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The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Eichheim Number Ball. Listed
On Stokowski's Program

Ball." by Hichheim, and dedi-
Gated to Mr.. StokowSki by the
composer, will follow and the final
number will be from Tristan und
Isolde, "Liebesnacht," by Wagner.
Eichheim's Oriental music was
introduced to local audiences re-
Gently by the National Symphony.
Bali" which is dedicated to DR..
Stokowski, is scored for full
orchestra and native instruments,
including the bonang, gender,
Saron and demong.
The final work to be presented
on the program is the "Liebes-
nacht," from Tristan und
Isolde" a Stokowski favorite al
ways popular with local music
lovers,
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
MANY MUSICAL EVENTS OF INTEREST SCHEDULED FOR CAPITAL
yehu udi Menuhin
To PLAY Here

Yehudi Menuhin, American boy
genius of the violin, will be
heard at Constitution Hall with
the Philadelphia Orchestra on
February 13, under the manage
ment of T. Arthur Smith Blu
reau. His annual coast-to-ccast
tour includes concerts in some
of the leading cities of America.
Yehudi will open his 1934-35
season in New York with two
appearances as soloist with the
New York Philharmonic-Sym-
phony Orchestra by special invi
tation of the great conductor
Toscanini, who wishes him to
play the Beethoven violin con
certo in a cycle of that immor
tai masters works. These con-
certs on January 1S and 10,
1884, make a double celebration
of Yehudi'S seventeenth birthday.
two days later.
In addition, he will make
three appearances as Soloist in
Philadelphia with the Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra, and
two concerts with this organiza,
ton, respectively in Baltimore
and Washington. In this city
Yehudi will play three great
concerts, by Bach, Mendelssohn
and Beethoven. with the orches-
ira accompanying.
Tickets. are now on sale for
the February 13 concert.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Capital To Hear
Rose Bampton
Next Week

Rose hampton, the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company'S brilliant
young contralto,. will appear as
soloist with the National Sym
phony Orchestra on next Thurs
days program in Constitution
Hall. It will be her local debut.
For such an unusual voice,
Conductor Hans Kinder has ar
ranged a program equally un-
usual, combining delicate OLD
ballet music transcribed for a
modern orchestra. some little
heard Debussy, the dramatic
music of Tschaikowsky and Rich
ard Strauss spirited waltzes.
The program follows: Suite
from the Ballet, "Cephale ct
Procris" (Gretry-MottD; aria from
"Cenerentola" (RossinD, Rose
hampton; Francesca da Rimini"
(Tschaikowsky); "Sara ga n d e"
CDebussy-RaveD Air de Lila, from
"L'Enfant Prologue" (DebuSSy 4.
Rose hampton; waltzes from Der
Rosenkavalier" (StrauSs).
Mottl arranged the Gluck music
which Kinder presented with such
success last season. The gay
waltzes from Strauss comic opera,
"Rosenkavalier" we're played last
year at one of the Sunday pop"
concerts.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

del Lewis will be given at 4:45 this
afternoon at Wardman Park Thea
ter. under the patronage of the
Chinese Minister, DR.. Sao-Ke Al
fred SEE. The program will be en-
tirely different from that given
Wednesday evening, and will in
clude ancient types, and discussion
of the life and thought of the
Chinese people as revealed in their
music.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08

Announcement comes from the
offices of T. Arthur Smith Con-
cert Bureau that there will be
a change in the program for the
concert by the Philadelphia Or
chestra on Tuesday evening, De-
cember 10, at Constitution Hall,
with Leopold Stokowski conduct
ing.
The Oilers symphony lila
Nourmoretz will be replaced with
a Mozart Symphony in G Minor.
The opening number is by GIuck,
Air Cal Lente," Reigen am
Geister," "Mhsette," and Air Cal
Sicilienne." This will be followed
by the Mozart Symphony in G
Minor, The number entitled
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Zero Weather Heads
For Chicago District

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 Q.N.SO.
On the wings of frigid Arctic
blasts, Chicago and most portions
of the Middle West today pre-
pared for the bitterest cold wave
of the season. Zero weather that
settled in North Dakota, Mime
sofa, and Wisconsin was expected
to reach Chicago before nightfall.
Winnipeg reported 16 degrees be-
low zero this morning.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Virginia PWA Funds
Ne1rLv Double Quota

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 8.-The
State of Virginia has been allotted
1872 per cent of the amount fixed
tentatively as the States share in
The vast ,300,000,0O0 public
works program, it has been
learned here.
This does not mean, it is said,
that future applications from Vir-
ginia will be turned down, but that
there will be a little more dis
elimination.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
PLAY
To Be Given
At Church

Katherine Riggs, washington
concert harpist and director Of
music for the annual presenta-
tions of the impressive Capital
City Christmas G-ama, "The other
Wise Man." will be heard in a COL
orful succession of oriental musi-
cal numbers throughout the epi-
sodes and interludes of this ap-
pealing Yuletide festival presen-
tation, which will be given as is
the custom at Luther Place Me-
mortal Church December 81, %
and 20, at half past 8 o'clock in
the evening.
Each year, the musical portions
Of this dramatized version Of the
Van Dyke dream legend become
more important, and additional
singers take part in the simple
but impressive episodes that make
up the story. Mary Apple, Wash
ington contralto, and Christine
Irish, Washington soprano, will
appear this season in the roles Of
the Hebrew mother and the beg
gar at the temple gates, reSpec-
lively. Judy Lyeth will, for the
ninth consecutive season, assume
her role of the Parthian slave
girl, while the Three Wise Men
will be sung by Jesse Veitch, tenor;
Charles Whitten, baritone, and
Eugene Kressin, basso. Charles
Whitten will also be heard in two
authentic Hebrew temple num-
hers, and will lead a double quar-
tet Of singers in the old Hebrew
number "On the Way" which
leads up to the climax Of the
drama.
"The other Wies Man" is pre-
sented under the auspices of the
Chapel Players of Washington,
and under the direction of Bess
Davis Schreiner, who, in 1925,
made the dramatic version used
ever since in this city.
Navy Orchestra
The U. S. Navy Band Orchestra,
Lieut.. Charles Benter conducting,
will play symphonic concert at
the sail loft, Navy Yard, Monday
evening at 8 o'clock. .
The soloist on this program will
be Musician William Cameron,
who will play Ravel's "Introduc-
ton and Allegro" solo for harp
with orchestra accompaniment.
This work, a splendid example of
Ravel's style, is considered one of
the most difficult numbers for
harp. Other numbers on this pro-
gram are BeethoveA's Fifth SYM
phony" and the overture to Wag.
ner's '"Tannhauser."
Music of China
The second concert lecture on
ANaa Voo11ein ~ Thi1oo fv I0hn EoZn.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
SIX JOIN HOWARD FRAT

Six PLEDGES have been inducted
into the Alpha Chapter of the
omega Psi Phi Fraternity Of
Howard University. The n ew
members are Charles Wilkinson,
Waldo Scott, Jack Carey, Fred
erick Weavor, Emmett Harmon
and Lincoln, Shumate.
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Memorial Concert

The fourth memorial concert at
the Washington Memorial Park,
on Riggs Road, will be given Sun
day, from 3 to 4:30 p. M, by
Edith B. Athey, Crganist of Ham
line Church, assisted by John
Murphy, tenor Soloist of the same
church. The public is cordially
iovitnd
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Christmas Music

Gertrude Lyons Classe de Chant
Trio, Margaret Mueller second So
prano, Maud S. Robie Contralto,
and Gertrude Lyons soprano and
director, with Marian Bate Myers,
accompanist, will give a program
of Christmas carols at the Christ
mas party of the District chapter
of the U. S. Daughters of 1872
next Thursday evening, and Maria
Veronica Nolte will sing group
of song classics
The Washington times., 1933-12-08
Music Of China

The second concert lecture on
The music Of China by John Haze
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
CWA Men Waiting
for 5 Day Salaries
Iron Town Men Fired
Till Things Move
Better

VIRGINIA, Minn-C. w. A. work
ers on the Mesaba Iron Range here
have worked only two to five days
since installation of the projects, have
been cut off relief on this excuse and
are being kept waiting weeks for
their wages.
In Virginia the C. w. A. worked
two days and then we're laid off in
definitely ON the excuse the foremen
have to go to school to learn how TO
clear the woods.
In Embarrass, small farming
community, the men worked two to
five days on a c. w. A. project, and
were laid off in order for the Off
Gals to get things moving better
After the men were put into the c.
w. A. their families were inmedi-
ately cut off relief. Farmers here
have waited more than two weeks
for the resumption Of their G. w. a.
jobs.
Workers in Cook did only fi7e days
on the G. w. A. projects. were laid
off. asked to re-register and are still
waiting fer their five days pay
checks. In Chisholm the men did
five days on the c. w. A. and were
laid off. In Argo Township and
Waasa the men were Informed to go
to work and then were laid of.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Small Farmers Income Cut Through Price
Increases in Fertilizer, Manufactured
Goods They Have to Buy

The policy of crop and acreage re-
duction is the core of the agricultural
program OF the New Deal. Most OF
the farmers ills are attributed by Mfr
Wallace to the large 'sllsplu3es' 0;
various farm commodities. These sur
pluses, he explains. arc 8 result OF
the reduced agricultural exports which
fell from about l6 per cent OF the
total production In 1920 70 about Z
per cent last year. Yet he admits
that agricultural difficulties result in
part from production in excess CT
consumers needs ard In part from
under consumption" The policy OF
crop reduction should result in vim
ing out the large cs-ry-overs and IN
q rise Of prices in accordance with
the law Of supply and demand. This
is the basic tenet of Mr.. Wallace's
economics. But he is also mindful OF
the fact that higher prices trend to
decrease the domestic demand ard
thus agaravate the condition OF
er-consumption:
prices fixed too high tend to
stimulate production While restrict
ing consumption and thus defeat
the object in view"
Without attempting to reconcile this
contradiction he harps on reduced
production ''as an emergency relief
measure though admitting that "the
ultimate solution requires an increase
in consumption" 1t is around this
program of reducing production that
the policy of the Roosevelt admins
tration revol,es. The processing tax,
the various price bonuses on sgri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20

cultural products and the schemes
Offered for re-financing the farm
debts are all based on the acceptance
by the farmers OF the crop reducing
program OF the A. a. 4.
Moo. CT the "suceesscs' boosted Of
| BY the Secretary OF Agriculture are ia
the direction OF reducing production.
decreasing acreage under cultivation
and actual destruction OF millions OF
acres of planted cotton. With the air
OF a concuering hero returning from
the field Of battle. lSr. Wallace re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Jobless Convention to Take Up C.W.A.

Unemployed workers seeking C. A jobs
those working W. write Daily
from all Of the country These letters which
the accompanying article
below the general
get relief, and that millions seeking
The Worker
mpraton is important of the for
convention against unemployment be held Washington
Jan 49, The national
national for the c. W.
all the the
for the Workers Unemployment Bill
Of the c. w. A. workers
Intensity preparations
employment Elect delegates from all
fight OF all workers against unemployment
for all workers Demand the Workers
Hold meeting OF A. to
demands grievances to the c ". A..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
~ n. BUCHwALD

The Secretary Of Agriculture makes
no bones about tho fact that the con-
sumers carry the full burden OF the
increase In farm prices:
1T is expected that these taxes
(processing) in the main will be
passed on to the consumer"
And again:
Giving farm commodities gen.
orally a purchasing power in terms
OF other goods equal to that which
they had before the war, may
involve higher prices to the con-
Suners."
Mr.. Wallace justifies this added
burden upon the consumer on both
ethical and economic grounds. The
farmer has had the worse OF it dur
ing the years of the depression, and
it is only fair that the urban COM
munity' chip in to help out the poor
farmer. On the other hand, the i'm
proved economic condition of the
rural community" will be stimulus
to business generally and will result
in more employment.
In word
Everyone has an interest in
paying the farmer fair prices, in
putting agriculture back on its feet"
But this plea to help the poor
farmer is actually a plea for the
profiteer. Mr.. wallace cannot sup
port the contention that the farmer
is the real beneficiary Of the increase
in the cost Of living. On the con-
trary, he is forced to admit that while
farm prices rose AZ per cent between
March and October. the purchasing
power of the farmer rose only from
40 per cent OF the pre-war level to 60
per cent, At the same time the prices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Rising Food Prices Aid Only Profeers Farmers Workers Hit


| of commodities the farmers buy rose
II per cent and are 119 per cent of
the pre-war level. He cannot sup
press the fact that.
apart Of the consumers, dollar
goas now m s,,nnort wastefuI and
1,nnecessarv con1netition dun,ica-
tion If selling eynanso needIess
nulti,,l,cty IF so-called sary;csr 10
the Consumers drbious credit ar
,.,noen,ents ara yar,ons ,,netbir,l
,,raeticern
Wnac part U we coiisuliers oo'idr
- mus uAYerteo W ole golfers Oh
.he prolieeer, Ciie secretary Oh Agri-
Vuleure goes ioe seace' pu1 we nave
seen ~ tlle case oi tiie MILK oistrlpuo-
ilie il'ohopohes ti'at olc o. the con-
suinerS ooliar goes 10 the oistrloutors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Mass. Silk Local of
400 Votes to Break
Away from A. FL.


NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Dec. 49,
Silk Workers of the College Weavers,
who were organized into the United
Textile Workers Union following a
strike last March. voted to Withdraw
from the A. F. of L. union and re-
turn their charter to the national
office, at membership meeting last
Friday night. There are about 200
members in the local.
The action was taken after Ann
Buriak, national secretary of the
National Textile Workers Union,
had spoken on the treacheroUs &C.
Invites OF the U. T. w. in recent
strike struggles.
The workers Of College Weavers
have had their own bitter expert
ences with the U. T. w. officials,
both in the strike last March when
they might have won substantial in
creases but received only five per
cent increase through the work of
Organizer White, and also in their
second strike last September. In the
latter strike they were ordered back
to work by U. T. w. officials and
their case was turned over to the
Cotton Textile State Industrial Re-
lations Board set up by the N. r. A.
The Board handed down a decision
giving no concessions at all to the
workers.
At their meeting on Friday the
local voted to function independently
temporarily until they read and dis
cl,ss the constitution Of the National
Textile Workers Union. A special
meeting on the aims and purposes
Of the II. T. w. is to be called for
this purpose. TO which Ann Burlak
has been invited
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20

/ concede the ultimate failure of infia
ton as an aid to the farmers:
TT is we'll to bear In mind the
probability that the favorabls in
fluence OF our moneary policy or
the prices OF cotton and wheat may
not continue If foreign countrie1
reduce the weight Of gold behino
their currencies as rapidly as we
do"
Farmers Know All About II
The admissions Of failure contained
in the report OF the Secretary Of Agri-
culture, the facts revealing the true
beneflciarieS of the A.A.A.. the fig
iire5 proving inst the condition OF the
farmers today has not improved and
has become worse under the New
Deal,---all this may be shocking news
to some innocent souls who have been
duped by the New Deal propaganda
For the mass OF poor farmers there
is nothing new in this report. OF
their bitter plight they know from
their own bitter experience. The true
meaning Of the New Deal has come
to them in terms of cvictions, fore
closures, starvation incomes, mount
ing costs Of living. While the New
Deal offers them no better hope for
the future than q set OF exploded
phrases, the farmers are beginning TO
Seek q way OF their own, the way OF
revolutionary Tight against the sys-
TEN which breeds unemployment and
ruin. The revolt of the farmers Is
more than mere opposition to this or
that policy OF the present adrninistra-
ton. 1t IS becoming more and more
9 revolt against the whole profit sys
tenn. Therein lies the only nope OF
the masses OF poor farmers, therein
lies the mortal danger to the profit
system which the prophets Of the New
Deal seek to save and perpetust..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20

TO be about the same as in 1888" He
admits that some farmers, notably
the beef-cattle men, lost purchasing
power between March and October. =
BY his own admissions. Mr.. Wallace
establishes the, complete failure of the
A.A.A. as an emergency measure. -
And since the AA.A. is closely linked
with the NR.A., the failure Of the
New Deal as whole is thus estab-
lished.
Painting Gloomy Outlook
Despite all the ballyhoo which he
himself INDUCES in on behalf Of the
New Deal, Mfr wallace cannot help
admitting the unfavorable outlook. at
best---the muddled uncertainty OF the
future. Here are some OF his state
ments:
"Ihs economic conditions and re-
trioted domestic demand may not
change for the better quickly.
"Industyiallzation and the rush to
the cities may have gone too far.
We may be entering prolonged
period Of urban unemployment.
Capitalization in huge plants
appears to haYe gone too far.
1t may be necessary to modify our
former ideal of 3 highly efficient
commercial agriculture. and to
facilitate so-called subsistence
farming"
Mr.. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agr.-
culture has the courage CT calling
a spade spade by designing the
policy Of the administration
as controlled initiation" OF 5innply
Initiation He asserts that imitation
"lightens eech farmers debt and tax
burden in proportion to the extent
that it raises the prices of the prod
ucts.' But also here he is forced TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Oppose Democratic
Election in Chicago
HGWU Dress Local
Union Now Has 5000
Members; Opposition
Fights Wage Cuts
BY a DresSrs1aker

CHICAGO, Ill.-With the blessing
of the N. r. A., the international
Ladies Garment Workers now has
union Of dreSsmakerS in Chicago num-
bering five thousand. Prior to the
arrival Of the Blue Eagle the Interns-
tional consisted Of the remnants of
the machine left from the breakup of
the union in 1925
The leadership of the dress strike
last Fall was in the hands of the old
timers" and it was their tactics that
we're used. No striker was permitted
to ask questions or speak on the con-
duct Of the strike. The same tactics
we're used in ratifying the agreement
arrived at between the bosses and
these odd timers: it could not be
challenged by the strikers.
That is why our agreement accepts
the classification Of the Sub skilled, I"
which In the plain language of the
dressmakers means that the bosses
have the right to pay less than the
minimum, on the theory that the
worker is 'sub-skilled" and that he
can fire these workers without objec-
ton from the union.
This agreement also includes a "re-
organization" clause which sacrifices
the most elementary union right. 1t
permits the bosses to fire 10 per cent
of the workers each six months. Every
union worker knows who will be
flred-that element which fights for
prices and conditions in the shop.
To prevent the dressmakerS from
enforcing the gains that were granted
by the agreement, there is a clause
forbidding strikes and stoppages.
Immediately after the strike the
administration paid it's debts" and
business agents were appointed to the
tune of $50 week.
Our worse fears of the agreement
have been realized. There has been
wholesale firing. Prices have been re-
duced far below the minimum. Per-
mission to work overtime is regularly
granted, while hundreds of jobless
dreSSmakers walk the streets.
1t was then that our opposition
began to grow. Our program, which
was for struggle against wage cuts,
firing, reorganization and the CLASH
fication OF sub-skilled, and which
stressed the need for democracy in
the union, was widely accepted The
opposition put forth a demand for
elections which received the backing
Of the dressmakers to such an extent
that the administration was forced to
agree
A number Of the leading members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Win Also Cut Wages
to Permit Higher
Profits
NY O. LANDS

NEW YORK.-In the New York
Times last Thursday there appeared
q huge front page article concerning
the official government plans for the
communication industry. A study of
this industry was requested last spring
by President Roosevelt, who felt it
OF the utmost Importance that the
government adopt definite policy
in regards to communications. 1nis
report has now been laid before the
President by the Interdepartment
Communications Committee of which
Secretary Roper is the chairman.
The proposal of this committee is
that there be established system of
monopolies in the communication in
dustry under direct government SUI
pervision," that there be created a
Federal communication commission to
have jurisdiction over all interstate
and foreign communications, and that
that agency have authority similar
to that which is held by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission over the
railroads. Secretary Roper termed the
report "a study of the necessity for
a more definite national policy as to
regulations, supervised by commits
sion or BY Federal department unit. "
This attention to the telegraph in
dustry is not momentary. The inter
est that the government has always
displayed in this field was shown
during the World War when it took
over the entire communications in
dustry. 1t has long been felt by gov
eminent officials that the telegraph
industry Was of basic Importance,
especially in critical times" That q
critical time" is near at hand is
evidenced by the haste with which
this measure is be.na put through
in preparation for the coming seq
SIGN of Congress.
Towards Monopoly
Incorporated in the plan of the
Interdepartment Commune tion5
Commission is the merging of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies to facilitate the govern
naent control This has been moot
question for many months, although
officials Of both companies refused to
make any definite statements con-
corning it. The committee states that
both these telegraph companies look
with fcvor upon such q move, since
it viii reduce their expenses and en-
able them to compete more success
fully with other foreign services such
as England. Although such merger
Was sought some time ago and con-
sidered inadvisaple because of the
antitrust laws. it is now recognized
that ct the present time these mer-
gerrJ will be considered "permissive. /"
This is vegy much in keeping with
the Rooseveltian trend towards mono
poly end trust control
For War Purposes
The manner in which the telegraph
lpuustTy is to be reorganized is by
G fusion Of all domestic telegraph and
radio seryices into one trust and q
separate merger for all foreign com
Hltulications either by cable or radio.
This form OF division between dones-
tic and foreign business would be
helpful in case OF hostihties and for
national defense Here it is obvious
that the consideration around which
the whole project reyolves is the