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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Cigar Workers
Strike Against
Recovery Act

CAMDEN, N. j., August 2.-When
the bosses OF the Congress Cigar Co.,
posted up notices in the plant that
the employers had accepted the
Roosevelt blanket code raising
wages and lowering hours, 1900
workers went on strike, recognizing
in this fake maneuver a deficit cut
in wages.
The strike was against the Roose-
welt slave code. Under the code, the
bosses were able to cut piece rates.
The workers are striking for 81 per
thousand cigars, instead of the slave
code rate of rs cents per thousand,
a 35-hour week, and a minimum
wage of $14 per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03

set-up and was pre-arranged.
We can expect a tremendous drive
on the part of the A. F. of L., sup
ported by the capitalist press, the
steel companies and the government
to begin Immediately.
The steel trust intends to MAIN
tain the company union system, but
under the A. F. Of l.. label.
A. F. of L. Leaders Agree
william Green's canned speech,
kowtowing to Lamont, was followed
by the entire list of A. F. of l.,
speakers declining the floor, present.
ing instead briefs and statements ap-
proving Green's speech. This shows
the lineup of the A. F. of L. behind
the steel trust.
The government and the steel trust
expect big struggles soon in steel, as
y evident N theig apeechss " ths
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
By JOHN MELLON

lGtCIctdIy StCCl dHu lvACtdl VOAhCIS
Industrial Union and leader of the
steel workeey' delegation to Wash
ington)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The state
nent of Robert p. Lamont, head of
the Morgan controlled Steel and
Iron Institute, at the hearings on the
steel code that I'VE still believe in
the employees representative plan,"
means that the steel trust intends to
maneuver on two fronts against the
workers right to organize militant
unions, through the company union,
on the one hand, and the American
Federation of Labor, en- the other.
The A. F. Of L. is being pushed to
the front by the steel strust and the
government in an attempt to stem
the rising tide of struggle in the
steel industry and the extreme dis
content, leading to the growth of the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union in many centers.
Pre-Arranged Hearing
The whole hearing Obviously y .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Social Insurance in
The Soviet Union In
Saturdays DAILY

Only two days are left to rush
in orders for Saturdays edition
of the Daily Worker. which will
devote full page to the I'm
employment Insurance cam
paign. The program outlined
by the National Committee of
the Unemployed Councils will be
printed in full in this issue.
An article on Social Insurance
in the Soviet Union is one of the
features for this special page.
Rush your order to the Daily
Worker, IS East 12th Street,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
No Fairgrounds, 3-Yr.
Old Killed on Street

NEW YORK-Danny Kline, three
year-old son of worker, forced to
play in the streets because of the
absence of Fairgrounds, was struck
by truck Tuesday morning at the
corner Of Fackman Street and suttar
Avenue and killed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
1900 Needle Workers
Strike In Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Aug. "A strike
of 1900 garment workers is on
in this city and is spreading to the
Bloomfield Company at Canton and
Minerva, Ohio. In the same city
other important strikes broke out
in auto and iron plants.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Be a Good Fellow
Spread Christmas Cheer

The approach Of the Christmas season again brings into
activity the Good Fellow Club of The Washington Times
For than dozen years this informal organization of
humantarans has spread good cheer the poor
city at Christmas time.
This year the club faces large and difficult task Within
day after the first made usual on Thanks
giving Day. more than 80 appeals for assistance
ceived by the Good Fellow Editor By the number is
up in the hundreds
Many ptfu revealed in these intensely human
letters of appeal
Most of them from families which, although in i'm
povershed circumstances, still avoiding making appeals
to the regularly constituted relief and charitable organza
lions for their daily subsistence.
They provide themselves with bread but at Christmas
time they entitled to little more. It is this little
more" that the Good Fellows will try to furnish.
toy for child extra dish the table, an outfit of
warm clothing
It is easy to be Good Fellow. Communicate with the
Good Fellow Editor of The Times and he will put YOU in
direct contact with family which and needs as
sstance if it is to have Merry Christmas.
you prefer not to deal with the needy family directly
send in contribution of money Clothes toys groceries to
the Good Fellow Editor and The Times will take care of all
details
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Local Liquor Control
Common Sense Policy

The attempt unite public opinion behind liquor control
bill for the District bringing to light serious discrepancies
In the attitudes which Washiononans are taking on the
after-repeal problem
The startling these is the apparent determination
of diehard drys" to retain control the handling Of
liquor and wines after repeal becomes effective here
Totally disregardng the awessness which has been
pant in city and nation under the Eighteenth Amendment
these citizens would perpeuate that condition by imposing
TOO severe restrictions the sale and consumption Of the
returning beverages
While those among citizens who believe in abstinence
under the law have perfect right be heard nevertheless
their words should be allowed dominate the discussion
which is now taking place.
Some those to whom the prohibition era taught no lesson
are even going far to insist that public sentiment in
Washington is predominantly dry.
the votes of the people the nation are representative
of sentiment in Washngton-and there every
believe that they arehe residents this city disguised
with the evils Of prohibition All the polls which have
been conducted the question show similar local sentiment
The local liquor law in the of preparation
be written to perpetuae the into which the
hy was led under the Eighteenth Amendment.
BY unnecessarily restrictions by unwise and e
cessve taxation and by general display Of intolerance
liquor control law be brought into dsrepue almost
it is enacted.
The people the city who view the problem with common
sense do not want that to happen
They insist upon law which will away with the speak
easy and the bootegger.
They insist upon law which will be liberal enough to
permit the public to exercise temperance without forcing
them to criminal subterfuge in order obtain drink.
It in this spirit that the control law should be drawn
and enacted
The District Commissioners have wisely decided to hold
public hearings the proposed law before it to Con-
gress.
Corporation Counsel William W. Bride has submitted a
series Of suggestions upon which the hearing will be
Those suggestions perfect from any standpoint
Mr. Bride himself admits that in their present form they
probably would not make workable law But within them
the Of They form good basis for the
discussion which will undoubtedly take place before the
Commissioners
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

One of the Federal services
of which the American people
are justly proud is the Coast
Guard.
Whether it is to remain under
the Treasury department or be
transferred to the Navy Depart
ment is one of the questions
of Federal reorganization which
President Roosevelt will prob
ably decided before the New
Year.
In time of peace, the Coast
Guard, which was created by
Congress in 1915 by the conSoli-
dation of the Revenue Cutter
Service and the Life Saving
Service, has a distinct mission,
and the diligence with which
its officers and men perform
their mission commands ma
tional respect.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Future of Coast Guard
Is Being Studied
-By James T. Williams, Jr.'

maintained at New London,
Conn.,, is undesirable for several
reasons.
One of these is that the Naval
Academy at Annapolis is now
operating at only half strength
due to budget limitations and
the curtailment by Congress Of
appointments to Annapolis.
The Navy is badly in need Of
more officers, Of as many more
as can be trained at Annapolis,
when that institution is operat-
ing at capacity.
Should it be decided to estab-
liSh another Naval Academy,
which in time will doubtless be
done, there is widespread Senti.
ment in Congress in favor Of
establishing it on the Pacific
Coast. Then, half of the
officers of the Navy would be
trained on the Atlantic Coast
and the other half on the
Pacific Coast, or better still, all
the officers of the Navy would
get part of their training on
one coast and the remainder
on the other.
Here is an alternative pro-
posal relative to the future Of
the Coast Guard that may
appeal to the President as it
has already appealed to thought
full members of both houses Of
Congress.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

UA1O y y -
went on. Pleasant, placid, pro-
grammed years, with mother,
father and teacher always at
hand with a plan for him to
follow.
Then presently he was %,
out of college, ready to tackle
the world. But just what did
"tackling the world" mean? He
hadn't the slightest notion. But
that didn't bother him. Some
one, or something, had always
turned up to point the way.
Someone, or something would
turn up now.
Life, of course, wasn't like a
mother or father or teacher.
But life had a purpose and a
plan, and a place for everybody.
Life didn't tell you, in so many
worGs, what to do. But it
sent chances your way. All
you had to do was to be eager
and willing and ready to jump
when the right chance came.
But how would you know it
was the right chance? That
was cas-. When the right chance
came, all your troubles would
be over. You'd no longer have
that Wretched feeling of uncer-
tainty. There'd be no petty
ann0yanceS-no horrid, heckling
fears-no unpleasant conse-
quences. When you found your
right place in life everything
would flow smoothly.
So he reasoned-becauSe he
had been taught to reason that
way. And he began to wait.
In the meantime, his friends
rushed a hea d - took risks
made experiments - got into
awful meSSeS.
How silly they are!" he sadi
to himself. IF they'd only
keep cool and be patient, they
might avoid all this. It isn't
in the least necessary to get
into such jams"
So he waited. And waited.
Jobh came along. But they
were never exactly the right job.
Naturally, he had to take them.
One must eat. But they never
lasted long. Something always
went wrong. His bosses were so
impatient! Why didn't they tell
him what to do, instead of blow
ing up because he hadn't done
it? He was willing to cooper
ate. If someone would just sit
down and make a plan with
hir1-tell him exactly what to
do and when to do it.
But nobody would. They were
all too impatient. Everything
was in such confusion. Nobody
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
An Alternative

Expand the Coast Guard into
what might be called the Coast
Guard and Border Patrol.
This would involve consolidat-
ing with the Coast Guard the
Border Patrol, which is now
part of the immigration Service
of the Department of Labor.
and also the Border Patrol
Division of the Customs Service,
which, like the Coast Guard, is
now administered by the
Treasury Department.
Expansion of the Coast Guard
along these lines involves a re.
grouping of agencies with
similar missions. Their merger
might increase their efficiency
and lower their administrative
costs.
Neither the War Department
nor the Navy Department is
asking for the Coast Guard.
The Treasury Department does
not wish to lose the Coast
Guard. The Coast Guard is
opposed to being transferred
from the Treasury Department
to any other department.
It's expansion into the Coast
Guard and Border Patrol is one
solution of the problem which
President Roosevelt will doubt
less study carefully before
reaching a final decision re-
garding the future home of
this important, effective and
highly respected Federal agency.
Copyright 1888, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

and gleefully prophesied that
the hirsute-peril would find its
way to America. But, like
bolshevism, companionate mar
riage and prohibition enforce
ment, the threat turned out to
be only an alarmist's night
mare.
Then came the gallant and
picturesque Balbo. And men
who hate the safety-raZor. took
heart and saw in the tea-leaves
a nation of Balbos over here.
Now, according to a femi-
nine writer, the beard again is
on its way over-this time from
Paris! Paris-its native home
and haunt, where men are dan
dies, and women don't seems to
care WHAT they kiss!
Well-three times and out.
OUT, FOREVER!
What in the wide world can
an American man want with a
beard? What would it profit
him to grow one? What COM
fort or ease or beauty or dignity
would it afford him, in this
Land of YOUTH, where even
doctors and college professors
and bank managers are chosen
for their youthfulness, and
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

had a plan. 1t was all so senhe.
less!
One after another the jobs
fizzled out. But he didn't really
care. They we're just stopgaps,
anyway. Presently something
would turn up. He'd see just
what to do. LIES PLAN
WOULD OPEN UP BEFORE
HIM LIKE A BLUEPRINT.
Does the story sound familiar?
OF course it does. You've seen
it lived out scoreh of times.
Perhaps for dazed, discouraged
months or years you have lived
that story waiting
until Life should show you what
to do.
BUT LIFE NEVER SHOWS
US WHAT TO DO.
LIFE HAS NO BLUE PRINTS
FOR US TO FOLLOW.
It is true that Life has a
purpose. That purpose is
GROWTH. But Life does not
tell us hoWw or when or where
to grow. For if Life did, or
could, what would be the re-
suit? We wouldn't grow. We
would only make copy-cat ges-
lures.
There is only one way to
learn how to live-one way to
learn how to grow-and that is
by living, by growing. Mean
ing what? Meaning going
ahead and doing the next thing.
Taking chances with yourself.
Making mistakes. Swapping
out of it and going ahead
again.
And get over the notion that
if you wait long enough or seek
far enough you'll find the Per
feet Chance. You never will,
for there's no such thing. No
growing life is ever perfectly
placid or permanently pleasant.
Healthy lives are always dis
orderly, rebellious, fussy and
fused.
Only the dead can sit pretty.
If you want to live, you must
take the consequences.
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Ethereal

Andres Reef is massive, wild
and grotesquely beautiful, with
coral groWths rising in men
acing grandeur. The Rose
Island reefs are filled with soft
and colorful beauty-rising ter
races of rounded coral, cap by
cap, dome by dome; their foun-
dations columned and buttressed
and pierced by caverns, arches
and winding passages.
DR.. Miners artist, Chris
Olsen, painting in a divers
helmet IS feet under the sur
face of the shining sea, using
oil paints applied with a pal
cite knife to oiled canvas
stretched over glass, caught
vivid impressions of this sub
marine garden of the gods.
Ambrose Vollard, born in the
Island of Reunion, French
possession way down in the
Indian Ocean, was running an
art shop and having a time of
it in Paris. Albert C. Barnes
was working his way through
the University of Pennsylvania
by means of his skill as a base
ball player. This was 35 years
ago.
Today. in New York, one is
privileged to see a portion of
the priceless collection of
French paintings which Vollard
has permitted to be shown in
America. And one of the prizes
of the lot, Paul CeZanne's "The
Bathers," is destined to stay on
this side of the ocean. 1t will
find resting place in the re-
markable collection which
Barnes, now DR.. Albert C.
Barnes, has housed away in a
$6,000,000 endowed art palace
in Merton, Pa.
An indifferent lawyer, Vollard
turned to art and attached him
self 20 the French impression
istic school. He bought the
canvasses of Manet, Degas,
Cezanne, Monet and Renoir
when only one other man in
France would look at their work.
They are gone. but he has lived
to see their worth recognized,
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
ONCE OVERS

Generally it is a struggle to
get them to practice.
If there is objection from
either parent it is easy for
youngsters to present excuses
for not doing the work as
signed or necessary.
If you are the sort that
complains that your children
don't do as we'll as others in
public appearance. and at the
same time are obiecting with
one excuse or another to hear
ing the oral practice they must
give, you are wrong.
Your desire for the child's
good should be above personal
annoyance.
The child cannot excel in
anything without many hours
of hard and consistent practice.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.) -.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Gold in Them Thar STAMPS
In Some of Them, Anyway

At auction in New York last week. four United States air
mail stamps issued in 1918 each were sold for
$12100
The four stamps bought originally from the Washing
fon d. CO. postofce part of sheet of 100 for which S2
was paid.
This probably the biggest bargain that anybody who
bought stamp at pooffice window go for the pur-
chaser discovered that the aane the stamps was upside
down.
The sheet sold by mistake was the only one ever
issued.
This represents clear profit Of $So2476 on each of the
four stamps just aucioned and incidentally may contain
hint for Postmaster General Farley increasing the
of his department.
Why not every few years. turn design upside down de-
hberatey, few stamps and then sell the results to col
aectors?
This looks like of the few fields in which the Govern
1rent could make oney without raising taxes it is
simple that you are surprised nobody thought Of it be-
fore 49,.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Branch of Navy?

The Coast Guard is charged
with the enforcement of Fed
eral law upon the navigable
waters of the United States and
its inSular possessions and upon
the high seas in so far as the
United States has jurisdiction.
To prevent smuggling, to keep
the lanes of ocean traffic open,
to save life and property at
sea, to protect the fisheries and
the game of Alaska, to protect
bird reservations established by
Executive order, and to suppress
mutinieS on merchant vessels
are all a part of the manifold
activities of this well-organized
and well-administered service.
In time of war, the Coast
Guard becomes automatically
a part of the Navy that it may
serve as an auxiliary of the
national defense.
In the interest of economy, a
proposal has been made to trans
fer the Coast Guard perma-
nently to the Navy Department,
to be administered as a corps in
much the same way that the
Marine Corps is now admins
tered by the same department.
Both the Navy Department
and the Coast Guard earnestly
oppose this merger. Each, if
offered the opportunity, will be
able to give the President many
sound reasons why such a
merger should not be attempted.
In time of peace, as we'll as in
time of war, the Navy is charged
exclusively with a defense mis-
sion. It's whole training in peace
has for its sole purpose the pre-
pairing of the Navy to defend
the nation in war.
The mission of the Coast
Guard in peace is one of law en-.
forcement and is therefore en-
tirely distinct from the mission
of the Navy.
1t is further argued that the
acquisition by the Navy of the
Coast Guard Academy for the
training of officers, which is
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
WISE WORDS

He was fresh, and full of
faith that Something would
turn up."-DiSraei.
Early and provident fear is
the mother of safety.-Burke.
Till cant ceases nothing else
can begin.-Carlyle.
Many would be towards if
they had courage enough.
Too dull for laughter, for
reply too mad.-Pope.
I never think I have hit hard
unless it rebounds.-Johnson.
With thee conversing I for
get the Way.-Gay.
For every man shall bear his
own burden.
The playthings of our elders
are called buSineSs.-St. Angus
tine.
1t is royal experience to be
ill-spoken of for good deeds
Antisthenes.
A fault mender Is better than
a fault finder.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
The Human Side of the News
Perfect Beauty-Prceless Art-Red Poppies
Blu EdWin C.. Hill

his appreciation of them vindi-
Gated, and himself made rich
and the possessor of a collection
which is the envy of the world.
Albert Barnes, a good base
bail player, turned to chemis-
try and went to Heidelberg,
where he sang negro songs in a
beer garden to pay his way.
Back in the United States he
stumbled upon a compound
which proved to have the uses
of nitrate of silver without it's
soaring qualities. He began its
manufacture in an old shop in
Merton. And what it turned
out was argyrol.
And in all the murmurs and
whispers and rumbles of the
present war scare in Europe is
a curious superstition of the
peasants.
AMI the news comes that not
in many years have the fields
of Flanders burned so redly as
this year.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Flanders Fields

1t is not to be wondered at
that American and Canadian
soldiers of the World War saw
some mysterious connection be-
tween their slain comrades and
the poppies that waved every.
where on the fields Of Elan.
ders. That is why poppies are
sold today in the streets of the
cities, by ex-soldiers, to raise
funds for disabled comrades.
1t is an old. old belief, this
notion that the red poppy is
the flower of death, the SYM
boil of death in battle. It goes
clear back to the ancient Ro-
mans. But it was a Canadian
soldier, John McRae, poet and
physician, who gave the ancient
belief beautiful setting in
verse after the terrible Battle
of YpreS:
In Flanders fields the poppies
blow
Between the crosses,
Row on row, that mark our
place;
And in the sky the larks,
Still bravely singing, fly scarce
heard
Amid the guns below.
We are the dead.
Short days ago we lived, felt
dawn,
Saw sunset glow and were
loved. :.
And now we lie in Flanders
fields. :"
Copyright. 1898. King Features
Syndicate, InC.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Practice Makes Perfect

You wish members of your
family to excel in music, but
you object to the practicing
necessary when you are at home.
You say that your nerves will
not stand the wrong notes and
irregular sense of rhythm that
the pupil or student of music is
trying to correct.
The rehearSing Of readings to
be given annoys you when you
want to read.
Fancy dancing jars the house
so that you cannot concentrate
on what you want to do.
You insist upon perfect quiet
when you take a nap.
The whole family stands in
awe of you and your whims.
If young people want to
practice they should not be
thwarted.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

Where in this world is beauty
to be found in it's most intoXi-
eating perfection? DR.. Roy
Waldo Miner, of the American
Museum of Natural History in
New York, steps forward to an
swer that question. One finds
perfect beauty, says DR.. Miner,
Is feet under the surface of the
sea, in the unSersea coral gar
dens of the Bahama Islands.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

him what tc
do. They tcld
him carefully,
in great de-
tail. T h e y
punished him
if he did any
thing reckless
or uneXpect-
ed. They did
this, not out
of cru e lty,
but out of a
real desire to
protect him.
So the little
boy grew and
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