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The Washington times., 1933-01-05
HONORS
COL, COOMBS

In recognition of his SO years
service in the War Department,
Col. Charles Cyrus Coombs, auxil-
iary reserve, on duty in the office
of the chief of chemical war
fare, was presented today with
an onyx desk set.
Maj. Gen. Harry l.. Gilchrist,
chief of the chemical warfare
service, made the presentation
on behalf of the personnel Of
the office.
Colonel Coombs was born in
Missouri, August 13, 1863, and
began his service in the Govern
ment at the age Of u as a page
in the House of Representatives.
At 19 he became secretary to
Senator George G. Vest of Mis-
Souri. Robert T. Lincoln, Sec
retary of War, appointed him a
clerk in the office of the Surgeon
General on January 8, 1888.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
Z GAS MERGER
HEARINGS DUE

Dual hearings on the proposed
merger of the washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Companies
are to be held in the House and
the Senate.
This was revealed late yester-
day when Representative Loring
M. Black, jr. CD of New York,
chairman of the public utilities
subcommittee of the House
District Committee, announced
that hearings would begin before
that body tonight at 8:15 o'clock.
Senator Arthur Capper, chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee, previously had announced
that hearings before that group
would begin tomorrow afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Both the Senate and House
bills are identical, having been
sponsored by the Public Utilities
Commission.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
MATCH BURGLAR
REAPPEARS .

The match burglar" who has
frequently appeared in Silver
Spring and Takoma Park for the
last six months now has a re-
volver. ~
He stole the weapon from the
home of Charles T. Schrider, Of
the 600 block Silver Spring Ave
nue.. After breaking front win
dow he searched the house with
the aid of lighted matches, burnt
ends of which he left strewn on
the floor. Objects with finger
prints on them we're taken to
Rockville by the Montgomery
county finger print expert, Theo-
dore Volten.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
Alexandria Adopts
SI53.OOO School Fund

A budget totaling $4,000 for
the Alexandria public schools was
approved last night by the school
board and other officials of the
Virginia city.
DR.. John T. Ashton, chairman
of the board, presided at the meet
ing. The budget had long been
a subject of controversy but was
finally revised to suit the ma
jority of the board.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
ACTION On D. {.
BEER SOUGHT

Immediate action Of the
judiciary subcommittee of the
House District Committee on
Washingtor1's beer bill will be re-
quested by Representative Loring
M. Black CD of New York,
sponsor of the bill.
Black said he would COM
municate with Representative
Vincent l.. Palmisano, sub-com-
mittee chairman, at once.
Black is anxious to get the
measure through the House and
Senate simultaneously, just be-
fore or Immediately after the
Collier beer bill, which he conf
dently believes will pass in the
Senate as easily as it did the
House.
Representative Wright Patman
CD Of Texas, who blocked
immediate action by the District
committee on the Black bill
yesterday, is a member of the
judiciary subcommittee.
Patman not only asked that
the bill be held up until after
the Collier measure became law
but insisted that the bill should
be referred to the subcommittee
on fiscal affairs, because it is
a revenue producing instrument.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
BEER.
To Be FOUGHT

Beer for the District will be
strenuously opposed by the Ameri-
can Temperance Society, with
headquarters in Takoma Park,
it was announced this morning
by it's head, Rev. Irwin H. Evans.
Classifying beer as detrimental
to low-paid workers as he de-
clares stronger drink is, Mr..
Evans sees an unwholesome in
fluence on society in making
saloon keepers out of drug store,
restaurant and hotel managers,
who will handle beer according
to the Black resolution just in
troduced in Congress.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
SEARCH PUSHED
AS CHEMIST
REPORTS
Attorneys Car to Be Brought
Back From Columbus
BY His Relatives

HAGERSTOWN, Jan. 5.-The
chief development today in the
search for r. s. Mccain, North
Carolina attorney missing for
two weeks, was the statement by
L. r. Voris, local chemist, that
stains on a handkerchief discov-
cred at Indian Springs, about Is
miles from HagerStown, were
caused by human blood.
The statement was made in
Voris' report to Capt. John j.
Cassidy, chief of police.
Found Last Tuesday
Voris has been examining the
handkerchief since it's discovery
Tuesday by Merle Garmong,
Indian Spring youth.
Relatives of McCoin left today
for Columbus, Ohio, to return
with McCoin's automobile, which
was located in the Ohio city last
week. They will bring the car
here.
H. c. Linthicum, nephew of
McCoin. arrived in Hagerstown
today to join his brother, E. B.
Linthicum, who has conducted
the main search for the body
between here and cumberland,
Md.
Believed Slain by Boys
Linthicum's searching party Is
reported to have found a shoe
and a rubber near Hancock, Md,
Yesterday. These have not yet
been identified.
1t is believed the Henderson
IN. c. attorney was slain by a
hand of four boys near Petersburg,
va. and buried near HagerstoWn.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
Rain and SnOIU Help
TirqiTliG Farmers

There is little chance of a
drought in northern Virginia next
summer, farmers of the area be-
lieve, as they try to work their
lands saturated with the residue
of a foot Of snow and numerous
rains.
After recent weather farmers
say they will have a year of
plenty next year, eff" they can
get seed to plant and conditions
remain as they have started.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
"FLu" in Maryland
ShOLUS Biz Increase

BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.-A rapid
increase in influenza cases in the
State is reported by DR.. R. H.
Riley, director of the Maryland
State department of health.
The total of 1856 cases reported
in the first four days of January
exceeds half the total of 1,349
cases reported last month, he said.
Carroll county is setting the pace
with 211 and Baltimore county is
second with 172.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
Postponed Drama
To Be Given Sunday

Postponed from last Sunday be,
cause of illness in the cast, the
religious drama, What Men hive
By" is to be given Sunday eve
ming, at the Takoma Park Presby-
terian Church Hall.
Members of the cast are Will
liam M. Greene, Mrs. Frederick
B. Linton, Leonard w. Kephart,
william Nesbit, Wilson Clark, Vir'
ginia Ladd, Gladys Stevenson,
Mary j. Dietrich, Florence Haas,
DR.. j. A. LeClerc, Jane Wilson
and Harold Seaman.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
Game
Season Near End

The season for hunting migra-
tory game in Virginia will close
January Is, w. Harry Johnson,
State game warden, said today.
The season is operated under a
reciprocal agreement with Canada
and is covered by a Federal
statute.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
PIT. A, Benefit

A party for the benefit of the
Glenmont Parent Teacher Asso-
citation is to be held tomorrow
night at the school, it has been
announced. The committee in
charge is headed by Mr.. and
Mrs. M. j. Dickinson.
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
NEW PUMPER DUE

A new pumper for the Takoma
Park Volunteer Fire Department
will be delivered to the depart
ment this week so that it may
be displayed at the monthly meet
ing of the firemen next Wednes-
day, it was announced. !
The Washington times., 1933-01-05
LICENSED TO WE'D

Gather Wright Clayton, 81, of
the 1900 block of Thirty-fifth st.
N. w., and Helen Douglas Lati-
mer, 18, of the 1900 block Thirty
second st. S. E., were licensed to
marry at Upper Marlboro yester-
dav.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
400 in Parade for
Cafeteria Strikers
Burst Thru Barriers
Set by Police

NEW Notwithstanding police
discrimination in favor of the bosses
association, 300 strikers and synpa-
thizers rallied at Suffer and Stone
in support of the locked out members
of the Cooks and Countermens Local
No 325 in Brownsville Wednesday
night.
Around 400 formed the solid kernel
OF torchlight parade which march
ed along Pitkin Avenue, the prin-
cipal center of the cafeteria strike.
The police permit expressly excluded
this street from the parade route,
but when the workers reached SUIT
ter and Stone, they disregarded the
breaking action OF the police
and paraded on Pitkin.
The parade and mass rallies at the
beginning and the finish, marked by
tremendous enthusiasm of the work.
ers in spite of rain and cold, created
CONSERVATION among the bosses and
the A, F. of l.. officials.
Leading the parade were the Strike
Committee of Local 1876, Beal of the
Food Workers Industrial Union and
Horwatt of the Brownsville mass Or
CARNATIONS.
This powerful, united action in
support Of the cafeteria workers was
made possible through the constant
guidance and support of the Food
Workers Industrial Union and the
mass organizations behind the strike
committee and the members Of 32s,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
WIN STRATEGIC
GOODMAN SHOP
Fur Dyers Get Gains
from Labor Halter

NEW YORK.-The strike starting
Monday at Goodman g. George, 1876
ST., Bronx, was won yesterday.
This is one of the largest fur dy-
ing shops. For the last ten years
since smashing a i4-week's strike by
use of armed thugs, this firm has
been bitterly hostile to organized la
Dor.
The strike of 100 workers was LED
by the Fur Fin'shers and Dyers De-
uartment of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union. Fur workers
generally in the manufacturing shops
OF New York showed excellent soil
darity and refused to work OH skins
that had gone through the struck
shop.
Though the company had again
hired gunner, it had to surrender
The strikers win: SO week increase
in wages; reduction of hours with
out reduction in pay from so per
week to A; unemployment insurance
fund payments by the boss of 8 per
cent of the payroll and no payments
by the workers, but managed by the
workers; no discrimination and equal
distribution of the work.
The N.TW1.U. has already organ
lied. on similar terms. about 1000
workers and practically all the fur
dying shops in Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
CLOAK AND DRESS
STRIKES SPREAD
Jobless Vote Their Full
Support

NEW YORK. - The campaign Of
shop strikes in the cloak and dress
trade continues to spread, with addi-
tional shops striking yesterday In
both trades the settlement committee
continues to sign up shops on the
basis of improvements in conditions.
Over a thousand struck Wednesday,
adding to large numbers already out.
a huge meeting of unemployed
cloakmakers in Bryant Hall yester-
day heard J. BoruchowitZ on the pro-
gress of the strike, and voted enthu-
siastic support of it. Ben Gold and
Louis Lyman OF the Industrial Union
we're cheered when they greeted the
cloakmakers' struggle.
Nathan Leventhal, of Local 9 Of
the IL.G.W.U. reported that the
local, in which a left wing admins
ration was recently placed in Office,
is preparing a demonstration AGAINST
Saturday work The unemployed
voted to take part in masses in the
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
NEW HITLER LAW
RAISES PRICES
OF PROVISIONS
Fascist Cabinet Puts
Import Duties on
Meat, Lard

BERLIN, Feb. 9.-The first
economic act of the fascist
Hitler cabinet favors the re-
dictionary junkers and hits the
masses. The cabinet has is
sued a decree imposing i'm
port duties on various food
stuffs, including meat and
lard, Since the crisis, lard has be-
come a staple food of the workers:
the new import duties, therefore, by
raising the price of this staple, will
further increase starvation and suf-
:erlng among the masses.
The bourgeois press is trying to
squeeze some consolation out of the
official figures on unemployment,
which gives the number of unem-
ployed on Jan. 81 as a few thousand
less than at the same time last year.
However, the figure given, a little
over 100000, does not include the
invisible" unemployed, totalling at
least 100000. These are the jobless
who have been cut off from unem-
ployment benefit as a result of the
successive emergency DEGREES of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
DEMAND new
TRIAL; FORCE
HIS RELEASE

NEW Y0RK.-The attempt by the
capitalist class TO close the Tom
Mooney case by refusing him trial on
the one indictment standing against
him, and the vicious threat by warden
Holohan of San Quentin to rob
Mooney of all rights to see visitors
will be fought vigorously by the en-
tire workingcIass of the United States
in a series of mass demonstrations,
the first of which will be held in
Union Square today at pm.
All militant unions and scores of
workers mass organizations endorse
this demonstration and call all their
members and all workers to Union
Square today.
Tom MONEYS personal represent
alive, Louis B. Scott, who presented
a petition on the Mooney case to
presidential Roosevelt recently,
will be one of the main speakers at
the demonstration. Additional speak
ers will include John D. Masso, Glass
Jewellers Union, A. F. of L.; John
}. BALKAN. District Secretary, Inter
national Labor Defense; Ben Gold,
Louis LYMAN, Needle Trades Work
ers Union; James w. Ford, Trade
Union Unity League, and Sam Vein
stein, whom the capitalist class is
trying to railroad to prison because
Of his militancy in a strike against
wage-cuts, speed-up program OF the
furniture bosses of New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
READERS:

DURING the past few days we have been point
ing out to you the indispensable role of the
Daily Worker in various great struggles of the
American workers and poor farmers. The Detroit
auto strikes, the fight to free Tom Mooney, the
struggles of the unemployed for immediate re-
lief and unemployment insurance, the fight to free
the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, involv-
ing the whole struggle for Negro rights and liberia
ton, the growing mass movement of the farmers
against forced Sales the exposure of Roosevelt and
the fight against his hunger program-these are
only few of the struggles we have discussed with
you, and shown you the burning need of the leader
ship, the fighting, organizing role Of the Daily
Worker in all these great class battles,
But
YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE DAILY
WORKER TO LEAD THESE AND OTHER
MIGHTY STRUGGLES UNLESS $4,000 Is
RAISED TO SAVE 1T FROM SUSPENSION.
We must state frankly: so far the campaign
for funds has failed to produce the needed response
only about $500 raised in almost four weeks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
DUTCH T0ILERS
BACK UP SAILORS
D on S tr a tion for
Navy Mutineers

THE HAGUE, Feb. 9-DemonStra-
tions in support of the naval mutiny
in the Dutch East Indies and in pro-
test against the bloody measures Or
dered by the government against the
mutineers were held today through
out Holland. Similar demonstrations
have occurred in the Dutch East In
dies and Dutch Guiana.
Demonstrations in this city were
viciously attacked by the police, sup
ported by the bourgeois and socialist
press. The socialist leaders have
called upon their followers to sabot-
age the demonstrations Despite this.
many socialist workers joined the
demonstrators. Socialist members in
the State General are supporting the
drastic measures ordered by the gov
eminent to drown the mutiny and
supporting strike movement in blood.
while hypocritically declaring that
they favor moderate measures"
against the mutinous seamen and
strikers.
The combined air fleets and Dutch
East Indies squadron are pursuing
the Inutinous crew of the warship
DE Zeven Provincien.' The battle
ship is now reported in the Indian
Ocean, southeast of Benkulen, Sum-
atra. The crew was forced to aban-
don its intentions to enter the naval
base and arsenal at Sonubaya, Java,
as result of the mobilization of 9TH
er warships at the base and the
ment's terms of unconditional sur
render with court martial for the
leaders of the revolt, and have strip
per their guns for action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
WilliamsThugs Menace
"The Daily" Newsboys

NEW YORK. Armed gangsters
stand guard over the workers at Will
liams Co. grocery warehouse on Tenth
Ave. from 25th to Goth streets. The
workers were on a short strike last
week, and we're sold out by stool
pigeon types who got on their coin
mittee.
Now the boss is desperately afraid
that they will revolt again. When
two Daily Worker sellers and Red
Builders appeared with papers be-
fore the place couple Of days ago,
three thugs posted in bar room
across the street dashed out and
threatened the newsboys with lead
pipes and guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
CITY EVENTS

BRoWDER SPEAKS TECHNoCRACY TONIGHT
Browder
PAINTERS DEMONSTRATES TOMORROW AGAINST Explosions
All the in
of District headquarters
STACHEL DEBATES
Jack Stache assistant A
two organizations Debate
PATTERSON DEBATES HAYS TONIGHT
bates Arthur Garfield Hays the American Civil
today at Stuyvesant
ton; Which WIN scpttsbesc Boyssp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
INSULTS NEGROES,
BACKS N.A.A.C.P.
Greet Denies Charges
Against Harlem Hosp.

/ NEW YORK.-Commissioner o.
Hospitals Greet supported the "in-
vestigation" committee OF the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
OF Colored People, insulted the Ne
gro People, and refused to accept the
demands the Peoples Committee
Against Discrimination in Harlem
Hospital, which demand the Harlem
people investigate it and control it,
placed before him yesterday morn
ing.
The commissioner, in answer to the
statement by one of the delegation
that Negro doctors were not permit
ted to practice in all hospitals thru
out the city, spued forth with the
white superiority lie. This is no
time to experiment with Negro doc
tors distributed throughout the city"
Greet, referring to the N.A.A.C.P.
committee said, Il went along with
them with pleasure" and until that
committee reports nothing can be
done"
The Tammany commissioner car
ried his insults still further and in
answer to the fact that the majority
Of the staff at Harlem Hospital are
white asked with all the venom Of
his class:
Have you any civil service Ne
groeS who are on the list?"
He completely ignored the firing
and forced designations of Negro doc
tors and nurses and inferred that
this is as it should be.
Speakers Of the League OF Struggle
for Negro rights, VIM. Fitzgerald, and
Henry Shepard, OF the Peoples Com
mittee, Dorothy Wilkes OF the Med
ical Workers League pointed out time
and again to the biased commission
er that the NAA.C.P. committee
were made up Of enemies of the Ne
gro people, but Greet insisted that
the investigation" is impartial" and
that those vitality concerned, the peo-
pie Of Harlem and the Negro doc
tors and nurses ousted, had no say.
Admitting that the conditions in
the city hospitals are undermining
the health of the workers, and with
his own chart hanging on the wall
before him, listing the bed space in
Harlem Hospital on Feb. 18th as 1926
and the number of patients as 400,
and in the face of the facts by the
Peoples Committee citing the dis
elimination, segregation and but
cherry, the commissioner stated "You
can't tell US here how to run the
department
An ex-patient OF the Harlem Hos
pital cited the abominable treatment
accorded him, the committee cited
other cases, but Greed pooh pooled
them down as though they didn't
matter.
The Peoples Committee reported
the result of their visit to Greet last
night at st. Luke's Hall and pre-
pared new steps in the fight against
the conditions in Harlem Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10

bany Conference, and to call on al
unemployed organizations to rally
behind the Conference and to send
attachments of jobless representa-
tives to come to Albany. The city
Unemployed Council plans to organ
ize a truck parade or mass march
Of its delegation to Albany.
Change of Date
Winters, who is a member OF the
Provisional Committee for the AL
bany Conference, elected by a con-
ference Of SO organizations respond
ing TO the call of the A. F. of L.
rank and file committee last month,
announced that the date of the Al
bany Conference was changed to
March 5, and I, instead Of in Feb
ruary as previously announced.
The opening session of the Albany
Conference will take place at Odd
Fellows Temple, i64S Beaver Street,
Albany, n. Y, March 5, at 10 am.
On March 4, Winters explained, a
nation wide movement of jobless will
develop to exert mass pressure upon
the new Democratic administration
for immediate relief to the unem-
ployed. Postponement of the Albany
Conference to March 5 was made for
the purpose of taxing full advantage
Of the March campaign.
Expose Splitters
Splitting tactics of the Socialist
Party officials were exposed and con-
demned by Winters and the other
deleoates to the Council. Winters
related how the Socialist Party off,
cials issued a call for their city con-
ference, after they heard that the
A. F. of L. rank and file committee
had called for the Statewide con-
ference in Albany.
The Socialist call specifically bars
the Unemployed Council from their
conference, thereby deliberately ex-
GLIDING the most militant organized
section of the unemployed which has
been at the forefront of mass demon
STATIONS for relief. rent strikes and
innmnerable struggles, including the
National Hunger March in December
1882.
To the splitting tactics of the So
cialist Party oficialdon which are
calculated to disrupt effective action
for relief, the Council voted TO issue
g call to the workers in all unem-
p]oyed organizations, block and house
committees, jobless groups, in flop
houses, breadlines and others, to or
ganize a single, united front action
in support of the Albany Conference.
The Council decided to urge all or
ganizations which have already cleo
ted deleqates to the Socialist Con-
'e~ence, TO instruct these to call upon
4 he workers in that conference to
unite with the Albany Conference.
Rally All Honest Forces
That the Albany Conference will
rally behind it all honest and consci-
Gus sections. of the working class,
CONTINUED ON PAGE 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
Textile Barons Plan
Syndicalism Bill for
Wage-Cutting Attack


HAYS, N. c., Feb. Am "anti-
syndicalist" law is now icing drafted
by textile manufacturers at Charlotte,
N. c., to be used against the strug-
giles expected to result from the ex-
tensive wage cutting campaign now
going on. This attack also aims a
direct blow at the leader of militant
struggles, the Communist Party.
The proposed law will be intro
duced at the present session of the
state legislature, scheduled to adjourn
March 4th.
Mass protests of the workers are
necessary to defeat this new move
of the textile barons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10


ACTION. The American masses cannot and will
not let their fighting paper die!
Can the $4,000 be raised? 1T MUST! In the
summer of 1881, at time when millions were al
ready unemployed the American workers, farmers
and friends of the working class raised not $4,000
but $4,000 to save the Daily Worker.
IN the presidential elections 100000 people, according
to official figures. voted Communist This does not in
clude the thousands of votes that stolen the thou
sands of workers who prevented from voting Com
munst because the Party ruled off the ballot in certain
states the thousands of others oregnbon and Negroes
who disfranchised. But the basis of the
official figures if these 100000 contributed only so cents
apiece, the $4,000 would be than fulfilled.
This cans: broaden the drive Collect among work
ers sympahzers and organizations reached before
And remember action must be quick, mmediate The goal
is $4,000 but EVERY DAY CARRIES A NEW THREAT
TO THE LIFE OF THE DAILY WORKER. Answer the
call today Rush contributions at to the Dap Worker
so E. 18th ST., New York City.
Received yesterday ..,................ S394.40
Total to date OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $5,56924