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Evening star., 1932-10-04
LOWER GAS RATE
FIGHT IS PRESSED
Bethesda C. of C. Asks Fed
GRAFTON to Probe Equal
Charge With D. c.
BY a staf Correspondent Of The Star.


BETHESDA, Md, october 4.-The
Bethesda Chamber OF Commerce re-
newed its attack upon the alleged high
rates charged for gas in Montgomery
County by the Washington Gas Light
Co. and its subsidiaries with the adop-
ton Of a resolution appealing to the
Montgomery County Civic Federation
to open an immediate investigation Of
the feasibility Of equalization Of the
local rates with those In the District
Of Columbia.
The resolution was proposed by the
Committee on Public Utilities following
a report made by its chairman, Samuel
E. Stonebraker. in which 1t was as
serted that officials of the gas COM
pany had declared that the only way
to equalize the rates would be to raise
the Washington rates to county Levels.
It was shown in the report that county
consumers pay $l.20 per 1000 cubic
feet, while Washington patrons Of the
company are charged only 80 cents.
Make Statewide Survey.
Stonebraker said the Maryland Pub
lie Service Commission is making q
survey of public utilities throughout the
State and probably will take some ac-
ton regarding Montgomery County's
gas rates when the probe is finished.
However" he declared. some action
should be taken by the chamber imme-
diately with a view Of removing the
present differential in gas rates between
washington and the metropolitan area
Of Montgomery County, which has
created q real estate selling resistance
that will handicap the future develop
ment of this area"
Col. Thomas Hampton, George P.
Sacks and Stonebraker were elected
delegates TO the Civic Federation and
will present the resolution to that body
at its meeting Monday night with the
request that it be given preferential con-
sideration on the public utility calen-
dar. E. H. Jones, DR.. Washington
Waters and John A. Overholt were
named alternates.
Asks Station BE Abandoned.
A resolution proposed by Emory H.
Bogley, q member of the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, in which the Department OF
Agriculture Is requested to abandon Its
convey its land to the Park Commission
also was adopted
It was announced that the November
meeting would be held on the call OF
President Thomas Lafln as the regular
meeting falls on the eve Of the presi-
Dental election and the County Build
ing auditorium here will be turned over
to election officials that night and VIII
not be available to the chamber.
Evening star., 1932-10-04
headquarters building, which is nanked
by the hangers and shops.
Colonial Style TO Be Used.

headQuAfterS pullQlng, WHICH Is uankeQ
by the hangers and shops.
Colonial Style to Be Used.
A wide, paved apron extends the full
length of the hangar area. On this
apron planes may be TAXED, parked and
loaded without stirring up dust or
spleshing mud. The fire station opens
onto the paved apron, as do all hangars
and shops and the operations office and
headquarters.
Beyond the apron is the landing area,
extending in an unbroken sweep to the
Potomac River, $500 feet away, and to
the right and left q total distance Of
1000 feet.
1t Is probable that the barracks build
ing will be the first structure on the
field put into use. It Is anticipated
that the enlisted men now occupying
the ancient wartime wooden shacks on
Boiling Field will be moved into the
new block long barracks building about
January /. This building, built Of field
stone, brick and limestone trim, with
huge white columns at the main porti-
CO, is In the Colonial style, which will
be followed in all the post architecture.
The barracks building Is at the extreme
north end Of the building area and now
IS served directly by Portland street,
which now Is the only approach to the
new field.
To the extreme south end Of the
building area Is section reserved for
construction of future quarters as they
may be required for commissioned per-
S0nnel.
Evening star., 1932-10-04
POLICEMAN is SUED
$40, 900 Damages Sought In Action
Alleging Slander.

Policeman Raymond D. Padgett Of
the metropolitan police force was
named defendant in q SIC, 900 damage
suit based on alleged SANDER filed In
the Arlington County Circuit Court
today.
The suit was brought by James R.
Robertson of Clarendon, through his
attorney, w. Thomas French, as a re-
suit of an alleged statement in court
some time ago by Padgett to the effect
that he would not believe Robertson
on oath.
The complainant claims the state
ment was not privileged. in that it was
not pertinent to the case, and that
the fact that 1t was made in court
does not protect Padgett from action
against him.
Evening star., 1932-10-04
ASKS BANK REFORM

LEICESTER, England, october 4 Op).
-Nationalization Of the Bank Of Eng
land and all joint stock banks, stabili-
zation Of wholesale prices and creation
Of a national investment board to con-
troll new public issues were demanded in
q resolution passed today by the annual
Labor party conference Of Great
Britain.
Evening star., 1932-10-04
Approve New School Plans.

The District Commissioners today ap-
proved architects plans for a new
school building at the Industrial Home
School for Colored Children at Blue
Plains, D. G.. The building will cost
$4,000 to $4,000. Bids will be in
Nted soon.
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
The Red Advance in
Germany

DIG gains for the Communist Party decline of the Social
Partysuch summary returns
Reichstag n Germany.
The five and million votes the Recsag
power revolutionary way out
OF the capitalism that the martial
dictatorship Pappn
government Party previous cleo
their pushing
Germany the road to fascm have exposed large of their
former rank and file followers their real role the worst enemies of the
working class
The Communist gains almost in direct ratio the decline Of the
Social Democratic votes Winning the social democratic workers
the revolutionary standard accounted not by the sefexpure
OF the leaders but primarily by the correct Boshevk
tactics of the whose call united
1aaJs rv aa;srod ~ 49, fo of ua 49, or odvonca ~ 49,
powerful
unst PARTY moving toward the against capitalism
long step the road to winning the majority Of the working
class fer proletarian revolution
party
Papan
the frantic offensive the whole finance capital Fasc however
still great which the proetarat will
the the battalions,
the Germany victory working
and its vanguard the Communist Party 1t at the time defeat
to the social the followers of Totky Bndr Thai
renegades
The Socialist Party America in pursuit of its policy of
their action thereby aid the capitalist offensive
the blow the German elections How will Norman Thomas
in the
tions) that News pretty
The spirit of Hitlersm to be trtumphng"9
What the despcable Trotsky
cradle echoes in the United States who Systematically SANDER
Thaemann and the German Communist Party leadership
fight against 1eachery?
What of Brandler and his here the
gades who like the deny that
fss degeneated into social aSism?
III
hing defeat disaster the
before violent act of the capitalist
desperation of the defenders of decayng capitalism
strength the elections Germany staggering
blow which they will attempt
revolutionary lies and SANDER.
The results Germany capitalist
world 1t will capitalist
of their the toing
able to advance through the Red United
fascis here in the United States election
standards life the increased
Wall Street government.
We must display the fighting spirit
the fight
the daily struggle will
The elections should the
world determined action capitalist
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
Hoover's Deception Will
Not Work

IN valiant veterans driven from Wash
ngon fire Hoov federal soldiers
the White
recovery
couched terms of official optimism and heerfness this latest
deensee
alleged constructive mind of this
this like all previous nicely
time points Reconstruction Corporation
established exclusively the relief
and ndurials
is to be used oo-gng production institution 1t
obvious that further
that the bankruptcy
stockholders banks
capitalists
the closing sessions of Already the of
price
Not unemployed worker impoverished
period
the venture will at the direct the
higher living
his to the rising tide
the attack the Washington
point
alton infamous aggr which
on The federal practices against the
reductions Already the England capitalists
where they with the aid the the
issued the slogan of flexible labor day. which means extending the
itagger system to all who toll for them.
the unemployed the vets and shop workers This will not accomplish
fight a age-
employed and time for unemployment and social insurance at the
the with
the for the the
united militant
ship And together with the workers the fight must
Anaco banks of the Potomac forged the
unity the great
all of Hoover talk about
capitalist
baendeed costly battle This battle mmasked American democ
tyrannica face millions of toi
will the capitalism
he one way that will the nssses Of revolutionary way
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
Bosses Try to Cover Up Responsibility for
Starvation Conditions of Farmers

on commodities that the farmer
does not suffer competition from.
The Garner Relief bill, with it's
amendement in the committee,
would give loans out of az fund of
$1,500,000,000 to the banks and cor
porations-but nothing to the poor
farmers.
Worse in South
nthe South, the situation is
even desperate. When the small
cotton farmers -sharecroppers and
tenant farmers-white and Negro
are told not only to limit produc-
ton, but to STP production; and
when in the state of Louisiana,
they are forbidden to raise cotton
for one year-it means STAR
VATION.
In the state of New York, there
are close to 100000 rural popula-
ton. The farmers of New York
raise mainly chickens, cattle for
milk, fruit. New York City fur
nishes the market. This city is i'm
portant for the farmer, the farmer
is of tremendous Importance to the
city workers. The dairy farmer of
New York is under the thumb of
the milk trust-Borden Sheffield.
The New York farmers have their
organizationS-the Grange, Dairy
mems League etc. They read all
the capitalist farm papers and have
radios; they listen to the chamber
of commerce people, to their Or
ganization leaders. But their mis-
cry continues to grow. Workers
pay in the city u to ID cents for a
quart of watery milk, whereas the
farmer get one and three -fourths
cent for quart of milk of high fat
content. Who gets the difference?
The milk trust. Children cry for
milk in the city, where their pa
rents cannot afford to buy it. The
milk trust dumps tens of thousands
of quarts daily into the gutter to
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
Mass. Bosses Give Official.
Approval OF A.F.L.
Look Upon Leaders to Discourage Strikes

before the investigators and EN-
phasized the fact that:
Organized Labor in Massachu-
sets has always maintained a con-
servative policy. Organized
Labor in Massachusetts has never
attempted to extend its position to
the control of industry; it is not
political organization bent upon
capturing the reins of government.
(. 1t desires to establish relations
of confidence and good will between
itself and Industrial Management"
The entire implication of both
the labor statement and the official
report is that the A. F. of l.. should
be dealt with more closely by capi-
talists or else irresponsible. radical
agitators" (mention is specifically
made of them in Lawrence, New
Bedford and Fall River strikes
will come in and organize the work.
ers for militant struggle. This
would be bad for the capitalists and
the labor leaders who support them
and their industrial and political
policies a
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
The Work of Trade
Union Fractions
From jhe Resolution Of the Presid,um of thu
e. c. c. T.

The following important short
comings are to be found at present
in the activity of the trade union
Communist fractions:
a. The trade union fractions are
not suitably instructed by the cor
responding Party Committees, but
the leadership of the activity of
the fraction is frequently carried
out in formal and mechanical
manner-by sending circulars and
general directives The Party Com
mittees have not yet learned to
lead the everyday work of the trade
union fractions, have not learned
how to train the existing cadres of
the revolutionary trade union or
ganizations in the spirit of the
Party line and to strengthen them
by attracting new and fresh forces.
b The Communists working in
trade unions still very often in
practice carry out the leading role
OF the Party by methods of COM
manding and not by insistent work
OF conviction and by personal ex-
ample inside the trade unions. AS
a result, the internal life is sup
pressed in the revolutionary trade
union organizations and they are
converted into duplicates of the
Party organizations, with approxi-
mately the same memers and me-
chancially repeating Party de-
cisions.
c. On the part of the Party
Committees, there is very often to
be observed an actual self-elimina-
tion from participation in the dis
cussion and solution of the con-
crete problems of trade union work,
e. G. self elimination from partici-
patton in the various campaigns
carried out by the revolutionary
trade union organizations, and in
some cases even elimination
from the question of the strike
struggle but more often in ques-
tions of wage scales and social in
surance, ETC., which is completely
incorrect. They consider these to
be mere trade union questions,
which do not apply to the Party
organizations, etc. In the near
future, all Communist Parties must
pay the greatest attention to the
concrete tasks of carrying on the
most insistent work for removing
these shortcomings and weakness in
the sphere of trade union work and
for strengthening their positions
in the trade union organizations.
Hhe Presidimn of the E. G. C. I.
indicates the following and most
important of these tasks:
The daily worker., 1932-08-02

keep up the price. Farmers pro-
duce first class eggs that they get
little in the city for. They raise
fruit and vegetables, but have to-
let it rot on the fields because it
does not pay them to pick, pack
and ship them to the market, be-
cause the workers have no money
to buy it with. Thus the New York
farmers, in the richest state OF the
country, with big market in New
York City, are in the same situa-
tion as the farmers in the rest of
the country.
Enemies Rewarded
MIR. Sexauer is the president Of
the Dairymen's League. He receives
$4,000 a year from getting the
farmers 1 ga cents for a quart of
milk There are several directors
of the league at $4,000 year.
These people are not only bankrupt
as far as helping the farmers is
concerned; they are tools of the
Chambe rof Commerce, the bankers
in the city, to keep down the con-
ditions of the farmers, to fill them
with bunk.
The poor farmers in New York
and throughout the country have
not yet learnt that there are class
interests also among the farmers;
that the big rich farmers and
bankers use the small, poor farmers
to put through schemes of advan-
tages to the bankers and rich
farmers. The poor farmers have
not yet learnt to draw up their own
program, form their own groups
within these capitalist organiza-
tions, have their own leaders and
make fight to throw out of power
these capitalist and their hench-
men. This the Communist Party
must do for them; give them pro-
gram, policy and leadership, max
ing them understand that Sexauer
and all other representatives of
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
BY ROBERT w. DUNN

THE labor leaders of the A. F. of
l.. Should be called together to
discuss these problems and form
committees in their own interest
and receive the assistance of the
commercial and industrial organi-
zations of the State in creating such
support as the active leaders of
labor find desirable for their con-
stituency." This is the recommen-
dation of a report made for the
Massachusetts Industrial Commits
sion, and called "A Brief Study of
Industrial Massachusetts"
This survey of the. industrial
plight of that state pays special at
tention to textiles and looks upon
the labor leaders, particularly those
in the textile cities of the state, as
a stabilizing force that will discour-
age strikes and work for "better
relations" with the employing class.
The above recommendation we're
made after an unnamed "represen-
tative OF Organized Labor" appeared
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
The Tasks of the
Party Committee

4. In cases when the revolutions
ary trade union organizations are
faced with the questions which are
of big political Importance Quitting
forward a program of immediate
demands, preparing for a strike,
etc.. the corresponding Party Com
mittee must first discuss these ques-.
tions and must certainly bring into
this discussion the representative
Cor representatives. of the fractions
and thus work out for the latter
definite directives as to what they
are to do. The Party Committee in
such a case must. avoid the prede-
Of details, leaving con-
cretization for the fractions them-
selves, and demanding from the
fraction the greatest initiative in
this concentration and the most
careful consideration of all pecliar-
tiles of the work of the trade union
organizations represented by them.
If the circumstances of the time
and place require the fraction to
deviate from the directives of the
Party leaders, the fraction must
apply to the corresponding Party
Committees for new directives. If
for some reason it is impossible to
ges these new directives from the
Party committee and it is necessary
to act without losing time, the frac-
ton must make decision on its
own responsibility and give an ac-
count later to the Party Committee.
ITO BE CONTINUED)
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
BY ISRAEL AMTER

NASi dCl fAtlttI, CUiuLluIltSJ Cduul-
date for Governor of New York,
and the author of this article, is
at present on a campaign tour of
the industrial and agricultural Sec
tions of the state.)
THE capitalist politicians are wor-
l ried. They knew that not only
the workers, but also the farmers
in this country are turning Red.
They know that the toiling farmer
who is starving, is unable to meet
his taxes and interest, is losing his
farm, and is going to the city, re-
presents revolutionary force that
they will have to deal with. They
know that conditions on the farms
of this country are getting intoler-
able for the poor farmer, and
therefore, they invoke God and st.
Calvin to frighten the farmers.
Sham Fight
In Buffalo there is a man by
the name of Robert Elmes, of the
Chamber of Commerce. This cap
itaist is carrying on a sham fight
against Fred Sexauer, $4,000 a
year president of the Dairymen's
League. This is no real fight, but
has the aim on the one hand of
entrenching the bankers still more
in the lead of this organization,
and of making the toiling farmers
of the state believe that Sexauer is
a fighter in their interests.
What is the situation of the
farmers of the United States and
more explicitly of the State of New
York? The farming population has
dropped So per cent in decade
from 26.6 per cent to 81. per cent,
and today numbers only slightly
over 26,000,000 More than 100000
farms were abandoned in the past
ten years. Farm property dropped
from value of 80 billion to 81 bill
lions, representing loss of % bill
lion dollars. Farm income in 1881
declined billion dollars, while the
worker wages went down to Is bill
lions in the same time (10 billions
in 1890. Farm mortgages have
mounted to Is billions.
Farmers Hungry
Farm produce was never so plen-
tiful as today-but the farmers are
hungry. In the middle west and
the south, the farmers march to
the cities demanding and taking
relief. The federal Farm Board
Red Cross are furnishing the farm
erS with wheat. This is not a
result of a flood or drought-it is
the result of the production of TOO
MUCH food. The Federal Farm
Board, created to stabilize the
price of grain" promised to hoard
again, take it off the market, SO as
to keep prices up. They promised
dollar-a- -bushel wheat - today it
sells at az cents, or at less than the
farmer. can produce it.
Farmers are so poor that they
cannot send their children to school
for want of clothes and shoes. Poor
farmers have asked the farm banks
for loans, but they get none, for
they cannot furnish paper security.
They are saddled with mortgages;
they cannot pay taxes or interest.
They cannot sell their grain-so
they use it for fuel.
This is the result of the Hoover
Wall Street solicitude for the farm
ers, which is so admirably expressed
in the Republican Party platform.
But the same Wall Street Govern
ment has given billions to the rail-
road and banks, is spending billions
for war, has loaned billions to
bankrupt European governments,
has raised high protective tariff
The daily worker., 1932-08-02
For God, Calvin Coolidge, and the Law
of Supply and Demand
BY BURCK
-, - p =

the bankers are NOT working in
the interests Of the poor farmers,
but of the banks and the rich
farmers.
divine law"
Mr. Robert Elins of the Cham
ber of Commerce Of Buffalo, knows
the discomfort of the farmers-but
he also knows that as long as he
can invoke religion, God, ETC., he
will for time continue to fight
winning battle. But when Elns
declares that the law of supply and
demand is a "divine" law, that 1t
was designed by the creator" and
that Calvin Coolidge was his great,
est prophet on this field, then the
limit of hypocriscy, Swindle and
demagogy has been reached-or
perhaps not. In a folder dis
tributed among the New York
farmers, Elmes shows what the
Republican regime has done for the
farmers. But it just is what the
Wall Street government has done
for and to the farmers that has
helped to bring them into their
present plight.
After stating that "the world
cannot be forced to consume more
wheat than it is now doing" and
that the exchange value of farm
produce for the goods which farm
ers usually buy is now only SO per
cent of the 1910-14 average; after
damning the veterans for demand
ing their bonus; and quoting Cool
idge'S veto of some legislation,
ElmS declares "To insure success
for the farmer requires that we
repeal the Creators natural law of
supply and demand. That would
indeed be mircale. This would
upset the economic and spiritual
law as established by the Creator
eXpounded by that clear thinking
Yankee, Calvin Coolidge. Supply
and demand is one of the spiritual
laws and our agricultural heaven
can be reached only by absolute
compliance with it," AMEN.
This is the answer of the eAxRyner
who has ben suffering for IL years
and today is in the worst crisis. God
st. Coolidge and the spiritual law
of supply and demand! Using the
farm organizations, the church. the
radio and press, using the 4 H
organizations among the youth,
Wall Stret still manages to keep
the poor farmers under its fist.
What Do We Propose?
In this crisis, the Communist
Party puts forward its program of
struggle: Emergency relief for the
impoverished farmers without re-
strictions by the government and
banks; exemption of impoverished
farmers from taxes, and no forced
collection of rents or debts. This
is the platform for the election
campaign. 1t is one of the planks
in the program of struggle against
starvation, misery and war which
the Communist Party puts forward
for the organization and mobiliza-
ton of the workers and farmers for
the revolutionary overthrow of the
capitalist system and for setting up
a revolutionary Workers and Farm
ers Government, Soviet Govern
ment in the United States. Only
through this program will the
divine law" Of supply and demand
be upset, the poor farmers as we'll
as the worker be freed from the
power of Wall Street and of the
leaders of the chamber of COM
merce, farm and reactionary labor
organizations. The farmer must
organize to struggle together with
the workers in the city. VOTE
COMMUNISTS