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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06

90 cents to 81 day.
Then came the only strike that
ever took place in the Carpet shop.
All that took part in that strike we're
promptly fired, and as emigration
from Europe at that time was at its
height, the Carpet mills reorganized
with new group Of workers, most
ly Poles, Slovaks, and Russians.
Profits Pile Up
The Americans would not mix with
the foreign workers, who had to live
by themselves. They had their own
stores, saloons, and churches, and
kept on working for Mr.. Smith, pill
ing up profits.
Smith never at any time dbl any,
thing to improve the conditions of
the workers. When he died the
mills we're taken over by Mr.. Coch-
ran, a man who had never done a
useful days work in his life. BY
this time the mills were getting
larger, the workers more numerous,
and the profits more gigantic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
RACKET EXPLOITS JOBS AND PAY CUT
'PW" SELLERSIN BUFFALO PORT
Worked All Day and
Lost Money
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The other day I
started out to sell ice cream on the
streets. I discovered that this is just
another racket for robbing unemploy-
ed workers of their last few pennies.
A big sign outside read, Men and
boys wanted to sell ice cream--Make
81 to ST a day-Buy a dozen pops for
3oc and sell them for 6oc" That
sounded well.
Inside, a different story was re-
lated. After adding on a few pennies
for "magic ice" and other things,
the price was 35c dozen. Then you
must buy at least two dozen. That
made 7Oc. Then comes the deposit
for the container, 81. Before starting
must hand the racketeer $1.T0. I
scrapped it together and started.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06

When Cochran turned up his toe:
the mills as you see them today were
taken. over by Mr.. Ewing. Today
the family of Ewing is worth $780,
100000. That means the fortune
started by Smith has been giving
these parasites 100000 a year.
If the carpet mills closed down to-
day, and Ewing invested his fortune
at per cent, he would receive an
annual salary of 100000 a year.
Over the Mill to the Poorhouse.
Ninety per cent of the inmates Of
the poor house for the last so years
at one time in their life worked in
the carpet shop.
Today 5000 workers whohelped to
make this fortune are starving to
death in the city of Yonkers.
Today there are about 100 old
workers drawing a pension of SIS
month. These workers were in the
mills before Ewing was born, and
shaved faithfully for 80 years. SO
you can figure out Ewings salary
for one hour is equal to a months
salary fc- the 100 who are on the
pension list.
To make it more clear, Ewing says,
100 of you work 80 years for me,
and I will work one hour for you.
Something Wrong.
A system that gives Ewing more in
one week doing nothing) than
receive in SO years doing useful
work. has something wrong with it.
Today Ewing owns 200 homes on
Neppernhan Avenue and Moquette
Row. Today I own no home, but owe
6 months rent.
The Yonkers stateman calls Ewing
"our most prominent citizen. He
gained that title when he headed
the recent block aid flop. He also
allowed his name to be used in the
charity drive last January when
100000 was raised.
But no record of any of this money
being distributed has been recorded.
Three Families.
The assessed property Of Yonkers
is s300,000.o00 and we have three
families here whose combined wealth
could buy the entire city: Thompson,
Andrus and Ewing.
Workers of Yonkers, if you are
satisfied to stand in line at the
relief stations or get down on your
knees at 81 Main st. and beg for a
Job. that is your funeral, but if you
are interested in knowing what it is
all about, read the Daily Worker,
and come to q Hudson Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
f." Relief" Also. Being
Reduced In City
(By a Worker Correspondent


BUFFALO, N. Twelve thousand
families are on "relief~ in this city,
and even this is being cut down, with
Negro families the first to be cut off.
On boats owned by the U. S. Steel
and Bethlehem trusts, wages of sea-
men have been reduced from sos to
$50 month. Only two watches are
maintained on these boats, meaning
a 12-hour day. A new rule forces
the seamen to pay for their own
meals when the ship lays over for a
few days.
About 300 shipped from this port
this season, as compared with 5000
a season ago. No local relief is given
to seamen, as city officials claim this
is a Federal matter.
Freight handlers have been cut
from As to 60 cents an hour last
season to Is cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
CIRCLE ~ NEW RACKET
New Elgin Menace Follows Secret Six" I
Secret Six"

The workers walked out in demand
for a months settlement of pay due
them. The big bosses figured 1t out
at sl.60 a piece for a months work
and wrote out checks to mail them.
The boss, Ridges, called it a dis
grace" meaning the walkout, not the
amount they had worked a whole
month for.
Machinists at Elsin's say they
have been tearing up machinery to
make way fer installation of some
new machinery, just for what they
are not sure.
Elgin needs some Communists
speakers to help organize the work.
rs, as the time is ripe. ,xAs@-i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
BY ANDREW NELSON

LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R-I came to
California as a pioneer As years ago,
when the capitalists had their
slogans, Go West, young man, to the
gold coast of Sunny California. I
labored there for As years, till I was
so, and then I could get no work.
They said, No work for an old man.
I therefore came to the Soviet
Union, to the land of opportunity for
workers. There the workers and
farmers rule through their elected
Soviets.
I met an American in Leningrad
who helped me look around. ap-
piled for work at the Red Hirnich
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
tBy a Worker Correspondent

ELGIN, III, - Apparently Elgln's
secret six, which was organized to
combat Communism" finds itself
unable to function. Since the Daily
Worker articles on the secret six"
have been written, another organi-
cation has sprung into existence, the
Circle H." laying the ground for
the square 49, possibly.
This organization" has hopes of
expanding nationally on basis Of
fighting the inroads of Commm-
ism" and lot of minor demands
made to fool prospective members.
am sure they did not like it when
the novelty case workers of the Hin
ois Watch Co. struck last week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
New Orleans, La.

fly myself with going from worker
to worker in my plant and arouse
their indignation by reporting what
I had seen. OF course well do un-
derstand that this is not sufficient to
stop such barbarities. At the same
time, such concrete exposal OF ac-
tual happenings in the neighborhood
where one lives or works is good
method of agitation which, by arous-
ing the workers indignation, awak-
ems their sense OF solidarity and thus
makes it possible to approach them
with moae~ advanced working class
propagan : ~NY1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
From A Worker in U. 5. A.
(By a Railway Worker)

(By a Railway Worker)
CLEVELAND, O.-Greetings to our
comrades on the railways of the U.
S. S. r. from the comrades of the
U. S. A., and, believe me, conditions
are bad here on our rails for the
workers. They have been pruning
our forces until we have but so per
cent of the working force of three
years ago, and the few of us left
don't know how long we will hold
our jobs before the knife gets us. In
numbers, and estimated from this
district, million men of the rail
are on the breadlines, and those who
are working earn but 10 per cent of
the wages of 1928. To top that off,
our government has started initiation
of our money, which puts up COM
modify prices that we must meet with
our lowered wage value.
Road or engine crews have suffer-
ed lay-offs for ten years on account
of bigger engines that can haul 140
loads over one division of 100 miles
in from three to five hours. The
shops for car and engine repair have
been closed SO per cent of the time
since 1929, and when open operate
with but so per cent of their force.
Road Beds Unsafe
Our track gangs are cut from IL
men to two men, and work but four
days week, SO our road beds are
in need of repair. It's hardly safe
to run over them, and each day they
get worse.
Our clerks are getting the axe.
Merging headquarters of general ac-
counting in New York City put $40
on the breadline here, and compelled
those working to suffer a two-day
delay in getting our pay checks.
Clerks now are speeded up to mad
house pace.
SignaImen Cut
Our signal tower department suf-
fered cuts with closing of towers. We
can afford nothing for recreation or
sports or culture. That makes it a
dreary life for all of us. Just "eat,
sleep and work"
Our Captains of Industry" and
the BEST Minds" of our easy" years
are frantically trying to patch up
our economic system SO as to pro-
long the power of their Imperialism,
and here's hoping the people get
sick of their laundering and take over
the job themselves, the same as the
people of the USSR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
TWO LETTERS
From A Worker in U.S.S.R.


MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-A letter
from J. Kwashenko, worker of the
may First" Mechanical Works, Mos
Cow:
Glass Brothers, Members of the Re-
forrnist Trade Unions, Members of
the Social Democratic Party, and
Workers of Other Parties!
The bourgeoisie is. doing everything
in its power in order to vilify the
Soviet Union. I want to tell you
something about my life in the U.
IS. S: r., in order that on the ex-
ample OF my life you see also just
how other workers in the U. S. S. R.
live.
The civil war found me five-year-
bid child. When I was 8 years old,
huring the period of, ruin and fam
Inc in the U. S. S. r., lost my
parents and remained all alone,
without any support at all When
htin small I had to work in the har-
Dor and help the leaders. But when
our country grew stronger I was
wiven the chance to study.
Continued Studies.
After graduation from the work
hrs school I became a helper in a
bnlithy of the Central Workers CO.
operative; afterwards I went over to
10 building work and after short
>eriod became a real carpenter.
However, while working I continued
% study and the government not
pnly gave me the possibility to study
Tree of charge, but even gave me ma
Eerial support.
At the present time, after having
been given a special training and
technical education I am working as
constructor and earn up to about
boo rubles a month. I am not in
heed of anything, just as all other
workers in the U.S.S.R. True, we
have some difficulties, but these
difficulties grow less from day to
lay. The overwhelming majority of
bur working youth study in the high
Ichools and universities.
Eight Questions
Glass brothers, ocial-democratic
workers and workers of other parties:
should like to put a few questions
Ilso to you and hope to get an an
liver from you. If you reply to them
In the affirmative, then I go over
10 your side. In the US.SR. each
IND every worker when asked these
luestions without any hesitation will
Inswer briefly: Eyes, we have all of
his"
Here are these questions:
II. Do the workers Of your colin-
Ky have the 7-hour working day?
2. Are workers in your country
Promoted to leading positions?
Is. Dous your union send you to
he different schools and universities,
Ind do the companies pay you for
he time you spend in studying?
IL. Do the companies send work.
Irs to the health resorts at their
Expense.
Is. Are workers children accepted
" the universities in the first turn?
I6. DO women workers when preg-
liant get 4 months vacation with
Jill pay?
IL. Do wages go UP in. your coun-
~?
Us. Does the number Of workers
Employed in production in your
buntry increase or decrease?
With proletarian greetings,
j. KWASHENKO.
My address: Moscow, rs. Warshav-
xaya Shosse 8. May First" Me-
I1anical Works. j. Kwashenko.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
STATE GETS RELIEF

10Y VNhSH OUiAOSPVAAAcAAp
MOLINE, I'LL worked for three
eeks on high road paving for 40
Fnts an hour. / worked II hours
day, but money was taken of the
hges to pay for back ttxes, so that
|got Il day. When nv taxes were
kid, ! was laid of. withs$c still COM
|s'}p me. ~. y - .----4-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-06
9O% in PoorhonSe of
Yonkers Worked for
Carpet Millionaire
5000 Workers Who Helped Build Fortune
Now Starving
50 Years of Capitalism Creates $4,000 Beggars,
10 Multi-Millionaires
fBx a Worker Corresnondentl

N YThe Carpet Isl the
the Yonkers 1t humble
as the The very
mostly Scotch
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
GLENN SEESEND.
Of PROHIBITION

CHICAGO, March 18 UN.S)
Elected in 1923 as a Republican
dry law advocate, United States
Senator Otis F. Glenn, of Illinois
today was the author of a pre-
diction that prohibition will be
abolished at the next session of
Congress.
At the st. Patrick's day dinner
of the Irish Fellowship Club
Senator Glenn declared that re
peal Of the dry laws would start
our Nation back toward law and
order" He listed prohibition as
one of the vicious forces which
must be driven from our Nation >
Patrick j. Hurley, Secretary OF
War, who also addressed the
banquet, assailed racketeering as
the country'S greatest danger. He
said:
ITO get rid of the gangster,
we need no more laws, nor the
granting of further powers to
the Federal Government. We
need q revived interest in
Government, an awakening
from pathetic indifference and
an honest enforcement Of the
law"
The Washington times., 1932-03-18

Winkle" afternoon Central Cen.
ter, Thirteenth and Clifton
Streets.
Class-Adult French Converse
tion, morning, Chevy Chase
Center.
Enter -Bicentennial
program, evening, Chevy Chase
Center.
ClaSs-Social Dancing for
Juniors. evening, Ben Murch
School, Thirty-sixth and Ellicott
Streets Northwest.
Meeting-Boy Scouts, evening,
Ben Murch School, Thirty-sixth
and Ellicott Streets Northwest.
Meeting-Boy Scout Troops No.
40 and No. Al, evening, Columbia
Heights Center.
Meeting-Girl Scout Troop No.
IL, evening, Columbia Heights
Center.
Rehearsal-Capitol City Or
chestra, evening, Colum b i a
Heights Center.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
WHEAT DUMPING
ABROAD PUTS
OFF, BIC LOAN

An administration drive to dis
pose of huge American wheat and
cotton Surpluses abroad is expect
ed to take priority over the move
ment to loan farmers 100000, 900
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, according to an in
formal statement made by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Hyde today.
Discussing the reported move to
undertake an exhaustive survey
abroad to determine exactly where
markets may be available, Hyde
said:
'Tt would not be humanity pos
sible for us to make $20O,OOO,-
600 of loans to agriculture at
this time. Since we could not
loan this amount if we had it.
a better plan might be to en-
plOy the money in cutting down
our SurpluSeS rather than con-
tinuing to stimulate production"
The Federal Farm Board has
requested Administration congress
sional leaders for legislation to
finance the sale of wheat to for
eign countries.
Dickers With Traders
The board also is dickering
with private traders in this coun-
try for the sale of all it's wheat
on condition that it be sold
abroad,
The whole plan, according to
Administration Spokesmen, is de-
signed to rid the board Of a sur
plus which is said to be con-
Stant threat to grain prices in
this country,
The plan also contemplates the
sale of wheat to foreign govern
mentS in such a way that world
price levels will be only temper
arily affected, if at all.
Wants $2OO,OOO,OOO
Administration spokesmen in
the House are prepared to seek
amendment of a Senate reSolu-
ton making 100000, 900 of the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton fund available for loans to
farmers. The proposed amend
ment would give the Farm Board
100000, 900 to $125,000,000 of this
amount to. finance sales to
foreign governments on longtime
loans.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
House Movers
Take Wrong
Building

NORFOLK, Va, March 18
UN.SD House wreckers should
be able to count at least up to
SO. In a town like Norfolk
where streets are named num-
erically, it would eliminate
confusion and embarrassment.
Consider E. s.. Hargrove, who
owned a ten-room residence at
1042 Forty-third Street. The
house disappeared and Har-
grove notified police.
A mistake had been made.
The boys started out to tear
down a house for James Mccoy
at 1042 Forty-first Street, but
because confused in their
mathematics, and then pounced
the first "1042" they found.
Mccoy refuses to pay for the
job.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18

Meeting-Society of Natives, 8
p. m, Washington Club, Seven.
teenth and K Streets.
Meeting-Glover Park Citizens
Association, 8 p. M, Industrial
Home School, Wisconsin Avenue
and Thirty-seventh Streets North.
west.
Banquet-Theta Sigma Tau.
p. m. Fan Tan Restaurant.
Lecture-Dr. Gaines, 8 p. m,
Hamilton Hotel.
eetin ng-Alpha Chi Sigma
Fraternity, 8 p. m, Hamilton
Hotel.
Meeting-Civitan Boys Garden
Club. 8 p. M, Y. M. c. A.
ce-Inter Fraternity
Council, George Washington Uni.
versity 8 p. M, Shoreham Hotel.
Bridge-Tournament, Washing
ton Bridge League, $3.50 p. m.
Shoreham Hotel.
Dress rehea Trip Van
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
NAVY To ERECT
LABORATORY

Construction of a modern,
elaborately equipped astrographic
laboratory near the Naval OBJ
servatory was indicated today by
an announcement at the Bureau
of Construction and Repair at the
Navy Department that bids will
be opened early in April.
The proposed building will be
81 feet by 60 feet and will house
three laboratories, two offices, lee
ture room, and three up-to-date
dark rooms equipped with air con-
ditioning apparatus. Materials
used in the structure will consist
largely of reinforced concrete and
limestone facing.
Erection of an astrographic
laboratory at this time, naval as
tronomers say, will provide Gov
eminent star gazers considerable
assistance in star photography.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18

Lecture-"Passion Play" Prof.
Timothy Drake, 8 p. m, st.
Augustine's Auditorium, Fifteenth
and r Streets Northwest.
Bicentennial Program - Chevy
Chase Center, 8 p. M, E. V. Brown
School Building.
Luncheon-Phi Gamma Delta
Fraternity, 1890 p. m, University
Club.
Luncheon-Phi Delta Phi, l p.
m. University Club.
Luncheon-Round Table, 1890
D. m, University Club.
Observation-Disclosures Insti-
tute of Technology Alumni, 1890
p. m, University Club.
Lecture-Rev. Moses P. Jacob
son, Washington Hebrew Congre-
cation, 8 p. M. The Temple.
Washington Chapter
American Society for Steel Treat
ing, 8 p. M, Interior Department
Building, Eighteenth and F
Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
SEN. FESS TO SPEAK

Senator Simccn D. Fess Of
Ohio will speak at the meeting Of
the Political Study Club at the
Washington Club at 2:30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
GEORGlANS TO DANCE
WIAT'C NOIAIT> hi T0W/N and III

The Georgia State Society will
hold a bridge party and dance
at Meridian Mansions, 2400 Six
teenth st. N. W., at 8 o'clock
tonight.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
U. S. OkGys Purchase
For AnQcOStiQ Park

The purchase of 1855 acres of
land for park purposes In Ana
costa Park, D. c., was approved
today by Acting Secretary Of
War Payne. The purchase price
was set at $2,333.34. The land
lies within a parcel of 1872.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
GETS RESERVE POST

Charles Franklin Baldwin, 10
HeSketh ST., Chevy Chase, Md,
has been appointed a second
lieutenant in the Quartermaster
Reserve, the War Department
announced today.
The Washington times., 1932-03-18
DC. Negro Composer
To GiUe Concert Here

Wellington Adams, local negro
composer and Wanamaker prize
winner, will make his first Wash
ington appearance on program
of his own compositions March
30 at the Phyllis Wheatley
Y. w. c. A.
Local talent assisting the artist
will include J. Stanley Brooks,
Marie Gray, HERNIA Klinger, Hat
tie Clements, Josie Rowe, Victoria
johnson, and Lorraine Elwood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-07

In lighter vein, Margaret Aver Barnes, winner of the last Pulitzer Prize, gives substance md signifi- canoe to the situations of her new book, Westward Passage"
 Arthur Schnitzler, who died shortly before the publication of rFight Into Darkness" handled the intense theme of a mans grad ual descent into insanity in so na- |tural a manner that case history became drama.
 Villa Gather deepens her indi- vidual channel of writing in 'Shad- ows on the Rock" with her quiet strength and fininshed writing, as technique develops her analytical approach in "The Waves"
 Other novels offering the bal anced point of view characteristic of the year include Edna Ferber's American Beauty; A. J. Cronin's "Hatter's Castle; Henri Faucon- nier's 'Malaisie,, and "A White Bird Flying" by Bess Streeter Ald- rich.
 Outside the field of novels we find less experimentation and more assurance in one years output of short stories.
 The O. Henry memorial award volume contains work of such pol ished writers as Wilbur Daniel Steele.
 Somerset Vaughan published collection, First Person Singular, :" that is representative of his know ledge of human nature.
 Biographies More Conservative
 Biography turned still further from the extremes of ballyhoo and ridicule to more conservative csti- mates.
 Ray Stannard Bakers Woodrow Wilson" Emanuel Hertz's "Abra- ha mLincoln" and Clenneil Wilkin- sons Nelson" serve to illustrate this trend An unbiased view of the times and personalities in- volved is found in the correspond ence of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw.
 H. G. Wells tried to give us a fresh consideration of old facts in f''The Science of Life" which he wrote with Julian S. Huxley and his son, and in fThe Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-07

but it had indifferent success.
 His next venture was partnership in Chicago with Julius Veil. Be- ginning in 1885 the firm manufac- tured clothing In 1895, it became Rosenwald & Company and sold much of it's output to R. w. Sears, 3 mail order house. At that time Sears needed more capital and MT. Rc5enwald bought half interest n the business for $7o000. A year later he became president and n 1910 when MT. Sears died he was made president of the con- cern.
 By 1916 the half interest in Sears, Roebuck & Company had become worth $150,000,000.
 MT. Rosenwal6 established the revolutionary policy in the mail order business of refunding pur- chase money to dissatisfied custo- mers without question. The wis dom of this step was attested by the growth of his house. From $11 100000 in 1900, the sales jump ed to $5O,00O000 in 1906, to $100,- 100000 in 1914 and $270,000,000 in 1919.
 "A man who thinks much and talks little-a man of action," was a colleagues description of the commercial genius who directed this growth of the new business giant.
 MT. Rosenwald was married twice. His first wife was Augusta Nusbaum of Chicago to whom he was wed April 8, 1890. She died in May 1929, and the following Janu- ary he married the mother-in-law of his eldest son, Leasing Rosen- wald. She was Mrs. Adelaide Good kind, widow of merchant at St. Paul, Minn.