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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
miners wages at Butte, Anaconda and
Great Falls, effective May II
Another 10 per cent

Great Falls, effective May II
Another 10 per cent
On May 26th the same workers were given
an additional wage cut of 10 per cent. Fifteen
thousand men were effected.
On May 9th the Utah Copper Co. cut wages
for its workers 20 to % cents a day.
Not content with having betrayed the Aberle
Mills strike, the Musteite takers of the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers on June 25th pro-
posed to the hosiery bosses that all workers
wages be cut from 25 to 80 pei cent As a
sop to the workers fake unemployment in
surance scheme squeezed in But the
Journal of Commerce said about this: "The
plans for unemployment insurance are only
tentative" Just Shiny trick to cover up the
open collaboration with the bosses to effect
the wage cut.
On July 22nd, the New York Times reported
at least four wage cuts in Youngstown, Ohio
alone. The news item read:
Several concerns here have cut salaries
for their entire office personnel. The Peer
less Electric Co. has made 10 per cent
reduction in salaries and wages at its War
rem plant. Yoho and Hooker. lumber deal
of Youngstown and Akron, have made
a 20 per cent reduction"
Fisher Slashes Wage
There is the reduction of wages in the Fisher
Body Plant at Flint, Mich, when was followed
by the strike Of 5000 workers-betrayed by
the A. F. of L. anu its stool pigeon Comstock.
1t is not one of the functions of the CAPT
talist press to report wage cuts. These men
toned above are mere rippes that we see after
the huge waves have past. Yet they are only
the beginning.
AS the crisis sharpens the flood Of wage
cuts that the bosses have already planned will
be let loose on a grand scale. Every worker
vii. feel the effect. These widely scattered
v"~e cuts in various industries are not isolated
phenomenon, but are part of the inevitable
burdens of the crisis Of the workers onto the
bar'-s Of tte workers. That they have ~ HELM
of the A. +. of L. officialdom and the Music
tie takers, is as clear as day. The Ho jver.
Green phrases about "no wage reductions"
never meant to be anything else than
propaganda, while The statements about mo
strikes" was meant 100 per cent by the A. f.
Of l.. takers who attended the Hoover con-
ference.
The workers must grid themselves against
the mounting wage cuts. 1t is clear that the
A. F. of L. and the Musteite takers are part
Of the wage cutting mechioe cf the bosses.
OrlV prder thn oaderehin e 'hp rraAe Union
Unity League will the workers be able to put
up determined fight against the ever in
creasing wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
By HARRY CANNES

WHAT are the facts about wage cutting?
Every worker remembers the agreement"
last November between Green, Hoover and the
leading bosses of the country that was blaz-
oned across the front page of every capitalist
paper about the mo strike and no wage cut"
policy? Green spent months trying to make
the workers believe it. Very little is said
about this now, for it had the desired effect.
But great deal is being done about it--chiefly
by the bosses
'Short Depression"
At first. the bosses believing their own pre-
dictions that the depression would be short
lived made underhand reductions in pay. But
by April 1880, the first big blow was struck
Labor, through the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers After con-
ference between the A. +. of l.. officials and
the steel bosses of the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co. the wages of puddlers and finishing
mill crews were cut 25 cents ton. This ef-
fected $500 workers This fact was reported
by the New York Times of April 9th. On
JUNE 2lst, the Chairman Campbell of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. issued this
hypocritcal statement: eve are unalterably
opposed to any reduction in wages"
This CUFF was meant to lull the workers to
sleep, with the aid of the A. F. Of L., in order
to counter-act the growing militancy and rad-
cali2ation Of the workers.
Then followed an avalanche of wage slash
ing. which is iuqt now gaining mrr'o mum.
ard is receiving the expert direction OF the big
bos~os The National City Bank in its June
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
By WILLIAM SIMONS.

AUGUST FIRST, international day of struggle
- against imperalst war and for the defense
of the Soviet Union, has extraordinary signifi-
canoe for the Pacific Coast In industrial i'm
portance, the Pacific Coast is behind many other
sections of the country, but in its relationship
to the war danger it is of the greatest i'm
portance. The coming attack of the Chinese
militarists, backed by imperialist powers, espe-
cially the United States of America, against
the spreading Soviet movement in China will
result in the dispatch of more ships and ma
rines from the Pacific Coast. The increasing
preparations of the mperialist powers for at
tack on the U. S. s. R. imply an attack through
Siberia as we'll as through Europe, through
forces shipped out from the western seaports.
1t is significant that the federal immigration
authorities along the Pacific Coast ask all ar
rested for working-class activity which country
they would support in case of war between
the United States and the Soviet Union. The
refusal of the government to permit the sale
OF planes to the Soviet Union by an American
company is due to unwillngness to strengthen
those against whom U. S. imperialism is pre-
pairing war.
Guns and Bullets Instead of Bread and Meat.
August First finds the conditions of the work
ers on the Pacific Coast worse than before.
In the lumber industry Washington, Oregon
and British Columbia mills operated at 55 per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
The Growth OF the Wage-Cutting
Campaign

Bulletin advocated drastic cuts in all building
trades workers pay. With its big ramifica-
tions in the building industry this will not stop
breviated pay envelope of every building trades
worker The cry for wage slashing was taken
up full force by the Wall Street sheet, the
Journal of Commerce.
Few Cuts
Here are just an infinitesma number of the
wage cuts important enough for the financial
papers to report. The worker correspondents
in the Daily Worker for the past seven months
have given hundreds of other instances:
On March 81, the Showhegan Spinning Co.,
with offices in Boston, slashing wages ten per
cent. The excuse was that other cuts had been
made in Maine thus saving labor cost of
twenty-five and half per cent"
In March, after splendid fight which was
betrayed by the Musteite Full Fashioned Hos
cry Workers Union, the Aberle Mill workers
were given a steep cut in wages
On April 11th the Journal of Commerce re
porting wholesale wage cuts for office work
ers in brokerage houses, amounting in many
instances to 90 per cent.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture on April
1st said that Farm wages on April | were
the lowest for that date "since the Bureau had
ben in existence.
On April gath the New York Evening Post
contained this news item:
",ecause of the reduction in the price
Of copner from IS TO u cents a pound last
week. TIE Anacarda CCnper Co. announced
today a reduction of % cents day in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31

bosses OF their own lands and factories. The
Communist Parties of Mexico and the United
States don't wage the struggle separately with.
in the national boundaries of their respective
countries. On the contrary, their struggle is
an international one, forming and reinforcing
the most intimate alliance against the bour-
geoisie and Imperialism and for the victory OF
Communism the world over
The United States and Mexico are neighbors
and Mexico is subjected to the complete dom
ination of American imperialism which directs
and maneuvers the errors of Mexico, enfor-
cling upon them policy which best serves the
interests of the bandits of Wall Street; the
workers of the United States are subjeced to
the exploitation and oppression of the same
capitalists, industrialsts and bankers who ex-
plot the Mexican workers as well. Therefore
1T is evident that the workers and poor peas
ants of Mexico and the workers of the United
States must unite in order to struggle agains
their common enemy, against imperialist ban
dts, against the bourgeois governments, agains
the instruments of capitalism and Imperialism,
against Hoover and Ortiz Rubio
The eight, million unemployed in the United
States and the seven hundred thousand in Mex
leo create the most formidable revolutionary
ferment, and the greatest threat to the entire
system of bourgeois and imperialist banditry
OF both countries, as well as of the whole con-
tlnent which is being daily conquered and DOM
mated by the Wall Street dollars. The workers
and poor peasants Who still keep their jobs
but who suffer the consequences of rationaliza-
ton, wage cuts, increasing of working hours.
lntensification of exploitation and the general
offensive of the posSessive class, must fight
shoulder to shoulder with le UNEMPLOYED. The
cause Of the former is the cause of the latter.
1t is the mission of the Communist Parties of
ntYio tn y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
Appeal of the Communist Parties
of b.. S. and Mexico
FELLOW WORKERS:

FELLOW WORKERS:
The Communist Parties of the United States
and Mexico, sections of the Communist Inter-
national, appeal to all exploited by imperialism
and the bourgeoisie of Mexico and the United
States to struggle together against their COM
mon enemy.
The bourgeoisie of the United States has
just given orders to adopt the Harris Law
which limits the immigration of Mexican work
ers to 1900 pre- annum. For many years the
workers of Mexico have gone into the beet
and cotton fields of California, Texas, New
Mexico, ETC., and with their hard labor they
changed these fields into fertile soil The cap
italists and rich farmers have exploited the
Mexican workers, making them work like
beasts for miserable wages, mistreated and
Inundated them. Today, when the crisis has
created an army of eight million unemployed,
the exploiters and servants of capitalists of
the United States approve the Harris Law
whcih closes the frontiers to the Mexican work
ers, whose labor they don't need now.
The Communist Parties of Mexico and the
United States fight in their respective coun-
tries for the betterment of the conditions of
the working class and to overthrow the respec-
tive exploiting classes and to establish a GOV.
eminent of the workers, that is, to establish
a government such as in the Union of Social
list Soviet Republics, where the workers and
poor peasants exercise power and are the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31

May l. better equipped because of the discus
sons and decisions of our Seventh National
Party Convention, particularly dealing with the
necessity of reaching the factories and roofing
the Party inside In San Francisco speakers
conferences and the weekend school are serv-
ing to make more effective our preparations
for August First. August First finds more
activities within the armed forces. For May
Day, only one leaflet was distribute to the
soldiers in the Preside and in one National
Guard Company August First already records
special bulletin sent to over hundred pres
ent in one c. M. T. c. camp. Similar activity
is planned for other C. M. T. C. and National
Guard Camps. special August First leaflet
will be given out to the armed forces Our
fundamental weakness still remains INSULT
cient contact with the Shops insufficient con-
centration by the street units on shop in
their territory. In the last week before August
First meetings will be held at factory gates
every day Alrea ~ a meeting has taken place
on the waterfront and before the Ford plant.
August First places upon the Party Dist lets
on the Pacific Coast grave responsibilities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-31
Are We Ready?

August First finds our Party on the Pacific
Coast better equipped to carry on it's work.
because of our experiences of March 6 and
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
FIVE LOCAL BOYS
ENTER MEET

Five Washington youths who
captured prizes in local meets as
designers OF various types of toy
aircraft, will be entered in the
national miniature aircraft tour
nament which will open on Oc-
tober 10 and IL at Atlantic City
under the auspices of the Recrea-
ton Association of America.
The boys who will be entered
are: George Shipley, first block
M st. N. W.: Frank Salisbury,
1000 block Vermont Ave. N. W.;
John Sullivan, 1400 block Twenty
ninth ST. N. W.; Harry McGin-
Miss, Kensington, and Everett
Meeks, $500 block Myrtle Ave.
N. E. >
Thirty-nine boys and one girl,
Betty Hind, of San Francisco,
will compete in the Atlantic City
contest. Prizes will be awarded
and all expenses incurred by the
young aviation enthusiasts will
be paid.
The five entrants from Wash
ington, two of whom. Meeks and
Sullivan, captured honors in the
national tournament held last
year at Louisville, gives Washing
ton the third highest percentage
Of entrants of any city, exceeded
only by Providence, r, l., and San
Francisco.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
REFUSES
INJUNCTION

Justice Frederick L. Siddons In
District Supreme Court signed an
order yesterday releasing DR.. 10
seph D. Rogers of Casualty Hos
pital, from an order to show cause
why he should not sell certain
property located in the 1900 block
Massachusetts Ave. N. w.
An injunction suit against DR..
Rogers, his brother, Samuel A.
Rogers, and James A. Soper, was
filed several days ago by Eugene
S. Trussell and Lula E. TruSseIl.
The suit alleged that Dr..
Rogers paid only $4,000 for a So
900 deed of trust against the prop
erty, and declared that this con-
stituted usury.
The plaintiffs claim that DR..
Rogers and his brother and Soper,
the latter two of whom are named
trustees under the deed Of trust.
had advertised the property for
sale in violation of a previous
agreement. causing the plaintiffs
to lose an opportunity to sell the
property for SGT 900.
After hearing the evidence
however, Justice Siddons moved
that DR.. Rogers was within his
rights and should be allowed to
sell the property.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
Highway Changes, Traffic,
Parks Meeting Topics

In this connection projects for
carrying cross streets under the
Mall to avoid grade crossings
when the four grade roads are
constructed near the Capital to
the Washington Monument area
will be submitted.
The opinion of the members of
the commission will be asked on
the matter of revising the plans
of main streets which is brought
about by the building and high
way developments.
Linking Up Forts
Adjustments will be made with
reference to the highway system
and the Fort Drive which will
ling up the circle of Civil War
forts in the neighborhood Of the
city.
Captain Chisholm, assistant
director of the commission, will
submit his inquiries into a loca-
ton for q new district armory
and q new library in George
town. The question Of land pur-
chaseS in connection with the
park development plans as out
lined in the Cramton bill will also
be discussed.
Col. u. S. Grant 3rd, the ex-
ecutive officer of the commission,
will read a tentative draft of his
annual report.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
CAS- SCHEDULES
MODIFIED

A modified rate schedule was
filed with the Public Utilities
Commission yesterday by the
Washington Gas Light Company,
embracing practically the same
prices as in the recently filed
lower rate schedule but providing
correction Of errors in two classi-
fications.
One correction offers a further
reduction Of 10 cents per 1000
cubic feet to those. in the COM
mercial and industrial claSsifica-
ton. who use 100000 cubic feet
per, month. The rate provides q
minimum consumption charge of
$50 per month on 500 cubic
feet or less, IS cents per 1000
cubic feet on less than 500, 900
cubic feet and IS cents per 1000
cubic feet above the SOC, 900 mark.
In the general house and build
ing heating service, rates are
fixed at variance with the time
Of year. From October to April
inclusive, a maximum use charge
Of 50 per month per 100 cubic
feet an hour capacity, is fixed.
In the third classification, resi-
denceS, a minimum rate Of IS
cents. is fixed for the first 500
feet or less and IS cents is
charged up to 1000 cubic feet. A
penalty clause of higher rates is
provided for persons delinquent
10 days or more in bill payment.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
TREAT ASSURED.
TYPICAL GIRL

The Typical Washington Girl
need not worry over making her
self understood to the Parisians
during her glorious week in the
French capital in December.
Conversational French. will be
taught without charge aboard the
liner lie de France while the
fortunate Washington girl is
crossing the Atlantic. So the
young lady, when she arrives in
Paris, will have M difficulty III
ordering her meals or directing
cab drivers.
Herding to Be Taboo
The Typical Washington Girl
will be given a copy of so You're
Going to Paris" and other guide
books to enable her to pick out
the romantic and. historic apots
she would like to visit.
The Typical Girl will not be
herded with Typical Girls from
other cities and taken for a9ridel
around the city on a rubber-neck
wagon or otherwise placed on eY-
hibition. She will 60 about The
city with only three or four other
girls and will have virtually an
tire freedom in her choice of
amusement.
This wonderful trip will not
cost the Typical Girl a cent,
aside from her wardrobe. She
will be the guest of The Wash
ington Times and Gloria Swan
son, famous screen star. All of
the arrangements have been
made.
( A rare treat for the Typical
Girl in Paris will be a tour of
Paramount studios there. She
will be introduced to many of
the noted foreign film stars.
Nominations in Order
Some average Washington girl
will enjoy all this. The judges
will make their selection next
month. Nominations are in or
der through September 80.
Girls may nominate themselves
or be nominated by relatives or
friends.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
FINDINGS WILL
NOT PREVENT
JURY ACTION
Rover Says He VIII Submit
Complaint and Lawyers May
Make Plea on Insanity Later

The sanity test to be given How
ard Carson. first block s st. N. W.,
in connection with his alleged
threats against Miss Annie D.
Baker Tuesday night, will not af-
feet his status before the Grand
Jury, according to United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover.
Carson, who is now confined in
the District Jail, win be removed
to Gallinger Hospital some time
next week to be given Today pc
riod of mental observation by DR..
Percy Hickling, District alieniSt.
Father Asked, It
This move Is at the request Of
the youths father, made shortly
after young Carson was arraigned
in PoIics Court on a charge Of at
tempted assault with intent to kill.
According to Rover, the case
will 60 to the Grand Jury whether
young Carson is found sane or
demented. If, however, he Is
found insane, his attorneys can
answer any indictment that may
be returned with Q plea Of In
sanity.
Police say that Carson drove
Miss Jennings into her room at
the Carson home and threatened
her life with a pistol If she did
not give up keeping company
with another suitor and marry
him.
The youth is said to have held
the police at bay for two hours
before Private Earl Baker, a
rookie policeman, crossed an
areaWay on an ironing board,
took Carson by surprise and
overpoWered him.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13

Highway changes in the Dis
trict to conform with building
and road developments, the alley
situation, the traffic question at
the triangle and in congested
sections of the city, the location
of a new armory and new Ii
brary in Georgetown and other
matters of interest to the District
are on the program of the Ma
tiona1 Capital Park and Planning
Commission at its monthly meet
ing Friday.
The legislative aspect regard
ing the undesirable alley situa-
ton will be thoroughly discussed.
Captain Chisholm, of the COM
mission, will submit tentative
plans of highway changes, sub
mitted by the District Commis-
sioners who have been making
studies and estimates with ref
erence to an approved approach
to the Highway Bridge.
To Relieve Traffic
These plans necessitate under
passing in roads to permit traffic
coming from Virginia to reach
Potomac Park in safety and to
relieve the congestion Of traffic
on Fourteenth Street near the
Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
Three YOUTHS HELD FOR INQUEST ON GEORGETOWN GRADUATE
Falling Plaster Hits
q Detectives in
Squad Room

Detective Sergeants Harry
Cole and Oscar Mansfield were
stunned and nearly rendered
unconscious when q fourfoot
section OF plaster fell from a
ceiling in the squad room at
detective headquarters striking
them on their heads.
The plaster fell from q point
Just below where q number Of
safes had been moved to the
fifth floor at police headquart-
ers.
Both men had to leave roll
call, but did not require hos
pital treatment.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
BOY GANGST.ERS
ARE NABBED

Four boys, two OF them Is and
the other pair is. according to
police admitted participation In
number of petty theftS in the
District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia, as well as being
members of a gang that hoped
some day to enter crime on Q
real scale in New York.
The four were arrested when
one OF them was seen hiding q
.38-caliber. revolver behind the
Alban Towers apartment house
on Massachusetts, Avenue North
west. With the arrest of the
one. the other three were impli-
Gated in the story of four would
be youthful desperadoes who
wanted to serve an apprentice
ship of crime here.
They admitted, police said. to
holding up q cripple in Virginia
and rohbing him of 81, then fir
ing a shot at the man as they
sped away in an automobile.
They later told police that they
had taken q total Of nine auto
mobiles in the past few weeks.
Those arrested and charged
with investigation are Richard
Stockton, Is. of the 1900 block
Vermont Ave. N. W; Edward v.
Knolden, Is, of the $500 block
Thirty ninth st. N. W.: Henry
Clay Walburp, Is, Of the 3700
block Massachusetts, Ave. N. W..
and John B. Smith, 16, Of the
100 block New Hampshire Ave.
N. w So
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
Furbee to SurUiUe,
His Physicians SAY

Leonard Furbee. school teacher
Of Alum Bridge, Va. who lost an
arm and a leg when he was
struck by a street car of the
Washington Railway & Electric
Co., Tuesday at Eleventh st. and
New York Ave. n. W.. is going
to get well.
Physicians at Emergency Hos
pital said today that Furbee has
successfully withstood the shock
of the necessary amputations and
is well on the road to recovery.
The Washington times., 1930-09-13
HEARST LAUDED
BY VETERANS

William Randolph Hearst was
signally honored in resolution
adopted last night at the meet
ing of the Front Line Post, No.
14O1, Veterans of Foreign Wars
Of the United. States.
The resolution said that w. r.
Hearst. has time and time again
shown his deep patriotism by his
personal utterances and writings
and by the, policies followed by his
numerous publications.
It further said that he persoa-
ally and through his papers has
sponsored and aided the causes
of veterans who have served
their country under fire on for
eign soil.
The resolution congratulated
Hearst on the mastery and able
manner in which he met his.
recent expulsion from France.