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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14

paper in American has given this in
formation. The International says:
80 Per cent Cut.
"The tariff agreement for the
Dutch seamen of all ranks was an
nounced to expire on August 10th.
The demands of the Dutch ship
owners were: Adaptation of wages to
the standard of lower wages in other
countries. This demand of the ship
owners-which is equal to a wage cut
Of 80 per cent if ndorsed-caused
tremendous dissatisfaction amongst
the men as well as the officers. In
meetings of the ships officers and in
those of the members of reformist
unions unanimous decisions were
adopted to take up the struggle
against every penny Of wage reduc-
tons. In view of this fighting SEN
timent of the masses the leaders of
the reformist unions also became
radical and began to talk Of struggle
They well knew that the masses
would take up independent struggle
without consulting the reactionary
leaders if the wage cut was enforced
on August 18th. The pressure eX-
erted by the masses furthermore pre-
vented the shipowners to enforce the
proposed wage cut. They announced
non-tariff period"
EDITORS NOTE:-This "no tar
riff period came to an end Aug. 81
with an attempt to put through the
wage cut, and the seamen struck
The International of Seamen and
Harbor Workers comments on the
strike situation as follows)
Reactionry Leaders Declare No Strike
1.-THE reformist trade union and
also the Syndicalists (Federatie van
Transportarbeiders) have not de-
cIared any strike. In leaflet the
reformists have only called up for
refusal to sign on. The Seamen on
board are requested in this leaflet to
give notice to quit after IA days in
order to sign off on expiration of
this period.
1.-TWO of the most decisive shipping
lines in Holland-the "Roterdamsche
Lloyd" and the "Nederland" Com
pany are exempted from these meas
ures. Both these two lines maintain
the service to the Dutch Indies
These measures make obvious that
the reformists from the beginning
strove to avoid strike and to split
the fighting front.
Left Wing Leads.
"The Red Trade Union Opposition
Water Transport-which for weeks
now has been organizing this strike
under the guidance of leading COM
rades of the I. S. H Immediately
adopted line in regard to the man.
eouvers of the reformists. A leaflet
addressed to the Dutch seamen was
issued, calling them out for strike
against all wage cuts. The slogan:
Strike on all Dutch ships in all in
land and foreign ports" was erected
in mass meetings of seamen in Rot
terdam and Amsterdam called by the
R. T. U. o. and the Preparatory
Fighting Committee.
Even before the reformists called
up for refusal to sign, a membership
meeting of the Centrale Bond
which was organized by members of
the opposition in Amsterdam on Aug
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they had to walk 4 miles in a rain
to their home.
Police Try to Trick Workers.
After the city pusher went up to
the city hall, he came back with po-
lice in his machine, police on motor
cycles. But they came back in the
late part Of the day just about quit
ting time, and attempted to hold up
tickets on two gangs of workers, and
at the same time letting the big bulk
of the workers go home. But the
rest of the workers waited to see
what was going to turn up, and the
remaining two gangs protested for
their tickets. The idea was to pen
alize them through this segregation,
either send them to a worse job at
Jessup Cut or have them fired off
the job altogether.
Cops said, go home, you'll get
your tickets in the city hall. you'll
get some work next week" But the
men refused to listen, they were get
ting militant and threatening. One
worker said, Listen here cop, your
fat belly is satisfied, your family
don't have to worry with your big
salary, but my family is starving
right now at home. Goddammit
what my ticket right now" The tick
cts we're handed over to everybody.
A worker said, "They treat us like
dogs" To look at the nice holy face
of the mayor and the fat belly of
Councilman Mueller, who would
dream that such things happen in
civilized free Baltimore" Corrup-
ton galore is pouring out of the
city hall. The working class of Bal
timore is being consumed by a bunch
of human capitalist beasts The
Mayor lowers the street car taxes
and raises the city sales tax, and re-
duces unemployed relief. We must
organize a strong Unemployed Coun-
Gil to demand real unemployment in
surance at the expense of the gov
ernment and the bosses. No forced
labor!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
Urge Legion Rank and
File to Form Fighting
Front for the Bonus
Rank and File Committee Invites Legion Mem
bers to Cleveland Conference
Calls for Resolution Condemning Hoover and
for Support of Bonus Fight

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-The Cen
trail Rank and File Committee of the
Bonus Marchers jointly with the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, in
a. statement issued today to the vet
Grams at the American Legion Ma
tional Convention in Portland urged
the ex-servicemen to form a solid
fighting united front for the bonus
and to propose resolutions for the
support of nationwide fight for
the veterans back wage.
The statement to the Legion Con-
vention follows:
Many posts and state conventions
passed resolutions for the immediate
payment of the Bonus. Passing of
resolutions has come only because of
the pressure of the rank and file.
We marched against the wishes of
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29th-xunanimously decided to declare
a strike and to give the conduct Of
the strike into the hands of a Strike
Committee elected by the masses. In
this meeting the reforInist leaders
did not show up. But Walter, Secre-
tary of the T. s. H, took the word
this meeting and was enthusiast
tically greeted.
In Rotterdam too mass meeting
took place on August 29th. The
bourgeois "Niewe Rotterdamsche
Courant" of August 3Oth prints an
item regarding this meeting:
Yesterday an oVercrowded meet
ing of the Communist transport
workers was held in the "Verkooplo-
kaal" 1t was decided by all votes to
proclaim general strike including
not only the seamen, but also the
harbor workers and river boamen.
This strike is to commence tomorrow.
Strike Committees.
Although the reforlnist and syn
dicalist union leaders did neither
call membership meetings nor public
ones in order to give the seamen a
chance to discuss events, at the mi
tiative of the r. It. U. o. strike lead
ership was elected and charged to
lead the strike in mass meetings.
1T is of the utmost Importance in
this struggle of the Dutch seamen
that the strike committee elected by
the masses have the confidence of
the latter and that at the order of
these strike committees the crews of
Dutch ships coming into port are
without exception brought off the
ships Significant also is the joint
action of the officers with the men.
We have notice of cases, where whole
crews-from captain to deck-boy left
the ship at the request of the strike
committees.
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the officers. They were opposed to
us. The Veterans of Foreign Wars
passed a resolution favoring imme-
diate payment Of the Bonus and the
veterans all over the country collected
millions of signatures. Was this
sufficient in itself to get the Bonus?
Decidedly NO!
Rank and File Mass Pressure VIII
Get Results.
1t was only this pressure of the
masses of the veterans that forced
the bill to a vote and removed the
two-year restriction clause which was
demanded by the WORKERS Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League, at the hearing of
the Ways and Means Committee. 1t
will only be this pressure that will
force Congress to pay the Bonus.
Rank and File Veterans Beware
of Betrayal.
We already know who are opposed
to the Bonus. The officers of the
American Legion and a great major
ity of former officers during the war
are all opposed to the payment of the
Bonus (Note: General Glassford and
others. The newly elected officers
only through pressure of the rank
and file are giving lip-Service for a
fight for the Bonus. In the State
Conventions, where the Bonus reso-
lutions were passed, the resolutions
to condemn the President for the use
OF the troops invariably failed to
pass. These claim our Bonus money
and veteran relief funds will inter-
fere with obtaining funds for war
preparation.
In New York State Convention we
even see that the officers are willing
to support fight to reduce the dis
ability allowance, claiming they want
to be fair.
Fight for Immediate Relief.
We must fight now for immediate
relief for the veterans and their de-
pendents. This must be carried on
together with the other unemployed.
Propose resolutions for immediate re-
lief of all unemployed and support
of unemployment insurance at the
expense of the government and the
employers.
We Must Be On Guard.
Ever since the war and the or
ganization of the American Legion,
the officers Of the Legion always re-
sist the demands of the veterans for
relief. Only when the pressure be-
came too strong did Mr.. McNider,
National Commander, state that
something ought to be done for the
veterans. The result was-tombstone
Bonus. Later the officers in the
convention tabled and voted against
the Bonus, finally betraying the vet
Grams at the last convention in De-
troit.
A united fight of all the veterans
is the only security we have.
Propose resolutions for the support
of nation wide fight by all the
rank and file for an immediate pay
nent Of the Bonus and march of
the rank and file delegates to Wash
ington.
Propose resolutions condemning the
Hoover administration for use of the
troops against the veterans.
Send delegates to the National
Conference of the Rank and File OF
the veterans for a nationwide fight
for the Bonus to be held in Cleve-
land, Sept. %, "a and 25, 1892. Our
fight must be carried on with all
veterans, regardless Of veteran or
ganization affiliation, political opin-
ion, color, race or creed.
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IRON ORE IN URALS

The discovery Of immensely impor-
tant iron deposits in the Urals has
been made 1875 miles from the metal
lurgical plant Kusnetsk, now called
Stalinsk, and less than rs miles from
the railway, according to a rispatch
by Walter Duranty to the New York
Times from Moscow.
has meen estimated that about
2O0,000,000 tons of the ore can be
found near the surface and that its
iron content is from 40 to 60 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
PROTEST NEGRO
TERROR In TENN.
IL. D. Demands Five
Held Be Freed

Mob terror, organized by police
authorities, broke out in Lebanon,
Tennessee, last week, when an
armed mob invaded the Jail, took
out two Negro women prisoners and
tortured them to make them tell
where three men prisoners arrested
with them had been hidden.
The five Negroes were arrested as
the outcome of fight between a
Negro boy, George Oldham, 10, and
a white boy, in which the Negro got
the best of his opponent. Constables
were sent out to arrest him, but met
with resistance. In the fight that
ensued both Of them, Ben Northern
and M. E. Brown, were shot and
killed.
After the arrest of the five, the
mob Of several hundred armed men
organized by the police and town
authorities broke into the Jail and
took the two Negro women out.
After they had been tortured and
threatened, Chief of Police Robert
Gam took them back to Jail. The
three men had been hidden under
the floor. All five were later taken
to Nashville jail The National Guard
was sent to Lebanon to restore Or
der after the mob had dispersed.
The International Labor Defense
sent a strong telegram of protest
against the arrest and mob intimida-
ton to Sheriff elmer of Wilson
County on Friday. The telegram
said:
1--WE protest arrest five Negroes de-
Tending themselves against police
terror, and mob terrorization with
police connivance. Demand their
immediate release. and hold you re-
sponsible for their safety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
Tampa Conference
September Is in NY.

NEW YORK-A special Tampa
Conference is being called for Sept.
10, 2 p. m. at 100 w. 116th St., to
organize a strong campaign against
Tampa terror and for the release of
the Tampa victims. This will be q
united front conference. and the In
ternational Labor Defense has urged
all workers to send delegates from
THAR organisations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
Worker Correspondence
Whistles Speed Up Workers
i'm Baltimore Forced Labor
(By a worker CorrespOndentl

BALTIMORE, Md-"Say sonovabich
the directed
sandwich
the working grounds
ndredsO OF unem arem akn park.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
DUTCH SEAMEN STRIKING
AGAINST 80 PER CENT
PAY CUT ON ALL SHIPS
RefOrmist and Syndicalist Trade Union Heads
Declare No Strike, Ask Individuals to Quit
Red Trade Union Opposition Called Mass Nee
Which Declared Strike, Elected Leadership

The history of the development the
the for the strike and the role ofthevaOu
recent Of
which the Marue Workers Industrial Union here member
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14

Contributions 60 Dolly Worker Emergency
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Evening star., 1932-08-20
$4,000 GLORIA SWANSON
FURNITURE ATTACHED
Dealer Charges $4,000 Debt and
Threatens Removal of Articles
From Mansion.

By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, August 20-Nearly
$50 900 worth of Gloria Swanson's fur
niture Is going suddenly out of her
Beverly Hills home unless some one en-
ters court with $28, 900 bond yester-
day.
Alleging $4,000 debt, w. j. Saylor,
Ltd, dealer In expensive chairs, tables
beds and so forth, filed suit which
sent deputy sheriffs to the mansion
with writ Of attachment.
They found a lone caretaker, Miss
Swanson being in England with her
new husband, Michael Farmer. The
caretaker accepted the writ, and there
after was no longer alone, for a deputy
sheriff remained to keep an eye on the
many rich whatnotS.
A $4,000 bond will satisfy the at
tachment until the suit is decided. Miss
Swanson bought the furnishings be-
tween husbands in 1881. She and the
Marquis Henri de la FalaiSe had just
been divorced. Now living in London
she Is planning an English motion pic
ture. The suit said she completely re-
furnished the house at a cost Of S44 900,
paying $4,000 and promising the bal
ance.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
MISSISSIPPI DRYS
WILLING FOR TEST
Accept Resubmission Plan, but
Fight Repeal-Confdent of
Large State Majority.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, August 20.-The
Executive Committee of the Mississippi
Central Committee for Prohibition and
Law Enforcement yesterday declared it
Is willing to accept resubmiSsion of
prohibition. but is militantly opposed to
repeal.
No effort will be made to commit
congressional candidates against their
party platforms, but the Central Com
mittee will ascertain through its Leg
islative Committee whether each can
didate will agree to abide by the ex-
pressed sentiment of their constituents,
said Rev. Joseph A. Smith, member
of the committee.
He said the committee feels that two
thirds of the electorate of the State is
dry.
The committee was organized recently
to combine the efforts of the w C. T. u,
the Anti-Saloon League and other
agencies opposed to prohibition repeal.
Opinion of constituencies will be de-
termined by petitions and mass meet
ings, DR.. Smith said.
Evening star., 1932-08-20

to all owners of vacant or non-income
producing property, to subdividers and
to corporations formed for the purpose
of constructing and operating build
ings," the national board states.
1T remedies a situation heavily op-
pressive to real estate left by ruling
by the Department of Internal Revenue
G931) in Interpretation OF the law, and
by a decision of the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals, August G, 1881.
sustaining the commissioner in denying
to real estate firm. in test case, the
privilege of capitalizing carrying
charges
This decision Central Real Estate
Co.. Dallas, Tex. VS.. Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue: Docket 29544 left
the possibility that corporation or
individual owning vacant and unim-
proved property held for investment,
who should be obliged to borrow funds
with which to pay taxes and other
charges, might in the end be required
to pay to the Government on the sale
of the property tax which would
amount to more than the actual profit
derived from the sale"
Evening star., 1932-08-20
VALUE Of BUILDING
/ ACTIVITY DEBATED
Some Leaders Believe Con.
struction Will Lead in
Prosperity'S Return.

Economists are engaging in a debate
over the part building activities of the
country will play in bringing back the
good old times Of prosperity.
Some observers believe building will
lead the way; others that it will follow
shortly upon general improvement in
conditions and will stimulate the rise;
still others that the launching of con-
struction work now, largely through
Government stimulus in public works,
will increase employment and bring
about a cheering revival by increasing
the public buying power.
Building led business out Of the war
depression of 1921. but it will not lead
in recovery from the depression which
started In 1929, however, 1t is declared
by Gage P. Wright, editor Of Business
Economic Digest.
Shortage Existed in 1921.
He explains that a large shortage
OF space existed in 1921, the result of
the restrictions put on building activity
during and Immediately after the World
War, which does not exist now.
Building activity now is at the low
est level in years, and there is little
prospect of speedy recovery" he writes.
Authorities estimate that contracts let
in the first half of this year were less
than half those let in the first six
months of 1921. Total floor space in
contracts awarded in the 81 States
east Of the Rocky Mountains, excluding
public works and utilities. was So per
cent smaller than the figure for the cor
responding period Of 1881, 70 per cent
smaller than the 1880 figure and 80
per cent below the space contracted for
in the first half of 1928, the peak year
for the industry"
Others Of Different Mind.
Some leaders in the real estate field
take a different meaning from the re-
ports of the recession in private building
activity during the past year or two,
however.
They believe that the declines in
building, particularly in the field of
residential construction, indicates that
demand is piling up. They point out
that there has been much doubling
up" of families as to housing due to
the depression.
With the population OF the country
steadily increasing and residential con-
struction greatly reduced, particularly
during the past year, they believe the
oversupply of housing that existed a
year or two ago has been reduced.
This Is being hidden now behind the
practice Of families temporarily finding
housing with relatives, they contend.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
THOUSANDS RUSH TO JOIN
IRISH "WHITE" FORCES
Staff of Volunteer Peace Unit Is
Swamped With Applications
for Enlistments.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
DUBLIN, August 20.-The rush to
join the White" volunteers, an or
ganiZation whose announced purpose
is to preserve law and order, proved so
great Thursday that the Dublin staff
was unable to deal with applicants.
In every county rapid organization
was reported, and it is anticipated
that there will be large parades Sun
day, the anniversary of the death of
Michael Collins, chief of the provincial
government of the Irish Free State,
who was killed in ambush in 1922
Peace moves il the Anglo-Irish tariff
war appeared imminent today. although
the Free State was intensifying its
economic counter attack. Unrest among
farmers hit by British duties was in
creasing, however, as their funds be-
came exhausted and their credit was
stretched to the limit. Z
Evening star., 1932-08-20
PLAN FOR CARNIVAL
Marlboro Firemen Build ode
mountable" Stands for Event.

BY a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August
20.-"Demountable" carnival equipment
is now being constructed by the local
Volunteer Fire Department.
Members Of the department are
building their own carnival stands,
which can be taken down and used
from year to year. They expect to
have them completed in time for the
opening of a carnival which the de-
partment will hold on the lot adjoining
the court house from August n to Sep
tember 3.
The Carnival Committee Is composed
Of Harry Morris, chairman; w. s. Par
ran, Wesley Kerr, ]. l.. Fisher, Joseph
A. Rhinehart, H. e. Nicholson, IT,, and
G. Earle Wyvill.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
CARRYING CHARGE
RELIEF PROVIDED
New Law Benefits Realty
Owners With Vacant or
Non-Revenue Property.

A provision Of the Federal revenue
act enacted by the past Congress, re-
lating to carrying charges for vacant or
other non-income producing property
provides definite relief tor real estate
owners, 1t Is explained by the head
quarters Of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards. which urged adop-
ton Of this provision.
The clause of the act, 1t is reported,
definitely secures to the taxpayer the
privilege Of adding taxes and other
carrying charges to the cost Of such
real estate for the purpose of computing
the gain or loss on the sale in the
making Of income tax returns.
THE provision is Of great Importance
Evening star., 1932-08-20
Pushmohile Races Aid Poor.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 20 P).-
Theodore E. (Pop) Myers, manager OF
the motor speedway where the annual
5OO-nile automobile races are held, has
been waving a checkered flag at win
ners of pushmobile events on local
streets this week
Some 5000 spectators turned out for
one race. Receipts go to poor relief
ice fund.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
Boys Drowned in Flood.

OILTON. Okla, August 20 (P.-
Rushing flood waters of the Cimarron
River carried two boys to their deaths
Thursday after they had fallen from a
bridge near here while fishing for
watermelons swept into the stream by
overf1ows. The victims we're Leo
Simmons, 9, and Floyd Smith. II.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
FOOT BALL STAR WE'D
Garrett Arbelbide Marries Daugh.
ter of J. Farrell Macdonald.

LOS ANGELES, August 20 (P.-The
marriage of Garrett Arbelbide, end on
the 1881 University Of Southern Cali
fornia foot ball team, and Lorna Mac
Donald at Yuma, Ariz, last week was
announced here Thursday night. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Farrell Macdonald.
Miss Macdonald was introduced to
Arbelbide by her father, a motion pic
ture actor, after a foot ball game.
Arbelbide, who graduated last June, will
coach the Modesto, Calf, Junior Col
lege foot ball team this Fall.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
Plant Reopens After 2 Years.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, August 20
(P.-The Security Paper Co., manu-
facturers of craft wrappers, has re-
sumed work after being closed tw1
years. It employs 25 men.
Evening star., 1932-08-20
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Evening star., 1932-08-20

In Buenos Aires electrical refriger-
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