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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

The conditions in the Ford factory are such
that out of struggle in one department can de-
velop strike movement in the entire factory.
That is, If we are capable Of extending our con=
crete organizatonal work into the other depart
ments, especially in the production department.
where conditions are similar to the conditions in
the foundry building. Concentration, of course,
means that whenever an issue develops the Party
and the union must be ready and conscious Of its
Importance and act on it at any time, even ifsit
means at the expense of something else. There
fore concentration means:
l. The assignment of the most capable leading
forces in the party.
2. At no time must anything be laid aside in
connection with this work of concentration.
3. The party leadership must be in position
to give the most detailed and concrete leader
ship 1t absolutely means>that the party appara-
tus must be involved in the daily tasks which
the comrades carry out inside the shops.
4. Leaflets and literature must be supplied in
sufficient quantity.
5. The whole party, section and union appara-
tus in and around the factory must be modified
in this concentration as their most important
task. That, of course, means to visit contacts in
their homes, to call small groups of workers in
the evening, and to carry most elementary
day to day work. And, finally, the leadership
itself and forces assigned to its shop concentra-
ton must know the most elementary grievances
and conditions under which the workers are
compelled to slave.
The decision on the Fords and Briggs concen-
tration has brought out the correctness of the
14th Plenmm resolution The practical applica-
ton no doubt will result in the tremendous
achievement which will root the Party and the
union among the workers in the shops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
BY B. G.

BY B. G.
THE May issue OF the Communist contains the
speech of the Canadian delegate to the Amer
lean Penum detailing the struggles OF the Cana
dian toilers against the bourgeois offensive upon
their living standards and the struggle for the
legality Of the Communist Party in the light OF
the growing political reaction in the country
The recent events preceding, during and i'm
nediately following May LIST further bear out the
increasing acts of terror of the Canadian master
class upon even the most elementary rights OF
the toilers.
These acts of terror are steps toward war.
The Canadian bourgeoisie, whose government
was the first to declare an embargo on the prod
ucts OF the Soviet Union and to rush warships
to Fl Salvador to crush the colonial and anti
impeIialist revolt and protect Canada's imperial
ist interests is preparing to ship munitions and
to sell its surplus wheat to the power warning
against the Chinese masses. The Canadian bou-
geoisia is preparing for war against the Soviet
Union and along with the campaign Of lies
against the workers fatherland, it intensifies its
terror against the workers.
An unprecedented secret roundup Of leading
militant workers of foreign extraction is taking
place from coast to coast at the behest Of the
powers at Ottawa as means Of iSolating the
struggles of the foreign born workers from the
native born and to crush any resistance to the
wage cutting ana reneI CuJIng poucy Oh Jile
Hunger government.
Already in Halifax as a result Of the secret
roundup during the last week, nine workers are
awaiting immediate deportation without trial.
These workers we're all kidnapped" by Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, who as worthy tools
of Canadian capitalism carried out the orders
throughout the country. In Montreal, on the
eve of May LIST, two active Ukranian workers
we're picked up in their homes, taken out of the
city, and the following day we're already in Hall
fax awaiting deportation. The charge against
these workers is their resolution in the name of
a workers organization to the Bennett govern
ment demanding the repeal of Section SO and all
other anti-labor legislation
In Sudbury, Immediately after the May First
demonstration, the Office of the Vapaus Finnish
workers paper, was raided and the editor and
assistant editor spirited away in closed car out
Of the city and placed on the train under strong
guard. In Winnipeg three workers-one Cana
dian born, one in the country since three years
of age and another a German worker-were
arrested and in a similar manner whisked out of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

experience we have gained as result of the
Ford Hunger March. First, it created tremen-
dous militant response for our movement and
against the Ford Motor Car Company, and, Sec
ond, in spite Of the fact that there is a greater
terror than at any other time, many Ford workers
are joining our organization. But, besides those
two points raised above, there are other reasons
for the correct decision made by the District
Bureau The Ford factory is the most important
part of the auto industry, politically and other
wise; the most decisive section of the auto work
ers are in Fords and, as far as the conditions
inside of the shops are concerned they are
equally as favorable as in any other factory. For
instance, the other day in the foundry building
workers were compelled to quit because they were
unable to stand the pressure of exploitation,
such as the speed up and general rotten condi-
lions.
Then there is the question Of wages which
affects the workers not only because the wages
are being cut but also because the workers in the
production departments only receive work two or
three days week. The discussion with the
comrades in Fords brought out the fact that the
proper approach and the real concentration by
the Party and the union will succeed in building
up struggle in the Ford plant.
What do we mean by concentration? 1t Is true
If we approach concentration in our former
Sclioe, IiIcll JIG dISIlleIS Ol THESE COIdOeS Will
be justified because not only will we fail in
Fords but also in any other factory. But if we
apply concentration in line with the resolution of
the 14th Plenum then we will not only concen-
trate on the Ford plant as such as whole, but
Will give special attention to grievances of a
department. In the Ford plant the foundry de-
partment is one Of the key approaches in our
policy of concentration. We find, for instance, in
this deartment that the workers demand 10
minute rest period From now on this demand
must become the central partial demand for the
building Of grievance committee or action COM
mittec. Yes, such issues which the workers raise
in the foundry department win be the Issues for
the building un Of or shop examination. -.as1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
Questions and Answers
BY JOHN SCHNIIES

We invite the comrades to send in questions
with regard to the Plenum resolutions. We
also ask the comrades to send in questions
that may have arisen during the discussion
Of the Plenum resolutions, upon which the
comrades would like to receive further clarif-
cation.
All Of these questions will be answered In
this section Of the Daily.
What Is most urgent, however, is that the
comrades themselves should send u brief
articles for this column.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
BY JOSEPH NORTH

THE leaders of the NAACP. have suddenly,
since the Massie case been stricken dumb in
their feverish praises of Clarence barrow, whom
they had been grooming for place in posterity
as sort of second John Brown True, highly
diluted Sort but still, like themselves, ode
fender" of the oppressed Negro masses
1t was only few short weeks ago when the
N.A.ACP. chieftains, Messrs White, Pickens,
ct al, prayed from one end of the land to the
other the high qualities of Darrow. Some of
the Negro bourgeois newspapers, particularly the
Pittsburgh Courier, mouthpiece for the N.AA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23
HENRY FORD--B ALLYHOO
AND BULLETS

mass starvation for which his class is tespon-
sible he cynicaIy plans to move away and let
millions starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-23

excepting sosouEAs
Bronx New York City For"iKn: IS; six months
Evening star., 1932-12-13
BILLINGS ASKS PAROLE
TO VISIT HIS MOTHER
Suggests 9O-Day Release to Gov.
Ro1ph Because He Hasn't Seen
Parent for 20 Years.
By the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
FOLSOM PRISON, Calf, December
13-Warren K. Billings, serving a life
term here for the 1916 San Francisco
Preparedness day parade bombing, has
suggested that Gov. James Rolph, jr..
grant him 90-day release" so he can
visit his 76-year-old mother in Brook
lyn, N. Y.
Billings was convicted with Thomas
j. Mooney. San Quentin prisoner. for
the bombing that killed 10 persons and
injured 40 others. He said he had
not seen his mother, Mrs. Anna G.
Billings, for 20 years Billings said
he would return voluntarily after his
visit.
When Gov. Rolph heard of this un-
usual suggestion he was non-commit-
tai beyond saying he would refer the
matter TO the prison board.
Billings maintained the stand he has
always taken with regard to an ordi-
nary parole. He again Sald he would
not ask for parole or accept one un-
less he could name the conditions,
which were interpreted as amounting to
an unconditional pardon.
Mooney and Billings always have
maintained innocence Of the crime for
which they were convicted.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
ADMIRAL'S DAUGHTER
WEDS NEWSPAPER MAN

Miss Anne Elizabeth Wood Be-
comes Bride of Joseph C. Harsch
at Ellicott City, Md
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ELLICOTT CITY. Md, December 49,
Miss Anne Elizabeth Wood, daughter
of Rear Admiral Spencer Shepard
Wood, u S. N, retired. and Mrs. WOOD
of Washington, D. c.. was married 10
Joseph c. HarSch Of the Washington
bureau of the Christian Science Monl-
tor.
The wedding was performed by Rev.
w. R. Dye of St. Johns Protestant Epls-
copal Church in the parsonage at
Ellicctt City. Mr.. Harsch is % and
the bride gave her age as 26. Mr.
Harsch telephoned here from New
Jersey yesterday morning and made an
appointment with William N. Mahon.
deputy clerk of the Circuit Court for
Howard County and arranged for him
to open the court house and issue the
marriage license. about Z O'Clock sun
day.
Mr.. Harsch was met here by Admiral
and Mrs. Wood and his fiancee. who mad
motored to Ellicott City from their
home in the Capital. The engagement
was announced last month. Mr..
Harsch recently returned from Warm
Springs, Ga. where he represented his
newspaper during the sojourn there OF
President-elect Roosevelt. He Is
native of Toledo. Ohio. The party re-
turned to Washington after the we'd
ding.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
TREASURY OFFICIAL
SUCCUMBS AT HOME
A. M. Peoples, Whose Widow Di-
rects Community Centers, Was
Active in Capital Lodges.

Alexander Mcbride Peoples, 54. as
sistant chief of the Division of Gen
eral Accounts in the Treasury Depart
ment. died at his home, 1888 Harvard
street, yesterday. after suffering from
typhus fever for six weeks. He had
practically recovered from the original
infection. physicians said, when he suf-
fered the fatal relapse.
An investigation. launched by DR.. j.
G.. Cumming. chief Of preventive
diseases Of the District Health Depart
ment. failed to determine the origin of
the disease.
Mr.. Peoples. whose widow Mrs. Eliza
beth K. Peoples. is director of the
Community Center Department came
here from South Carolina 80 years ago.
He was a Mason and member OF the
Tall Cedars Of Lebanon.
Besides his widow he Is survived by
daughter Elizabeth. Funeral services
will be held at S. H. Hines funeral
home, 29Ol Fourteenth street, at 1890
am. tomorrow, followed by burial in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
S16,OOo,00O ST. PAUL
PROJECTS FINISHED
City. "0ut Of Red" to Celebrate
Municipal Building and Mall
Completion.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. December 13-Some large
cities may plead at the bankers door
and trim budgets that have caused tax
strikes. but S.. Paul is about to cele-
bratc completion of two major projects
of Sl6,000,000 civic improvement pro-
gram.
One is the new s4o0o.oo0 City Hall
and court house, towering 289 feet
above the banks Of the Mississippi
River. The other is the new Third
street mall, which is to be renamed
Kellogg Boulevard. in honor of Frank
B. Kellogg. former Secretary OF State.
Both will be dedicated the night Of
December 10. when United States At
torney General William j. Mitchell de-
liyers the dedicatory address opening
the new court house
The structure. modern in design. has
1G-story tower. 1t has $4,000 square
feet of floor space. or about Z acres.
Kellogg Boulevard also overiooks the
Mississippi. 1t was Widened and land
scaped at a cost of s4 900 ,O0O Mr. Kel-
logg, for whom it is being renamed. is
now a member of the World Court
He was author of the Kellogg peace pact
and has been lifelong resident of ST.
Paul
gram include completed addition to the
municipal auditorium and general pub
lie works Improvements.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
$4,000 BALES OF COTTON
APPROVED FOR RED CROSS
House Agriculture Committee
o. KS Resolution to Donate
Stabilization Holdings.
B. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
LEGISLATION allotting to the Red Cross
for relief distribution the remaining
10000 bales of stabilization cotton was
approved today by the House Agricul-
ture Committee.
Unanimous action was taken imme-
diately after John Barton Payne, chair
man of the Red Cross. told the COM
mittce that the needy could use p
100000 bales"
Chairman Jones explained the bill
included all remaining spot cotton own
ed by the Sterilization Corporation.
Payne said a survey by the Red Cross
showed 4,238,000 families needed cloth
ing and that out of last sessions allot-
ment Of 100000 bales only $4,000 re-
mained. The bill did not include addi-
tional wheat because stabilization hold
ings of cash wheat have been exhausted.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
FARM ALLOTMENT
DRAFT PRESENTED
Tentative Relief Program
Disclosed by House
Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A tentative draft of domestic allot-
ment farm relief plan covering wheat
cotton, tobacco and hogs and repeating
the stabilization provisions of the Farm
Board act was made pubic today as
tie basis of farm relief hearings BY
the House Agriculture Committee.
After an executive session Of nearly
one hour, Chairman Jones distributed
the draft Of the emergency bill he haC
prepared to members of the committee
1t meets tomorrow to proceed with con-
Sideration.
Regarded as Tentative.
This is simply a tentative bill to be
used wholly as the basis Of the COM
mittees work" Jones explained.
The first section Of the measure di-
rects that within so days of enactment
the Secretary Of Agriculture shall esti-
mate and proclaim the probable domes-
tic consumption OF the 1888 production
Of wheat. cotton, tobacco and hogs.
Each producer then would be entitled
to an adjustment certificate covering
the dome site consumption percentage of
each lot of the commodity of his own
production which is marketed by or for
him during the year"
The face amount Of the adjustmen.
certificates were to be fixed at AZ cents
a bushel for wheat. 5 cents 4 pound for
Gotten. cents a pCxInd for tobacco and
? cents a pound for hogs, less admins
tratiVe expenses.
Farm Leaders Meet.
The committee session followed a
meeting of farm leaders last night that
lasted into the early morning hours.
President-elect Roosevelt. who has
shown a leaning to the allotment prin-
ciples was represented at the meeting
by Henry Morganthau. jr., frequently
advanced as possible choice for Secre-
tary of Agriculture in the new admin
strstion.
With the apparent agreement on this
farm aid plan. the Agriculture Commit
tee made plans to insert any changes
necessary in the Jones bill, which wes
outlined to the conference last night,
and prepare it for speedy House pas
sage.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
DAN GARRETT Dies;
|. MEMBER OF HOUSE
Represented Houston Dis
trict 20 Years-III for
Many Months.

Representative Dan Garrett Of Texas
who has represented the Houston dis
trict for more than 20 years, died to-
day at his residence in the Northum-
berland Apartment on New Hampshire
avenue after serious illness of many
months.
Representative Garrett had been suf-
fering from heart trouble. and was for
a long time in the Naval Hospital here.
He was native OF Tennessee and a
lawyer by profession and practice. He
vas married in 1893 to Miss Ida Jones.
a sister OF Jesse Jones. member of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Representative Garrett served in the
House Of Representatives of Tennessee
for two terms beginning in 1892, and was
elected TO the State Senate in 1902,
where he served four years He removed
to Texas in 1895 and practiced law at
Houston. where he was elected to the
Sixty-third Congress as a member at
large in 1912 He had been successive
ly reelected each two years since.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
LUSITANIA SALVAGE
OPERATIONS TO BEGIN
S1O,OOO,OOO Estimated Value of
Gold on Ship Whose Sinking
Put U. S. in War.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 13-The lure
Of sunken treasure has brought about a
renewed attempt to salvage gold and
yaluables from the Lusitania.
Since a German submarine sent the
giant liner to the bottom off Kinsale.
Irish Free State. with loss of 1.198
lives II years ago, and brought the
United States into the Wcrld War.
several plans to salvage her treasure
have been projected.
The latest was put forward last year,
but no actual work was done. 1t be-
came known yesterday that the sunken
liner finally has been located definitely
and a decision reached to begin actual
salvage operations early in lS5J
Charles Courtney. president Of the
American Association of Master Lock
smiths. who directed the opening Of
treasure chests on the Sunken liner
Egypt last year. has been engaged to
aid in the Lusitania venture.
The start of work will depend in part
on how early in the Spring favorable
weather comes to the Irish Coast.
The amount of gold aboard the
Lusitania has been variously estimated.
some figures placing it as high as $l0.-
100000. Others have scaled this amount
down at various times to $7.0OO,O0O
and S5.000,0C0. And the ships mani
fest, published shortly after she sank.
makes the subject even more confused,
as it contained no reference to gold in
the cargo.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
HOUSE PREDICTS END
OF WAR DEBT PUZZLE
Says Roosevelt Will Succeed in Ef
fort to "Liquidate War After
G. O. P. Failure.
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK. December 13-Declar-
ing three Republican administrations
"have failed to do So Col. Edward M.
House, in the current issue of Foreign
Aft airs. says the aim of the Roosevelt
administration will be to .'liquidate the
war-so that world confidence will be
restored world trade freed OF its
shackles and the minds and energies OF
statesmen everywhere turned to new and
constructive purposes"
The confidant Of Woodrow Wilson and
one of President-elect Roosevelt's close
advisers says the next administration
should make the greatest possible ef-
fort to put the war debts once and for
ali on such a basis that they are no
longer a political question"
Col House expressed the hope that,
without default or postponement of
present installments. the individual
debtor governments will, in the Spring,
request conferences with the United
States Government"
AT Lausanne" Col House continues
in his article. 1.-The allied governments
made a sincere effort to forget war
hatreds and took long step toward
disposing Of the reparations question
once and for all They were able to do
this because their peoples had come to
realiZe that the black reparations cloud
hanging over Europe carried less prom
ise of fruitful rains than the threat Of
catastrophe new storms. In the same
manner. for similar reasons. the Amer
lean people must be ready. as practical
business men. for reasons Of cold COM
mon sense, to do what is necessary In
order to dispose finally of the war debts
as political question"
In this discussion Col House links
together war debts. tariffs and disarma-
ments and says the President-elect's at
titude will be realistic sipirt of in
ternational cooperation" while that of
the Republican administration was pa
rochial"
Evening star., 1932-12-13
BANKERS WILL DISCUSS
GERMAN LOAN REVISION
Plan to Revise Standstill Agree
ment Covering $1,000, 100000
in Debts.
.c,,o;,.o5pro.s

Ey The Associated Press
NEW YORK, December ia new
meeting of international bankers will be
held in Berlin next January 80 to dis
cuss proposals Tor revising the present
German "stan6still" agreement, which
will expire On February %.
In accordance with the German
credit agreement of 1882. meeting
will be he'd in January for the revision
of the present agreement. which ex-
pires at the end Of February, 1888.
said A. II. Wiggln, chairman Of the
governing board of the Chase National
Bank. who also is chairman of the Ger
man Credit Committee.
Informal meetings have been held
here and in London in the past few
weeks to discuss tie terms for new
agreemen! which will supplant the one
now in effect. The German stanGstill
agreement covers approximately sl,O0o.-
100000 of short-term German debts to
banks in other countries.
Evening star., 1932-12-13
BENEFACTOR is SLAIN
By FORMER EMPLOYE
Man Is Believed to Have Lost Mind
on Visit-Kills Self After
Shooting.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. December 13-The
good samaritan role Samuel c. Haver
sought to play led to his death, police
concluded today.
Haver. personnel manager Of South
ern California Edison Co. was shot in
his Offices yesterday by Earl Totosian
former employe of the company, whom
Haver had befriended Totosian killed
himself after shooting his benefactor
Totosian was injured on construc-
ton project for the power company in
September. 1924. After he had been
paid in full for his injuries by the COM
pany. Haver continued to make him
personal loans and aided him obtaining
other jobs. Grateful, Totosian regular
ly sent Christmas present to the official.
Police decided the former employe
called on Haver to pay friendly visit
and perhaps seek further aid, when he
suddenly lost his mind.