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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

NEW YORK. -Answerirl the at
tacks of the Roosevelt New Deal, /"
veterans from all parts Of the coun-
try are organizing to march to Wash
ington in answer to the call of the
Veterans National Liaison Commit
tee.
Under the new Economy Pro-
gram" $780, 900 will be cut from
disability compenSationS, allowances
and pensions. One million, four hun
dred thousand veterans Of the World
War, Spanish-American and other
wars will be affected. In addition.
many thousands of veterans who are
receiving hospital treatment for in
juries and diseases resulting from
their experiences in these wars will
be thrown on the streets and denied
proper medical attention. Sixty eight
thousand one hundred and forty
three beds in veteran hospitals and
soldiers homes will be discontinued.
One billion, two hundred and three
million dollars is to be saved" at
the expense of the men who fought
the past wars of the country. This
money which is to be saved" will be
used to pay the interest on War
Bonds which are held in the main
by the war profiteers-"the dollar a
year men"-the PAYtriots of 1918.
MisIeaders Aid Roosevelt.
The flislesders of the veterans, Ad-
miral Coontz of the Veterans of For
eign Wars and johnson, National
Commander of the American Legion,
with the greatest haste, rushed to the
aid of President Roosevelt They is
sued statements calling on the vet
Grams to BE loyal to the President"
Veterans are ITO keep your heads
up"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Initiation Bringing
Rise in Prices of
Wheat, Sugar, Coffee

NEW YORK. Based upon the be-
sinnings of currency initiation and
expected increase in credit initiation,
speculative buying in commodities
swept the commodity price level to
the highest level of the year.
The Moody Index of spot commod-
ity prices based upon primary sta
pies, like cotton, wheat and hogs he's
now risen to a point where 1t is
above the level Of the same period
last year. The Index is now at 90.8,
compared with the crisis low OF 1871
made February this year.
The prices Of necessary foods is at
new high point for the season. Su-
gar futures made a new high OF $40
cents a pound. Cotton advanced to
81 bale. Coffee was 10 points high
er than last year.
Rubber prices were especially
strong, advancing 56 to u points on
heavy trading.
The rise in some of these commod-
tiles is partly explainable by certain
special situations, such as the gov
eminent statement on wheat crops,
which indicated poor crop. But it
is, generally admitted that the SEN
sational rise in commodity prices is
a direct result Of the governments
determination to raise prices through
one form of initiation or another. The
available stocks of these commodities
is still greater than ever. The only
factor that can cause rise in their
prices is inflated credit OF currency.
For the first time since 1929, COM
modify prices have risen so sharply.
The rise in prices reflects purchases
made in anticipation Of further in
fiation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

" NOtO " pun
A letter addressed to the San
Francisco Labor Council by the
United Front Conference, courteously
but effectively answering the attack
erS, was not read at the Council
meeting for reasons unknown to us.
Therefore the undersigned. loyal
trade u1lionists, representing thirty
seven American Federation of Labor
unions affiliated with the United
Front Conference, and three Railway
Brotherhoods, request you to give
space in the Labor Clarion to the
following brief statement G. faets:
Nothing resembling a split has oc-
Cured in the Conference. Ia'ing
its entire existence only four unions
have seen fit to withdraw their Sup
port and their places were taken by
three times that many unions.
Militant Labor Policy.
The militant labor policy of the
Conference has been winning wide
spread support, as witnessed, among
other things, by the great mass meet
ing of $4,000 in the Civic Auditorium
on March 10. The people there were
satisfied that the so-ealled break was
of small consequence and were in
sympathy with the way the United
Front had been conducted.
We feel that our efforts contrib
uted to the success achieved in Sc
curing new trial for Tom Mooney
and we trust that more unions will
support the campaign which the
United Front Conference will under
take to secure Moneys freedom and
vindication.
Fraternally yours: John F. Metcalf
I. M. U. of N. A. 1854; Max Wester-
man, Ladies Garment Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Mooney Proposes
Large Committee
for the Congress"
Representatives from
Many Organizations
Suggested

NEW YORK.-In telegram to
the Eastern office of the Mooney
Molders' Defense Committee, Tom
Mooney approved the establishment
of a management committee to direct
the Free Tom Mooney Congress
scheduled for Chicago April 80 to
May 2.
Mooney requested that, besides a
wide range of political and trade
union representatives, invitations to
the management committee be sent
10 Lincoln Steffens, noted writer;
Roger Baldwin, of the American
Civil Liberties Union; Prof. John
Dewey, formerly of Columbia Univer-
sity, as well as a number of other
prominent liberals.
The management committee, as
suggested by Mooney in his wire,
called for two representatives from
the Socialist Party, one from the
Conference for Progressive Labor
Action, two from the Communist
Party, five trade ur1ionists, one dele
gate from the International Labor
Defense, one from the League for
Industrial Democracy, and the three
liberals named above.
Meanwhile. preparations are in
full swing for additional preliminary
conferences in various cities through
out the United States in preparation
for the Mooney Congress. Already
scheduled are those in Rochester,
Syracuse, Chicago, Minneapolis. st.
Paul, youngstown. Detroit, Pitts
burgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Duluth,
Superior, Boston, Salt Lake City,
Utah and other cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
WORKER RAZZES CHARLIE
SCHWAB
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK CITY-"Every Day
and in Every Way We Are Getting
Better and Better" is the advice that
capitalist magnate gives to the
stockholders at a meeting of Beth
lehem Steel Corp. Charles M. Schwab,
the chairman, admits that I'm my So
years in the steel industry never
expected to address stockholders I'M
der conditions such as we have to-
day." and Mr.. Grace also admits that
1.-The steel industry is limping very
badly. 1t lost about s150,000,0 900 last
year."
There is now slight demand for
construction steel and some small Or
ders from the auto-industry. But
both sources Of these orders are very
unstable and temporary. Yet the two
steel directors Of Bethlehem seize
this occasion to notify their stock
holders that prosperity is returning.
Just listen to Schwab
I'VE have gone on for four years
with greatly diminished consunlp-
ton. We know the future must de-
mand more.
BE Of good cheer, be hopeful, and
with Christian Science suggestiveness
think that we are going to get better
and that perhaps the experiences we
are going through will make us APP
preciate better and enjoy the good
things to come"
Our industrial capitalists must GER
tainly be bankrupt, if they must de-
pend on suggestiveness for the guide
of production and throw away TO the
dogs the bourgeois statisticians and
their charts OF production. M. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
EVEN OPEN BANKS
Ii M 1T BUSINESS
Bankrupt Banks Are
Allowed to Reopen

Over so per cent of the State banks
and over rs per cent of the Federal
Reserve Member banks are still
closed. or are doing business upon a
severely restricted basis, according to
survey made by the Associated
Press. These figures DO not tell the
full story, since many banks have
been re-opened which are, in reality,
bankrupt.
In at least one state, permission
was given to all non-mernber banks
to resume operations after the holi-
day, each bank to decide for itself
whether it could reopen and what its
restrictions were to be. Obviously,
there must be hundreds Of insolvent
and near-insolvent state banks which
are now doing business as sound
banks. The New York Evening Post
comments there has been re-
opening Of large number Of dis
tressingly weak banks
The amount of deposits tied up in
these banks cannot be accurately as
certained, for there are no official
figures available. 1t has been con-
servatively estimated at being not
less than $4,000, 100000. Many of the
re-opened sound" banks will soon
have to disclose their real condition.
There are evidences that many of
the banks reported to be open are
in fact doing. only limited business
and are paying out only fractions Of
their deposits-an immediate assault
upon the savings of the wage earn
ers and small business people. This is
true particularly in smaller comInu-
mites where average deposits are
necessarily much smaller than in
large cities. Throughout the country
the funds of civil service departments
are tied up in semi-open banks-in
some cases because of interlocks be-
tween government board supervisors
and the banks. In these communities
the promise is made that the banks
will reopen if the townspeople-with
new money--buy stock. Under such
circumstances it is obvious that these
banks will not reopen. In many cases
the deposits of the small depositors
will never be recovered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

architects, small business and profess
sional men, has been drastic. There
are also considerable number Of
workers in the skilled trades-build-
ing, printing. mechanical trades living
in this conmunity-many of whom
are in utter poverty.
Boom" Period Estate Venture
Sunnyside Gardens we're built in
the years 1924 to 1928 by an enter
prising gang Of real estate racketeers
calling themselves the City Housing
Corporation, at a market value Of
$6,400,000. This included 29S one
family houses at $4,000; 224 two-farn-
lily houses at $4,000; and 46 three
family houses at $4,000. Each of
these ''homes" were acquired on
ten per cent down payment basis.
Many Of these home owners after
paying for years still owe more than
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
I'LL MARCH IN
MAY, SAYS VET
Wounded, Begging for
Living, Joins Up
by a Vet Worker Correspondent

by Vet Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md volunteered
in 1917, was put in Co. D, Fifth Regi-
ment, 106tl Infantry. After a few
months training, was shipped over
the ocean.
Wounded In the Trenches.
After training in France in mud
and slime, was sent to the trenches
to fight and kill the Germans. was
wounded and sent to a hospital to
get well.
Has to Beg for a Living.
I was discharged as a shell-shocked
veteran when I got home again. I
still suffer from nervous trouble and
cannot get a job I have to beg
for living and all get to eat is
what can mooch off Of bakers and
butchers.
Threatened With Insane Asylum.
I put in several times for PEN
sion, but I cannot get it, as the army
doctors will frame me to an insane
asylum, as many Of the veterans
were framed and put in straight jack
cts in the Veterans Hospitals.
F'raternally,
Edward Anderson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
GIVES STAND OF
VETS ON MARCH
1--WE Are Marching for
Our Very Existence"
BY a Vet Worker Correspondent.

BY Vet Worker Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Robertson
Of California said; THE veterans are
after Hines scalp, but we stand be-
hind President Roosevelt even though
he signed the Economy Bill"
Does he believe for moment that
the veteran is sap enough to swal-
low the theology that Hines is to
blame. or that Roosevelt is not the
boss of Hines? Or does he think the
veteran is fool enough to believe that
Roosevelt is in sympathy with the
veterans? No. Mr.. Faker and Mr..
Misleader, the veteran has learned
something since the last bonus march.
Can't Live On Scalps.
I. We are not after Hines scalp
or anybody's scalp. We are march,
ing for our very existence, which
means no cuts in disability allow
ance. Immediate payment Of the
bonus. Unemployment Insurance.
This is what we have TO have in or
der to live. We can't live on any
bodys scalp.
2. The veteran knows well that the
National Economy League and Roo
sevelt worked hand in hand to pass
the Economy Act. They also know
that Capitol Hill was in on the deal.
Can't Eat Patriotism.
8. That the veteran has come TO
realize that he is fighting for his very
existence and will brush aside all
misleaders, organization jealousy, race
prejudice. political party humbus,
religious hatred, misleaders OF Amer
lean Legion. Veterans of Foreign
Wars. and Disabled American Vet
Grams. Why will he overcome these
obstacles? Because he has been fool
e6 long enough-because OF his hav-
ing lost faith in various so-called
patriotic organizations. which have
become nothing but name which he
can't eat.
One II Hecves's ert~s3nah,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Many Banks Still Closed; Initiation Brings
Price Rise; Carloadings and Steel Drop
Ky. Miners Strike
Against Pay in Scrip

HAZARD, KY, April II (By
MaiD 800 miners in this starva-
tion-ridden territory refused to
accept scrip in payment of their
wages and struck against the Cars
Fork Coal 90. The scrip is re-
deemable only for merchandise at
the company store where prices
are higher than those prevailing
generally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Gals OF ALL. IN SAN FRANCISCO
FRONT MOONEY CONGRESS
Are in Movement Despite Threats of Expulsion by Officials

Labor and the National Committee
Of the Socialist Party in refusing
to accept a united front of all
workers for the Mooney Congress.
The Labor Council even threatened
to ezpel members who supported
this conference as the Socialist
Party has done in Chicago. But
the mass support by 81 locals
caused change of heart.
Unity in the ranks of the work
ers can and must be established.
But this will only develop on thu
basis of a growing movement which
will brush aside all obstacles in it
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
MORE SCRIP IN NEW JERSEY

ATLANTIC COUNTY, N. j., April
I7.--Three dollar bills appeared here
last week, They were found to be
scrip. This county has issued $780,
600 worth of this fake money, $75,-
900 of which are in these worthless
SO bills. This paper will be used TO
pay county employees their back pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

OF all the classes that stand face
TO face with the bourgeoisie today,
the proletariat alone is a really
revolutionary class. The other
classes decay and finally disappear
in the face of modern industry;
the prcletariat Is its special and
esse tia1 product.-Communist
Manifesto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

Below we reprint letter which
appeared in Labor Clarion, Of
fetal journal of the San Francisco
Labor Council on April 7. The let
ter signed by 81 American Fedora
ton Of Labor locals is an answer
to the attacks made by this paper
on the United Front Free Tom
Mooney Congress which is sched-
uled to take place in Chicago be-
ginning April 90 to May 2.
n its issue of March 81 the La
Dor Clarion" printed on the first
page its satisfaction with the ac-
ton of the Chicago Federation of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

The boUrgeoisie has stripped OF
its halo every occupation hitherto
honored and looked up to with
reverent awe. II has converted the
physician, the lawyer, the priest,
the poet the man Of science, into
It's paid wage-lsborers.- Communist
Manis~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
FREE TOM MOONEY MEET

NEW YORK.-A Free Tom Mooney
meeting under auspices of the Tom
Mooney Molders' Defense Commit
tee will be held at the Brooklyn La
Dor Lyceum, Room 9, April 20
Thursday at pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
MORRIS KLOsNEH,
Member Of Post IS, Workers Bx-
servicemen's League.

The soeialistic bourgeois want All
the advantages of modern social
conditions without the struggles
and dangers necessarily resulting
therefrcsm. They desire the exist-
ing state Of society minus fts revs-
Iutacnsry and dtsintesrsfing ess-
msuts ManffsstA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
SMALL HOME OWNERS STRIKE
40. AGAINST MORTGAGE SHARKS
Sunnyside Gardens, Long Island Community
Acts Against Real Estate Racket

NEW YORK April IA mortgage strike" Of
against the mortgage and lean sharks sunnyd
community consisting 500 family
heavy
university professors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Editor Labor Clarion

Considerable space in the recent issues of the Labor
Clarion has been given to unfair attacks upon the United
Frontree Tom Mooney Conference San Francisco Espe
ciay the alleged split in the conference in San Fran
cisco played up and the asserted numerous Withdrawals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
LETTERS FROM VETS
Mutiny in JugOSlavian Navy Recalls
Mutiny Against Austria During War
By a Vet Worker Correspondentl

YORK CITY-1he
experiences
during
Chaser 10 the time with
which is the Adic off
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Loudoun Hunt Ball
Breakfast and Drag

The sporting element Of Washington
and Virginia is looking forward to
George Washirgton's birthday celebra-
tions in Loudoun County. Coming as
a pleasant break at this season, when
there is little activity in this field of
sport, society Is on tip toes over the
events and large numbers are planning
to participate in the sports.
Starting the round of gayeties Is a
hunt ball sponsored by the Loudoun
Hunt and to be held In the town hall
!, at IseeSburg on Tuesday evening, Feb
lruary 81. Members of the various
shunts In Northern Virginia are asked
Ito attend the ball In hunting pink
fthus assuring q coiorful scene on the
ball room floor.
Patronesses announced for the hunt
bah include Mrs. Westmoreland Davis,
Mrs. w. H Lipscomb Mrs. j. r. H.
Alexander, Mrs. Charles F. Harrison
Mrs. Clara S. Frye, Mrs. A. M. Chi
chester. Mrs. T. A. Miller, Mrs. John
G. Hopkins, jr.; Mrs. James di Zerega,
Mrs. Alfred di zerega, Mrs. Nelson
Tobey, Mrs. r. T. Corbell, Mrs. Thomas
Mott Mrs. D. N Rust, Mrs. F. D. Rich
aedson and Mrs. Robert Graham.
On the following day, Wednesday, a
drag hunt will be held at historic Bel
mont, estate of Secretary of War Pat
rick j. Hurley Hounds will meet at
10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Judge
j. r. H. Alexander Is chairman Of the
committee arranging the drag.
Following the end Of the drag the
Middleburg Hunt will hold its annual
hunter trials on the race course near
Middleburg. The first class will be
called at l o'clock. Many entertain
ments are being planned by people Of
the hunting colony for the guests who
will attend the trials.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

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Evening star., 1933-02-19
Many States Join in
February % Dance

"The Dance of the States" Tuesday
at the Shoreham Hotel promises to be
an outstanding event of the Washington
birthday and pre-inaugural season.
Nearly all of the 48 S<ates will be rep
resented by members of>State societies
Sectional and State dances will be q
feature of the evening. During the in
termissions radio artists will entertain
and the program promises to be inter-
esting and diversified.
The arrangements for the evening
are in charge of general committee
composed of Assistant Secretary OF
Agriculture Rennick w. Dunlap of the
Ohio Society, Mr.. Frank E. Hickey OF
the Massachusetts, Society, Mrs. Mebal
r. Peiros of the Vermont Society, Capt
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Sacred Heart Academy
Dance FRIDAY Night

A dance sponsored by juniors of
Sacred Heart Academy will take place
Friday at the Sacred Heart auditorium.
Miss Peggy Mcnamara, president of the
class Is the sponsor. assisted by Miss
Betty Cox, vice president; Miss Frances
Fitzgerald; secretary, and Miss Mar
garet Barger. treasurer.
The patrons for the dance are Mr..
and Mrs John H. Barger, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas j. Carlin, Dr. and Mrs. Leo NJ
Cavenaugh, Mr. and Mrs Daniel J.
Cox, Mr.. and Mrs " M Drooney, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry L. Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas j.. Fitz Gerald, Mr. and Mrs
Herbert L. Franc, Mr. and Mrs Charles
C. Geduldig, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter z.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

reference to admission. The committee
in charge of admissions is Mr.. A. G.
Radue, Alabama; Miss Gertrude M.
Louis. Iowa. and Mr.. william r. Won
drowitz, Wisconsin.
Presidents or secretaries Of State So
cieties or the president or secretary of
the All States Officers Society will fur
nlsh information regarding the dance,
which will be from to IL 80 o'clock.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Porapidine, and Il would Live It Again, y
by Mrs. Joseph Foraker, will be among
the books reviewed. Miss Drake ahr
will review the Midwinter issue Of
Carlton, the party magazine edited by
Caroline Giltinan, Anne Robinson and
Catherine G. Coblentz of Washington
The booklover public is cordially invited
to attend.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Thomas J. Jackson Of the Georgia
Society. and Mr. Ben s. Fisher Of the
Oregon Society.
Gertrude M. Louis at the Roosevelt
Hotel. secretary of the society, or from
the ticket offices at the Willard or
ShorehaY Hotels.
Members of State societies should
consult Jan officer Of their society with
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Invitations Issued
For Exhibit Openine

Invitations have been issued for the
private view of an exhibition of old
masters of the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries by the Enrich Gal
leries of New York tomorrow evening at
9 o'clock at the Shoreham Hotel The
exhibit will remain open each day from
10 to 10 o'clock for a month.
Evening star., 1933-02-19

Keckens, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Nc
Mahon, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin J. Nc
Namara, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ofutt. Mr..
and Mrs. Vincent Saccardi, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Simpson. Mr.. and Mrs.
George B. Walsh and Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam Weschler.
Evening star., 1933-02-19
Mrs. Joseph Forakers
Book Reviewed Monday

Miss Alice Hutchins Drake will give
a talk on "The Guest Room Bookshelf"
before the z. w. c. A. Booklovers to-
morrow night at o'clock MY Life
In the Moslem East" by Nine. Pierre
Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-08
Valley Municipal
League Planned

Organization of a league of I'M
perial Valley municipalities similar
to the state organization was dis
cussed at an informal meeting of
representatives from various county
cities at the Ell Centre city hall
this morning.
Due to the fact that but a small
number of delegates attended and
that nothing definite in this mat
ter can be done Until it has been
thoroughly gone over by the in
dividual councils, another meeting
was arranged at which all the city
councils of the valley are invited
to be present. This meeting will be
held in Brawley, September 5, at
7:30 o'clock in the evening. At this
time it is hoped that the plans for
organization of the league may be
adopted.
Those present this morning we're
B. H. Evans, mayor of Westmor-
land Rance Baker, mayor of Braw-
ley. j. M. King, Holtville council
man, and H. w. Fawcett and Char
les Anderson, members of the Ell
Centre city council.