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The Washington times., 1933-10-28
SI6,576 u. S. SelUer
Contract Awarded

The quartermaster general of
the Army has awarded a contract
to A. G. Pinkerton & Co.. Norfolk,
for construction and completion
of water, sewer and storm water
drainage systems for officer and
noncommissioned officer areas at
Langley Field, Va.
The amount of the contract is
$16,576.
A contract amounting to $6.975
for, construction and completion
of water mains for officers quar-
terS at Fort Humphreys, Va, has
been awarded to Bicklehaupt,
Inc, Richmond.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Boy, IL, and President Share
Honor In Saving Home

NTON, N. j., Oct. 28.
Twelve-year-old Adam M. Schmidt
was sharing honors with President
Roosevelt here today at the
Schmidt home which yesterday
was saved from foreclosure by the
first action in New Jersey of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation.
Adams father had been out of
work for six months and the cost
of maintaining his family of seven
made it impossible for him to
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
DEMANDS WAIT
FOR MONDAY s
CONFERENCE
Federal Guarantee of Costs
or National NRA Code Also
to Be Sought

DES MONIES, Ia. Oct. %
U.N.SO Most of the farm strike
front was quiet today as the agri-
cultural midwest hopefully await
ed the outcome Of a conference
here Monday, to be attended by
representatives of at least eight
States.
The objective is formulation of
definite recommendations for guild
ance of the Federal Government
in it's campaign to restore eco
nomic stability to the American
farmer.
Delegates to Attend
Members of the conference will
be Gov. A. G. Schmedeman, OF
Wisconsin; Gov. Floyd B. Olson,
Of Minnesota; Clifford Townsend,
lieutenant governor and commits
sioner of agriculture, representing
the governor of Indiana; Thomas
8. Allen, the right-hand man of
Gov. Charles Bryan, of Nebraska;
Walter w. Mclaughlin, director OF
agriculture for Illinois; j. H. Mer-
Ger, Kansas livestock commits
sioner. for Kansas, and Governor
Herring for Iowa. The name OF
the South Dakota representative
had not reached here, although
the governor of that State said he
would be represented.
A half mile from where the
governors conference is in ses-
sion at the State Capitol, farm
holiday association leaders from
10 States will be gathered to
keep a watchful eye on the meet
ing.
Strikers to Draft Demands
A preliminary meeting of the
strike leaders will be held here
tomorrow afternoon to draft Spe-
cific demands.
These demands are expected to
contain three major points:
/. Either Government guaran-
tee of cost-of-production prices
for all farm products or ma
tional NRA code for agriculture,
prohibiting sale of farm products
below specific price.
2. Refinancing of farm mort
cages with Federal funds on a
liberal appraisal basis and with
interest not to exceed 112 per
cent.
8. A moratorium on farm debts
until the farmer gets back on his
feet financially.
Federal Plan Unsatisfactory
The Governments present re-
financing program does not go
far enough, strike leaders say.
Appraisals are on the current low
price of land and, because thous-
ands upon thousands of farmers
owe more on farm mortgages
than their land could be sold for
now, they find it difficult to
obtain Federal refinancing. Fur
thermore, many of them consider
the AZ per cent interest rate
discriminatory.
Milo Reno, national head Of
the farm strike, said:
"The Government has been
lending money to foreign gov
ernment and domestic shipping
firms at less than l per cent
interest. 1t has been demand
ing AZ per cent from the
American farmer.
"The Government declared a
moratorium for banks and for
insurance companies. without
It, these companies WOULD have
gone down in ruin as they at
tempted to iquidate their as
sets to pay their expenses.
"ThiS same consideration
should be shown to the
farmer"
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
meet the payments on a $4,000
mortgage on his home.
Writes To President

meet the payments on $4,000
mortgage on his home.
Writes To President
Adam, who is an eighth-grade
pupil, didn't know much about
real estate dealings, but heard in
school about some of the things
President Roosevelt is doing to aid
families in such plights as his.
His mother had been worrying
considerably over the situation, so
Adam, without knowledge Of his
family, wrote "Pres. Roosevelt:
'Please, sir, President ROOse-
welt, 1 feel sorry for my mother.
Mother cries day and night be-
cause we are going to lose our
home. The man is going to
sell our house on the thirtieth
of August and make an auction
of our furniture because my
father can't pay the mortgage.
There are seven in the family,
counting me.
ROOSEVELT ACTS
''PIease, sir, President ROOse-
welt, l always worry that SOme-
thing might happen to my
mother. I'd lose everything
what 1 got. Please, can't you
do something for our family?
1 am willing to sleep under
tree, but I feel sorry for my
mother and father and sister
and the rest of the family.
Please help us do something.
Thanks a thousand times"
The President forwarded the
letter to G. Frank Shaniey, New
Jersey State manager Of the
Home owners Loan Corporation,
for investigation, and yesterday
the mortgages were Cancelled and
receipts for corporation bonds
made out to the mortgage holder.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
TRANSFERRED HERE

Comdr. Samuel r. White, U.
S. NJ. was ordered transferred
today from the Boston Navy
Yard to Washington for duty in
the Bureau Of Supplies and Ac-
counts at the Navy Department.
His transfer takes effect No
vember -
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
HAYC0CK TO LECTURE

Robert L. Haycock, assistant
superintendent of schools, will
give a steriopticon lecture on
"Cathedrals of Europe" tomor-
row at 8 p. M, at the West
Washington Baptist Chrch,
Thirty-first and N Streets North
west.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28

pered with humor. effervescent
with enthusiasm.
So unlike the average person OF
great age, who lives almost wholly
in the past, DR.. Davenport still is
a creature of today and tomor-
The Washington times., 1933-10-28

has on the Vine Street property
could not be determined. Her bro
ther, who died in 1928, was Claude
s. Jarvis, founder and owner Of
the taxicab company. The bro
theirs hat and coat still hang
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
Brownsville Workers
Support Rent Strike
On Williams Avenue

NEW YORK.-TenantS of 440 and
444 Williams Ave, Brooklyn, mill
family carry on the rent strike started
one week ago in spite Of disspossess
notices and arrests.
A very successful open air meeting
was held Saturday. The workers liv-
ing on that block and on nearby
streets rallied. Mass picketing and a
firm stand quieted the cops which the
landlord called. They dared not dis
turb the meeting.
When two workers went to spread
the news of a meeting called for
Sunday at the Hinsdale Workers Club
at 313 Hinsdale St., they were arrest
ed on the charges of disorderly con-
duct and of resisting arrest. Framed
by the strike breaking landlords of
the district, who want to teach ten
ants a lesson" they were held on
$500 BAIL
The stronger the attacks of the
house owners, the more determined
these workers are in their struggle
for fifteen per cent reduction and
the recognition of the house commit
tee. They have informed their land
lord in case Of any evictions that set
tlement will only be discussed when
the evicted tenants are readmitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

employment Green wants the masses
to believe that the Roosevelt admin
tstration Is working in the interests
Of the masses and not the bankers.
The Socialist Party was even the
forerunner In demanding initiation as
means Of solving the crisis.
Socialist Parties Mislead Workers,
Everywhere the Socialist Parties,
which claim to represent the inter-
ests Of the masses, have exposed
themselves as the saviors Of capital
ism. The results Of their policy, as
against the policy Of the Communists,
can best be seen in the comparison
Of the conditions Of the masses In
the Soviet Union and in countries
such as Germany and England.
On the basis Of the teachings Of
Marx and Lenin and under the
leadership Of Stain, the workers of
Russia are the ruling class and are
going forward to an ever higher
standard Of living despite the neces-
sity Of preparing the defense against
the capitalist war plans. In Eng
land and Germany, however, the So
cialist leaders have again and again
betrayed the masses and made room
for the attacks on the masses, for
the rise Of fascism. In Germany the
Socialists elected Hindenberg to stop
Hitler. The results speak for them
selves.
Only the Communist Party, which
Is a section Of the Communist In
has from the beginning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

correctly analysed the crisis When
the Socialist leaders repeated the
bosses propaganda about the quick
solution of the crisis, the Commu-
nists declared that this crisis Is not
OF the same character as previous
crises, when capitalism was still able
70 maneuver out of the situation.
Today the Communists again declare
that this crisis cannot be overcome
in the old way, but that we have
entered new round Of revolutions
and wars. Only the Communists
have Mt every stage correctly ana
lyzed the situation. This the facts
of the situation prove beyond doubt.
Only the Communist Party
Fights Bosses Attacks.
Only the Communist Party is mob
iliSing the masses to fight against
the attempts of the capitalists to
transfer the whole burden OF the
crisis on to the shoulders Of the
toiling masses. The Communists
have exposed the theory that low
wages will solve the crisis. The
Communists have organized and led
the masses in struggle for unemploy-
ment relief and insurance, against
wage-cuts, for wage increases, for
the return Of the deposits to the
small depositors, for relief to the
farmers, for the interests Of the vet
Grams. Only the Communists are
carrying on fight against the grow
ing reaction, for the political rights
Of the masses, for the rights of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

The crisis plunges into new depths
with such rapidity that it is bewil-
dering to those who do not realize
the fundamental causes of the crisis.
The present financial and banking
crisis is only one phase of the deep
ening Of the crisis. Under cover of
the bank crisis Is hidden new rise
of unemployment, a new closing of
the factories, new drop in produc-
ton.
To the toiling masses Of workers
and farmers this deepening of the
crisis means more wage-cuts, more
part-time work, less unemployment
relief, loss of deposits, rise in the
cost Of living, further impoverish-
rnent.
The new Congress, under the lead
ership Of Roosevelt, has enacted the
new banking legislation with unpre-
cedented rapidity. What does this
legislation mean to the masses? 1t
means that the small depositors will
be the victims of the manipulations
through which the big bankers, the
Mitchells, have enriched themselves.
The banking legislation also calls
Tor the issuance of additional cur
rency. To the masses this means a
rise in the cost OF living, a fall in
real wages Through the Roosevelt
inflstion).
We thus see that beneath the
smooth Roosevelt talk about the for
kotsen man he is putting into effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
Delay, Sabotage and
Cut Down Relief At
Central Registration

NEW YORK.-The Central Regis
tration Buro is cutting down the re-
lief for single jobless workers. IN
stead of weeks misery in a flop
house they now dole out only one
night with plea" as to why
don't you give some new fellows a
chance"2
The clerks have been instructed to
slow down on their work and work
err has 10 stand in line for as high as
seven hours. At p. m, they close the
windows with a cynical Come back
tomorrow"
They do not serve beef stew any
more but thin watered macaroni
stew" One worker asked why they
cut out sugar In the coffee and they
said no money. This worker has
been in Cuba and seen the workers
in the cane fields shaving for a nickel
day and expressed his puzzlement.
He was told You're off the list for
a week." The bank holiday" is the
stock excuse for cutting relief and
increasing the graft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
800 Taxi Drivers Out
Of Jobs: Two Firms
Shut Down Yesterday

NEW YORK.-Two taxicab COM
panies closed their doors yesterday,
throwing more than 600 steady day
and night men and 300 extras out
of jobs. The Palace Cab Co., located
at Garage 2, 17lst st. and Inwood
Ave, Bronx, closed up without no.
tice to the drivers. The Monarch Taxi
Corporation closed its garage at l56th
st. and Whitlock Ave. yesterday with
the promise that it would reopen on
Friday.
The workers predict that the gar
age will remain closed since its $50
cars are old and dilapidated. Other
garages Of these companies remain
open but operate with reduced crews
chosen from those who turn in the
largest fares on the previous day.
Taxi men scarcely average $40 a
week fol 6-day shift. The majority
of the workers do not get more than
two or three days work. The Taxi
Workers Union is carrying on strug-
gle against discrimination and unenl-
ployment in the industry. Bronx
hackmen thrown out of work by the
garage shut-downs get in touch with
the union office. Room 23l, 30 e. 18th
ST., Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

ing billions FOR war preparations.
The Roosevelt program Is a program
OF trying to save capitalism through
the impoverishment of the masses
and through new world imperialist
slaughter. ~ ".''
The crisis is sharpening in every
capitalist country in the world. And
everywhere the ruling class tries to
solve the crisis in the same way as
the Wall Street-Roosevelt govern
ment. In Germany. Hitler makes
war on the masses and prepares for
war with France and Poland, but
most Of all against the Soviet Union.
Japan makes war on the masses at
home and on the Chinese masses,
while 1t builds up its war machinery
for an attack on the Soviet Union.
Two Worlds.
World capitalism realizes that IN
the struggle Of the two world sys-
TENS, the system Of capitalism, and
the system Of Socialism, which the
Soviet Union represents, the new Or
der is rapidly rising, and the old Or
der OF capitalism Is rapidly declining.
Out Of this realization, and in the
attempt to save the decaying capt.
talist system, the imperialists of the
world are arming for war against
the Soviet Union.
The A. F. Of l.. leadership is once
more trying to fool the workers Of
this country into accepting the new
attacks. Green speaks Of rise in
prices as a precopdition for rise in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
SUBWAYS CONTINUE CUTS, FIRING,
DlSRECARDlNC DANGER TO RIDERS
RT Subway Workers
Face Mass Lay-Offs
In efficiency Plan"

NEW YORK.-Plans to eliminate
both the 59th st. and 74th st. power
plants are being made by the re-
ceiveers OF the l. r. T., according to
reliable reports. The company ex-
poets to economic by giving this
business to the Edison Co. What will
happen to the workers who are
thrown out Of jobs does not concern
the company. Layoffs are also con-
templated in the cleaning, painting,
washing and other departments
The Emergency Unemployment Re
lief Committee is opposing the dis
charge Of the workers, as result of
the publicity given these plans by
the I. r. t. Workers Group IN their
leaflets and activities and the pro-
tests Of many workers. Tlo Com
mittee states that it will I TN added
burden Of unemployment to the city
& ID will endanger public safety
rough improper. and undermined
( twice.
Twenty spoilers" Company stool
pigeons) have been added to the New
York Central Station in an attempt
to prevent the agitation and leaflets
OF the 1. r. T. Workers Group The
Group is protesting the proposed dis
charge caused by the efficiency" pro-
gram and the ruthless policy OF the
company in endangering the lives Of
those using the subways.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

Negro masses and all other specially
oppressed groups. The Communist
Party. while realizing that capitalism
Is bankrupt, that a new society must
be established, nevertheless defends
the immediate interests Of the masses
and fights against every attack Of the
capitalists.
The Communist Party Is the only
Party that explains to the masses
that there can be no prosperity for
the masses under capitalism. The
existence of capitalism can be con-
tinued only through the further i'm
poverishment Of the masses and
through the slaughter Of millions in
a new world war. Only the abolition
Of capitalism can bring peace and
prosperity to the masses.
Join the Only Party OF the
Working Class.
The Communist Party, in order to
be able to better organize the fight
for the immediate interests Of the
masses, in order to strengthen the
fight of the working class for the
abolition of capitalism, calls upon the
masses to join its ranks and
strengthen the only Party that repre-
sents their interests.
The COMMUNIST PARTY is the
Party of the working class. It's
strength is derived from the working
class. 1t depends upon you how
strong the Party is. 1t depends upon
you how effectively we can resist the
attacks of the capitalists. It de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

policies with record speed designed
to save the fortunes of the rich Wall
Street bankers at the expense of the
masses. The first act of Roosevelt
is relief to the big bankers, while
the starvation of the million masses
increases from day to day.
The second bill before Congress
proposed by Roosevelt shows even
more clearly the class character of
the Roosevelt government. Roose-
welt demands the cutting down of
the meager relief to the veterans,
the victims OF the last world war
through which the rich became
richer He also demands new wage
cuts for the low paid government en-
ployes! He does not meet the Gov
eminent deficit through taxes on the
rich, but through further robbery of
the poor.
1t is also claimed that Roosevelt
will bring forward a bill for half
billion dollars for public works in or
der TO put a half million workers on
Jobs. Even if this is true it is of
little Importance. Tens Of thousands
of workers have been thrown out of
employment in the last few days
alone. Many times this sum Of the
workers and small mans" deposits
has been wiped out in the last few
days.
Billions for War.
The Roosevelt administration,
While DENYING relief to the unem-
ployed, continues the policy of spend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
PLAN GENERAL
FOLTIS STRIKE
ASC0URT MEETS
LaGuardia Attor n e y
n Against Contempt
Proceedings

NEW YORK.-Active preparations
for a general strike in the whole chain
Of cafeterias, to be launched at a
mass meeting of all Foltis-Fischer
workers and strikers are being made.
Meanwhile Fiorella Laguardia, former
congressman, will represent the AM
erican Civil Liberties Union, along
with Attorney Buitenkant, for the
Food Workers Industrial Union in
the fight against the F'oltis- Fischer
strike contempt proceedings today.
The hearing is before the Federal
Court, twelfth floor Of the Woolworth
Building, at 4 p. m.
Test Case.
The Civil Liberties was present at
a conference last week between the
union and the International Labor
Defens, where 1t was pointed out that
if this contempt case goes through, it
will amount practically to the de-
claring of an anti-strike law for all
companies in receivership.
The receiver of Foltis-F Fischer
claims that any strike while the court
is in charge Of company means
contempt of court. Half the big COM
panies in America are either in or on
the verge of going into receivership.
This trial, extremely important to all
workers, is open to the public.
Strike Goes On.
Meanwhile the strike in IL Foltis-
Fischer cafeterias goes ahead, picket
ing continues, and the company is
hard hit.
1t has been found out that the
cafeterias of this chain which used to
bring in $500 night, now average
hardly $50 and none of the struck
cafeterias are paying expenses.
Hired gangsters are threatening
the pickets, police are adopting a
menacing attitude also.
The F. w. I. U. calls a membership
meeting of it cafeteria section Fri
day, 8 p. m. at West 18th st. The
mass meeting Of all Foltis workers for
a general strike will be arranged at
the meeting Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15

gency Committee on school over
crowding.
The meeting is called for the pur-
pose of protesting the displacement
and substitution of regular engin-
eering employees by Emergency" re-
lief workers, to demand the Civil
Service salary scale for all city en-
cheering work, to sponsor the i'm
mediate commencement of a COM
prehensive program of public i'm
provements. and to urge the extern
sion Of Civil Service preferred lists.
Are Organizing
These demands were drawn up and
proposed to the mass meeting by a
recent conference of discharged city
engineers and other technicians. That
conference also elected a United
Committee OF Architects, Engineers
and Technicians" TO lead their strug-
gle.
Recent research at Columbia Uni
versity, has disclosed that only one
and half per cent of the Architects
Of this city are employed at regular
work.
Starvation Wage On Tri-Boro
The recent proposal Of former Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith that the Tri-
Borough Bridge plans be completed
by Emergency Workers at relief
wages, is causing conservation
among unemployed Engineers patti
anf1yy q uga ifiy,or ayN 1,,1kV,r1, Az ,,,,,lnv
nent at decent living wages.
Previous meetings of unemployed
technicians disclosed the fact that
hundreds Of men on regular salaries
are being fired, and their places iii.
ed by the Emergency Work Bureau,
on charity wages. In some cases the
same man who was fired from a $40
or $50 job is hired back through the
e. w. B. for 3l5 week or less.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
Summary of Loot.

Taking for granted that so pc. cent
Of these bad debts will some day be
collected, the loss TO depositors is
still si,273, 72s,sa4.
OF further Losses to depositors, an
estimated total Of $l,o5o ,ooo, 900 is in
volved in railroad issues. Most Of
the railroads in the country are
either inSolYent or on the verge of
bankruptcy. The nations banks have
about 5 per cent of the workers
$42, 00o, 0o0, 900 deposits invested in
such Securities" The estimated loss
given, therefore, is based on the pos
sibility that depositors may retrieve
one half OF the deposits in such in
YestmentS.
Another 10 per cent loss, amount
ing TO S4,2o0, ooo,o 900, is figured for
real estate and mortgages held by
the savings banks, building and loan
associations, mortgage institutions
and other banking concerns. Real
Estate has shrunk to only q fraction
of its market value on capitalist ex-
changes.
A final per cent loss Of $84o, oo0,-
900 should be deducted for unsecured
loans, deprecated and worthless util-
ity issues and miscellaneous items.
The aforementioned figures neces-
sarily can offer only a cold. mathe-
NAUTICAL picture of the new typhoon of
misery into which millions of work
ers and their families have been
plunged. The Wall Street govern
ment has laid out the stage for the
new deal to the masses Of the people.
This program, glibly worded by Roo
sevelt, with the new lineup Of
sound" banks holds only one guar
antee for the workers-more unem-
ployment through business bank
ruptcies - more wage cuts lower
standards of living through initiation
of unsound cuTency-and a more
vigorous and extended campaign Of
terrorization Of the American work
ing class.