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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05


, almost kicked out"
None of the workers would permit
their names to be used for publica-
ton. AS this painter put it, ANY
worker with an honest opinion who
gets up and talks is Immediately ex-
PEELED" He has been in the union
for 81 years, is unemployed two years,
and the Relief Bureau refused to
give him aid because he is living with
his wife and two children at the
home of a relative.
These damn grafters got every
body tied up" he said bitterly. What
can you do? Unemployment Insur-
ance would give me at least $40 a
week. 1 could breathe a little bit"
A Printer in big Six"
A member of Typographical Union
No 6 on West 10Th Street was pretty
definite about Unemployment Insur-
ance. Il don't want to give my in
dividual opinion, but I'm willing to
sign any petition on the subject" He
has family of five to support, and
is unemployed a year and a half.
The Relief Bureau refuses to aid him
because he gets $40 weekly from the
union, out of which he has to pay
assessments.
How much help does that $40 give
your" he was asked. For answer he
pulled a dispossess notice out of his
pocket, and said with a wry smile:
That's the third one in six months.
owe three months rent"
IT'S graft, graft, graft" said an
other printer so what's the use talk
ing about Unemployment Insurance.
How can you get these guys together
when they're scared stiff to talk out?"
This worker as well as many others
contacted thought the Workers IN
Insurance Bill was SIM
liar to the bosses program, namel,
that the employed should support tn.
unemployed workers When the bill
was explained that it means to taz
the wealthy to raise funds, the worker
quoted above exclaimed, Say, that's
even sweller than what thought IN
Insurance was"
A young worker unemployed for q
year was approached at the Electro
clans Union headquarters. "They
ought to soak them rich guys and
soak them plenty, SOS guy kin live
in this world" he answered in re-
Spouse to a question on Unemploy-
ment Insurance. He has been married
for year and half, but six months
ago his money gave out, his home
was broken up, and his wife forced
to live with her mother again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

lever, remain stable for a short while,
the movement stops Because the
basic cause of the crisis (overproduc-
tion)-remain. the movement of
prices then continues downward. But
Roosevelt is not going to let this
happen. He is going to continue in
fation every time prices show a sink
ing spell. His message to the Lon
don Economic Conference made that
very clear. He is going to stimulate"
production and with it he will slim
ulate the contradictions which the
capitalists fear.
WHAT is the main contradiction in
" the initiation period? 1t is
continuation and an extension of
the main contradiction of capitalist
economy in general. The poverty
OF the masses, the fact that 17,0o0,-
COO are unemployed and the rest
OF the working class are on short
rations, make it impossible for CAPT.
talism to get rid of its surplus.
In the period of initiation this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Workers Write How 'New Deal Looks on Job
Civil Service Employees
Cut in Wages, Laid Off

By Federal Worker Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c. Federal
workers have been particularly for
tunate in getting repeated re-shuffles
of the New Deal.
First there was straight Is per
cent cut in salary. That was fine
Had not the cost of living gone down?
In Washington it had dropped very
little if any. Weren't the veterans
getting more drastic cut? What
we're we kicking about anyway?
Then came more economy synp-
toms. Bureaus were cut. Employees
were dismissed on furlough. Always
the lowest paid workers bore the
brunt of economy.
The presidents plan for farm aid
and industrial recovery involved the
creation of huge bureaus. Were these
to employ civil service employees
fired from other jobs, men and wom-
en- of tested ability and experience?
They were not. The man with the
most pull gets the job.
Not satisfied with all the patronage
he found in the new emergency bu-
reaus, the senate voted recently to
take all Jobs paying 5000 and more
annually out of the Civil Service so
that they can appoint their relatives
and friends.
1t is important that the people of
this country know the political tricks
and disregard for the workers and
their rights which is being shown at
the Capitol. The president knowc
things. If the people know them they
will know how much faith to place
in Roosevelt, the New Deal and his
shining promises There is but one
salvation for government workers and
all other workers, united mass action.
The new deal is for Wall Street bank
ers; we workers will get only what we
force them to give.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Speculation" and An
Artificial" Move
They Admit

THE American capitalists have two
sets of views bout the present
business situation. One is for the
consumption of the workers the
happy days propaganda to thwart
demands for unemployment insur-
ance and wage rises; and, the other
is for their own discussion, wherein
they express the deepest doubt and
fears for the future.
Every capitalist newspaper carries
the first view, spread on very thick.
But let us see how the capitalist for
themselves, in their bankers journals,
in their economic organs mot written
for the enlightenment of the masses)
look at the present stage of the crisis.
Benjamin Baker, the editor of the
Annalist, the foremost weekly eco
nomic organ of the big bosses, in the
latest issue of his paper, June 80,
estimates the upturn in a far from
hopeful mood.
"The Interpretation of the busi-
ness outcome of such activity" he
says, depends on an appraisal of
the soundness and fiFmness of the
forces producing it; and just at
this poipt the critical observer is
justified in taking a somewhat skep-
teal attiude."
He does rot believe the forces pro-
ducing what the daily, popular organs
of the capitalists want the workers
to consider as the beginning of re
covery," is created by sound or firm
causes.
THE Daily Worker has previously ex-
posed some of these causes, like
the gambling on higher prices lead
ing to overproduction, with it's greater
unemployment and misery for the
workers.
But what worries the capitalists
most is the imitation SNOWFALL that is
beginning to roll downhill, riding for
new smash. For them the future
is full of question marks, just as the
future for the workers is filled with
hunger The gambling element, the
speculative bubbles, the uncertainties,
the fear of sudden and precipitous
crashes wrack the bourgeoisie.
The bosses know the present move
nlent is not at all the healthy upturn
that they want, at all costs, to i'm
press upon the workers. 1t contains
all of the factors despite the four
years Of crisis) that led to the stock
market crash Of 1929.
1T is generally conceded" writes
d. w. Ellsworth. another writer
not for popular perusal, "that the
element Of pure speculation in bust
ness activity is larger today in
proportion to the total volume Of
business being done than at any
other time in recent years.
Tn view of the fact that the rise
In commodity prices has been arti-
ficially stimulated through currency
depreciation and other devices, 1t
is small wonder that there is wide
spread confusion among business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Brewery Co. Reports
Increase, Doesn't Pay
BY a Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Yin the New
k Times Of June 81, there ap-
peared story stating that the Rubel
Corp, which controls the Michel
Brewery and the Ebling Brewery, had
announced ten per cent wage in
crease for their employees. The story
failed to mention that the brewery
employees of the corporation have not
been paid in more than four weeks.
The truckmen and statesmen have not
received either their expense money
or commissions. The Brewery off
Gals told them that they would get
paid when business is more organ
lied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

taxicab and driven from house to
house to find new apartment. In
order to get rid of them he also gave
the evicted tenants $50 for rent!
The National Executive of the
Workmen's Sick and Death Bene-
fit Society is represented in the
German Workers Anti Fascist
United Front Committee. How do
the fascist scab methods employed
against working class tenants in
their house, agree with this?
The membership of the organiza-
ton will undoubtedly again show
their solidarity with their fellow
workers, like they did last February.
They are called upon to at once send
kilograms to the National Executive,
demanding the recognition Of the
agreement and the removal Of the
scab agent. Penger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

from 20 to 100 per cent.
No wonder that the capitalist
theoreticians are worried about the
speculative" and artificial" feat
ures of the rise in production.
But this speculative, artificial
stimulation will become more in
tensified. The Wall Street Jour-
nal says: THE initiation program Of
the United States is yet TO be put
under way"
Now the world battle over initiation,
upsetting the whole financial stabil-
ization of world capitalism, will make
matters still worse, because recogniz-
ing that Roosevelt intends to use in
flation as battering-ram to smash
into the markets OF England France,
Germany, Poland and the other
European countries, these countries
will take measures to stave off the
flood of American commodities. They
will try to do it so effectively that in
stead of gaining markets, American
capitalism will find themselves with
less markets than before. To try
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

contradiction is made worse. How:
The value of money drops. The
worker can get less for his dol
lar than before. Prices rise. The
worker can buy less in the period
of initiation than he could buy be-
fore. Wages are lowered in this
way. The capitalists have more
dollars taken from the workers.
to divide among Themselves, but
at the same time they contract
their inner market. The workers
poverty Is intensified through in
fiation, his position made more in
secure. That this is fully borne out
by the facts of the pee mt stu
alton can be seen from some Of
the statistics published by the cap
itaIists.
WHILE production has gone up in
F" some lines, the retail trade has
actually declined. Sales for May and
June in retail stores dropped from
. to 3 per cent while production in
steel, textiles, automobiles increased
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
How Initiation Hits the
Workers Thru Lower
Wages Higher Prices

further to win these markets they
will proceed to direct wage cuts.
Many Of the leading American
bankers know that this will bring
greater difficulties and that is why
the Commercial and Financial Chro-
nicle (July - said in its leading edi-
torial:
mo one appeared to recognize
that under such a disruption of
foreign exchanges, the whole world
may be engulfed in disaster, the
United States with the rest.
Quite contrary to the popular
screeds that the masses are required
to read, the big bankers see world
disaster" staring them in the face.
The workers are now beginning to
feel only the initial stages Of infla-
ton (rise in food prices 10 per cent,
Dun and Bradstreet; rise in the price
of bread in California, Iowa and H.
linois). Soon this trickle of initiation
will become huge wave. The Com
mercial and Financial Chronicle ad-
mits this saying:
Among disintereSted outside OBJ
servers they are not SO far outside
nor quite SO disinterested) there is
grave questioning as to whether the
decline in the dollar 50 earnestly
sought by the advocates Of . de-
based dollar may not be proceeding
too fast. What Is feared is that In
the precipitate downward plunge
OF the dollar the movement for gen.
eral depreciation may get ont Of
hand -. :"
In this situation it Is well to recall
the words of Lenin about the ac-
tons OF the capitalists in crisis:
1.-THE bourgeoisie acts like an i'm
pudent robber who has lost his head.
1t commits one folly after another,
increases the difficulties of the stu
alton thereby, and hastens its own
destruction"
But this does not mean that the
situation is hopeless for the bourge-
oisie. BY its day to day attacks on
the workers, by its cutting Of living
standards, Of relief, the capitalists
gain advantages, try to weaken the
resistance of the workers, and ex-
tend their domination. In the day
to day attacks, only the resistance OF
the workers to lowering their stand
ard Of living, for unemployment In
surance, can prevent the bosses from
trying by these attacks to get out Of
the crisis at the expense of the work
ing class.
AS Lenin pointed out.
"One cannot prove that there is
no possibility for the bourgeoisie to
put to sleep any minority of the ex-
plotted with the aid Of small conces-
sions, and to suppress the movement
or the uprising of any small section
OF the oppressed and exploited +.
We must now prove by actual prac-
tees of the revolutionary parties that
they are sufficiently class conscious,
and that they possess an intimate
enough hold upon the masses and
suficient determination and wisdom,
to utilize the crisis for the successful
triumphant revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Storm Dead Toll Il.

MIAMI, Fla July Ats death toll
now increased TO fourteen persons a
tropical storm that spread destruc-
tien in two areas hundreds of miles
apart-Jamaica and Cuba-was NOV
ing in the Gulf of Mexico some 200
miles off the extreme lower Florida
West Coast last night There was
no indication of danger to this state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
CHARGE SINCLAIR
DISTORTED FIJI NJ
BY EISENSTEIN
Statement Issued by
Filn1-Photo League

The following statement has
been issued by the Workers Film
and Photo League on the distor-
ton of Que Viva Mexico" pro-
duced by the famous Soviet d.
rector, Eisenstein).
THE Workers Film and Photo
1 League of New York City pro-
tess the pillsge and distortion of
Eia- -sse'n's sociolceicsl film of
Mexico, "Que Viva Mexico" by the
producer. Sol Lesser, of Hollywood,
wino has recently released to the
public Thunder Over Mexico"
bearing Eisenstein's name as the
director, and yet no more Eisen-
STEMS original film than melo-
dramatic western with a reaction
airy nationalist ending can, by any
stretch of the imagination, be mis-
taken for a revolutionary film Of
struggle for land.
Whatever reasons Upton Sinclair.
one CT Eisenstein's hackers in his
trip to Mexico, had for turning
over the 200 reels of film to Lesser
for editing, nevertheless the fact
rem ms that Lesser has deliberate
ly distorted Eisenstein'S intention
in the film beyond recognition. and
is Using his name to win support
from the liberal and radical movie
public. This act of vandalism in
itself calls for loud protest on the
re-t OF mcyie-gcers and film work
err
But much more serious aspect
of this affair is that the conclu-
SIGN of Thunder Over Mexico in
LssSer's hands, is definitely reac-
tic.lary and nationalistic The
marching bands. olympic champ
ions. the Aztecs handling the ma
chimes of industry, taken by Lesser
out of the context of the film, were
originally a part of the epilogue
where Eisenstein intended to anti
cipste the revolution in Mexico.
But in Lsssers butchered version,
this epilogue is cut in right after
the beginning of the revolt of the
!. poems, giving the misleading i'm
preston that victorious revolution
ary workers and peasants are ac-
tually controlling the reigns of gov
eminent. The struggles of the
poems, which make up large part
of the original film Of Eisenstein,
are entirely eliminated for good
reasons in Thunder Over Mexico"
The Workers Film and Photo
League of New York City calls
upon all workers organizations, in
diyiduals and sympathizers, to pro-
test the corruption of Eisenstein's
Que Viva Mexico" and the pro-
posed Carveth Wells film THE
Truth About the Soviet Union"
and urges that demonstrations be
held in and out of every theatre
in which these two films are shown.
Letters Of protest should be for
warded TO Upton Sinclair, 6l4
NO tn Arden Drive, Beverly Hills,
Cal, and Sol Lesser, Hollywood, de-
nznding that the remaining 100 900
feet of film be turned over to Els
cnstein for mounting, and insist
ing that Eisenstein's name be i'm
mediately struck off the vandal-
lied version of the Aim now being
released under the title Thunder
Over Mexico"
Workers Finn and Photo League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Lay-offs and II Cents
an Hour in Breweries
by Worker Correspondent

'DS NOfhcT SOTTcSpOnQentb
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-The workers
OF the Siemens Body Co. are working
much harder than ever before, work
ing on piece work basis. Instead
OF pay increases they are getting
plenty of hell working three and four
days a week, six TO seven hours a
day Prices on commodities going
higher every day.
They lay off in the breweries every
day. My room mate worked one night
extra, and he said to me they work
ten and one-half hours for fifty cents
an hour, but only get paid for ten
hours, one-half hour goes for lunch.
There is Pabst Brewery in North Mil
waukee, in some plants offering the
employees eleven cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Mussolini a Legionaire

y ROME, July 4.-Benito Mussolini
became an honorary member of still
another Fascist organization when
Colonel William E. Easterwood Of
Dallas, Tex, national vice commander
pinned an American Legion button
ON his lapel Mussolini said he may
attend the Legion's national conven-
ton in Chicago and posed for a pho
tograph wearing the Texans hat.
When Colonel Easterwood said Texas
had q woman governor, MuSsolini re-
piled, How can woman run a
state?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Waiting for Recovery
in Vain at Coles Plant
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-There is a
factory here known as the G. G.
Cowles 81 Co., who are hanging on
waiting for recovery" but the men
come in and hang around and 60
home with 40 to 80 cents for their
trouble I guess they will keep on
waiting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Rush Order at Arm
strong Tire Won't Last
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN, Gonna fortnight
ago the capitalist papers we're jubil-
ant over the Armstrong Rubber Tire
Co. They have started up again and
increased the wages 10 per cent. I
tell you it takes Roosevelt to restore
prosperity, said his admirers. The
factory has gone on 24-hour sched-
ule, two l2-hour shifts. They put
on a few strangers with high speed
galore. The order will be finished
in very short time and then rouse
init him"
WILLIAM LANE,
rs Grace St., Nh, Conn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
NeaVs Briefs
No More Land of Promise

WASHINGTON, July 4-Immigra-
ton visas for entry into the United
States dropped to total of 1910 for
the first eleven months of the fiscal
year ended July 30, it was shown in
report issued by the State Depart
ment. The total immigration quota
authorization is 153,83l This meant
that 1861 possible visas remain in
reserve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Insurance Co. Puts
Through Big Lay-Off

HARTFORD, COM .-An office
worker in the Travellers Insurance
Co. Of Hartford, Conn. (the Insur-
ance City told me that the firm laid
off TOO workers, This is their first
big lay-off, although they have In
termittently had small ones. Nice 60
ing. Roosevelt, En-, what?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
SURE We FAVOR UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE., SAY UNION MEMBERS
BY J. PASCUAL

definite disgust with grating officials mani
regarding Unemployment
Certainly I'm favor of it," said Brotherhood Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

SPOKANE, Wash.-After refusing
Mrs. Burmore any hospital attention
the county doctor, despite her being
on the verge of death, ordered her
to go to the poor farm. The indis-
nant workers in the vicinity refused
to permit this. Another doctor was
called in and she is still alive and
at home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Force Recognition of
Unemployed Counc il

SALEM, Oregon-The recent ac-
ton of the workers here, led by the
Unemployed Council, when SO work
ers parked overnight on the county
lawn demanding an increase in re-
lief, to be paid in cash, has aroused
the countryside. Reports are that
the farmers plan organizing into
committees of action which will be
pushed forward in their state con-
vention.
The county commissioners and
Judge Siegmund refused to deal with
the Unemployed Council as a body,
but only with individuals. The re-
suit was picketing for three days and
two nights of the Judges home in
the middle of the city by the unem-
ployed workers and the overnight
camp on the county lawn. The
workers are firm in the demand that
the county officials deal with the
Unemployed Council as their repre-
sentative.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

The following statement has
been issued by the Workers Film
and Photo League on the distor-
ton of Que Viva Mexico" pro-
duced by the famous Soviet d.
rector, Eisenstein).
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-03
MARCH Term
DISTRICT COURT
Judge Edward Freeman Will
Be in Charge of Ely Term
Opening Tuesday.

The March term of District Court
will open in this city next Tuesday at
80 in the afternoon No petit jury
has been summoned for this term and
only court cases will be tried Judge
Edward Freeman will be in charge OF
the term and it is expected that it will
be short as there are only six cases on
the docket, one of which has been trans
ferred to the Virginia term and one is
a jury case not to be heard.
The cases listed and to be called on
Tuesday afternoon are as follows:
Ernest johnson and Oscar Tamte, as
Ely Lumber Co., VS.. Leonard Lampi and
A. w. Nelson as attorney for the plain
tiff and A. r. Morton for defendants
The State of Minnesota ex. rel. Henry
N. Benson, as Attorney General of the
State of Minnesota and Ivan Tauzell
VS.. Anton Zbasnik. Giblin & Manthey
Thomas j. Carey and Stone & Simons
as attorneys for the plaintiffs and Leo
A. Ball for the defendant.
State of Minnesota ex. rel. John r
Poshak VS.. City of Ely ct. al. Luther
M. Bang attorney for plaintiffs and
Thomas J. Carey and Toivonen & Harri
for defendants.
State of Minnesota ex. rel. Jos. Mark
ovich VS.. City of Ely ct. al. Luther M
Bang attorney for plaintiffs and Thomas
j. Carey and Toivonen & Harri for the
defendants.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-03-03
new CHARTER
LOSES OUT
Small Vote Cast on the Pro.
posed New Charter at the
Election Tuesday.

After years work by commission
of fifteen men named by the judges OF
the District Court, the proposed new
city charter submitted by them lost out
at the election on Tuesday by "a votes.
The vote stood CTS yes and 873 no.
AS there were four-sevenths of the
total votes cast necessary to carry the
measure, the charter lost by "a votes.
1869 votes were necessary to adopt on
the strength of the vote cast on Tues
day
Out of normal vote of about 2,7OO
in the city only total of 1871 votes
were cast plainly indicating that only
limited number were concerned with
new code The first and third pre-
cincts gave the new charter a majority
while the second and fourth precincts
registered strongly against its adoption.
The vote as tabulated showed as