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The Washington times., 1933-03-04
New Deal on Already
For Redcaps--Tips
Shower Them

The Inauguration has brought
the return of prosperity to at
least one section of the country
all ready.
The Redcaps at Union Sta
ton have broad smiles. For
they are reaping a harvest of
tips. With the hundreds of
special trains arriving, bearing
enthusiastic Democrats, there
is a shower of silver to the
porters.
Business is better than at any
time since the inauguration of
Theodore Roosevelt, one of the
veterans porters said.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
200 TRAINS ADD.
$4,000 TO D. c.
FETE THRONG
Union Station Jammed, Noisy
With Mad Joy of "Happy
Days Here Again"

Union station was a happy,
laughing, singing, cheering bed
lam as $50 trains poured $4,000
more visitors into Washington
today for the Inauguration.
AS the hour for the ceremonies
neared, the rush increased, with
trains arriving from all parts of
the country. TaxiS and red caps
were at premium.
Happy Days"
The scores of bands that came
sensed the feeling, and most of
them struck up the theme song
of the campaign:
Happy Days Are Here
Again."
Came one train, and there were
the famous Richmond Light In
fantry Blues. with white plumes
dancing on silver helmets. Four
companies strong they were. many
of them wearing on the white
breasts of their picturesque uni
forms medals showing they had
served their country well in war.
And then came the Richmond
Grays, another of the historic
crack military companies that has
played such an important role in
the history Of this nation.
Sound of Drums
Drums sound. The people fall
back, and here come the Legion
naires from Delaware, silver he'll
NETS, smart uniforms erect,
marching with spirit.
War whoops sound. And here
come Indians, in full tribal re-
gala. Seminoles, from Florida,
here to pay homage to the new
Great White Chief.
Microphones in the station are
there. to pick up and send to the
rest of the country the music, the
singing, the noise and the picture
of what is taking place here in
the station. just a short distance
from Capitol Hill.
More and More Music
More music. This time it is the
Quaker City String Band from
Philadelphia, garbed in quaint
Quaker dress, wide hats, Smocks
and high black boots.
Still more music. This time it
is the boys band from st. Cyril's
School up in Reading, Pa. They
can play, these youngsters, and
they look smart in their blue and
white uniforms.
Then great roars of cheers as
5000 New Yorkers descend from
a dozen special trains, and are
added to the ever growing crowd.
Then here come thousands more
from B a timore, Philadelphia,
North, South, East and West.
Extra Police Idle
Capt. P. c. Horne, of the sta
tion police has a hundred extra
men on duty. But they are not
needed. The crowd is happy, con-
tented.
A few persons reel a bit, a few
take serreptitious nips at bottles.
But the police only smile. It's
Inauguration day.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Cheering Crowd Mills
About AL Smith as
He Enters Parade

Il cheeding, milling crowd
welcomed AL Smith when he
.o:>ed the New York Demo
Gratis at their rallying point,
Second and D SITS. S. E.,
shortly before 2 o'clock.
Cries of "There's AL" went
up and hundreds sought to
shake his hand. The Happy
Wa 'rior" smiled and shook
hands all around.
Although there was a big
rush toward him, former Gov
ernor Smith was not enlang-
cred and the police stood by,
enjoying the show.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
HOOVER STEMS
D, {. BANK BILL

President Hoover today signed
a bill authorizing the Comptroller
of the Currency to limit with
drawals and to make other regu-
lationS for District banks.
The resolution, introduced yes
terday by Senator Royal S.
Copeland CD of New York, was
passed speedily through both
branches of Congress.
Under terms of the resolution,
the power conferred on the
Comptroller shall terminate
within six months, but may be
extended by the President
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Rep. r. NJ. Davenport
Talks Before Rotary

Hailing Theodore Roosevelt the
first national executive to recog-
nize the unsound tendencies in
modern finance, Representative
Frederick M. Davenport of New
York told members of the Wash
ington Rotary Club. meeting at
luncheon in the Willard Hotel yes
terday, of Roosevelt's action in
bringing it to public attention.
Elihu Root recognized the &C
ton, when he said that Roose-
velt precipitated crisis in public
thought in order to stress the
danger, Representative Davenport
added.
DR.. Arthur Christie, president
of Rotary, presided.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
F ALL INJURIES
GUEST At INN

Falling from window on the
second floor of the Villa Roma,
on the Rockville Pike, early to-
day, Ralph A. Freeman, 35, of
the First block Franklin st. N. E.,
received cuts on his face.
He landed on the wooden front
porch. The Rockville Volunteer
Fire Departments rescue squad
rushed him to the Montgomery
County General Hospital at Sandy
Spring.
Police say he was attending an
American Legion celebration.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
WOMAN 8 F Do 7.
STEPPED UPON
BY HORSE
Six Faint; Man, So, Injured
When Struck by Auto; One
Suffers Heart Attack

Casualty and Emergency Hos
pitals' emergency rooms were
flooded to capacity with the in
jured and sick who we're hurt or
dropped from exhaustion along
the parade route as the divisions
were forming.
Mrs. Alice Myers, so, of the 21OO
block of Eighteenth st. N. W., had
her ankle broken near the Capt.
tol when a cavalry horse stepped
on her right foot.
Hit by An Auto
William Fitzgerald, So, Of the
700 block of Eleventh st. N. W..
was badly bruised when hit by an
automobile at Eleventh and G
Streets Northwest.
John Winchester, SO, of Bruins
wick, N. j., was stricken with
heart attack.
Adolph Deering, 38, of Pitts
burgh. Pa, was stricken with
acute gastritis.
Among those who tainted were:
Andrew Wink, 40, Baltimore,
Md.
j. T. Roberts, jr., 80, Hunt
ington, w Va.
Len Wenzel, %. straul, Pa.
James Kearney, 10, New York
city.
Eugene Wagner IS, Danville,
Va.
James Dniel, 38, Irwin, Pa.
Myrtle Schanek, %, Highland
Park, N. j.
Earl Gillian, 1S, North Caro-
lima.
Contta Lazzaro, Al. Baltimore.
Martha Schofield, So, EdgeWood
Arsenal, Md.
Eloise Whiting, 13, Baltimore.
Miss Josephine Gobbett, II, 200
block Fourth st. N. E.
Grace Murphy, %, 400 block
Fourth st. N. E.
Harlow Kniffin, 81. Bath, N. j.
Injured in Crash
Two Virginia women were
slightly injured while driving to
the Inauguration when their ma
chine was struck by bus on
the Lincoln Memorial Bridge.
Mrs. C. M. Wells, of Braddock
Heights, driver of the car, suf-
fered bruises, and Miss Alma
Sprouse, Braddock Heights, suf-
fered lacerations about the head.
They were treated at Emergency
Hospital.
Collapse in Crowds
Six WON n and a man, who
tainted or collapsed in the dense
crowds, were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital. They were:
Joseph L. Madden, 43, Of the
HOO block Fourth st. S. E.; Con-
ME Harrington, 38, 1900 block
Fairmont st. N. W.; Beulah
Phipps, 80, Clentwood, Va; Mil
lie Klansman, 80, Brooklyn, N.
Y; Mrs. r. w. Jordan, 46,
Portsmouth, Va; Mrs. A. Clark,
Baltimore; Mrs. Alta Kober, %,
Irwin, Pa.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04

ne mas nOLnlng 10 give Ine GILL;
dren" Spiritually, they mean, be-
cause all the uncles on the air are
always offering prizes and sur
prises), is a better feature than
Wangho, the Oriental Slasher. One
reason seems to be that Uncle Woof
is done when he's done; he reap
pears the next day, but he has little
suspense. Whereas Wangho fills the
little minds overnight, makes them
worry about the fate of the heroine,
or anticipate, with childish glee, the
new tortures he will inflict. Which
is worse for the child, they ask, and,
aside, put down low marks for
nearly all of the comedians of the
air. 1t is hardly surprising to learn
that "some of the programs we con-
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
District Red Men
StdQe Omen House

The Improved Order of Red
Men and Degree Of Pocahontas is
holding "open house" until mid
night at Red Men Headquarters,
713 D st. N. w.
Dinner will be served to visitors
from outside reservations from S
to Z p. m. Dancing will begin
at 9 p. m. All members are in
Yited to attend.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Center Parking Ban
o. KID by D. C.. Heads

The District COMMISSIONERS
have approved an order elm
mating center parking on East
Capitol Street between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth Streets. At the
same time they approved resurfac-
ing the area in question at an
estimated cost of $500, to be
paid out of gasoline tax funds.
One of the blocks affected is
in front of Eastern High School.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Mrs. Garner Forgets Stubs;
Doorkeeper Glowers

Mrs. Garner declined:
"I've been a member of the
club for so long I am an old
story. You are the new One."
She went to the Congressional
Club in a taxi.
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
Hoover Gets 3-Day
Pau Check of $500

President Hoover received his
last pay check from the Treasury
yesterday. Miss katherine Shea,
Treasury employe who for years
has carried the presidential pay
checks, delivered it to the out
going Executive at noon. It was
for three days, and was for a
little under $500,
The Washington times., 1933-03-04
True to Type
BEDTIME OR HORROR
---WHICH is BETTER
FOR THE TOTS?
BY GILBERT SELDES

VHE question is whether bedtime stories (on the rado)
= are more corrupt than bad puns and mystery yarns
The mothers of Westchester county, New York. have
begun quarrel with their radio programs and listing
feature after feature to think Uncle Woof although
The daily worker., 1933-07-01

bility of currency and the CLASH fol
markets around it, have been turned
into spectators and gamblers.
Retail Trade Drops
So far as home markets are COIL
cerned the journal of Commerce as
serts:
Retail trade through chain stores
on the other hand was actually
down 3.3 per cent for May as com
pared with 1882, while department
store sales were down 2.2 per cent.
A distinct lag in retail trade is
thus indicated for the current up
turn"
"A distinct lag in retail trade,
means that the increased production
Is reaching the warehouses and not
the markets. 1t Is further choking up
the overstocked shelves of the capt.
talists.
The New York Herald Tribune IN
dex of Business shows a rise in busi-
ness beginning from May and going
on to the end of June. Last year in
the week ending June "a, the proiuc-
tion index was at 49.8 (conside ing
100 to be "normal'D, The same week
in 1888 showed the index to be at
63.1--a rise of 1873 points.
What about distribution? Where
did this production J. ease go TO?
In order to be Of use in ending the
crisis it must be sold to a consumer
We have the fact that chain stores,
the department stores and mail or
der houses, the most sensitive points
Of distribution, decreased their sales
The daily worker., 1933-07-01

under way"
Is there an actual upturn in pro-
duction from the lowest levels of the
crisis which we're reached after the
national banking crash? Yes, there is.
How far has it gone and what is its
nature? How will it effect unemploy-
ment and the condition of the work.
ing class? These are the decisive
questions.
An examination of all of the sta
tistical business charts of the capi-
talists emphasizes that production is
below the average of the whole pc
ROO of the present crisis in the Unit
ed States beginning with the latter
part of 1929, up to the early part
of 1888
The upturn has not broken through
the low point of the entire crisis. Is
there any indication that it will lead
t., a recovery? Here we must briefly
analyze the facts The Daily Worker
has definitely shown that the major
portion of the rise In production in
those industries where It has actu-
ally occurred is not because of in
creased demand, but for stocking pur-
poses as well as for speculation. The
demand for commodities within the
country Is dropping. Export and im-
port trade is coming to a virtual
standstill because Of the further shat
tering of the stabilization of the
world capitalist currencies. One New
York financial writer declared that
all importers and exporters in the
United States, because Of tae insta-
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
TEXTILE, CEMENT WORKERS LEAD FIGHT ON SLAVERY ACT
" "Behind the Scenes" in
Washington

HEARINGS slavery
that textile ndustry-have T practical purposes
acceptable partie Clearly hearings
ended the their taken
as the best example of the New
WHAT happened at Washington? How promises
" ed? Roosevelt June 18TH in his adnnstra
IONS policies under the recovery act, promised:
reasonable opportunity given any group or
class Who Indirectly tn present their
views"
What happened policy textile hearnpp Was every
group directly indirectly affected" opportunity to present
their views? Decidedly not National Textile
workers Unon-e only direct textile workers
hmves-Was denied the right to workers
Dregardng Roosevel promise General johnson in
formed June cro of the textile union re-
Veo only approve of the farcia char
ac OF these hearings 1t means
to the workers shows the fuiy relying Roosevts promises
MORE than this Washington They refused hearing
M the textile workers representative the F of L. and
cNahon OF the reacony United given ample on
pnty to speak Why this these reaconarv
Seaoefs put forward
bosses program ~ e ~
Deputy Administrator fact at the hearing He
aoned that Mcmahon had up the bosses
alt code the code that would of textile workers
SlOo week and
I'D Alien speaking Mcmahon that Won
McMahon have acted IS
Reports today at the close of hearings prove the CO.
peration of these BOSSES seor is being
rk Times report
Out of the negotiations and taxing behind
the scenes came various reports the operators and
labor leaders had agreed and paw
They refuse to hear the voice But the government
spokesman the bosses the a omen hear
the workers interests This the workings slavery as shown
by the textile hearing.
The daily worker., 1933-07-01

The same chart we have just quoted
1882, for the week ending June "a,
distribution was at the index level of
60, in 1888 it had zone up to only
62.1. Look at the contrast: Production
up 1873 points, distribution up 81
points. But this distribution" is not
distribution to the consumer. 1t is
distribution from the manufacturer
to the jobber, to the wholesaler, and
even to the retaile; 1t is not dis
tribution for consumption. The mass
es are eating less, wesr ring less, buy
ing less.
Didn't we hear that Roosevelt was
going to speed up construction work?
It was not so very long ago that the
capitalist newspapers carried shrek
ing front page stories about the rise
in building construction. Here are
some cold figures from the Herald
Tribune business index. 1t shows NAT
the index figure Of building construc
tion in 1882 was A.. In June. 1888, 1t
was 29 Roosevelt's building program
so far has forced the index down 90
pointsl
From the leading basic industry
steel, we learn that the upturn is
"over,' The Iron Age, business organ
of the leading steel manufacturers,
says:
$50 far as the steel industry is con-
cerned, the first phase OF recovery
appears to be over. This view Is sup
ported by the fact that latter'v. ct
any rate, many buyers have been
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
Morkes and Inflated OUTPUT Will Make More Une,nboye

MORE than one capitalist news
a'A paper has already sewed UP,
mummified and Peacefully bruied the
economic crisis. What matters it if
100000 unemployed still walk the
streets with wads of Roosevelt's pol
lyanna speeches lining their soleless
shoes? What difference does it make
that the whole financial foundation
of world capitalism is tottering to
further instability? Why should a
capitalist editorial writer hesitate to
make the editorial page the grave of
the worst crisis that ever confronted
capitalism, even though the basic
factors of the present production up
squirt clearly contains new contra
dictions, new instabilities, new fuel
that will make the flames of eco
nomic breakdown burn with a dead
lier glow?
1t is true that the capitalist crisis,
especially such a general crisis of
world capitalism which has been
wracking capitalism since the close
of the world war, does not move in
straight line downward. There are
short periods OF upturn. The capi-
talists grasp at each one of these
upturns as evidence of returning
prosperity" like drowning man
snatches at straw.
Theorize About End of Crisis
The New York Times, for example,
is already theorizing about what end
ed the crisis. They take 1t for granted
that evidence is here chat financial
and industrial recovery is genuinely
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
DEFIED LYNCE,
NEGRO HELDl
MURDER CHARd

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-A 22-ye
old Negro was indicted for first deg
murder by the grand jury Tuesdi
because he defended himself from
lynch mob, and shot and killed one
his assailants. The Negro. Wilbl
Hardiman, was pursud by a mob yel
ing Lynch him." after a fight
June %. during which white workt
was stabbed by another Negro. Hard
man was chased into an alley an
was forced to defend himself with hi
gun when the mob closed in upo
him. The International Labor De
fense has announced 1t will defen
Hardiman, on the grounds that !
had right to defend himself sr
lynch mob.
The police used the incident as
pretext to round up Negro and whit
unemployed workers and sentenci
them to Jail or ship them out q
town. The cops have threatened b
drive all single unemployed worker,
out of the city. When mob gathered
during the night of the shooting t.
threaten innocent Negro bystanders
a group of white workers, including
members of the Communist Party
defended the Negroes from attack.
The Communist Party has issued &
statement in leaflet form calling fol
the unity of Negro and white work.
ers, denouncing the lynch atmosphere
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
AmoSkeag Workers
Strike to Defeat
Recovery Law
Company Invokes Act
to Prevent Closed
Shop

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 30
Prompt action was taken by the
workers at the Amoskeag Manufac-
turing Company in calling strike
when the company refused to recog-
nize their demands for a closed
union shop. With the Industrial Re-
covery Slavery Act in operation
the workers are getting taste of
the way in which the bosses will use
this act to defeat the rights
which the workers have won to
control their working conditions
through their union.
Union Shop-Contrary to Recovery
Act"
Frank c. Dumaine, treasurer OF
the Amoskeag Co. and one of Nor
gan's favored millionaires insisted
on employing non-union workers
contrary to the unions demands
following which action the strike
was called. Dumaine is invoking
the Recovery (Slavery) Act declar-
ing that a union shop is contrary
to the spirit of the Act and to the
agreement made with the bishop in
the last strike called on May 19.
The Bishops Deal.
The bishop together with the
strike breaking Governor of N e W
Hampshire Winant and the head
of the United Textile local here
Riviere, succeeded in halting the
strike oi the workers by. agreeing
to their demand for return of a Is
per cent wage cut. The action was
taken when the company realized
that the strikers we're determined
not only to gain back their cut but
to obtain a real increase in wages.
The workers, following their re-
turn to work found that the COM
mittee which had negotiated the
settlement had not functioned in
their interests, for their pay envel-
opes contained even less and in
creased production had been I'M
posed n them, through new
stretch out plan.
From DuMaine'S statement it
will now be clear to every Amoskeag
worker that a deal had been made
with the bishop in which not only
was the strike halted to prevent the
workers from obtaining increases but
the right of the union to dictate
conditions in the shop denied.
Strike Answers Dumaine.
Dumaine declares that the bishop
promised that any differences be-
tween the union and the workers
would be settled by the government
under the Recovery Act. In other
words tho bishop signed away the
workers right to strike.
But the workers have answered
this treachery by strike to en-
force the closed shop, according to
capitalist press reports. At this time
no reports have come in regarding
the number of workers involved.
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
The Parasites Money Bags

turns out that Company and Mr. Otto Kahn muti
millionaire banker just Morgans too have
paid any income taxes since the breaking
ought such suffering to the
To the workers fighting desperately against hunger the ruling class
breaches respect the
the capitalist they themselves make in their own in
eresteven this the finance capitalists impy
Karl Marx the socialism said that the r,ro
ass always attempts of the government
he workers the poor
The capitalist class makes the Of the
vernmen which Nothing this more
han the present Senate investigations.
(UT these Investigations
thing else which is of workers And that i the
stence OF the enormous wealth in the bankers
The Roosevelt government no way to pav for
Immediate relief for Federal for Social In
france against disease and disability.
Well here in the
wealth of ancient kings upon millions in
Al
rhese millions stop hunger Of the workers
their familes
The masses must insist that the
these money boards to provide for immediate Unemrloy-
1t Inslrance--for insurance against starvation!
md these taxes must be co,ecsf
The daily worker., 1933-07-01

taking steel in excess OF their know
requirements"
They didn't need the steel til
bought. They bought it to avoid la'
higher prices.
More important than this, the /
industries that usually supply Il
steel orders are not buying at all
The same issue of Iron Age ad-
mitted:
Business from the construction
industry and from the railroads hai
been insignificant throughout thu 7
riod under review, and it is non
question how much further steel gu
put can be increased without SUI
support"
Were any workers re-employedS.o
the upturn? In some places prob
ably few thousands were. But the
major portion of the upturn was Gre
ated by speeding-up those ALREADY
working. or by adding but a fer
hours to the part-time workers. j.
the auto, industry such increases Il
output as have taken place wer
made without employing more wors
ers. With speed-up and longer hour
with no corresponding Increase
pay. some plants actuallv increas
output, at the saine time firi
workers Hardly rihplt was ma
in the ranks of the l7Noo,o00 une
ployed. These ragged rarks will sr
be replenished by the irsensincat
Of the crisis due to the overprod
sion caused by the ''upturn.s -
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
4 Capitalist Educator Sbeaks

TODAY children public schools leave the schools and 90 m
7 into the streets
The New York City Superintendent
ca OF the breed all the country
million workers children the into the sue,ter
ing city streets swarming with
Always have respect for constituted authority Don't get m
soap boxes and denoce the city Don't follow the
policy OF of the city college the
ment the officials and everything
and mothers and authority"
Such the educator
thfu servant of the capitalist class.
The dear fathers mothers
ngly unemployed and starving
When these dear fathers eviction for
ploymen relief
d the clubs the police capitalist city
Of which Superintendent particularly
spocitical part.
The chidrco to whom this starving some
cities the children have the right
vacation leaves them their
nendent tries stpfy the
ing class poisonsresp
ducator the to their starya
On.
ew Yoks $4,000 School Superintendent
The daily worker., 1933-07-01
Win Reprieve for
Framed Negro Boy

CHARLOTTE, N. CA sixty-day
reprieve for John Lewis Edwards
18-year-old Negro worker framed
and sentenced to die July on mur-
der charges, has been obtained from
Governor birmingham by the Inter
national Labor Defense.
The I. l.. D., after the failure oi
j. D. Mccall, lawyer appointed by
the court, to appeal the case, began
campaign of mass pressure that
forced re-opening of the case.
Edwards was arrested, with two
other Negro boys, May II. On May
10 Edwards and one other Negro boy
were tried by an all-white jury. Ed
wards was found guilty, with recon-
mendation of mercy. On May 81
however, Judge Ogelsby sentenced
Edwards to die.