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HOOVER TAXES FIGHT
 AGA|NsT PHILIPPINE
 INDEPENDENCE, PUBLIC

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 16,- President Hoover, threatened with a signal defeat in Congress, carried to the public his fight against the Philippine independence bill
 Only Q tWo-thirds vote of the Senate is now required to make the measure a law.
 The House over-rode the Pres ident's veto Friday.
 The White House made public letters from secretaries StimSon Hurley, Chapin and Hyde, all crit ical of the pending bill which ap- parently guided him in his veto of the bill.
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SEARCH Is CONDUCTED FOR ALLEGED 'OTHER'
 WOMAN. MURDER CASE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16-Search for another woman in the life of Gerald Allen Craig, aged 39, World War hero, and former University of Southern California football star, was launched as detectives drilled Craig in an effort to force him to admit he plotted to have his wife Elsie, murdered by a hired gunman.
 Craig was held in jail on SuSpl- cion of attempted murder. Police declared they learned the motive was Craig's alleged desire to get control of S9OOO0 in community property, but they sought another woman mentioned by Mrs. Craig in an effort to determine ii the husband planned the deed be- cause of a secret love affair.
 Detective Lieutenant T. R. Ryan said he had posed as Buckeye Bryan of Toledo. Ohio, and that Craig had offered him $500 to mur- der Mrs. Craig. and had given him q key to the Craig apartment, with instructions where to find heaV- ily-taped steel bar and an auto matic gun.
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POLAND !S EXPANDING sEAWARD AS COAST
 GUARD MEASURE

WARSAW, Poland, Jan. Is. (P)- The limit of the Polish territorial waters in the Baltic has been push ed from the usual three-nlile limit to six miles out.
 This is expected to aid the war against smugglers who have been infesting the coast. At the same time it may keep some foreign eyes from casting too inquisitiye 8 glance at the shore.
 Maneuvers of the Soviet fleet 3 few weeks ago, on the three mile line, caused some indignation in Poland
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CENSORSHIP PLACED
 ON ]. 5. PERIODICALS 5

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. Is, Rigid censorship on all United States newspapers and magazines pre- vented appearance of reports of the attack yesterday in the United States Congress on the Havana government. But this did not pre- vent the news spreading quickly of the resolution charging Cuba has been governed by g dictatorship of fear. force and violence" in troduced in Congress by Repre- sentative Fish.
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TRYING THEIR BEST
 ID SAVE RUTH'S NECK

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 16.-An application for communication of her sentence to life imprisonment was filed by counsel for Winnie Ruth Judd with the Arizona board of pardons and paroles. She is con- demned to hang at the state pris- On February IT for the murder of Agnes Anne Leroi.
 The petition will ask either a pardon of her death sentence, or sentence for second degree mur- der, or nanslaughter with elem ency.
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EPIDEMIC 0F GRIPPE
 |S SWEEPING FRANCE

PARIS, Jan. 16, The grippe or influenza epidemic sweeping Paris has spread to the Navy, reports from Toulon said last night.
 More than 200 eases were report ed aboard the battleships Paris and Jean Bart, and scores of vic tins were reported on other ships in the Mediterranean squadron.
 Tn many cases all leaves for en- listed men were cancelled.
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SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT
 IN A|MEE's CONDITION

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16.-Still unconscious much of the time Ali mee Semple McPherson Hutton
 was showing very slight improve: ment,' Dr. L c. Audrian said yes terday. He doubted that she would be able to participate in any bed side court hearings for some time. Such a hearing was suggested by Judge Marshall McComb. Roy Stewart is suing Aimee for S24,000.
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ROLPH CHARGES FRAUD

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 16.- Governor Rolph charged that the stenographer's transcript of the testimony at the Inman investiga- tion of the Governors admins tration was not being correctly transcribed, and announced that he would have his own steno- grapher at future hearings so that correct transcripts might be had.
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COMMISSION CROWNS
 JEBY HEAVY CHAMP

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, Ben Jeby, of New York, esta ablished himself in the eyes of the state boxing commission, as nniddleweight title holder of the world, when he SCOT ed technical knockout over Frank Battaglia of Winnipeg in the 18th round of a scheduled 15-round bount in Madison Square Garden.
 Referee Jack Britton, former welterweight champion, stopped the bout to save Battaglia from further punishment.
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INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
 ALARMS BR|T|sHERS

LONDON, Jan. 16, Deaths from the influenza epidemic in the British Isles increased at an alarm ing rate in the past week, accord ing to statistics made public yes terday.
 Health authorities estimated 681 persons had died in the week ot influenza, more than double the week previous.
 Reports showed 303 died the week prior to that and 12O the week before that and 80 four weeks before.
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COMMITTEE STRIKES PAY"

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. 16.- Reports of s1OO,OOO split from the S1,0OO,000 appropriation made by the Legislature two years ago to indemnify state farmers for de- struction of tubercular cattle were brought to the attention of the special Senate committee inveSti- gating charges of graft against the Rolph administration.
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CHINA RESPONSIBLE,
 ASSERTS JAP CONSUL

LONDON, Jan. Is, On the eve Of the League of Nations final at tempt today to settle the Chinese Japanese controversy over Man churia, the Japanese consulate general here issued a statement accusing the Chinese of causing the Shanhaikwan incident to arouse sympathy.
 The statement said the Chinese forced Japan to occupy Shanhai- kwan and that the Japanese were strengthening their garrison there fearing further trouble.
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PRES!DENT-ELECT AND
 M ADOO HELD CONFkB

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Jan. Is, - President Elect Roosevelt and Will liam Gibbs McAdcO, the man who stampeded the Chicago convention for him, went into conference Sunday night for what friends be- lieved was the first step toward unificatiOn of the Democratic and Republican Progressive forces of California.
 The two men were in conference for hours in the seclusion of the Krum Elbow valley home of MT. Roosevelt.
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SNOWFALL MISTAKEN
 FOR A ''POP FLY''

SAN MARTIN, Calif., Jan. 16, - spectator tied up a baseball game between San Martin and Cottage Grove when he tossed 8 snowfall into the infield.
 San Martin was trailing, l to 3, when a. San Martin batter sent up a pop fly. At the same time Q snowball was hurled from the stands and instead Of catching the baseball, the infelder snagged the snowfall. Two men scored.
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PLAYERS WANT STINER

CORVALLIS, Ore, Jan. Is, - Many varsity and freshmen foot ball players at Oregon State have signed petitions asking that Lon Stiner, assistant coach, be made head coach, to succeed Paul Schis- sler, resigned.
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RATHER A LATE CHARGE

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Jan. Is, - Japanese swimmers who won five or six races in the 1882 Olympic Games were "doped" with oxygen, Matt Mann, coach of the Univer- sity of Michigan swimming teams, charged here.
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KRUEGER BLED AMERICA

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. IS. - Assets of the crumbling Ivar Kreu- ger enterprises were depicted be- fore the Senate stock market in vestigating committee as having progressively syphoned money into Sweden" while liabilities were dumped into America.
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JACK PICKFORD FUNERAL

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16, Flu neral services for Jack Pickford, brother of Mary Pickford and a former film star himself before his death in Paris, will be held this afternoon from the Little Church of the Flowers.
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q DUNNO," SAYS ANDY

LONDON, Jan. 16.-Conversa- tions with administration leaders at Washington gave him the inn pression that no one is really in a position to know what would hap pen in the war debts controversy, Andrew w. Mellon, United States Ambassador, said.
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RAILROADS PAY DIVIDENDS

NEW YORK, Jan. 16,- The Union Pacific Railroad and the South ern Pacific Railroad each received $4,8OO,O0O in regular dividends from the Pacific Fruit Express Company, a gain of sl 100000 from the S3,6OO,OOO received in 1881.
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SEVEN INDICTED

NEW YORK, Jan. Is, A Fed eral grand jury Investigating al legged violations of the election laws of this city in the November ,lections, indicted seven persons.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-01-16

Davis Runyan, head Of the Waechter Brothers interest at Fairbanks. arrived in the city Sat urday on business matters con- cerned with the local market.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

tile industry of workers who for
merlv received wages above the
minimum are having their wages
reduced now to CT ahcut the mini
L-um. Further still, there are num-
erous reports that workers who on
the basis OF the piece rates can earn
the minimum SCI for the industry
are now being dismissed outright.
Nor are there lacking examples Of
workers being fired for organizing
into unions. Under such conditions It
is little wonder that the workers who
nov faced with some increased pro-
Grct.cn, having been ted that their
earning will increase, take the only
roa1 they have loa-ned through eX-
perience that can bring them i'm
proved conditions. They take the
read Of Strike Struggle.
There is yet another thing which
must be mentioned Since the adop-
tion Of the various codes under the
MA there has been a steady in
crease in the speed up of the work
ers. This is already reflected in the
-ig,Tes that come to light. Thus
while in some branches of industry,
and the industries generally, there
has been Of late quite substantial
increase in production. If we add to
this the fact that most industries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

cial Democracy, the "Arbeiter zeit-
ung" of Vienna, has nothing to raise
in principle against Brailsford's
touching affirmation regarding the
defeat of capitalism in America. 1t
only considers Brailsford little too
optimistic, but:
Defeat of American Capitalism"
"He shows in an undoubtedly
correct manner how, in the most
powerful country of capitalism, the
crisis leads beyond the capitalist
system toward socialistic solutions.
Perhaps he underestimate the
strength of the opposing capitalist
powers" Chat is to say that Roose-
welt is building socialism and that
Brailsford only underestimate the
anger of the princes of Wall Street
at the American presidents "anti-
capitalism" in Vandervelde's sense
B. K.") Nevertheless it remains
a fact of powerful significance
that, in the two great closed en-
pires of the world, in Russia and
America, today, even though with
very different and antithetical
forms, the defeat of capitalism is
on the order of the day. 1t is a
ray of hope in the present darkness
of Central Europe"
Overlooking the Social Democratic
impudence which would place the
same label on capitalist dictatorship
of Roosevelt in the United States
and the proletarian dictatorship in
the Soviet Union. let us limit our
selves to declaring:
America: Land of Socialism"
THAT not Christopher Col
umbus, but a whole series of Social
Democratic leaders have discovered
Roosevelt's America to be the land
of socialism;
2.-That all these Christopher
Columbuses of the Second Interna-
tional expect Of the experiment Of
Roosevelt and his brain trust" not
only the end of the crisis of ca
pitalism, but "the defeat Of capt.
talism ITSELF"
3.-That this defeat of capitalism"
Roosevelt style, constitutes the
Transformation of capitalist economy
into communal matter" that is,
constitutes the socialist solution of
the crisis.
This much established, we will see
if there is difference between our
Social Democratic Christopher Col
umbuses and the most authoritative
theoreticians of Fascism in their ap-
praisal Of Roosevelt's political econ
omy.
The leaders of the Second Inter
national see the transition to So
cialisH" in Roosevelt's political
economy"
Initiation, to raise the imperialist
competitive power of the dollar and
to lower the real wages of the work
ers; the transformation by decree
of rlrtial unemployment into a
shorter work-week with lower real
wage; the compulsory classification
of all industry to bring about rise
in prices and consequently fall in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
The MIRA. Shackles New Chains on the Negroes

flung into your teeth by the Negro
workers who feel the blow of the
blue eagles wings over the South
land.
Keep Pouring In
Another Negro paper, the New
York News, takes up the cry of bitter
reports pouring in from all over the
country telling of Negro workers be-
ing Systematically fired when codes
go into effect.
The National Urban League"
says the New York News, lis the
most conservative of the National
Race agencies, and its bitter COM
plant against the Roosevelt relief
measures indicate a state of affairs
more dep.orable than has been be-
lieved possible, it is said Many of the
Leagues leaders were advocates Of
Roosevelt's election"
THEY didn't believe it possible. They
are always ready to believe any
promise of the exploiter, anything
to keep the Negro worker from unit
ing with the white worker in de-
termined fight for improved condi-
tions. The blow OF reality stuns even
the most conservative But their con-
cSaination arises from the tremen-
deus difficulty in justifying their
rosy appraisals of the NRA and its
actual results. The big question is
how to keep the Negro workers faith
in the NRA-how to keep him from
struggle.
The NRA drives thousands OF Ne
oro workers out of employment. Who
Goes the NAACP seek to blame? They
try to arouse the feelings of the
Negro unemployed against the white
workers by saying that white work.
ers are being put in positions for
lnsrly held by Negroes. The fact is
that thousandssof white workers are
losing their jobs for precisely the
sslno reason, especially in the textile
mills of the South, where the MIRA
is introducing speed-up, overproduc-
ton and shutdowns. But to take the
cdium away from Roosevelt, the
MIRA and the ruling class, the NAACP
slyly hints that white workers are
responsible. They want to split the
ranks of the workers on race lines
in order to weaken the fight against
the MIRA that hits all workers.
In the Washington hearings, the
only Negro workers who came to
protest against the slave codes were
those who came in the delegations
of the unions affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League.
Working close with Green was
John Prescott Davis, executive Sec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
RABOOSterUnable
to Explain Role of
Govt in Strikes
BY a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, Neb.-The MIRA has not
brought prosperity" to Omaha so
now the speakers bureau OF the NRA
Is holding meetings in the workers
neighborhoods to get the workers
lined" up. The NAACP and the Ur-
ban League are doing their share
to help the MIRA to SELL the Negro
workers the idea.
A meeting was held Friday, Au-
gust 10, under the auspices Of the
NAACP, with a speaker from the
Chamber of Commerce. He told how
the MIRA was a bloodless revolution
that the federal government would
fight depression not by violence, tear
gas; but was fighting depression by
persuasion. He also stated that the
federal government was going to
punish "profiteers" fer raising
commodity prices.
After he got through, some com
rades asked him some questions. One
of the first asked was in regards to
"profiteering.' The comrade pointed
out that the federal government was
''profiteering" by blowing under cot
ton and raising prices of cotton, also
the program on farm products. The
NRA speaker was forced to admit
that this was wrong to do, that
starving workers needed clothing,
etc.
Then he was asked about the role
of the federal government in break
ing the coal miners strike through
force and violence. The speaker be-
gan to turn all colors and he sure
hurried out Of the meeting. lie did
not answer the questions asked by
the comrades.
All meetings being held by the
MIRA should be visited by our COM
rades and also workers from the
revolutionary union, the Unemployed
Council etc, and expose the bosses
program about the Blessings" of the
MIRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Negro Misleaders Had
Promised Brighter
Days Ahead
BY HARRY CANNES

NEGRO workers down South don't
~ have radios, so they couldn't hear
in Roosevelt's own voice of the
blessings that were soon to be borne
to them on the wings of blue
eagle. They were not left unin-
formed, however. The glad tidings
were brought to them by the Urban
League, by the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People, by the Negro Industrial
League, by the Negro press and
many of the Negro preachers. Ga
briel was over the white house and
a New Deal for Negroes would soon
descend in the form of higher wages,
lower hours, and new day for the
Negroes.
They took up the chorus of ap-
proval for the MIRA led by Green
and Lewis and raised it to cres-
cendo.
Starving Negro steel workers and
miners around the hells Of Pitts
burgh we're told the MIRA was a new
emancipation proclamation for the
black race. Roosevelt was the great
emancipator of black wage slaves.
Brighter Days"
On Aug s., 1888, Negro workers
around Pittsburgh who opened the
pages of the Negro Pittsburgh Cour-
rier, and turned to the editorial
page, saw a bold headline, reading:
Brighter Days for Negroes"
Their eyes were fed on the follow
ing:
1.-THE big Roosevelt drive for
prosperity is under way. The ma
chinery of the MIRA is beginning to
function Launched by our able
president and guided by the
skilled brains of the ablest man in
the United States, the ship of Good
Times is steaming full speed
ahead. Industrial codes: contracts
between employers and employees
and the government, are stream
ing into Washington. -
THE editorial writer knew what
! would come into the suspicious
head of all Negro workers when they
read such glowing words He asks
the inevitable question and answers
it:
What does this mean to the Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Blame White Workers,
Not Roosevelt for
Unemployment

rotary of the Negro Industrial
League. Mr.. Davis was very affable.
He didn't want to offend General
Johnson or Mr.. Green. Davis read
off lists of statistics showing the
miserable conditions of the Negro
workers. He started to talk about
"the wages of Negro citizens" Deputy
Simson stopped him. Mr.. Davis apol-
ogized profusely. Lest he be mis-
understood, he said: Our policy is
substantially the same as that started
by Mr.. william Green, president of
the A F. Of L. But the policy of
Mr.. Green is to jim-crow Negro
workers, and to deny them the right
to belong to trade unions.
COON after, Green authorized
y George L. Googe to open head
quarters in the Hurt building in
Atlanta, Ga, to Organize" Googe
issued a statement of his purposes
in order to win the good will of the
lynchers of the Southern ruling
class. Not one word did Googe say
about Negroes. Our representatives
and leaders will refrain from spec
tacular activities or rash statements.
The presidents new deal will be the
yardstick governing all Of our ac-
tivity and quite naturally we shall
take the lead throughout the COM
munities Of the South in assisting
the president, his agents and all
patriotic citizens
The yardstick that has become a
club to batter still lower the Negroes
living standard is the emblem of the
A. F. of l.. in the South.
The Voice Against
Only one voice stood out against
the new slavery for the Negroes.
That was the voice OF the Commun-
lists and leaders of the revolutionary
trade unions. An outstanding point
in the dozens of codes presented by
these spokesman was no discrimina-
ton against Negroes; equal wages
for equal work; the right of the
Negro to work in all jobs in which
white workers are hired More inn
pcrtant still, these workers pointed
out that only by united struggle
of black and white, employed and
unemployed, would the workers smash
down the very results the Negro
and white workers are now suffering
from under the MIRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
A Growing WaVe of Strike
Struggles Under the MIRA.
By JACK sTAcHEL

THE adoption of the National Re-
covery Act has by far not stop
ped the growing strike movement
among the workers as was intended
by the employers and the govern
ment. On the contrary. Since the
enactment of the NRA the number
of strikes and the numbers of work
ers involved in strikes has increased.
Naturally the strikes did not arise
as a result of the NRA. The NRA
was legislation attempting to arrest
the growing strike movement. Yet
it is also true that as a result of
the enactment Of the NRA the num-
Der of strikes have increased. First,
because workers having illusions of
gains through the NRA, went on
strike to secure what they were
promised. Secondly, because work.
ers dissatisfied with the code pro
visions in their industry struck not
only against their employers but
also against the NRA.
1t is already becoming clear to
large sections of the workers that
the NRA will not bring them better
conditions. Aside from the fact
that the wages Of all workers are
being decreased through the rise in
prices, the nominal wages of many
workers are actually being de-
creased, because the workers are
not compensated for the reduction in
hours.
Under this arrangement our
charge that the shorter workday is
no different than the Hoover stag
Ger plan is also proving to be cor
rect. Furthermore there are in
creasing cases especially in the tex
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was not allowed to speak until after
the meeting had formally adjourned
and a lower wage scale adopted by
the contractors.
Meanwhile, confusion exists among
the local building trades workers, be-
cause Of the craft system of organi-
zation practiced by the A. F. of L.
The plasterers, cement finishers and
fathers demand the standard rate of
81 per hour instead Of rs cents as
affixed by the contractors. The
bricklayers have been inveigled by
leaders into working Temporarily"
for 871a cents per hour.
The workers will gain higher wages
and shorter hours, under capitalism,
only by organizing according to in
dustries. Otherwise, we may expect
to see members of one craft scabbing
iron members Of other crafts.
Harold Prcece