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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
STATEMENT OF THE DISTRICT
COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY, DISTRICT Z. ON THE
CLOSING OF THE BANKS
IN MICHIGAN

The closing of the banks in Mich
igan for an indefinite period and
the new restrictions on Withdrawals
of deposits are direct result of the
growing collapse of the auto industry.
1t is at the same time an indication
of the continued deepening of the
economic crisis and a result of the
sharp struggle between Ford and
Wall Street interests.
The auto workers have been among
the worst sufferers in the crisis.
Brought into the industry by the lure
Of high wages, they soon discovered
the high wages to be a myth. But
not until tens Of thousands had been
tricked into buying homes at the in
Sistence of the auto companies,
through loans from the Union Guar
dian Trust Co. When the workers
could not pay back the loans, these
homes were lost. But the bank could
find no buyers for the homes it fore
closed. In this manner, its assets
became frozen.
In the summer of last year the
bank borrowed over $16,000,000 from
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
The market for cars narrowed and
the share Of the Ford Motor Co. in
this smaller market became less.
The new 1888 models of the auto
companies were put on the market
in December. Ford began to prepare
his new models. The fight between
the giants for the control Of the
auto industry was on, and a new
wave Of wage cuts swept the in
dustry. Hours were increased. Speed
up was intensified. New wage-cuts
were prepared But this time the
workers led by the Auto Workers
Union, began to fight back. Strikes
were organized and ended in victory
The wage-cut drive for the present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
Workers DenOunce
Starvation DOles
at Hunger Hearing

BOSTON, Mass, March Fifty
workers testified at public hearing
called by the Unemployed Councils
In the North End this week. Public
officials and agents of the private
relief organizations were challenged
to attend and answer charges of crt-
minal failure to prevent starvation
among the unemployed but they
failed to appear. Testimony brought
out the fact that a family of ten
receives only Sc per week from the
local relief agency and that this was
given only after every available re-
source had been exhausted including
life insurance policy. Thirty work
ers we're recruited into the Unem-
ployed Council, and committee was
elected to go with five of the fami-
lies represented TO demand immedi-
roe re4sfG, xznwSx4anp 1e2UG -,
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cation, TO the newspapers, and TO the
parents, urging needed reforms; and
they have made themselves heard
and wrung concessions from unwins
ing hands.
Parents Support Necessary
There is no question, however, that
without the support Of parents and
other citizens, their fight would have
possessed only half its strength.
Speaking with them and for them,
hundreds of parents have added
their support to the fight. These
parents realize that they and the
teachers have a common cause-the
good Of the child; and that only by
joining forces can their demands be
won.
But not enough parents are ena
gagged in this warrior war it is.
There are parent organizations an
over the city, in schools and outside
Of schools. Parents should join these
organizations and work with them
Too much is at Stake--tfle childis
future-for any parent to stay aloof!
from this issue. The most powerful
single organization is the United
Parents Association, with members In
every school. Parents should join
this organization and force it to
greater activity. The Importance Of
mass drives must be hammered home
increasingly. There are also ire
dependent organizations in every
borough.
Tactics
One word as to conduct within the
organization you may Join. The
Party has rightly objected to sec
tarianism. These parent orgsniza=
tons, as well as the teacher-parent
organizations, are political. Their
purpose is to benefit the child:
and united front is maintained
throughout, with personal differences
excluded. The issues to be fought
on must be kept clearly in mind.
Otherwise the child's Welfare is lost
sight of in the heat of the argument.
The fight is going on. Join a
parent organization!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
JAPANESE CONSUL CALCULATES
ANTI SOVIET DOCUMENT

The Japanese Consul-General in
London has been caught red-handed
III the distribution of vicious anti
Soviet. warmongering document to
British members of Parliament. A
reproduction Of the title-page, with
the enclosed transmitting card Of the
Consul General, is printed in the
February 10th issue of the London
Daily Worker"
The document in question Is pub
lished by the notorious International
Entente Against the Third Interna-
tional, of Geneva-the ALBERT Inter
national that was involved in the
assassination of the Soviet diplomat
Vorovsky in Lausanne some years
ago. The enclosed card reads, with
the Compliments Of the Consul Gen
eral of Japan"
This action is absolutely unprece-
dented, even in the annals Of capt.
talist activity against the Soviet
Union. This incident is another link
in the chain Of Japanese prepara-
tons Tor interventionist war against
the Soviet Union American workers,
On guard!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
By MOE BRAGIN.

NEW YORK.-Early Saturday
morning in the side streets around
Union Square the police are all out
already like dogfleas. On the news
stands, papers are covered with
Sprawling headlines about the Bank
Holiday and the Inauguration. The
new president goes to church and
takes his oath Of Office on an old
Dutch bible where the text praises
hope, faith and charity
Having no. hope in the present
system, the masses of Greater New
York pour out into the streets mn
itantly. Having no faith in the
man who promised q new deal for
the forgotten man, they hoist in
the wind their own flags and BAN
ners, Throwing charity like an old
glove loaded with a horseshoe back
into the faces of those who offer it,
they thunder in their five-hour
parade and demonstration for re-
lief and unemployment insurance.
Demand Rent Holiday.
The same morning that the
creeping paralysis of the bank holi-
days hits the claws OF Wall Street,
tens of thousands of workers take
possession of the streets with their
iron challenge and demands. They
hurI back the blow Immediately.
AS their answer, they spread high
over the square their huge sign for
a rent holiday.
Long before II o'clock thousands
of workers stand in well-diSciplined
ranks ready to pour into the square.
Scores OF revolutionary workers
organizations are present. The
Marine Workers lead the march.
Whenever the workers demon
strate the capitalist press is ready
with its foul lies. When the 5000
hunger marchers nassed on Wash
ington, the boss press yelped there
we're no hungry workers in the line.
To spike the lies we pick workers
at random to ask questions about
their conditions and why they are
out on the front.
Unemployed Two Years.
Member Of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council, Alfons Nylemans.
Single worker. kifty-seyen years
old Two years out of work. Has
been a porter and fireman. Has
to sleep in Gold Dust Lofts of the
Salvation Army. He takes his old
corncob out OF bis pocket and tip
back his ragged hat. He's here be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
The Capitalist Crisis Hits
the Schools
Budget Cut S20,00O,0O0 in New York: Parents
and Teachers Must Unite Opposition

NEW YORK.-What with the bud
gee being amended every day, it is
difficult to get the exact cut i'll edu-
cation. But rough estimate is suf-
ficient indication of the crisis in
education. The budget, including the
100000 increase, should have been
$150,000,000. The Board however,
presented one for $142, 100000. Dras-
tic reductions, due to salary cuts and
other eocsaomies took over $4,000, GOO
more away. The final budget, unless
more slaShes are made (not impos-
sible) is now $129,200,00O. What
these reductions mean with regard
to the good of the child we have al
ready explained. There is only one
anSwer-mass action: a relentless
fight against the increasing menace
TO our children's health and edu-
cation.
Fears Increasing Radicalism
The President of the Board is
aware that the masses have been
stirred by these and other abuses.
In a recent address he said: Forces
are at work seeking to poison the
minds of our children, particularly
the underprivileged children (en1-
pilasis ours, against the principles
upon which our government rests"
His not very brilliant solution is that
we have more play-centers. But as a
matter Of fact the solution holds
good no longer because the Board
has cut the appropriations for play
centers. So radicalisrn will just have
to keep on spreading. The Board
provides excellent food for its growth
Teachers Fight Retrenchments
The teachers have been made aware
of the fact that they, too, are pro-
letarians; and for the short time in
which they have become conscious of
their real status they have put up an
excellent fight. At first as indivi-
duals, then as small groups, and now
the only correct way-aS mass Or
CARNATIONS, they have waged the
fight for better school conditions
and for appointments. They have
gone to Albany, to the Board Of Edu-
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method Of gouging a larger share
surplus value for themselves.
Government Rushed to Aid

Government Rushed to Aid
When the crash came. and the
thousands of workers who had begun
buying homes on the inStallment plan
asked for further credit to carry
them through they appealed in vain
to this banking octopus. Tens of
thousands Of homes, almost paid for,
were grabbed by agents of the finan-
ciers in Detroit and sold again. But
property values rapidly fell, with the
result that many home installment
buyers found themselves in the pre-
dicament of still owing the real es-
tate sharks or the banks more than
the property would bring. The whole
structure resting upon the exploita-
ton of the auto workers began to
wayer. Then the Detroit bank rack
eteers, Edsel Ford, the officials Of
General Motors, of Chrysler, and also
by Roy ID. Chaplin, then secretary of
commerce i'll HooYer's cabinet, asked
help of the government and got it in
the form of SOS, 100000 from the Re-
construction Finance Corporation.
But that was not enough. With the
biggest Michigan bank in a hole, the
obliging governor of Michian ordered
the bank holiday to mobilize all
the resources of the little banks
scattered tfrouhout the state to save
the big concern of the automobile
magnates and the biggest business
men OF Detroit. that is to say the
stockholders, the real-estate sharks
(Whose certificates OF banditry rep
resented so per cent of ali assets"
Of the Union Guardian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
PiIIories Fascist Arsonist


MOSCOW, March 8.-In an article
commenting on the provocative
Reichstag arson, headed you Can't
Get Away From II" Pravda, the off,
cial organ of the Communist Party
Of the Soviet Union, writes: "This
provocateur, incendialy Van der
Lubbe has been in open relations
with the police since February o.
Goehring had sufficient time to lend
to Van der Lubbe's testimony some
plausible appearance. But the pro-
voCateur's classification proved un-
successful even in this case"
The first official communication Of
the cut-throat government of Hitler
stated that a Communist member
ship card was found on the person
Of the ncendiary. There was no
mention of this in the press. The
foreign correspondents on the con-
trary, began to affirm that National
Socialists set fire to the ReichStag
Hitler yelled himself hysterical shout
ing TITS a base Iie!" Five days went
by. The fascist had time to carry
out a number of pogroms. Finally
Van der Lubbe stated to correspon-
dents of Dutch papers: IT am not a
member of any party and am not a
confirmed Communist"
German Press Silent
The German nationalist press OF
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cent of it has been repaid. While
this was going on the eminent Mr..
Mitchell was drawing millions in
bonuses for his services" to the bank
in addition to his salary of SIS, 900
a year. During the three years
1927, 1928 and 1929-these bonuses
for Mitchell amounted to $500, 600.
In 1929 Mitchell "sold'' to a member
of his own household $4,000 shares Of
National City stock at a loss of
81 ,S0O, 0O0-this vancouver was to
evade the payment Of government
taxes on his income.
Robbery Of Bank Clerks
In addition to other regulations this
gang of bandits, with Charles E. Nit
chell at their head, preyed upon the
clerks and other employees of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09

bank. The principal method was to
force them to buy National City Bank
stock on the installment plan at 200
or $40. Thousands of these en-
ployees are today still paying in
stallments on the shares, although
they have dropped from 200 or 200
to less than $50 q share.
AS a fitting climax to his bank
banditry this Mitchell in his letter of
resignation to the National City
racket said: MY first loyalty is to
the National City Bank of New York
to which I have given the best years
Of my life" That statement was
published with all due Solemnity in
the March bulletin Of the National
City Bank.
1t was this same pirate crew, of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
10000 MARCH IN SAN FRANCISCO


SAN FRANCISCO, Cal-Five col
umns of workers, the Mission, Fill
more, North BeaGh, waterfront, and
the Howard St. section marched into
the civic center, where 10000 work.
erS joined in a militant united front
demonstration for cash relief and the
passage Of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill No 1910 now
before the California legislature.
DEMONSTRATE In TORD'S CITY
DEARBORN, Mich.--Over 1900
workers demonstrated in this city of
Henry Ford in front of the City Hail.
An attempt by the city politicians to
organize a counter demonstration, a
Good Will to Henry Ford" parade,
proved complete flop.
5000 IN HAMTRAMCK
HAMTRAMCK, Mich.--Over 5000
demonstrated, under the leadership
Of the Unemployed Council and the
Polish Chamber Of Labor.
A.F.L. RANK AND FILE JOIN IN
JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-Over 1000
the largest mobilization here OF
men, women and children, demon
strated for unemployment relief.
About 5000 massed around the City
Hall when the demands were pre-
sented. The A. F. Of L. was repre-
sented by rank and file workers in
the march.
HEAR WORKERS CANDIDATES
IRONWOOD, Mich.-Candidates
on the United Front ticket for City
and County offices addressed over
300 workers who demonstrated at the
Market Square. An eight hour day
M ne y. 2 !. mt W.T. sas w. e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich,
About 700 workers heard Comrade
Aldrich, workers candidate for may
or, address the demonstration. A
demonstration was also carried out
In front of w. j. Carl's grocery store,
to demand that he stop giving rotten
potatoes for relief checks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
UNITED FRONT IN RACINE

RACINE, Wis.--Three lines of
march converged on City Hall Pla-
ga, where 1000 workers, including
rank and file members of the Unem-
ployed Committee as well as the Un-
employed Council, backed up the de-
mands for immediate relief,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
The Piracy Of Mitchell

For financial piracy on a large
scale the recent revelations concern
ing the former chairman Of the Ma
tional City Bank, the second biggest
banking establishment in Che coun-
try, is noteworthy. When the crash
came in 1929 Mr. Charles E. Mitchell
and his fellow directors of the Ma
tional City Bank just voted to them
selves without security the neat little
sum Of $2,400,000 to enable them to
carry their commitments on the stock
gambling market. This "loan" was
made without s3terest and only ger
Il ..Afk. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
Student at Harvard Sends Dollar for Fund
Cambridge, Mas


received form letter asking help in the
variety exceptions
later
A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
DEFEAT SPLITTING ArTEMp..

ROCKLAND, Me.--The attempt OF
local preacher to divide the wo. k
ers along the line Of citizenship was
defeated by $50 workers denonstrat-
ing here for unemployment RELIEF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
From a Wabash Undiana) Worker
The Daily Worker:

The Daily WORKER
stamps donation to
Daily Worker.
H.. ASHLEY.
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"OnIy the Daily Can Teach the Masses ="

o Daily Worker
Enclosed will find dar to help the good work and
people in America Long live the Communist Party and the Daily Worker
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HOLD 2 pEMoNsTRArIoNr

HARTFORD, Conn--Two dsnaon-
STATIONS we're held here, one at Main
and Windsor with 800 participants,
and one at Park and Lawrence, with
about 500. Banners announced the
coming Connecticut Hunger March
on rTarch 21st,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
By n. BUCHwALD
european Correspondent of the
Daily Worker

MOSCOW, March 8.-The official
organ of the Communist Party Of the
Soviet Union, 'Prayda," has a lead
ing editorial hailing the outcome Of
the German elections as a tremen-
dous victory for the Communist
Party
Pravda says: -Four million eight
hundred thousand German prole-
tarians voted for the Communist
Party, thus giving a worthy answer
TO the fascist dictatorship. The Ger
man proletariat remained faithful to
the end to the revolutionary banner
Of the heroic German Communists
Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
March Fourth Jobless Flashes
I'M ROTTEN POTATOES

manded on local relief work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
PRAVDA Halls The GERMAN COMMUNIST
VOTE AS WORTHY ANSWER TO EASCISM
$4,000 Red Gained Landtag Baotng Held to
Open New Epoch in Strugge
Editorial Points Elections Germany Were Held Very Day of
o. S. Financial Catastrophe

uonaI Socialist and supporter c
Hitler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
ARREST MEXICAN WORKER

PHOENIX, Ariz.-Luis Rojas, Mex
lean worker, and active in the I'm
employed Council was arrested on his
way to the demonstration of 45G
here, and is being held for inves,i
tigation. The Phoenix Tabor nNk;
l sensss Z Z. a 70. ne esas EIEw<
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09

Fascist Van der Lubbe's Activity
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March z.
According 60 information from
the Dresden correspondent Of the
Social = Democrat" organ Of the
German Social-denocrats in Czecho-
Slovakia, in the month of June, 1882,
the person who set fire to the Reich
Tag building in Berlin, Van der
Lubbe. stopped at the Serneyits
Conmune-in the Nielsen district,
ssxony-and was in relations with
ne local National Socialists tfascists)
and stated openly that he was a Ma
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA

According to the newest of the
magazines in our dentists office, BUSH
ness was never better and 1928 may
prove an even bigger year, says the
Tyler (Texas) Currier Times.
A report states that George Ber-
nard Shaw often eats as he writes.
A lot of writer's are not so particular
about the time just so they eat.
A New York police report, states
that the pickpocket is disappearing,
but an observant Photographer thinks
he's merely getting discouraged.
This years graduates believe that
a college education pays, but what
they are now asking is: when?
=
Many matrimonial bonds are of the
short term variety.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27
STEAL OWN CARS;
LAND IN HOOSGOW

Grand Rapids.-Two men who stole
their own cars are in Jail following
their apprehension recently. In Grand
Rapids, Chester Carson was discover
ed driving the car which he had re-
ported stolen and on which he had
collected insurance a year ago. Dur
ing the same week, Gust johnson was
arrested in Elk River for stealing the
car he had sold to Kenneth Angstman.
Johnson kept the key to his old car,
and on the first opportunity is alleg-
ed to have stolen the auto back.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27

in 1881. During the same period the
number of marriages per 100, 900 po-
pulation has not varied greatly, but
the last 20 years has shown slight
increase over the previous 20, with
the exception of the recent depression
years, which have shown slight fall
ing off.
Every government official and
board that handles public money
should publish at regular intervals an
accounting of it, showing where and
how each dollar is spent. This is a
fundamental principle of democratic
government-Fergus Falls Tribune.
It is estimated that tax exempt
securities in the United States
amount to 80 billions of dollars.
Speaking Of new sources to tax, here
is fertile field.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27

Jimmy, Jr.: "Can we play at keep
ing store in here, mammal
Mrs. Luttrell: Eyes, but you must
be very, very quiet"
Jimmy Jr.: ooh, all right, mamma.
Well pretend we don't advertise.-ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27

at the home and the family was leav-
ing on trip, the transient insisted
that the housewife make him a cup
of coffee-until the man Of the house
appeared.
Some people have asked why the
buns now ask for small package of
coffee or bacon or few eggs instead
of meal. The reason is they have a
ajungle" along the Redwood river, not
far from the power house. Sometime
ago the woodpile at the power plant
was raided. The buns were warned
to leave the wood alone or be chased
out. They saw the point and are
gathering their own wood now.
The population at the Jungle"
changes about every two days, very
few of the men spending longer
time here, but the new men seem to
know about the place without the
necessity of any road signs. It's a
great life.
Kidnapings, bank robberies and
dozens of other crimes committed
with even more frequency than usual
in recent weeks indicate again the
need of state constabulary with suf-
ficient man power to be out and at
ter the criminals before their trails
are hours old.
AS one editor pointed out recently,
organized labor-afraid of the part
such an organization might play in
breaking strikes-has played a joke
on the state by beating down all
efforts to give highway police the
power to enforce laws aside from such
minor attractions as driving without
tail light or parking on the pave
ment.
The joke has proved a boomerang
for robberies, car thefts and even
kidnapings affect the working class
es as well as the rich through higher
insurance rates and the fact that
money paid for ransom is not invest
ed where it will produce employment.
A Yale professor, who has great
confidence in ambitious youth, says:
"The boy who is determined to go to
devil will in all probability accom-
plish his purpose"
*
A pig recently made parachute
drop from a Baltimore airplane, but
it's old stuff for Minnesota farmers
to watch pork drop.
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Americanism: Doing the daily doz-
en- for health and trying to pass an
other car on a blind curve an hour
later.
Women rule a certain tribe of In
dams in Peru. Which is further evil
dence that civilization is spreading.
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To err is human. And in some
cases that is about the only human
characteristic observable.
1t is safer to guess that the head
light nearest to you is the one that
is out.
|
With a six-hour day, why the
necessity for daylight-saving time?
Man wants but little here below
and he usually gets it.