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Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

+ INDER the authority granted him
- by congress the President has or
dered Is per cent cut In the nav of
all federal employees. effective April /.
The order affects the employees In all
departments including officers and en-
listed men In the army and navy, Post
Office department, and all Others ON
the government pay rolls, total of
approximately 100000
The authority given by congress
provided for such cut as reduced liy-
Ing expenses might warrant up to a
total OF 15 per cent An investigation
OF living costs made by the Depart
ment OF Labor showed decrease from
June 30 OF last year to the present
time OF 21.7 per cent On the strength
OF that report the President ordered
the cut In pay to the limit OF that al
lowed by the terms of the economy
law. 1t Is estimated the saving to the
government will be approximately
$125, 900 annually.
FEDERAL regulation OF new stock
: and bond issues is proposed by the
President He asks the passage of leg
islation that win require the organic
err. promoters, and sellers OF the is-
sues to submit for public information
complete financial statement con-
corning the stocks and bonds offered.
The proposed law would provide
that full information be given on ev-
cry prospectus Offering securities for
public sale. and similar information
be made available at other sources.
Bonuses and commissions paid to
sellers would also be revealed to the
public
No serious objection to the terms
OF the bin IL expected In either the
house or the senate.
9. Isss. wsstsrn Nsw.psp~r Uas~~.
Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

DlRECTOR of the Budget Lewis W.
Douglas has completed the task
OF revising the payment to veterans
under the terms Of the economy bill
giving the President dictatorial powers
Tor such revision This revision elimi-
mates from the pension rolls all vet
erans with non-service disabilities. and
reduces the payments to those with
service disabilities by approximately
10 per cent. the same percentage OF
reduction as that made In the wages
or government employees.
The economies that either have been
or are expected to be. effected cover
the reduction of 15 per cent In the
wages OF all government employees
made by the President: reduction In
veterans benefits and administration
how made; reorganization of the de-
partments and bureaus In the admin
isfrative branch OF the government.
for which the President has author
fty, and on which he is now working.
postal service economies, now being
considered. When all have been COM
piefed the following savings win have
been effected:
Veterans. benefits and ad-
:, mlnistrafion ---.-.-.---. $780, 100000
Reorganization of admins
tive branch of the govern
ment. including abolition
OF functions zsf ann ana
Reduction In the pay of
government employees les nno nan
Postal service economies. $4,000 0o0
Aolai .-ss...@-.s-.- $3.50 900 600
Among the new expenditures that
will offset these savings is the appro-
priation OF FIVE hundred million dol
lars as a gift to the states to be used
for unemployment relief. and the re-
plan of the President which
congress has authorized. and which
Involves an expenditure of not less
than two hundred million dollars.
Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

PROGRESS Of the farm relief bill In
the senate has been slow. Sena-
forlal dignity would not permit of the
speeding up of the ponderoHs machin-
cry OF the upper house regardless of
the plea OF Secretary OF Agriculture
Wallace for speed and for the passage
OIL the bill as originally written by the
PRESIDENT and his advisors. There lust
mad to be hearings on the bin and
everybody, for and against, must have
q chance to talk. and they have talked.
At this writing 1t seems that "a"
Dill will eventually pass but whether
It Will be the bill that passed the
house, and Is acceptable to the admin
iStration. or whether 1t viii be SO rad
ically changed as to be unrecognized
ny Its proponents, or unacceptable at
the White House. Is for the future to
reveal.
Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

NHE efforts OF European nations to
cancel or greatly reduce the war
dehfs owed to the United States are
rn- and 1t Is said President Roosevelt
Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

M EXICAN Communists object to
- Josephus Daniels as American
ambassador at Mexico City. Posters
captioned "Out with Daniels" have
appeared on walls In the capital. They
call him "the murderer of Azueta and
Tribe" These men were Mexfcans
who were killed In the fighting when
United States forces landed at Vera
Cruz in 1914 At that time Mr. DAN
iels was secretary OF the navy.
Plentywood herald., 1933-04-06

reveal.
EARM relief In other directions
moved along more rapidly. The
proposal for refinancing farm mort.
cages has taken form and the propo-
sition Is for the selling of farm mort
gage bonds to the extent Of from nine
TO ten billion dollars on which the
government will guarantee the inter
est, but not the principal. 1t is ex-
nected the governments guarantee of
interest will make the bonds market
able at comparatively low interest
rate.
Farm leaders have urged a govern
ment guarantee of the principal on
such q bond issue, but such guar
antee would make them a direct oh1t-
CATION OF the government. and mean
simply an increase In the national debt
OF nine or ten billion dollars. Omar
anteeing the interest only means that
should there be a complete default
on the part Of the farmers. which is
never probable, the treasury would
have from three hundred to four hun
dred million dollars to pay annually
until the bonds had matured.
HERE is a growing belief In Wash
: lngton that the budget will not be
balanced during the next fiscal year
beginning July /. regardless OF the
economies made by cutting the paw OF
government employees, reorganization
Of bureaus and departments, and re-
auctions In payments to veterans.
amounting TO an expected total of
some seven hundred millions, and re-
sardless OF an added revenue from the
ak on beer, estimated at about one
lundred and fifty million.
The relief grant Of five hundred mil
ions provided for In bill now before
congress, and the two hundred millions
or the reforestation plans, will alone
Inset the economies. 1t is probable
nat the more ambitious plans of the
resident will be financed through new
'ond issues, but there will be increased
interest charges and sinking fund to
'rovide for which will run into hum
reds OF millions annually.
Along with these things tax Yields
re falling short of estimates because of
ne continued prostratlon of business.
1--WE hundred million dollars to be |
provided by the federal govern |
nent and distributed as unemploy-
lent relief by the states Is called for /
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
INsTALLMENT EIGHTEEN
NEustrattons bH PhiLip Wolfe

spudS He was the only one of the
gang who understood Russian.
'You don't mean to say you had a
girl?" asked Stanley.
did ~" The Polack let 'em guess
awhile. Finally, when he had washed
down some chow, he sat back like q
hero and spun his yarn:
"You know that park on the other
side Of the club there? Well, T was
strolling around there, watching the
people. There was some fellerS there
playing the balalaika, and girls we're
dancing; yeah, right out there in the
park, and some of them were making
love and all that. Boy, was jealousl
Finally, I walked as far as the rub
Der factory on the other side of the
wooden bridge. One shift was COM
ing out. The factories work day and
night here, you know. Well, a bunch
Of girls were standing there, and one
of them noticed my white duck
pants and started kidding. I goes
over and starts talking to them. They
asked me about the States, what's
going on there and all that, and
boy, they knew more about it than
I did. After a while, I walked two
of them home"
Stanley moaned. "Man, two Of
them!"
pretty soon one went up one street
and walked the other one home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
BY RICHARD BROWN

Do the workers of New York know
that Sept. will see the opening OF
the Harlem Workers School at 200
West 135th Street? On that day
Williana j. Burroughs, director OF
the school, veteran leader in the
Negroes fight against discrimination
and the Scottsboro frame-up, and
Communist candidate for Comp
troller of New York City, will greet
the worker students from all sections
of Harlem and assist them in regis
tering and choosing courses in their
own proletarian school. On that day,
too, Harlem will add to her growing
roster of vital organizations the name
Of the Harlem Workers School,
Several months Of hard work have
gone into the making of this school
With little funds, but with much
more fire and determination, the
Friends of the Workers School and
the Harlem branches of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense decided to add
this much-delayed, yet needed sword
Of the class struggle to the weapons
of the city's proletariat.
The school now becomes reality.
But now also its work begins. For
the life, the activities, the crowds that
will eagerly fill it's classrooms-in
short for it's actual successful will
depend on the workers themselves in
popularizing it. The school admin
istration, with it's fine record Of
achievement in the downtown branch
OF the Workers School, and its assur-
ance that it will send its finest in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
MOSCOW AND ME
A Noted American Writer Relates His Experiences

busy part of Gorky Street. Moscow's
black residents are we'll woven into
the life Of this big proletarian city,
and they are received as comrades.
AS for me, I've had a swell time
I've spoken at demonstrations, read
poems at workers clubs, met lots Of
poets and writer's and artists and ac-
tors, attended all the leading thea
tres from the Opera to Ohlopkov's
Realistic Theatre where the stage is
all round the audience and you sit
in the middle. I've seen the finest
Gaugin'S and Cezanne's in the world,
have eaten soup with the Red Army,
danced with the Gypsies, and lived
excitingly well, and have done great
deal of writing
I shall go back to America just
as clean (there is soap here), just as
fat (and food, Just as safe and sound
land the GP.UO as I was when I
left New York. And once there, I'm
thinking that III probably be home
sick for Moscow. There's an old Ne
gro song that says:
'FYou never miss the water till the
well runs dry" Those who ought to
know, tell me that you never really
appreciate Moscow until you get back
again to the land of the bread lines,
unemployment, Jim Grow cars and
crooked politicians, brutal bankers
and overbearing police, three per cent
beer and the Scottsboro case.
Well, the Russian workers and
peasants were awfully patient with
the Tsar, but when they got rid of
him-they really got rid of him. Now
they have right to be proud Of
their red flags flying over the Krem-
lin. They put them there. And don't
let anybody in America kid you into
believing what with talking about
lack of soap and toilet paper and food
and the G.P.U., that Moscow isn't
the greatest city in the world today
Athens used to be. Then Rome. AND
more recently, Paris. Now they'll put
YOU in jail in Alabama for even men
tioning Moscow That's one way Of
recognizing its leadership
THE END
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
By Langston Hughes

ordinary citizens and simple workers
anxious to offer to strangers their
comradely help and extend their SER
vices as hosts of the city. So in spite
of the entirely new routine of life
which Moscow offers 1t does not take
one long to feel at home.
OF course, there is the room prob
lem, for the city is the most over
crowded in the world. A foreigner
coming to Moscow (unless as a tour
ist) should really bring room with
him. The great Eisenstein, maker of
marvellous movies, lives In only one
room. In spite of hundreds of new
apartments that have been built, the
growth of housing has not been able
to keep up with the growth of the
populace. A Moscow apartment is as
crowded as a Harlem flat at the
height of the great Negro migration
from the South. Yet, with all their
own housing difficulties, the Musco-
vite can listen patiently to irate for
eign workers who are indignant at
not Immediately receiving on arrival
three room apartment with kitch-
enette and bath.
THE Negroes whom I know in Mos
COW are all housed comfortably
and are not as much given to COM
plants as certain other nationalities
who come to the workers capital
with greater superiority complex
as to their world Importance. The
colored people in Moscow move easily
in Russian circles, are well received,
and cordially welcomed in private
homes, in workers clubs, and at DEM
onstrations. There are always dark
faces in the tremendous May Day
demonstrations that move for hours
through the Red Square. A great
many Negroes took part in the gigan-
tic Scottsboro Demonstration in the
summer Of 1882 at the Park of Rest
and Culture. The pictures of Negro
workers are often displayed in the
windows Of shops on the main Mos
COW streets. During the recent May
holidays there was huge picture of
Robinson, the colored udarnik at the
Ball Bearing Plant, on display in a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

She was a peach, just my size, with
nice healthy red cheeks. And neatly
dressed, tool"
Yeah, 20 on" urged Stanley "U1is
is getting hot!"
"Well, let me tell you one thing.
She was only a factory girl, but she
was better educated than any kind
Of girl I ever met in the States. She
could talk about anything: politics,
economics, conditions on ships, re-
ligion, marriage, anythingl"
Yeah, and what else could she
do?" urged Stanley.
Eyes, she could Do that, too" re-
piled the Po1ack," and knew how to
take care Of herself, tool"
"Was she clean?" asked Stanley.
He couldn't hear enough details.
Eyes, she was, and had to be
too, or she would have nothing to
do with me-"
"What was her name9" threw in
Eddie.
"Sonya."
Stanley sighed. Don't that listen
good, mani You going to see her
again tonight?"
IT sure am! You know fellers, I
think I'd like to stay in this country
for goodp
CONTINUED TOMORROW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

SCuueHt IL Plus, He tries "literatoor."
a swell compli-
ment, for a theme entitled American
Cinema: Bourgeois Art" $4,000
to Camera for one weeks work in
"Prizefghter and The Lady,"
Lii Harvey is pro-Hitler and adver-
tises the fact in a recent newsreel. /.
Paul Mum will be funny in his next
one. Variety admits bribery,
graft, and a host Of other items" as
some of Hollywood's less distinguished
characteristics. :. I'm looking for
ward to Metros forthcoming Dead
Policeman" And what do you
think of title like pink Chemise"2
+. A local reviewer thinks that
Peramount's This Day and Age" is
"a highly improbable and fantastic
story" but goes on to praise the rib
bon because "lSids all the way up to
the adolescent stage will picture
themselves the heroes they probably
feel they'd like to be-" :.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
TOD AVS FIJI MS
Moonlight and PretseIs"
Falls BeIoU Musical Comedy
Film Standard

You either like musical comedy
films or you don't. I don't. But this
Is not even up to the usual standard
of such films. The musical numbers
and the dance routines are ordinary
although at times entertaining. There
is a story but it is the usual one
about the romance of Woodworking
song writer and girl There are the
usual struggles with angels" and
some hot singing. But even our mu-
steal comedies are going political. The
film closes with a depression" tab
leau with group of unemployed
pathetically singing about "dusty
shoes" 1t ends up with Roosevelt
ballyhoo and New Deal stuff about
100000 men going back to work, etc.
etc. And then they bawl me out for
being too hard on these films
Well, here is film not made in
Hollywood, but made right here in
New York City. Geographically New
York may be 5000 miles away from
Hollywood but not Il hate to use this
world fllmicly.
One would have expected a good
Photographic job from the man who
did such splendid photography on
Variety" and the Last Laugh" But
now that Karl Freund has graduated
to director he gives us a second
rate musical film and a third rate
piece of camera work.
II Il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
Workers of Harlem to Haze
OVn School; Opens Sept. 4th

structors to the institution uptown
will take care of the rest.
It is therefore our duty to see that
the name and purpose of the School
will reach every section OF the city
so that all workers, residents OF Har-
lem eager to equip themselves WIN
scientific knowledge Of the class
struggle. may find it the source OF
information and equipment they have
long wanted.
with this assured, we can be GER
tain t it will stand in the very
cente" c. ! the struggles Of the
Negro and LIS Jin-Amerlcan for lber-
ation from Jim Crowis.n and ruthless
exploitation. 1t will stend there SOL
idly as a DYNAMO of tested theory,
Analysis and fact for the inquiring
studer arr the veteran fighters OF
the workers vanguard.
The following are some OF the
courses that will be given: Current
Problems of the Negro Liberation
Movement; Revolutionary Traditions
of the Negro Peoples; English, both
elementary and advanced; Marxism-
Leninism; Public Speaking; Funda-
mentals of the Glass Struggle, etc.
Tuition fees will be So a course.
Students sent by workers organiza-
lions will pay only 81. Those unable
to meet part or all of the tuition will
be aided accordingly.
Contributions, as well as books on
the Negroes and Latin-Americans
and their problems, are earnestly
solicited, and may be sent to the
Harlem Workers School, 200 West
135th Street, New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
BY EDWIN RoLFE.

This is a neighborhood paper some
what similar to the Greensboro
Voice. In its pages the many local
jobleSs and strike struggles find ex-
preston and editorial comment. Pub
lished for long time in mimeo-
graphed form under the name of
1.-THE Voice of Boro Park" the edi-
tors found it necessary to expand
both in size and in the localities
covered. Hence the new name and
the larger, printed formal.
Although It still has far to go be-
fore it can adequately treat the many
aspects of workers struggles in the
neighborhood, 1.-THE Voice of West
End" nevertheless shows indications
of becoming lively as well as local
ly-important paper.
The present issue covers several
local strikes and relief and eviction
battles. 1t devotes a solid section
Of its four small pages TO workers
correspondence. 1t announces meet
ings and election rallies to be held
under the auspices Of local mass
and fraternal organizations. 1t has
made beginning in covering the
news of youth and children's clubs.
All of these activities should receive
clearer and better treatment as the
editors of the ''Voice" gain expert
ence. But the start on the road to
good paper is clear, is unmistak-
able.
1t is encouraging to find in the
present issue cartoon on "Tammany
Law and Order Upheld" which really
hits the mark, SO far as backward
workers are concerned. Its inclusion
in the issue reveals an understanding
on the part of the editors of their
major job-which is to attract those
workers who have not yet become
part of any Of the various local Or
CARNATIONS.
The Voice" should grow steadily
in prestige and quality. And it will,
If local groups take seriously the con-
ference at the Bath Beach Workers
Club, 81 Bay 25th ST., tomorrow at
10 am. The editorial board calls
on organizations of Bay Ridge, Boro
Park, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst,
Coney Island, Brighton and Flatbush
to send two delegates each to this
important conference, which will at
tempt to coordinate the news with
the growth of local workers organ
izations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
IDe Mile BorrOWs Literally
From SoDiet Cinema in
"This DaY and Age"

Cecil B. DeMille, the most fastidious
elassicist and biblical historian in
HOLLYWOOD, paid visit to the Soviet
Union some time ago. He must have
leen number Of pictures there and
WAS impressed" He also saw that
German film of Fritz Lang, IN" After
making Sign of the Cross" De Mile
decided that 1t was about time he did
lomething contemporary. So he got
lid of all his tiled bathrooms and
lunken bathtubs. Then he discarded
LII the sexy ladies. He rounded up all
The younger generation Of southern
IEalifornia-some of them related to
famous movie stars. Here he had the
Youth of America = clean, strong,
brave, and idealistic. The latest con-
temporary theme he could find around
Hollywood was. the racketeering prob
en@ OF course no there has heard of
,he Erisis That's how This Day
nd Age" was born.
NE film shows how mob of high
lchool students form an extra-legal
roup to clean the town Of racketeers
litter the corrupt police fail to do so.
However, the picture implies that the
bolice and the Judge and the district
Attorney are honest and sincere but
ahey cannot do thing because of the
system" The film, however, does
hot make any effort to say what
Hystem.
While it is true that the story is
hull Of illogical and absurd situations,
Ind the legal portions of the film
Antirely cock-eyed, This Day and
Age" is a dangerous motion picture.
Although the film talks about gang
tiers and corrupt politics, it indirectly
Duggests that these patriotic and up
igJt young citizens organize into
l'a1cist mobs. And we mustn't under
s mate the influence OF. this film,
o,y with all its hokum, it is skillfully
md effectively produced. De Mile
nows his business.
The director, as I've indicated be-
lore, has made an attempt to trans
liant what he thinks is the Soviet
1ethod of handling mob scenes. Also,
is imitation of the trial SCENE from
mr. is pretty raw--even for Holly
Food director. IRVING LERNER.