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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
Would Lower WAGES SIN More

At the present time, when there are
100000 unemployed workers, ac-
cording to the estimate of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, the true
figures being above 100000. and
when 60 PEE cent of the employed
workers are put on the stagger plan
and working even less than 30 hours
week, with earnings cut below the
minimum to buy the bare necessities
of everyday life, to support a bill like
Senator Blacks means nothing else
than further lowering the living
standards Of the workers.
Just one argument for the necessi-
ty of establishing minimum wage
scale. We have facts and figures that
the workers in the United States are
working so and go hours a week for
10 cents and rs cents per hour which
would give an average of So 10 SIC
per week for go hours of work. More
concretely, we shall quote Mr.. H. L.
Kerwin, director of the Department
of Labor Cancellation Service. The
week ending Dec. 81, 1882, on Dis
puteS on Government Constructions,
strike had been called on the Gus
tom House in Philadelphia, Pa, where
the house wreckers and the building
trades workers went on strike against
the low wages of 20 cents per hour.
The strike was adjusted by the De-
partment Of Labor and now the
workers are receiving only Is cents
per hour and their weekly earnings
are $3.50.
The present crisis with SO many
millions Of workers unemployed, can
not be solved with legislative action
to reduce the hours TO 80 a week.
Even if the proposed amendments are
accepted, namely, no further reduce
ton in pay, and the establishment Of
a minimum wage scale unempioy-
ment insurance to be paid by the fed
eral government and the employers
must be provided for the unemployed
workers. Only by militant struggle
of organized and unorganized workers
for Federal Unemployment Insur-
ance and stubborn fight against any
form of wage cuts and for higher
wages, for better conditions, will the
workers be able to abolish the Hoo
yer, Teagle, and Green stagger sys-
tenn, the share the work" plan and
establish the 30-hour week and g.
hour day with decent living wage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
HOSPITAL KICKS OUT
CONVALESCENT WORKERS

NEW YORK. --Recently while a
patient at Bellevue Hospital I had a
chance to get some first-hand OBJ
servation of the workings of the new
economy plan" put through by the
city.
The first to get it in the neck, Of
course, were the workers. All of the
foreign-born were laid off without
any requirements. This means that
many of the others get a shift from
II to Is hours a day. Because of
the short help, patients are forced
to make their own beds and do other
little jobs. A runner in the admission
department told me that their num-
Der had been cut from eight to four,
while their wages had been sliced
from $50 to $50 a month. 1 had to
wait there three hours before I was
taken in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23

Lovestonite delegates, who, while car
rying on joint tactics and following
practically identical line, did not
have a single worker representative
of organizations outside of them
selves.
Characteristic of the delegation
was the speech of delegate Horwitz.
Of Bakers Local sos, who told about
the bakers working 16 hours a day
in spite of union agreement for an
8-hour day, ignored by the bosses
with the help of the union officials
He emphasized the necessity for the
fight against injunctions, which, he
said, the A. F. of L. officials helped
the bosses to put through in court.
He called for a continued united
front struggle to achieve the aims OF
the Conference.
Speaking as the official represen-
tative for the Communist Party, Clar-
ence A.. Hathaway emphasized the
necessity of mobilizing the workers
behind their common and most vital
interests, and pledged the fullest Co
Op6TdIlOu u Lie Hdtby III tue NOIk VI
the Conference, and at the same time
stressed the necessity for pushing the
fight forward after the Albany con-
ference takes place.
Hathaway warned against the tao
tics of Cannon, Lifshitz, Weisbord,
who unanswered for another city
conference prior to the Albany Con-
ference. Hathaway characterized this
move as calculated to delay prep
arations for the fight to be made in
Albany.
Hathaway was among the first to
pledge donation of $50 in the name
Of the Communist Party to carry
forward preparations for Albany.
Practically every delegate took the
floor to pledge financial support in
the name of his organization.
A more detailed explanation Of the
decisions and plans Of the prelim-
mary conference will be published
tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
BERLIN WORKERS
BATTLE FASCISTS
Repel Nazis, Defend
Party Building
BULLETIN
Gable BY Inprecorr.)


BERLIN, Jan. 22.-Police report
that by 4 o'clock today there had
been 68 arrests in the fight be-
tween workers and the fascists.
There were 21 attacks on the fas-
cist columns.
The police made 10 baton
charges, resulting in injuries to ~
persons, including three police and
Is fascists.
Germanstrasse police fired into
workers, killing one and wounding
another. The streets are full Of hos
tile workers, with continual colli-
sions of workers with the police and
fascists in the working class quar-
tiers north and east.
BERLIN, Jan. % CBy Radio).-
The Buelow Platz, where about 10000
fascistS held a provocative demons
tration today in front of the Karl
Liebknecht House, Headquarters of
the Communist Party of Germany, is
now black with workers, staging,
despite police orders, a counter
demonstration against the fascists.
The air is filled with shouts of Down
with the Schleicher government and
other slogans. Fighting is going on
in the Buelow Platz section and big
demonstrations are being held In the
workers neighborhoods, with the
police attacking.
Numerous clashes are reported in
various parts Of the town. The
workers in the Temperhof section
overpOwered the fascists, stripped
off their uniforms and shoes and
left them in their underclothing
in the snow. In Wedding and Fried
richshain the fascist columns were
broken despite the police guards.
Serious clashes took place on the
Rosenthaler Platz, the police shoot
ing three workers in the stomach
and chest.
In the Neukoelln section the police
dispersed workers demonstrations at
the point of revolvers.
AT 2 o'clock the fascist columns
began arriving, under heavy police
guard, "a the Buelow Piatz. They
we're otimated at about 10000, with
numerous attachments brought into
Berlin from outlying districts. The
demonstration was held contrary to
reports published in yesterday eve
ning's bourgeois press that Chancellor
Won Schleicher intended to close the
Buelow Platz to all corners, including
the fascistS, and to direct the latter
into other streets.
This morning, however, it became
clear that Schleicher had confirmed
the police permission for the demons
tration and that the bourgeois press
had merely been trying to soothe the
enraged workers and put them off
their guard.
The Socialist Party and the mis-
leaders of the reforTnist trade unions
had issued strict orders to their men,
beers under no circumstances to Join
the Communist counter demonstra-
tions. At the same time the Reichs-
banner. dominated by the socialists"
had withdrawn its detachments from
Berlin. abandoning the streets to the
fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
VA. STUDENTS
DEFEND NEGROES
Protest Ala. Terror;
Socialists Opposed

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Jan. 20.
Overriding the opposition of 'Soci-
alist' students, the Liberal Discus
sion Group of the University of Vir-
ginia, adopted a resolution protest
ing against the landlord police ter
ror against the Negro troopers and
exploited farmers OF Tsllapoosa
County, Ala.
The resolution was introduced by
the president of the group and de-
Tended by Southern born student
in a militant speech, against the OPP
position of the Socialists" students.
The speaker described conditions in
South Carolina, and agreed with the
president that the landlord terror
was directed against the entire work.
ing-class by seeking to crush the
struggles of one of its sections. He
declared that as students interested
in social problems they should have
the courage of their convictions.
Socialist Students In Fear.
The Socialist" students expressed
fear that the group would be brand
ed as Communistic If it supported
the struggles of the Negro people.
The president answered that if the
students took any part in the class
struggle. he would expect them to be
branded as Communistic group,
and he hoped they would merit the
term.
The resolution was offered follow
ing an address by John Rogers, artist
and writer, on '"T'he Significance of
the Hunger March"
Several students volunteered to
make an investigation of conditions
In the mill-districts and slums of
Charlottesville.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
"a PC. Photoengravers
Are JObless. VOlz Saws

NEW YORK.-Edward j. volz,
president of the international Photo
engraving Union, told Local No. 1
at the annual meeting in the Brook
Ign Elks Club House that IA per cent
OF the 8,640 union members are either
unemployed or working part-time.
Matthew Vol, president Of
the A. F. OF L., and professional Red
batter, in an address at the same
meeting, called for what really
amounted to an extension of the
"stagger system; thus increasing the
humber of part-time employed.
VOL predicted the 30-hour week
and pointed out the necessity" of it.,
but forgot to mention that his plan
also called for wage reductions in
accordance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
SOCIALIST JUSTICE IN SWEDEN
CHINESE UNION LEADER
ARRESTED.

SHANGHAI, Jan. 5 (By maiD -
Huang Ping, chairman of the ALL
China Trade Union Federation, who
is also member of the Executive
Committee of the League against I'm
perialism, has been arrested in Peip-
ing (Peking). He was detained in the
Chen-suen-yan prison, where he is
subjected to inhuman torture and
then shipped in irons to Marking.
He is in danger of immediate exc
cution by Chang Kai-Shek or of be-
ing shipped to Canton, where an
execution warrant is waiting for him.
A worldwide protest is urgently
necessary-AT ONCE--if the life of
Huang- Ping is to be saved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
ARREST THREE TAMPA
WORKERS IN FRESH
WAVE OF TERROR

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 20-In a new
wave of terror against the militant
workers of Tampa, police yesterday
arrested three workers who went to
the city Jail to visit Homer Burton,
sentenced for being a known Com
munist and found in Tampa" and
severity beat up a fourth. They are
held on the same charges. The
workers arrested are Armando Lopez.
Eviqueta Palacios, and Yorkinda
Romero.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
International
Notes
BIZ ROBERT HAMILTON
RED GAINS IN BERLIN CABLE
PLANT.

RED GAINS IN BERLIN CABLE
PLANT.
BERLIN, Jan. 5 (By maiD I'm
the shop council elections held yes
terday in the Siemens Gable Plant
in Berlin the revolutionary trade
union opposition was the only Or
SANITATION to gain It's percentage Of
the total vote cast rising to 1874 per
cent, compared with 283 per cent in
the last election in 1880. The re-
forrnists' vote dropped to half their
former total, and now the Communist
vote exceeds the Socialist total by
200 votes.
SOCIALIST JUSTICE IN SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. (By maiD
The district court in Skellefteo has
sentenced 18 working men and wo-
men to Jail and fines for demon
STATIONS against scabbing last
Spring, which resulted in clashes
with the police A mother Of 8 child
rem was sentenced to 8 months at
hard labor.
1t is significant that Sweden has
Socialist governmc and the
Swedish Socialists won the last
election largely on the campaign
platform of political amnesty. The
usual contradiction between Social
list words and deeds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
60 Organizations
Plan Conference
on State Scale

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
By Joan Clayton
By TuthilI
By Cliff Sterrett
By MiIt Gross
BY Rube GOLDBERG

With which statement he left
the room, closing and locking
the door behind him. The slow
hours dragged by. Patricia
paced up and down, evolving in
her mind a thousand futile
plans. Darkness fell slowly.
Outside the water turned from
blue to gray, from gray to black.
AS night closed down, the
girls panic grew. She beat upon
the door and the unyielding
glass of the portfolio. That got
her nowhere. She sobbed and
stormed. That got her nowhere
too. There must be some way
out. What was it? Pressing
her hand against her aching
head she tried to think and
thought Of nothing.
They were coming in to shore.
She had first seen the twinkling
lights Of land with a wild hope
that had long since vanished.
She was trapped below. Sud-
denly, after a long time, there
was a humping and a scraping,
the stateroom rocked to and fro,
the engine ceased it's throbbing.
They had docked! Bill was
aboard, was coming below. She
heard his footsteps outside her
door. He was in the room.
ATO Be Continued
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

feet. The distant throbbing, too,
was odd. All at once she realized
that she was aboard a boat. In
a kind of frenzied panic she
staggered to the portfolio op-
posite. Outside was a waste of
Sunlit water.
There was a door, locked. The
girl h a m m red, pounded,
shouted to exhaustion. No one
answered. How had she got
here? Who had brought her
here? Dropping to a chair she
Wept in WEAKNESS and bewilder-
ment and despair. 1t was a long
time before she tried to think
it out. When she thought it out,
she felt the beginning of fear
intolerable. She had tainted. It
was Bill MCGEE who had
brought her here.
A Prisoner
kidnapped" Patricia said
aloud.
It was Bill MCGEE who had
brought her here and Bill Nc
Gee had murdered Julian Hav-
erholt. She felt that she was
living through some evil dream.
This could not be true. At any
minute now Julian would be
shouting at her door, his arms
full Of the morning papers.
Julian. He was dead, MUIR
dered. This was the morning
Of his triumph and he was
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
Love Story Of a Bridge Queen

dead. The girl bent her head
and sobbed for him. Julian
Haverholt had been her enemy;
he had been her friend. He
had given her all he knew how
to give; he had tried to rob her
of her hearts desire; he had
loved her in the only way he
knew; he had done his best to
wreck her life. She had quar-
relied with him; she had
hated him but she had been
fond of him, too-al! that was
nothing now as the man him
self was nothing.
Julian" she whispered in
the silence, Julian"
She was sitting very quietly,
eyes bleak and despairing, fixed
upon the portfolio, upon the
dancing sunlit waves, when she
heard the rattle of key. In
stantly she sprang to her feet
and backed against the wall.
The door opened slowly. A
man stood there, a young man
with a stupid british face, a
man whom she had never seen
before. He carried a tin tray
of food.
II guess you're hungry" he
said. calm and matter of fact.
Let me out of here" Pa
tricia cried and made a mad
rush for the door.
"That won't do no goodsp
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
KNAVE'S GIRL

CONTINUED from News Pase)
swayed and slid unconscious to
the floor.
Somewhere far off Patricia
heard a dull and muffled engine
throbbing, like the purring of
giant engine. Her head ached,
ached. She opened vague eyes,
tried to rise, moaned and sank
back again. A bar of sunlight
shone on a bright green carpet.
That puzzled her. In the gray
ness Of half-consciouSness she
remembered rain, pouring rain.
She was about to close her eyes
again when in one Sickening in
slant 1t all came back, the scene
IN the card room, Julian sitting
open-eyed with a bullet in his
brain, her frenzied flight toward
the living room, Bill MCGEE
moving down the stairs. He was
coming toward her. Where were
the servants?
"Annie," screamed the girl.
"Annie, Annie"
No one answered. The echoes
died to braSSy silence. She was
quite alone. She swung her feet
to the floor and somehow stood.
She stared dazedly at the bed
where she had lain, strange
bed fastened to the wall. The
small, cheerful, sunny room was
entirely unfamiliar. The floor
WaS Swaying oddly beneath her
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
Washington Times
Adventure Club

Several of our club members
have asked for a longer list Of
books about the three Scotch
heroes, Robert the Bruce, Sir
William Wallace and Bonnie
Prince Charlie.
Here are a few suggestions
from the Children's Department
Of the Public Library:
Robert the Bruce
Book Of Scotland, page 26-42,
Sidney Dark.
Story Of Robert the Bruce,
Jeanie Lang.
Story of King Robert, r. L.
Mackie.
ScOtland's Story, pages 1888,
H. E. Marshall.
Castle Dangerous, Sir Walter
Scott.
william WALLACE
Book Of Scotland, pages 26-42,
Sidney Dark.
Scotland's Story, pages 110-130,
H. E. Marshall.
Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter.
Tales of a Grandfather, Sir Wal
ter Scott.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Redgauntlet, Sir Walter Scott.
WaverIey, Sir Walter Scott.
HerOines of History and Legend,
pages 219-226. E. S. Smith.
The suggestion for a secret
club handshake, made by Billy
Reitz, 928 K st. N. w. (remem-
ber?) is approved by Charlie
Gels. Charlie writes that he
likes the club and was very
pleased to see his picture and
former letter IN Cne column.
He has a dog named "Skippy,"
and his favorite comics are
(you guessed it) "Skippy" and
"Popeye."
Two new members enrolled by
Charlie are Katherine and
George Leide.
Dorothy Kraft, Indian Head,
Mo-:
81 wish to enroll two of my
playmates. They are: Ruth
Wright, aged 8, and Hilda
Wright, aged 10. They like your
club and read the column every
day. I am glad 1 am q member
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

Feel better now, sister?"

cGe4 UeGCeE 11OW, ,S4SGSL!
She said in a low, savage
voice, "I'll feel better when Bill
MCGEE hangs for the murder
Of Julian Haverholt."
IT guess he WON'T" the other
replied, with an odd, unex-
pected chuckle.
won't what?" she demanded
sharply.
7 guess Bill won't hang this
trip. Maybe, you don't know
it, but Bill, he's smart. You'd
be surprised"
Terror clutched at her heart.
She felt the sweat spring into
her palms and bead her fore
head. She saw the man
stretch a languid arm into the
bunk, lift a smart pigskin bag
and drop it to the floor. It
was her own bag, the bag that
she had packed the night be-
fore.
AREN'T you going to unpack,
sister?" He added significantly,
You'll be with us quite a SPELL"
The girl swallowed with a dry
throat.
What does Bill want with
me?"
He'll tell you himself. He'll
come a board at nine o'clock.
Bill probably will want to see
you first thing,S
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

he announced indifferently and
kicked to the door. He asked
a second time, Are you hun
gry?"
you've got to let me out of
here. Open that door, I tell
you, open that door. You can't
do this to mel"
What are you going to do
about it, sweetheart?" he in
quired still indifferent, but
grinning slightly.
She stood very still. A bitter
realization of the futility of
an. protest stopped her. Tears,
hysteria, pleading, threats
would never move this man.
What are you going to do
about it?" .,e had asked her.
Indeed what could she do?
She sat down again. Her
hands were trembling as she
smoothed her skirt but her
voice was steadier as she said:
where are we?"
Without troubling to answer,
the OF placed his tray upon
a table, poured out a cup of
tea and handed it > her.
you better drink that"
Terror
She drank the tea, she ate
the burned toast, the badly
cooked eggs, the strips of
thick, frizzled bacon, while her
companion lounged against the
bunk watching her.
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

Herewith is the solution to
Tuesdays puzzle.
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
HORIZONTAL

f1Ok<AZON Al
What great Emperor of the
West became, with his twelve
legendary peers, the hero of
chivalric romance?
11-Person on whom an order is
drawn
12-Roofike cover
14-Three-toed sloth
15-Consume
16-Greek letter
17-Towards
18-Kind Of cloth
20-What Columbia professor is
assistant to Cordell Hull?
22-City in Brazil
23-Let fall
25-Under what name did the
American humorist, Charles
Farrar Browne, write: Arte-
mus ....!
26-Like
27-In what country did the Crown
Prince mount The throne in
1880 although he had re-
nounced his right to the sue
cession in 1925?
32-Exclamation
33-Italian city
34-Large African antelope
35-Hebrew name for God
37-What city of central Connect.
cut is famous for its silver
ware?
39-Part of "to be"
40-To give an inner coating
42-Therefore
44-Game at cards
45-What is the missing name: 4:
The heff to the British throne
is the Prince of :.4...s....?
49-Sense organ
50-Half an EN-
51-Edge of a wound
52-Fairy queen
54-Synbol for teAurium
55-Bristly
57-Pressed
59-MakeS less conservative
VERTICAL
Those who make proclamations
2-Exclamation
3-Inspire with reverence
4-Quantity of paper
5-Mother of Apollo
6-Husband or wife
Mot at home
8-African antelope
9-Symhol fore nickel
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

l10-CompIete
11-What strait extends 40 miles
between Europe and Asiatis
Turkey?
13-Of a cheerful temperament
19-River in Italy
21-Meadow
22-Egyptian sun god
24-Principal
25-What, famous general in the
Revolutionary War was called
''Mad Anthony?
28-Utilize
29-Deface
30-Incline the head
31-Anger
36-What is the first name of the
motion picture actor who
starred in Looking Forward"
and "Sweepings"?
38-Sick
39-Child's marbles
41-Negative
43-Note of the musical scale
45-Sagacious
46-One who initiates
47-Man's name
4s-Principal garment Of Hfn0A
woman
51-Return a ball in a high curve
53-Under what pen-name did
Charles Dickens sometimes
write?
56-Note of the musical scale
58-Compass point
The Washington times., 1933-08-24

Of this wonderful club. I like
it very much"
Irene STREET., Brentwood, Md:
Il would like to join The
Washington Times Adventure
Club. 1 read the column every
day. I am years old and go
to the Brentwood school where
I am in the first grade."
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
CONGRATULATIONS

Members of the club ceIe-
brating their birthday ami
versaries today include Rob-
ert Allen, 1905 N st. N. w.;
Catherine Godfrey, Seat
Pleasant, Md, and Earl Don.
nelly, 2846 Vista St. N. E.
We wish them many happy
returns of the day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-11
Before Silk Stockings
Came Into Common Use

GulnuclIaiR, Partisan American
book dealer, has unearthed the first
silk stocking poster used in France.
IL Is dated 1850 and was executed
for Pierre Baudeau. a merchant"
Baudeau was one OF the first Sils
hose makers In France. The poster
Is II by II inches aud Is a finely
engraved wood cut. says United
Press dispatch. II has an archiIec,
tural border. composed OF cupids
and grntrSUuPS. holding In their
arms certain objects for sale. The
ajurity Of merchandise Is SIR
stockings. There are some hats.
In The center Is an oval contain
Ing the bridesmaids mark-a mag
pie In u tree. surInuunting Ii circular
madnlliun on which Is the insCrip.
tnIn "lspx e. regina cast legio arAs
ST g." proving that linudeau was
Il purveyor Ia Philip II at Spain.
The approximate date If the poster
cnncideS with The entry Of 'hiiip
ii into France. where he signed the
treaty Of CateauCamhreSis. llith-
ertO. The wearing Of silk stockings
had heen custom confined solely
to the courts. and this poster prac-
ticalIy dates the capitalization OF
silk stockings
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-11
PARIS STYLES,

PARIS, April s. (UP)-,The
amount of variety to be found in
chic shirts and blouses positively
is appalling. They come high
necked. 10 wrecked. square neck
ed, oval necked, diagonal, draped,
pointed, twisted, tucked, rolled,
and their tiny tails are worn
either inside or outside the skirt.
Goupy offers a white dress
shirt, trim and tailored with
incruStations Of the material
coming up from the waist in the
shape of large pointed leaves on
each side of the front. 1t but
tons down the center, has a
trim little mannish collar with
Il wee block bow tie. The leaf
motif points upward on the
short sleeves from the cuff TO-
ward the shoulder and cloth
covered buttons, like the front
ones, are mounted on the stem
of the eaf that goes up the con-
ter.