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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
CHEER AMTER AT
.DEPOSITORS MEET
Boo Norman Thomas
for His Letter

NEW YORK.-Over a thousand
U. S. Bank depositors crowded the
auditorium of Public School No. IS
at Eldridge st. last Saturday night
to hear the candidates for boro presi-
dent Of Manhattan discuss the bank
Of U. S. affair and what their party
would do for the depositors.
Only !. Amter of the Communist
Party appeared, while the rest sent
letters Of regret
When Norman Thomass letter was
read the depositors stormed with pro-
test against his assertion that he, If
elected as boro president of Manlaat-
tan, can not do anything about banks
which is state matter. He was
booed when telling the depositors
that he does not think that they are
entitled to naturalization II they
had the misfortune to pick a wrong
capitalist bank.
The Freiheit and the Daily Worker
were loudly applauded when the
chairman told the depositors that
these papers were the only ones that
told the depositors the truth.
A great ovation was given Amter
when he was introduced. Several
times during his speech he was loudly
applauded. Norman Thomas says in
his letter that he does not know what
he could do II elected boro president,
the Communist Party pledges to you
that II I be elected I'll use all my Of
fetal power as boro president to Or
ganize all the 100000 workers and
small depositors for a militant fight
to get their money back" said Amter.
A resolution was introduced to en-
dorse the Communist Party In its
election campaign. This resolution
was unanimously adopted. All the de-
posters were urged to arrange be-
tween now and election day as many
public meetings as possible and to ap-
peal TO the workers and small bust
ness people to vote the Communist
ticket as the only party that is fight
ing for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
TO DEMAND FREE
FOOD FOR KIDS
Newark Council an d
Pioneers Will Act

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. 26.-The I'm
employed Council Of Newark and the
Young Pioneers Of Newark have sent
an open letter to the president of
the Board Of Education asking him
and the Board to meet a delegation
OF unemployed workers and children
on Saturday, october 81, at II a. m.
to receive the demands for one hot
meal a day In school and shoes for
those children who need them to be
given by the board and the city free
of charge. This demonstration will
be backed by the signatures of thou
sands Of Newark's unemployed par
ents and school children, besides a
maSsing IN demonstration Of unem-
ployed and part-time workers at the
corner Of Green and Broad Streets
at the time the demands and petit
tons will be presented. The secre-
tary Of the Unemployed Council Of
Newark went today to get a permit
for the demonstration at this corner
for this time.
On Friday evening at 9 p. m. at So
Broome Street the Unemployed Coun-
Gil has called a mass meeting where
the delegation to visit the Board OF
Education will be elected and rati-
fled. Dan Shugrue, secretary Of the
Unemployed Council of Newark,
Clarence Mitchell, local organizer OF
the Communist Party, and William
Albertson. organizer Of the Young
Communist League, will address the
assembled workers and call upon
them TO support the struggle. for free
food and clothing for children Of the
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
LID. PLENUM
OCT. BIN CITY
Plan Fight on Growing
Boss Terror

NEW YORK.-The Plenum of the
National Executive Committee of the
International Labor Defense will be
held in New York City October 81
November l. Delegates from organ
izations affiliated with the Trade
Union Unity League and I. L. d.
organizations as far west as Chicago
will attend. Another feature is the
conference on legal questions at
which I. L. D. lawyers will speak.
The plenum will open at 10 am. at
Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
E, 18th St., October 81.
This will be the first national
gathering of our leading forces since
the Second Organization Conference
in December $780," says j. Louis
Engdahl, general secretary of the 1.
L. D.
This Plenurn faces the task of
clarifying the character of the In
ternational Labor Defense as an in
dependent mass organization of mil
liant class struggle fighting for the
rights of the oppressed toiling mas
Ses. On the basis of this clarifica-
ton we must proceed to the build
ing OF mass organization.
1.-THE Plenum must speed the &C
complishment OF these tasks in the
struggle against the growing terror
that the boss class invokes as its
best aid in putting through wage
cuts, smashing strike struggles. re-
siSting the discomfort of the jobless
in gagging the growing cry for bread
We have special tasks In the face
OF the growing war danger China
Japan which is paralleled by ar
ever-sharpening persecution of tn,
workers In all capitalist, colonial anc
semi colonial countries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
What's On
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Drug Workers Attention
All unemployed drug store clerks,
pharmaceutical factory workers, etc.
are called to a special meeting to be
held by thte Medical Workers l. L.
tomorrow afternoon, at los E. 14th
St. room 202, p, m.
WEDNESDAY
Medical Workers Industrial League.
will hold a membership meeting at
e. It'll St. at $50 p. m. Members
are urged to attend. Very important!
NEW JERSEY
Union City.
InternatT Labor Defense. Eng. Br.
will hold a membership drive meet.
tonight. at 4344. Hudson BIv'l. All
workers are invited.
nnoNx RED WEEK
will be held Oct. 26 for the last
week Of the Election Campaign in
the and and 4th Ass. Dists. Unit
No. Of the Young Communist
League and Nos. II. 49, 10, c. p. will
hold open-air meeting, p. m. as fol-
lows:
wednesday. Oct. 2s on
same place, as we'll as Claremont
Parkway and washington Ave. Fur
Their dates will be announced in this
YCL Needle Trade Workers Attention
YCL members working in the nee
die trades will be excused from their
unit meetings TO attend a fraction
meeting at the Workers Center, 35
E. 18th St., unless absolutely neces-
1H- ..SDAY--
steve Katovis Dr., LID.
VIII hold an open-air meeting at
5th st. and Avenue B, pm.
Unit No. 3. Sec. s, c. r.
The Communist Party will hold a
mass election campaign rally at
Hoffmans Mansion, ife Watkins St.,
Brooklyn, Q pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
TAMMANY USES RELIEF AGENCIES
ASPART OF ELECTION MACHINERY

Army headquarters. Organizations
controlled by the bosses will utilize
this registration for a campaign to
find out everything about worker
and his family and particularly about
his political opinion. The Communist
Party which is leading the struggle
Of the working class against the fake
relief schemes and charity handouts
and for unemployment insurance will
mobilize the workers on Thursday
night, October 18th, at the final Elec-
ton Rally to resist the attempts OF
the bosses charity machine to pry
their noses into every bit of personal
information which amounts to finger
printing the working class, The
Communist Party struggles every
day for winter relief for the unem-
ployed, and raises the demand for
$3.50 cash payment TO all jobless
workers as against this charity racket
and shopping into workers homes by
charity investigators. The Comn1u-
mist Party calls on all workers to at
tend the Central Rally Thursday
evening to learn all the facts about
the relief racket Of the bosses who
are now collecting millions of dollars
to line the pockets Of Tammany, Re-
publican and Socialist racketeers and
grafters.
All workers who are citizens are
urged to register Immediately at the
Section headquarters of the c. P. as
Red Watchers at the polls on Novem-
Der 3rd to safeguard the rights of
revolutionary workers who will Vote
Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
Fur Shop Chairmen
Will Meet Thursday

A meeting OF fur shop chairmen
and delegates will be held at the Of
flee Of the union on Thursday, right
after work to discuss some very urg-
ent problems relating to the fur de-
partment,
All shop chairmen and delegates
regardless Of whether they are work
ing or not must report to this meet
ing without fail. The tade commit
tee will give detailed report on the
pans Of activity, which will be dis
cussed and acted upon by the shop
chairmen and delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
Knitgoods Conference
Will Be Held Sunday

A knitgoods workers conference Is
called by the Knitgoods Department
Of the Industrial Union for Sunday,
November 1, for II noon at Irving
Plaza. At this conference a report
will be given on the activities and the
achievements Of the Knitgoods De-
partment of the Industrial Union.
Plans for future organizational ac-
tivity will be discussed. 1t is impor-
tant that all knitgoods workers come
to this conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27

With a fearful winter of freezing
and starvation looming ahead, news
pours in from all over the country
showing the misery already, before
winter Of the masses of unemployed
Some items picked at random fol-
low Intensive organization of the
Councils Of the Unemployed, in
creased struggle for immediate relief,
against evictions for food for chill
dren. ETC., Is imperative. The city
and national and state governments
have no other policy than one of
starvation concealed as much as pos
sible by fake promises and useless
schemes.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. ga
four year old baby slept out in West
Park all night recently. With the
baby was its mother, who had just
lost a job at homework, and its ia
ther, Walter Chervan, a blacklisted
miner, and member Of the National
Miners Union. Chervan is a World
War veteran, and was decorated by
the Serbian government for the sin
gle handed capture of 80 Germans
He says he will die before he leaves
the N.M.U.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 26.-
Michael Clancy, aged 81, unemployed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
O'Neill's Mourning
Becomes Electra" At
The Guild Theatre

The Theatre Guild presented their
second production Of the season,
Mourning Becomes Electra" Eu-
gene ONeills trilogy, at the Guild
Theatre yesterday. This long play of
O'Neilrs will be presented in two per-
formances. Homecoming" in four
acts, starts at pm, and the sec
ond performance, consisting Of THE
Hunted and THE Haunted" begins
at pm. There will be an hour and
que Ter dinner intermission be-
ginning at o'clock. The cast is
headed by Alice Brady, ALA Nazi-
nova, Earle Larimore. Lee Baker.
Thomas Chalmers, Arthur Hughes
and Erskine Sanford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27

every so members of locals and
leagues OF the Food and Packing
House Workers Industrial League, Of
the A. F. of L. and A. F. w. unions
and one delegate from every shop,
every group and shop committee in
the shops and every unemployed
council.
1.-THE conference will be a two-day
session followed by meeting of the
newly elected enlarged executive
board
Forward. to solid united front of
all food workers under the militant
leadership Of the Food and Packing
House Workers Industrial League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
SOVIET ACHIEVEMENT IN AERO
ROPLANE CONSTRUCTION

The Scientific Experimental IN
stitution Of the Soviet Civil Air Ser
vice has just completed the construc-
ton of the first all-metal plane of
non-rusting steel alloy with the cleo
tro-Welding process. The tests have
proved absolutely satisfactory, and in
the opinion Of the experts the ma
chine represents the last word In
aeroplane construction. Neither the
United States nor Europe have any
thing better to offer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
NEW PIONEER HAS
JOHN REED STORY
Many Other Features;
Out Nov L

NE WYORK.-Every child whose
father works in factory or tills the
soil for living will want TO get a
copy of the November issue of the
NEW PIONEER, which will be on
sale November First.
In the November issue there Is a
true story Of little boy who grew
up to be general In the Red Army
told by Moissaye Olgin. editor OF the
Freiheit And there will be the be-
ginning Of the life story OF John
Reed. the daring and brave American
who gave his life to the Russian Re-
volution and whose death we CONNIE
morate in November. with drawings
as only William Chopper can make
them.
And If you've ever attended foot
ball gabe you'll want to read the ex-
PLANTATION of the off-tackle play as
explained by an expert. These ard
many other features interesting to
grown-ups and children will appear
In the November number, which sells
for five cents copy.
To be sure Of getting your copy,
subscribe.
want 10 get the NEW PIONEER
for one year. Here Is my fifty cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
Poyntz to Speak in
Paterson on Wednes.

Juliet Stuart Poyntz, touring New
Jersey for the Communist Party
election campaign will speak in Pat
erson. Wednesday, october %, at 2o5
Paterson.
Comrade Poyntz will speak in New
ark, Thursday, october %, from 5
to p. m. at the Military Park and
will be in Passaic Friday, and in
Trenton, Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
Friends Soviet Union
to Publish Pictorial
on 1A+h Anniversary

NEW Showing a great
number OF hitherto unpublished pic
lures OF Dnieperstroy, Magnitogorsk,
education. cultural life. farming,
sports and scenes Of the Red Army,
the Friends Of the Soviet Union will
publish a special pictorial magazine
ON the occasion Of the 18th anniver-
sary OF the November 7th Revolution.
The Pictorial will contain the
greetings for the I4th Anniversary.
AL workers, friends, organizations
are urged to send In their greeting
lists Immediately so that they will be
included In the Pictorial.
The Pictorial goes to press on the
3oth OF october and all greetings
must be rushed In by air mail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27
Fraction Meeting
of Needle Trades

A very important meeting Of the
needle trades general fraction will
be held on Wednesday. October
20, at 7 pm. sharp, at the Workers
Center, second floor, to take up
the immediate tasks Of the Needle
Trades Union. The meeting will
begin on time. Therefore all COM
rades are requested to be on time
so as not to disturb the meeting.
Bring along your Party member
ship book.
Communist Party, Dist. 2
District Secretariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-27

The registration places opened by
the Tammany Hall machine to regis
ter workers for so-called jobs will be
exposed by the Communist candi-
dates at the Final Election Rally to
be held Thursday, october 20, at
Webster Hall at p, m. They have
been opened in practically every
charity settlement house or Salvation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-29
whitney DEFENDS
STOCK SHORT SALE
Head of New York Exchange
Believes Practice Is Boon
to Finance.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September "a de-
tense CT short selling AS a boon to
finance. written by Richard whitney.
president OF the New York Stock Ex-
change, was made public today.
Whitney's views are contained in .
letter sent by him TO I. Montefiore
Levy, attorney, who has assailed short
selling as "demoralizing the financial
structure Of the world"
In his letter to Levy, Whitney de-
clared 1t was largely because Of the In
1929 that the subsequent decline In
stock prices proved so sharp.
The letter stated in part:
If the practice Of selling something
which one does not own at the time,
but which one can readily obtain later
on Is to be held Legitimate per sc, it
would not be SUFFICIENT to change few
stock exchange rules. We should have
to revolutionize the financial, CONNER
cial and industrial laws of the whole
country.
The role Of the short seller as a
cause Of declining security prices is
usually exaggerated in bear markets.
The actual cause Of dealing prices IS
a general wish on the part of security
holders to sell. coupled with a general
unwillingneSs on the part CT investors
and spectators to buy. The principal
result of short selling Is to hasten
price decline inevitable for other rea-
sons
The owner of securities should not
IN his own interest disregard the very
real service. which the short seller per-
forms for him. AS far as short selling
acts as a brake on price imitation the
investor Is prevented from purchasing
stocks at exaggerated prices and later
on mourning losses upon them.
Many people seem to forget that It
Is impossible to sell stock unless some
one is willing to buy IT, To prohibit
or artifcially curtail short selling would
only render the market more liable to
severe price declines. This Is one rea-
son why all the great stock exchanges
OF the world have always permitted
short selling"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-29
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, September 90 Up Omitted
States Department of Agriculture) -
Hogs, $4,000. including $500 direct; I'M
even; mostly steady to 10 lower than
Mondays average: practical top, $50:
bulk better 10000 pound averages, $40
a5.50; bulk 14o-l70 pounds, 4.5Oa4. IS;
pigs, mostly 4.25a465: bulk packing
sows. 4.25a4.50; light light, good and
choice, l40-160 pounds, 4.65a5.10; light
weight. 10000 pounds. 4.80a5. 40; me-
dunn weight, 200-250 pounds, 5.30a5. so;
heavy weights, 250-35o pounds. Asa
$50; packing sows, medium and good,
275-500 pounds 4.00a4.s5; slaughter
pigs, good and choice, 100-130 pounds,
4.l5a4.65.
Cattle. 1000 head: calves, 2.500 head:
generally steady trade on fed steers
ana yearlings, with light baby beef kinds
very scarce and strong; strictly good
and choice steers all representative
weights, scarce; extreme top, l0.15 for
1,200-pound averages; best yearlings.
1000; mostly 7.25a9.O0 market; other
classes fully steady; slaughter cattle and
vealers: Steers, coed and choice, 100000
pounds. S.00a10.25; COOL, 100 pounds,
7.50a10.O0; 1,1o0-1, 800 pounds. 7.5Oa
1918; 1,300-1 500 pounds, 7.75aI0.25;
common and medium, 600-1 800 pounds,
L.OS0t'tSs ACA1CAos -6OO0 anu CA1OiCG, OOU-
$50 pounds, 70Oa9. rs, common and
medium. 300a7.00; cows, good and
choice, 4.00a5.75; common and medium,
3.00a4.00; low gutter and cutter, 2.00a
500; bulls (yearlings excluded). good
and choice (beef), 425a5.5O: cutter to
medium, 3.40a4.60; vea1ers milk fed,
good and choice, 7.50a9.75; medium,
6.50a750; Gull and common. 4.5oa6.5O;
stocker and feeder cattle: Steers, good
and choice, 500-1 ,050 pounds, 5.00a
6.75; common and medium, 325a5.O0.
Sheep, $4,000: strong to Is higher;
advance largely on in-between grade
lambs; good to choice natives, 6.25a
TOO; few, TBS: choice Westerns, IN
sold; range feeders, 5.00a5.25; fat ewes,
/ .00a200; lambs. 80 pounds down, good
and choice, 625a7.50: medium, 5.00a
SIS; all weights, common, 375a5.00;
ewes, 9o-150 pounds, medium to choice,
/ .00a2.50; all weights, Gull and COM
mon, $50; feeding lambs. 50-75
pounds, good and choice, 4.75a5.60.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-29
Baltimore Markets


Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMORE, Md. September 29.-
Potatoes, 100 pounds, e0a1.2o; sweet
potatoes, bushel, 40a5o; beans, bushel
35a6o: beets. per 100. 20oa2.50;
cabbage, bushel. 25a35: carrots, pei
100, 3.00a4.0o; corn, per dozen, sal5
cucumbers, bushel, Local u.s., elephants
hamper. 40a5o; lettuce, per crate. 25s
$50; cauliflower. crate, 1.25a2.oo; eel.
cry, crate, l.15a1.75; lima beans. ham
per, 75a2.00: okra, bushel, LOCAL so:
peppers, hamper, 25a35; onions. per 10C
pounds, 1.T5a2.00; spinach, rbushel. Goa
stock, bushel, 50a60; apples, bushel, 40a
lbs; cantaloupes, crate, l.l0al.75.
Dairy Market.
Chickens, young, 22a27; Leghorns,
19a22; old hens, 1Sa26; Leghorns, old,
14alS; roosters, 12ai5; ducks, 13a20;
pigeons, pair, 15a20; guinea fowls, pair,
25a50.
Eges-Receipts, ITO cases: current
receipts, l5a22: hennery whites, 28a3O:
nearby firsts, %; Western firsts, %.
Butter-Good and fancy creamery,
30a35; ladies, 20a22; process, 23a24;
store packed, 16.
Live Stock Market.
Cattle-Receipts. $50 head; lighter
supply; market dull.
Steers-Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 7.00a7.65; medium to good,
6.00a7 90; fair to medium, 5.50a6 90;
plain to fair, 5.0oa5.50; common to
plain, 4.25a5.00.
Buils--Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 4.50a4.75; medium to good,
4 00a450; fair to medium, 350a4. 90;
plain to fair, 3.25a3.50; common to
plain, 300a3.25.
Cows-Choice to prime, none; good
to choice, 4.25a4.50; medium to good
3.75a425; fair to medium, 325a4.75;
plain, .5Oa225.
Heifers-Chcice to prime, none: good
to choice, 6.ooa6.25: medium to good.
5.75a6.o0; fair to medium, 525a5. rs;
plain to fair, 4.75a5.25; common to
plain, 4.00a4.75; fresh cows and sprin-
ers. 30.00a60.00.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts, $50
head; light supply, market steady;
sheep, f.00a3.00; lambs, 350aS.0O.
Hogs-Receipts, 1000 head; light sup
ply; market lower; lights, 5.60a5 IS;
medium, 5.75a6.00; light pigs, 5.5oa5 80;
heavies, 5.50a6.Oo, roughs, 3.75a4.65;
Calves-Receipts, so head; light sup
ply; market higher; calves, 4.00a1o so.
Hay and Grain Prices.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, export, no
quotations; No. 2 red Winter, gariicky,
spot, domestic, 49,: September deliv-
cry. 4a%; october. 487s.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, domestic, spot,
57a58; cob corn, 300a3.25 per barrel
Oats-No. 2 white, domestic, spot,
31a32; No. 8, 30a31
Rye-Nearby, 40a45.
Hay-ReceiptS, none. New hay is
starting to arrive in increasing guam
titles, but so far no official grading has
been attempted, selling being strictly
on merit Demand for old hay slow
and market Is dull and quiet, with
prices in buyers favor at a range of
14.00a18.00 per ton.
Straw-No. / wheat, 9.00a9.50 PER
ton: No. oat, 9.00a1o.00 per ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-29
Grain Market
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 29.-Grain
prices turned downward early today.
infiuenced by Liverpool reports of in
creased pressure to sell Canadian wheat
abroad and by cheaper Russian offer
ings Further declines in Wall Street
securities were also a beariSh factor.
Opening 1sa% cent lower, wheat af-
terward sagged further. Corn started
at ssa34 decline to Il advance with new
crop deliveries outdoing the seasons
low price record, but later kept near the
initial range.
Russia was reported to have sIashed
her export wheat prices 2% cents a
bushel. There were also reports of stop
loss selling by wheat holders at Liver
pool, where the market today closed
f1R-1M pence lower Assertions by a
British authority that the full effect of
suspension Of the gold standard had
been witnessed were apparently ignored.
Corn price downturns resulted largely
from favorable weather for field work.
and from increased bookings of corn to
arrive In Chicago. Besides, today's re-
ceipts here were liberal, 103 cars, com
pared with 95 week ago and rs on
the corresponding day last year. De-
cember corn, representing the new crop.
fell at one stage to 351a cents a bushei.
more than a full cent drop from the
opening quotations. Oats followed corn.
Provisions advanced. owing to scat
tered buying. despite downturns in hog
values.