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The Washington times., 1931-02-25
Tide Water Oil Net
Earnings ShOU Drop

Report Of Tide Water Asso-
ciated Oil Company and subsidi-
aries for 1880 shows net income
of $S750,914 after interest, de-
probation, depletion, Federal
taxes and other charges, equiva-
lent, after per cent preferred
dividend requirements, to 76
cents a share on 5,739,258 no-par
shares of common stock outStand-
ing. The annual dividend Of so
cents per share on the common
stock was more than earned. This
compares with $4,000, $50 or $1.73
a share on 5,560,424 shares for
the year 1929.
Tide Water Oil Company, a
subsidiary of Tide Water ASSo-
ciated reports net earnings of
S2,368,S43 after all charges and
Federal taxes, compared with
earnings of &6,187,724 for 1929.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
WARNS AGAINST
WAGE CUTS

A warning against widespread
wage cuts as an aid to business
recovery is sounded in the cur.
rent issue Of the Business OBJ
server, monthly review of the
Foreman-State National Bank of
Chicago.
The Foreman-State publication
sets forth this point concisely as
follows:
"When all of the factors in
the situation are examined, the
movement to reduce wages in
the interest Of business recOv.
cry appears to be largely un-
sound.
"By permitting wages to hold,
while prices decline, purchasing
power will be enhanced and
such commodity prices as have
already fallen beyond the gen.
eral trend of prices will tend to
be brought back in line, if, but
only if, the wage costs entering
into them are not reduced.
"On the contrary, If wage re-
ductiOn were to become a wide
spread policy at the present
time, it would undoubtedly in
tenSify the commodity price re-
cesSion. curtail buying power
still further, and prolOng the
depression"
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
CONSERVATIVES
SHY At DIZZY
PACE SET
Utilities, Down Early, Stage
Comeback and Radio Holds,
But Many Stocks Suffering
BY w. S. COUSINS

NEW YORK, Feb. IS GN.SO.
Though many of the favoriteS
reached higher price levels in a
boiling market this morning,
trading as a whole was erratic
= and irregular, with numerous in
duStrial stocks and utilities feel
ing the effects of heavy selling.
The utilities, which dipped at
the opening, were the first to
register a comeback, Consolidated
Gas of New York selling above
100 for the first time this year.
Dizzy Pace SlackenS
Radio Corporation was pushed
ahead to above q by a powerful
pool. the stock retained its po-
Sition of leadership among the
Specialties. Trans-America jumped
2 points to TIA in the heaviest
turnove: of the year.
Elsewhere in the market there
were signs that the dizzy pace
OF the forward move in the
Specialties and pool pets was
having its natural effect in
soaring off conservative traders.
The motion picture stocks,
under the lead of Warner and
LoewS, duplicated yesterdays
weak move and the copperS lost
virtually all of their recent gains.
General Electric started the
day at 81, but dropped under So
in the second hour and losses of
. point or two were recorded for
American Can, Dupont and Amer
tcan Tel and Tel.
Rails and Oils Dull
The mercantile stocks. in
Guiding Sears, Roebuck and Mont
gomery Ward, reached slightly
higher prices. Rails and oils
were dull.
Trading on the big board
slowed down considerably as the
noon period approached and price
movements were narrow.
Cotton moved up an additional
. points and grain was firm.
Call money renewed at ~ per
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
DANGER IS SEEN
BY MARKET
EXPERT
Persistent Bull Movement
to Bring Reaction, Asserts
Spectator, Citing History
By THE SPECTATOR

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-
The stock market in break
ing through into new high
ground for the fifth consecu-
tive day has continued to
outdistance even the more
optimistic declarations of
those professionals who have
been largely responsible for
the sudden burst Of specula-
tive activity.
Going back for comparison
to the bull market days Of
1928 and 1929, it is found
that in only one month,
that Of August, 1929, were
prices able to record a
greater advance than have
yet been chalked up in the
yet incomplete month Of
February. Coming at the
tail-end of a long decline,
the current phase Of re-
covery becomes all the more
impressive.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
Eagle Pencil Plant
Building in Canada

Coincident with the celebration
Of the seventy-fifth anniversary Of
Eagle Pencil Company as an in
ternational industry, announce
ment is made of plans for incor-
poration of a Canadian company
to manufacture and distribute
pencils in the Dominion.
The new company, to be known
as Eagle Pencil Company, Of
Canada Limited, will operate a
plant being equipped at Drum
mondville, Quebec, will have gen.
eral offices at Toronto, and
Charles G. EaSton has been ap-
pointed general manager.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

The only ominous feature Of
this comparison is that the after
math on the August, 1929, ad-
vance was the long-to-be-remem-
bered initial stages Of the 1929
crash. The consequences Of the
present excesses, if they are
really excesses, are yet to be
measured.
While the dOingS Of the stock
market are basking in public at
tentiOn on the strength of their
sweeping advance of yesterday,
casual glance over the closing
prices of a number of stocks dis
closes that not all holders can
wax enthusiastic. American Can
and WOOlwOrth, two recognized
bIue-chip 'favOriteS, actually closed
lower, while Warner Brothers, the
second most active stock in the
session, suffered a sharp loss.
Reaction Signs Seen
Measuring the achievements of
the market since the inception of
this current upward phase, by
precedent of the past, there Is
not any wide margin left for
further advance, before a re-
action of sizeable proportions
might be expected.
In crossing 1875, the Dow Jones
industrial averages, exceeded a
recovery of one-third of the total
amount lost during the 93-point
decline from September to Decem-
ber last year.
In the important intermediate
recoveries of the market since the
crash in 1929. approximately SO
per cent Of the preceding decline
has been regained without excep-
tion. This would entail an ad-
vance to- the 200 mark in these
set of averages. At the high
points of Tuesdays upturn, the
averages were at, 1876 90. The
virtual approximation of this point
makes for decided caution at this
stage.
Analysis Of 46 management
trusts shows the following stocks,
temporarily at least, to have lost
favor, rs evidenced by, absence
from several portfolios in which
they previously appeared. These
include Allegheny, Canada Dry,
Columbia Gas and Electric. Gil.
lette, International Telephone.
krOger Grocery, Lambert, Mont
gOmery Ward, National Biscuit,
Sears ROebuck, and WeStinE-
house Electric.
According to Standard Statistics.
1881 is likely to witness a mod.
crate recovery in rail earnings.
rather than Stagnate at the pres.
ent low level.
This would provide ample
ground for rail share advance
later in the year in anticipation
OF the expansion in earning
power. Prospective purchasers
are advised to increase their hold
ingS of rail stocks on any sharp
reactions that may take place
during coming weeks.
Problems continue to beset the
oil industry from all sides. The
latest adverse factor is that per-
tanning to inventory. At the close
OF last year the combined inven-
tory Of oil represented 322 days
supply, with the price at SO cents
a barrel.
A price level of $1.50 a barrel
is declared essential by leaders in
the industry, but in order to at
tain such a quotation it is i'm
perative that combined inven-
tories be reduced approximately
two-thirds to 235 days of supply,
according to consulting engineers
who have closely studied this sit
uation.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

n 4 " Steamboat ........I1S0 236
"Pot Elec Power SIS Pfd. 11Oh I113
"Pot Elec Pwr 51as pfd. -. 1O7% l1OS
"Wash Ry q EI Com. 425 ...
@Wash Ry g. Elec pfd. ..... IS 99A
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

~ 2% Zenith Radio..... ~ -
Dividend symbOls-a extra; dividend in stock: 81
stock; d, scrip; "ex-dvidepd; tex-rghtR.
Dividend in dollars in parentheseG.
and low prices carried to previous close
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

J EX-diVidend.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
Big Sales Reported,
Bu Radio COMPANY

Grigsby Grunow Company re-
port that from January 81 to
February 81, 61,688 Majestic ra-
dio sets had been delivered from
the factory in the United States
and Canada, and that extraordi-
nary orders for this time are be-
ing received.
The Grigsby Grunow plant has
been turning out 5000 sets a day,
and production will be stepped up
to $500 sets this week.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO. Feb. 25 UN.s).-Hogs,
Receipts, 10000; market steady 10 100
higher. Top. $7.35; bulk, &575a730:
heavyweight, $6.256675: m e d IN m
weight. &6m725: lightweight. S7.1O8
7.35: light lights $71735; packing
sows, $5.sO66,1O; pigs, *606.s5; hold
overs 5000
Calves: Receipts, 1000: market steady.
Beef steers. good and choice. 500
11.25; common and medium. $649.5O;
yearIings $601125. Butcher cattle.
heifers S5@9.6O; cows $3.7506.50;
bulls, S4q6.5O: calves. 3701O.5O: feeder
steers, S50S.25; stonker steers $50
S25; stocker cows and heifers H96.50.
Sheep-RecelntaJ |, 900: market steady.
Medium and g NIpe lambs. $500; culls
and common. 81 $50: yearlings, $3.50
G750; common and choice ewes, S2H5;
feeder lambs, $70S.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
Brazil Coffee Men
Protest at NeLU Tax

SAC PAULO, Brazil. Feb. IS
UNSO Coffee growers in this
region have protested strongly
against a new tax of rs cents per
sack of coffee.
They threaten to present their
case to President Vargas at Rio
de Janeiro.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

SALES
Georgetown Gas IS, $1,000
1O41a, $5O0@10412.
FederaLAmerican National Bank
and Trust, 10@50, 10@50.
After call-Washington Railway
and Electric pfd.. 3@98.
Washington Gas IS, $4,000
104Hs, $1,000 1O4.
Georgetown Gas SIS, $4,000
103B.
Washington Gas IS B, $1,000
103a4.
Washington Gas IS A, $1,000
1013s, 5000 1015s.
Capital Traction Company, 10
35h. 1O@36A. 10@361a, 2@36A.
Public UtIllty Bonds Bid Ask.
Amer Tel 4 Tel AIS "a. :. 1O1 \ I.....
Am T C't'l Tr 5s..... 1861 ....
Ana & Pot RR 5s........ 81 81
Ana & Pot Guar 5s. 95 SS
c & P Tel of Va So ..... 1927 104
Capital Tract r r 6s...... 81A 81
City & Sub IS ............ 80 SO
Georgetown Gas 1st 6s.... l1O3hI105
Pot El Cons 5s .......-. l1O2& l....
Potomac EIec S. ......... l10S .....
Wash Alex Mt ctfs. 2 ....
Wash BALTIC & Az 5s ...... IS %
Washington Gas 41as .... as 100
Washington Gas SIS ........I1O4 l1O5
Wash Gas SIS A. .......... I1O1A HOAX
Wash Gas SIS ser B...... 1O4h l1O6
Wash Ry Elec 4s........ S6K SS
Miscellaneous BOnds
Barber Ross Inc SIS. SO .
Chevy Chase Club 5hs....l1OO ...
Col County Club 5hs.... 400 l1N1h
n Paper Mfg 6s........,. 46 70
w NJ Cold Storage 5s...,.. IS 100
Wash Cons Title SIS. s........l.... .l10O
Public Utilitv stocks
Amer Tel 4 Tel ....-o,I2OoA L.,
Capital TRACTION Co...s.i ae S6A
Wash G4s 1t Co.~u~~S~S~-h2s M3S
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

Two and three room, kitchen and
bath apartments located In 9 desirable
neiRhbOFhOOd, can be found by looking
in the Rental columns Of tOday's ClaS-
-sified Ads.
The Washington times., 1931-02-25

Perhaps the apartment you are seek
ing ls awaiting your selection in tOday's
Rental columns Of the ClasoihlOd Ads
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01

go on the ballot only because it held
nominating convention, was treated
very gently, and its plea was entered
for consideration. 1t looks as though
the socialist party would be put on
the ballot without a struggle.
The militant workers of Chicago,
who know that their party is the
Communist Party, and that If the
socialists are put on the ballot it is
because the employers government
here knows it can rely on socialists
to defend capital against labor, are
planning monster demonstration
Friday to demand that the workers
be represented on the ballot through
the Communist Party.
Fridays meeting is to be held in
Peoples Auditorium, 2457 w. Chicago
Ave, at 8 p. m. 1t will be a mighty
demonstration against mass unem-
ployment, against the wage-cuts and
speed-up and against this attempt
to deny the workers the right to vote
for their own candidates,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
Chicago Mass Protest Friday
At Barring Party from Ballot

CHICAGO, Ill, March 31.-Judge
Taylor of the Cook County Circuit
Court yesterday refused to consider
the argument of the attorney for the
Communist Party that it be put on
the ballot The argument was tech
nically for writ of mandamus. Or
dering the election board to rescind
its decision against putting the Party
on the ballot. and forcing the board
to print the names of the Commu-
mist candidates.
The decision of the board, now
backed up by Judge Taylor, is that
the Communist Party sis an outlaw
organization because it is against
private property, religion and the
American form of government"
The fact that the Party has enough
signatures it not allowed to enter
into the controversy.
Different for Socialists.
On the other hand, the socialist
party. which did not collect any
Signatures at all. and which asks to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
MOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED BY BOSS lNCITED MOB
Unite Against Starvation!

tickets his pockets killed
n himself Tuesday, New York subway station There 1872
committed suicide Indiana last the
admission of the State of Health.
thus falling useless victim
wondedthe sick slowly tarvingacuany number
millions
capitalist against the working
the billions of dollars profits taken from the
blood of the toiers!
starving
cutting
the charity the of bread hitherto
by capitalist charity"
capitalists pose phanhropists
funds wasted graft taken originally the
the they
relief
of thousands death
the
authorities the capitalist
families from tragedy and starvation
constitutes ralyng point
the
employed the
Either
to those lost their jobs the employers the
support working
the employed
of the other be defeated
defeated
shops militant organize your Rally
against support for
date unemployment join them in daily
obess
starvation, prosecutions and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
PREPARE MAY |
In NEW JERSEY
Newark United Front
Conference April 5

The workers of New Jersey are al
ready preparing for the biggest May
Day Demonstrations in the history
of this state. In Newark $50 or
CARNATIONS have been called upon
to send delegates to the United
Front Conference on April at the
Workers Center, SO Mercer ST., at
8 p. m.
The conference will lay cut plans
for monster demonstration against
unemployment, for immediate relief,
against imperialist war and in de-
Tense of the Soviet Union. Similar
United Front Conferences will take
place in New Brunswick at II Plum
ST.; in Jersey City at 1877 Henderson
ST.; Elizabeth, at 106 East Jersey ST.;
Perth Amboy, at 300 Elm ST.; Linz
den, at st. George Ave. and Fern St.
All fraternal organizations and To-
Gals of the A. F. of L. are requested
to elect delegates to this conference
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
DEFEND
TENANT TODAY
Landlord Brings Him
to Court

NEW YORK.-The landlord of CT
Sikorski, 8 months unemployed fur
niture worker with family of seven
children, has had him arrested and
the jobless worker will be heard in
Second Street and Second Avenue
Magistrates Court at 10 a. m. today.
The. Down Town Council of the
Unemployed calls all workers and UNI
employed workers to be in court to-
day.
The landlord tried to evict this
worker about & week and half Az,
and the Down Town Council put his
furniture back in the house for him.
The police are beginning to flock
around the daily meeting where the
Down Town Council speakers address
the throngs outside of the Tammany
fake employment agency at Leonard
and Church st, The speakers ex-
pose the provocative tactics of the
police to the jobless. There are prac-
tically no jobs being given out by the
agency.
Indoro meetings are held at q E.
Fourth st. after the open air meeting
at the agency.
Yesterday at p. M, main speak
er at the meeting at q E. Fourth st.
was Jack tombstone, secretary of the
Trade Union Unity Council.
Today at 645, at the same hall
Carl Brodsky will conduct the class
in public speaking All those regis
tered should be thers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
SMASH GLEN
ALDEN CRlEV-
ANCE MEET
Indignation of Miners
Over Sell-Out Breaks
Up Sessions
10000 Still Striking
Hand Picked Delegates
Meet Bosses Again

The capitalist press reports the
sell-out session of the General Griev-
ance Committee of the Glen Alden
Coal Co, which met Monday night
with the district officials, as having
broken up in disorder.
1t seems that the rank and file
pressure and Indignation at any at
tempt to call off the strike of 10000
miners who fight against the length
ening of the work day, against doing
dead work without pay, against the
topping swindle, and against all sorts
of wage cuts, was too much to be
handled.
Though the local takers control this
General Grievance Committee, there
are minorities closer to the rank and
file who oppose. them, and there is
now rapidly growing an organization
of the Rank and File Opposition in
the locals themselves, which demands
no end to the strike until real de-
mands, not the fake demands of the
Grievance Committee, are won. The
strike is still going on.
Yesterday John Boylan, district
president of the United Mine Work
ers, and Davis, the commissioner of
Cancellation" sent especially Secre-
tary of Labor Doak tn break the
strike, were cooperating with the
local machine to have the company
representatives meet with miners
representatives" to consist of only
four of their reliable men from each
mine. This is openly admitted by
the capitalist press to be plan to
CONTINUED ON FACE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
MISS. TO LEGALLY
LY N CT NEGRO
Killed Slave Driver
In Self-Defense

VICXSBURG, Miss, March 81. -
While q boss-incited mob near here
was lynching 25-year old Eli johnson,
the boss courts were at the same time
putting through legal lynching of
Waddell Cosey, another Negro work
er.
Cosey has been sentenced to be
hanged on May because he defend
ed himself when attacked by Will
Davis. white manager of the Mercer
Hawkins plantation, who resented
Cosey's militancy in refusing to work
any longer without wages. Davis
had made a murderouS attack on
Cosey, and the Negro worker, fight
ing for his life. killed Davis in the
struggle that followed
The bosses, sentencing Cosey to die
for defending himself, have at the
same time covered up and condoned
the lynching of Eli Johnson, and
countless other Negro and white
workers This is capitalist justice as
it is meted out to the Negro and
other workers. The entire working
class must protest this outrage on
May First. Must intensity the strug-
gle against persecution of foreign
born and Negro workers. Must mill
family support the demand for the
right of self-determination Tor the
Negro majorities of the Black Belt,
with confiscation of the land of the
rich plantation owners, and for I'M
conditional equality for the Negro
masses throughout the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01

as he was fleeing a mob.
Following this brutal lynch.
ing-the tenth known so far
this year-the entire machin-
cry of the bosses was put into
motion, not to arrest and pun
ish the lynchers, but to justify tie
murder of this Negro worker. The
boss police, without investigating the
crime, at once put out the lying story
that they learned that johnson at
tempted to attack a woman Sunday
afternoon as she was going to church
with her two children" The muir
dered worker is supposed to have at
tempted to drag the imaginary Wo-
man into vacant lot in broad day
light and leaving the children free
to spread the alarm and attract the
attention of white residents of near
by homes. The story is plainly ri
diculous, but the rape angle had to
De brought IN and this was the best
the police could do.
Another part of the boss machinery.
the capitalist press, did their best to
cover up the lynching. The New York
Times hid the story on-its last page.
Other papers put in on the financial
page and other pages not generally
read by workers. All of them peddled
the damnable lie of the Vicksburg DO
lice The Negro reformist press will
as is their custom, also bury the
lynching and most likely peddle the
lie of the police that the murdered
worker tried to rape a woman.
Last year there were over 40
recorded lynchings in this country.
several of them occurring in the
North. Most of the victims were
Negroes. This count does not include
the scores of Negro share troopers
and tenant farmers quietly done
away with each year by the planta-
CONTINUED On PAGE rHREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
Foreign>Born,
Subscribe!

From a South Slav worker of
South Chicago, we received the
following note:
Enclosed you will find mon
ey order for $3.50 for three new
. subscribers; one for three
months, and two for six months,
We are working for our Jugo-
Slav paper Radnik,' here in So.
Chicago, but at the same time
we do not forget Tie Daily
Worker, because Communist
papers are the only papers
fighting fol- the, rights of the
workiny class Anton S.
This worker sets a. fine ex-
ample for every foreign born
worker to follow in the present
drive for 1000 ncw yearly sub
scriptions or renewals by May
LIST. Send your subs in now and
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
MINERS
OUT ON STRIKE
Arrest $50 J O b | e S S
In Budapest
{ Wireless BY Inprecorr)


VIENNA. March 31-Budapest po-
lice have raided the home of shoe
maker, Wig. i'll the suburb of BacoS-
czaba, allegedly finding a secret
printing plant. Seven persons, in
Guiding one woman we're arrested
Yesterday noon there were unem-
ployment demonstrations before the
parliament at Budapest. Police ar
rested $50 of the demonstrators.
PARIS.-A strike of French miners.
under revolutionary leadership, began
yesterday morning. Thirty thousand
stopped work at Pas-de- Calais. The
strike starts today in the Loire Basin
Martial law has been declared in all
mining districts.
PARIS, March 31-The reformist
leaders of the miners union agreed
to accept six per cent wage cut of
a ten per cent cut as originally de-
manded by the mine owners. The
first four per cent wage cut goes into
operation today.