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The Washington times., 1933-12-14
JOHNSON SORRY
STETT|N|US IS
OUT Of NRA
Chief Praises Young Aide Who
Has Resigned to Take Big
U. S. Steel Post

Edward r. Stettinius, jr., execu-
tive officer Of the NRA's In
dustrial Advisory Board, has re-
signed that office to accept the
post Of vice chairman Of the
finance committee of the United
States Steel Corporation.
The selection Of a man for one
of it's highest positions outside
the corporations own ranks is
almost unprecedented.
johnson Regretful
Stattinius, only 80 years old, is
a graduate of Pomfret School and
the University Of Virginia. His
father. the late Edward r.
Stettinius, Morgan partner, was
Assistant Secretary of War dur
ing the Wilson administration.
Gen. Hugh S. johnson, NRA
administrator, for the first time
issued a statement expressing re-
gret at the departure of an aide,
when he was informed of the
resignation Of Stettinius. He said:
Edward Stettinius, secretary
Of the Industrial Advisory
Board, has resigned to accept
one Of the highest offices in the
United States Steel Corpora ton.
He will be greatly missed, and
his place will be hard to fill,
but we can hardly stand in the
way Of = young mans advance
ment.
"His work here was Of the
very highest order. He has the
good will of the entire organiza-
tion, and especially Of the In
dustrial Labor Advisory Boards,
with whom he was in close
contact"
In his new post, Stettinius sue,
ceeds William j. Filbert, who re.
places Myron c. Taylor, present
chairman. The latter wishes to
retire. The changes will not be.
come effective until April 4, but
Stettinius felt that he should be.
gin at once to acquaint himself
with his new duties.
Joins General Motors
Stettinius began his business
career after leaving the Univer'
sity Of Virginia, with the Hyatt
Roller Company. At the age of
"a he became associated with
General Motors, and at the age Of
26 he became assistant to John L.
Pratt, vice president in charge of
accessory divisions.
At 80, he became assistant to
the president of the corporation,
and year later he was MADE a
vice president. For the last six
months he has been with NRA.
He is director and vice presi-
dent of General Aviation Corpora
tion and director of several other
air lines. He is also a member of
the executive committee of the
National Industrial Conference
Board, a trustee of Roosevelt Hos
pital, New York, and director of
Judson Health Center there.
He is a member of the Union,
Piping Rock, st. Anthony, New
York Athletic, Maidstone, Recess,
and Detroit Athletic clubs.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
CWA IN DISTRICT
BOWS To UNION
PAY DEMAND
Organized Labor'S Scales to
Prevail on Projects Here,
Officials Decide

Organized labor chalked up an
other victory today when officials
of the local Civil Works Admin
istration announced union wage
scales will prevail on CWA
projects here.
Protests that District officials
in charge of the CWA were hold
ing down wages in violation Of
Federal CWA rulings allowing
union wages in those localities
where union wages are higher
than those paid by the CWA
were brought before Commis-
sioner Allen yesterday.
Favored by Allen
Commissioner Allen had been
in favor of paying union wages
on CWA projects here but was
not certain of the Interpretation
of the Federal ruling.
Final decision in the matter
was expressed in a telegram sent
yesterday by John M. Carmody,
chief engineer of the Federal
CWA, to Commissioner Allen.
Although in his ruling Carmody
did not prescribe union wages,
but wages paid under the Public
Works Administration, union Off.
cials said they were satisfied be-
cause the PWA wage scales al
ready had been set at union
levels for the District.
Lubin Reveals Scale
Commissioner Allen was ad.
vised today by DR.. Isador Lubin.
commissioner of labor statistics of
the Department of Labor, that
the following wage scale prevails
here: Bricklayers, SITS an hour:
carpenters, ST.; cement finishers,
$1,25; electrical workers, $1.65;
structural iron workers, $1.65
painters, $1.37; plasterers, Sits:
plumbers, $1.50, and steam fit
ters, 1.29.
This scale will not be reflected
in the payrolls Saturday, since
wages then to be paid are for
the week ended last night.
Adoption of the union wage
scale will not make a material
difference in the total of the
CWA payroll, it was said.
Commissioner Allen estimated
that not more than 3 per cent Of
the total on CWA rolls would be
affected and the total amount Of
money involved would not be
much.
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when he became executive secre-
tary of the Utah Coal Producers
Association, which developed the
first coal code in the United
States. In 1881 he became chief
of the Chicago office of the Ma
tional Coal Association, and while
there received two urgent mes
sages from Assistant Director Nc
Carthy, of the Reconstruction Fi-
nance Corporation, to come to
Washington.
Finally he came, with the pro-
viso that he stay only 80 days.
He has been here practically ever
since.
Grimes is married and the
father of two children, a boy. 81.
and a girl. 18. And next to them
his proudest possession is his re-
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WOMEN BANDS BARRED

BUDAPEST G.N.SD.-Budapest
cafes have been prohibited from
engaging women orchestras. The
municipality has advised them to
employ gipSy bands.
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"THE OTHER WISE MAN"

Miss Mary Burrill will deliver
her twelfth annual reading of
Van Dykes The Other Wise
Man." Sunday afternoon at 4::3O
in the Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel at Howard University.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
EAGLE SCOUT TO SPEAK

Stuart Seaton, Eagle Scout and
scout leader for many years, will
speak at a meeting OF the C. M
O., Camp Roosevelt Honor So
ciety, at the Y. M. c. A. Satur.
day night at 1880 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
TAKOMA PLANS
YULE PARTY

Children ofSTakoma Park will
be guests of the ladies' auxiliary
of the Takoma Park Volunteer
Fire Department at the annual
Christmas party and treat at the
fire department building, Decem-
ber 81.
The evenings entertainment in
cludes a program of songs and
stories, a Christmas tree, and
above all, Santa Claus, who will
have presents for the children.
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needed to substantiate the
charge of responsibility pre-
viously made. 1t has been
pointed out that many of the
county officers are chosen di-
rectly by the voters but in spite
of, and in part because of, this
fact, county government in Vir-
ginia is virtually without popu-
lar control by, or responsibility,
to, the people.
''Now, responsibility in gov
ernment is the essence of in
telligent democracy, but it can
not be exacted unless the peO-
pie are able to locate those
who are at fault when things
go wrong or do not go well.
With each officer an indepen-
dent agent, responsible to no
other officer, there is not only
no coordination of effort, but
also practically no possibility
of definitely fixing response
hiIitv
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
2 Doctors to Face
Trial Next MOndnu

Judge Charles w. Woodward
adjourned Montgomery County
Circuit Court late yesterday until
$3.50 a. M, Monday morning,
when it will hear the case of Drs.
H. L. Street and Sherwood Ferris,
indicted by a grand jury last
month in connection with the
death of Mrs. Cora Britten in a
Baltimore hospital last May.
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Counties Expenses
Treble in II Years

"In brief, then, county gov
ernment in Virginia is ineffi-
cient because of a cumbersome
and decentralized administrative
mechanism; it is wastefuI be-
cause of overlapping, obsolete
and useless offices and agen-
cies; and it is irresponsible
and undemOcratic because the
people have no direct repre-
sentative body with sufficient
power to plan and direct the
policies of the county for them
and whom they can justly
hold responsible for the sue
cess or failure of admins
trative officers whose varied
activities they are unable to
follow directly"
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
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The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Silver Spring D.A.R.
Will Meet Jan. 6

Next meeting of the Erasmus
Perry Chapter of the D. A. R., of
Silver Spring, will be held at the
home of Mrs. Margaret Fox, at
Linden, Md, January 6. An
article on Annapolis" will be
read by Mrs. Clarence Reed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Auto Code Puts Blue Eagle
OK on Open Shop, Low Pay

says the confidential letter:
"PIease do not publish the fact
that this might result in a greater
Ieveling out Of all wages 50 that
larger number Of people may have
employment at least at minimum
wage rate rather than permit a
smaller number dividing the work
as a consequence of getting more
money for their services"
During the month of August there
has been a sharp drop in automobile
production and employment. Even if
production rises In the fall, it win
merely mean that the inhuman
speed-up system, which has increased
the speed Of conveyor belts by about
so per cent during the past year, Will
be further intensified.
With the code adopted, what are
the auto workers to dop
The militant Auto Workers Union,
which led the Detroit strikes earlier
this year, was for long time prac-
tieally the only organization in. the
field. But now many workers are
turning also to new groups that have
sprung up, to the A. F. Of L. union;
to the Auto Mechanics Educational
Association, an organization OF skilled
workers along craft lines: to the
American Industrial Association, or
ganized by stool-pigeons early this
year in order to break the Briggs
strike; to the Federation of Automo-
tive Workers that has been launched
by Socialist Party leaders in Lansing
and Pontiac; to the /. W. W., which
has become very active around GER
tain plants,
The appearance and growth Of
these heterogeneous groups Is an in
dication Of the increased fighting
spirit Of the automobile workers, their
surging eagerne5s for organization
and struggle. The fact that these
workers are organizing under re-
dictionary leadership Is proof not of
the backwardness of the workers, but
of the backwardness Of the Auto
Workers Union and the Communist
Party, which should be the driving
forces in the present situation, and
thus far have not been.
The workers In the Hayes Body
Plant In Grand Rapids have shown
how it can be done. They adopted the
auto workers code and they struck to
enforce It's demands. Result: After
being out a week, despite efforts of
the company TO break the strike,
they won a 20 per cent wage increase,
recognition Of shop and department
committees and other concessions,
and increased the membership Of the
Auto Workers Union by $50 per cent.
The Open Letter 10 the Party
membership and the recent Cleveland
Trade Union Conference for United
Action are two guide-points for our
future work. The auto workers are
on the move. II Is now only a ques-
ton of correct, systematic organiza-
ton work on q united front basis,
before great battles Will break out.
Whether Henry Ford gets the blue
eagle or not, the auto workers will
fight against the robber bird that has
dug fts beak into their flesh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Crushing of Cuban Masses Part of War
Preparation Intervention Also Demon
stration for Imperialist Rivals

walton labor the dividends and in
terests on the $1,505, 100000 OF Amer
lean investments, he was undis-
turbed. The high moral atmosphere
of Washington was not affected by
the depravities of its Cuban puppet.
But when Cuban workers and pea
SAINTS led by the Communist Party,
try to take control Of the land and
factories, Washington get ready for
war against them.
Machado lost his usefulness, was
saved from righteous popular anger
only by flight with American aid and
under official American protection
But when the Cuban masses showed
that they were determined to permit
no dictation by Yankee imperialism
of the choice of Machado's successor,
Washington unleashed its dogs OF
war.
Cuba was surrounded by a ring of
steel-literally. No less than thirty
gunboatS had their cannon trained
on the main cities of the island.
Ambassador Welles gave sanctuary
under the American flag, flying over
the American owned National Hotel
to the murderous clique of army Of
ficers deposed by the enlisted men.
Ambassador WelleS established his
headquarters in the National Hotel
which thereby became United States
Government property. There Ambas-
sador WelleS, surrounded by machine
guns and armed Machadist officers
devoted days to efforts to organize
counter revolution. In this way he
tried to utilize for imperialist attack
on the workers and peasants a tacti.
cal mistake made by the revolution
airy forces lie. allowing these officer.
their liberty and arms instead o
disarming and imprisoning them ane
shooting those who resisted.
Ambassador Welles has tried TO d,
in Cuba what Ambassador Franci
tried to do in Russia during ant
after the November revolution-us,
the American embassy as base TO
counter revolution.
The American press threw off al
restraint. 1t INDUCED in the loves
forms of provocation. Here one say
the fine hand of the professional Ne
gro hater. There are about one mil
lion Negroes among the three ant
one-half million Cuban people. TIL
Southern states furnish a big proper
ton of U. S. naval and army Officers
American women were being route
from their homes by lrlstful Cubans
according to these sheets. American
lives were in danger, they said, thougl
the Cuban masses would be only to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
By HARRY CANNES.

THE speed with which the MIRA
1 moved to an open attack on living
standards and workers rights has
made agile political contortionists of
the Socialist Party leaders.
Norman Thomas, the New Leader"
official organ of the Socialist Party,
and other ballyhooers of the MIRA,
are falling all over themselves trying
to adjust their words of praise for the
NRA. With the open strikebreaking
starvation policies of the NRA be-
coming clearer to great sections of
the workers, the Socialists now seek
new means to keep the workers
faith in the NRA.
In the Sept. issue of the New
Leader" the Socialist Party, in a
leading editorial, tries to disassociate
itself from its shameless, lurid praise
of the MIRA. 1t resorts to new DELHI
crate lying about the Roosevelt New
Deal."t
Workers can be sure of nothing
unless they fight for it, and under the
NRA they must fight harder than
ever" state the Socialists. These are
strange words from those who from
the very day the Blue Eagle Matched
its egg piled it with filthy praise.
If as the Socialist leaders said the
MIRA is such a blessing, then why
must the workers flight harder than
ever?" The fact is, in the face of
the heavy blows of the MIRA, smash
ing down living standards throwing
new thousands on the bread lines,
hammering away at the workers
rights Of picketing and striking, the
toiling masses are fighting harder
than ever against the NRA.
What They Said Before
We will show that the Socialist
Party leaders told the workers that
the NRA was distinct gain for the
workers, that it would offer them
untold advantages, including higher
wages, improved working conditions,
the right to organize, that 1t would
even lay the basis for an easy deve,-
opment to socialism.
Five days before the NRA was
passed Norman Thomas wrote an
article in the New Leader (June 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Latest Attacks on Workers Under NRA
Makes Socialists Scurry Around for New
Phrases to Bolster Faith in Roosevelt

on the MIRA, saying:
ut would be absurd TO expect a
Democratic administration to ad-
vance toward outright socialism.
Nevertheless, the labor clauses of
the bill as introduced into Con-
greSs rightly used will give the
workers an enormously powerful
weapon for progress towards genu-
inc socialism,
NONT expect Roosevelt to give you
u complete socialism, says Thomas
But he is doing all he can in that
direction. We can tell the workers,
says the Socialists, that they can use
this instrument (which is now grind
ing them to a coolie level, and
smashing their rights to build So
cialism from the point where Mr.
Roosevelt leaves off, perhaps due to
his inexperience.
But to make emphasis stronger,
Thomas in another article says:
Collective bargaining and other
rights guaranteed CD to labor have
genuine value" (June 20.
That was the cue to the whole
Socialist line. 1t was explained to
the workers who read the Socialist
press in this fashion by the Jewish
Forward"
mo More Wage Cuts"
'The time Of wage cutting has
gone.
"Only when the wages of the
workers will be raised will their
buying power be increased and
new current of life will penetrate
the frozen American industry and
trade.
ITO this thought came also the
prominent capitalists who declared
themselves for higher wages. Presi-
dent Roosevelt also came out in the
"The workers have the possibility
of establishing minimum wage
that can be twice and three times
their present earnings; they can
also achieve working week Of 36
hours and less"
Does this bear out what the So
cialist New Leader" now says on
Sept. that the Socialist leaders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
Forward" H ad Promised 5000 Pay Rise;
One Socialist Leader Said Workers
Should Sacrifice for NJ R. A.

Leader. Roosevelt is not attacking
the workers rights, they say.
1.-THE one resource that the work
ing people have between elections in
dealing with these great powers OF
capital and finance (but not with the
more powerful instrument Of the gov
eminent of capital and finance -
D.W) is organization into unions OF
their own. II this resource is i'm
paired by corporate Interpretation OF
the labor section of the NRA. or by
judicial blows aimed at the right to
strike or picket, it will mean a reac-
tionary revolution that will enthronc
capital Under the protecting wings OF
the Blue Eagle"
Such lawyers language will not
cover the Grass distortion Of what the
NRA really is and the yeonan SER
vice given to it by the Socialist
leaders.
Do you mean. Socialist supporters
of the Nl2A, that the MIRA was a
revolution made by Mr.. Roosevelt
that wiped out capitalism, and now
the CAPITALISTS ere making O counter
revolution against the labor sections
OF the NFtA and will in the future
"enthrone capital" under the NRAP
You still insist that the NRA is a
powerful instrument to improve labor
conditions, when every deed under
the MIRA shows the opposite. You
try to save the capitalist state from
the bleme, try to keep the workers
faith in the MIRA. when you haven't
leg TO stand on, and all Of your
propaganda has been proved tissue
Of lies.
The MIRA was intended to
strengthen capitalism. II is doing It,
It was written to smash down the
workers standard Of living, 1t is do
ing that. 1t never was intended to
give the workers the right to orga-
nize or TO preserve any of the work.
ers' rights.
You supported It In the past with
a species OF lies that have been ex-
posed by undeniaole action Of the
bosses.
You are trying 10 keep the workers
faith in it still. by new species OF
lies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

Congress in 1901, makes moclsery of
Cuban independence except in SO far,
as they are doing now, the Cuban
masses, by strikes and instruction,
aided by the American working class,
force revision. The Plat Amend
ment is the slave document by which
Yankee imperialism under the Roose-
welt administration claims the right
to dictate the destinies of the Cuban
nlssses by military force.
THERE is far more, however, to the
i present tactics of the Roosevelt
administration, than even the mani
fest intention to maintain by blood
and iron the power of Wall Street to
rob the Cuban masses. Cuba Is
Americas Ireland.
Just as the British domination of
Ireland and it's use as a naval and
air base assures her control of the
trade of the western trade routes. so
Cuba, with it's Guantanamo naval
and air base, and other bases provided
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

other Socialist leaders with strike
breaker Whalen) that Mr.. Whalen
invited them to become an official
section Of the NRA machinery BY
that time the NRA had begun to
expose itself for what it is in the eyes
of the workers, exactly in the way
the Communist Party said 1t would. 1t
was then that the Socialist Party
found it necessary to make change
in its tactics in order to continue its
support of the MIA under other
guises.
That accounts for the latest lying
editorial in the New Leader" of Sep
TENDER 9.
The dead days beyond recall had
to their credi.!
l. The open shop OF the auto code
approved by william Green, John L.
Lewis, and Sidney Hillman, the So
cialist.
2 Wage cuts in steel, coal and
thousands of other industries.
3. The no-strike edict and the ma
tional arbitration board strikebreak-
ING machinery.
4. Arrest Of pickets, and a flood
OF injunctions.
s. Martial law against Titan and
New Mexico coal strikers,
6. Increasing unemployment; an
intensiflcation of the crisis.
Z. Increased war preparations.
Everyone Of these results were fore
ted by the Communist Party in its
analyses Of the NTsA printed in near
ly every isaue Of the Daily Worker
from the day the law wss passed.
Finally, in its lying editorial, the
New Leader, beginning its new and
limping explanation Of the New Deal,
carefully protects Mr. Roosevelt end
the capitalist state. the government
Of Wall Street, from any blame for
what is resulting from the NRA. The
steel trust, the coal trust, the auto
trust are blamed But the govern
ment of these mighty corporations,
the Roosevelt regime, is held blame
less.
The NRA is good The NRA is a
blessing still to the workers. What is
wrong is the corporate interpreted
ton" Of the NRA. says the New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16

Of the watchftil experts Of her main
imperialist rivals-Britain and Japan
its ability to mobilize to hold what
for Wall Street is justly called the
Pearl Of the Antilles"
THE demonstration against the
Cuban masses Is a sure sign of the
great tensity in world imperialist re-
lationships. As such 1t must be
brought into the very center Of the
discussions that will take place at the
Congress Against Imperialist War to
convene in New York City on Sept. 20
for q three day session.
Take look at the map Of the
Caribbean area and the lower Allan
tic coast. You will see that, Just as
we speak of Yankee domination" of
South America while the struggle be-
tween British and American imperial
ism still proceeds and creates noun
tains of misery for the workers and
peasants, the struggle for complete
domination Of the Caribbean area
Is not yet over between the two world