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LOCAL DATA beginning at Dec 26: tonight Wednesday; gentle easterly winds
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
LICENSED TO WED

A marriage license was issued
at Rockville to Earl V. Barton,
20, of Bethesda, and Dorothy I.
Dinsmore, "a, of Glenshaw, Pa.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
PR|NCEGEORGES
To GET BEER

ANNAPOLIS, March 29.-In-
cluded in the two score bills pass
ed by the House Of Delegates last
night were three local county
liquor laws. One of these repeals
sections of Baltimore county
liquor regulations. The other two
deal with the liquor laws of Prince
Georges and Hartford counties and
provide sale and regulation of 80
per cent beer in accordance with
congressional action.
William C. Walsh, State insur-
ance commissioner, is given die
tatorial powers to deal with con-
ditions growing out of the finan-
cial crisis in bill passed by house
and senate and signed by Gov
ernor Ritchie.
Asserting that many States
have enacted legislation affecting
the operation of insurance COM
panies the bill gives Walsh power
to rescind, enact and make regu-
lationS and designate conditions
under which insurance companies
shall operate in this State.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
j. U.S.CONTRACTS
To BE HELD Up

No new contracts for public
improvements will be let by the
Federal Government, pending for.
nation of Government policy and
opportunity to see how the new
budget works out.
This decision has been reached
following a request of the Direc-
tor of the Budget. The order
barring new construction extends
to inland waterways and all build
ing construction. Eventually all
this work will be incorporated by
President Roosevelt in a public
works bill to be presented to Con-
greSS.
Payment for the public works
program will be made through a
bond issue that will spread it's
cost over a period of years, rather
than draw unduly upon receipts
of the Government in the emer-
gency period.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
GARDEN SCHOOL
To CONVENE

More than 500 amateur garden
ers, flower lovers, nurserymen
and horticulturists from Maryland
and Washington are expected at
the first Maryland Garden
School" to be held April 8, 4 and
5 at the University of Maryland,
A. S. Thurston, professor of flori-
culture and landscape gardening,
said yesterday.
Speakers at the school will be
clude David Lumsden, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture; N. G..
Hansen, Chevy Chase, Md; E. B.
White, Washington, and B. Y.
Morrison and j. M. Shull, Depart
ment of Agriculture experts.
A luncheon will be held on April
5 at which Mrs. w. Bladen
Lowndes, Of Baltimore, president
of the Federated Garden Clubs of
Maryland, will preside. All class
meetings and lectures will be held
in the new Horticulture Building.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
PROSECUTION
NEARS CLOSE
Of CASE
Accused County Ex-Treasurer
Had Personal Deposits of
$4,000 in 1881

Heavy deposits made by E.
Wade Ball, former treasurer Of
Arlington county, Virginia, now
on trial in Clarendon for alleged
misuse of $515,959 in public
funds, were testified to by H. w.
Burnside, assistant cashier of the
Farmers and Mechanics branch
Of the Riggs National Bank to-
day.
Deposit slips and bank records
indicated that the former official
maintained an average balance
Of $4,000 year in the bank for
the six years preceding his reSig-
nation in 1882.
1881 Deposits
During 1881, Ball deposited to
his personal account at the bank
more than $4,000, Burnside said.
Checks drawn against the &C.
count, many of them to cash,
but the majority Endorsed by H.
C. Ball, were made part Of the
evidence. H. Clark Ball is a
brother Of the former treasurer.
Characterization of Robert B.
Jordon, staff supervisor of the
State auditors office, started
when Burnside completed his tes-
timony. Jordon said a report of
the former treasurer toSthe State
comptroller regarding 1881 taxes
collected was $4,000 less than
the records in his office indicated.
He said that $4,000 was depos-
tied in the Potomac Savings Bank
account of the former treasurer
early in December, 1881.
Mr.. Jordon was believed the
last witness for the prosecution.
BOwleS TeStifieS
B. Agee Bowles, vice president
Of the Potomac Savings Bank Of
Georgetown was the principal
witness yesterday. He testified
regarding a personal account
which the former official had in
his bank.
Deposit slips identified by
Bowles showed that Balls account
received average, deposits over a
long period of years of an aver
age of more than $4,000
annually. Checks drawn against
the account in 1929 and 1880
totaled $56,561, testimony of the
bank official indicated.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
CLERKS ABROAD
HIT BY RULING

Federal employees in the for
eign service who have not con-
tributed to the retirement fund
will have to take a percentage
cut in their retirement annuities
to make up for it, according to
a ruling today by Comptroller
General j. r. McCarl, and this
applies to service before the effec-
tive date of the foreign service
act, July l, 1924.
A paragraph of that act re-
quiring a contribution from a
retiring officer equivalent to S
per cent of salary with interest
for years after July /, 1924,
during which other foreign SER
vice officers were required to con-
tribute per cent of their SAL
aries to the retirement fund, also
applies.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
RALLIES To AID
|N|SS|0N:FUN

Mission extension rallies will be
held April % in the Adventist
Churches throughout North Amer
lea, it has been announced from
the world headquarters in Ia
koma Park.
The rallies. for the purpose of
raising funds for medical, educa-
tional and publishing work in ter
ritories where these are not now
available, are expected to net $751;
600. H. H. Hall and j. Adams
Stevens, of Takoma Park, and
secretary of the publishing unit
and head of the home mission
department., respectively, are now
in the Far East promoting this
work.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
Still, Rum Seized
In C0pitOL HeiqhtS

Prince Georges county police
last night raided a house in
Greater Capitol Heights and
arrested John Baldwin on a
charge of illegal possession of
about five gallons of whisky.
Elon Turner, a member of the
raiding party, said a 300 gallon
still, out of operation, was found
in the house. Baldwin was taken
to Upper Marlboro and released
on $500 bond.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
A Complete
Funeral

Or even LESS The $75 funeral includes:
Casket. any color: plate engraved with
name; No. 1 outside pine case; embalm-
ing and shaving if necessary: adver.
tising of notices: hearse. :w) CADILLAC
limousines: rugs, chairs. scarf for the door
removing from hospital 1r nOme and all
necessary services that are so well
known at the DEAL FUNERAL HOME.
DEAL FUNERAL HOME. LINCOLN ssOe
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
Surgeons Discuss
MedicO-DeNt1L Link

The close affiliation between
medicine and dentistry was
stressed in two essays given be-
fore the D. c. Dental Society last
night. DR.. Wallace M. Yater, pro-
fessor of medicine at Georgetown,
and DR.. George R. Elliss, D. D. S.,
were the speakers.
DR.. w. S. Benedict and DR.. A. D.
Weakley discussed the essays. The
speakers were introduced by DR..
William I. Ogus. DR.. Charles D.
Cole presided.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
Months Work for 10000
Seen in MARYLAND Forest

BALTIMORE, March 29.-Work
for a month for about 10000 men
could be furnished in Maryland
under provisions of the reforesta-
ton bill approved by the United
States Senate, according to esti-
mates by F. w. Besley, State
forester.
Maryland has about $4,000 acres
Of State forest land in addition
to numerous watersheds which are
subject to flood-control develop
ment.
Work under the reforestation
The Washington times., 1933-03-29

bill would be divided into two
classes. The first, described under
capital expenditures, would in
clude highway construction, fire
prevention and water develop
ments.
The second, described as made"
work, would include erosion con-
troll, poison plant and rodent
eradication, and other projects.
Improvement of national forests
in Virginia would provide work
for about $4,000 men for one
month in that State, according to
surveys made by State officials.
The Washington times., 1933-03-29
ThieUes Take 5000
In Loot From Store

Thugs last night broke into the
store of Soloman Mason, Upper
Marlboro, and ranSacked the es-
tablishment of about 5000 worth
of merchandise. Entrance was
gained by jimmying a window.
Police said the loot consisted
OF a number Of dresses, three suits
OF clothes, 10 watches, two pairs
Of shoes and other merchandise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

joining the AA.
1t is clear that, in addition TO be-
ing official propagandists for the
slave pact, with its vicious attempt
to stabilize the hunger wage stand
ard forced on the working class dur
ing the crisis, to legalize the present
rauper level Of the working class,
the A. F. of L. and its official union
heads are up to their old tricks of
splitting the ranks of the steel work
ers. They are trying to establish the
old suicidal craft division even be-
fore decisive number of steel work
ers are organized.
Just as it was during the world
war. the A F, Of L. leadership again
becomes officially part OF the gov
eminent machinery for the disor-
ganizaticn of the steel workers. Ma
tional arbitration under government
control and the abolition of the right
to strike is clearly the objective of
these forces in the steel industry,
Just as the recent coal strike showed
this to be their objective in that in
ouStry.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union demands "the right
Of all workers to assemble, strike and
picket without company or govern
ment interference" The struggle in
steel is only beginning. The fight
for higher standard of living and
against the slave code can be won
only by organized mass battles for
these elementary political rights.
This the leadership of the S.M.WIU.
realizes. And these battles can be
won only by clear and constant ex-
posure of the MIRA and part played
by the A. F. Of L. officials in herd
ing workers into industrial stockades
over which flies the blue buzzard of
the MIRA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
pectPlatemakers
to Go Out on Strike

NEW YORK.-Indications of the
refusal of the bosses to accede to
the demands of the platemakers
point to the probability of the
workers going out on strike to win
their demands.
At the conference held last Thurs
day, between the platemakers and
the bosses association, the plate
makers conference committee de-
manded the establishment of a union
scale to be higher than the pres ant
wage-scale, no dismissals, limitation
of the number of bosses allowed to
work in the shops, and other i'm
portant union demands.
The membership meeting of the
platema!iers branch Of the Fur De-
partment, Needle Trades Wor, :ers
Industrial Union, tonight viii hear
a report on the conference and decide
on further steps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
BURNS DETECTIVE
AT EVERY SHIP TO
SEARCH UNIONMEN
Marine Union Combats
Anti oreign-Born
Organization
(Ry Marine Worker CorrespOndent)

(Ry a Marine Worker CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK CITY.-The port
delegates Of the Marine workers In
dustrial Union in the lest few days
ere finding it very difficult to get
aboard ships, especially on the Sc
vannah Line and the international
Mercantile Marine Decks.
On the CITY of Chattanooga the
Negro and white workers are begin
ming to protest against the condi-
tions. These ships are coal burners
and the Negro firemen are paid
S465o a month, crowded, miserable
quarters and rotten food.
BY a steady concentration on the
Savannah Line. exposing the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act and
ether misleading tactics of the ship
owners, we find a special Burns de-
tective whenever these ships are in
port.
On the S. S. Manhattan, one Of
the latest built liners Of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine, a Burns
detective was waiting for the port
delegate. Standing at the head Of
the gsngway this plain clothes man
frisks everyone coming aboard with
radical literature. The Manhattan is
Naval Reserve ship and can be con-
verted into cruiser in a very short
time. These -sleuths take the dele
gates to all the watchmen on the
piers and are told to be on the look
cut for them in the future.
With Roosevelt's Industrial Recov-
cry Act a new patriotic organization
under the name of the National As
ISOLATION Of American Seamen is
coming to the foreground with the
slogan, American Seamen for Amer
lean Ships" This fascist outfit is led
by racketeer by the name of Smith,
who is a charter member of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act, and
has endorsements from different con-
gressmen from Washington. All for
eign-born seamen, according to this
organization, are supposed to be
thrown on the beach to starve. The
delegate of this misleading outfit, to-
gether with the American Federation
of Labor's International Seamen's
Union, can come and go as they
please on these ships.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, at 40 Broad St., are expos
ing these labor takers, and the ma
iority of the seamen are turning a
deaf ear to these reactionaries.
PORT DELEGATE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
JOBLESS STRIKE
IN LUCAS COUNTY
HAS BIG SUPPORT
Refuse Set of Teeth
to Strikers Wife
Unless He Scabs

TOLEDO, Ohio.-The strike for
cash relief Of forced labor workers
In Lucas county started Aug. l con-
tinues solid despitu arrest OF the
strike leaders. Workers are losing
their fear of the authorities and
swelling the ranks of the picketers.
Strike activities began with a
march to the department store owned
by Alfred Kock, chairman OF the
County Relief Commission, with a
thousand workers demanding he stop
the "nosebag" or conmissary system
of relief. The workers also demanded
he do the same for Springfield town.
ship, (Holland, Ohio where a re-
lief strike has been on since May 2.
Picketing is going on every day
at the county warehouse, and the
police are sending extra reserves there
to intimidate the workers and smash
the strike.
The strike originally called by the
Unemployed Councils, Unemployed
League and the Communist Party,
now has the endorsement Of the
Point Place Willing Workers and the
UnlUeQ FdILllerS anu WoI hSlo Nlupo'
HOLLAND, Ohio. = Unemployed
workers striking for cash relief since
May continue 100 per cent solid.
Funds to hire and arm strike depu-
ties are taken out Of the relief money
which the authorities claim was ex-
hausted a long time ago.
The administration recently tried
a novel method of forcing a worker
to scab. The dispensary had
made set of false teeth for the wife
of one of the strikers, Jarczyski, and
they refused to give her the teeth
unless her husband scabbed on the
strikers. A grievance committee Of
the strikers visited the dispensary
however and forced them to sur
render the teeth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Fruit Bosses Say
CodeMust Cut Pay
Instigate Drive on
Street Peddlers

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-The Pro-
|, gressive Fruit Merchants Association,
racketeering organization Of fruit
!, dealers, met at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum yesterday supposedly for the
adoption and discussion Of fruit
dealers code. However, there was lit
tie discussion of wages and hours,
except by the chairman. Jacob Was
serman, who said that although the
MIRA code calls for less hours and
more wages, the code which the as
ISOLATION will pass will require cut
in wages"
A petition from fruit dealers and
big realty owners Of the Central Park
section to keep fruit peddlers from
the streets Of that neighborhood and,
claiming that judges were too lenient
with arrested peddlers, demanding
that they be fined $40 or not less
than five days in jail. was signed
by the bosses. This petition is to
be sent to the Board Of Aldermen.
The only action or discussion Of
the meeting was the collection Of IS
dues" from the boss-members. 1t
was explained that this money was
necessary to put over the PIMA.
code.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Code of Seamen
VIII Be Signed by
Many Thousands
Cleveland Conference to Form Nation Wide
United Front

funds Immediately available for thtA
purpose all funds, now used for sub
sides, shipbuilding loans, ETC.. as pro-
vided under the 1923 Merchant Ma
rine Act, shall be appropriated. =. {.
Equal Pay for equal work, regard
less Of race, nationality, age or
sex.
"A minimum of so cents per man,
per day, ration allowance shall be
provided. This to be increased as
the cost Of living rises.
Adequate washing facilities, in
Guiding washing buckets, showers and
fresh water, shall be provided and
clean linen, soap and matches shall
be supplied weekly"
For providing additional work for
American seamen, the Seamen's Code
demands that the N r. A. recon-
mend in its marine workers code def
mite trade relations between the
United States and the Soviet Union.
Under the Seamen's Code, "a cen
trail shipping agency with a rotary
system OF management under con-
troll Of elected committees of sea-
men shall be instituted" to take the
place Of Fink Halls and shipping
masters
A cardinal provision in the Sea-
mems Code which the Trade Union
Conference for United Action in
Cleveland will formulate for all labor
in America is the right of seamen
to join unions of their own choosing,
and the right to strike for better
conditions, as opposed to the N. R. A.,
which is being used by the indus
trial barons for depriving the work.
ers of the right to strike, for smash
ing their unions and forcing them
into company unions the better to
exploit them.
In Philadelphia, the swing of labor
in favor of the Cleveland Conference
continues to gain momentum, with
the Painters and Paper Hangers
Union, an independent organization,
endorsing the Conference unani-
mously and electing delegates to it.
Previous to this, Local 1876 Amer
lean Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
eleCIeu d u6legdle 10 the conference.
Reports from New England tex
tile centers to the New York ma
tional offices of the Provisional
Cleveland Conference Committee
stated that a regional conference of
New England textile workers for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
Cleveland gathering will be held in
Providence, r. l., on Aug. 10.
Embittered by the slave standards
provided by the NRA textile code,
New England textile unions which
up to now have held aloof from SINH
lar conferences are reported ready
to participate in the regional con-
ference and are looking forward to
the Cleveland Conference which is
pledged to build up a nationwide
eight by labor against the strike
breaking, union-smashing National
Recovery Act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Short Hours Accom-
panied by Speed-Up
DIV a worker Correspondentl

MERIDEN, Conn.-Next week Is
the start of the 25-houreweek in the
New Departure Co. here. At this
time all the machines in the factory
are being equipped with high speed
gears. That means that more pro-
duction will be put out and less men
will be used. One man that is now
operating three automatic machines
will operate four machines.
The new Roosevelt program gives
us a chance to do two things: either
starve on the street or die on the Job
from abuses and cuts. The men are
driven like horses. Before where
ten men worked on one job there
are only two now taking the place
of that ten.
The wages men get are from IS to
S. cents an hour. June IL there
was per cent increase in the pay,
but that is not Is per cent to so per
cent, which decreased our pay dur
ing the past.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

liam z. Foster, is undoubtedly the
most widespread since that time.
1t furnishes one of the principal
explanations for the strenuous use
by the Roosevelt administration of
the newly set up arbitration ma
chinery and the United Mine Work
ers leading officials in breaking the
strike of Western Pennsylvania
miners centering in the Prick Coke
and Coal Company steel subsidiary
of Fayette County.
The Frick miners were fighting
company stores, company police and
company towns. These are burning
issues in many steel areas. The
right to organize was likewise a
central issue in the coal strike and
this too has come to the forefront
in many steel centers recently.
Militancy of Workers
The militancy of the steel work
ers is shown by such instances as
their forcing the reinstatement of a
discharged delegate to the Washing
ton code hearings at the Pressed
Steel Car plant in McKees Rocks
action of kind unheard of in steel
for almost IA years.
The work Of the Unemployed
Councils, their fight for relief, their
marches and demonstrations have
brought great response in the steel
areas and have been of great value
in aiding union organization, in
uniting employed and unemployed.
IN e+aa1 ax,I aAa1 |, "a
Unemployed Councils have develop
ed real authority as the leadership
of the relief and unemployment in
surance struggles, have established
permanent headquarters and have
laid the basis for further organiza-
ton by the SMWIU.
Some idea of the trend among
steel workers toward militant in
dustrial organization is gained from
the following partial list of cities
and plants where local organization
of the SMWIU has been established
in the last few months:
In the Jones and Laughlin Ali
quippa plant-a closed steel town;
in Johnstown in the Cambria plant
of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation;
in Ambridge organization has been
set up in Pittsburgh Coal Washer,
McClintock- Marshall, Am eri C n
Bridge Company, H. H. Robinson,
Wyckoff Steel and A. M. Byers;
National Electric, Central Tube and
Seamless Tube.
Union of 800
In the American Bridge Company
plant there is also an independent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
TENNESSEE COAL
IRON co. SHUTS
DOWN RAIL MILLS
Bosses Had Heralded
Activities AS Sign
of Prosperity"
WORKERS PAY is CUT
Metal Union Leaflet
Calls for Organizing

IA BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--A few days
cl1go, the workers in the Ensley rail
mill Of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company were ordered to
bank their fires. The mills we're clos
ing indefinitely, said the foremen.
To understand the significance of
this event, it must be understood
that the Tel. is the very heart and
center of all Southern industry.
When a number of additional work
ers were taken on at this plant for
one or two days week, some weeks
ago, the affair was heralded by huge
headlines in the Southern capital
list press. Conclusive proof, said these
papers, that industry was being put
on its feet.
The T.CI., however, on re-employ-
ing workers, deducted from their
meager, pay checks for the little re-
lief it had given them during their
period of unemployment. Many of
these workers had run up debts" of
$3oo-$4oo to the company. The Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
distributed leaflets to the workers,
urging that they demand a full pay
check, with no deductions for relief,
and warning them that their re-em-
ploynlent would last only short
time, since production was stepped
up in anticipation of initiation prices.
Last week, in sharp contrast to the
prosperity" ballyhoo which greeted
the hiring of a few workers by the
TCI., the following paragraph ap-
peared in the Birmingham Age-He-
raid. well hidden in an inside page:
THE rail mill of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
having completed the orders on hand,
will close Saturday. closing the rail
mill will carry two furnaces down
with it."