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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
HOG Market ActiUe,
Price RANGE NGrrOIU

CHICAGO, Dec. 13 QN.S0.
The hog market was fairly active
and steady today with m:Nt good
weights selling at the narrow
range Of So to 1925. Receipts
were $1,000, including 10000 sent
direct to packers.
Cattle receipts were $500. A
few light weight steers sold steady
to strong while the heavy were
slow to move at weaker rates.
Cows and heifers sold steady.
Stockers and feeders showed no
change.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
NEW YORK PRODUCE

NEW YORK, Dec u (IN.s.).-Bu4A
sailed creamery higher scoring, 3lA al
22h; creamery extras 21@21h; orsamk
cry firsts, 15% +20h; ladies. fresh
extras, 17@17h.
Cheese, quiet state whole milk flats,
Eggs, white easy mixed steady, nearby
white specials, 2702S; standards, 26S
mediums, 22@22h; nearby brown spec
Gals, 29@32; standards, 27@2S; mixed
special, 2SQ31: standards, rs + 27; firsts,
Fancy packs, 2S1s 94O; standards. 2sh
029; mediums %.
The wholesale price Is $22S per 100
pounds No. fluid within the 201-21e
mile zone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
CLEVELAND LIVESTOCK

CLEVELAND. Dec. II (L.N.S.).-Hogs
Receipts ], 200; market fairly active
50. 40.
Cattle-ReceiptS $50; market steady
on better grades, common kinds weaker;
good heavyweight steers Quotabls 96. So
and SGaEX"s . IoEsc 900; market sSr
bulk of good calves, SO.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; market steady;
action fair; qua ity good; top. $3.50;
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
UTILITY NET DROPS

United Light and Power Co.
and subsidiaries in the IL months
ended october 81, 1888, reported
consolidated net income Of $1,912,-
712, equal to $3.18 a share on
600, 1000 shares Of So cumulative
first preferred outstanding. In
1882 the company showed a net
profit of S., $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
UTILITY DIVIDEND CUT

Standard Power and Light
Corporation reduced quarterly
preferred dividends to 52llz cents
a share, payable February 1 to
stock of record January Is. Pre-
viously, dividends were maintained
at 81 annually.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
N, Y. WOOL MARKET

NEW YORK. Dec 10 GNs.).-wool
quiet domestic fleece unwashed, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, 2S043 Domestic
pulled secured basis. 67@1OO. DomesS
tic, Texas, clean basis, 1906. Dome04
tic territory. clean basis, 65@S7.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
Good Business
NeuS Items

One company increases divi-
dends, two resume, one pays
Accommodations and Is declare
regular dividends In day ..
Nash orders 90 far this month
highest for December since 1925
Textile fiber price index
up to 1915 from 1888 . week
earlier Railway freight car
orders for week highest in three
years Car lOadingS I'm No
vember make better showing
than October In comparison with
like 1882 months Fare cut
boosts Chicago and Northwest
ern passenger traffic more than
One-third COngOleum Marin
to pay off all funded debt and
buy In preferred stock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13

$34.O1 level, with unchanged
levels quoted for the Liberty
fourth 44s and Treasury 33ss
Of 40.
Loews IS lost a point at 81
in the industrial section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENTS
REGULAR


dividend Of 50 March Is 1882
October
INCREASED
pid.nd FOR year endsd September go
~ &SN 20 jan
ON
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-12-13
NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK. Dec. 10 GNs).-Lins
seed oil, per lb.. 9.5 CARROTS. TurpentineD
firm, AK. Rosin, steady; common. 40,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Worker Denied Aid
Four Times; Council
Wins 1t For Him

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Last week a
worker came into our branch Of the
Unemployed Council at Joiner st.
with a sad story. He had been mar
ried five months and his wife was in
the family way. He had been out of
work for long time and had been
living on his PARENTS but they soon
could not keep him, so he was forced
to go to the relief here.
Four times he appeared at the re-
lief and four times he was refused.
They treated him shamefully, and
told him to go back to his father,
regardless of the fact that his father
was trying to support his own large
family on $130.
When he told us the story, we took
action at once. We sent down a
committee to the charities and de-
manded relief. No details needed
he ended up by receiving food
check, coal, rent, a stove and a kero-
sene lamp, whereas before he was
actually starving.
Not only did we accomplish this,
but at the next meeting our mem
bership in the Unemployed Council
was doubled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
ASKS 10 Pc. CUT IN
VETS PAYMENTS
Wall Streets Drive On
Vets Continues

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-N "
schemes to swindle the tens of thou
sands of disabled war veterans are
cropping up constantly. The latest
is the proposal made yesterday by
Congressman Clifton A. Woodrum,
chairman of the House Veterans APP
preparations Subcommittee, to give
10 per cent cut for the coming year
to all veterans getting disability pay
ments or army and navy pensions.
This would mean a 100000 slash.
While the chiefs of the American
Legion, under pressure of the rank
and file, are pretending to oppose
cuts in the disability payments, but
combining themselves to a battle of
words, a real opposition is being or
ganized on militant united front
basis of members of all veterans or
CARNATIONS, as well as unattached
vets, around the program adopted at
the bonus marchers' conference held
in Washington Dec. 8. Immediate
payment of the bonus without cent
off the disability allowances is the
demand of this nationwide move
ment, which is being organized in
the various cities in connection with
the fight for winter relief for the
unemployed vets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
FIGHT ATTACK BY
BOSTON OFFICIAL
Committee Prot ests
Anna Block Arrest

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 5.-Wednes-
day morning, Jan. {, 1888, a delega-
ton from working class organiza-
tions in Boston went to Anna c..
Tillinghast. Commissioner of Immi-
grafton, protesting the use of the
DEPARTMENT of Labor to terrorize
workers in their struggle against
hunger and wage cuts.
The arrest of Anna B \ by the
Department's AGENTS as the h'7nger
march was about to leave Eo ton
Nov. 27th was a clear indication of
the Departments role as strike
breakers and prosecutors Of the
struggling workers.
The delegation consisted of Bruce
Refine. New ENGLAND Secretary of
the Unemploved Councils, Hector
Thomson of the Boston Unenploved
Council, Mary Ahlouist, Charles
Walters of the International Labor
Defense, Murray C. Hanks of the
John Reed Club and John Brooks
Wheelright and Johanna Reed of
the New ENGLAND Committee for the
Defense Of Political Prisoners.
Attack on Hunger March.
This delegation pointed out that
the timing of the arrest of Anna
Bloch as one of the leaders of the
hunger march by the Department of
Labor, true to its anti-working class
role, was calculated to disrupt the
New England Column of the Hunger
March at its starting point and to
attempt to create division between
the native and foreign born workers.
When the delegation presented
these facts to Mrs. Tillinghast and
further pointed out that by the De-
partment's own admission the war;
rant against Anna Bloch had been
kept for two months to be sprung
at Just this time, she denied this We
hemently and stated that Anna
Bloch's whereabouts were not known
previously To this denial the del
egation replied: This is a lie and
you know i'll"
Defend Anna Bloch.
At this point Mrs. Tillinghast be-
came indignant and left the room.
The delegates return to their or
CARNATIONS to carry on the cam
paign for Comrade Bloch's release.
AS part of this campaign, thous-
ands of postal cards are now in cir
culation demanding that the depor-
tation proceedings against Comrade
Bloch be dropped. These cards
should be mailed promptly to Mrs.
Tillinghast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
WORKER CORRESPONDENCE
AND STRUGGLE
BRONX TENANTS
FIGHT OWNER
Win Dem and for
Negro Janitor's Family

BRONX, N. "a Negro family
was brought from Tennessee last
year by the landlord at 1875 Wash
ington Ave. to work as superin-
tendent for him. The family, by the
name of Parker, we're given all kinds
of promises by him. Recently the
family we're told to move from their
miserable hole in the basement, mis-
named an apartment.
In addition, the landlord refused
to pay Parker Several months wages
due to him. Through the activities
of the Claremont Parkway Block
Committee the plight Of this Negro
family was circulated throughout the
house.
1t is well to mention that at first
the Parkers were not clear as to the
motives of the white tenants, who
are all workers, but this was ex-
planned to them. With their permits
sion, member of the Block Com
nlittee went to the landlord and de-
manded the payment of back wages
to Parker and that they be given an
opportunity to move, since they
wanted to return to Tennessee. The
landlord was told that unless Parker
was given satisfaction the entire
house would refuse to pay rent.
The landlord, afraid of the work
ers, paid Parker. The Block Com
mittee regard this not only as vic
tory, but as an example of the grow
ing solidarity of white and Negro.
A. s,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Worker, Alone, Fails to
Get Relief; Unemployed
Council Forces Victory
Tough Struggle Put Up by Organized Workers
Wins Relief for Destitute Worker
Series of Relief Struggles and Achievements
Shows Organization Is Only Way

PUEBLO, Colo.-In this city pol
icy was instituted, that if you re-
ceived any relief from the Family
Service Society, which is a branch
Of the nationally famous Community
Chest (Which is famous only for its
jim Growing, discriminating and
money grabbing, you would not be
eligible to receive relief from the
R. F. G. This policy was put in eff
feet SO that the Family Service could
cut you off at any time. Then, when
you applied for relief at the r. F. G.
they would tell you that they could
do nothing for you, as you were q
Family Service charge.
Not long after this policy was put
in affect, the Unemployed Councils
came across a fellow worker whom
the Family Service claimed had be-
come chronic case and had been
on their books since 1928. But this
worker produced an income tax re-
ceipt which showed he had paid in
come tax in the state of Nebraska IN
1925. He also had bills of lading
that proved he shipped peaches from
the western part of this state In 1880.
But the relief agency would not even
look at these. They also notified the
r. F. G. not to do anything for this
man.
The next day the Unemployed
Council organized a committee to call
on Mr.. Peabody, who heads the r. F.
g. here. In his office he had a
stormy session with the committee,
but told them he would absolutely do
nothing for this man.
Then the committee went to the
Arthur g. Allen Construction Co.
Mr.. Allen, who Is a member by APP
pointment on the Governors Relief
Committee, said he would write the
governor concerning the case. But
to this day we have received no word
from this source. This case surely
looked like a complete freeze out.
But recently committee from one
of the East Side Councils again pre-
scented this case and were successful
in getting this man relief. But they
put up hard fight. One comrade
made few remarks and the workers
friend" Mrs. Hill. had the police
throw him out. But the committees
mission was success. This is hailed
as a victory. due to the fact that the
relief heads said that Comrade Bar
tex would get no relief regardless Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Demand Withdrawal
of u. S. Troops from
Haiti; Wire Hoover

NEW YOR K-Protesting the
wholesale arrests of agricultural
workers of American owned planta-
tons in Haiti, and placing response
bility for safety directly on Presi-
dent Hoover and President-elect
Roosevelt, the Anti-Imperialist League
sent wires to both yesterday reading
as follows:
1.-THE Anti Imperialist League Of
the U. S. protests against the arrest
of workers in Haiti by American ma
rines and officials of the Haitian
guard. We demand the immediate
Withdrawals of the marines and re-
lease of the arrested workers. We
demand the immediate and complete
independence of Haiti. We hold
your government responsible for the
attack on the exploited and oppressed
peoples of Haiti"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Philly Flop House
Is Organizing; Men
Object to Sermons

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Breakfast at
the 18th and Hamilton st. flophouse
was the same old slop, oatmeal, stale
bread and coffee" when the men
all made a dive for the Sunday
breakfast. A holy place where they
jim Grow the colored from the white
as they enter the holy place. There
they sing many hymns and pray
long and loud. They tell of he1l-fire
and birthstone, they seem TO think
that q man should starve and ne
glect his body to save his soul.
Whitmans Candy Co. donated 5000
boxes of candy, weighing " ID. each,
so that each man could have q box
of it. But the homeless men only
received AS pieces of plain caramel,
the nut and cream was sorted out
for the stool-pigeon guards, who re-
ceived lbs. of candy every one of
them. The men also were given a
cigar and one apple. The latter was
worth more than everything else
given to them, including the SER
mons.
Inc Christmas supper consisted OF
one tablespoonful of mashed sweet
potatoes, crushed corn and cranberry
sauce with piece of pie. The men
might have enjoyed it if they would
have had more of it.
Fifty of the men received shoes.
Most of them are yet barefooted and
when they ask the guard for shoes
they are told to see Mr.. Cox, who has
to OK. the order for shoes and cloth
ing.
This is the way workers are being
treated at the christian home for
homeless men. There is an unem-
ployed committee doing good work
in this flophouse. This committee
has placed and won many things for
the workers u. M. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Force Trial of Penn.
Relief Official i'm
$4,000 Fund Steal

SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 6.-The
squander of funds by grating ire
lief" officials was exposed to the last
rotten detail in the case of George
l.. Davis, Blakely Poor Director, in
Lackawana County, who squandered
100000 among members of his own
family.
So great was the outburst of pro-
test by the starving miners and their
families in this district, that the
authorities were forced to bring
Davis to trial. At the court hearing
before Judge Samuel Shull, Davis
grudgingly admitted how he boosted
his own salary from 81 900 to $4,000
a year as Poor Director, although he
conducted his ice business at the
same time, and how he took $240
from the relief funds for rent" be-
cause the directors sometimes met
in the Davis home.
But this was only part of the
Squander. Close and distant rela-
tons of Davis, including Josh New
ton described as his "52nd cousin"
received countless relief orders of 81
to $40 each. Practically all of these
have independent incomes and did
not need any relief. In addition, it
was disclosed, Davis employed" two
of his daughters ito assist with cler-
ical work." whom he paid $3.50 each.
Much of the actual squandor has
been hidden by Davis through out
right destruction of records, and
fabrication of false records. These
disclosures have given tremendous
impetus to the demands of the IN
employed Council that relief distri-
button must be handled by represent
tatives of the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Pa. Workers Mass for
ScOttsbOrO Defense

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Jan. SIN
preparation for the trial of the nine
Scottsboro boys, which has been set
for April, 1888, the International
Labor Defense is calling a broad Uni
ted Front conference for Sunday,
January %, p. m, at Crystal Ball
Room, 325 East Market ST., Wilkes
Barre.
The Conference call urges all
working class and sympathetic or
CARNATIONS to elect two delegates
each, and at the same time to send
financial contributions to help carry
the fight to victorious conclusion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Attack in Senate
Sharpens Fight on
War Debt Defaults

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The bitter
struggle over the war debts further
sharpened today with Senator john
son Of California leading q Vitriolic
attack on France and other Euro
pean governments which have re-
fused to pay the December install
ments of their debts to the U. s..
unless the debts are reduced. Most
Of the speakers restated the demands
of U. S. Imperialism for concessions
of trade and colonies in exchange
for any reduction of the debts.
Meanwhile the European rivals OF
U. S. imperialism yesterday began
an extensive raid on the dollar,
forcing it down to a new low on the
foreign exchange. The attack on
the dollar was encouraged by the
Borah proposals to initiate U. S, cur
rency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
KENTUCKY WORKERS ORGANIZE

BOSCO, Ky.-We unemployed and
part-time workers of Bosco are Or
ganizing the Bosco Unemployed and
Taxpayers League.
We unhesitatingly endorse: 1, pay
ment of the soldiers bonus in full;
2, federal unemployment insurance
and old-age pensions; 8, freedom for
all class-war prisoners: 4, cancella-
ton of foreign and domestic debts;
S, freedom of speech, press and right
to assemble and organize into unions,
etc.
We endorse the demands Of the
farmers. miners and all industrial
workers unions led by the rank and
file.
We endorse democracy only If
controlled and operated by Work
ers' and Farmers government.
BASCO UNEMPLOYED AND
TAXPAYERS LEAGUE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06

but also cash.
I am going to show the working
class, both Negro and white, what
organizing can do. Sometime ago a
demonstration was held in front of
the starvation army. The head man
called the cops, who came down and
tried to make the workers get away
from the demonstration. The work
ers wouldn't move.
One comrade was speaking, and
the cops told him he would have to
cut it out We had a permit and
told the cop so, but the cops tried
to pull the speaker down, and then
a good fight started. The workers
fought back fine, and beat up some
cops good, and as result many
workers came to us and are helping
us carry on the work.
Two comrades were thrown in Jail,
but they got out soon. The good
thing about the demonstration is
that after the starvation army read
how the workers defended themselves
against the cops, they raised the
wages for the workers. They used
to work ten hours day and 7 days
a week for SOC a day, and had to
spend half for groceries and other
half to pay rent and clothing, which
left nothing over, Now after the
demonstration, what do we see:
We forced the starvation army to
raise the wages to 8oc a day and
flour and wood besides. The money
they can get in cash and spend it
as they please. All the families they
had cut off the relief list they put
on again, and they are issuing food.
We workers can force the wages up
to $l.00 a day if we organize the
workers who are working there. Now
they are working only hours day.
Fellow workers, don't let the starv-
alton army keep you at DOC. Join
the Unemployed Council in your
neighborhood and fight for more re-
lief. Keep the good work going on,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Go to Lodging House
Relief Buro Tells job
less. Evicted Worker

NEW YORK CITY.-A Latvian
worker SO years old, was evicted on
Tuesday from his room on Union
Ave. in the Bronx, where he had lived
for "a years. He is a tailor by trade
and out of work for almost three
years. Last year he received relief
for two months from the Bronx
Home Relief Buro and two months
from the Police Relief. His wife left
him, and boy of % years, who lives
with him, helped him pay rent some
how when working. Now the boy is
also unemployed so they can't pay
rent, and are also forced to go on
the breadline for stale bread and
sour soup.
Last month he went with his dis
possess notice to the Home Relief
and they were kind enough to advise
him to put away his furniture and
sleep in lodging house.
The Unemployed Council held a
meeting in front Of the house. A
committee was elected to go with the
worker to the Buro, and l was one
of them. On the way the worker
told of his desperate situation. He
stood the whole night in the hall of
his house watching his furniture.
At the Relief Buro we were told
to go upstairs. Here the worker was
given number to go back down.
stairs. When his number was called
and he told his story, the Buro told
him they help mostly families with
children, and he was advised once
more to go and sleep in a lodging
house. C. b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
Chicago Flop House .
Committee Calls for
Fig hit for Demands

CHICAGO, Ill.-The conditions of
the men at the so-called clearing
house at 459 E. 31st st. are unbear-
able. Fifteen hundred workers live
here. For breakfast they get cup
Of cracked wheat" a cup of chicory
and four slices of stale bread. The
meal is served at am. and men
must wait until pm. before eating
again.
Men cannot get clothes without
having their present clothes torn
into rags. One suit of underwear is
all that Is allowed at a time. In
order to take a bath you have to
wash your underwear and this re-
quires soap, and we get only enough
soap to wash our faces. We have to
stay naked until our clothes are dry.
Of course II worker gets pneu-
monia he has to go to the flophouse
hospital. To get to the hospital you
have to go through the toilet. There
you will find small room, so by 100,
with beds six inches apart. Regard
less of the patients condition he gets
only a pill or dose of salts.
The sleeping place is one of the
filthiest things in the whole building.
There you will find lice, bedbugs and
reaches. 1t is never cleaned. The
only place that is cleaned is the rec
reation room. We are only allowed
to clean this place on Sundays.
The flophouse workers, under the
leadership of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, calls upon the men to help
them fight for the following: 1,
three open forums a week; 2, three
meals a day; 8, better hospital con-
ditions; 4, recognition of grievance
committees; s., no discrimination; g.,
abolish forced labor. MI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
OR EET THE D.
TO All Workers & Organizations
Dear Comrades:

Dear Comrades:
ON SUNDAY. JANUARY IL, A COM
BINED LENIN MEMORIAL AND NINTH
ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE
DAILY WORKER WILL APPEAR. In
cluded In its pages will be special features
and articles dealing with the life and
writings of Lenin and with the high
lights of the history of the Daily Worker.
As the central organ of the Communist
Party, the Daily Worker has rallied the
workers for the support and defense of
the Soviet Union.
II has constantly carried on the fight to
mobilize the workers I'm the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance!
II fights against the oppression Of the
foreign-born workers, against deporta-
tions, for equal rights Of the Negro masses
and for the freedom of all class-war pris-
oners-Tom Mooney, the Nine Scottsboro
boys. and many others.
This combined Lenin Memorial and
Ninth Anniversary edition Is great event
for all workers. We ask you to express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending greetings TO the only reyo-
lutionary Daily In the English language: