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The Washington times., 1931-06-08
CARRIER ISSUES
RALLY AFTER
SLUMP
sloSseS of | to 3 Points Fall to
, Garry Prices Down to Lows
y Recorded Early Last Week

q NEW YORK. June 8 0N.SD.
The firmer tone Of the indus
trial stocks and utilities today
= was offset by the weakness Of
5&tlle rails, and the market as q
whole was a dull and irregular
,oaffair, with speculative interest
. confined to q handful Of the
leading s stocks. ...,
Z A drop Of i to .SIa points in
C@the rails followed logically the
spectacular rallies Of last week,
(which were based upon little
z more than the chasing Of the
s'bears back over their trails.
Fan, Then Rally
:. New York Central sold today
at 74Ss, down az points from
Saturdays close and points
from the high Of last week. At
sschiSon dropped as low as 141,
(which compares with last weeks
thigh Of l55, and Pennsylvania
.4bDoke under As. Even at these
sprices, the best rails showed a
y moderate advance over the low
5rprices of last week. and in the
Yearly afternoon sharp rallies
5again took place.
q United States Steel started the
new week about z points under
= Saturdays close, and it was not
kuntil near, the end Of the third
fhour that this stock climbed back
ron q level with the close Of last
sWeek, at S93s.
Y It's market action was closely
tparalleled by American Can, Gen
.reral, Electric and Westinghouse,
which broke a point or more un.
4rder the effect of the weekend
accumulation of selling orders, but
rallied as soon as they were out
of the way. American Can topped
100 in the third hour, against
.,97A at the opening.
Oils Make Gains
s The oils improved as the ses-
{ sion advanced, Standard of New
aJersey gaining more than q point
sat' 34A.
Z The market received little help
s.or inspiration from commodity
markets, cotton falling off IS
scentS bale and grain selling
1Elightly lower. Cali money was
unchanged at 112 per cent.
The Washington times., 1931-06-08

Canada
New York funds in Montreal N.e2b
premium At 81 900. ...
Montreal funds IN New York, 1o.s?h
discount at $1,000.
The Washington times., 1931-06-08
Canada Grain Areas
In Critical Condition

Practically the entire western
region of Canada, which normally
has the heaviest grain production,
is in a critical condition due to
prolonged drought, combined with
damage from high winds, frost
and cut worms. the Department
of Agriculture was told yesterday.
The only districts reporting fair
conditions were those on the edge
Of the main area. The regions
suffering the most are Western
Manitoba, the whole of Southern
and Central Saskatchewan ana
Southern and Central Alberta.
The Washington times., 1931-06-08
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Demand | Gable
The Washington times., 1931-06-08
BARGE OPERATIONS

= Mississippi Valley Barge Co. ap-
Splied to Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to ex-
stend it's operations on the Miss
.. .iSSippi River between st. Louis
and Cairo. ILL.,, including inter
mediate ports. The line will
'bompete with the Federal barge
aline operated by the Inland
NWaterWays Corn.
The Washington times., 1931-06-08

DIVIDEND 0ymboA-a extra: dividend In Stoek; 81
, stock; d. Scr1p: ss8-diVtdend: tOS.rtghta
Dividend GoIIArO In DArOntheSe9
Years. hWh prices carried to PFoVIOuS 0@0&
0RxsdivtdOHA. fE9.RtBAt&
The Washington times., 1931-06-08
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

washington Gas es A. 1000
1918: 6OO@1Ol%.
Washington Gas Ss B 1000
1O5: 20O@1O5.
Potomac Electric Cons. IS 1000
@105.
Potomac Electric S1as pfd. 20
10: S@11OA.
Potomac Electric ss pfd. 20
1131a. \
washington Railway & Electric
pfd. 1O@9S1a.
Federal American Co.: com. as
@2lA.
LanSton Monotype 5000.
AFTER CALL
Potomac Electric IS pfd. So
1121a.
washington Gas es A, 5000
102N.
Pabllc UtiIity BOnd9
Am Tel L Tel Ctl Tr s.. los I.
AnRcOstia 4 Pot r 6s -. IS .....
Ana & Pot Guar 5s..,.,..... S6 50
c T. Tel Ot Va 6E........ 1O3 .....
Cap Fraction 5s........ S2h 1914
city 4 Suburban sE.........I 7S .....
Georgetown Gas LIST 5s..... 1H .....
PStS%:s PStS%:s Eiss EIse Ss"'. ss Ss ies i
wss6inEton Ws t . Gas as 4MS.......: :: 100 v ic4.
Washington Gas 6s..........lOS i.....
The Washington times., 1931-06-08
CATy~2ILLAR CO. SUES

Caterpillar Tractor Company
has filed suit in Carson City, New,
against International Harvester,
on claims involving patent rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Hoover Plans Civil War On German
Masses, Imperialist War on Soviet Union
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

that taking steps
the German masses to draw Germany into front against the
r. the against the
conspiracy Hoover Mellon aimed
labor at home and abroad The Mellon who
secret talks in Europe responsible the shooting
Pennsylvania The Mellon
to speak OF these open war moves as acts Of international
brotherhood
framed death children
ening the conditions
ton of millions of workers in the United States
Already the Wall Street attempts
sort Of financial help to Latin America This bold and predatory
Of Hoover take advantage Of the economic crisis destroy
last remnants Of independence Mexican Central
undsputed
american countries and disposal Of their populations military
working by these hypocricai
Similar holidays"
e of
Conference at the time Of the Kellogg
Macdonald visited United
Conference held that there would be
would be holiday from the furious up
ments But the for feversh;
preparations for have forward by leaps
The American workers in order fight against the
unemployment at fight against conspiracy
Young Plan more firmly the German The American
must fight against
the A. Of reaconay leadership Party
given their cooperation to the plan
time are carrying strkebreang against the fighting Of
Pennsylvania and Ohio They fight by side
workers who under the salva leadership the Communist Party
moving forward to berate themselves
Buenins government and its socialist allies.
The American working
conditions poverty and misery from hunger and starvation
defeat the efforts Of the boueoe plunge the working
against the Soviet Union
oppressed Unite on August First
against the war plans Of the capitalist robbersl Unite with
Germany and the world to smash the Young Plan Unite the
struggle against cuts against speed-up
starvation for unemployment insurance and immediate
unemployed rights
organize and strike for relief for the impoverished
nching Negroes registration
workers
Make August First
moves of American imperialism
Smash the conspiracy plunge
the German working class into greater
Demand the liberation OF Philippines
from American imperaist oppressonl
equality oppressed Ne
Down with starvation working
cae
with
reactionay L.
of the wagecuing
Of the revolutionary movement of the working
Down with Hoovs plans against the
with MELONS embargo against
Defend the Socialist Fatherland Soviet Ryissai
Demonstrate on August
CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF UsA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Mass Protest in Court Forces Release of
'Daily" Agent

woman in May Day, 1880. He choked
Stapf and took him to the police
citation while the band played: What
a friend we have in Jesus" Mike"
felt very good, no doubt having Jesus
on his side. The workers responded
to the call of the LID and Stapf was
baile6 out in few hours on 800 bail
Next Thursday Stapf, came to
trial" Five hundred workers jam
med the little police court and sew
eral times the judge threatened to
Gust them for making a "demonstra-
ton" He forgot that the workers
are taught that the courtroom is
theirs"
The Salvation Army sent down
several girls who had not even been
on the corner at the time of the
arrest. This was the tactic of a
Christian" society of grafters, etc.
The girls were not permitted to tes-
tify when Stapf, defending himself,
brought out this fact. The Judge was
hesitant about letting the frame-up
be too raw in the sight of the 500
workers. One can only feel sorry for
the women workers who are misled
by such grafters The court was
looking for way out. The worker
who defended himself backed up by
O,yrI ~
more than they cared to have go on.
The case was dismissed The work.
ers marched from the police court
singing solidarity. Stapf went back
to sell Daily Workers. Mike" is still
on his beat and the Lords work
goes on" We will see someday who
stays on or maybe we won't even
have the skid road any more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
10000 in PITTSBURGH DEMANDING
JOBLESS RELIEF PLEDGE TO CARRY
STRIKE OF MINERS TO VICTORY

Commissioners. and William z. Foster
general secretary of the Trade Union
Unity League, who made the con-
Guiding speech, drawing great 'ap-
plause as he declared:
Some people are fooled by all this
talk that the only way to get better
conditions is by cooperating with the
bosses, that the fighting policy of the
National Miners Union is too radical
"But when the UMWA, really was
winning conditions and wages for the
miners, it was in the days of Mother
Jones, and others like her, who led
the miners in putting up real fight
for them. When did the UMWA be-
gin to crunble and lose what the
miners fought so hard to win? When
Lewis and his like got in control and
began the policy of cooperating with
the bosses, saying there was no good
in militant struggle. We have learned
this! You never get anything with
out fighting for It'll Tremendous
cheering interrupted Foster at this
point. Miners throughout the crowd
shouted, you bet we'll fight"
That's the only way!" etc.
This march has proved that the
striking miners realize that the in
terests Of the unemployed and them
selves are the same. Unemployed
miners will refuse to scab on the
strikers. Our fight is not against
one another, but against the bosses!
This is the only great industrial
country in the world where workers
are thrown out on the streets to
starve when they are unemployed"
Foster said, speaking of the demands
for unemployed insurance the County
Commissioners refused to hear. Are
our demands extravagant? Ten dol
lars for every unemployed worker and
IS for each dependend? Lots of
people are eating dandelions now.
What will they try to make us live
on in the winter, snowballs? MOI
Well fight against that
I'VE demand of the capitalists
work or else wages in the form of
unemployment insurance. The capt.
talist system is bankrupt. We say to
them if you can't give us work or
wages. get the hell out of the way
4 - Il.
The steel workers who marched
from Ambridge McKeesport. Nc
KEGS Rocks, Monangshela City. New
kcnsington. etc. George PowerA act,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Is P. G. of Quota III DriVe
To SAGE Daily Raised; Put
1t Over Top By July 10Th !!
Hold Picnics and Other Affairs for Daily
Levin in San Francisco July 7, L. A. July II

The Daily Worker drive showed
little improvement last week over
the previous week, but not much
On June 20, two days before July /,
the date originally set for the con-
clusion of the drive, only IS per
cent of the $4,000 quota had been
contributed Between now and July
8 the other % per cent-and more
must be raisedi
The district that made the biggest
gain was II (Birmingham). AS a
result of the splendid contribution of
nearly $500 from the Tampa, Fla,
cigar workers, this district has gone
over the top 566 per cent--a gain of
S27 per cent in one week. This gain
has enabled District II TO snatch
first-place laurels from District 2
New York;, which previously had
maintained undisputed leadership.
New York increased its. totals % per
cent during the week and is now in
second place with 156 per cent. Hit
1t up, New York, you still have a
chance to beat District II
Chicago Makes Good Gain.
District 5 (Chicago) had a good
week, gaining % per cent and forg-
ing ahead of District cleveland,
which only gained 9 per cent. Dis
trict z (DetroiD, which is so far
behind, increased its totals only 8
per cent and now has SO, the same
as District 4 (Buffalo). District 8
(Philadelphia) had a wretehed rec
ord for the week, with only a per
cent gain, while District 13 Cali
formal boosted its totals only per
cent and has raised but a little over
one-third of its quota of $4,000.
The worst of the districts is Il
AgriculturaD, which failed to con-
tribute cent during the week and
is now in undisputed possession of
the cellar with 10 per cent. Farm
ers, show that you realize that the
Daily is the organ of the poor farm
ers, too! Raise your full quota of
500 by July 49,
Next to last place is firmly held by
District 10 (Kansas city,, which has
raised only is per cent Of it's quota,
while District 8 (Minneapolis) has
contributed only 20 per cent and IL
(Seattle) a mere "a per cent. Dis
tricts 8, 10 and H. with total quotas
of $3.50 are showing disgraeeful in
activity. They must swing into ac-
ton at once and fulfill their quotas
by July 1871
"Dafly" CircuIa ton Must he Kept Up
Tables this week show loss of
Ills in circulation figures over the
previous week. This is due to the
deduction of several large temporary
orders from Detroit, Philadelphia and
Butte. Increases from District s,
Pittsburgh, of 1891 to take care of
the steadily growing demand for the
Daily in the Western Pennsylvania
strike region. as well as d gain Of
81 from District IS. California, we're
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02

about $50 per cent, but how about
the workers earnings? Well, each
line is served by girls, boy and
/ skilled master. The girls receive
35 cents an hour, the boys get 40
cents and the overseer gets IS cents
There has been no piece-work
since the new machines we're in
stalled. Instead of reducing the
piece rates, the boss put everybody
on flat rate--and plenty of flatl
So the workers turn out three times
as many cans as they used to and
receive less earnings.
The net profit on the standard
line of cans is IS to 40 per cent; the
profit on the gallon size cans is
about 80 per cent. At present gen.
eral operations are about SO per cent
of normal production capacity.
Unemployed Council
No. l. Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02

of candy 1 don't know what be-
came of the overworked girls after
that or what effect the speed-up
had on subsequent earning; they
worked piece-work then. Today,
however, all this is changed. The
old machines have been abolished
and replaced by newer types They
have been in operation for two
years.
5000 Increase In Production.
These new mechanical monsters
turn out 10000 cans each per day
at normal production. Production
increased about $50 per cent per day
for each machine line Once the
girls got candy for turning out 50,-
900 cans; today at normal operation
they get bawled out for turning out
only 10000 cans"
Earnings Less.
l said that production increased
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
tBy a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La.-After being
four months on strike against q wage
cut in which the longshoremen
fought most militantly, the takers of
the International L,ongshoremen
Association of the A. F.. of L., sue
ceeded in selling out the strike, but
they can not fool the workers any
longer. In the mass meeting 1858
voted against calling off the strike;
voted for 1t. Then the officials
called a conference of the takers on
the Gulf Coast and ordered the men
back to work, telling them that the
shipowners would not discriminate
against them and that they would
discontinue the abuses that were
practiced before the strike.
The capitalist press stated that
100 had been back to work, but in
reality not even 10 returned to their
jobs. Mr. Gurch, the head Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Longshoremen Aroused Over A. F. of L. Sell
Out of New Orleans Strike

shipowners had made no promises
whatsoever: in fact he never even
met with the takers. They did not
even discharge the men (scabs) who
worked during the strike.
The longshoremen are greatly
aroused over the perfidy of the LILA
and they realise that the policy Of
mass picketing to smash the injunc-
ton as proposed by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union was correct.
They now realize that the strike, had
it been conducted by rank and file
committee, as proposed by the MwIU
would have been successful.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union has moved their headquarters
to 1872 Market Street SO as to be more
able to carry on the work OF organic
ing the marine workers into one
fighting union for all the marine
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash.--A Daily Worker
newsboy goes on trial for breaking
Up Salvation Army meeting. Be
lieve it or not, the S. A., felt safer
IN using the police department to give
them the monopoly of the freedom
CT the Streets" than in trusting to
Jesus. The charge, again, one that
is hard to believe, was that this work
er by himself and with the aid Of the
Daily Worker news headlines. made
more noise than score Of musical
Instruments and singers, and 50,
@broke up our meeting"
On Sunday, May "a, Stapf, one of
the Daily Worker Club hewsboys, was
selling papers on his corner in the
skid -road district He was telling
the workers the contents of the Daily
and when the Sallies, so-called be-
cause Of their sailing against the
workers, came out, he naturally eX-
planned the existence of the soup
lines, WoOdplleS, etc.
While one Of the men in the group
went and interviewed the policeman
on the beat, the well known Mike"
the leader testified on "love," etc.
few minutes after the meeting
started mike" came chashing out of
the saloon on the corner. Showing
his way thru knot of workers there,
he knocked one old men down. The
old man demonstrated with him, but
got only muttered curse. Mike"
walked up to Stapf and calling him
names, stated that only because he
was one-legged, did he refrain from
beating him up. Of course, Mike"
forgets how he hit a 10 year old
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
Expose Pinchot's
Scheme to Legalize
Injunction

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July l.
The legahzing of the injunction Of
Governor Pinchot under the cloak OF
serving labor will be exposed at La
Dor Hall, 1903 Tasker ST., Philadel-
phia, on Friday, July 8, at 8 o'clock
Jack Ross, international Labor
Defense secretary, and c. Lippa, Or
ganizer of the Shoe Workers Indus
trial Union, just released after six
months imprisonment for defying
the injunction issued against the
striking shoe workers last fall, will
speak on jails and organizations.
Fred Biedenkapp will expose the
Pinchot injunction bill for what it
really is.
Workers will hail Comrade LppaIs
return at a banquet after the meet
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
DELEGATES OF 5000
ILLINOIS MINERS.
MAP ACTION PLAN.
Pledge Aid To Miners
in Penn. Ohio

BELLEVILLE, Ill, July 1. - Sew
enty delegates and representatives
from twenty two locals UMWA which
have membership of more than five
thousand miners gathered here June
2s to discuss ways and means of
struggle against the onslaught of the
coal operators and takers and for
the support of the heroic struggle
carried on by the 10000 miners in
the tri-state territory Of West Penn
sylvanla, Ohio and West Virginia.
The conference was opened few
minutes after II a. M by chairma7
Schultz First report on the situatio~
and conditions Of the striking min
ers in the east was given by w. Dun
ne, one of the leaders in the strikinc
area. His report of rampant starry
alton, disease and misery under which
the miners and their families were
forced to live was followed closely by
the delegates wso haw in this picture
of starvation their own self, and the
like conditions Of the miners in Il
linois fields.
The second report by J. fash on
the conditions of miners In the I'LL
nois coal fields showed not only basic
similarity of condition In Illinois
fields with those prevalent In the
striking area, but that the Illinois
miners face the same struggle against
starvation and mass discharges, mass
hunger, disease and most heart
reading misery as the miners in the
tri-state area who are now on strike.
In the discussion in which more
then thirty delegates participated,
they expressed militant solidarity
with the heroic struggle OF the min
ers in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia.
I'VE must show our solidarity with
the striking miners not only in get
ting relief but in spreading the strike
struggle" was the sentiment express
sed by most of the delegates.
To this effect concrete steps were
taken. Fifteen motions were adopted
for immediate action, which include
setting up Of action committees by
the rank and file miners to broaden
the struggle in the Southern Illinois
coal fields, to support the present
strike of the tri-state miners, Orient
strike Of $4,000 miners, and call on
all rank and file miners to bring the
issue before their locals for immedi
ate relief.
The conference also took 8 series
of organizational steps to carry out
this plan of work. A motion was
adopted to set up rank and file COM
mittees of action in each mine to
take up issues and grievances, to
fight mass discharges, speed-up, to
raise concrete demands for each mine
and unite the miners under its lead
ership for struggle against starva-
ton and unbearable conditions which
prevail. For guidance and more eff
fective linking up of the struggle and
broadening of the same, provisional
District Committee for action were
elected and empowered to issue state
ment on the policy adopted at the
conference. Conference also adopted
motion to issue program of action
to be put before the rank and file
convention July 9Th and will put up
slate of militant candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-02
POLICE SHOOT AT
BERLIN PROTEST
ON TAX DECREE
Cop Gets in Way of
Bullets, Is Killed
Gable BY InprecorrN

BERLIN, July ILLEGAL demon
strations against the Bruening tax
decrease occurred in various parts
Of Berlin yesterday evening. Fighting
occurred in the northwest when po-
lice beat up demonstrators.
The police experienced resistance
and Immediately used their revolvers.
One policeman was killed. Eye wit
nesses declare that the cop who was
killed had inadvertently walked into
the firing line. Even the bourgeois
papers admit this as a possibility.
Seventeen workers were arrested
but no arms of any sort was found
on them. The police chief, the So
cialist Grzesinski, made the collisions
pretext to prohibit the international
Spartakiade, although the demon
STATIONS had nothing whatever to do
with the Spartakiade or the Spar
takiade Organization Committee. The
police state many Of the demonstra-
tors wore Spartakiade badges. This
Is quite possible as tens Of thousands
Of workers are wearing these badges.
The real reason for the order pro-
hibiting the Spartakiade is the furi-
our campaign Of the bourgeois press
which frightened the socialists, caus-
ing them eagerly to seek a pretext for
stopping the meet.
The police have prohibited all meet
ings, demonstrations and sports ga
therings of workers between the 4th
and 18th Of July under the emergency
decree.
Today the headquarters Of the
Spartakiade committee was raided by
huge force of police. All literature
and correspondence relating to the
Spartakiade was confiseated. Wear
ing OF badges for this workers sports
event was prohibited, the wearers be-
ing threatened with immediate ar
rest and quick punishment. The
Spartahade Committee and all SIM
liar organizations have been dissolved
by the police.