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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Whole Country Adopt Open Letter to
Party Membership Urging Sharp Turn to Mass Activity

the Party? 1t is not alone because OF
the extreme sharpening of the crisis
and consequently of the class struggle
and of the danger Of imperialist war.
Above all, the reasons for these ex-
traordinary measures lie in the fact
that in spite OF the serious begin
nings of revolutionary upsurge among
the masses, yet our Party has not
developed into revolutionary mass
party of the proletariat.
ITO Rouse All Forces
This cxtraoru inary conference
and the open letter are designed
to rouse all of our resources, all of
the forces of The Party to change
this situation, ana TO give lis guar
antees that the essential change in
our work will be made. The letter
represents the most serious judge
ment of the situation and tasks Of
our Party and our leadership"
The open letter. which will be pub
lished in full in Thursdays issue OF
the Daily Worker said III part;
1.-THE tremendous sharpening Of the
economic crisis, and the new severe
attacks of the bourgeoisie on the
workers and toiling masses, as well
as the feverish preparations Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
RELIEF STRIKERS
GAIN CONCESSION
IN ROCHESTER,N.Y
Workers. Committee
Calls for Maintenance
of Organization on Job

ROCHESTER, N Y, July IL
Eight thousand workers who we're
striking over week on city and
county welfare jobs returned TO
work when the officials agreed TO
pay 40 cents an hour. Originally the
wage cut was from Is to IS cents
an hour. officials also agreed to pay
the men for the week of the strike
at the rate of 40 cents on the basis
of their budget requirements. Later,
however, they will have to work out
the money for that week.
The workers we're attacked by the
police in the course of the strike
Politicians we're brought in TO create
divisions with the purpose of break
ing the strike.
OhciaLs refused to deal with the
Relief Workers Strike Committee,
which was ei5cted at meetings at
tended by 5000 of the men. Yet
they dealt with a self-appointed
Central Committee of Relief Work
ers.' The fact that this Central
Committee" is connected with the
officials is shown in their resolu-
ton where they thank the politi-
cal leaders of both major parties,
including Mayor Ovistt and City
Manager Briggs, who helped break
the strike. This committee praises
the 40 cent an hour scale as fair
to all"
Two militant workers. Rudolph
Billings and Loren Lawson, are still
held on $500 bail growing out of the
struggles. They face trial July ID.
Unite Workers
A resolution adopted by the work
ers at mass meetings and in neigh
borhood centers states that the
workers are returning to their Jobs
with united ranks to continue the
struggle for increased budgets and
for the so cents hourly rate" In
this it is necessary to unite all
workers, whether they supported the
strike committee or the committee
set up by the politicians, the So
called central committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

steps against evictions nov going
on.
:. That special meeting of the
Board of Estimate will be called in
about two days 10 consider unep1-
plcyment relief. That the delcga-
ton of Robert Minor, Henry Shsp-
ard of the Trade Union Unity
Council and Richard Sulliyan of the
Unemployed Council will be allowed
TO present the demands Of the I'M
employed at this meeting.
6. That the committee viii be
permitted TO present to the meet
ing of the Board OF Estimate the
proposal that the New York City
government endorse the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The delegation of the Unemployed
Council, on its part, undertook the
obligation to present to the city a
list Of cases Of extreme need Of re-
UGl. NlllCll lilG INdyDI- do5ul GU Jilt
delegation will be Immediately cared
for on presentation by the Unsm-
ployed Council This requires that
throughout Greater New York, all
cases of workers and their families
who are in extreme need shall i'm
mediately come forward and register
their names, addresses and full par
ticu.ars of their necessities in NIL to
the Unemployed Council which is To-
Gated nearest to their residence. The
addresses of the 20 Unemployed
Councils in Greater New York are
published on this page today Car
Winter. Secretary Of the Unemployed
Councils, declared today that it is
necessary to get quick and energetic
action Immediately to secure all in
formation about the emergency needs
of the workers, which must be regis
Cered at the local Unemployed Coun-
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Delegation Forces O'Brien to
Pledge Relief, Halt Evictions
Tammany Pledge No
Good; Mass Action
Will Win Demands
Report All Workers in
Need of Relief to I'm
employed Councils

AS big crowds congregated
all day yesterday around the
Home Relief Bureaus in New
York, a delegation from the
Unemployed Councils headed
by Robert Minor of the Com
munist Party and Richard Sui
Ivan, organizer of the Unem-
pIoyed Councils of Greater
New York, called at the City
Hall to present the demand
that the Mayors plan to cut
off unemployment relief be
abandoned.
Another demand was that
the city government obligate
itself Immediately to continue
the unemployed payments in
the form of home relief and
wages to workers on relief
jobs.
Mayor O'Brien, who had just re-
turned from a weekend, visit TO Gov
ernor Lehman at his summer home
at Lake George, N Y although I'M
willing to see the entire delegation,
received two. Minor and Sullivan,
who presented the demands of the,
unemployed. The workers represen-
tatives insisted that an immediate
special meeting of the Board of Esti-
mate be called and that the Unem-
ployed Councils be permitted to pre-
sent their plans publicly.
Excess Cash
1t having been disclosed that
s24. 900 900 is available in cash In the
City Treasury, the delegation de-
nlanded to know why funds could not
be arranged for immediate emergency
purposes pending more permanent
allotment. Mayor O'Brien claimed
to be uniformed as TO what pur-
poses the s24,oOo.oOo was ear-marked
for, and repeated his proposal for
an increase in the Sales Tax on food,
clothing and other necessities OF life.
The delegation protested, and assured
O,Brien that he would encounter an
even fiercer mass resistance to this
scheme for robbing the pockets of
the low-paid workers than was raised
against the, proposal for an auto tax
Minor and Jullivan insisted that be-
fore leaving the Mayors office they
must carry with them definite and
unqualified promises to the many
thousands of working class families
who are literally starving and can
not wait.
After an extended discussion, IN
which the Mayor made long speeches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

in the effort to avoid definite assur-
ances, the delegation of the Unem-
ployed Council secured from Mayor
OBrien his pledge to the unemployed
workers that certain measures will be
carried through. They are.
1. That money will be found TO
insure the continuance of unem-
pioymcnt payments, including both
home relief and wages TO workers
ON relief work. That this promise
will be fulfilled within one or two
days.
2. That if the Unemployed
Councils will present concrete cases
of extreme need, these will be taken
care of without a moments delay
on an emergency basis.
3. That all cases of persons who
are not on relief list and who should
be on it, which can be presented
by the Unemployed Council, will be
put on relief.
4. That the Mayor obligates
himself at once yesterday to take
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Relief Head Admits
Mass Action Forces
City To Give Aid

NEW YORK.--A delegation rep
resenting block and house commit
tees were told by Mrs. Buchanan,
supervisor of the 14sth St. Home
Relief Bureau, that the demands
they placed before her for relief
could be forced only by mass dem
onstrations and action at the City
Hall.
Leave me alone, go TO the higher
ups" said Mrs. Buchanan after the
three of the Is workers delegates
admitted to see her had demanded
relief be continued. You get better
results if You go together to the
City Hall and the Board Of Esti-
mate" she concluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Communist Party Holds Extraordinary National Conference
to Strengthen Work in the Factories and Trade Unions

imperialistS for wars among them
selves and for Intervention against
the Soviet Union, to make rapid
turn of the Party to revolutionary
mass work among the decisive sections
of the American industrial proletariat
an imperative task.
Past Failures
In many resolutions we already set
ourselves the task of developing our
Party into a proletarian mass Party.
We I'd this with the greatest thoroug-
ness over a year ago at the XIV PIE
unm of the Central Committee. But
all these resolutions have for the
most part remained on paper. The
leading organs of our Party have not
succeeded in modifying the masses Of
members for the systematic and de-
termined application of these reso-
lutions or in giving the Party men,
bership practical assistance in put
ting these resolutions into force. At
the XIV and XVI Plenums, the lead
ing organs Of the Party did not call
themselves ruthlessly to account for
the failure Of the Party to make any
Roadway in the carrying out Of this
turn.
owing to the change in the ad-
ninistration the American bourgeoisie
was in a position to spread among
broad masses Of workers temporary
illusions of an approaching improve
ment in their situation. But the depth
lC<AAfnE,unzllEn ON HA<cE RnxEwA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
DETROIT STEEL WORKERS REJECT COMPANY UNIO]
Jobless Workers Present Demands for Relief to Mayo
Stick With the Workers

THERE ferment the unemployed in all cities where
unemployed and their
the daily at the relief
mood demanding the immediate payment OF relief
readeran members of the Com
employed and
members of all other workers organizations
real
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12
Daily to Print Open
Letter to Membership
Thursday, July 18th

The full text Of the Open Letter
to the membership of the Com
munist Party, adopted at the
Extra ordinary National Confer
ence, held in New York. July 10,
will be published in the Daily
Worker Tomorrow.
Order Your bundles Of the Daily
Worker now TO make sure you re-
ceive your copy Of the paper with
Ahis important letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

How to Fight the 'New Deal,
Second InstallmeRt of CoHlrade
Brewder's Article VIII Appear
in Saturdays Issue of Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12

Give a Fellow-WOrker Your
Copy of the Daily When You
Are Thru With it. Discuss
the News With Him!
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Water PrOfiteering
An Unfair Tax

The District operating its water syse-a pub
lie utity-under conditions which the Public Utilities Commis
zion would not tolerate for instant the system
vately owned.
Doing business Of approximately $Soooooo annually the
water system under the proposed budget for the fiscal
1885, will make profit from the citizens Of the District Of
Columbia Of approximately S3 per cent.
In wipe this and unnecessary tax for that
Is what it amounts water rents should be severely cut
That end however be accomplished through the Dis
trct Building be effected through Congress- and the
only way can put through Congress for the citizens Of
the District their utmost united that body
According the estimates which the District Commissioners
transmitted to the Bureau the Budget for the next fiscal
year. the water system will end that year with balance Of
$1,371,664.
budget proposes that this balance be cut by about $780,
600 Of increasing the discount for prompt payment Of
bills from 10 16 per and by making small increase in
the present metered allowance.
Even these benefits given to the water users the balance
at the end Of the fiscal year will be close to $0O0000
When is considered that the total water rents for 1885
estimated slightly than $oo obvious that the
present rate is too high.
Temporzng with this situation by increasing the discount
and by the slight increase in the metered allowance
fair to the citizens Of the District.
The issue should be met by prompt reduction in all water
bills.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Answer the Question
LIQUOR In the District

In Justice Of the hafmon residents Of the District the
udv being made by Department Of Justice to determine the
affect of repeal of Eighteenth Amendment upon the Ma
tional Capital should be speeded up to the limit
With the prospective date of repeal rushing on both the FED
era and District authorities quandary to what that
action will to the city.
question ceners around whether or not the VoCead a
which will automatically die for the Nation when the thirty
sixth State rae the amendment will continue operative
In the District.
T. would see absurd that the act repudated by the
enr majority of our citizens should continue to be foed
upon our voteess half million.
Yet that the contention Of eminent lawyers ncud
Ing our own law officer Corporation Counsel William W. Bride
Just as eminent lawyers however take the reasonable
view that the Vostead act becomes imperative here when
peal Is accomplished.
But while the lawyers dispute the point the citizen demands
action the way Of preparation for the return OF wine and
liquor.
Justice have the matter under consideration to arrive
ut a speedy conclusion the subject
It is admitted that if the volstead dies here upon
neal the city will be faced with difficult problem center
ing around control Of the returning beverages.
Yet that problem must be faced and must be quickly
or we will have chaotic condition
the Department Of Justice holds that wine and liquor
become legal the District nationwide repeal is
accomplished the Commissioners have two weapons
with which to deal with the situation.
They the license law and they have the general power
preserve the peace and good order of the community
These weapons not very powerful In fact there IS
some doubt whether the Commissioners can adopt regu
daon under the police power upon subject upon wnlch
Congress had acted. .
The license law would to give the city authorities
however, measure of control the situation.
these measures have to be used sopgap pending
action on local liquor regulation by Congress the District
Commissioners should be informed Of that fact quickly by
the Department Of Justice
In less than two months all Of the details Of the Commis
soners action will have to worked out That is not
erv long time in which deal with difficult and compi
Gated problem.
opinion the better off the District will be.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
The Human Side of the News
By EdWin C.. Hill

A bitter French peasant in a
Hawaiian grass skirt goads a
span of oxen at Brissac, near
Tours, where they speak the
most perfect French in all the
republic. In the same field a
still angrier farmer, attired as
Zulu warrior, prods and goads
another team. In the kitchen
Of the farm a third Sullen
Frenchmen, too angry for mere
words, prepares the meals,
dressed as an American COW.
boy. And in the stables a
fourth peasant, rumbling with
wrath, forks hay and feeds the
horses as he stalks about in the
flowing robes Of a Moroccan
Sheik.
Since French farmers do not
ordinarily labor in such gaudy
habiliments, the question imme-
diately arises as to why these
four went about farm labor in
masquerade. It was all due to
the will of a gentleman Of salty
humor named Rufus Barlow,
one-time Of New Canaan, Conn,
U. S. A.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Postal Savings Banks
Make Dollars Work
BY James T. Williams, T.-

ally throughout the country,
they have proved successful.
And contrary to the propa-
ganda Of the bankers and their
political stool pigeons, all de.
posists received by the Postal
Savings system are promptly
redeposited in local banks that
are safe and that can satisfy
the Government of that fact.
The record shows that these
deposits from the Postal Sav.
ings Banks help in strength.
ening local banks which had
been menaced by withdrawal
Of funds by hysterical deposi-
tors.
The Glass banking law
amended the Postal Savings
law by prohibiting the pay
ment Of interest on a demand
deposit in the Postal Savings
banks. But a depositor in one
Of these banks is still paid in.
terest on his deposit if he gives
notice Of so days before with
drawing his money.
BY this amendment the
Postal Savings System was
brought into line with other
commercial institutions which,
under the Glass act, are for.
hidden to pay interest on de-
mand deposits.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
"See Your Doctor"
Not Your Undertaken

Americans who wonder why they don't live longer told
why by Dr. G. j. Miller Of New Orleans who the other day
read paper before the American College Of Surgeons in Chi
cago on the death rate
Dr. Miller reveals that in spite Of the great advances in
hygiene in this country in the last thirty many thousands
of persons caed before their time simply from their
neglect.
Smallpox for example, is almost completely prevenable
Yet 100000 of each year the United States
placing this nation in the dgraceful position Of having
than any other country except Russia and India.
Typhoid also is almost 100 per cent preventabe but nearly
5000 die of the disease annually Diphthera also be
averted by simple treatment nevertheless claimed $4,000
victims last year.
"see your DOCTOR is good rule to follow WHEN YOU'RE
WELL.
An occasional checup won't hurt you and it will postpone
the timslwhen you your undertaken
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Wise Words

Make yourself an ass and
everyone will lay a sack on you.
German.
There is nothing difficult in
the world; the only fear is that
man will lack perseverance,
Confucius.
He grieves more than is nec-
essary who grieves before it is
necessary.ASeneca.
The world is a comedy to
those that think. a tragedy to
those who feel.-Walpole.
God save me from a bad
neighbor and beginner on the
fiddle.
Drive nature out Of the door
and it will return by the window.
Let not the man be trusted
that hath no music in his soul.
Shakespeare.
Men are like wine: age Sours
the bad, and improves the good.
Cicero.
He who is slow in promising
is surest to keep his word.-
Rousseau.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Bankers Desire

The bankers got the first
news that the Postal Savings
bank system is scheduled for the
junk heap. The announcement
was made to the American
Bankers Association at their re-
cent annual convention by
James F. T. O'Connor, the new
Comptroller Of the Currency,
who said:
"Consress would be justified
in repealinG the Postal Savings
Act"
Mr.. O'Connor was discussing
the Federal Deposit Insurance
provisions of the Glass Banking
Act. He cited the enormous
growth Of the Postal Saving
system in the last two years. He
predicted that once the deposit
insurance provisions of the
Glass act go into effect, $1,000
100000 now deposited in Postal
Savings banks would go into
non-government banks.
Fortunately for the welfare
of the plain people, who believe
in the Postal Savings bank Sys-
tenn, their Senators and Repre-
SentativeS in Congress are not
all in accord with the views Of
the American Bankers Associa-
tion or the Comptroller of the
Currency on this question.
Many Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress know
full we'll that the Postal Saw
ings system has done more dur
ing this depression to wake up
and put to work the sleeping
dollars" which have been taken
out of circulation and put into
mattresses, tin boxes, trunks,
barns, stores and socks" than
have all the Federal threats to
punish boarding by jailing them.
From the day the Govern
ment inaugurated the Postal
Savings banks on January 3,
1911, when Postmaster Gen
eral Frank Hitchcock opened
these repositories experiment.
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson :

know now, only aggravated by
infinitely greater helplessneSS.
Where could a poor man secure
Justice? Nowhere. Where could
he find safety for his wife and
child?
What must David's thoughts
have been, watching it all
great King David" so power
less to help, in spite Of his
greatness? Others believed in
him, but in what could he be-
lieve? How could he determine
what was real, what was right.
in that swiftly changing world?
Darkness in poor, worried
King David's heart-just such
darkness as is covering us to-
day. Yet, sometimes, a sud-
den flash would come and he
would know, beyond all doubt
ing, that. all was well.
Out Of such a flash David
wrote the 46th Psalm. Not
Just a great kings poem, but
the cry of every troubled soul
who reaches through the dark
and, for an instant, feels the
quiet power Of Gods hand
Listen:
"God is our refuge and
strength, Very present help
in trouble. Therefore tOill not
we fear, though the earth be
removed and though the noun
tains Be carried into the midst
of the sea, though the w0ters
thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake
uuith swelline thereof. The
heather ragged, the kingdoms
were moUed; He uttered his
voice, the earth melted. BE
STILL AND KNOW THAT !
AM GOD"
Troubled? Frantic? Beaten
down by one vicious blow after
another? Yes, but even as you
lie there, hopeless, helpless
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT
HE IS GOD!
Be still and know that there
are things and forces in life
which connot pass away. You
have seen those things. You
have found them in other men
and in yourself. You have be-
lieved in them. BELIEVE IN
THEM NOW!
Never mind the earthquakes
and hurricanes-the crooked
ness and cruelty. Just for a
flash, be still-BE STILL AND
KNOW THAT THERE IS
GOOD.
Be still, and know that honor
still exists, that decency still
endures, that love still minis
ters and courage still fights on.
Nations may crumble. Govern
ments may change. Jobs may
fail. Banks may fold up. All
our established order may go on
the Big Wind.
But God Is. And Goodness
does go on.
Hold to thatI Deep in the
most secret places of your heart,
hold to that. child. And you,
too, will be able to go on.
copyright, 1888, King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-10-21
Expresses Contempt

All his life Rufus Barlow was
annoyed by the stinginess Of
the French peasant. He was &C.
cuStomed to say that a French
peasant would stand for any
insult if you made it worth his
while in francs. When he made
his will he left ten thousand
francs, about five hundred and
fifty dollars, to every one Of the
1S persons employed on his
farm.
An ironclad clause in the will
provided that none Of the lega-
cies should be paid unless the
legatees wore fancy dress cos
tunes also willed them while
they were performing their regu-
lar work for a period of one
year.
While Japan's millions con-
tinue to keep themselves in a pa
triotic fever over Manchuria and
foreign interference with their
militaristic ambitions, they are
not negleciing prayers and Of
ferings to their Shinto gods IN
behalf Of their Empress.
The empire is deeply con-
cerned over the baby expected
soon, the fifth to be born to the
royal couple. Japan prays that
it will be a boy, an heir to the
throne. The four other children
three of whom survive, were
girls. Since 1889 it has been a
law in Japan that no woman
shall reign, although up to that
time nine women had ruled the
land.
Hirihito, the emr"""~.