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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
n. Y. City to Get
PWA Subway Loan
If It Cuts Wages
LaGuardia Will Cut
City Pay for Loan;
Wall st. Protected

4 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-1f the La
fIuardia administration is ready to
s-educe the budget by $24,0O0,000 it
can borrow S23 100000 from the Pub
lie Works Fund to complete the
Eighth Avenue Subway, Secretary
1ckes announced today.
LaGuardia must reduce the budget
by February or earlier.
There are two ways he can reduce
the budget. He can cut down on the
payments 10 the bankers, the high
salaries OF the appointed City off,
Gals, abolish this Board OF Alder
men, etc.
Or else he can slash the wages of
the city civil service employees, cur.
tail still further the school appro
priations, hospital expenditures, etc.
This latest announcement of Ickes,
coming after Conference of La
Guardia with Ickes. clearly means
that the incoming administration is
sing subway building as the club to
t,eat down still further the wages Of
he Cities Civil Service employees. In
addition new taxes may be levied.
Since LaCiuardia pledged to the
Morgan Rockefeller banks, who own
the greater part Of the City's bonds,
that he will carry out the Untermyer
Agreement. 1t is clear that his main
budget activity will be to guarantee
- payments GA wall Street loans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
IC. WA. HIRED ONLY $4,000
NEW WORKERS in CITY; No.
more ADDED this MONTH.
New York CWA Men
Owed Back Pay; 200
Go on Strike

NEW YORK.-At most $4,000 I'M
employed have been put to work at
Civil Works jobs, above those trans
erred from Work Relief 1t was
revealed in the Board of Estimate
yesterday. The program called for
$4,000 at work by this time. An in
ner fight Of the Tammany controlled
Board and the C.W.A. officials
brought the admission from C.WA.
Administrator Whitney and Martin
Winter, deputy, C.w.A. administrator,
that the whole C.W.A. program which
was promised has not and will not be
carried out.
New projects cannot be expedited
in December" a letter of C.W.A. Ad-
ministrator Whitney to the board
admitted. Whitney and Winter re-
quested the board of estimate to pur-
chase one million dollars worth Of
equipment instead of two million, two
hundred thousand dollars worth, be-
cause they might not see use for some
time, if at all.
The C.W.A. by this time promised
to have $4,000 men at work, above
(Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Roosevelt to Spend
Sl,OlN,OOO a Day to
DestroyCorn,Wheat
HasAlready Destroyed
20 Per Cent of Crop;
Food Prices Rise

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Gov
eminent plans for the expenditure of
another $360,000,000 for the subsidiz-
ing of the destruction of 20 per cent
Of next years corn crop are rapidly
being completed, Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace announced today.
This means that Roosevelt Is set
ting aside $1,000,000 a day for the
destruction Of corn, a basic food.
The Roosevelt government has al
ready spent about 100000, 900 for the
destruction Of corn, wheat, cotton and
hogs.
These huge subsidies to the rich
farmers for the reduction of their
acreage and the blowing under Of
their crops, is paid for by the city
consumers in the form Of higher
prices arising from the Roosevelt
processing tax levied on these
products. Actually, the Roosevelt
processing taxes are an indirect
Sales
This program of wheat and corn
destruction, together with the p-o-
cessing tax, has laready raised the
cost of food 13 per cent since
Roosevelt took offi.e, the price OF
bread having risen from / to 2.5 cents
a pound.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
WEIRTON Steel HEAD DEC. ARES NRA NSURES OPEN SHOP
rs Phla AFL Cleaners Dye Shops in Scottsboro Protest Sr
Dec.1o>>International Day of Struggle
For Freedom of Dimitrof, Torgler

THE Recstag trial waiting
They waiting the slightest sackenng in the rising wall Of
world protest.
ak will srikel
the Fascist mrdererS wall execute heroic Comrades DIM
itrof, Toger, Popof and Tanef!
their hdeous by the irresistible
the danger of their execution
Gong the Eers the Fascist judges frenzy
fury They Comrades who stand
al Of the world fight against the Fascist
10, the working world will
strength warning the Fascist that the workers will not stand
idly by while their Comrades danger Of murder.
the America gather
in street and neighbohood to join its with the
against the murder Diron Toger
and
The United Front the working asn every union in dem
onraon Fascist Consulate ofhcaeveywhere
meetings, delegations the
every city, demanding the release heroic international
fighters against Fascism!
Organize actions! actons the release
Popon Tanen Comrades, workers. The time
terribly hort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
COPS ATTACK
500 PUPILS.
In WALKOUT
1000 Workers Involved
in Mass Strike for
Negro Boys

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec.
12.-Forty-eight cleaners and
dyers' shops, involving more
than 1000 Philadelphia work
ers, struck for one-half hour
yesterday as protest against
the frame-up convictions of Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris, two
of the Scottsboro boys sentenced to
die on Feb 2.
At the same time 500 Of the 1000
, children at the Reynolds and JEFF
! strike today also as a protest against
the Decatur verdicts. The principal
locked the doors of the school and
refused to permit the children who
remained to leave the building.
Negro and white children picketed
the two schools and fought police with
snowballs. The strike was supported
by the parents. two of whom, Brew
ington and Wilson. were beaten and
arrested by the police.
The strike was sponsored and pre-
pared by the Philadelphia Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Young
Pioneers. A large number of the
children joined the Young Pioneers
during the day The pupils are PLAN
ming further protest actions, includ-
ing the election of a delegation to
file protests with Principal Brooks
who called out the police.
/ The entire reighborhood of the
4 schools showed great sympathy with
J A delegation went 10 the principal
vino said that he was forced to lock
the remaining children in the build
ing this morning in orde., to prevent
the children from demonstrating The
children who were out marched
around the building several times
shouting slogans demanding the free
dom of the Scottsboro boys. The
streets around the school were painted
with the slogan, School Strike" A
majority of a committee met inme-
diately following this and decided on
the following program:
I To call whole series of such
sch;lol strikes.
.. To send a delegation to the Ne
gro Chamber of Commerce in, Phila-
desphia, with proposal to have a
one Incur protest strike to close down
st N,es in the business section as a
q Dttsboro protest.
Utilize this attack on the children
for big protest movement in the
s1eighborhood.
3. To organize central demon-
stration and march through the CEN
ter of the city on December 90 at
| pm. at Rayburn Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Chicago Jobless Will
March, Demand Work
....' for 100000

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 12.-Thousands
Of Chicago workers WILL march upon
the Civil Works Administration head
quarters here on Dec. Is, demanding
jobs or relief for all unemployed. A.
ready three hundred and six thou
sand workers have registered for jobs
and only $4,000 were actually placed
on some work.
Single men and women are denied
Jobs. In the flop houses, where thou
sands Of single men and women are
forced to live, very few were given
any work. On December is thousands
Of single men and women Will march.
The police have SO far refused a
permit for the march. They agree
only to allow the workers to assemble
at Union Park, and let committee
Of ten present the demand to the G.
w. A. for jobs. One worker was ar
rested Sunday for distributing leaf
cts announcing the demonstration.
The Unemployed Council calls upon
all workers to support the march OF
the single men and women for Jobs
The Unemployed Councils urge ali
working class organizations to send
resolutions and letters to Mayor Kelly
demanding the tight to march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
UMWA Leader Uses
Threats to Force
Strikers to Work
Calls Strike Off As
He Threatens Men
With 81 a Day Fine
BY TOM MYERSCOUGH

CENTRAL CITY, Pa, Dec. i2.-
Striking miners of Central City
Somerset County, Pa, got a new les
son in strikebreaking Sunday when
Dave Watkins, UM.W.A. organizer in
this field arrived at their specially
called strike meeting in company with
the police to order the strike called
off,
AS soon as this union faker who
is known too well in his own Ohio
district to be permitted to work
there) began TO speak, he repeated
the threat of fines of 81 day per
man for each day on strike, as he
had done through the local press on
the first day of the strike. The men
let out a howl and threats were made
against Watkins. This, however, was
quelled by his 0police protection"
A vote TO return to work was forced
through, although many Of the men
will be unable to work because lack
of necessary rails, posts, other sup
plies, ETC., necessary TO the mining of
coal, the cause of the strike, are still
unavailable. With the vote to return,
however, was a threat to return on
strike if demands are not met by
Monday.
When Watkins was through speak
ing, the miners were kept inside the
hall for fully Is minutes to permit
the U.MW.A. faker that much head
Wav In getting ont of town and thuS
escape the wrath of the miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Muneric Strikers
Aided by Dock Men
LILA. Sends Scabs To
Break Strike

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. II. The
Steamship Muneric strike is holding
out solid, with longshoremen refusing
to work. yesterday when the crew shut
IF steam. 1. l.. A. officials tried 10
send men to work and threatened
delegates of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union.
The captain is attempting to split
the ranks by paying three individuals
part of the five months salary owed
them, and serving better food. The
result OF this move is that the feel
ing of solidarity among the crew and
the determination to win all demands
has been strengthened.
The captain threatened TO deport
III foreigners and threw an M.W.I.U.
delegate off the ship The ship crew
has elected a committee of fear to
stop deportation Of any of the
strikers.
Shipping agencies have their win
dows covered with wire and are not
attempting to ship any scsbs 70 ths
strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Big RR. Plans R.F.C.
100000 Loan
To-Day Bondholders
N. Y. Central Reports
$50 Per Cent Profit
Rise; Cuts Wages

NEW YORK. L~e 12.--In order to
meet the $48,000,000 loan to the bond
holders which falls due within the
coming months, the New York Cen
trH Railroad is now getting ready to
borrow $50,e00,0oO from the RF.C.,
it was announced here today.
The railroad already owes the
RF.C. 100000 in short term loans
which fall due on January /. 1t is
understood that the Roosevelt gov
eminent will not press for payment at
this time, and will extend the loan
indefinitely.
The New York Central, which is
dominated by Wall Street and big
railroad interests, reported that its
profits for the month Of October rose
$50 per cent.
The road has announced It's plans
for the payment Of S20,O0o,OOO to the
bondholders of its equipment bonds,
to be paid during the coming year.
These enormous payments to the
bondholders, called the roads fixed
charges" are made at the expense of
the railroad workers whose wages
have been slashed to starvation levels.
The road is now using the part-tinae
method among its workers to beat
down the weekly wages Of the rail-
road workers. 1t is also laying off
thousands of workers in an effort to
reduce expenseg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Former Khaki Shirt
Clears Terzani:;
Names Real Killer
Former Quartermaster
Creates Sensation
at Trial

NEW YORK. = Antonio Fierro, 22-
year-old anti-fascist student, was shot
in the back and killed by Frank Moi
fer, a member of the Khaki Shirts
Of which Art j. Smith is self styled
commander" The Staying took
place at a Khaki Shirt meeting in
Columbus Han, Astoria, last July IA
This direct accusation was made by
Samuel 2. Vein, former quartermas-
ter general of the Fascist organiza-
ton, when he took the witness stand
in Queens County Court in Long Is
land City yesterday where Athos
Terzani, an anti-fascist is on trial
before Judge Thomas Downs and a
jury charged with the Staying of his
friend, Fierro.
Showing evident admiration for
the railrcading tactics of Speed
Callahan in the Decatur trials of
the ScOttsbOro boys. Judge Downs
announced a night session yester-
day.
Vein, who was on the witness stand
for nearly four hours and who with
stood severe - almost abusive =
discrimination at the hands of
Assistant District Attorney, John H.
Krogman, testified that he saw Art
Smith strike Fierro with a riding
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
STRIKES SPREAD
In SP AIN AS
MASSES REBEL
Socialist Party Joins
in Govt Attacks
on Insurgents

MADRID, Dec. 12.-The ma
tion-wide resistance of the
Spanish masses to the drive of
he left-Republican government
for Fascist dictatorship on the basis
Of the recent elections for the Cortes,
continued today with renewed vigor
despite claims Of the present Re-
publican government of complete
success" for its attempt to drown the
anti-fascist struggle in blood.
The extent of the upsurge is shown
in the powerful strikes now under way
in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona,
Saragossa, Granada, Ferrol, Oviedo
Coruna, Lcgrono, San Sebastian,
Santander, Algeciras, Cadiz, Teruel
and Huesca. The striking workers
have rejected call by the Socialist
Party ordering them to return to
work and discontinue their struggles
against the government, in which the
Socialists have three ministers.
The government is censoring re-
ports on the number of dead and
wounded as casualties mounted
throughout the country today. Ac-
cording to yesterdays report over 100
had, been killed and several hundreds
wounded. In several sections of the
country, rank and file soldiers joined
the ranks Of the armed workers and
peasants.
The uprising began last Friday and
quickly spread all over Central and
Northeastern Spain. Today's strike
reports show that it has spread to
Western and Southern Spain, as well.
Starting in Barcelona under the
leadership of the Anarchists and Syn
dicalist National Confederation Of
Labor, it was quickly joined by Com
munist and Socialist workers, despite
the attacks on the uprising by the
Socialist leadership.
AL rightist and Centrist organiza-
tons, including the Socialist Party,
Fascists and Monarchists, are sup
porting the government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Starvation
DeathSQnd
S II ictdeS

NEW YORK, Dec. IL. - Margaret
Jtahl, Is, who together with her aged
mother was getting aid from the
lone Relief Bureau, died yesterday
lirom umdernouriShment.
The mother could not believe her
daughter dead. For eight hours alter
the ambulance doctor left, she kept
applying hot towels TO the still cold
body that never moved.
Two elderly workers, James Murphy,
So, and Horace McGrotey, 10, were
removed from the Municipal Lodging
House to Bellevue Hospital, suffering
from undernourisfment.
A dentist, Harry De Bower, 35, COM
mitted suicide by hanging because his
practice was dwindling away.
A yiolinist, who formerly played
with the Philadelphia Symphony Or
chestra, Josef Waldman, 40, leaped to
his death from the fifth floor Of his
home at sos w. 164th Street. He was
Respondent over failure to make both
ends meet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Dollar Rises to 81
Cents; Prices Sag
Under HeavySuppIy


NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-In its effort
to quiet growing fears regarding its
budget condition and the danger of
further infiationary measures, the
Roosevelt government continued to
maintain its gold price at s54ol an
ounce.
AS a result, the dollar rose on for
eign exchanges to about GA cents in
terms of the British sterling.
Commodity prices are sagging, since
all the efforts of the Roosevelt gov
eminent to send prices back TO the
1926 level have so far not been sue
cessful, due to the enormous stock of
unused goods on hand.
The financial circles talk of some
form OF sterilization agreement be-
tween Roosevelt, Britain and France.
Such an agreement cannot be main
tanned in the face OF the deepening
antagonisrns between these govern
ments In their imperialist fight for
foreign markets ~v -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
.NRA Purchasing
AidsBigCompanies;;
Drives Out Smaller
Small Merchants Show
That Code Prices Aid
Monopolies

WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.-Arguing
that the N. r. A. price fixing code
for their industry is driving them
out OF business in favor Of the large
dyeins and cleaning companies, hun
dreds OF small merchants beseiged the
N. r. A. hearin1s at WASHINGTON. ask
ing that they be permitted to lower
their prices.
AS in many other industries, the
N r. A. codes in the dyeing industry
have sent prices upward so high that
the reduced business is permitting
only the lsrgest companies to stay
In business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Retail Food Prices
Is Per Cent Higher
Than 6 Months Ago
Eggs, Lard, Cornmeal
Show Sharp Rise
Under Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Dec. H. Retail
prices of the most necessary foods are
now l8 per cent higher than when
Roosevelt took office in March, 1t was
revealed today in report of the q. s.
Commission Of Labor Statistics today.
During the last two weeks, the index
of retail food rose again, SO that now
the index is practically at the highest
point reached last September.
The reports were based on reports
from retailers in 81 cities.
The sharpest advances occurred in
the prices of eggs, lard. cornmeal,
and cabbage,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Help Dig A Pit
For Capitalism!

IN the press room of the Daily
1 Worker revolutionary workers have
already dug the pit for the foun-
dalton for our new, modern press.
Mounds of earth are being carted
aawy from the basement press room
On the foundation in this excava-
ton, five feet deep, thirty nine feet
long, a powerful machine will in a
few weeks whirl off $4,000 Daily
Workers per hour.
BECAUSE of your splendid support,
II we are able to build this founda-
ton for our new press which will
make our Daily Worker a still more
powerful weapon in our struggles. All
Of us who are helping the Daily
Worker are helping to dig a pit for
the capitalist system.
OUR receipts yesterday we're fair
" only because a group Of prcfes-
sional workers sent in over $3.50,
Chicago SOL, Jewish Worker Clubs,
$68, Seattle, $3S. Contributions from
individual workers and most organi-
cations were extremely low.
We are still waiting to hear from
the various districts how soon they
can raise their quotas, how much
more they will voluntarily raise to
make sure that We can retain the
new press.
DO not delay, comrades. Your
nickeIs, dimes, dollars mean life and
revolutionary strength to our fight
ing Daily" Rush your contribu-
ton today. Ask your fellow work
ers 10 contribute.
Tuesdays receipts .s.......s 52l.f5
Previous estal ............. 34,4l9.92
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
LID Wins Stay for
Negro About to Die

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. IA
last minute 30-day reprieve was won
today by mass pressure and the In
ternational Labor Defense for Luther
Jean jackson, Negro youth sentenced
to burn in the electric chair. Jack
son was defended by F. w. A. Fire
man, local I. L. D. attorney.
Jackson was sentenced for the kill
ing Of Philip Windecker of this city
although he was never identified as
the man alleged to have fired the
shot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
c. w. A. Recruits Slave
Labor TOR Peonage Camps
Forces Workers Off
List to Work at "a
Cents an Hour
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Dec. u. - The
Civil Works Administration has be-
come a recruiting station for slave
labor for private industry.
Administrators of the C.W.A. are
cooperating to prevent escape from
the peonage camps of the southern
lumber industry. They are sending
C.W.A. applicants to contractors in
the District Of Columbia to work fol-
wages less than those provided on
C.W.A. projects.
C.W.A. at Disposal of Lumber Barons
A letter sent out today by the
Southern Pine Association tells the
story. 1t quoted a letter from H. j.
Early, Federal C.WA. Administrator
for Louisiana, saying that If any en-
ployer informs local C.W.A. author
tiles that he is willing to take on
workers at "steady"-not permanent
not for a stipulated living wage-the
local G. w. A. administrator 'fs not
only authorized, but directed, to in
form such persons of the employ
ment and to accordingly drop their
names from Civil Works employment
rolls
"A portion of q (C.W.A.) job. or
the entire project" EarIy's letter
adds. may be shut down to make
labor available for regular employ
ment or even temporary employ
ment."
This is obviously maneuver by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
FEARS $4,000 WORKERS
WILL OPPOSE OPEN SHOP
AFTER MIRA. BROKE STRIKE
AFL Leaders Helped
NRA, Bosses to
Betray Men
Strikers Were Told
They Could Choose
Representatives

PITTSBURGH, Dec. IL. -
Fourteen thousand steel work
ers Of the Weirtou Steel Co. in
West Virginia and Ohio were
told yesterday that all the
promises made to them by the
N. R. A. to end their strike on Oct. 16
are not worth the paper they arc
written on.
Ernest T. Weir, chairman OF the
company, announced that the prom
Use to hold elections and give the
workers the right to elect their own
representatives would be rejected.
He declares the N. r. A. guarantees
the open shop and company union.
In the latter part of September
for the first time in 20 years, $4,000
steel workers of the Weirton Steel
Co. went on strike demanding union
recognition and higher wages.
The men put up militant strike
and were in a position TO win. The
strike was led by the Amalgamated
Association Of Steel, Tin and Wire
Workers, affiliated to the A. F. OF L.
The strike leaders urged the men to
refrain from picketing, and finally.
after negotiations with President
Weir, Senator Wagner, William
Green and other N. r. A. officials,
ordered the men to return to work,
with the promise that the N. r. A.
would grant them the right to hold
elections in the second week in De-
cember.
Strikebreaking Agreement
The terms of the agreement
through which the men we're driven
back to work when victory was in
their grasp was signed by Mr.. Weir,
Senator Wagner and William J.
Long Of the A. A.
The steel company officials and
the N. r. a. administrators knew
that this was trick to break the
strike, and would be followed by pre-
cisely Just such action as is now
taking place.
A. A. officials, likewise, knew that
they were betraying the strike.
As a result Of the breaking OF tbs
strike, $500 Of the most active strike
militants lost their jobs. The rest
are now being forced into COM
pany union.
In Washington, the N. r. A. off,
Gals are seeking to cover their Shiny
methods of breaking the strike BY
threatening court action against Weir
to force an election. But the steel
bosses smile confidently, knowing
that this is so much hog wash for
public consumption and to keep other
workers from realizing the methods
OF N. r. A. strikebreaking. (See edi-
torial on editorial page)