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The Washington times., 1931-08-15
ADVANCE AGAIN
LED BY STEEL
AND CAN
Rails Make Good Showing and
Recover Part of Losses as
Case Features InduStriaIs
BY w. s. COUSINS


NEW YORK, Aug. IS Q.N.S) .
All sections of the stock market
participated today in the new
forward movement which carried
prices of the favorites to the
highest levels of the week.
Though trading on the big
board was never very brisk, the
volume of stock turned over was
three times last Saturdays total,
and speculative interest was dis
played in a widely diversified list
Of well.known stocks.
Rails Show Well
Leadership in the week end
movement was furnished by U.
S. Steel and American Can, but
the railroad stocks made a good
showing, recovering a portion of
the ground lost earlier in the
week. J. I. Cases additional T.
point rise in a feature of the
industrials, while Consolidated
led the utilities and New Haven
the rails.
United States Steel doomed
along to 93A in the final period
and closed at 90, for a net gain
of 13s. The shorts in j. 1. Case
were badly squeezed in the T.
point rise, which closed the day
at 68 for net advance of S
points. New Haven was the best
ground gamer in the popular
rails and closed 2H points
higher, at 60H. New York Cen
trail gained IA at TAN.
Telephone Stock Up
American Telegraph and Tele-
phone, at the head of the utili-
ties, closed more than 2 points
higher, at 1763s. Allied Chemi-
cal was up IA at 1882; Beth
lehem Steel up 1A at 4212; Gen
eral Motors down 3s at 387s;
Auburn Auto up 324 at 147A;
North American up l at 69h;
Baltimore and Ohio Railway up
1b at 485s.
The weekend commodity mar
kets were steady, cotton rallied a
dollar a bale, while corn dropped
off 11a cents a bushel and wheat
advanced in about the same
amount.
A halt occurred in the whole
sale selling of railroad bonds ana
prices in that section of the mar
ket were steady. All sections of
the stock market slowed down
in the late trading. but prices
on the hole were we'll maintained.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
Reserve Bank Credit
Up Sharply in Week

Federal Reserve Bank credit
outstanding rose sharply during
the past week, advancing $780,
OOO. 900 to $1,1O5, 900 900. This was
$l23, 900, 900 higher than on the
corresponding date a year ago,
and was above $1,000, ,OOO, 900 for
the first time since January 81.
Every credit item advanced,
with bills bought in the open
market up $7O,O0O,00O, Govern
ment securities up SAT, 7,000, 900,
discounts up $6.00O,0O0 and other
reserve bank credit up $14, ,0O0, 900.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
CASH GRAIN CLOSE

CHICAGO, Aug. IS GNSJ.-
Wheat-No. 2 red, 51@51h, No.
3 red, 50@50h; No. 4 red, 1910
491a: No. 2 hard, 5212: No. 3
hard, 50651; No. Northern
Spring. 53A. No. 2 Northern
Spring. 53A; No. 3 Northern
Spring, 49h; No. 3 mixed. 49A @
5034; No. mixed, 471a; No. 2
yellow, 51A; No. 4 yellow,
48& @49.t
Corn-No. 2 mixed. 49A; No.
mixed, 461a; No. / yellow, 49K4
@A; No. 2 yellow, 40H@5O; No.
yellow, 48A A@4913; No. 4 yellow
Al; No. S yellow. 4734: No. white
5224; sample grade A.
OatS-No. 2 white. 22@ I222R
No. 3 white, 20B @22; No. 4 white.
20620A.
Rye-NoAe.
Barley-4l@57.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
WASHINGTON PRODUCE

Poultry-Alive: Turkeys. zoe: large
eolorsd fowls. 23c: small to medium,
10000: leghorn fowls. 14015c: leg
horn chickens. pounds and over. 25c:
smaller. 2O@23c; large rocks, 30@S2c;
mixed chickens. 2s@3oc; undergrade.
large and young. S0@65c: old, SO@35c.
Dressed chickens. SSc: turkeys. young,
2sc; fowls. heavy. 2S@27c: leghorn,
goose; ducks: 1s@2sc; roosters. 15c;
keats, yourg. 70@S0c: old 4S05Oc
Eggs-Current receipts. 1sc
Calves. SC
Lambs. 7I4c
Csntaloupes-Truck receipts moderate:
market
Honey Balls No supplies on the
market
Honey Dews-supplies light; demand
SLOW: market dull. California standard
crates, IS and 12s, fair to ordinary con-
dition, &1@1.25. ''''
Persian Melons-No supplies on the
market.
Lettuce - Western Stock; supplies
light on good stock: demand SLOW; mar
ket steady California and Colorado,
crates Iceberg type, to doz., best,
~; fair to ordinary quality and condi-
tion $S.5O@S Eastern stock: Supplies
light; demand light: market steady.
New York. 2-doz. crates Big Boston
type; -, few $2.2S; poor condition,
Onions-Truck receipts light: supplies
light; demand light; market steady.
New Jersey, So-lb. sacks, Yellows U. S,
Peaches-Truck receipts liberal; sup
plies heavy; demand light; market weak,
North Carolina, bu. baskets Elbertas
y 3. Is, 2A-inch minimum, $1@1.25;
SM inch minimum; soc 0s1; 2-inch mini
nileys. U. s. Is, 2-inch minimum, 81;
u Inch minimum, 75c
Potatoes - Supplies light: demand
uVl.A 40 H.,
land and East Shore. Virginia. stave
barrels, Cobblers, u. S. No. /. S225.
Sweet Potatoes-,supplies light; de-
s@ and 1rEn TarEf. i5ss@y SssSs DasSs NSrth
Jersey TYPE U. s. No. l. best. &1.25;
watermelons : supplies liberal de-
Norfolk section, and East Shore. Mary. nIS.
land bulk per 100 melons Tom Wat
sons selects s2OGSO; primes, I1o@1s:
Lima Beans-Truck receipts mod
crate supplies moderate; demand light:
market steady East shore. Mary
a1S okraspres. Susesl esmpsrs snd fSSSS
light; supplies light: demand light:
market duh: North Carolina, "a bushel
Green Corn-Truck receipts moderate
supplies moderate; demand light; mar
ast.I Sst steady' &c y Nearby sections bags
hight; market steady. Colorado Tele-
phones. 45-pound crates, $3.50; fair
condition. So.
Blackberries-Truck receipts mod
crate; supplies moderate; demand light:
market weaker. New Jersey, S2-quart
crates. s2.25@25O
Apples-Truck receipts iight sup
plies liberal: demand light; market dull.
Virginia, N1shel tubs U. S. No !. "a
inches upT Maiden Blush. Rambes and
Fransparents, 7Sc @s1; U. s. No, /, az
inches up, oldenburss, 5oei ripe CSC.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
BIC WIRE HOUSE
TAKES BULL
STAND
Customers Advised Broader
Buying Now Is Warranted
and Lists Favored Stocks
BY THE SPECTATOR

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Whether
or not the recovery in the mar
ket is the forerunner of moro
extended upturn, more conf
dent attitude is being evidenced
in important banking and finan-
cial quarters.
One of the largest wire houses,
which has had better than aver.
age success in forecasting market
turns in the past, has definitely
changed from its recent stand.
off position to the side of bullish-
ness.
Banks On Fall Upturn
1t points out that the half way
mark in the normal seasonal pc
riod of summer dullneSs has been
passed and, with the normal fall
period of increased activity only
a few weeks ahead, holds sea-
sonal considerations favor i'm
proved steel news and car load
ings.
Among the individual stocks,
which in its opinion enjoy strong
banking sponsorship or strong
technical considerations are Air
Reduction, American Can, West.
inghouse, Woolworth, Sears Roe.
buck. Johns-Manville, Borden, Du.
pont, Public Service of New
Jersey, Bendix, Commercial Sol
vents, United Corporation, United
Gas improvement, United Air.
craft, Best and Company, Ma
tional Dairy Products, Kroger
Grocery, Continental Can, Loose
Wiles Biscuit. Columbia Gas and
Electric and General Motors.
Stock Switch Advised
A prominent advisory service Is
advising a switch from Canadian
Pacific to Chesapeake and Ohio.
It points out that the former,
whose recovery will be greatly re-
tarded by a short wheat crop, Is
selling at about 13 times estimated
earnings and yielding 6 per cent,
while Chesapeake and Ohio, which
will benefit by any recovery in
general business, is selling at
about 10 times estimated earn
ing1, and yielding about z per
cent,
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Aug. IS UN.SJ.-
Hogs-2.50O; steady. Top $7.65;
bulk, $5.75@7.5O: heavy, $5.85@7;
medium, $7@7.65: light. $4,000
7.65: light lights, $6.85@7.60;
packing Sows, $42565.65; pigs, $6
@7.25. Holdovers, 1000.
Cattle-200; steady. Calves
200; steady. Beef Steers-Good
and choice, $8@9.40; common and
medium, $6@8; yearlings, $500
10. Butcher -Heifers, $50
$50; cows, 1905: bulls. $3.50@6;
calves, $6.5O09.5O: feeder steers,
$4.5O@7. Stocker Steers, $4.50@
6.75; stocker cows and heifers,
$350@5.50.
Sheep-5,OO0: steady. Lambs,
$775@8.85: common. $4@5.50;
yearlings, $5@6; feeders, $4.50@
$50; ewes, $263.5O,
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
METAL MARKETS QUIET

NEW YORK, Aug. IS GN.SO.
Copper buying continued quiet on
both foreign and domestic &C
count today. Copper was avail
able at 71a to 7A cents pound,
with the higher figure prevailing.
Electrolytic for foreign shipment
was at 8 cents elf Hamburg,
HaVre and London. Producers
were out of the market at 8 cents
delivered in the domestic market.
Lead buying was quiet with the
price unchanged at 4.4O cents a
pound New York, and 4.225 cents
a pound St. Louis. Zinc buying
was small with prime Western
Zinc at $50 to 1925 cents a
pound East st. Louis.
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MONEY MARKETS DULL

NEW YORK, Aug. IS 1N.S0
Call money was held over at IL
per cent today and per cent
on the curb.
Bankers acceptances asking
rates were unchanged with 80
to 80 days at h. per cent, 100
days at per cent and $50 and
180 days at 1H per cent.
Commercial paper was quiet
with prime names ruling at 2
per cent.
The time money market was
dull and unchanged with 80 and
so days at Ia to Ia per cent.
80 and 100 days at. IL per cent
and $50 and 180 days at Ia per
cent.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
u. S. Has $2II,OOO, 900
Bids on NeU Issue

A total of $211,160,0O0 in bids
was received by the Treasury De-
partment for its newest bill issue
Of $50, 1000, 900 Of 91-day bills. Act
ing Secretary of the Treasury
Mills announced.
The total amount of bids ac-
cepted for the issue was $50, $780,
600 and the average price at
which the bills are to be issued is
99.841, or at an annual interest
rate of O.63 per cent,
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
Standard Oil Buying
East Texas OUTPUT

Reports that the Standard Oil
Co. of Indiana has been negotiat-
ing for oil in East Texas, have
been confirmed by Edward G..
Seubert. president, who stated
that the company. through its
subsidiary, Standard Crude Oil
Purchasing Co., is buying there.
This action was necesSitated by
the shutdown in Oklahoma, Mr..
Seubert declared.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
AMERICAN NEWS co.

American News Co., Inc, and
subsidiaries report for six months
ended June 80, 1881, consolidated
net income of $113,848 after de.
probation, Federal taxes. ETC.,
equivalent to So cents a share on
216,OO0 no-par shares of stock
This compares with $425 ,443. or
$2.O6 a share. on 206,00 average
shares outstanding in first half
of 1880.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
FLOUR EXPORTS RISE

Exports of American flour to
South America in 1880 totaled l.
621 900 barrels as compared with
1852, 900 barrels in 1929, an In
crease of $1,000 barrels or 40 per
cent, according to General Mllls'
Inc
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
GRAIN FUTURES
FINISH MIXED

CHICAGO, Aug. IS 0N.S0.
Grains finished irregular today.
Wheat was unchanged to lac up:
corn, %c higher to 34c down, and
oats. 1s to hc off. Rye closed
Sc lower to 14c up.
Estimated carlot receipts were
wheat, 1854; corn, IS, and
oats 100
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
TODAY'S MOST
ACTIVE STOCKS

NEW YORK, Aug. is GN.s.).-The
following are the high, low. and clos
ing prices of the 10 most active stocks
on the New York Stock Exchange for
the day.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
STOCK AVERAGES
BOND AVERAGES

1881. Standard Statistics Co
10 10 - 80
Ind. Rls Util. Binds
The Washington times., 1931-08-15

Canada
New York funds in Montreal, t5,4sA
premium at $1,000.
Montreal funds in New York, SS.4S&
discount az $1,000.
The Washington times., 1931-08-15
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK. Aug. Is G.N.s1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
UNIV Boss Terror Fails to
Drive Ohio Miners Back

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, June o.
Tony Minerich, Secretary of the
Ohio-West Virginia Strike Commit
tee and Leo Thompson, National
Miners Union Organizer, were re-
leased from st. Clairsville Jail today
under ten thousand dollars prop
erty bond each. When Mrs. Land,
International Labor Defense attor-
ney, applied for a reduction of bond,
Judge Harry Tyler raised the bond
Of all fourteen criminal syndicalist
cases from six to ten thousand dol
lars each. Police terror is increas-
ing sharply as preparations go for
ward for the mass hunger marchc
on st. Clairsville on Monday, July
9th, demanding release of all ar
rested, protesting mass arrests and
police terror.
Arrests Continue.
Six women we're arrested at Dill
lon Mine No. / this morning, Two
we're arrested at the Bradley picket
line. Two are held at the Steu-
benville Jail on charge of assault and
battery with intent to kill as re-
suit of fight with scabs at the
cambridge mine yesterday. These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
Rally for Huge
Hunger March
In 4 Counties
FOSTER RALLIES
STEEL WORKERS
Thousands Join March
on Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, June 28.-Wil-
liam z. Foster, leader of the great
stel strike in 1919 and now general
secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League, to which both the National
Miners Union and the Metal Work
ers' Industrial League are affiliated,
addressed thousands of steel workers
today at Arnbridge, rallying them for
the mass march on Pittsburgh for
the big hunger march of thousands
of unemployed workers and the
striking miners from all over Al
legheny County on Tuesday, June 30.
The permit, after days of delay
and attempts to refuse it, has finally
been granted by Police Chief Walsh
of Pittsburgh. The workers, unem-
ployed, employed and thens of thou
sands of coal strikers, will assemble
in West Park at l O'Clock Tuesday.
The line of march is from West
Park over the Manchester Bridge,
along Duquesne to Sixth, over the
bridge there and back to West Park.
The tremendous hunger march
will be led by the committee which
will present the demands of the
workers to the county commission
ers, and by the strikers wounded at
Wildwood, if their release on bail
can be secured in time.
The whole hunger march is COM
bined unemployment demonstration,
mobilization to collect relief for the
striking coal miners and protest
against the injunction of the But
Ter Coal Co. and against the mass
murder CT strikers.
Thousands OF striking Negro min
ers will play big part in the hun
ger march, which OCCURS on the very
day that the N. A. A. G. P. traitors
open their annual conference in Pitts
burgh with welcome from the coal
mines and their agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
NINE Steel WORKERS MARCH ON PITTSBURGH TUESDAY
s. Govt Plans EMBARGO on All Soviet Goods by am l
DOak Discovers the Mine
Strike

eEcRErAzy discovered
derab late it is true but still he has officially noticed that there
S
every should
why only there
strike Pennsylvania
So did not damn
what ndins thew we're suffering The mine owners could do what
they the coal dggers to
refuse for dead work.
force them to trade at opanv stores and generally treat them worse
official including the
fake liberal Pinchot paid not the slightest attention
they under the leader
hip of the National Miners Union
relatively with the help of Governor
phot believed tav could break with the b union of the u
nothing about trouble" But
Now pak writes letter and gives it out to the press letter sent
the meat of which states
miners could suggest
definite whereby the might hepu IN TINS
tressing
So strike for time He
should have known because cncato from his Department of Labor
u. office Pittsburgh and declared
that cent of the miners
N M. u S denying this"
united effort of the operators and Pnco to
compel betrayal scabby
agreement at still depended to
nothing Il
the distressing situation when
1T appears that the u M W. A. cannot make their
unspeakable president
A. asks of miners
Naturally help and the other M w A. traitors
put agreement"
1t this Congressman Campbell
oak mentions that the Government thas is to saw Doak might
help" help M
reported per
Doak has played is playing and will continue play the kbreakng
game of u. M. w. A Every
become months office,
famous enemy foreigborn prize depoer
anything
deportation holding
ton more than score and file miners picket
help
strikers
just picketing will injunction
intimidation Deportation
out attempt o
threats with scab agreement That is spread the stk
Intensity the pckeng And all workers must rush relief to help
them the strike!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
MUST ANSWER
WAR MOVE ON
AUGUST FIRST
Complete Secrecy On
War Plans Ordered By
War DEPARTMENT
S10.0OO.OOO Cruis er
Funds for Armaments
None for Unemployed
Workers Families
BULLETIN.

According to United Press dis
patch from London, the British
capitalists viii probably follow the
U. S. in placing an embargo on
Soviet goods. In order to main
tain the social fascist face of the
Labor government, the embargo
drive is being started by the "op-
position" parties. When the time
comes the Labor Party can fall
into line while trying to deceive
the workers that in order TO main
tain power, it must grant, some
concessions to the other capitalist
parties.
Plans for an iron clad embargo
against all imports from Soviet Rus
STA" have been developed by the U.
S. Treasury Department, according
to United Press dispatch from
Washington last Saturday. The
Treasury Department plans to put
the embargo into effect on January
l, 1881. This embargo is admitted to
be "the most drastic of its kind in
history"
The Treasury Departments plan
is one of the most important steps
in the whole series of the Wall Street
governments war preparations
against the Soviet Union. Tt is a
continuation, nut this time on gen.
eral basis, of the previous attempts at
the embargo of individual Soviet pro-
ducts. This latest move comes at
the very moment that Mellon is tour
ing Europe to get the capitalist
countries ito join us in boycotting
the Soviet Union, as the New York
Evening Graphic reported on June
10.
The embargo will be carried out
under the lying cry about forced la
Dor" which has already been used in
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
j. c. TO FIGHT
HARLEM EVICTION
Mother and 8 Children
Facing Streets

NEW YORK.--An unemployed Me-
gro woman with two children sick in
the hospital and six at home is fac
ing evictions this week. The worker
is Mrs. Elnore Marshall of 228 West
Hath st. On Saturday she turned
out to support the mass protest
against the legal lynching of the
nine Scottsboro boys. At the DEM
onstration she told her story to a
reporter of the Daily Worker.
Mrs. Marshalps husband has been
out of work for Is weeks. When he
did work his wages were so small
that the family of 8 could barely
skirnp along. For the past two
months and half he has trampet.
the streets in a vain attempt to get
job. The family is forced to pay
$40 a month for a railroad flat. With
other tenants in the house they are
outrageously robbed by the landlord
who rarely furnished hot water and
keeps the house in a disreputable
condition.
Unable to pay the rent, they were
served dispossess. The court told
them to pay or get out ip five
saxynA. ys.... 4 "A a. s4i n g.. 4 slil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29

scabs are U.M.W.A. men. The UNI.
WA. signed an agreement with this
mine, but the mine is still struck
without one miner working Com
pany guards of Bradley No. / are
invading company houses, slugging
and clubbing men and women in
an attempt to drive the miners back
to work by force.
Despite the worst kind of terror
ism the picket line has kept all but
80 out of $50 miners on strike. This
morning the picket line pulled out
is more, leaving only is working
this mine. Deputy sheriffs have
erected chain across the county
road leading to the Bradley Mine
in an attempt to stop the picket line.
Picket lines smashed through the
chain to the mine.
UNIV. Scabbing.
The U.MW.A. has again tried to
send Piney Fork No. miners back
to work, but only 40 out of $50 have
returned. Mass evictions from COM
pany houses are going on at Provi-
dent, Fairpoint, Piney Fork, Brad
ley, Dillonvale and Warwood. Forty
eight notices Of eyictions were served
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
RI. Strikers Demonstrate for
SUPPORT OF Bu1lak On Trial

every angle, withstanding the vicious
grilling by the prosecuting attorney
who was aided by the judge, the
judge refused to hear any more de-
Tense testimony. The state wit
nesses, scabs, bosses and police, con-
tinually contradicted themselves but
were helped out by the judge who is
known as an attorny for the mills
where the workers are on strike.
When the workers crowding the
courtroom began to show their anger
at the frame-up the judge called
state troopers into the court to act as
additional court officers"
He found Burlack guilty" and con-
tinued the case until July 10, when
he will impose sentence if Burlack
continues to serve as militant
strike leader He. threatens to SEN
tence her to pay $500 fine or serve
a year in Jail unless she gets out OF
town" before July 10.
The masses of workers paraded
back to their strike headquarters de-
termined to fight the bosses attempt
to break the strikes at the General
Fabrics Corporation and the Royal
Silk mills by framing-up the union
organizer. Burlack will speak on
July 3 at the huge protest meeting
being arranged by the National Tex
tile Workers Union and the newly
formed branch of the international
Labor Defense Il ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-29
'BARBERT0N
POLICE CLUB,
GAS WORKERS
Murderers of Negro
Viciously Attack
Protest Meet
Strike at u n i t y
Scores of Arrests AS
Workers Militantly
Fight Back
Especial to the Daily Worker

BARBERTON, Ohio, June 28.-
Five thousand workers demonstrating
in Lake Anna Park, here tonight
against the judicial exoneration Of
the police murderers of the Negro
worker, Louis Alexander, we're attack
ed with wave of tear gas let loose
from bombs exploded by thugs and
gangsters and plain clothesmen,
while uniformed police looked on.
Jennie Cooper, Cleveland district
organizer of the International Labor
Defense, who sought to open the
meeting as chairman, was badly gas
ed.
The tl1rong was unable to stand
its ground as the noxious tear gas
filled great sections of the park and
the neighborhood, even seeping into
adjacent homes. Efforts on the part
of workers to stop the letting loose
Of the tear gas bombs resulted in
hand to hand struggles in which
several workers were arrested.
j. Louis Engdahl, general secretary
Of the International Labor Defense,
who had come from the Pittsburgh
coal strike area to be the main
speaker, declared there would be a
state wide mobilization of labor pro-
test, not only against the anti-labor
barbarisms in Barberton, but also
against the wholesale arrests in the
eastern Ohio coal fields. Engdahl
declared these crimes would be laid
directly at the door of the state adj
ministration of Governor White, that
places its stamp of approval on the
anti-labor warfare, no matter in
which section of the state it is taking
place, in the Belmont County coal
fields, in Barberton or youngstown.
An Associated Press dispatch pub
lished in Sundays New York Herald
Tribune, admitted that the meeting
in Barberton was attacked in the
most brutal manner by the police
Capitalist press reporters from Ak
ron, who were likewise dubbed were
told by police officials: "You had nc
business in Barberton, but came here
at your own risk" showing that the
attack had been prepared before.
hand.
No sooner had Jennie Cooper begun
to speak, the A. P. dispatch states
than "she and her listeners begar
choking from tear gas. Witnesses
said they saw men in uniform hur
the bombs and Akron detectives sale
Barberton police asked for somt
bombs"