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The Washington times., 1933-08-15
DC. TREES SEEN
IN DANCER

waShington'S tree-lined streets,
admitted to be among the most
beautiful in all the world, are
In grave danger unless given
proper care.
This warning was voiced today
by Clifford G. Lanham. munich
pal tree superintendent for nearly
80 years.
Lanham said there are more
than 100000 trees in the city
and that they need constant
care, while the appropriations for
this work have been cut down
0Aah year.
The Washington times., 1933-08-15
KilUQnis Entertdins
SIS Children in C0711p

The Washington KiwaniS Club
yesterday entertained SIS children
at the health camp at the Tuber-
culosis Hospital with a program
including songs by fred East, Viii
liam F. Raymond and Dorothy
Reddish and readings by Mrs.
Raymond and Clyde Melville.
William r. Smucker led the
children's singing, and Fred A.
Schultz displayed movies.
The Washington times., 1933-08-15
Traffic Director Warns of PeriIs Of Street
Ayers Laws Cannot Make Up for
Lack of Parental Instruction

KILLED and 235 injured in traf-
fic accidents. The child killed
met his death by hitching onto
a vehicle and 10 others were
injured in that manner.
Playing in the street caused
173 children to be injured; skat-
ing on the highways brought in
juries to "a, and coasting on
sleds and wagons brought in
iuries to 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
1000 FARMERS
STORM MILK CAR
Demand Board Stop
Favor to Milk Dealers

ALBANY, N. Y, April 26 - Over
900 dairy farmers marched on Chan
cellor's Hall here today to demand a
showdown from the State Mix Con-
troll Board on the question Of mini
mum milk prices for producers.
This milk control board, created
under the Pitcher Bill, through the
militancy of the milk farmers strike
in the Rochester area, has so far
done nothing for the farmers. All it
has done is to further enrich the big
milk dealers by setting minimum
price to be paid by consumers in the
city.
When Commissioner Of Agriculture
Charles H. Balwin pleaded with the
farmers to have patience with this
experiment" the farmers refused TO
bulge from their position.
I'VE have been sent here as del
egates," they announced, INSTRUCTED
to remain until we have obtained the
minimum price for produced milk
which will save us from bankruptcy.
We have been told not to succumb to
any dealers propaganda
Renewed strikes on wider scale
than before were promised by the
farmers if the milk control board
persisted in helping only the big
milk trusts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Demand Opening
Downtown Relief
Demonstrate Tomor-
row at 18th Street
Bureau

NEW YORK-The workers OF the
Middle East Side, aroused because the
Home Relief Buo has moved q
blocks further uptown, will hold a
demonstration in front Of the Home
Relief Buro on 18th Street near First
Avenue, tomorrow, April 20, at 1880
a. m.
The 51st Street Home Relief Buro
has closed its doors. 1t has moved TO
18TH Street. Families without carfare,
living as far down as 18th Street,
have to walk or StarYe. Families liy-
ing uptown have to wait for relief
because the place is oYercrowded.
The assembling point for the de-
monstration will be 72nd Street and
First Ave, tomorrow at 1870 a. m.
From this point, the workers will pa
rade to the Home Relief Buro on
18th st. and demand the opening of
Home Relief Buro in the Lower
Twenties; immediate payment of all
back rents and regular payments
every month; registration and relief
for young and single workers; against
the forcing Of young workers into mi
litary camps; no cutting of relief of
families whose sons are already in
the camps.
The demonstration is called by the
East Side Unemployed Council, 519
Second Avenue, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
VETERANS PLAN
MARCH AT UNITED
FRONT SESSION
Motion in Congress to
Pay Bonus as Date of
Vets Arrival Nears

CHICAGO, April 26.-The Veterans
Conference last night in Chicago I'M
der the leadership Of the United Vet
Grams Provisional Committee en-
dorsed the bonus march, which is TO
arrive in Washington on May IL, and
pledged to fight against the cuts in
disability compensation.
Eighty-nine delegates were present
from nineteen veterans organizations,
five posts of the American Legion
and three posts of the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars sending delegates. The
National Officers Bonus EXpeditionary
Force and the local Camp Hushka
of the New American Expeditionary
Force had two posts represented,
while seven posts of the Workers Ex-
Seryicemen's League sent representa-
tives. Forty-four delegates repre-
sented unattached veterans.
Maurice Miller of the United Vet
eranS' Committee was elected Com
mander of the Chicago contingent
of the bonus march, with Arnold
Blanchard of the Negro veterans, as
vice commander. A strong leading
committee of seven members was
elected.
The Chicago veterans leave for
Washington Tuesday, May 2, at 9
a. m. from two assembly points, m
West Adams Street and 923 East 18th
Street. The marcherS will stop In In
dianapolis for contact with 100 Bonus
Expeditionary Force veterans from
that city who are joining the united
front march. Meetings of veterans
are being held nightly in Chicago 70
support and organize the march.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Under
the pressure of the veterans mass or
CARNATIONS, house and senate mem
bers today took steps to add bonus
rider to the administration initiation
bill. The rider will be introduced
in the Senate by Robinson Of Indi-
ana, while the veterans bloc claims
to have obtained the necessary sig
natures to force a democratic caucus
in the House TO consider the pay
ment of the veterans bonus.
Robinson and Patman of Texas
who backed down in their opposition
to Roosevelt's slash of disabled vet
Grams compensation, are now being
forced by the mass pressure from the
needy veterans, and by the threat Of
the impending bonus march to Wash
ington May ~, to calm the storm Of
protests that has flooded Washington
since the passage of the economy
bill".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

new bill; in many cases it will be
more than Is per cent.
The editor Of the Textile World.
writing of the 30-hour week bill, sd-
mits that it would mean "a gigantic
wage cut" Also he declares that even
If a provision we're put in the bill to
maintain wages" the attempt to en-
force such provision would bs
futile"
(By a Textile Worker Correspondent
PATTERSON, N. il have been
working in the silk mills here as .
weaver for Is years. Conditions for
the silk workers are worse than they
ever were before The 8-hour-day
has disappeared completely. Wages
have dropped to rock bottom.
While the winders, Wrappers, twist
ers, quillerS and loonnfixers are mis-
erably exploited, the weavers are still
more exploited. Bad silk and broken
down looms are the conditions wesv-
ers must contend with.
AT present, l am working fotk
hours a night from 5 pm. to 4 am.
These are the hours for the miserable
wage of s14 a week. But it is not
unusual for wesvers to earn 40 .
week for an 1i-hour day or night.
From time to time, the silk work
ers have fought bravely against in-
human conditions and the silk work
ers will be i'll another struggle soon
against the blood sucking silk bosses.
The National Textile Workers Union
will, as in the past, organise and lead
the workers in strteeie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
GREEN, SWOPE FOR STAGGER BILL
AT HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARING

Electric Company in endorsing the
30-hour Stagger Plan Bin.
Swope has long advocated such a
plan to spare the bosses the expense
of unemployment relief and insurance
and to force this burden upon the
working masses. Both the leading in
dustrialist and the leading agent OF
the employers among the ranks Of
the workers, approve Of the principle
of spreading employment" which
will usher in renewed attacks on the
workers wages. Both these enemies
of the working class are opposed to
unemployment insurance for the II
million unemployed workers and adj
vocate this bill to stifle the struggle
for this measure.
Mr.. Green declared before the
House Labor Committee today that
he was opposed to the principle OF
establishing Minimum Wage Boards
declaring that sit may lower the
average wage" Mr.. Green's active
assistance to the Hoover and Roose-
welt administrations in cutting the
wages of workers and his campaign
of terror against the militants in the
"A. F. Of L. unions who have fought
against wage cuts bellies his pretended
fears that wage levels will be lowered.
Green has not demanded any legisla-
tive protection for the workers against
the wage cuts which will follow on
the introduction of the stagger plan.
To answer the Roosevelt-Green on
slaught on the living standards OF
the workers, militant workers in the
unions and in the shops among the
unemployed must raise the demand
for a 7-hour day, without pay re-
auctions, for pay increases to meet
initiation prices, for adequate relief
and Unemployment Insurance at the
expense of the bosses and the govern
ment,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
GANGSTERS RAID
PAPER UNION:
ARREST WORKERS

NEW YORK-Following an at.
tack by gangsters last night on work
ers striking at the Equitable Paper
and Bag Company, si4 Schools st.
Brooklyn, cops raided the strike
headquarters at 1877 Humboldt st.
and arrested 28 Of the strikers, in
Guiding 5 women. They we're taken
to the 85th Precinct police station
Stage and BushW1ck SITS.
The gangsters, about IL in num-
Der, on breaking into the strike head
quarters, demanded that the strik-
ers promise to return to work, and
failing to get such a promise began
beating up the workers. The cops
came in while the attack was in pro-
gress.
This is the crudest and most brutal
attempt by the bosses of theEqwtable
Paper Company to break the strike
Numerous arrests of pickets failing
to break the workers spirit, the bos-
seS are following the same tactics
Of those who tried vainIy to intimi
date the workers of the Needle
Trade BY sending gangsters to at
tack them.
The New York District Interna-
tional Labor Defense which will de-
fend the arrested strikers calls on
all members Of the I. L. D. in that
territory to mobilize at once mass
pressure for the release Of the strik-
ing workers, and against the terror
Of uniformed and ununiformed gang
sters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
RANK AND FILE
BOATMEN WANT
UNION ACTION

NEW YORK-The Marine Work
ers Association, independent union OF
towboatmen, rank and file are de-
manding that their officials present
demands upon the shipowners before
May LIST when the present agreement
expires.
The rank and file are demanding
that a special membership meeting
be called at which these demands be
drafted and militant action planned
to make them effective.
The leadership wants to wait I'M
til the owners make their demands
for another wage-cut and then win
a victory" by accepting only part
Of the cut.
The owners are pitting the men
against each other by working some
boats part time and others in high
twenty hours in a stretch. The men
demand straight eight hour day.
Activities in the union are the re-
suit of a campaign started by militant
rank and file members to force ac-
ton and protect the men from the
owners. The maneuvres of the lead
erS are getting more slippery all the
time. The rank anL file opposition
call upon the men to flood the Of
ficials with demands for the meeting
this week, all members to be informed
of the date and where it will be held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
WORKERS RALLY
TO DEFENSE OF
NEEDLE UNION
Keep Sharp Vigil AS
Police Flood Gar
ment Section

NEW YORK-A new wave Of en-
thusiasrn is spreading among the mil
liant needle trades workers in answer
to the murderous gangster attack on
the Union headquarters on Monday
by hired thugs Of the Fur Association
and Socialist leaders.
Outdoor protest meetings in the
fur, white goods and millinery maj
kets we're attended by thousands o.
workers yesterday at the call Of the
Needle Trades Workers industrial
Union who pledged to rally with even
greater militancy TO the defense Of
the Union and to the struggle for
better conditions.
At all meetings speakers pointed
out the role of the Socialist leader
and the bosses who are trying TO
stampede the workers back into the
A. F. Of L. Unions by campaigns O.
terror and intimidation. The masses
voted TO join the United Front MAJ
Day demonstration under the banner
Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union.
The needle trades center is flooded
with the dicks OF the industrial squad
and cops sent up supposedly to pro-
tect the workers but in reality to be
ready to attack the workers when the
fur bosses carry through their plan
for lockout and are answered BY
a strike. The boss press publicizes
the police commissioners statement
that two hundred men will stay there
until there is no danger anymore"
High police officials are in the con-
spiracy to smash the union and know
when the next attack will be made
but they are not fooling the workers.
They will defend themselves as they
did last Monday, and as successfully
Eight gangsters involved in the at
tack on the union headquarters Mon
day were indicted today and held for
trial scheduled to take place on May
End. They were charged with felo-
NOUS assault, with carrying weapons,
and with destruction Of property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
New York Trade Union News
81 Negro Tenants Strike
in Rockefeller sSLuBIs

NEW YORK.-Eighty-seven Ne
gro tenants declared a rent strike
at 210-2l& and 218 West card st,
jimcrow apartments, Tuesday night
for a % per cent reduction in rent.
The houses are controlled by John
D. Rockefeller, Jr. The strike is
led by the West Side Unemployed
Council.
The multi millionaire Rockefel-
Ter refuses to make repairs. One
tenant was recently injured by fall
ling plaster. Exhorbitant rents are
paid for rooms without electricity,
with toilets in the hall and slum
conditions.
Another profiteering trick is
worked on the tenants through
weekly rent payments which net
Mr.. Rockefeller 13 months rent
each year.
Tuskeege Institute in Alabama
the heads of which turned the Ala
bama share troopers over TO the
sheriff, is also supported by Rookie
Teller.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

their demand. They were met by
Gordon of mounted police who
swung their nightsticks over the
faces and heads of the teachers fore
ing them back from the banks
doors.
The militancy of the teachers was
not danpened by police brutality or
the Gathering of horses hoofs. How
ever they rallied their forces several
times in the attempt to enter the
bank shouting thir slogan, 1--WE wont
20 home until we're paid" The bank
closed its doors, after the president
Trsylor refused to see the teachers
Police Attack.
The first clash with the police &C.
Cured at the Chicago Title and
Trust Co. when the teachers sue
ceeded in jaInming into the build
ing but were driven out after spe-
cial force of police stationed thei
had brutally beaten several women
Teachers defended themselves by US
ing their school books to ward of
the blows of the police. A plate
glass window was smashed in the
struggle and several women tainted
Although funds have been found 70
pay the police to assist the bankers
to terrorize and brutally maltreat
the teachers, neither the banks OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
HARLEM RELIEF
MARCH FRIDAY

NEW YORK-The East Harlem
Unemployed Council issued a call
yesterday for all workers organiza-
.tions TO mobilize their forces on FRI
day morning April 28 and join a pro-
test march through Lower Harlem
ending with a demonstration in front
of the 102 Street Home Relief Bureau.
About fifteen organizations are
taking part in this demonstration
and are cooperating in making it
into the largest protest meeting that
has ever taken place in Lower Har-
lem. At a conference a few days ago
demands were drawn up to be pre-
scented 10 the supervisor of the II.
r. 3.
The concentration points for the
march are: 1888 Madison Avenue, $50
a. m; % West Hath St., 10 a. m;
2242 Second Ave, 10 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Farmers Unite in
Penn. to Block 9Th
Attack on Property

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa.--Attempts to
foreclose on the farm property of
John Lilko, a farmer at Red Hill
failed again when the farmers in the
surrounding region came TO the de-
Tense of Like. This is the fifth at
tempt made by deputy sheriffs to rob
Lilko of his property which has failed
due to the militant solidarity Of local
farmers. Seventy-five special depu-
ties have been armed and will be
transported by buses to take this
property by force, it is reported. The
farmers are preparing to drive the
sheriffs off again and protect Lilko's
farm from confiscation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union which led the struggle de-
clared that the temporary strike set
Element was necessary due to the
lack of relief for the strikers and
the use Of armed guards and scabs
by some OF the bosses which
threatened TO weaken the strike. The
partial gains won will spur the work
ers to build the Agricultural Workers
Industrial Union and strengthen it
In the night to win all the demands
when the present agreement expires,
the union stated.
A drive will now be made TO win
concessions for the strikers Of those
bosses who refuse to settle. The bos-
ses are Erninio valenZuels, Fran
cesco Segada, Dionisio Martinez and
Manuel Perez.
Hearing the report OF the strike
victory of the workers here, the agri-
cultural workers of San Luis Obispo
decided TO go out on strike and are
joining the Agricultural Workers In
dustrial -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
HUNDREDS DESERT
ROOSEVELT CAMPS
Conditions of Forced
Labor Atrocious

MITCHELL FIELD, L. l., April 90
Victims of the forced labor camp here
are deserving wholesale, MANY Of
them walking away without a penny
and fleeing, like convicts, to get
away from the hell holes established
by the Roosevelt hunger government
under the hypocritical pretense OF
aiding the unemployed.
Mitchell Fields contingent Of 1,04l
members, has dwindled to $50 and
every hour more men make breaks
for freedom.
The men are treated worse than
dumb animals, forced to sleep in an
aircraft hangar, on Soggy ground,
with not enough clothing to keep
warm. On certain days they are sub
jected to incubation by doctors who
line them up and shoot injection in
to them. More than 200 recruits
tainted after being gwen typhoid
injections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Miners and Farmers
in Arkansas Uniting
for May Day March
(By a Farmer Correspondent

GREENWOOD, Ark.-We expect to
have united front May Day dem
onstration here, Of farmers and
miners and other workers. We are
organizing the farmers around here,
and pay what attention We can to
the miners too, in order to bring
about unity of the workers and farm
ers here.
We plan TO have the May Day
demonstration involve a united front
of the United Mine Workers Of
America, the Progressive Miners
Union, National Miners Union and
farmers.
There is possibility of a strike
here on or after May. !. We are
bending every effort to get the farm
ers into Committees of Action under
the Farmers Protective Association,
to support this strike, and not to
scab H. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

for the workers. The agreement was
signed jointly by the Strikers Action
Committee and the Growers Associ-
alton and includes all but four bos-
seS who refuse to settle and have
proceeded to hire scabs to work un-
der armed guard. BY the terms of
settlement the strikers won a wage
scale Of 20 cents an hour, an increase
of five cents over the previous rate,
II cents per crate Of peas instead Of
the former nine cents. twelve cents
per crate Of lettuce instead of 9 cents
OF the contractors. The strike was
called ON April 4th for the demands
of 80 cents an hour, 10 cents per
and the elimination of so per cent
lettuce crate and IA cents per pea
crate, for the abolition OF all con-
tractors and the worker to be paid
directly by the companies.
That the 90-day agreement was
merely temporary truce which will
be followed by another struggle un-
less the full demands for which the
workers struck are granted was in
oicated today. The Cannery and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

bosses journal flbre ana taDrfc
which states that Forty hours or
thirty hours with a 4S-hours pay is
too foolish to talk about, as labor is
going to get in pay, just what 1t
gives back in work, and anyone who
believes that 4S-hour pay is coming
with a 80 or 40-hoU week is being
fooled"
Although the A. F.. of L. and the
United Textile Workers officials sup
port it, this shorter work week bill Is
actually regarded by textile employ
ers as nothing more than legalized
stagger system. AS the Daily News
Record cotton page comments, There
is considerable sympathy with the
idea in the trade, where number
construe 1t as planning to DO by law
what the Teagle committee (the
share-the-work movement, Ed tried
to do through general cooperation
last year--efforts to have work spread
people having an income Of some
sort. For any Of the cotton manu.
featuring associations to take excep-
ton to this means for spreading en-
ployment would be regarded as
absurd
rs Per Cent Cut in Textiles Expected
This. trade organ makes clear the
appalling extent of the wage cut con-
templated by the bosses when it de-
clares that in mills where wages now
average about sl2, 1T is felt there
would be compromise, so that the
wages in question would be about
So" In other words, reduction of at
least IS per cent is in store for the
workers of cotton mills under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Mellon to Support
Roosevelt Policies;
Follows Morgan Lead

The Mellon financial oligarchy is
preparing to endorse the Roosevelt
administration. tomorrow at meet
ing of the Pittsburgh Clearing House.
This is largely controlled by Mellon
Banks.
Mellon, secretary of the treasury
under Hoover and one of the richest
men in the world, has been reported
as resenting the inflationary pro-
gram of the Roosevelt government.
The announcement of his approval
of the present administration means
that the so-called republican oppo-
sition to Roosevelt's program is a
sham.
Melons approval of Roosevelt
comes soon after two other notorious
exploiters of the workers have en-
dorsed him. The president of the
United States Steel Trust, Melvin
Taylor and the head of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company, Charles Schwab
have also endorsed RooseyelG's gov
ernment.
j. p. Morgan, the Wall Street king,
has also endorsed Roosevelt's finan-
cial policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
BIG GOVT GRANT
TO CONTRACTORS

WASHINGTON, April 26.--The sd-
ministration bill to set UP a $500 900,
900 fund for distribution to various
states was approved by the senate
banking committee. 1t has already
passed the house.
A federal relief administration would
have charge Of disbursing the fund
the first $25O,000 900 of which would
go direct to states for so-called pub
lie works, and the balance to be dis
tributed according to political favor
itism in strengthening the fences OF
the Roosevelt administration in the
congressional elections that are to be
held next year.
None Of the grants to states will
need to ever be repaid. 1t is just
given to them.
Against Unemployment Insurance.
This bill Is being hailed as an I'M
employment relief measure in order
to throw dust in the eyes of the work.
ers who are demanding immediate
emergency relief and unemployment
insurance.
1t has the support Of the demagogs
IN the senate who call themselves
progressives and Of whom Robert M.
LaFollette Of Wisconsin is the leader;
also the Tammany leader, Senator
Wagner OF New York and the Colo
RADIO senator, Costigan.
Much of the money will 60 to the
big contractors who are connected
with the various state political ma
chimes. Labor will be furnished. &C.
oording to the Roosevelt policy, from
the ranks of the unemployed forced
into prison labor camps under mill
tary rule at whatever the contra ctors
want TO p,