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Washington Produce

Butter - One pound prints. 2saso:
Eggs Hennery, 17a1s: current re-
Poultry. aiive-Turkeys. hens, 2sa27:
toms, IS; Spring broilers, 3Sa40;
Leghorn broilers, 32a33; Winter chick
ems, 3oa32; hens, heavy. 24a25: light.
22a23; Leghorns, 20; roosters, 12a14;
ducks Is: keats; young 1Saso; ,. old.
toms. 32a33; Spring broilers. As; Win
ter chickens. 38a40; hens, heavy, 27a28;
light, 25a26: Leghorns, 22a23; ROSTERS,
IS; keats, young, 70aS0; old, so.
MeatS-Beef, 1215a14; veal, 12a14:
lamb. 22a24; pork loins, 81; fresh hams,
10; fresh shoulders, II; smoked hams,
20; smoked shoulders, 1919; strip bacon,
Live stock-Hogs, heavy, 6.75a7.25:
light and medium, 7.25a7. so; pigs, elsa
TBS; roughs, 3.50a5.50; calves, 4.00a
7.S0; Spring lambs 10a13.,
Fruits-StrawberrieS. 25a30; peaches,
Chile, boxes of So, $50; grapes, Argen-
tina, black, 500; white, $50: oranges,
Florida, 400a4.50; California, 3.50a4.00;
lemons, 5.00a5.50; lines, per 100, 3.O0a
400: grapefruit, 2.75a3.00: honeydews,
box stock, 2.50a3.00; bushel baskets,
1.00a2y00; rhubarb. home grown, per
dozen punches, 50a60.
Potatoes, 150-pound sacks,
$50; 120-pound sacks, ATS; Canada,
1O0-pound sacks, ESQ; Idaho bakers.
l00-pound sacks, ESQ; new, per barrel,
7.50a8.O0; sweets, per bushel, l.50a200;
tomatoes, Mexico. hugs, 4.00a6.00; kale,
50a75; spinach, as; eggplant. 4.50a5. 90;
beets, crates, 2.50a2.75; carrots, crates.
2.5Oa2.75; Summer squash, 2.50a3O0;
celery, 3.25: cucumbers, hot house, per
dozen, 1.50a2. 90; peas, 2.50a3.00; string
beans. 3O0a4.00; imas, 500a8.00; let-
tuce, North Carolina, 1.75a2.25; Iceberg,
5.OOa5.50; cabbage, hampers, las:
crates, 20Oa2.25: radishes, per 100
punches, 2.00a2.50: Spring onions, per
400 eahnass Rrouts. Las; eEssA AaQ,
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ROBERTS FAvORS
CUTS IN WAGES
Economist Sees Readiust-
ments Necessary to Return
of Real Prosperity.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CHICAGO, April 25.-That wages
must be readjusted downward to bring
about an equilibrium in industry before
there can be any return to real pros
perity is the opinion of George e. Rob-
erts, vice president Of National City
Bank Of New York. in an address be-
fore the Illinois Manufacturers Cost
Association here. He said reduction in
wages has so far not kept pace with
the decline in commodity prices. There
has been a reluctance to reduce wages
in the manufacturing and allied indus
tries.
The war caused an enormous de-
mand for man-power, foodstuffs and
many raw materials. he said result
ing in q general rise of wages and
prices. In the great fall Of prices which
has occurred since the war, and par
ticularly in the last year, prices and
wages have not all come down together.
The prices Of farm products and crude
materials generally, which are pro-
duced largely by small proprietors and
mainly by their own labor, have come
down IN q great slump to approximately
the pre-war level.
Where Adjustment Is Slow.
ION the other hand, in the manu-
try, the transportation and distributive
services generally, governmental serv-
ices, professional services. you have q
vast network of relationships in which
wages or personal compensation are the
principal factors and these do not move
downward readily"
Nobody likes to say anything about
the reduction of wages. Our leading
industrialists generally have taken q
nnntw nn& Aw@A r
think their attitude does credit to their
sentiments and inclinations It GER
tainly would be reprehensible for an
employer TO take advantage Of condi-
tons to enforce wage reductions simply
for his own gain. But none Of these
leading industrialists gives any assur-
anee as TO how much work they win
provide, and Of course they cannot.
Unemployment No Stimulation.
Meanwhile q great reduction Of ac-
tual wage payments has occurred. The
man who Is out Of q Job certainly has
his wages reduced, and the man who IL
working only three or four days q week
has had his wages reduced. But such
reductions do not reduce the cost of
production or the costs of living; there
fore, they do not stimulate consumption
or increase employment. They do
nothing to restore the equilibrium
which Is necessary TO prosperity.
II do not say that wage readjust-
ments are necessary to a revival Of bust
ness; perhaps 1t win come in time with
out them. do not believe that any
thing can prevent the gradual advance
Of real wages as the productivity Of in
dustries increases, but the equilibrium In
industry must be restored In order to have
full employment and real prosperity.
The normal relationship between the
industries must be restored, and when
it Is restored there win be prosperity
for al"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25

Uncertainty of His Future
Requirements Is Puzzle in
Trade Outlook.
Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND, April 25.-One Of the
chief supports Of the steel market thus
far in 1931--moderate demand from
the automotive industry-has been
somewhat undermined this week by q
decline in the Ford Motor Co.'S require
ments, says Steel. This seems to lend
substance to the report that the COM
pany will shut down at Detroit for two
months this Summer while Its assembly
plants work OF large surplus Of parts.
Ohsetting this to some extent is
slight improvement in demand for steel
pipe, the Jones g. Laughlin Steel Corpo-
ration having booked $4,000 tons for
Texas pipe line project, and three other
projects, each requiring 10000 to $4,000
tons approaching maturity.
Change In Past Week.
Up to the present, demand for struc-
tural steel has been good, that for the
automotive industry has been fair, while
pipe line and railroad requirements
have been negligible. In the past week
this situation has changed slightly, with
O slackening in small building awards
and inquiries, and in automotive needs.
This moderation has not been wholly
compensated for by the slight improve
ment in demand for pipe. AS reflec-
ton of further mild shrinkage in steel
requirements steelmaking operations
this week are barely at so per cent, q
reduction of about two points from last
week, and total decline of seven points
from the high mark reached late in
March.
Despite the fact this Is the fifth con-
secutiVe weekly decline In operations
and the apparent further construction in
demand from q majority Of the con-
Stunning classifications, sentiment ap-
pears to be little more buoyant. There
Is disclosed this week q more wide
spread conviction that the slide in pro-
duction will not carry the industry to
as relatively low a point a. might be
expected in the usual Summer decline,
and the belief also prevails there is q
latent force in demand that will bring
an early Fall recovery Of encouraging
proportions.
Prices Near Bottom.
In the absence of any pronounced
influence, prices appear to be bounding
Of, or along, the bottom. In February
Steel's price composite came to a rest
at $31.65. after declining 81 consecu-
tive months. The composite average
for March advanced TO $31.66, but
April will show slight decline. The
figure this week Is $3151, 3 cents
lower than q week ago.
AS an effort toward sterilization Of
sheet prices. Middletown, Ohio, pro-
Queer has taken the initiative In estab-
fishing new and broader classification
on sheets, regardless Of whether they
are rolled on continuous or old type
mills. Prices are to be announced
shortly, effective May /, and It Is be-
lieved the plan will be followed gen.
orally.
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Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, April 25-Pota-
toes. white, 100 pounds. 1.25a2.0o; new
potatoes, barrel. 5.25a8.50; sweet pota-
toes, barrel. 2O0a4.0o; yans. barrel,
3.25a4.0o; beans, bushel, 2.ooa4.50;
beets, crate. 1.7Sa2.75; cabbage, bushel,
50a1.25; carrots, bushel, 6oa75: cauli-
flower, crate, 2.0oa2.35; celery. crate,
1.75a3.00; eggplants, crate, 2.00a5.00:
kale, bushel, 20a40; lettuce, hamper
2.00a5 90; lima beans, 6.o0a8.00; pep
-pers, crate, 2.50a6.50; spinach. bushel
25a50: tomatoes, crate, 1.25a5.00;
grapefruit, box, 1.50a2.75: oranges
box, 2.75a4.25; strawberries, quart
Dairy Market.
Poultry, Chickens, young, 500
40; old hens, 21a24; Leghorns, 14a20;
roosters, 12a15; ducks, 1Sa28; guinea
fowls, each, 5oa75; pigeons, pair
Eggs-Receipts, 1887 cases; nearby
flrsts, dozen, IT; current receipts,
Butter-Good to fancy creamery,
pound, 24a26; ladies, 20a2l; rolls,
l6als; process. 22a23; store packed.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. April IS [P.-Cattle. 400;
compared week ago better grade fed
steers and yearlings $3.50 higher;
lower grades steady to as up; in-betTeen
heavy steers closing unevenly lower
than weeks best time; yearling and
light steer trade active and higher;
cattle run more equitably distributed
Scarce ws supply H shoc. cssts all WsisSs
being small; light steers Of yearling
type topped at 1o.25; several loads
yearlings making 9.50a10.00; best
heavieS, 500; light heifers, 7.50aS.50;
she stock and bulls generally steady;
heavy fat cows remaining very draggy;
vealers strong; stockers and feeders
very slow.
Sheep: Receipts, 1000 head: for
week, 179 doubles from feeding stations,
$1,000 direct; compared week ago, fat
lambs closing 25a50 cents lower; most
ly 40a50 lower; sheep scarce, around rs
lower; late top fat lambs, 9.75; closing
bulk, good and choice, wooded lambs,
90 pounds down. 9.25a9.50;' heavier
kinds, mostly around 800, with 104 to
ITO pound weights, 8.40a8.60; wooded
throwouts, mostly 8.00a8.25: few loads
to shearers. 825aS.50; best clippers,
8.85; bulk, 8.25aS.5O; very few Spring
ers offered; bulk desirable wooded ewes,
o.0V uo"n, CltPPcAS, oVV anu OcAOW'
Hogs, 5000, including 5000 direct;
fairly steady with Fridays best prices
on limited offerings: top, 7.35; bulk,
170-230 pounds, 7.10a7.35; lightweights
absent; few 260-38O pounds, 6.15a6 IS:
packing sows, 5.50a5.75; compared week
ago, mostly 50a75 lower; shippers took
500; estimated holdovers, 1000; light
lights, good and choice, 140-l60 pounds,
7.15a7.30; lightweights, 10000 pounds,
7.20a7.35; medium weights, 200-250
pounds, 6.90a7.35: heavyweights, ESQ
$50 pounds, 6.35a7.O0; packing sows.
medium and good. 275-500 pounds, 500
a6.00; pigs, good and choice, 100-l30
pounds, 6.50a7.15.
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, April rs H0.-Cotton
opened steady today at an advance of
/ TO 3 points on week end covering and
some commission house buying which
may have been promoted by reports Of
continued low temperatures in the
South.
May sold up to 1918 and October to
1882 at the start, but the advance met
some further liquidation together with
some local and New Orleans selling
which may have been influenced by the
unsettled tone Of the early stock mar
ket. May sold of to 1913 and October
TO 1915, with the market showing net
losses OF about TO 4 points at the end
OF the first half hour.
Liverpool was a shade lower than due
on the New York close Of yesterday
under local and foreign liquidation,
which was absorbed by calling and COW
ering, according to trade advices. Egyp-
tian futures in Alexandria closed 2 TO
ii points higher and the Indian spot
quotation In Liverpool was unchanged.
The amount Of cotton on Shipboard
awaiting clearance at the end Of the
week was estimated at 1000 bales,
against $4,000 last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25

BALTIMORE, April IS Especially "A
sharp decline In the demand for ferti-
lizer this year as compared with last
year is shown in the March figures on
sales of fertilizer tax tags In Southern
States.
During March tag sales were OF a
per cent, while for the season to date
from July to March-total sales have
fallen 81 per cent under those of the
corresponding period of the previous
season.
The decline has been less sharp In
the Southeastern States than In the
Gulf and Mississippi Valley States, 1t
was stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
Baltimore Changes Hours.

BALTIMORE, April rs Especially -
The Baltimore Stock Exchange an
nources that In order to conform with
the trading hours which will be inaug-
urated BY the New York stock Elk
change when daylight-saving time be-
gins in New York Monday. the local
exchange VIII open for business ct
an. and close at pm. daily except
Saturday, when 4 WI close 6 u "a,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK, April IS (R.-Stocks
weak; General Electric lowest since 1929.
Bonds steady; rails improve. Curb
heavy; oils weak. Foreign exchanges
easy; German mark weak. Cotton
lower; easy cables. Sugar steady; trade
buying. Coffee Arm; rumored Brazilian
export duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25

In cattle receipts, freight-car loadings,
lumber production, petroleum produce
ton, and wheat receipts, while bitumi-
nous coal production, cotton receipts,
hog receipts, and steel ingot production
showed declines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
TREASURY STATEMENT.

Treasury receipts for April % were
IS, 483, 924.43, expenditures $24,998,-
1910. balance $414,715, 470.97.
Customs receipts for the month to
the close Of business April % were
$25, 628 ,374.49.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 25.-Following Is
the complete oficial list of transactions
in stocks on the Chicago Stock Ex-
change TODAY.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET : s:; II. : :: s ~:

Note-An stocks sold In one hundred snare 1o~
excepting designated by the letter (e0s (2oOss
which shows those stocks were sold In odd lotA
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nual payment ZEE dividend PARTLY extra tPus ~ stock
stock. Plus AZ stock Plus io% In stock. m
stock. Plus 81 stock Paid last regular rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Quotations furnished BY W. b. Hibbs q co.,
Nominal sold Selling checks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-25
Lumber and Steel Down.

'In value, exports of iron and steel
mill products in 1880 declined 81 per
cent from the 1929 figure and per
cent below the average Of the years
1o25-29.
Lumber exports for 1880 we're con-
siderably smaller than the figures for
sither 100 q ~ 4szeaE aslaF1aA Dur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

P1ckens and Wilson then tried to
pacify the indignant workers by
calling few of them into the adj
Joining veStry. All of the workers,
however, including many who were
first becoming aware of the treach-
cry of the NJ A. A. c. P. leaders,
insisted on following them. The
meeting continued in the crowded
vestry with Pickens closely guarded
by police and N. A. A. c. P. bour-
geoisie.
Workers, who had heard Mrs. Ada
Wright on her recent visit here, took
up her vigorous denunciation of the
N. A. A. c. P. and her clear-cut en-
dorsement of the International La
Dor Defense. They demanded that
Pnkens explain his sabotage of the
defense campaign When Pickens
tried to defend the boss courts which
railroaded the boys to the electric
chair as neutral institutions" there
were loud cries of Shame on YOU.
Pickens," and you've sold yourself
for job!" Escorted by police, Pick
ems was hurried from the room to
escape the wrath of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

ism throughout the world rather than
permit the masses to overthrow cap
italism.
So delighted is Thomas with
Hoover's plan that he devotes a good
part of his special column in the last
issue of the New Leader to it. The
same issue of the New Leader at
tempts to apologize for the too open
alliance of Morris Hillquit, another
socialist leader, with the czarist, an
ti-Soviet forces. Now Thomas OK's
Hoover in his war plans against the
Soviet Union. The first task of the
socialists throughout the wolrd is to
save capitalism, the system of ex-
ploitation and robbery. To do this
best they help advance the war pre-
parations against capitalism's worst
enemy-the workers republic.
That the war against the Soviet
Union is rapidly maturing is admit
ted by Robert G. Lee, former Com
mander in the United States Navy,
and now head of the Moore g. Nc
Cormick steamship lines. He has Just
returned from Russia. Former Com
mander Lee says that 'Lithuania,
Finland. .Esthonia and Poland ell ap-
pear to have the fear of an i'm
pending war;" These are the. coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
.UTW,P 'INCHOTPLOT
SELL-OUIt or 1000
PENNA. STRIKERS
Trick Workers To Stop
Mass Picketing

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 2.-The
United Textile Workers Union lead
ers are in conspiracy with Governor
Pinchot against the 1000 Allentown
textile strikers. The strike is actu-
ally on the eve of a sell-out by lead
ers of the U. T. w. who succeeded
in fooling the Chairmans Committee
OF 40, officially in charge of the
strike, to discontinue mass picketing
without the approval of the strikers.
This agreement was reached be-
tween the U. T. w. leaders and the
chief of police of Allentown last
Tuesday night.
In the meantime, Governor Pin
chot is calling a conference for Fri
day night of five representatives. each
Of the strikers and the manufactur-
ers. Pinchot, in a letter, has al
ready exosed his strike breaking in
tentions. He suggested that the
strikers go back to work pending a
later hearing by an arbitration COM
mittee.
The main policy of Pinchot and
the U. T. w. conspiracy is to sell
out the strike before the Paterson
general strike starts in thp middle of
July
Rank and file workers have re-
allied the trick Of the U. T. w. lead
ers and are demanding. mass picket
ing in unity with the Paterson work.
ers. U. T. w. organizers are in the
field working with a rank and file
committee to prevent a possible
sell-out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
Socialists Back Hoover's War
Plan Against the Soviet Union

NEW YORK. - Praise for the
Hoover Mellon Morgan plan of
smashing the revolutionary opposi-
ton of the German masses to the
Young Plan yoke, imposing further
wage cuts upon the workers of Ger
many and the U. S., as we'll as the
other important section of this plan,
war alliances against the Soviet I'm
ion was unstintingly melted out by
Norman Thomas, leader of the So
cialist Party of the United States.
The Reverend Thomas, in speech
before the Union Theological Semin-
airy, told his fellow sky pilots that
he is for Hoover's plan. In fact,
Thomas boosted, the Socialists ad-
vocated just such a plan thirteen
years ago. He didn't say anything,
however, about the Socialist Party of
Germany putting the Young Plan
over on the German masses and now
working with Morgan and Mellon to
keep it clamped down through the
socalled years moratorium.
Il think that Hoover's debt plan
Is one of the very few intelligent,
forward things he has DONE" Thomas
said. in other words, Thomas. in line
with the Socialist International APP
proves the strengthening OF imperial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
HOOVER TAKES
HAND IN STRIKE
BREAKING IN PA.
Doak & Lamont Work
To Staryo Miners

WASHINGTON July 2-Hoover
has been working for some time in
an effort to smash the strike of
10000 miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia, recent informa-
ton issued from the White House
shows.
Secretary Of Labor Doak admitted
that he has had hand in helping
the United Mine Workers scab in
Western Pennsylvania. When asked
what he was doing to end the strike
he said he was sending the men back
to work wherever possible under the
U. NJ. w. That's getting the labor
difficulties out Of the way"
However, greater pans are being
made to call a conference of the coal
operators, the U. M. w, Hoover,
Doak and Secretary of Commerce
Lamont soon. This is an admission
that the Doak efforts to bolster up
the strike breaking activities of the
U. M. w. throughout the striking
area has failed and that newer and
sharper tactics against the strikers
are necessary.
Doak's statement declared that he
hoped matters would begin shaping
themselves within the next few
days"
This explains, also, the recent
drive of Governor Pinchot's state
troopers against the pickets at the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. mines,
where the u M. W. A. is doing its
danmndest to break the strike by
a policy of scabbing.
In answer to these efforts of the
coal operators and the government
to smash the strike, the workers
must increase their efforts to win.
Solidarity will win. Relief is neces-
sary Immediately, as the miners are
redoubling their efforts to gain a
victory despite the terror and the
greater forces coming int othe strike
breaking activity. Rush relief! Smash
the alliance Of the bosses! Forward
to victory of the miners!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
New York's Finest"
in Harlem Hold-Up

Just as Police Commissioner Null
rooney put on gang Of police cops
to impress visitors to New York, the
Spanish-speaking section in Harlem
was thrown all astir Wednesday
night by cop in plain clothes, ia
miliar to the neighborhood, trying to
hold up small grocery run by
Porto Rican on ll7th St., near
LenoX Ave.
The grocer mauled the cop-robber
with a Ratchet, despite the cops
equipment of service revolver and
blackjack. The neighbors called a
harness bull, who came on the scene
and, recognizing his fellow cop at
such work, ran rapidly away, allow
ing his pal to escape.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
Zeigler, I'LL. Miners Pledge
Aid to Fight Against Hunger

zEIGLER, ILL.,, July 2.-Pledging
support to the 1000 striking miners
of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
Virginia, the District Provisional
Committee of the Rank and File
Committee of Action of the miners
in the Southern Illinois fields, has
issued an appeal rallying all the
miners in this territory against the
treacherous sscabbing United Mine
Workers officials.
Miners in the Orient Qllinois)
Mines says this appeal, ARE tax
ing the same path as the miners in
Penn-Ohio-West Virginia, struggling
against starvation and the same for
ces which are against the miners
there exist in Orient
The miners of sub-district 0 must
join the struggle of the Orient min
ers. They must strike for their own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
INTENSITY EFFORTS TO SAVE DAILY WORKER

proof Of the devotion of the workers to
the paper that is the living voice and
champion of their struggles. These re-
suits are victory for the entire Amer
lean working class and a smashing de-
feat for all the enemies of Communism.
They justify our conviction that prole-
tartan energy, enthusiasm and sacrifice
will make possible the raising of the
full $4,000 by July 10.
Since the drive was started on May
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

through the lies Of the prostitute press,
leads the masses in struggle against the
looming imperialst war. The Cheney
Alien Registration Law aims new
blow at the working class, and the
Daily Worker is the gathering ram of
the workers in their fight against this
vicious law
Despite the terrific economic crisis,
despite the wage-cuts, despite the mass
starvation and the general impoverish-