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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15
ANNUAL REPORT
UNION TRUST COMPANY OF ira

ANNUAL REPORT
UNION 21ys vTRusT COMPANY OF THE
To the COMPTROLLER OF the Currency az
proved oSso5e section 1855 ~ Act ar q CONGRESS
December 81, 1880
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ended December 81, 1890. -. 74e.Os7 50
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after deduction Of above items: l.272 $50 Sc
tSigned) EDWARD j. STELLWAGEN.
DANIEL W. o,poNoGHU1EE",
d J. KAUFMAN.
dEooRGE Z. HAMILTON,
JAMES B. LAMBIE.
GEORGE y FLEMING.
JOHN H. SMALL
JOHN 9. HoYT.
w 8. HARLAN,
II. G. NEWCOMER,
9. THOMAS DUNLOP,
PRANK C., HENRY.
We, EDWARD j. STELLwAGEN, Presi-
n rsVlTo zIPE snd sewsTetsry EpS0NS
JAMS 3. LAMBiE. CHARLES IA r. WILSON WILSON
and GEORGE q FLEMING. Directors Of the
Union Trust Company Of the District OF
Columbia. do hereby soiemnly swear that
the above statement Is true TO the best OF
our knowledge and belief.
EDWARD J. sTELLwAGEN.
President.
EDISON b. oI.Ds.
w s. HARBAN
JAMES 3. LAMBIE,
CHARLES y. WILSON,
GEORGE +. FLEMING.
District Of Columbia, IS:
Subscribed and sworn 70 before me this
18th day Of January. 1881.
T. BUTTON WAINWRIGHT,
fAotary Seai.l Notary Public, ID e. '
Total number OF directors and trustees
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
How To Spread the Daily
Worker
Comrades:

An up-to-date necessary and almost self
sustaining auxiliary is the Red Builders News
Club and its score and half branches scat
tered over the country. The Red Builders Clubs
are at the present time in day to day strug-
gle with an ever-increasing Party problem, that
of mass distribution of the central organ of our
Party-the Daily Worker. In this work we are
already meeting with greater successes on all
fronts, factory sales, house to house routes Q8
cents per week., street sales and subs And yet
we cannot be satisfied with these gains! Haven't
we the basis for it? The present crisis, over 10
millions unemployed, millions starving, evictions
by the thousands daily, the demand for a real
Ex-Service mems bonus!
There is a growing demand for our Daily"
vet we see that where unemployed workers or
individual comrades have the initiative to build
Red News Clubs, they exist. We do not exag
gerate when we say that 95 per cent of these
sellers are non-Party workers, showing that our
Party unemployed workers are not active in this
work, especially the women comrades.
The districts down to the units not show
ing the necessary responsibility and initiative in
the work of establishing new functioning clubs
especially in towns away from the center) and
developing strong core of leadership in each
of them.
This club does not by any means take the
place of the Party unit paterson stopped its
bundle when a group of Pioneers organized
club On the contrary, it is only the task of
the Party and the T. U. U. L. to storm the fac
tories with Daily Workers. Each Party unit
should bring into action the slogan of Party
units, become leaders in your factory and ter
ritory!" There is hardly better method than
to have comrades from your factory and ter
ritory write often to the Daily Worker on the
problems of the workers there and to sell these
Daily Workers on every important corner in your
territory. One unit may have as many as
corner sales besides house to house routes within
3 months. This can be done in the following
manner: A unit picks out good corner for con-
centration-a comrade each day at the
time every day until there is an actual demand
for the Daily" there which may take about
weeks. Then ''Red Builder" is brought to that
corner. The same can be done in house to house
routes (ths should take in most of the until.
There is enough to be said on why the Y. G. L.
should sell the Daily Worker and how to cooper
ate with the Party in building the Young Work
er and Daily Worker to write another article on
this alone.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
More Wage Cuts in Shoe Industry

Recently Mr. Phihpson announced an other wage
cut OF 10 per cent. The lasters refused to accent
any more reductions threatened with a walk
out, so he told them that he will not cut their
wages. The same day he prepared himself with
other lasterS, and one nice morning he notified
his lasters that they shall take their tools away
because their places have been filled by other
men, When they came up to take their tools and
asked him if this is the reward they are getting
Tor their scabbery he told them if they are willing
to accept 20 per cent reduction he will employ
them instead of the newly recruited men
This is not the only case, the epidemic of wage
cutting is being practiced by all bosses the
methods may be different. l. Miller has a diff
ferent method of cutting the wages of his slaves
HIS Office sends out kilograms to workers who
nave been working there sometimes before or
from others who have been looking for work at
MS plant left their addresses. When they come
ready Tor work, the hiring manager takes away
the kilograms and sends the workers I'D to the
various departments, so that the workers work.
ing there shall see them The foreman then
comes over to the telegraphed workers and tells
them that he is very sorry, he has no more place
lor them All machines and benches are taken
III SEND Tor you when I'll need you This scheme
gives tne posses chance to come over to the
workers In the shop and tell them: you see
FNSNNJ *,
wiling to work for any price" Then comes a
reduction.
AT the present day the workers in Hayerhill
massachusetts are preparing to fight against
low wages and speed-up. This also includes the
l. Miller plant in Haverhill The 1. Miller firm
therefore is planning to close the Hayerhll plant
ana have the work done in the Long island CITY
rant This scheme besides trying to make the
New York workers to scab on the Hayerhill shoe
workers, is also telling the workers to accent a.
wage cut SO they will have more work
An other method Of the bosses to secure chean
labor, is the following:
The Board of Trade, an organization of the
Shoe Manufacturers together with the Board of
Education is maintaining school to teach the
workers not in the industry and shoe workers
the various branches of the trade There are
shoe workers who sometimes like change and
learn a new section of the shoe making SO,
this school is for this purpose. One of the bos-
ses who use this school agency from where
to get cheap labor, is the Hannah and Son Shoe
Company which has its shoe stores almost in
every big city in the United States The for
lady Of the fitting room in their Brooklyn and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

only shoe manufacturing plant is one of the in
sructors in that school, she is teaching the young
girls how to operate on the fitting room ma
chimes also on the folding machines. SO when
she notices that girl is capable of doing the
work fairly well, she the forlady takes them to
the Hannah and Son Shoe Company where she
is employed as forlady and pays the girls star
walton wages. These girls replace the men quail
flied shoe worker who are forced to walk the
streets.
The workers. men and women must organize,
in order to combat the constant attacks of the
shoe manufacturers.
The workers have to learn from these schemes
of the bosses. The unemployed shoe workers
should organize in the unemployed councils and
fight for unemployed insurance. Those who are
still working should organize shop committees
and get in contact with the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, which is under the
leadership of the Trade Union Unity League
1t is in the interests of the shoe and leather
workers to build a powerful National Shoe and
Leather Workers Union in America.
Fight wage cuts! Unite your forces with all
the shoe workers. Fight for better wages and
conditionsl Organize and fight against depor-
tation Of foreign born workersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

Question: A Bishop Wade spoke here in the
Methodist Church. He said in Soviet Russia
after childbirth the child is taken from the
mother, placed in state nursery and regarded
as property of the state and the mother is al
lowed to see it occasionally. / am wondering
if this man is Iiar?-Grand Rapids, Mich.
This story is lie, parents in the Soviet Union
can keep their children. The facts are that only
in the workers republic is the working mother
given the care she needs before and after child
birth and the proper provision for nursing the
baby during the following months. Maternity in
surance, for unemployed if there are any, as well
as for employed working women, is paid for 8
weeks before and 8 weeks after confinement,
to the full amount of the wages, from the first
day of the vacation. Special provision is also
made for workers wives who work at home A
sum for nursing is given to all working women
and workers wives, for seven to nine months
after childbirth. A day nursery in connection
with the factory means that the mother can
have her child near the place where she works.
Regular periods are allowed for the mother to
leave her work and nurse her child.
Such stories as this show the workers that
preachers, religious representatives, and the
church are against the workers government, the
Soviet Union, and are continually using all
means in their power to fight and spread SLAM
der about it. They support capitalism, and the
continued exploitation Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Marx On Karl Kautsky

Institute in Moscow. The trial of the Menshe-
viks exposed Riazanov, until recently director of
the Marx Enges Institute as directly helping the
unter-revolutonary Menshevists. For this Riaz-
anov was expelled from the Russian Communist
Party and removed from his position as Director
of the Marx-Engels Institute.
Marks letter was discovered in the Institute
after Riazanovs removal. The letter had been
carefully concealed by Riazanov who had re-
ceived the original in 1925 from the well known
Menshevist, Lydia Zederbaum- Dan.-Ed
Here is how Marx characterized KautsRy:
6. Enges also sizes up this "Kautz' much
more mildly since he has proven himself great
expert in drinking When this beauty first came
to mel mean the little Kautz-the first ques-
ton that came to my lips was: DO you re-
sernbe your mother?' Most decidedly not, he
assured me, and silently congratulated his
mother. He is medocrity with petty out
look; he is overwise (only rs years old he is
self-confident know-it-all; in way he is in
dustrious, occupies himself great deal with
statistics, but gets very little sense out of them;
by nature he belongs to the tribe of phlstines:
outside OF that he is rather decent fellow in
his way; shift him as much as possible onto
friend Engels"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
BY S. GOLDBERG

THE days of 1929-30 during which period the
Brooklyn and New York Shoe Manufacturers
with the direct aid of the U. S. Labor Depart
ment, Grover Whalen the then police Com
missioner of New York City with our well known
Finest" the underworld and not less the trail
torous Boot and Shoe scab Union officialdom
which is part of the A. F. of L. have made their
attack on organized shoe workers and their
union the Independent Shoe Workers Union
which fought all the enemies of the Working
class, is still fresh in our memory.
The future historians who will write the his
tory of the struggles of the working class in
America, will not fail to mention the heroic
struggle of the shoe workers during the period
of l929-30
At that time, when the group of Shoe Manu-
facturers made their well known lock-outs
against their workers, there was also the firm
of Phiipson and Lockwood The firm at that
time was located in Long Island Due to the
militant resistance of the workers against the
open shop campaign and injunctions, the above
shoe comapny was forced to move its shop to
New York, reduce its manufacturing capacity
and change its name to Philipson Shoe Company
which is located at 1873 West 18th Street. AS 4
already known, the strike which the shoe work.
ers led against the onslaught of the Shoe Manu-
facturers was lost because of the direct inter-
Vention OF the U. S. Department of Labor, the
police, the underworld capitalist courts and the
scabbery of the Boot and Shoe Union. All the
efforts of the Bosses the police, and the courts,
to railroad and imprison the fighting shoe work.
ers, did not stop the militancy of the workers
The Philipson and Lockwood Shoe Company
succeeded to mobilize small group of scabs for
which it paved very dear price, as already men,
toned it had to move its plant to New York
City and reduce its manufacturing capacity, pay
enormous sums for police and gangsters for pro-
lection and SO on. Now. something happened at
this company which is already well known to
all class conscious workers as an old scheme of
the bosses. The scabs whom Mr. Phipson sue
ceeded to recruit at the time of strike, are now
paying the price of their scabbery.
The inevitable diseases of the capitalist system:
unemployment, starvation, wage cuts and ETC.
are constantly taking wider forms.
One of the methods of the bosses to keep the
workers ensaved and fill their Golfer with profits
is, to cut the wages of those who toll Mr. Phil
Epson is no exception He also keeps cutting
the wages of his slaves so he kept on cutting
until even the scabs could no longer endure it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

Below we reprint an extract from a letter
which Karl Marx wrote fifty years ago to one
of his daughters in reference to Karl Kautsky.
The important role that Kautsky played in the
international socialist movement, his position as
the leading Marxist theoretician for decades
prior to the last war and his betrayal Of the
working class following the outbreak Of the war
lends special importance to Marks opinion Of
Kautsky expressed in this letter.
From leading Marxist theoretician, Kautsky
developed into one of the worst counter-revo-
lutonary slanderers Of the Soviet Union. The
recent revelations Of the counter revolutionary
Menshevist interventionists called forth Kaut-
sky's tremendous fury against the Soviet Union
and the dictatorship Of the proletariat. Today
Kautsky in spite of his advanced years, is one
of the leading theoreticians Of social fascism
1t is significant that already fifty years ago
Marx recognized Kautsky's real character.
While Marks letter to his daughter Jennie
written on April IL, 1881 had never really been
printed in full, part OF the letter was published
in Russian translation in sthe May, 1899, issue
of the legal Marxst Journal Nachalo Marks
opinion of Kautsky. however, was omitted from
this translation
1t was only after the recent trial Of the coun-
ter-revoutionary Menshevists that the original
OF this letter was discovered in the Marx-Enges
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
That Matter of Our Songs

FROM DaIoo, Minnesota, comes letter from
Conlrade G. O. A., protesting at the protest Of
Cleveland Worker" because the latter co,,-
demns the singing of the 'Marseilaise . hecsusS
II is the official national hymn of the Franc,,
InperlahSt government and the French bour-
geoisie. wa
How about the French masses?" asks q. {, A
wen tell you, comrade that thew repard n t,,.t
as we do the Star Spangled Banner and tbev
sing either the Internationale (Which you SOW
you've never heard) or, for their own French
ilaVor, they sing "The Carmagnolen-and bov
how they sing thatl
iou concern as to whether Cleveland Work
Ct knows the English words Of the Marseillaise
is beside the point. s3.as
Anyhow, why not sing the numberless stirring
and inspiring songs given us by the Bolshevik
revolution? Indeed, why not make some of our
own? In Germany today, the most popular
revolutionary song is that concentrating the
street battles of May First in the Wedding Dis
trict of Berlin in 1929, THE Red Wedding" it is
called.
Then there is the fine song "Auf Zum Kampf"
in memory of Liebknecht and Luxembourg. and
Tor sauce, the old 1848 song "Blut Muss F1iessenl"
In TACT the Germans turn out new ones all the
ume And we American reyolutionists? We
are SO culturally poor that we borrow and steal
and usually half know some wobbly parody of
mournful old church song. In fact our moye-
nlent has not learned to sing. We are lot Of
dumb animals! .t.
This is utterly intolerable, and here and nor
hed Sparks opens campaign to encourage am
incite revolutionary music and singing! We o,rst
selves translated the "Carmagnole," the Italjaf
"Bandiera Rosa" and the Russian Funeral sorxo
eight years ago. But we've never vet heard
them sung by masses or chorus In the English
words we furnished
About 1923 the Young Communist Ieae,,e pb-
hshed these and dozens Of others, with music.
IL is now out OF print But the Y. c. L, has
peen singing some new songs in kind of hit or
miss fashion. recently. Until recently the you'll,
seemed TO think it was undignified to sing. Let's
nope 1t gets completely over that fool notion
Inc movement which does not sing is only half
alivel
And let's demand that the Y. C. L. or some
oCher organization right now get busy printing
ana popularizng the splendid songs of revolt
tnat now exist and encouraging new tunes and
words that come out of the heat of struggle and
heart OF the American proletariati
Down with Wobbly parodies OF religious
hymns! Down with the bourgeoisie and its
tunes! Pass resolutions write in your demands
personally to us or to the Party or the Y. O. L.
Let's start something!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
&4..
Not Like Bill HaywOod!
By JORGE

Seattle Doc Brown is a socialist who
turned democrat to become mayor of Seattle.
Doc made his opening campaign speech for the
coming municipal election, with speech on
Unemployment recently at the I.W.W. Hall in
Seattle, and under IW.W. auspices The I.W.w.
carries on to the death against politicians
but the only politicians they really war against
are the working class politicians who are leading
the class struggle.
THE wobbly takers snatch a phrase here and
there out Of Marx and Engels, but they pass up
the point in the Communist Manifesto that says
But every class struggle is a political
struggle"
Further on page OF, Marx and Engels state:
The dangerous class" the social scum, that
passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest
layers Of old society, may, here and there, be
swept into the movement by proletartan revo-
luton its conditions of life however, prepare
it far more for the part of bribed tool of re-
dictionary intrigue
Il am convinced that in incorporating the
above paragraph in the Communist- Manifesto
Marx and Engels had long range view for they
sure do put takers like Ellis, Thompson and
other social scum on the spot.-A worker"
The social fascist degeneracy into which the
LW.W. officaldom generally has fallen is not
OF course, due to any special genius for evil of
individuals, but logical development of their
anarcho-syndicalist theories
Nevertheless. it is nauseatng to meet vobbly
Leaders of 1917, who, one after another have
become actual Wallets, and contented ones to rich
parasites; who are rotten with cynicism: who
have gone into bootlegging or Legitimate" busi-
ness.
Others, trying to cover up their forsaking of
the rCvo lyionary path, have become the slinjest
sort OF A. F. of L. labor skates or cheap mer-
cenaries for the boss class as professional at
tackcTS e Communist Party, hiding their
dishonesty under the otherw e honest authority
of dirty shirt.
Recently in New York masquerading under
the name OF The Unemployed Union" dmagine
the industrial union" of those outside indus
tryD, the L w. w. has organized sort of
revolutionary" beggars association with the
general idea that the workers who are iobless
can get more by begging capitalists than bv
lighting them and forcing more relief and IN
employment insurance
BY teaching this degenerate idea to the work.
ers, the Wobbly leaders" hope to get some SIM
port Tor their fight against the Communists.
ooCh from the workers they delude and from
the capitalists Naturally, for such service, they
expected the aid of the capitalist police and ac
tuaily called the cops to help them in New York
against the Communists. New York cans don't
IKE Communists, but even they despise wobbjies
VINO scab on the cops, which is why tbey
wouldn't help
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Enlist Women In Jobless Activities

Win the wives Of unemployed workers and unem
ployed women workers for the neighborhood
branches of unemployed workers. Enlist them
in struggles against high food prices, against
high rents, for free meals for school chill
dren, for unemployment insurance. The
heroic fight of the women in Chicago
against high bread prices and their par
tial victory should be lesson to all
neighborhood branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Hyde to Hang Himself!

III I thought prices in general would go any
lower, I'd hang myself" said Secretary Of Agri-
culture Hyde. of agricultural marketing condi-
lions. So said a dispatch Wednesday.
The prospect is inviting. However, you will
notice that the rascal did not say that az prices
would go lower" Oh, no! He said--'1f I
THOUGHT prices would 60 lower" Hyde n 4
careful liar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
BY TOM MOONEY

IN the last instaIlment of the exposure Of
the American Federation of Labor leaders
treachery in the Mooney Billings case, Tom
Mooney shows how the machine in the Team
sterS' Union and in the San Francisco Cen
trail Labor Council corrupted the secretary
Of the Tom Mooney MouIders Defense Com
mittee, and caused her to shield MONEYS
enemies, the governor Of the state and the
labor takers. Now read on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee. Communist Party, U.S.A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-03
HOSPITAL MEASURE
DELAYED IN HOUSE
Reed Charges "Lcg-RoIIing"
and Threatens to Tell
Where Blame Lies.

Failure of congressional conferees to
agree on legislation to construct addi-
tional veterans hospitals was caused by
log rolling on the part Of the House,
Senator Reed Of Pennsylvania declared
in the Senate last night.
The charge was made In reply to q
question by Senator AshurSt, Demo-
crat, Arizona, who inquired as to the
status of the legislation.
Frankly" Senator Reed, Repub-
lican, asserted, "the situation is that
the House wants to dictate the loca-
ton of every hospital. The Senate
wants to leave that TO the White House.
It is a question of log rolling on the
part of the House and nothing else.
still hope the House will see its way
clear to yield" He added that If the
House did not yield today, he would not
remain muzzled," but would tell the
country who is to blame"
The conferees failed again yesterday
to reach an agreement on bills, and
Chairman Smoot said the legislation
apparently was dead for this session
unless the House managers asked for
another conference.
The House bill provides So, SOC, 900
and specifies where every hospital shall
be erected. The Senate bill, on the
other hand, provides q lump sum Of
20,S77, 900 and leaves the locations to
the executive branch Of the Govern
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-03
$50 RETURN TO JOBS

Reading Iron Co. Reopens Pud-
ding and Bar Mills.
READING, Pa, March 3 (F1.-with
the reopening Of the Obey street pud-