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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04

Labor and Industry in report on
wages and hours in the States indus
tries reveals that the average week
ly wage for workers is $14.64. Child
labor is widespread in Pennsylvania
especially in domestic work where
children of unemployed families were
found to be earning as little as 81
week for 1916 hours of work.
Children in shirt factories are paid
as little as $165 for two weeks work
Laundry workers receive SIS cents for
100 pieces of underwear in some sec
tons and are docked 81 day for
absence from work. Skilled milliners
average as little as SO cents in a
week Child labor increased 68 per
cent in the clothing industry. Thous-
ands of children are reported earn
ing less than the miserable relief ra-
tons doled out to the unemployed.
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railroad coordinator will be followed
by more permanent legislation that
will reduce the number of railroad
workers even more drastically.
In the last ten years, the number
of employees on the railroad has been
reduced by more than one-half. Over
100000 railroad workers have been
laid off since 1920. In the last three
years over 100000 have been fired.
The total wage bill for the railroads
has also been sharply cut, showing
a decline of over so per cent since
1929. More than $2O0,0o0,0o0 was
taken from the railroad workers
wages by the agreement signed by
the Brotherhood officials at Chicago
last January Preparations are now
under way for another conference be-
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Initiation Bill Overwhelmingly Passed
Cost Of Living Rising All Ouer Country

days reports indicate still further
rises. Merchants are openly express
ing their belief that much higher
prices will be seen in the next thirty
days.
Proctor and Gamble announced to-
day a rise of per cent in all soap
prices. Automobile prices advanced
five per cent in twenty hours. Rsw
silk prices advanced SO per cent in
New York City. In Chicago retail
silk prices have advanced 10 per cent.
In st. Louis the price of shoes has
been advanced over 10 per cent. In
New York City manufacturers have
posted notices OF five to ten per cent
advances in the price OF shoes.
Meat prices nave risen all over the
country from to as per cent, Can
he'd goods have also risen in price
ranging from to is per cent. But
ter and cream prices have riser
sharply, heavy p" cream advancing
trur 70 10 "a esgts aysst,
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tween the Brotherhood officials and
the railroad executives The railroad
owners have openly declared that they
confidently expect Is to 20 per cent
reduction in the basic rates of pay.
On all roads working agreements
are being violated every day.
Roosevelt's railroad COORDINATION
will be given full power to suspend
national agreements relating TO work
ing conditions where such suspension
will be lin the public interest" Such
economies" will be made at the ex-
pense of the railroad workers. Roose-
velt in office is breaking every prom
Use he made to railroad workers,
promising them improved conditions.
He is actively making their conditions
worse
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they did last year, Milo Reno and his
gang are assembling in DeS Moines.
1t is called the Farm Holiday Asso-
citation and announces that ii will
consider the idea of sponsoring q ma
tion-wide farm strike Many rank
and file delegates will, however, fight
for unity of action on the basis Of q
real farm program.
Spreads to Minnesota.
ST. PAUL, MINI, May 3.--In spite
of the use Of force against the Iowa
farmers, the farmers in Minnesota
are going ahead with plans to fight
mortgage foreclosures. As result,
Governor B. Olson has advised Min
r1esota sheriffs to defer sales now
pending. The moratorium on fore
closures, proclaimed in February, ex-
pired two days ago.
Stop Farm Foreclosure.
FERGUS FALLS, MINI, May 3D.
More than 300 farmers prevented the
foreclosure sale of farmer Abraham
Matson, who IS sick in bed. So strong
are the farmers modifying against
forced sales that even the church Is
taking a hand here. Rev. John Flint
of the Underwood Unitarian Church,
many of whose parish members are
also members of the Farmers Holt
day Association, marched with the
farmers 70 prevent the sale on the
Matson farTu The sale was post
poned for thrsy days.
Farmers should not be satisfied
with 30-day postponements, but con-
tinue the fight for complete cancella
ton of all farm mortgages and debts.
Fight to Defend Mich. Farmers.
WHITE CLOUD, Mich, May s.
Clyde Smith and George CaSpar,
farmer organizers charged with GRIM
inal syndicalism and in jail six weeks,
have been released after having their
bond reduced to $1,000 from $4,000.
This was. due to the protest Of the
International Labor Defense. The
court finally accepted the bond from
an outside county.
The hearing was originally set for
May 1st, but the judge failed to APP
pear, as he was frightened by the
huge demonstration of farmers OUT
side the court house. There was open
talk of taking action similar to that
against the Iowa judge last week.
Tried to Stop Demonstration.
All sorts of threats were made when
the demonstration was called by the
1. L. D., and there was a mobiliza-
ton of state troopers, deputized gun
thugs and other riff-raff elements to
intimidate the farmers. But they
went ahead anyway.
The trial is set for June 10. The
prisoners were released as soon as the
bail was posted and Immediately be-
gan tour, speaking at meetings or
ganized throughout the district &c
smash the drive of the state and to
stop foreclosures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
1850 ANTHRACITE
MINERS ON STRIKE
Need Of UnityBetween
Locals Is Imperative

SHENANDOAH, Pa. May s.-Ap-
prcximately 1850 miners are on
strike in the anthracite fields here
against wage-cut The strike
started on April 21st, when 300 min
ers of the Maple Hill Mine, owned by
the Philadelphia Reading Coal Co,
walked out in protest against cut
in wages of from $3.50 cents per car.
The strikers were Joined on the fol-
lowing day by the workers Of the
Suffolk and st. Nicholas mines of the
same company. But these workers re-
turned to work last Monday after the
U. M. w. A. niisleaders had betrayed
them into leaving the decision of the
wage reduction TO the State Concilia-
ton Board. The Weston mine, with
400 miners, has also joined the strike,
but the Leggons mine, owned by this
company, has not yet come out.
In Shenandoah there are 10 locals
of the U. M. w. A., but they have no
connection with each other, and when
one local strikes the others continue
to work. In this strike, although the
three mines are near each other, the
coal going 10 the same predkeT, edCii
mine has its own local and constitu-
ton and is in no way connected with
the other. This is TO the advantage
of the coal operators and District Q
officials OF the Brennan machine.
1t is urgent that the miners or
ganize rank and file opposition groups
in each striking mine, connect with
each other and work out common de-
msnds and q common plan Of str,fs-
81 With the g,ddsnes u tbs Mstictst
tNksaerss Hrsrsz,
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in sending the militia to carry
through forced sales with bay
onets, tear gas and machine
guns as a declaration of war against
them. They defy this declaration
and take up the challenge.
Compel Prosecutor to Act.
Such a wave of indignation swept
through Cherokee County that County
Attorney James Smith was compelled
to announce that in case the state
militia came into that county and
carried on as they did in two other
counties he would have them jailed
for acts of violence.
This action was forced because the
troops, conducting raids and searches
for those farmers who are known to
have engaged in the anti-forsclosure
actions at LIE Mars and Pringhar last
week, threatened TO victirnize Chero-
kee County farmers who are protect
ing those being bounded.
Courts Will Not Convict.
Sentiment in these farm counties
10 OF plOhoC0 dS d1l4Db b11E
the insurance companies and other
mortgage sharks that no jury could
be found to convict the farmers who,
by their mass resistance, have de-
feated the sheriffs and their depu-
ties. Consequently the thugs in
charge of the militia have proceeded
TO set up military courts to try the
farmers who are treated as prison
crs of war.
The drum head court is to consist
of four officers and they will be aided
by Judge Frank B. Hallagan, who
has been appointed as special prose
cutor by the machine-gun governor
of the state.
Traitors In Move Against Farmers.
In an effort to place themselves at
the head Of part Of the farm move
ment in order to split the unity of
farmers and betray them into the
hands of the mortgage sharks, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04

WASHINGTON May 3. The
House of Representatives today pass
ed the Thomas initiation amendment
giving Roosevelt practically unlimited
inflationary powers. The Farm Re-
lief Bill to which the amendment is
attached will go Immediately to Roo
sevelt for signature. The vote was
BOT against 86.
The Thomas amendment, and the
Emergency Bank Act recently passed,
gives Roosevelt complete control over
all financial and currency policies.
1t gives Roosevelt complete powers to
issue unlimited billions of paper cur
rency. 1t gives Roosevelt power to
reduce the gold content of the dollar
by half. Even the supper ters of the
measure admit that, it gives Roose-
welt greater initiation powers than has
ever been given to any other Presi-
dent in the history of the country,
To Raise Prices
I rlee Roosevelt inflstior program
49, 40 Wnsuonek .0nN y 10 S1sa46
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murderous crew is to be made by the
courts in conjunction with the police
who are giving these racketeers pro-
lection in the interests of the fur
bosses and the right wing union Of
ficialss The indictments indicate also
that the gangsters will probably be
released shortly on low bail.
The workers of New. York City will
answer this intended whitewash by
turning out to Union Square in a
powerful mass protest on Saturday.
May 10. against the sa,ssstEs dskvs -
the minsAs1t unian4 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
NEWS FLASHES
NEW YORK. The Scott

boro defense was granted per-
mission by Mayor O'Brien late
Yesterday to collect funds in
the streets and subways of
New York City.
Volunteers are wanted i'm
mediately to take collection
boxes. Report to 119 w. 135th
ST., or to the International La
Dor Defense, 799 Broadway,
Room 1913.
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lAlN representatives VI u maj o.
That was the answer given yester-
day by Roosevelt's secretary and adj
visor, Louis Howe, to a request for
an appointment for the delegation,
Monday at 2 p. m.
Aim to Present Demands
The delegation to see Roosevelt
plan TO present him. on behalf of
the Scottsboro Marchers to be as
semhled in Washington that day, with
demand for the release of the
Scottsboro boys and the Bill of Civil
Rights" The purpose of the Bill is
to put teeth into the enforcement of
the 18th, 14th and 18th amendment
to the U. S. Constitution, which are
supposed to guarantee the democratic
rights of the Negro people.
Yesterdays delegation consisted of
Samuel c. Patterson, chairman of the
National Scottsboro Action Commit
tee; William N. Jones, editor OF the
Baltimore Afro American; Frank
Spector, assistant national secretary
of the International Labor Defense;
Bernard AIDES and Dr.. Albert Blum
berg of the Baltimore Action Com
nnittee, Richard B. Moore, Of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
and Elinor Mish and Louis Colman
of the Boston and New York National
Committee for the Defense of Poll
tical Prisoners.
Does Not Approve of March
Howe said he did not approve
of the march. and declared that it
"smacks Of bullying" The reason
Roosevelt cannot see any delegates
May 8, Howe said, is that che is
seeing only those he sends for" such
as foreign delegates and representa-
tiyes of foreign governments and
those members of our government
whom he wishes to consult about
pending legislation"
"As for the Scottsboro case, that Is
still in the courts" Howe said, fash
ioning an elaborate alibi for the Dem
ocfatic Party lynch rulers of Ala
banla. And you know our eonstitu-
tion--it does not allow the President
to interfere with such a thing. If the
final verdict is adverse when the
courts are through, that will be an
entirely different matter. At this
stage of the game, to infer that at
the end you are not going to get
justice is unfair, and it doesn't look
right. The State of Alabama would
resent it and would be perfectly JUS
titled in resenting it,
Tries to Evade issue
Roosevelt's lieutenant began to
count off on his fingers the branches
of government, the Legislative, the
Administrative and the Judicial. "You
see," he told the Committee, "the
President cannot interfere with either
the Legislative or the judicial
At this point member of the
Scottsboro Delegation spoke up and
called Howe's attention to the fact
that since Roosevelt's inauguration he
has taken dictatorial authority re-
CARELESS of any department of the
government. No objection was raised
to this, the delegate pointed out be-
cause the measures put forward were
on behalf of the bankers and other
financial interests.
Roosevelt's secretary passed this by,
however, and blandly continued Il
will take your petition referring to
the statement Of the committee) and
put it before the President. He will
read IL, as he reads all these things
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
FARMERS MOVEMENT IS
SPREADING IN DEFIANCE
OF IOWA COURT MARTIAL
Farmers Compel Prosecutor to Threaten Action
Against Raids and Searches of State Militia
Minnesota Farmers Enter into Fight; Stop
Eviction; Defend Arrested Mich. Farmers

DIES MONIES Iowa. May 3.-Arrests by the military
throughout number of counties northwestern Iowa
In spite of than 100 arrests and the preparations of the
militia authorities to up drumhead martial the
rent is rapidly growing
farmers regard the actions of Governor Clyde Herring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
THUGS WHO RAIDED NEEDLE UNION
INDICTED FOR ASSAULT AND
MISCHIEF" IN POLICE WHITEWASH
Murder Charge Dropped in Interest Of Fur
Bosses and Right Wing Union Officials

NEW YORK. All gangsters involved in the murderous
attack the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers
dusria Unon April II indicted by the Grand Jury
yesterday after the latter heard witnesses Monday and
Tuesday
Although person murdered in the vicious attempt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
RO0SEVELT'S RAILROAD CAR WILL
DROP 100000 MORE RR. WORKERS
Working Rules To Be Suspended Wages Cut;
Reduction in Basic Rates

WASHINGTON May Sit admitted that the railroad
the streets it is put into
PERMANENT REDUCTION
II reliably
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
SECRETARY
HEDGES ON SCOTTSBORO
DELEGATIONS DEMANDS
President to Consider Question of Meeting
Scottsboro March Delegation on Monday
Howe Tries to Bluff Committee; Plans for the
Scottsboro March Moving Forward

WASHINGTON SPresident Roosevelt viii consider" the
demand Of the National Scotsboro Action Committee that he
delegation Of the Soboo while rests
presidential ychtbut likely consider the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-04
Child Spveatshob Workers
Strike Against Wage Cut
Children Revolt Against Weekly Wages of Is
Cents; Relief Agencies Act AS Strikebreakers

from
IA to 1S maby exploited the shirt
shops Allentown Northampton ndnourhed
out strike last against further
Approximately
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07
John M. CIsqton- Delaware

tor, secretary OF interior and chairman Of the
Republican national committee.
MASSACHUSETTS, Adams, governor,
and patriot of the Revolution; John Winthrop,
Colonial governor.
MINNESOTA-Henry Mower Rice, pioneer
and one of the first senators from the state
MISSISSIPPI-Jefferson Davis, president of
the Confederacy; James T. George, Confederate
soldier and United States senator.
MISSOURI-Francis p. Blair, soldier, editor
and political leader; Thomas II. Benton senator
and strong Union man.
NEW HAMPSHIRE--John Stark. soldier in
the French, Indian and Revolutionary wars;
Daniel Webster senator and famous foe of Sc
cession
NEW JERSEY-Richard Stockton, eminent
Colonial leader Philip Kearny famous soldier
and explorer.
NEW YORK-Robert r. Livingston, Colonial
governor and signer of the Declaration of indie
pendence: George Clinton, governor of the state
and Vice President of the United States.
NORTH CARoLINA-Zebulon Baird Vance
Confederate veteran, governor and senator;
Charles Brantly Aycock.
OHIO-James A. Garfield, Civil war general
and President; William Allen senator and gov
ernor.
OKLAHOMA-SeQuOya Cherokee Indian and
inventor of the Cherokee alphabet.
PENNSYLVANIA. P. G. Muhlenberg, min
lister of the gospel. soldier and member of the
house; Robert Fulton, the adapter of steam
power to the propelling Of ships.
RHODE ISLAND-Nathaniel Greene, famous
comrade in of Washington; Roger Will
lams, founder of Providence and Rhode Island
plantations.
SOUTH CAROLINA-John C. Calhoun, sena-
tor and secession protagonist; Wade Hampton,
Confederate general, governor and senator.
TENNESSEE-Andrew Jackson, soldier and
President; John SEWER soldier in the Revolu-
tion, first governor Of the state and member Of
congress.
TEXAS-Stephen F. Austin, Texas revolution
ist; Samuel Houston, liberator and President Of
the Republic of Texas, later governor and men,
ber of the house.
VERMONT-Ethan Allen, hero of Ticonder-
oga; Jacob Collamer, congressman, senator and
postmaster general.
VIRGINIA-George Washington, Father of
His Country; Robert E. Lee, Confederate gen
ezal.
WEST VIRGINIA-John E. Kenna, Confeder-
ate veteran. member of the house and senate;
Francis E. Pierpont, Union war governor.
WISCONSIN-James Marquette, French Je-
suit priest and explorer; Robert NJ. La Toilette,
senator, governor and progressive leader.
tG by Western Newspaper Union)
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07
Senator Robert M. LaFoIlet+e-
Wisconsin
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

HE recent announcement from Wash
ington, that some of the statues
in Statuary hall on the main line"
between the house and senate cham
bers in the United States Capitol
are to be removed because engi-
neers believe that the weight of
the 6S bronze and stone figures
which now crowd the hall is en-
dangering the foundations of the
chamber, has brought again into
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07
Sequouah - Oklahoma

ventor of the ice machine and mechanical re.
frigeraton; Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Mexican war
soldier, Confederate leader and in civil life a
famous educator.
GEORGIA-Dr. Crawford Williamson Long
physician and discOverer of ether anesthesia
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president OF
the Confederacy.
IDAHO-George L. Shoup pioneer and patriot
colonel in the Union ARMY, governor of Idaho
both territory and state, and United States sen
ator
ILLINOIS-James Shields Union officer in
Mexican and Civil wars ard United States SEN
ator; Frances E. Willard, reformer, president
and founder of the Womans Christian Temper
ance union.
INDIANA-Oliver P. Morton, Civil war gov.
ernor and senator; Lew Wallace, Union general
and author of Ben Hur.'
IOWA-James Harlan. senator and secretary
of interior; Samuel Jordan Kirkwood minister
to Denmark, senator and secretary of interior.
KANSAS-John j. ingalls,, lawyer scholar and
statesman, three terms a senator; George Wash
ington Click governor and Union veteran.
KENTUCKY-Henry Clay, speaker of the
house. senator and secretary of state; Ephram
Mcdowell. physician and surgeon
MAINE-William King, first governor, sue
cessful banker and business man; Hannibal
Hamlin, Vice President under Lincoln.
MARYLAND-Charles Carroll, member of the
Continental congress and last surviving signer
of the Declaration of independence; John Han
son. patriot of the Revolution and president of
the Continental congress.
MICHIGAN-Lewis Cass, senator, cabinet of
fcer and statesman; Zachariah Chandler, sena-
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07
Lights of New York ByLL. STEVENSON

She doesn't look to be more than
fifteen years of age. She is built
rather slight and her big soft brown
eyes have an expression as if she
were little girl alone ln a large
and rather terrifying world. At
least that was the impression gained
by a New York couple who. taking
an evening spin on the Jersey side,
encountered her standing by the
road with big suitcase. They
stopped and offered to give her
lift, which she accepted gladly.
Asked where she was going she re-
piled Newton. AS that town was
many miles distant and II was get
ting dark, the wife invited her to
go home with her. The girl con-
sented willingly. II Didn't make
any particular difference, she said,
when she got to Newton.
On the way back to New York,
taurant. The girl said she had had
only a cupful of coffee so far that
day. The meal she ate verified her
statement. After eating, she seemed
to relax. Her name is Jackie Ray,
she said She had been brought up
in an Ohio orphanage. When she
had graduated from the eighth
grade, she was kept in the orphan
age to look after other children,
though she wanted to go to high
school. Finally, she was allowed
to attend high school and earn her
own way. When the depression
came she couldn't earn anything, so
her education ended when she was
junior. Rather than remain in
the home, she ran away. Instead
of being fifteen, she is twenty-five
years old, she said.
In her travels she had crossed the
continent three times and has been
from the most northern 10 the most
southern borders the same number
of times. She has slept In munich
pal lodging houses all over the coun-
try. She has also slept in fields
and in haystacks. She calls her
suitcase home" In it she carries
clean clothes and a small electric
iron. She washes her clothes at
the municipal lodging houses. But
she can't iron them there because
that takes electricity. SO she does
her ironing at gasoline filing spaces,
the attendants cheerfully giving her
the privilege. In fact she classes
gasoline filling station attendants
as gentlemen. Truck drivers come
in the same class. The cnly man
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07

r. Herzfeld, field director OF the
Persepolis expedition, that in shift
ing his field railroad he had cut
through ridge and discovered hun
dreds of Eliamite cuneiform tablets.
"Eliamite was the pre-Persian Ian
guage, and the records are very i'm
portant They apparently relate TO
the building of the palaces at Khor-
sabad, but because Doctor Herzfeld
is the only member of the expedi-
ton who did not come down with
malaria and had to leave, they have
not been carefully examined as yet.
"At the present time we have only
the Greek accounts of the great bat
ties of Marathon and Salamis, but
it is not improbable that we shall
find the Persian accounts of these
battles in the records at Perse-
polls"
Doctor Breasted flew 5000 miles
by plane in the Near East In visiting
the expeditions, covering III five min
utes distances that on earlier trips
had required a day by camel On
this recent visit he saw for the first
time the expeditions and work being
carried on at Persepolis, and by the
Syrian and Iraq field forces. Since
his last trip, new headquarters
buildings have been erected by the
Institute at Luxor, PersepClis, and
Tel ASmar.