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The Washington times., 1933-07-08

The new homes built by j.
Charles Shapiro, Inc, on Longfel-
low st. N. W., are receiving much
favorable comment from tn e
many visitors who are inspecting
them.
The furnished model home at
1874 Longfellou st. N. w., which
is sponsored by the Washington
Herald, has been delightfully."-
furnished by the Nachman Furni-
ture Company in a summer mode,
and is well worth the small
amount of time necessary to
thoroughly inspect it.
This home is of solid brick con-
struction and features seven
rooms including the latest type of
basement recreation room, and a
beautiful tiled bath.
The living room is spacious and
is handsomely furnished, as is
also the well proportioned dining
room adjoining it.
The kitchen is a marvel of
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
Horning Realty Company
Open New Shapiro Home

completeness and modern design
ing, with plenty of cupboard
space, a double drainboard sink,
a console gas range, and the
latest thing in electric refrigera-
tion. This kitchen features a
new type of indirect lighting
which floods the various work
places with an abundance of
light. without lighting the other
parts Of the kitchen.
An unusual arrangement will
be found on the second floor, in
that the three bed rooms all of
goodly size are so plann d
that they have plenty of light
and fresh air. Here are also
an abundance of fine closets.
The bath is of the latest Holly
wood type with vari-colored tile
effects and the latest in modern
fixtures, including a large built-in
tub and shower.
The basement contains the
latest type hot water heating
plant. laundry and built-in ga
rage.
Due to many new building
operations which will require his
entire time and attention, j.
Charles Shapiro. announces the
appointment of the Horning
Realty Company as his exclusive
sales representative on this opera
ton.
This model home will be open
for inspection both day and eve
ming Sunday and throughout the
week.
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
CAFR|TZ HOME
ATTRACTS MANY

Many persons realizing the ad-
vantageS of the present market
and foreseeing the effects of infla-
ton in rising commodity prices
and increased building costs, have
purchased homes as an invest
ment.
Homes built at present market
prices reflect the downward trend
in building costs, which have de-
creased 80 per cent since 1926.
These costs are now advancing
and new homes built on a rising
market will command higher
prices.
The new group of Cafritz homes
at Fourth and Emerson SITS. N. w. =,
has attracted to it's model home
hundreds of visitors.
The new Emerson Street homes
are of attractive colonial design
with picturesque mansard roof
and covered concrete from t
porches, which afford a delightful
view from the high Petworth ele-
walton and are cool and comfort
able in summer.
Features in this attractive
home, furnished by HutchiSon's
Inc, include two covered, screened
rear porches, deep sodded lot with
garage, hardwood floors, screens,
Misunderstanding, concealed radi-
ators, automatic hot-water heater,
laundry equipment and all mod
ern conveniences.
The model home is open daily
and Sunday until 9 p. M, and is
reached by driving out either
Georgia Avenue or New Hamp-
shire Avenue to Emerson Street
and then to the property.
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
BUILDING SEEN
On UPSW|NG

NEW YORK, July 8.-The
public works program comes at a
time when the construction indus
try is showing the first signs Of
stirring, the Architectural Forum
reports, after a comparative anal
ysis Of building statistics.
With residential increases of
more than seasonal character
during the past few months as
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
GOSNELL OPENS
NEW HOMES

Hundreds of people are visiting
the two charming new Virginia
model homes now open for in.
spection, according to Fred A.
Gosnell, the owner and builder,
in spite of the hot weather. These
two homes represent the very
latest features in modern home
construction at the lowest cost.
The first is model Cape Cod
bungalow sponsored by the
Washington Herald as their sum-
mer model home and located at
the corner of Pierce and Win
throp Streets, in Aurora Heights,
Va, adjacent to Lyon Village.
This thoroughly modern bun
galoW contains five rooms, a beau
tiful tile bath and finished attic,
all floored in oak. The kitchen
is a model Of neatness and eff
ficiency, with the latest built-in
cupboard features, electric refrig-
Grafton, gas range and handsome
tiled double drainboard sink.
The living room is a large,
light cheerful room with charm
ing brick fireplace. Two light,
airy bedrooms with cross ventila-
ton and ample furnace space,
flank a model bathroom with
tiled floors and wall and built
in tub and shower. The finished
attic is large commodious room
with many windows and could
easily be divided into two rooms
if desired.
Gosnell-built homes must come
up to certain standards, regard
less of their low prices, and this
home is no exception. It con-
tains features found only in the
most costly homes, such as cop
per cutters and down spouts, cop
per water pipe, latest chromium
bath fixtures, screened and
Weather7stripped throughout, in
cluding large living porch, and a
basement and heating plant that
will compare favorably with
homes costing twice the price of
this bungalow.
A detached garage and beauti-
fully Handicapped corner lot COM
plete one of the most charming
homes at low cost that it is pos
sible to find.
This home will be open for in
spection today and throughout
the week and may be reached by
driving out the Lee Highway to
Arlington Avenue and turning
left three blocks.
The second of these new mod
erate-priced homes which will be
open for exhibit this weekend is
located at the corner of Claren-
don and Hunter Avenues in Ash
ton Heights, Va.
This is a two-story English type
brick home, containing six rooms
and tiled bath. A large living
room with brick fireplace, a spa
ciouS dining-room and modern
kitchen complete the first-floor
arrangement, while the upper
floor contains three fine light |
bedrooms with cedar-lined closets
and a tiled bath with built-in
tub and shower. The large, dry
basement contains the latest |
modern heating plant and laun-
dry facilities. A well-landScaped |
yard and detached brick garage
prove an attractive setting for
this modern home.
This home may be reached by
driving out Wilson Boulevard to
Clarendon Avenue, and turning
left four blocks.
Both of these homes will be
open Sunday, day and evening,
and throughout the coming week.
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
RELIEF COST HIGH

Expenditures for relief in 1870
American cities in 1882 amounted
to $313,410,370. increase of 79 per
cent over preceding year accord
ing to Labor Department. OF
1882 total, 50 per cent was paid
out Of public funds.
The Washington times., 1933-07-08
Mccoy Appointed
MOrUue Master

John B. Mccoy, a clerk in the
engineer department of the Dis
trict government, has been ap-
pointed norge master to succeed
William Schoneberger. who re-
tired July l after Al years Of
service. McCoy'S appointment
was announced late yesterday by
the District Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1933-07-08

prices has, been based upon an
ticipation of initiation rather
than actual currency initiation,
it seems reasonable to think
that the, Administration, COM
mitted to higher prices, will not
permit any substantial back
sliding.
Manufactured commodities
follow the basic ones slowly
But there are already straws.
The leading makers of bath
room ware have upped prices
10 per cent. Wall Street hears
that refrigerator prices soon
will be adjusted upwards"
'Tf at first you don't succeed. try
ever true. If you haven't been able tt
locate the apartment you want, reaG
the timely selection offered daily in the
W. a Mt An SF(lTVnN nP tI,ia naIuSnonar
Evening star., 1933-12-18

Of editorial tribute yesterday in the
London Telegraph, which more than
once in past months has commented
critically and skeptically ON the Ameri-
can experiment.
Contending that the soundness Of the
Presidents plans In some directions
still seemed dubious and that the per-
manence of what has been accomplished
remained yet to be established, the
Evening star., 1933-12-18

cellor; Clarence Crown, prelate; J.
Thomas Martin, keeper Of records and
seals; Brawner z. Harding, master Of
finance: James T. English. master OF
exchequer: Norman Groshon, master at
arms; Luther Thompson, inner guard;
Charles Pope, outer guard; William
Lynch, master of work: B. D. Schwartz,
truetee; Francis Harding, grand lodge
representative.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
New Auto Taxes Ended.

Removal of taxes on new automobiles
in Germany has caused boost in car
buying,
Evening star., 1933-12-18
$500 Silkworms REQUIRED.

It takes $500 silkworms to produce
one pound of silk, according to Euro
pean experts.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
PYTHIAN LODGE ELECTS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GAITHERsBURG, December ia
Forest Oak Lodge, No. l23. K. Of p,
elected the following officers for the
ensuing term at a meeting here:
Charles Demary, chancellor COM
Evening star., 1933-12-18
,,dent loan fund at william and

a student loan fund at William and
Mary College was considered at the De-
cember meeting of Thomas Nelson
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, at the home of Mrs. Will
liam E. Williams, but definite action
was deferred until a later meeting.
Members were requested to contribute
clothing and supplies for Christmas
box TO be sent to the Blue Ridge In
Evening star., 1933-12-18

paper nevertheless noted that the
amount Of unemployment was "surpris-
ing" and far beyond what seemed prac-
tically attainable last September.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
Halls N. R. A. SUCCESS
London Telegraph Terms Amount
of Unemployment Surprising"

LONDON, December 18 OP.-The sue
cess achieved SO far by President Roose-
velt's recovery policies was the subject
Evening star., 1933-12-18

dustrial School. Mrs. Carl D. Crist read
a paper on Conservation and Thrift"
dealing with the work of the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Federal Workers Learn
Lesson Under 'NeeV Deal
Roosevelt Cuts Payrolls and Discharges Civil
Service Workers

recovery" These organizations, of
course, require large personnel
They are filled with political ia
voriteS entirely, by the people who
helped foist the New Deal upon the
country.
No Pay Cuts for the 'Ins'
Not only are these supposedly I'M
portant positions filled with polit-
ical favorites, but the pay of these
favorites is not affected by the cuts
and furloughS imposed on the regu-
lar civil service. Their pay does not
come out Of the regular" budget
which it is so important to balance.
They are paid out of the special re
coyery budget" which can be unbsl-
anced to any extent so long as the
recipients are good Democrats (or
friends of good Democrats.
Raids on the Civil Service
These avaricious buzzards are not
content with all the appointments
they can get out of the Recovery
Acts. They would take this and that
Bureau out of the Civil Service. The
senate passed an Act to take all Jobs
paying $4,000 or over out of the Civil
Service. Members of the House of
Representatives demand that all bu-
reaus placed under Civil Service in
the last twelve years be opened up"
so that they can fill them with their
friends Functions of the regular
departments are being taken over
by the Recovery" organizations, so
that Civil Service workers can be
fired and politicians be placed on
them instead.
Nobody is concerned with the fate
of the discarded workers There is
no Unemployment Insurance.
The Workers Awaken
What about the federal workers?
How do they take this state of af-
fairs? First there was a shock. The
Civil Service. that impregnable bull
wark Of continuous employment and
advancement, had crumbled. They
find themselves being reduced to an
even lower standard of living as
wages and salaries fall and prices
rise.
Now they realize fully that econ
ony'' is merely an excuse for taking
away their means Of existence, to
hand out as political rewards. They
realize that there is no need for
wholesale reductions and dismissals.
II IS simply one way of pretending
to economic, while dishing out
patronage.
But, more important than these,
we realize now, as we never have be-
fore, that after all, we are workers.
Stenographers and clerks, legal and
technical experts. we are all part Of
the great body of workers The fate
of the workers at large effects US.
Only insofar as all workers get a
square deal will we get a square deal.
We know that the New Deal is only
another excuse for further oppression
and political corruption, for US and
for all workers.
We must unite with our brother
workers everywhere to overcome those
who Cypress LIS all.
GEORGE KING
signature Authorized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Workmen's Benefit Society Executives Break
Agreement Not to Evict Fox Street Tenants

NEW YORK.-When last Febru-
airy, the National Executive of the
Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit
Society tried to evict unemployed
workers from the house at 556 Fox
St., which is owned by the organiza-
ton, rent strike and the pressure
of the organizations membership,
forced the Executive to sign through
its lawyer, Mrs. Rose Weiss, an agree
ment with the tenants that no I'M
employed workers should be evicted
and that Home Relief checks were to
be accepted in payment of rent.
Shortly afterwards Mrs. Weiss was
withdrawn from the administration
of the house and a well-known scab
agent, John Penger, replaced her.
He at once began to drive out the
tenants who had been active in the
rent strike. Two families were forced
to move out on account of his con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Act To Organize
Spanish Jobl ess
Workersof Harlem
Conference July II to
Build Council

NEW YORK.-The Unemployed
Committee of the Julio Mella Cuban
Club has issued call for a broad
conference on July II of workers
organizations located in Spanish
Harlem for the purpose of establish
ing an Unemployed Council. The
committee feels that all workers in
Lower Harlem should realize the ire
rnendous need for organizing Span
ish and Latin-American masses in
this community who, together with
the Negro workers, form one of the
most oppressed sections of the city's
population.
Workers of Spanish Harlem are
willing to fight to keep their fam
lilies from starvation and to keep
their belongings from being thrown
into the gutter A week ago 500
workers fought against SO police, who
tried to prevent them from replacing
the furniture of an evicted worker.
Another illustration of what this
committee has already accomplished
IN the case OF Porto Rican worker
who was unjuStly accused of steal
ing pair Of socks in the w. T.
Grant department store at 18th st.
and Fifth Ave. He was taken to the
cellar of the store and beaten up by
three men under the managers or
dars. Two Spanish girls working in
the store were fired because they re-
fused to back up the managers story
accusing the Porto Rican OF being
a thief.
Word of what had taken place was
brought to the attention of the IN
employed Committee and a mass
meeting of more than 400 indignant
workers was organized outside the
store, demanding immediate rein
statement of the two girls, removal of
the manager, and against discrimin-
alton of Latin American and Negro
workers. All these demands were
granted Immediately.
Through this action alone the I'm
employed Committee gained II new
members and the Porto Rican Anti
1mperialist League gained IS.
All workers organizations of lower
Harlem are urged to send their dele
gates to the July II conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
Cyril Briggs,
LiberatOr Editor
On Trial Today
Was Beaten by Cops
AS Part of Terror
Against Negroes

NEW YORK-Cyril Briggs, Negro
editor of the Harlem Liberator, re-
volutionary weekly in Harlem, will
go on trial this morning, in the 40
E. 12Ist Street court on charge of
disorderly conduct
Briggs was attacked by police,
beaten and arrested late Sunday
night while he was accompanying
a Negro woman special writer for
the Liberator, to her home in Har-
lem.
The police thought Briggs, who has
a light skin, was a white man and
attacked him as a part of the cam
paign of terror against white work
ers in an attempt to prevent their
unity with the Negro workers in Har-
lem.
Attorneys for the N. Y. District
International Labor Defense will de-
fend Cyril Briggs. Negro and white
workers are called upon to be in court
in large numbers to force his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

men as to the practical significance
of the present recovery

men as to the practical significance
Of the present recovery"
IN short the upturn is not a NOR
1 mal' turn out of the crisis, or the
planned" matter that Roosevelt wants
the workers to believe it is. 1t is full
Of pure speculation" has been FAR
tificially stimulated through currency
depreciation" Even that would not
matter to their eXploiters, if it would
only hold up. But the very origin of
the rise, speculation, gambling"
initiation" contains the germs of its
own destruction leaving American
capitalism in worse state than be-
fore the extreme dose of imitation
adrenalin was injected.
Workers are not taken off the
breadline to produce stocks and bonds
for speculation. Those who remain
in the factories will not stay there
long to fill up the store and ware
house shelves that never empty be-
cause there are no markets.
Roosevelt's imitation and price
raising scheme through the industrial
recovery" act is an excellent exam
pie. American capitalism wants to
increase its home and foreign mar
kets. Roosevelt starts in by pro-
gram of imitation that let's loose an
upward movement in the f1gure-ex-
preston of commodity prices. That
is to say, by the trick of lowering
the value of money, the appearance
is given that the price has suddenly
been increased. And as imitation in
creases the prices expressed in
blown up dollars) continue to rise.
There are many basic factors involved
in this process which it is difficult
to cover in a short article We will
deal with the most important ones.
We must ask: Why, in the period
of crisis, do prices drop so rapidly?
The quantity Of commodities pro-
duced before the crisis had become so
great, and the ability of the market
to absorb them so small, they become
superfuous The capitalists could not
sell them Immediately at a profit.
They choked up production. Pro-
duction slowed down to nearly moth
ing.
The drop in price is a means where
by the capitalists try to get rid of the
surplus at any price. They fire mil
lions of workers. This makes it still
more difficult for them to sell these
commodities. Prices go still lower.
This has gone on in the United
States for four years.
Suddenly Roosevelt initiates the
currency. Prices shoot up, not be-
cause there is a shortage of goods,
not because the demand is greater
than the supply, but because of the
artificial marking up of the figures
by the lowering of the value of
money.
pETAILERS and wholesalers who
N have not been buying from the
manufacturers, uncertain where the
imitation rise in prices will stop, spe-
culate by buying Immediately to sell
at the expected later higher prices
speculate on greater profits on the
basis not of demand and hit infia-
ton But If prices, even at the higher
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
PETERSON
ORDERED TO DIE
NAACP Made Legal
istic Defense for Negro

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-Willie Pc
terson, Negro veteran, was sentenced
TO die August 25 on framed charge
Of having murdered Augusta Will
liams, Birmingham society girl, in
1881. The state supreme court over
ruled the appeal taken by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People from the ver-
dict of the lower courts.
The special prosecutor in the case
was Roderick Beddow, the Birming-
ham attorney to whom the N. A. A.
C. P. paid $1,000 of the money coll
lected by that organization for
Scottsboro defense
Peterson, a miner, suffering from
tuberculosis, was shot and seriously
wounded in Birmingham Jail by Dent
Williams, brother of Augusta Will
lians, while jail officials looked on.
No attempt was made to punish any
one for this crime.
The defense of Peterson was con-
Quoted in purely legalistic man
ner, no mass pressure being organ
lied by the N. A. A. G. P. to force
his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05

slant insults. He had two more fam
lilies evicted, refusing to accept Home
Relief Checks for the rent, as per
the agreement He is now trying to
evict Mrs. Collin, chairman of the
house committee, and Elton, an un-
employed worker with two little chill
dren. He openly stated that he
wanted them out of the house, be-
cause they we're undesirable ele-
ments" and connected with the
Communists"
While the National Executive dis
claims all responsibility for Penger's
actions, he himself stated that he was
acting under their direct instruc-
tons. That the latter is really the
case, is further proven by the fact
that he had enough of the organiza-
TONS money at his disposal to have
one of the evieted tenants's furniture
put into a truck, the family in a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-05
lRY a Federal Worker Correspondent

BY Federal Worker Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C-The Civil
Service was organized many years
ago, sllegedly to place the Federal
Governments routine functions on
en- efficient basis; to secure some
permanency for federal workers
threatened with upheaval every two
or four years; to ensure that work
ers are competent to handle their
Jobs, by competitive examination for
the various jobs; and to remove fed
eral employment as the football of
politics.
The New DEAR for Federal
Workers
The result of having safe, abso-
lutely safe job in the Civil Service
has been to make many Of the fed
ersl government workers apathetic to
the plight of their brother workers all
over the country and the world. 1t
was too bad" people were out of
work, but, "of course, we are safe
We're in the Civil Service"
The New Deal is awakening gov
eminent workers from their fools
paradise. Repeated cuts in pay, en-
forced furloughs without pay, dis
missals under any or no pretext have
become the order Of the day. Mar
ried women were dismissed. Work
ers who have been in government
service for 30 years have seen re-
tired on Inadequate pension. Wash
inston, being the last stronghold
ct IoyNysa~esA,, ~
workers have been supporting rela-
tives who have lost their Jobs or been
driven out Of business by bank fail
ures and closed factories The cost
of living in Washington has re-
manned very close to its unusually
high level. Rents are absurdly high.
Clothes are expensive. Food has
dropped but little in price, and is
now rising again.
Sham Government Economy.
Well, the government has to econo-
mize. The federal workers must
share these economies. The budget
must be balanced. The veterans got
cut, too The federal workers are
in q position where they can see the
sham and futility of these "econo-
mics The federal workers in Wash
incton can see the operation Of gov
eminent economy" and recovery"
step.
Recovery" and the Experienced
Worker
In the name of Recovery" huge
appropriations are made, vast or
CARNATIONS are created to speed up