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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
Storage Battery Workers
KnoW Militant Union
; AS Their Only Leader
Ascribes Improvement in Conditions to Shop
Paper, and Asks It's Resumption
Bosses Reading DAILY Worker to Follow the
Workers Activities

CLEVELAND, o. Several of us
who work in the Willard Storage
Battery Co. here thought it would
be interesting to or fellow workers
who work in the Exide Plant in Phil
adelphia and Willards Plant in Tor
onto, Canada, To know the condi-
tions we are working under here.
(Willard and Exide are the same
companies).
We work an average of three days
week, five hours day, and aver
age 50 to $40 O week We had to
donate SIS to the Community fund,
also 80 per cent a week for insur-
ance. We had 10 per cent cut
July / 1882. Understand Exide had
one Oct. l, 1882, and we are expect
ing another.
Workers are suffering from lead
poisoning and the company doctor
says it is a cold in the stomach. AS
we do not make money enough to
hire another doctor, we are helpless.
When one is sick they let him come
back to work until he is badly af-
fected, and then fire him.
The conveyors run SO fast in the
Assembly Department that one can't
stop even for a drink between start
ing time and lunch time. We are
turning out 8 hours production in 5
hours. They also have the stagger
system, having men laid off and
then calling them back at intervals.
Last spring, several attempts were
made to organize us into the Auto
Workers Union, but several who
Joined were fired and that scared
the rest of us. The Union put out
several shop papers called the will
ard Fighter" and showed lis the true
facts of working conditions in our
shop. At once conditions improved,
but as soon as these papers stopped
we were cut 10 per cent and one
hour a day in working time.
. I am afraid to go to the Auto
Workers headquarters on account of
company spies, but enough of us feel
the same as I do and if they will
start the willard Fighter" again,
am sure we can organize our plant
in 80 days. Organize Exide at Phil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
BY Labor Research Association
Kentucky Strike

BY Labor Research Association
Kentucky Strike
Jan. I. - Ten thousand Kentucky
coal miners at Pineville and Bell
Counties strike against low wages
under National Miners Union leader
ship as campaign Of terror is started
against them.
Tampa Workers Sentenced
Feb. Fourteen Tampa workers,
including two women, sentenced to
Florida prison camps and chain
gangs for from one to ten years.
Sentences total 81 years. following
Russian Revolution celebrations and
militant unemployed work
Harry Simnls Murdered
Feb. 9.-Harry Sirnms, 19-year-old
Young Communist League leader and
youth organizer for National Miners
Union, shot and killed by company
thug in Kentucky mine strike, at
Barbouryille, KY. ..,.,
Ford Massacre
March Joseph York and Joe
Russell, Young Communists. and
Coleman Levy and Joe Deblasio MUIR
dered. 60 others workers injured,
when Detroit, Dearborn and Ford
police fire into Hunger March of
unemployed Ford workers at Dear
born, Mich, plant.
Beet Workers Strike
May 16.-Under leadership Of Agri-
cultural Workers Industrial Union,
$4,000 Colorado beet workers strike
against pay reductions and intoler-
able conditions.
Foster and Ford Nominated
May 26-29.-William z. Foster, vet
eraf1 Communist leader, and James
w. Ford, Negro metal worker, nomi-
mated Communist candidates for
President and Vice. President respec-
lively at Chicago, Ill Ford is first
Negro candidate for vice-Presidency.
Southern Strikes
July 18.--15o00 southern textile
and furniture workers In the vicinity
of High Point, N. O., strike against
wage cuts.
Bloody Thursday
July 28.-Twenty thousand ex-ser-
vicemen gathered from all parts of
the country demanding bonus pay
ment in washington, DC, subjected
to bloody attack by police and mill
tary forces. Two veterans killed and
two children later die from tear gas
after effects.
Mine Strikes
Aug. 15.-Thirty thousand miners
strike against pay cuts in southern
Illinois.
Successful Chicago Relief Dem
Onstration
Oct. 31.-Fifty thousand Negro and
white unemployed win the stoppage
of threatened so per cent relief cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
Labor Inspector
WhitewaSheS the
Wertheimer Store
Useless to Appeal to
Labor Department;
Clerks Find

NEW YORK; am salesgirl in
the Wertheimer Department store on
West 181st St, one of the thousands
who we're taken on for the Christ
mas rush and who will be let out
again as soon as the holiday is over.
To get this job had to go through
as much red tape and examination
as II we're applying for the job
Of bank president. Some Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
ACCIDENTS IN METAL MINES.

THE metal miner underground
stands an increasing chance Of
being killed on the job, according
to a report of Labor Research AS
ISOLATION. An average of Al among
every 10000 full-time underground
workers was killed in 1880 as
against 40 in 1929 and SO in 1928.
This average is pulled up by the
very high rate SO per 10000
among gold, silver and miscel-
laneous metal miners under
ground" For copper and iron
miners the underground rates we're
80 and SO per 10000 in 1890. The
1880 rate for coal mine workers
underground is not yet available.
For all mine workers, under
ground and surface the fatal ac-
cident rates per 10000 full-time
workers were as follows in 1890;
coal mines, SO; gold silver and mis-
cellaneous metal, As; copper, %;
iron, 81; lead and zinc, 16; quar-
ries, Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02

tray the saIesgirls, The next time
we get together it will be to fight
our bosses and their stool-pigeons.
"
Editors NOTES.-The Office Work
ers Industrial Union at 799 Broad
way, will help these girls organize
against such conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
Highlights of 1882 in
u. S. Labor STRUGGLES

The following compilation
the United States does not take in
having u S.
triumphant construction Socialist
culture the Soviet beginning
Plan Nor does deal with the catastrophe
werd capitalism In Europe the Orient Latin America the
the Orient
the imperialism
rivals opens Of
sterilization and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
A. FL. Sliding Scale
Is One OF Steel Mills
Many Cut Schemes
Fire and Hire, Surprise Cut, 'Stagger Plan,
Wages in Goods, Are Other Tricks :
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union
Shows the Cuts Can Be Halted
BY FRANK ROGERS


by the steel trust in the SteelD
and Hire Plan; This method by
Republican Steel Corporation in
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TION ARE ON PAGE ~
Evening star., 1933-09-10
FRANCIS GRACE IS SLAIN
BY HIS FORMER NURSE

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA CRUZ, Calf, September g.
Francis Joseph Morgan Grace, sr., ST.
a nephew of the late w. r. Grace;
shipping magnate, was shot and killeo
here tonight by a woman pollce saio
was formerly employed as a nurse IN
the Grace home.
The woman, who gave her name as
Frida Wilhelmina Agusta WeltZ, ap-
peared to be in stupor after the
shooting, officers said. and in reply 10
questions repeatedly declared:
"You wouldn't understand
Police said she was about 40 years
old.
Grace was sitting with his present
nurse in the garden Of his Summer
home on Beach Hill. the police report
said, when Mrs. Weltz entered the
grounds.
Without warning, the r&ort added,
Mrs. Weltz, who was discharged from
her position about year ago, drew a
pistol and shot Grace in the side. He
staggered to the door of his home and
fell dead. --
Evening star., 1933-09-10
WALLACE DOUBTS
CURE IN INITIATION
Commodity Dollar Might Aid,
but Effective Control Is
Problem, He Says.

Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agri-
culture. who regards the current ad-
ministration's activities as an oppor-
tunity to bring about a great social
readjustment In America, yesterday
frankly discussed the possibility Of
some form of currency imitation in a
conference with newspaper men.
In this part of his conversation he
dwelt particularly on the so-called
commodity dollar which seems to
appeal to some administration officials
as the best, if not the only. means Of
controlled imitation
At the same time Secretary Wallace,
predicting that the next three months
would be a period Of "lag" in farm
prices, placed emphasis on q review
of conditions by the Bureau Of Agri-
cultural Economics which casts some
doubt on the effectiveness of the N. r.
A. program during the Fall.
Recalling an address he made several
days ago, in which he presented the
evils of imitation, the Secretary said
today he was mot an anti-ir hationist,
up to a certain point" The whole situ-
alton, he held, must be viewed in the
light of q proper balance, or ratio. In
fation might tend toward bringing
about that balance, he thought, but, If
it went beyond a certain point 1t
1Ooy,tin,1od an pooo . Column A
Evening star., 1933-09-10

With the Navy and Marine corps
standing by in the glare OF publicity TO
protect American lives in Cuba. the ad-
ministration has sent an S 0 call to
the Army to enlist its services IN
battle now waging on a NATIONWIDE
front against 100000 pigs headed Tor
the slaughter house.
Grunts Of undisguised chagrin were
heard from officers at the War Depart
ment yesterday when this inglorious role
became known. They were changed to
siphs of relief, however, when 1t was
learned that the Army wasn't called IN
to engage in the actual slaughter OF
the innocents," but to take care OF all
the payments to the packers.
without caring to publicize the
Army's part in this agricultural war
while red -blooded officers were chatting
under the martial display Of rival serv-
ices, the general staff made no effort
to rush into print. When the fact did
leak out, the Army's part in the domes-
tic farm crisis was willingly, but sadly
revealed.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace was
responsible Facing the job of having
A60o, 1000 pigs and 100000 sows slaugh-
Evening star., 1933-09-10
ARGENTINA URGES
INTERVENTION BAN
Note Voices Hopes U. S. Will
Let Cuba Work Out
Own Destiny.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
New units were added to the ring of
American warships circling Cuba last
night as official concern increased, at
continued failure Of contending forces in
Havana to bury their disagreenents and
establish a government regarded by
other nations as satisfactory.
The administration also followed with
close interest the progress of a move
ment led by Mexico to have the FORE
most Latin American nations communi-
cate to the Cuban people their fervent
hope that government able to rule
would be created without delay.
While officials at the State Depart
ment confined their comment to praise
Of the Mexican action, it appeared that
Argentina for the time at least had
failed to fall in line with the appeal,
having instead dispatched note to the
United States expressing its hope that
there would be no American interyen-
tion in Cuba.
ESpil at State Department.
The note was delivered to the Amer
lean embassy at Buenos Aires, and late
in the cay Ambassador Felipe A. Espil
of Argentina went to the State Depart
ment, apparently as an aftermath Of the
communication.
The American attitude as often ex-
pressed and now reiterated is one OF
absolute opposition to Intervention If it
can be avoided.
At the same time, q conviction has
grown in Washington that the Cuban
government in many important respects
is not functioning as a result OF the
armed but bloodless revolt Of Tuesday
which established military junta. The
question in the minds Of officials was
how long this condition could continue
without more serious developments.
Later Ambassador Espil conferred
with Assistant Secretary Jefferson Caf-
fiery, supposedly concerning the Argen-
tine note.
Espil described his governments COM
munication as "a very friendly note" I"
He said 1t was much the same in tenor
as that sent yesterday by Mexico.
While declining to discuss the object
of his visit with Caffery. the envoy
said his government traditionally op-
posed any kind Of Intervention by one
state in the affairs Of another, and
that the Argentine communication had
been designed to carry out this prin-
ciple in the case Of Cuba.
Not Direct Request.
He said the note did not directly
request the United States not to inter-
vene.
The text Of the Argentine note,
made public q little later, said:
The Argentine embassy in Wash
ington has communicated to its gov
ernment that it has been informed by
his excellency. the President Of the
United States, Of the lofty principles
with which he is considering the poEt-
ical disturbances in the republic Of
Cuba, and Of his ardent desire not to
be obliged to intervene, Notwithstanding
the Platt amendment.
THE Argentine government Is CRATE
full for the information which has 50
(Continued on Page & Column Al
Evening star., 1933-09-10
PIC VAR IS FOUGHT BY Army
WHILE NAVY is SENT TO CUBA

tered to increase prices in the pig mar
ket, he discovered that his department
had no personnel to handle the finan-
cial end of the campaign. For that
reason he called upon the War Depart
ment to furnish the services of its dis
bursting officers at strategic points.
Maj. Gen. Fred w. Coleman. chief OF
finance, was ordered to take the stu
alton in hand. To begin the work,
orders were issued to disbursing officers
at the big slaughtering centers Of Chi
cago, St. Paul, Omaha, st. Joseph, Mo-,
and Sioux City, Iowa, to- make the
necessary payments to the packing
houses out of available funds of the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
The parade of the pigs from farm to
slaughter houses began August % and
as it progresses, pay officers in other
points will be enrolled in the service.
I'VE put over the c. c. c., so guess
we can win the pig war;" said a high
Army officer yesterday.
without selecting the Job Of its own
volition, the Army is nevertheless de-
termined to see it through.
A memorandum prepared for Secre-
tary Of War Dern stated that this new
CONTINUED On Page 2. Qumn ~.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
GREATEST NONSTOP MASS FLIGHT
PLAN FOR RECORD NAVY SHIPS

the Norfolk to Coco Solo hop would bs
logical choices for the honor
Such a flight over the ocean would
undoubtedly be the Nays job" he
said, smiling. "And these planes are
as good for long distance dash as any
we possess. That may not be true to-
morrow or next week. Aviation seems
to be progressing about that fast"
Naval air officers were of the opin-
ion that If flight to Italy were at
tempted, it would not be tried until
next Summer. It was pointed out that
the present season is too far gone to
make the effort by the Northern route.
In plotting out possible courses, some
at the Navy Department estimated
roughly that the shorter Northern route
would require less than 1000 miles Of
flying to reach Rome. Over the South
ern track, by way of the Bahamas and
the Azores. involving longer open-wa-
ter Jumps, it was calculated that at
least 4, 400 miles Of flight would be nee
essary.
There was jubilation at the Navy De-
partment over the feat of II officers
and Is enlisted men in eclipsing the
longest nonstop formation flight by
Gen. Balbo by more than 200 miles.
In the six planes taking part in tho
dusk to dusk hop that ended Friday
SOoott11e6 o. Pae0 Z, Column -
Evening star., 1933-09-10
District Alleys May Be Model
For SIum Clearance in u. S.
Public Works Administration Consider
ing T'co Plans for Enperim,ent-Mrs.
Roosevelt Is Backing Program.
The squalid alleys of Washington

The squalid alleys Of Washington
will be used by the Public Works Ad-
ministration to show the Nation what
can be done in the way of slum clear
ance, if plans now under way get the
necessary approval.
And that they will get that approval
is practically assured. because they are
being worked out with the advice and
counsel of Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who has personally inspected the alley
ways of the Capital and heartily dis
approves Of them.
1t was revealed yesterday by Robert
D. Kohn. chief of the housing division
of the Public Works Administration,
former president Of the American In
stitute of Architects, who has made the
preliminary studies Of the two big ex-
periments in slum clearance that likely
will be made here, that the plans are
rapidly shaping up and will be ready
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Objections to Johnson's BIZ
luminous Code Delays
Hearing Until Tuesday.
POLITICAL SPECIALIZATION
SEEN BY ALABAMA GROUP
New Jersey Silk Strike and Cleve.
land Dispute Occupy Labor
Board.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
New difficulties in the way Of a bitu-
minous coal code and regulation of
prices in trade plans combined yester-
day to vex the Recovery Admin1stra-
ton, with labor disputes bringing added
complications.
Numerous objections to the program
Tor coal. as worked out by Hugh S,
Johnson, the industrial administrator.
brought a postponement until Tuesday
OF hearing planned on the code and
revisions that may be made in the light
OF the criticisms.
From the Consumers Advisory Board
came a request that the master code
Tor the retail trade, involving several
millions Of employees. be delayed to per-
NIT investigation into the subject Of
minimum price control.
Arthur D. Whiteside, deputy admins
traitor in charge Of retail codes, felt
it imperative, however, that there be
no delay and sought to put the plan
into effect as rapidly as possible.
Strike Problems Taken Up.
The strike problems were taken UP
by the National Labor Board, a vital
section OF the recovery machinery 1t
sought to adjust walkout Of New
Jersey area silk mill workers and to
straighten out the Cleveland street car
dispute.
Bituminous Goals protests poured in
upon johnson. with Alabama operators
telling him the code he proposed would
mean political Specialization" of the
mines. They submitted formal list
of objections, including opposition to
the 50 a day basic wage rate in Ala
bama.
The Operators Code Committee said
political socialization of the industry
was not authorized by the recovery
act and has been disclaimed by you
and your staff, but this important
code was drafted on no other theory"
Illinois operators who signed the So
called general code approved by the
United Mine Workers Of America fol-
lowed the Alabama group. Appalachian
producers who Friday told the Admin
istrator by letter the code was so OBJ
jectionable as a whole that there was
little use detailing specific objections
expected to send In their statement
last night.
Other Protests Indicated.
Other smaller groups likewise indi-
Gated they would file protests.
Previously. Frank E. Tapln Of Cleve-
land. president of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Company and another signer
of the general code. came out of John
sons Office saying he had tod the ad-
ministrator that he (Johnson) had been
played for sucker by the Appaia-
chan operators
Taplin said johnson was far too pa
tient with the operators In working for
an agreement on a code, and that the
Appalachian group was "Stalling" so
they could mine coal during peak sea-
son with lower wages than they would
pay under code
The Alabama statement. prepared by
Forney johnson of Birmingham. said
that under the proposed code there
can be no doubt whatever that the
final decision on the basic questions of
wages. price and distribution is by this
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1933-09-10
POLISH AER0NAuTS
TURN UP IN CANADA
Ba|I0onists March 100 Miles
to Village, Exhausted
and Hungry.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RIVIERE A PIERRE, Quebec, Sep
tember 9.-Exhausted and hungry from
100-mile march to civilization through
untracked Canadian forests. the two
missing Polish entrants in the James
Gordon Bennett balloon race reached
here tonight.
Capt. Francizek Hynek and Lieut..
Znigniew Burzynski, brought to River
a Pierre by railroad section hands from
q point II miles distant, revealed they
had landed In q dense forest last Mon
day.
It was estimated here the distance
from Chicago, where they started last
Saturday with other race entrants, to
the point the balloon descended, is ap-
proximately 900 miles on an air line.
Given Unofficial Lead.
cat Chicago the Polish entrants were
accorded an unofficial lead in the dis
tance event by race officials, based on
the estimates they had covered approx
mately 1000 miles. Comdr. T. G. w.
Settle, plotting the United States Navy
entry, landed at Branford. Conn. a
distance of approximately $50 miles
from Chicago. The balloon piloted by
Ward T. Van Orman, American civilian
entrant, has not yet been reported and
may have outdistanced both the Navy
and Polish entrants.)
The Polish flyers apparently were
suffering from fatigue and hunger, as
they had only half a dozen oranges be-
tween them for food, otherwise they
did not appear much the worse for their
experience.
Plan to Recover Balloon.
They revealed their balloon came
down about 80 miles northeast OF Le-
mieux, Quebec, small station on the
Canadian National Railway, between
the city Of Quebec and Chicoutimi.
Following a compass course, they ar
rived at Lemieux. The aeronauts said
trfev expected to remain here until they
had made arrangements for the location
and recovery of their balloon.
whereabouts of the balloon piloted by
Ward Van Orman, American civilian
entrant, and Frank A. Trotter. who &C
companied him, IS still unknown.
MACON To JOIN SEARCH.
Evening star., 1933-09-10

soon for submission to the Public Works
Board and. if approved, to the White
House for final approval
Credit for the initiative in this prof.
ect. which aims to better the living con-
ditions of the white-coliar man as well
as the laboring class. goes right to the
White House and to Mrs Roosevelt, who
interested herself in removing this par
ticular blemish from the seat of the
Government few days after she took
up residence here.
1t was, as a matter of fact. the Sec
ond week in March that Mrs. Roosevelt,
with her blue roadster, herself at the
wheel, drove through some Of the worst
the city has to offer In the way Of
hovel-lned alleys.
With Mrs. Archibald Hopkins. promi-
nent social worker here for many years,
whose particular charity Is the Home
for 1ncurables. Mrs. Roosevelt went
through the byways and purlieus that
the average Washingtonian does not
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1933-09-10
CRASH TAKES life
OF WASHINGTON GIRL
Caroline Davidson, IS, Killed, and
Five Others Injured in Vir-
ginia Auto Wreck.

Caroline Davidson, IS, was killed, and
five other persons were injured late last
night when their automobile skidded
into an embankment and overturned
on the outskirts of Vienna, Va.
The injured, none of whom could
give coherent account Of the accident
were:
Gertrude Sauveur, about 18, Oakton,
Va; Millard Shifhett, 20, and Robert
Williams, 10, both of Andrews Chapel,
Va; Nose Dukes, 10, Of Wheelers Mill,
Va, and Louise Butler, IS, Of Vienna.
All but Miss Butler were taken to
Georgetown Hospital by Harold Payne,
II Walnut street, Clarendon, Va, who
said he picked them up at the scene
of the mishap. Physicians termed their
condition serious.
Miss Butler was treated by sn Oak
ton doctor. She was not thought to
have been badly hurt.
Miss Davidson's body was taken to
the Money & King funeral parlor,
Vienna, where it WIS viewed by her
parents. Mr. and Ms. w. B. David
son.
Sheriff Eppa Kirt1 of Fairfax Coun-
ty said he was wtble to learn who
was driving the CT, which was listed
In the name Of D4kes.