the two were students at
the University Of Mississippi. Mr.,
Harrison is now in the real estate
business here.
The Washington times., 1930-11-12
Trade Heads Open
ID. &C. Tariff RurenlE

NEW YORK, Nov. IL. - Co
incidental with the news from
Washington that the Tariff Com.
mission has begun q series 0f
public hearings to determine
whether the rates on 100 coITIs
modities are too high or too low,
the National Association Of
Manufacturer announced the
establishment in washington OF
tariff bureau to keep in touch
with Developments. -
The Washington times., 1930-11-12
Flood Control Plan
Suu0ested For d. C.,

A system of 1evees in the vicin-
ity of Washington and the ex'
tension of B Street south to the
Potomac River, are measures to
be suggested for flood control in
this vicinity by the Potomac River
basin report which will be pre-
sented to Congress during the
coming session.
Major Brehon Sumervell. for
mer District engineer for Wash.
ington and expert on flood con
troll, is writing the control rec
ommendation in his report.
Details of the report will not
be made public until it has been
submitted for approval.
The Washington times., 1930-11-12
Reception Is GiUen
TO III NeU Citizens

The Ill new citizens admitted
in the District of Columbia since
July / will be guests at "a recep-
ton tonight in the auditorium OF
the United States Chamber OF
Commerce Building, 1915 H st.
N. w. Former Chief Justice Nc
Coy, president Of the Americana
Zation School Association, will
preside, and Justice Cox, of the
District Supreme Court will speak.
Mrs. G.. M. S. McClintock is in
charge of the reception sponsored
by the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, the Federated
Women's Clubs and the Amer1-
canization School Association.
The Washington times., 1930-11-12
POISON KILLS INFANT

LEBANON, Pa, nov. 12.-Nor-
man Schlosser, 2, son Of Ira M.
Schlosser, of Myertown, died from
poisoning at the hospital here.
The child climbed up on a chair
and swallowed the contents Of
box Of pills he found in a
medicine closet.
The Washington times., 1930-11-12

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
800 Stand Out in
Cold to Hear Red
"WOrker" Builders

NEW YORK.-On last Saturday
evening, commencing at 1880 p. M,
the Red Builders, a club of mill
tant Daily Worker sellers, held a
very successful meeting at 18th St.
and University Pl. Over 800 work
ers stood for three hours in the cold
night air enthusiastically listening
to speakers from the Red Builders
News Club and the Downtown I'm
employed Council.
The crowd cheered and applauded
the speakers who, one after the
other, exposed the lies which CAPT
talism uses to KEEP itself in power,
the brutality it uses to subdue the
sharpening class struggle and the
smoke-screen of "peace' talk be-
hind which it mobilizes its fleets
and armies for an attack on the
Soviet Union.
Many Daily Workers were sold
and many signatures for the imme-
date enactment of the -Unemploy-
ment Relief Bill were obtained. The
chairman of the meeting was Com
rade Brown. Speakers were Com
fades Hunter, Williams, Swartz,
Gardner and Chaffee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
Working Class Women
Call Conference to Aid
BaZa ar Preparations

NEW YORK.-The Central Body
of the United Councils of Working
Glass Women announces a series of
conferences to be held throughout
the city in order to mobilize its men,
bership to aid the joint bazaar of the
Workers International Relief and
the United Councils of Working
Glass Women, to be held at New
Star Casino, on Jan. 2, 3, and 4.
The conferences are to be held in
the following places: 2700 Bronx Park
E.; 1400 Boston Road, Bronx; .143 E.
l03rd ST., N. Y; 48 Bay 28th ST.,
Brooklyn; lib Bristol ST., Brooklyn;
81 Graham Ave-, Brooklyn, on Thurs
day, Dec. IL, at p. m. The confer
ences will take up the problem of
mobilizing the working class house
wives to support the bazaar by sale
of tickets, soliciting advertisements
and gathering material for sale at
the bazaar.
The joint bazaar committee urges
all workers and workers organiza-
tons to send what material they can
to the bazaar offices, at 1871 w. 18th
st. and at 1893 Broadway, Room 535.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
EXPOSEUMBRELLA
PLANTCONDITIONS
Call Workers to Meet
to Organize

NEW YORK.-Fighting against
a whole series of wage-cuts in the
umbrella industry, the Needle
Trades Workers. Industrial Union
Umbrella Workers Trade Commit
tee) has issued a call to all the
workers in this trade to come to a
mass meeting to prepare for or
ganization. The leaflet which an
nounces the mass meeting to be held
Thursday, Dec. IL, at 1871 w. 28th
St., End flor, after work, says:
"The umbrella bosses again
started a concentrated attack on our
conditions In almost all the shops
wages are cut and the speed-up in
creased. In L. Weiss shop, 50 w.
21st St., wages are cut almost every
week. In Altshulers shop the boss
informed the workers that cut will
be in effect this week. In most of
the shops they force us to work
from z a.. m. TO s p. m. under a
brutal speed-up, while we are forced
to work such long hours for star
walton wages, hundreds are unem-
ployed walking the streets without
a chance of getting work"
"To fight the boss" concludes the
leaflet, ito win better conditions
for that we must come together and
organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
5000 AT JOB"
AGENCY MEETING
Expose New Racket Of
Grafters

NEW YORK.-The Downtown
Unemployed Council held a meeting
in front of the fake city employ
ment agency where 1000 workers
rushed upstairs for jobs and then
all were chased out into the street.
There were no jobs for them.
The cops tried to break up the
meeting by tellin gthe workers to
join the line for job, In spite of
that. the jobless rallied about the
speakers stand and about 5000
workers listened to the various
speakers.
Milton Stone, of the Oct. 18th
delegation pointed out the fake en-
ployment agency has new way of
fooiing the workers by asking them
to pay S. deposit to sell post cards,
and all sorts of notions. That is
the only 'jobs" they have.
Many workers marched up to q
E. Fourth ST., where an indoor
meeting was held. A good many
Joined the council. One jobless
pointed out that he was lined up
for a job at 297 Fourth Ave. from
II p. m. to s in the morning. At
8 they chased the line and said
there is no job.
A meeting will be held tomorrow
at 10 a. m. at the same place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
Unemployed Council
Holding Dance, Dec. II
at Manhattan Lyceum

NEW YORK.-Ryan Walker, the
Workers Laboratory Theatre, the
Women's Council and Cascars Har-
lemites Negro Band will cooperate
with the unemployed in putting
over a program that will long be
remembered at the Solidarity Dance
and Entertainment of the Unem-
ploped Council of Greater New York
on Friday night, Dec. II, at the
Manhattan Lyceum, sc E. Fourth
St.
Arrangements have been made to
use both large halls in the build
ing to accommodate the large crowd
of employed and organized workers
that will register their solidarity
with the unemployed by their pres
ence. Tickets are 50 cents and can
be secured in advance at the New
York office of the Council, Is w.
21st st. All organizations and in
dividuals having sold tickets should
turn the money in Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
DONATES $500 TO
DAILY WORKER
Carpenters Going to
USSR Help Daily

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Pledging
their aid to the revolutionary Strug-
gle in this country at the same time
that they go to the Soviet Union to
help in the building of socialist con-
struction in the workers republic, the
Carpenters Group, leaving in few
days for Soviet Russia, has sent a
contribution of 5000 to the Daily
Worker in the resolution to help
with our last cent to uphold our
revolutionary organ" The following
letter accompanied the contribution:
Greetings to the Daily Worker
We, the workers that viii leave
for the Soviet Union to introduce the
American system of working in the
carpenter trade and we as class con-
scious workers, who followed the Rus
sian Revolution with great enthusi-
asm, have only one aim, and that is,
to help our comrades in their eff
forts to accomplish the Five-Year
Plan in four years, thus to build So
cialism
The time has come for us to prove
our sincerity to the Soviet Union. We
will leave very soon to take up our
tasks in the Soviet Union. Before we
leave, we want to declare to the work.
ing class in the U. S. A. that in leav-
ing this country, we viii leave as
class conscious workers, not forket-
ting the movement here, that is,
fighting against capitalism. Especial
ly we will not forget our courageous
leader in our fight, the Daily Worker
We come to the aid of our Daily
Worker in its present crisis, with a
resolution to help with our last cent
to uphold our revolutionary organ
that has fought so valiantly In the
past, is fighting in the present and
will fight in the future until capital
ism is overthrown.
Hoping that you will publish the
above as our parting message, we
send the enclosed 5000 as our con-
tribution.
With revolutionary greetings,
Carpenter Group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
FOREIGN TRADE IN
TWO BILLION DROP

WASHINGTON, Dec. gu. S. for
eign trade during the first ten
months of 1880 dropped s2,194, 466, 259,
according to the latest report of the
Department Of Commerce. The only
country with which trade increased
was the Soviet Union. Out Of thirty
eight countries whose business with
the United States is listed with the
Department Of Commerce, the Soviet
Union increased purchases from this
country. Exports to the U.S.SR. in
creased from s61, 332,350 in the first
ten months of the year to s96,228, 727.
The increase In trade with the So
Wet Union is due to the great adj
vances being made under the Five
Year Plan. The Fish Committee,
Vol and other war-mongers are at
tempting to smash this trade and
precipitate war aaginst the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
MEET TOPUSH
,JOBLESS BILL
Conference Dec. Is for
Signature Drive

NEW YORK.-Formation of the
New York Campaign Committee for
Unemployment Insurance this week,
composed OF delegates from 81 Or
ganaxataons representing more than
100000 workers, marks the first step
in the direction of a mass drive for
. one n1Illion signatures for the IN
employed Insurance Bill and an in
tensified fight for Unemployment In
Surance in New York City.
In It's efforts to broaden the fight
for unemployment insurance, draw
ing In the widest possible mass of
workers. employed and unemployed,
regardless Of utilization, the Com
nlittee has Just issued a call to a con-
ference 30 be held on December 10,
az 1850 .. m. at Irving. Plaza, 18th
st. and Irving Place, New York City.
Commenting on the conference call,
Sam Nesin, secretary Of the commit
tee, pointed out that the signature
drive already under way must not
take the place Of the basic orgsniza-
ton woTk Of building Unemployed
Councils, fighting against evictions
and Cor food, clothing and shelter for
the families of the unemployed, and
ter local unemployed insurance, but
slase every fight for the unemployed
must be used TO speed the campaign
for more signatures so that the goal
Of one million signatures may be
achieved and used by the delegation
Of workers when 1t presents the bill
for unemployment insurance in Con-
greSs sometime during January.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
CALLS MEETS FOR
JOBLESS RELIEF
To Mobilize Support
for Communist Bill

NEW YORK. - Two big mass
meetings in support of the struggle
of the unemployed workers for real
relief and for the Communist Bill
for Unemployment Relief will be held
this week in Brooklyn.
The first meeting is arranged for
Wednesday night, December 100 at
81 Graham Avenue. and will have as
its principal speaker, Sam Nessin, one
of the october 16 unemployed delega
ton to City Hall when the delegation
was brutality attacked and beaten up
by police thugs at the command of
Mayor Walker.
This meeting win be under the au-
spices of the Williamsburg Unem-
ployed Council, affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League.
The second meeting will be held
Thursday night at los Thatford Ave
Milton Stone, one of the october 1e
delegation, will be the principal
speaker. The meeting is under the
auspices of the Brownsville Unem-
ployed Council,
All workers, employed and unem-
ployed, Negro and white. youth and
adult, are urged to attend these
meetings and show their support Of
the struggle against the starvation
policy of the bosses and for real I'M
ployed relief through passage of the
Communist Bill for Unemployment
Insurance. Fight against starvation
Demand Unemployed Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
TOSCANINI RETURNS TO PHIL
HARMONIC THURSDAY

Arturo Toscanini returns to the
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
on Thursday night at Carnegie Hall,
conducting a program which will in
clude the first performance any
where of Zoltan Kodaly's "Mar-
rosszeker Tanze," an orchestral YER
sion of set of piano pieces based
on Hungarian folk tunes. The bal
ance of the program has the Over
ture to "Secret of Susanna" by
Wolf-Ferrari; Symphony No. 6 in
F (Pastoral), Beethoven, and "Pas-
sacaglia," Bach-Respighi. This pro-
gram will be repeated on Friday
afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
The third concert in the Philhar-
monte Children's Series, conducted
by Ernest Schelling, will take place
on Saturday morning at Carnegie
Hall and will present Gounod La
bate and M. Mazzi as soloist. The
first of the two concerts to be given
by the Philharmonic Orchestra for
the benefit of the pension fund will
be held Thursday evening, Dec. 49,
in Carnegie Hall. Toscanini will
conduct an all-Wagner program.
Jeanette Vreeland, Soprano, viii
appear in recital at Carnegie Hall
Tuesday night. Her program is
chosen from Mozart, Weingartner
Schubert, Ravel, Dupare, Saint.
Saens, Bax, Head and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
CALL MEDICAL
WORKERS TO ME- ,
December 10 to Fight
Wage Cuts, Lay-offs

NEW YORK. - The Medical Work.
erS Industrial League yesterday issued
statement calling upon all medical
workers to organize against the wage
cuts, lay-offs and speed-up systems
in the hospitals, pharmaceutical
houses, drug stores, etc.
The Medical Workers Industrial
League is holding mass meeting Of
unemployed and employed medical
workers on Wednesday night, Deem
Der 10, at 16 West 21st Street, in Or
der to organize these workers for eff
fective struggle against conditions in
the industry, conditions which are
similar to those faced by workers to-
day in every other industry in this
and other capitalist countries.
"A statement issued by the League
calls upon the medical workers to
support this move for organization,
and declares in part:
1.-THE bosses take advantage of the
situation to cut wages of those en-
ployed regularly, to lay-off workers
and employ new workers on lower
wage scale, and in general to pay
the unemployed against the employ
ed.
"In other industries where the
workers are organized into unions, the
workers offer resistance and call upon
employed and unemployed to unite
in order to maintain a better STAN
dard of living.
why should medical workers play
the exception Professionalism be
damned! Diplomas won't fill empty
stomachs, pay rent or bring happi-
ness into our homes. Like workers
in other industries we must organize
and fight-fight for our right to live.
Medical workers! The day of iso-
lation is gone All workers have one
common enemy, the capitalist class.
The struggle today is class against
class. And under the banner of the
Trade Union Uoity League we will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
FERRERO JOINS
THE WOLF PACK
Hearst Lap Dog Would
Starve Us to Hit USSR

NEW YORK.-The war propaganda
against the Soviet Union, undoubted-
ly part of the plot Of irnperialist ma
tons for armed intervention as ex-
posed by the confessions of the Mos
COW sabotagers, continues in ever
new forms.
One of the latest is the sudden at
tack made on the Soviet system and
argument for embargo made by Gug-
lielmo Ferrero. This individual is q
professor Of history, bourgeois anti
fascist italian.
Yesterday Ferrero blossomed out in
a long article in Hearst newspapers
assailing Soviet dumping"
Ferrero makes several admissions.
Still preserving the fiction that sale
OF Soviet wheat and manganese and
oil for the sake of buying machinery
abroad is dumping" he admits that
this very dumping" benefits sections
of society under capitalism. Sale Of
wheat makes cheaper bread for the
workers; the oil and manganese ~
bought by those who can make good
use of it. Ferrero argues that the
workers should voluntarily starve
themselves and refuse tc buy cheaper
bread because, "the Soviet system is
in opposition to the system of the
West"
He wants an embargo and CLOSES
over the fact that this would throw
millions more of workers in capitalist
countries out of work. Probably he
sees this perfectly well, but would
argue that the starving jobleSs ought
to like it because in that way they
are Loyalty striking blow at the sys-
tenn Ferrero does not like.
Ferrero Is for blood. He says:
"For ten years there has been no
end to the denunciations; both n Eu-
rope and in America, of the rapine
practised on the wealthy classes In
Russia. Such excavations should have
been translated into rules of con.
duct"
Steel BaronS Restless
AS though to give point to Ferrero's
lament about the present lack Of
completely united front against the
Soviet system, the American Iron &
Steel Institute yesterday made public
its answer to the appeal Of the Amer
lean Manganese Producers Associa-
ton to the Bureau of Customs for an
embargo on Soviet dumping Of man
ganese in u. s."
/ The iron and steel corporations
which make up this institute point
out that they need the manganese,
and that it isn't being dumped. The
price of Russian manganese is quoted
on the world market, and the steel
trust is paying the market price for
it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
Many NY. Carpenters
Are Unemployed and
Seek in Vain for Job

BRONX, N. Y.--As the banker
follows the stock market, so do ]
as woodworker follow the news in
the building trade, the carpenter
line in particular. There was not
one carpenter wanted in today's
"World," so l sat down and checked
up on the Situations Wanted" and
this is what found.
Twenty-six carpenters looking for
work by means of inserting an "ad''
in the paper. One asks as little
as SIS per day, one S.; six ask &c
per day and the rest just say "rea-
sonable."
One is foreman, Al; one a fast
worker, one is IS and another has
20 years experience. "Buy now,
buy cheap" They even play up ma
tionality. One states German, two
Irish, one Scandinavian, six Swe-
dish, one American and one Negro.
Often they tell the affilistion of
the church, as Catholic, Protestant,
Jewish.
Isn't it time for the worker to
realize that there is no distinction
between worker and worker. The
carpenter who proudly stated
American" will not get work be-
cause of his Americanism. The
boss knows only the S sign and
profits. Capital knows no boun-
Diary nor color line, it will press
the last drop of blood of the colored
as well as Of the proud American,
German or Irish.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-09
CITY CONFERENCE
ON UNEMPLOYED
Delegates to Meet On
Dec. 10, Irving Plaza

NEW YORK.-Formation of the
New York Campaign Committee for
Unemployment Insurance, this week.
composed Of delegates from 81 Or
carnations representing more than
100000 workers. marks the first step
in the direction of a mass drive for
one million signatures for the Unem-
ployed Insurance Bill
The New York Campaign Commit
tee is one of a series Of Committees
which are now being formed through
out the country. Sam Nesin, leader
of the Unemployed Workers COM
mittee in their demands of the New
York City administration for imme-
diate unemployment relief on Octo-
Der 16 which resulted in the brutal
beating and arrests of the delegation
ON Mayor Walkers orders, has been
elected Secretary of the Committee.
In its efforts to broaden the fight
for unemployment insurance, drawing
in the widest possible mass OF work
ers, employed and unemployed re-
CARELESS of utilization, the committee
has issued call to a conference TO
be held on December I, at 7.30 p. m.
at Irving Plaza, 18th Street and
Irving Place, N. Y. G.
The. call has been sent to workers
in the trade unions. shop committees,
UNEMPLOYED councils and workers
fraternal organizations urging that
they be represented by two or more
delegates. The conference will take
UP the questions confronting the
unemployed, placing emphasis on the
signature drive and laying the basis
for the election of delegates to pre-
sent together with delegates from
other cities throughout the country
the Bill for Unemployment Relief to
Congress.
Commenting on the conference
call, Sam Nesin, Secretary OF the
Committee pointed out that the sign
allure drive already under way must
not take the place of the basic or
ganization work of building Unem-
ployed Councils, fighting against
eyictions and for good, clothing and
shelter for the families of the unem-
ployed, for local unemployed insur-
ance, but that every fight for the
unemployed must be used to speed
the campaign for more signatures SC
that the goal of one million sigma
lures may be achieved and used
by the delegation of workers when it
presents the Bill for Unemployment
insurance In Congress sometime in
January.