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The daily worker., 1933-11-17
OWNS RAZOR; JAILED

DETROIT.--Because he carried q
razor, Modie Gray, a Negro, was SEN
fenced from two to five years IT
prison. Gray pleaded that he was
moving and that the razor was his
only personal effects" but the court
did not believe him
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
Building Maintenance Workers
Union Meets Tonight at s

A meeting Of Local No. "A, Of the
Building Maintenance Workers
Union viii be held tonight at
pm. at the TWO. headquarters, AIS
The daily worker., 1933-11-17

The Daily Worker can live only
il you support 1t. Do your share
today. Get your orsanisaticu. ycur
frienAs 10 c0ntgibuSe
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
City Events
Soviet Union and World
Politics"

Milton Howard, member of the staff
Of the Daily Worker, will speak al
the Soviet Union and world politics
at the Progressive Workers Cultural
Club, 159 Sumner Ave-, Brooklyn
tonight, at $3.50.
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
Protest Nazi Terror in
Germany

uEI IlidIEy
The Bronx Workers Club will hold
a protest meeting against the Nazi
terror in Germany, tonight, 8. pm, al
TBS Westchester Ave, Bronx.
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
I.anestnn Hughes Wires

NEW YORK.-The following tele-
gram, calling for mass support Tor
the Public Inquiry and Anti-Lynch-
ing Conference to be held in Balti-
more, Nov. Is and 19, was received
yesterday, from Langston Hughes
President of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, who IS at present
In San Francisco, Calf,
1.-THE fact that George Armwood i:
not the first Negro worker lyncheo
this year, but the thirty-fourth
should make the Baltimore Anti
Lynching Conference and Public In
ouiry a mass roar of Judgment ano
OF anger against all sheriffs, judges
attorney generals and public officials
who loin in mob lynching or legal
lynching OF workers.
Demand the r'9ht OF Negroes to
bear arms in self defense in the
lynch districts, since state and fed
eral forces do not protect them!
Demand federal investigation oi
the Armwood lynehingi
Demand cha-ee of venue for the
nine Scottsbore boys!
Turn your words into action anc
support your demands"
New York Send0ff
NEW YORK.-About 200 workers
b.ayed the cold wednesday night to
attend the send-of at st. Lukes Hall
12s West lsOth ST., for the delegates
leaving this morning for the Balti-
more Anti-Lynching Conference.
Herman McKawain, assistant Gen
eral Secretary of the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights, acted as chair
man of the meeting. Speakers in
cluded william L. Patterson, national
secretary of the International Labor
Defense.
Andy oyergaard, secretary Of the
Trade Union Unity Council; Will
liam Fitzgerald, Harlem section or
ganizer of the LID, and Ruby Ed
wards and Dave Gordon, two OF the
delegates to the conference from New
York.
The delegation will leave for Bal
tinaore this morning at o'clock, from
the Irving Plaza Hall Irving Place
and 18th Street.
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
Miller Refuses to
Protect ScOttSbOrO
Boys andAttorneys

Continued from Page ~
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
Ritchie Machine
Opposes Baltimore
Anti Lynch Meet
Continued from Paae y

tion to the Public Inquiry and Mass
Meeting on Saturday night. Walter
White, who has consistently tried to
knife the Scottsboro defense, is to be
the main speaker. Together with the
local leaders OF the N.A.A.CP., White
has successfully exerted pressure IN
many Negro churches to bar repre-
sentatives of the Arrangement Com
mittee for the Public Inquiry and
Anti-Lynching Conference.
The daily worker., 1933-11-17
Expect Declaration
Soon In Washington

(Continued from Page -
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
FIND MCH ORE
UNDER OLD SNACK
Ar VIRGINIA CITY

Virginia City. Nevada, il
enjoying a 'iboom" since Oscar
Lewis, superintendent Of Andes
Consolidates Virginia Mining
company, purchased George WI
sons wrecked house Beneath
the house he found a neglected
and virgin sector of the, Com
stock lode which produced
ssOO,OOO,0O0 in silver and gold.
Three shifts of men working
might and day, cut a crosscut
tunnel under the old house
and into the vein OF rich ore
found on the surface. The house
and rich soil beneath it were
purchased for $3.50. Nope.
their are no more to be bought
FOR $3.50.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29

States would no longer support
the price of the dollar in for
eign markets is declared to
mean that American exports
viii be increased and imports
decreased. For instance, if
the dollar drops to so cents
in London, a Briton can buy
dollars here at half price and
still get full value for them
when they are spent in Amer
lea. In this way the admins
tratiOn hopes to increase Amer
lean trade, and that means
helping American wage earn
ers.
Secretary Woodin said the
action of the president in for
bidding export of gold had
sent the United States off the
gold standard. The secretary
made his statement in reply
to a question and said the
present situation at least left
The United States for the time
being off the gold standard
because ,the expectation Of
yold was prohibited
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Roosevelt Plans Likely
to Bring Large Increase
In Cold SilUer Values
HOmestake Stock Hits An-time High Of
$198 On New York Stock Exchange
Mining Men Hail New Era

Sensational advances in metal mining
shares featured the week in the program
brought about by President Roosevelt and
Congress in their battle to end the depres-
sion. Shares of Homestake Gold of the Black
Hills of South Dakota hit new high on the
New York Stock Exchange of $198 share
The metal and smelling shares scored sensa-
tional advances during the week and trans
actions totaled in the millions Of dollars.
American Smelling & Refining shares,
which sold around S12 share a couple of
weeks ago. went to $50 per share on wild
buying. Gold and silver stocks, as well asI
lead, copper and zinc shares, were the favor
ties and all made new highs for the year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
All To Benefit If
Silver RenOnetized

Hayden said: TIT is con-
clusively demonstrated that
there is no country which can
not make more use of silver
in its coinage. Not one Of the
Is nations is minting silver
coins of prewar fineness.
IF the central banks Of
the debtor nations would use
silver as a reserve against
paper money to the same ex-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29

bimetalIism and the third ID
to devalue the gold dollar By
increasing the price Of gold.
Chairman Fletcher Of the u.
s. Senate Banking Committee
is said to favor bimetaIlism.
Speaker Rainey Of the u. s.
House is in favor of bimetal-
lism. The vote in the Senate
showed that that body is fav-
Orable to using silver as money
as preferable to starting the
printing presses. The sensa-
tional advance in the stocks
Of companies producing and
smelling silver indicates that
the United States may turn
to the Bryan 16 to / proposal |
10 end the depression.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Silver Price Scars
AS Plans Revealed

Bar silver shot up 315 cents
an ounce on Wednesday, the
sharpest advance in MANY
years. This placed the price
for immediate delivery at 1884
cents an ounce. Later the
price scared again to So
cents. The level was fixed by
bullion dealers after a jump
of 3 cents in futures dealings
in the national metal exchange
which is the limit permitted
in trading rules for one day,
and sharpest since inaugura
ton of futures dealings in the
white metal here.
Acceptance of war debts
in silver as a means
of increasing the price of the
white metal was urged on
Wednesday by Senator Hayden
of Arizona in a report to the
Senate. Hayden commended
that the taking of silver for
debts would do more than anvil
other one thing to restore its |
price and return it to widel
nnnqfarv uca
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
USES
BS BUSINESS
Ar ~ PLANT

PnOlite company Of Libby
reports a growing market for
Its products which are used
chiefly Tor Insulating material
JOhn-ManviIls corporation Is
using zOnOiite in its ~ROckous-
tile" product. an acoustic tile
or panel.
A manufacturing concern in
La Porte. Ind. is using sono-
lite in insulating water heaters
used BY CRANE Co. Montgom-
cry Ward & Co. Sears. Roe
buck and others
Wisconsin company is using
zonoBte in the manufacture Of
acoustic automobile mufflers and
intake silencers and Is building
a calculating plant at Madison.
a reduction Of 50 per ton on
freight rates to Chicago terri
tory makes it possible for the
Montana product to be used on
a large scale.
Nor has the legalizing OF beer
escaped Sonolite Insulation OF
sold rooms in breweries and beer
stores Is bringing a new de-
nand for this product. A firm
n st. Louis, No, is operating
inder the name Of zonoIite In
ulating Products. having rights
N zonOlite in Missouri, Kansas.
oklahoma, Arkansas. Louisiana
nd Texas. with a caIcinating
liant in St. Louis.
Frank Q. swanberg Of Mis-
oula has taken the Montana
istribution while James Keeth
[ Spokane has taken the In
md Empire territory.
e. N. Alley. general manager.
'ports that zonoIite company
IS orders for seven cars and
her orders enough insured TO
'ovide a busy season.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Bimetallisrn Looms
AS Logical Course

Bimetallism looms large as
the logical plan to bring up
commodity prices and yet pre-
vent the printing presses, max
ing new money, from getting
out of control. Three meth
DDS have been proposed where
by Congress cnn give the
president power to carry out
his policy of increasing the
price of farm products and
other commodities.
One method is to print more
greenbacks. The second is
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Exports To Increase;
Imports To Decline

Roosevelt s an
that the United
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29

A tremendous program for
expansion of the American cur
rency, with the president hold
ing dictatorial powers over
money has been introduced
in Congress. The measure has
the Administrations support.
This initiation bill was drafted
by Senate leaders and the
presidents advisers at Mr..
ROOsevelt's suggestion. A pub
lie statement, urging its a.
doptiOn, was made by the
president.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Roosevelt Plan Nav
Boost Gold Valuation
10 $40 Per Ounce

Washington, President ROOse-
velts plan is stated to include the re-
ductiOn of the amount of gold in the dol
lar up to so per cent and issue $1,000
100000 IN new currency in desperate
effort to expand trade and credit.
If the gold in the dollar is reduced
so per cent, the value of gold will be
fixed at better than $40 per ounce. This
would start the greatest gold mining
development in the history of the world.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
WHAT Will sGELroN sAY

Congressman Vincent Carter
Of Wyoming has introduced a
bill requiring all service sta
tons to conspicuously display
signs indicating place or com
try Of origin when imported Pc
troleum products are offered
for sale or retail, and impos-
ing a $1,000 fine or one years
Imprisonment for violation.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29

lar in the foreign exchange
is regarded as serving the dual
purpose Of increasing Ameri-
can commodity prices and
putting the president in a
strategical position for bar
gaining at the forthcoming
economic conferences with
countries whose currency is
deprecated.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Plan May Result In
Higher Gold Values

The president hopes to get
the world back on a gold
standard. This standard may
be on a different gold ratio
for backing of currency than
in the past, but he is adamant
for sterilization of the world
monetary situation.
The revocation of licenses
for the export Of any more
gold appears to be a part of
his international program.
Giving up the attempt further
to support the American dol
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29

tent as that metal is thus
employed in the United States
as a safe substitute for gold,
more than 1000, OO0,O 600 ounces
Of silver would be required.
''NatiOn after nation, to gain
a temporary advantage for
itself, has in recent years de-
based or demonetized its sill
lver coinage, driving the price
of the metal down. +"
The international economic
discussions are a part of the
general maneuver to restore
to a normal basis of
available cash, jobs and credit.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-04-29
Silver Looming AS
Important Factor

The measure would author
ize the president to: First
issue greenbacks; second, &C.
cept silver payments from the
war debt nations up to a total
of 500, 100000; third, reduce
the gold content of the dollar
to whatever value he sees fit.
Under the silver provision,
the president would be author
lied to hold all silver bullion
received in payment of war
debts and to issue silver GER
tificates against it.
Initiation of our currency to
bring up the price of commo-
dities and start business on
the road to prosperity is the
basis of this program of the
Roosevelt administration. Dip
ping of foreign nations into the
gold reserves of the United
States has been ended by the
gold embargo.
Exports To Increase;
Imports To Decline
President Roosevelt's an
nOuncement that the United |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Ten Face Deportation
for Labor Activity

P1TTSBURG.-The International
Labor Defense has been given ten
days to prepare the briefs for the
appeal of the case of Frank Borich,
who has been sentenced to be de-
ported to fascist Jugoslavia for the
crime" of belonging to the National
Miners Union. The American Civil
Liberties Union, which promised to
assume the legal expense in the case
has withdrawn and the I. L. D. is
forced to assume the entire burden,
although it has been drained Of funds
because of the mass Of cases arising
in the reign of terror now instituted
in the mining regions. The Pittsburgh
Branch of the I. L. d. has issued an
urgent appeal for funds to carry on
this work and prevent Borich and
nine others who face similar charges
from being deported to Jugoslavia.
Jack Thomas, another leader of the
unemployed, was framed up on a
charge of getting his citizenship pa
pers under false affidavits tried by
a selected jury and found guilty. He
now faces fifteen years in prison,
loss of citizenship, and deportation
to England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
.C.C.N.Y. STUDENTS
ON STRIKE TODAY;
SUSPEND Il MORE

NEW YORK a tremendous
protest demonstration held at City
College yesterday the students of that
school decided to call strike for to-
day. The police bent every effort
toward frustrating the demonstration
and in the end succeeded in breaking
up the meeting when the strike vote
was about to be taken However the
students decided that the strike
should be called regardless of the
formal vote which had not been al
lowed
The protest meeting started at noon
at the corner of land st. and Con-
vent Ave. After speeches by students
parade was organized to proceed to-
ward the campus. About 1000 stu
dents joined the parade. A large
placard bearing cartoon Of Pres.
Robinson in his famous Umbrella
Charge" with the D. A. r. ladies be-
hind him headed the procession. A
hundred umbrellas were opened by
the marchers and the parade turned
into a ridicule of Pres. Robinson's UNI
p1SIld d1IdSA. L Ilc pal dlC WE'D oGOPpSQ
by the police at 141st Street and
forced to change its route.
At 18th Street another meeting
was started where the police, seizing
upon minor disorder as a pretext to
prevent a strike vote. They rushed
the meeting swinging clubs and sep
arating the students into four groups,
breaking the meeting.
Later broad committee of stu
dents met and decided to call the
strike. National Student League
members present urged the calling of
the strike and when it was decided
on they Immediately took the initia-
tive in organizing the preliminary
plans.
The faculty committee suspended
II more students bringing the total
number of suspended students TO %.
The strike demands are:
l. Immediate reinstatement of the
suspended students.
2. Immediate reinstatement of the
suspended clubs.
8. Immediate reinstatement of the
expelled Campus editors and the
Campus charter.
4. Immediate abolition of the r. O.
T. G. in the college.
S. Immediate removal of President
Robinson.
g. No police interference with stu
| dent activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Stage and Screen

ROAD TO LIFE Now Playing.
Road To Life" first Russian talhe
is now playing at the Thalia Theatre
Broadway and Ninety-Fifth Street,
for a limited engagement.
Road To Life" tells the story of
the homeless waits of Russia who
were orphaned by war and famine
and roamed the land in lawless bands.
getting food and shelter by any means
they could. Real "bezprizornie" who
travelled the road to life of regen-
GRAFTON through the cllildrcns' homes
established for them by the Soviet
government, are the actors of the pic
ture. The absorbing plot of the film
shows how the boys react to their
new opportunities AS one critic
wrote of the filn,' the picture is not
so much acted as lived on the screen.
The use Of sound in Road To Life"
has been highly praised by critics.
The musical score was written by
Stolyar. The picture is accompanied
by English titles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
SENATE GROUP
BARS SALES TAX
BY ONE VOTE

WASHINGTON, June 6.-By the
bare margin of one vote, the Senate
Finance Committee rejected the pro-
posal to include a manufacturers
sales tax in the industrial control
bill now up before the senate after
having been passed b ytFe House. The
committee vote was 10 to 9.
Two of the members of the commit
tee. however. Senators Reed and
Walsh announced that they would
take the fight for sales tax before
the senate despite the decision of the
committee.
Roosevelt Insists On Bond Payments
The Senate has reduced the pro-
posed Roosevelt cuts in the veterans
compensation from $467, 100000 to a
cut of about s250,O00,o00 Roosevelt
has threatened that this will force
him to demand more taxes to make
up the difference, so that the gov
eminent will be able to pay the in
terest to the Wall Street banks which
hold the government bonds.
Roosevelt has given his word that
AlC WILL AlOs NCbO any ofllCo OeNA ll4Ceto-
ures which Congress may pass.
The Senate Committee today added
the following tax proposals to those
made in the House by Roosevelt's
Budget Director Douglas. In addi-
ton to the gasoline taxes which are
expected TO raise S62,0O0,0O0, the Com
mittee also declared for a one-tenth
of one per cent tax on the 'fair
value" of corporations, and a 5 per
cent tax on dividend payments to be
collected at the source.
The dividend tax was passed in or
der to avoid having to levy tax on
big incomes fro mother sources.
Extend Hoover Taxes
The Committee extended for anoth-
er year at Budget Director Douglas
suggestion, the Hoover excise taxes
known as the nuisance taxes" These
cost the small consumers $500, 900 ,00o
a year in taxes on electricity, theatres
radios, perfumes, medicines, etc
Roosevelt's advisers have urged that
these be continued to 1886
All proposals to increase the sur
taxes on large incomes have been re-
jected by the Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
HEALTH HEADS
ADMIT HUNGER
Is INCREASING
Try To Hide Full Facts
On the Conditions

WASHINGTON, D. O., June 6.-Un-
dernourishment (starvation) has in
creased in at least is American states
and Canadian provinces according to
reports at conference of health Of
ficials Of North America here yes
terday.
While forced TO make admission of
the indispensable facts of the con-
ditions among the workers the con-
ference tried to limit the increased
hunger to Is states whereas, hunger
is general all over The country, in 40
states.
Contradicting the publicity of the
government that all victims of the
drought in the middle west are being
cared for DR.. Felix J. Underwood
state health officer of Mississippi
stated that "undernourishment" is
increasing in those areas.
Appalling effects mostly among
young babies whose mothers are poor
ly nfurished" we're described.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07

grafton.
"a Klansman is native born, he is
Protestant, he swears his allegiance
TO America"
With the growing strength of the
militant working class struggle among
both whites and Negroes against the
sharpening terror of the capitalist
rulers of America, the intensifying
fight on the workers is evidenced by
the revival Of terroristic activities by
the Khan, as exemplif1ed by the on
Slaught at last nights meeting.
Carter SpeaKs.
At last nights meeting, while Les,
ter Carter, defense witness for tho
International Labor Defense in the
Scottsboro case, retold the shameful
story of the frame-up in that case,
he saw two Klansmen and one Klans-
woman who gained entrance to the
hall make secret Khan signs TO each
other.
William L. Patterson, national SEQ
rotary of the J. L. D., Mrs. Leslie
Thompson, Of the Yonkers Scottsboro
Action Committee, N. Pollard, West
chester County Scottsboro Action
Committee and L. E. Williams, A.
Coverdale, Pa, miner, were among the
speakers at the meeting arranged by
the l. L. D. in conjunction with Bios
som Heath Lodge, No. 81, IBP.OE.
Patterson, on behalf of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, issued an i'm
mediate call as a result of the at
tempted Khan attack last night to
all district branches of the I. L. D. to
take active steps to protect future
Scottsboro or other defense meetings
against the menace of attacks from
the Khan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Starved-Dies on
a Park Bench:
JObless Suicide

NEW YoRK.-Patrick Reardorn
was found dead on a park bench in
Washington Park during a rain
Monday night,
In his pocket were ~ cents and
citizenship papers that Reardorn
apparently found worthless as far
as sCuring job or relief is con-
cerned.
At the st. Vincent Hospital he
was merely pronounced dead, con-
veniently keeping out the diagnosis
from starvation"
NEW YORK.--Fred McGeehe, "a,
an unemployed soda clerk of Nat
chez, committed suicide by inhal-
ing gas in his furnished room at
BOG E. 57th Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07

lin by the labor hating Judge
Thomas A. Aurelio.
"The railroading Of Gonshak must
be fought tooth and nail by the work
ers,' eaid the LID. and the Unem-
pioyed Councils. "By orr unity, ex-
pressed through a powerful demon
atration this morning at the New
York County Supreme Court, we will
show the bosses that their hunger
program will not be accepted by the
workers, and that the workers will
fight for the release of their militant
leaders. All out to demonstrate for
Gonshak's release this Wednesday"
To reach the court take the BMT
10 City Hall, or The IRT to Brook
Ign Bridge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
Torture of Prisoner
i'm Eastview Charged

EASTVIEW, N. IA charge that
an Eastyiew Penitentiary guard forced
prisoner to wade up to his knees
in the hot ashes of fire-box before
Westminster county authorities was
admitted today by Paul Brown, pc
nitentiary warden.
The victim, Stephen Debley, ar
rested for stealing automobile tires
in Yonkers is in Grasslands hospital
where, according to his attorney,
several skin grating operations were
necessary.