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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Less Buying Power
Cutting Down Food
Sales, ReportShow
Rising Prices Forces
Curtailed Purchases
in Big Groceries
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - Total
grocery sales for the first eleven
months of 1888 were seven and one
half. per cent below the correspond
ing period of 1882, the Department Of
Commerce announced yesterday.
THE dollar volume of grocery sales
in November through a selected
sample of chain units, was about one
per cent higher than last year, &C
cording to preliminary estimates.
This means a very substantial factual
or real decrease in unit sales in view
Of the great increase in food prices
since last year. In other words, work.
ers we're able to buy less food during
this eleven months period than q
year ago.
A corresponding group Of chain or
CARNATIONS, representing stores con-
tinuously in operation since 1929. fur
nisiled the Commerce Department its
figures, the report states. These re-
porting firms operate over 70 per cent
Of the chain grocery units in the
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
WORLDS WIRELESS OPERATORS SUPPORT SHIPS STRIKERS
Acknowledgements
Sentenced to Long
Terms inWorkhOuse
Judge Had Railroaded
Woodlawn Defendants
in 1928

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 20.--Four
Ambridge workers were sentenced to
long prison terms by Judge McCon-
nell here today.
The workers-John Kapusto, Emma
Breltic, Danny Benning and r. Verko-
Vich-Were convicted Of "rioting" and
assault and battery" in connection
with the recent Ambridge strike OF
steel workers in which one worker
was killed and so wounded following
an attack by armed deputies and gun
men.
Breltic and Benning we're given
maximum sentences of two years in
the Allegheny County workhouse and
fined $500 each; Kapusto was SEN
fenced to serve one year in the work
house and pay 500 fine, and Verko-
vich was fined costs and put under
a three-year parole on a charge Of
assault and battery"
Judge Mcconnell, who sentenced
the workers, is the same Jones and
Laughlin Steel Company controlled
Judge who in 1927 sentenced Muselin,
lima and Reseter, the Woodlawn de-
PENDANTS, to five year terms. Muzelin
and lima served their terms, and
Resetar died in prison Of tuberculosis,
after all attempts to force his release
had failed.
Immediately following the handing
down Of the sentences of the AM
bridge workers, the international La
Dor Defense, Pittsburgh district, an
nounced its intention of appealing,
at the same time launching nation
wide drive against the terror which
is increasing daily in Arnbridge and
Beaver County.
Funds should be rushed to the In
ternational Labor Defense, GIL Penn
Ave, Room 6O6, Pittsburgh Pa, and
kilograms of protest demanding the
release of the Ambridge defendants
to- Judge Mcconnell at the Beaver
County Court, Beaver, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
East Side Workers
Demonstrate Today
For Jobs or Relief
Mass M e etin gs Will
End in March on
Relief Bureau

NEW YORK.-A demonstration of
all unemployed workers of the lower
East side will be held today at the
Home Relief Bureau at Spring and
Elizabeth st.
After a mass meeting at Seventh
st. and Avenue A, the workers will
march to Rutgers Square where they
will join with the workers at another
mass meeting there. and march to the
Home Relief Bureau.
The demonstration is being called
jointly by the Neighborhood Commit
tee of Action of 173 Second St,
the Tenth st. l.eighboraood Com
nittee, the 18th ST. Block Commit
tee of ga f. 18th St., and the Work
ers' Committee on Unemployment
locals 2 and 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Reichstag Fired
By Nazis, London
Inquiry Declares
P u Bills h e S Finding.
After Careful
Investigation

LONDON, Dec. 20.--Responsibility
for the Reichstag arson, for which
four Communist leaders are now fac
ing death at the hands OF the Nazi
executioners. is placed .rectly on the
Nazi chiefs, in a report issued here
today by the Legal Commission OF
Inquiry Into the Burning OF the
Reichstag.
The commission, composed OF in
ternationally famous lawyers, has con-
Quoted its investigation over long
period, and has taken testimony from
scores of witnesses barred by the Nazi
regime from entering Germany to
testify at the farcical trial at Leipzig.
The commission declares that the
mass, of testimony clearly shows that
the Nazi chiefs themselves, or through
others, burned the Reichstag building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Canadian Strikers
Beat Back Scabs
in Bloody Battle
Cops Driven Away
Motorcycles Hurl /
Into Entertainments

HESPELER, Ont, Canada, Dec. 20.
Forty five police and large number
of scabs were driven from the Do
minion Woolens and Worsteds Com
panyis plant here today by 500 irate
strikers who were on the picket line,
A pitched battle between the
strikers on one side and the police and
scabs on the other lasted for nearly
an hour.
Strikers struck at police with their
bare fists to prevent police-escorted
strikebreakers from reaching the COM
pany plant. Police drew their batons
but dropped them hastily when stones
began to fly.
Motorcycle policemen sought to
form a line around the scabs and
charge the strikers, but they were
stopped by the workers. Motorcycles
were lifted from the ground and
thrown down an embankment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Needle Workers to
Protest Arrest of
UnionLeaderSToday
Postpone Trial of %
on Frame Up Charges
to Friday

NEW YORK.-The trial of the 20
leaders and members of the Needle
Trades Workers industrial Union on
framed up federal charges in con-
nection with the Unions expose OF
racketeering in the fur industry was
postponed at the Federal District
Court today. The case will be
heard at the same court on Friday
at 1890 a. M.
Among those who will be tried
are Ben Gold, Louis Lyman, Irv-
ing Potash, Jack Schneider, j.
winogradsky, $. Burt and others.
The action of the federal courts
against those who have been in the
forefront in expoe,ag the racket
eering practices of the fur bosses
and the A. F. of L. union is aimed
to paralyze the struggles of the
needle workers for better conditions
and is part of a planned attack
to weaken the Union and enable
the bosses to smash working stand
ards.
Needle workers will mobilize their
forces at mass meeting at 5th
Avenue Theatre, Broadway and 18th
ST., today right after work to force
the release of the militant fighters
of the Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Wage Cut Measure
Passed in France
Senate Under Heavy
2 Police Guard

PARIS, Dec. 20-Under protection
of heavy police guard around the
building, the French Senate yester-
day endorsed the proposals OF the
Chautemps Ministry for cut in the
wages of the lower paid categories Of
civil employees.
The wage cut measure was passed
by the Chamber of Deputies a week
ago, with the Socialist deputies re-
framing from voting, in treacher-
Gus agreement with the government
attempts to balance the budget at the
expense of the toiling masses.
The measure has evoked a furious
storm of protest from the civil en-
ployes, thousands OF whom are pre-
pairing to go on strike against the
cuts. On the preceding day several
thousand workers demonstrated in
front of the Senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
NY. NRA Board Sends
Away Metal Strikers
Sent by Conn. NRA

NEW YORK.--A committee Of five
iron workers representing q mould
ers on strike at the Krischner's Mfg.
Co. of New Haven were fatty turned
away by the N. Y. Regional Labor
Board yesterday without considera
ton of their demands after the work
ers had been sent here by the Con-
necticut MIRA.
The main Office and plant of the
Krischner Co. is at 225 Colyer St,
Brooklyn, and the workers were told
they are under the jurisdiction of the
N. Y board.
The strike, under the leadership Of
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union, has been carried on in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
British Control of
Tibet Threatened

PEIPING, Dec. 20.-Britains yelled
control of Tibet was threatened today
with the death of the Dalai Lama,
British tool and spiritual and tenn
poral ruler of Tibet.
The Lama's death Is likely to be
followed by COLLAPSE OF the 1'ibeosil
invasion of zecivan Province, China,
at the instigation OF his British mas
ters It will also probably AFFECT the
British struggle with rival Japanese
imperialists for control of Sinkiang
Province. whose frontiers border the
Soviet Union for hundreds of miles.
British agents in Tibet claim that
the Lama was pcisnned by local poi
teal opponents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
C.W.A. Worker Fired
For Distributing the
Daily to Job Seekers,

NEW YORK. Franklin Folsom.
who had Just returned from Oxford
University where he was studying un-
der Rhodes scholarship, and q
former teacher at Swarttmore College,
was fired from o Civil Works Job yes-l
terday for distributing the Daily
Worker to unemployed applicants for
G. w. A. jobs.
Folsom, who was employed as m
interviewer of applicants for 9. w. ~.
jobs, had been distributing Daily
Workers to the men outside the Ar
inory at jefferson and Sumner Aves.
Brooklyn.
a Mr.. Remington, in charge Of
registration at the arnlory, was forced
to admit before the staff that Fol-
SONS work was satisfactory, and that
the only reason for discharging him
was his radical activities"
Folsom was being paid SIS for . -
hour week, slightly more than Tho
wage scale for unskilled workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

subjected to sharp criticism at the
conference.
New Problems
This was the first Party conference
Of miners from all parts of the coun-
try for a. long time and it had to
solve many questions arising out Of
the recent development among the
miners. In the first place the con-
ference reviewed the recent militant
struggles of the miners. Then there
is the problem arising out of the ex-
istence OF the many unions in the
field. The role OF the National Miners
Union in the changed situation
growth of the U. M. w. A) was
carefully analysed The coming con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

that was adopted and which will be
printed in the Saturday edition Of
the Daily Worker. Here we wish
merely to record some of the out
standing decisions.
Coming Struggles of the Miners
The conference after thorough
discussion of the recent miners
strikes, and the operation of the
codes, came to the conclusion that
the partial strikes and struggles
now taking place in the mines are
the first agns Of the coming big
struggles that will again take place
very soon. The N. r. A. codes, forced
upon the miners, did not solve q
single problem for tbs miners. On
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Ship OWners Grant
No Cargo Checking
Oberators
Woman Asks City
for Charity; Sent
to Insane Asylum

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2o.-Mrs.
Ernesta Cuadra, her 17-year-old
son Carlos and 19-months-old baby
we're sent to the State Home for
the Feeble Minded at Eldridge by
the San Francisco charity agencies
in order to rid themselves Of re-
sponsibiIity for their care.
DR.. Fred o. Butler, superinten-
dent of the State Insane Asylum,
testified in court that the woman
was sane, after the victin1ized
sister, Mrs. Edward Plum, had
carried on fight for her release.
At the insistence of the court,
Mrs. Plum agreed to see that the
Cuadra family would no longer be
dependent upon city charity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
But Strike Against rs
Per cent Wage Cut
Continues Solid
Operators Picket n. Y.
Offices of American
Merchant Line

NEW YORK. 49, While dis
patches of the strike of wire
less operators of the American
Merchant Lines are being
flashed from ship to ship all
over the world to other oper-
ators, the first concessions to the
strikers have been conceded.
Officials Of the American Merchant
Lines, owned by Kermit Roosevelt
and J. P. Morgan, announced that
wireless men would not longer have
to check cargo or do any other work
aboard the ship except that pertain
ing to the wireless shack.
This is a victory for the strikers
who are are demanding abolition OF
extra duties for wireless operators for
which they are paid nothing. The
strike of the wireless operators is
called against a Is per cent wage
cut.
The strike Is steadily gathering
momentum. Picket lines of operators
are being maintained in front of the
company's main offices at Broadway
and also at the docks. Mass picket
ing is planned for sailing days and
leaflets will be given to all passengers
embarking.
The operators of the s.. S. Amer
lean Farmer" left the vessel as soon
as 1t docked Tuesday and the ship Is
now unnamed by competent radio
operators. The s. S. American
Banker" sailed several days ago with
scab operators.
Dispatches are being flashed from
ship to ship by the operators so that
every wireless operator and in fact
the entire crews of ships in every
part OF the world are becoming cog
infant Of the strike. Messages Of
support and encouragement are COM
ing in to the militant marine opsr-
ators' organizations, the American
Radio Telegraphists' Assn, which
called the strike.
kilograms pledging support have
been received from Marine Industrial
Workers Union locals at Boston, Bal
tiinore, Philadelphia, and New Or
leans.
Gables have also been received
from the International Association of
Radio Telegraphers headquarters at
London, representing wireless men OF
Great Brain, Belgium, Canada, Den
mark, Portugal, Spain and Sweden
This cable reads: Your cable rela-
tive BowIes and Cartwright on
Steamer American Banker received
We will take action. I. r. r. Lon
don"
The United Licensed Officers As
ISOLATION have now come forward
pledging full support of the operators
against the American Merchants line,
and negotiations are pending with
other harbor workers organizations
for support Of the strike.
Emergency committees of the
A. r. T. A. (the operators associa-
tom, also made renewed efforts to
get at least the lip service OF the
International Seamen's Union "a. r.
of L.. At a meeting Of the Atlantic
district of the T. S. U. at 70 South
St, Wednesday, the request for az
least Official" support was made and
at first it was granted, but was hasti-
~ blocked by one of the bureaucrats
in the meeting. Nothing came Of
this effort to get the international
Seamen's Union to declare for sup
port of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

Also, among the comrades present
there were those active in the Ma
tional Miners Union, the United Mine
Workers Of America (the largest
number, the Progressive Miners
(Illinois), the Anthracite Mine Work.
ers Union. The comrades came from
the coal fields Of Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania (l1ard and soft coaD, Indiana,
Ohio, and the western fields utah.
New Mexico and Colorado. There
were 8 young miners, two women
active in the Women's Auxiliaries
and Negro comrades. This small
representatives Of Negro miners,
which reflects the weakness Of our
work among the Negro miners. was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Roosevelt Extends
Starvation Wage
Code for Workers
r e duces Wa ges AS
Living Costs
Advance

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-The n.
f. A. blanket codes have been ex-
tended for four months beyond the
original expiring date, January l, 1t
was announced today by President
Roosevelt.
This agreement establishes a fixed
minimum of sl3 week, in the face
of steadily rising prices of daily neces-
stiles. The agreement fixes a mir
imum" of $12 for the Southern states.
But even the so-called nlinirnunis are
not observed, since employers are
privileged to reduce it by spreading
work among their employees. Roose-
velt's order thus reveals his intention
Of continuing the present starvation
wage level, while he raises the cost
of living through monopoly prices and
initiation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

vention OF the U. M. w. A., the code
hearings in Washington january
5th) and the expiration of the agree
ments the coming April LIST were
central questions in the discussion.
Aside from this, the conference laid
down the methods of work OF the
Party Mining Fraction, the coordina-
ton of the work in the various
miners organization. The strengthen
ing OF the Party base among the
miners and the role OF the Daily
Worker in the development OF the
work among the n7tners received con-
siderable attention in the discussion
All these questions will be dealt
with extensively In the resolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
100000 Seek CWA
Jobs in n. Y. State;
100000 Get Them

NEW K.-Fiye hundred
thousand applications have been
received throughout this state, ac-
cording to q statement issued by
Frederick l. Daniels, state G. w. A.
Executive Director, and only l60,-
coo have ben given jobs, and these
10000 men have been transferred
from relief jobs to C.WA. projects.
New York City is represented
in this total with 10000 jobs and
are men who have been transferred
from former emergency work to
the C. w. A. The sum total of
available @. w. A. jobs in the state
is 240,0 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Nesin Named for
Senator in Bronx
Workers. Candidate at
Mass Meet Dec. %.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2o-Sam Nesin,
general organizer Of the Trade Union
Unity Council and charter member
of the Communist Party, is a can
didate for the Office Of Senator in
the special election to take place Dec.
2S, in the 2ist Senatorial District,
Bronx. The special election Is due
to the fact that the present incunib-
ent was appointed to the Bench. All
who registered for the last election
are qualified to vote in this election.
Nesin will speak at q meeting ar
ranged by the Laundry Workers IN
dustrsal Union, Saturday evening,
Dec %, at Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave.
and Claren1ont Parkway. :.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
BY ). sTACHEL

A very important conference took
place in the city Of Pittsburgh last
Saturday and Sunday. 1t was a
conference OF the most active forces
Of the Party In the mining fields.
There we're AZ comrades in attend
ance. including district Organizers
from the mining districts, 7 section
organizers from the main mining
fields, two representatives from the
Central Committee National Office.
OF the remaining IS comrades, II
were comrades now working in the
afnes, and a.l equal number Of un-
employed miners and comrades ac-
tive among the miner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

the contrary, for the majority of
the miners the codes represent low
ering of their living standards.
In this connection 1t was decided
that rank and file delegates be sent
to the code hearings in Washington
January 5th and there place before
the N. r. A. the grievances of the
miners. The preparation for this
hearing and the hearing itself is to
be utilized as means Of stimulating
and developing the struggles of the
miners in the various mines and mine
fields. Already, as the reports from
Central Pennsylvania showed, the
(Ccrttrxed on Pccs ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Cleveland Police
Bar Delegations
ToNazi Consulate
Stain Spends 54th
Birthday at Work

MOSCOW, Dec. 20.-Joseph Stain,
Secretary of the Russian Communist
Party, observed his 54th birthday to-
day by putting in a full day at his
offices, while thousands of congratu-
latory kilograms poured in from fac
tories and collective farms In all parts
of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

the face of attacks in the New Haven
press, for nine weeks. The mayor of
the city is o member Of the A. F. OF
L., State Federation Of Labor.
The meulders demand $500 for an
eight hour day. They were receiving
si4 for a 40-hour week and working
under terrific speed-up. 1t Is
highly skilled trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

CONTINUED or Pegs ~
The border vidette., 1933-11-25

ing, provided notice Of such proposed
alteration or repeal be included in the
notice Of the meeting.
Whenever any resolution in writing
may be signed. or any proposed action
AGO uiesced in writing by all the mem
bers Of the Board of Directors. such re-.
solution or proposed action shall be
taken and considered to be the sot OF
The Board OF Directors, with the same
force and effect as If the same had beeL
duly approved by the same vote At a
meeting of the Board, duly called and
convened; and it shall be thu duty of
the secretary OF the Company to cause
utes OF the Company, with the same
pnrticularity as II it had been SO ap-
ARTICLE vi
The highest amount OF indebted ness
or liability to which the corporation is
at any time to subject itself is Sixty.
Five Thousand 1865 0O0. .O0) Dollars
ARTICLE VII
Private property of the stock hold ers
OF the corporation shall be forever ex.
elnpt from corporate debts OF any kind
whatsoever.
ARTICLE VIII
The corporation hereby appoints,
ashoczes and empowers Mark B.
Thom pson Of Phoenix, who is, and for
more than three years last past, has
been bona fide resid ent Of a rizona. it's
agent who may accept and acknowledge
service Of all necessary process Or pro.
cessea in any action, suit or proceedings
that may be had or brought against
this company In any OF the courts in
said State OF Arizona; such service, or
process or notice, or the acceptance
thereof by the said agent lndorsed
thereon to have the same force and ct.
feet as If served upon the President and
Secretary OF said Company.
TN WITNESS WHEREOF, We here.
The border vidette., 1933-11-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate OF Francisco Tapia, de-
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the
~ undersigned administrator OF
the estate of Francisco Tapia,
deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, to exhibit them,
with the necessary vouchers, with
in four months after the first pub
lication of this notice to the said
J. B. Robinson at the office of Duffy
& Robins, Attorneys-at-Law, in the
Herald Building at Nogales, Ari-
zona, the same being the place for
the transaction OF the business of
said estate, in said County of
Santa Cruz.
J. 3 ROBINSON
Administrator of the estate Of
Francisco Tapia, deceased.
Dated Nogales, Arizona, this
10Th day of May, 1888.