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The Washington times., 1933-01-20
LARCENY HOLDS
MAN FOR JURY

Charged with larceny Of $106
which his employer had intrusted
to him for deposit in a bank,
Robert Clark, colored, 10, today
was held for the Grand Jury on
$1,000 bond by Police Court Judge
John P. Mcmahon.
Georgia Trarbach, of the 17OO
block I st. N. w., said she gave
Clark the money about a month
ago and he disappeared. When
arrested in New York on January
S, Clark is said to have told police
he was forced to leave Washing
ton by two unidentified men and
that he was robbed Of the money
in Erie, Pa.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20

good years, after which big will sweep him into
the army, kill him if he is lucky MAIN him if he is not,
Or if he escapes throw him back at the age of %
into world which will go through the depressons
rs own.
"Now, what do you say? notice the birth rate has
down pretty steepy in the last few years. Are other
people thinking as amp?
Not Qualified
Just because writes a newspaper column six
days week about politics and motor and kitchen
utensils and books he gets questions like this 1t is
of course, moral probem it happens to be good
I feel special qualifications in myself for answering
1t and cheerfuly pass to my readers have heard
conversations the lines. Recently a rather
wealthy woman said she going to adopt as many
children she could afford and give them good start
In he in preference to having children of her Her
motto it appears is that not to have been born
better thing than to live happily
The experts say that the of population is, as
they put it, leveng off, that is the rate of increase is
not marked it But this began to be noticed
before 1929 in good times people seemed to doubt
the advisabity of presenting strange world to their
children I have figures at hand for the Hundred
Years War for the centuries in which plague and
pestence and serdom and starvation the natural
circumstances of mans life Perhaps few timid and
thoughtful people retired into the desert in those days.
The rest had children thus making sure that people
would be alive to enjoy the spectacle of civilization
know it.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20

corporation counsel, and Rich
mond B. Keech, peoples counsel,
and urged that the Public Utili-
ties Commission be given ade-
quate powers to regulate taxicabs.
Keech told the transportation
committee he is still opposed to
a return to metered taxicab
operation, as it would throw many
men out of work, but that he
does favor slight increase in
the present zone fares of 20, 40
and so cents, as well as a decrease
in the size of the first zone.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
Save Your Charts!

Save your exercise charts!
Don't do merely the two
or three exercises in each
days paper, but add the
new set to the ones that
have gone before.
At the end Of the series
you will have q complete set
of exercises, scientifically
graded.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
500 Children to Aid
Old Shoe Parade

Over 500 school children and
members Of fraternal and civic
organizations Of Alexandria will
participate in the Old Woman in
a Shoe parade tonight when a
drive for shoes for the poor of
the city will be conducted.
Roger C. Sullivan is chairman
of the committee in charge.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
OVERCOME BY GAS

Roy Bartlett, an employe of
the Belle Haven Garage in Alex
andria, was overcome by monox-
ide gas while working in the
garage last night. He was found
by customer and taken to the
Alexandra Hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
Victim of Robbery
In Critical Condition

Arthur A. Berman, 48-year-old
delicateSsen owner, was still in
critical condition at Garfield
Hospital today while search con.
tinued for two robbers who shot
him early yesterday in q holdup.
Berman's wife and four chill
dren were asleep when the shoot
ing occurred at the store in the
1900 block of Georgia Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20

as l am. l don't want ner TO know
I've asked. The question is: Do you
think anyone is justified, at a time
like this, in getting married and
bringing children into the world?
Understand, l am not asking
your opinion on birth control, mar
riage as opposed to free love or the
sanctity and joys of parenthood. l
am only looking around and wonder
ing whether child born in 1888 has
fair chance. In my worst moments
/ see such child growing up in the
shadow of it's parents fear for about
10 years-fear that they will be job
less and penniless, or fear that
something pretty bitter will happen
to the whole world. Then, if he
survives 7 GRANT him seven or eioht
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
HOOUer, r., Goes
To Boston bu Air

Herbert Hoover, jr., a guest at
the White House for two days,
left this morning for Boston.
Mrs. Hoover accompanied him to
Baltimore, where he boarded an
airplane.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
True to Type
WOULD-BE PARENT
QUESTIONS OWN
RIGHT
By GILBERT SELDES-

SST SUPPOSE you hate anonymous letters" begins an
Il anonymous letter, "but there is good for
this one. have question to ask you and / wouldn't
mind putting my to it except that it might be
by person who is deeply involved in the
The Washington times., 1933-01-20
DRIVING DRUNK, Fined

Charged with drunken driving,
Thomas Butler, of ForeStville,
was fined 500 in police court at
Capitol Heights yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-01-20

airplane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

able to the practices of the Ku Klux
Klan. One former employee of that
concern, MIR. Nose Jones, has just
appealed to the International Labor
Defense because he was discharged
amid very inhunlan threats. After
an argument. oyer a package of ciga-
rettes which the foreman, Sidney
BirteIl, said should be changed to a
pint of wliskey for himself, Mr..
Nose Jones was chased for three
blocks from the Anderson Clayton
Cos grounds. "f
/. L. ID. Helps Worker
Mr.. j. Thornton Mcdonald, rep
resenting the 1. L. D. here, has al
ready outlined the course of action
for MIR. Jones, so that the latter will
not stand to lose his salary for the
week which ended last night. Mr..
Jones has worked for the Anderson
Clayton Co. off aud on for the past
eight or nine years.
Recently one of the foremen at
that company deliberately struck
one Of the Negro, workers over the
nose with club, to intimidate him
for a brief evidence of resistance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Male Nurse at
Bellevue Beaten
By Drunken Dick
AN q Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK.-Recently a male
nurse at Bellevue Hospital was beaten
on the head, causing swelling and
abrasion, by detective under the in
fluence OF liquor, who brought in a
patient, a friend, who was also lntox-
icated. His companion was treated
for alcoholism and entered as a pa
tient.
The rule is that all patients are to
be searched by the nurse, property
checked, safely put away, and given
to the patient on discharge. The
nurse told this to the detective, who
beat him with his club, as this de-
tective thought he should do the
searching.
Many patients brought to Bellevue
Hospital under the influence OF liquer
have fractured skulls, mostly caused
by their being beaten by the police,
who also sometimes call patients Of
fensive names inside the hospitals,
especially if the patient happens 10
be a prisoner, who is often beaten by
them before being admitted to the
hospital.
Police usually frame people on sew
eraI charges. When they beat them,
they generally plead self-defense, and
they know they are backed by thelf
superiors and the courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

against the cruelty SO common in
the usual run of a days work. An
other instance of the same sort &C.
Cured when a foreman lately used
a piece of iron pipe to hit a Negro
truck driver working for a freight
ing company that usually hauls the
cotton from the Anderson Clayton
mill.
This affair was aired in the local
court and the judge admitted that
he had already heard reports show
ing the terrible conditions prevailing
in the Anderson Clayton slave hole.
Before the period OF the bally-
hooed N. r. A, the workers at this
cotton mill were getting 20 cents an
hour, working from Is to II hours a
day. But after Roosevelt sprang his
Simon Legree system upon Ameri-
can workers, the Anderson Clayton
Co. cut the days grind to eight
hours, but altered the pittance in
lieu Of wages to only Is cents an
hour, which means wage cut for
the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Why Old A. F. OIL.
Food Worker Joined
the Industrial Union

PITTSBURGH, Pal belonged to
Hotel and Restaurant Workers,
local 237, since 1915 in Pittsburgh
Our financial secretary, John Book,
like the rest of the bosses Of the
A. F., L. has his men, about 20 to Is
of them. Every election he spends
a few dollars to win the election.
After the election he does his part.
All Mr.. Book lets me work is once
or twice a month, so can pay my
dues. Now 1 am back in my dues
about two months.
Saturday 1 was at the union. I
asked him to send me to a job so
I can pay one month for my dues.
He told me I cannot belong to both
organizations. He meant the food
workers. 1 told him I do not be-
long to any other organization, and
I asked him how 1 can pay my dues
or If he wanted me to sell my 80
cents welfare relief to pay my dues
He told me the walters union did
many favors for me, and that I
shouldn't ask for an extra job. He
told me how good the union was.
About IA years ago my little boy
died, and now I have another boy
sick. The members of local 237 coll
lected some money for us. I told
him 1 do my part by paying dues
four years. I was working as a
salesman and I always helped in the
same kind of case, but he still re-
fused to put me on the extra list
that day. He was looking around
for some Of his friends.
On Sunday the food workers had
a meeting. was at the meeting.
I found Mr.. John Book outside, close
to the hall watching to see how many
of our members would join the mass
meeting.
asked him why he doesn't go up
to the meeting. He told me, the
liar, that he was waiting for some
Of his friends. L called him yellow
and damn liar and he went away.
That night I joined the Food
Workers Industrial Union. It cost
me rs cents. That shows you what
the leaders of the A. F. of L. are
and especially Mr.. John Book, who
claims to be one Of the best Soci-
alists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Long Hours and
Hunger Wages at
Eleanor Club Five
(By a Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO, In.-Last summer I was
given some special work from my
relief station, at the Eleanor Club
Five, 430 S. Ashland Blvd, at $35 a
month.
Having two children and wife, it
was hard for ME to get along on it..
But 1 took it Just the same.
When they called me they took in
10 new nurses. The place has now
about IS nurses and about is to 20
other girls staying there. They just
doubled up on the nurses by putting
in an extra bed in the already small
rooms they had
Extra Work
When came down there, they told
me that they had three chamber
maids, and instead of getting one
more they would hire me. I was to
mop all the rooms, clean all bathroom
floors, walls, clean toilet bowls, tuos
and sinks. All bathrooms were to be
scrubbed three times and mopped
three times week besides all other
work, and I was to get off every
other Sunday afternoon and every
Thursday afternoon.
When I started, Mrs. Keen, who
has charge there went on q months
vacation, and when she came back
1 was told that I could not get off
on any Thursday afternoon until all
the regular work was done, and that
would have taken me all day. I told
her I was going off that afternoon,
and they handed me my money, and
as Mrs. Keen, did this, she said:
That's why there is SO many out of
work. You don't want to work when
you have it"
was supposed to get my board and
room there. But the one that works
in the kitchen, a woman by the name
of Florence, is a regular belly roboer
An Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Letters from
Our Readers
THE OLD BUY NOW" TRICK


Comrade Editor:
Recently at the New York Business
Show I met Mr.. Edward jackson.
He, in case you haven't heard Of him,
is a patriot. He fels that the reason
we are having this depression is pc
cause people do not buy enough
American made goods. He told me
that if everyone was to boycott for
eign made goods and buy only the
products of this country's manutac-
ture, the bashful prosperity would
come out of hiding and turn the
corner.
And so he has started the Society
of American Industrial Leaders. This
organization is going to sail right
into prosperity. They are going to
hold a big exposition this January
or February at the Port of New York
Authority Building. Can you imag-
inc, he confided, an entire floor-8O0
feet by 200 feet-16,000 square feet
of flour space being used for Ameri-
can made products? Why it is 60
ing to be the biggest boost to bust
ness that mans mind has ever
thought of.
To prove it he showed letters from
Roosevelt, Hugh Johnson, Bernarr
MacFadden, Senators, Governors,
public spirited men of all kinds,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, American Legion, etc. He con-
fided to me that many big shots"
are backing him. How is it possible,
he wanted to know, for an idea like
this to fail?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
A ROGUES' GALLERY
Baltincre, Nd.

Dear Editor.
After reading the exposure of
Ghckman, the stool-pigeon, in the
recent Daily Worker, the following
idea came to my mind In which the
Daily Worker could improve itself
and help the workers.
Some workers, in exposing the role
of the leaders of the refornist unions
to a union or non-union man, know
that Vol, Green, ETC., are boss con-
trolled betrayers, but do not know
the history Of most of the betrayals
these takers were involved in, and
thus their arguments do not have
much influence.
Therefore would suggest that the
Daily print serially the pictures and
brief history Of these labor betray-
ers--so that workers will really have
at their fingertips and will learn the
roles played by the so-called leaders
Of labor. Such q column could be
headed something like-"A Rogues'
Gallery Of Labor Betrayers."
& n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

"First of all, about our Party mem
bers in the rural districts. There are
Party members among you, but most
of you are non-Party. 1t is good
thing that a larger number OF non
Party than Party men and women
have gathere at this Congress, be-
cause it is precisely the non-Party
men and women that we must first
Of all draw into our work. There are
Communists who approach the nom
Party farmers in a bolsheyik manner.
But there are Communists who are
SO puffed up about their belor 1g
to the Party that they do not F lit
q non-Party person to come near
them. This is bad and harmful. The
strength of the BolsheYikS, the
strength of the Communists, lies in
the fact that they are able to rally
millions of active non-Party workers
around our Party We Bolsheviks
would never have achieved the Sue
cesses we have now achieved had We
not been able to win for the Party
the confidence of millions Of non
Party workers and peasants And
what Is required for this7 For this
it is required that the members Of
the Party should not isolate them
selves from the non-Party workers
and peasants, that the Party mem
bers should not withdraw into their
Party shell, that they should not BE-
puffed up about their belonging to
the Party, but that they should heed
the voice of the non-Party workers
and peasants, that they should not
only teach the non-Party workers
and peasants, but also learn from
them.
"It must not be forgotten that
Party members do not drop from the
skies. We must remember that all
Party members at one time were not
members Of the Party. Today he is
non-Party, tomorrow he will become
member of the Party. What Is
there to get puffed UP about? Among
us old BolstevikS there are not a
few who have been working in the
Party for 20 or 80 years. But we too
were non-Party at one time or an
other. What would have happened to
us 20 or 30 years ago had the Party
members at that time domineered
over us and refused to let lis Join the
Party? Perhaps we would then have
been kept away from the Party for
number Of years. But, comrades, we
old Bolsheviks are not the last peo-
pie in the world.
"That is why our Party members,
the present young Party members,
who sometimes turn their noses up
at the non-Party workers and peas
ants should remember all this should
remember that it is not boastfulness
but nlodesty that is the adornment
CT the Bolshevik."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Scores Arrested in
Memphis Terror

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nov. 9.-An I'M
known number Of Negro ana Whlte
workers, estimated at several score
have been arrested and are being
held incommunicado in a reign OF
terror announced by Chief of Police
Will D. Lee as a campaign TO wipe
out Communism"
The arrested workers, after the
third degree. are still held incom-
municado, and fines imposed on
them at random, which must be
worked out on the chain gang. NO
opportunity is given them for any
defense, and most are not even
brought into court.
This is all being conducted right
in my office" Chief Lee has an
nounced. I'VE are getting at the
roots of this thing"
The charges usually preferred are
creating disturbance" but Chief
Lee has admitted that suspicion OF
sympathy with the Unemployed
Councils or the Communist Party Is
sufficient evidence for him.
This reign of terror is closely con-
nected with the public works pro-
gram under r. F. c., with the cot
ton plow-under program. and with
the preparations being made all over
the South for the new Scottsboro
lynch trials. Resistance of the masses
of Negro and white toilers to star
walton wages, to being "plowed-
under" and their organization in
unity to help save the Scottsboro boys
is the target of the terror reign.
r Boris Israel, charged with "disor-
derby conduct, resisting arrest and
melting to riot" because of his lead
ership of the strike of 5000 white
and Negro workers against the star
walton program of the R. F. G.,
served 60 days on the chain-gang,
and faces another, longer sentence,
now being appealed. Blanket orders
have been issued by the police to ar
rest him on sight
Meantime. he has wired an urgent
message to the national office of the
International Labor Defense In New
York, asking that an appeal be made
for widest protest from all over the
country against the reign Of terror.
In the form of letters, resolutions and
wires to Chief OF Police w. d. Lee,
Memphis, Tenn, demanding the i'm
mediate release Of all arrested work.
ers, Negro and white, and an end to
arrests and terrorization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

ure to recruit in our struggles, of our
being afraid of new leadership, Of
our hiding the Party from the
workers.
In this connection we should read
again, and take to heart the words
of Conrade Stain addressed to the
First All-Union Congress Of Collec-
tive Farm Shock Brigade Workers on
the attitude of Party members to
non-Party workers and farmers.
Although Comrade Stain was
speaking of Party members in the
rural districts of the Soviet Union,
his remarks apply with particular APP
propriatenesS to our own Party, which
also has many members $50 puffed
up about their belonging to the Party
that they DO not permit non-Party
person to come near them" Read
what Conrade Stain has to say on
the relation of Party members to
non-Party workers:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Berry Put On N.R.A.
Anti-Strike Board
Group Goes South To
End Walkout In
Cotton Mills
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. ca new
type Of strikebreaking agent has
been sent into the field by the MIRA.
An official announcement dis
closed the fact that Robert w.
Bruere, former Rand School IN. "
lecturer; George L. Berry, notorious
misleader Of the Printing Pressmen's
National Union, and B. e. Geer,
president Of Furman College, South
Carolina, have gone into the South
to exert Cancellation efforts" to
settle strikes involving more than
$4,000 cotton textile workers.
The three represent the Cotton
Textile National Industrial Relations
Board, group set up under the
cotton code. Thus all industry's own
boards lieutenants join the "conciIia-
tors Of the National Labor Board
and the "mediators" of the Depart
nlent of Labor in the rapidly increas-
ing forces scattered through the
country to persuade" labor to cease
fighting.
Estimating that the strikers num-
Der between $4,000 and 10000, the
announcement said that they began
about Oct. 20, at the Riverside mill
in Augusta, Georgia, Eleven mills
are now out.
Among the causes of the strikes, -
continued the statement, were al
legged violations of the cotton textile
code" The code also set up a Code
Authority composed of bosses rep
resentatives supposedly responsible
Tor seeing that the owners complied
with the code.
The announcement said that the
National Labor Board would continue
to Cooperate in settling strikes
wherever the Cotton Textile Board
asked for assistance" but that it has
a general policy" Of leaving labor
controversies TO the jurisdiction OF
that industry" when machinery for
adjustment of controversies is pro-
yided by the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
Where the Workers
And Farmers Rule

DONBAS, US.S.R.-I am writing you
few lines to let you know that had
very good trip coming over here.
When arrived I was received very
we'll by the comrades. am already
az work at the Vorshilov plant, which
is q steel mill, and like it very
much.
? almost every day I go to visit
Comrade Giambattista who was de-
ported from Pennsylvania. We have
a very good time together. 1 remern-
Der when I was still in America, I
used to go to visit some of the friends
who worked in the mine at Montour
No. 10 and Coverdale. They were all
in debt to the company and their
life was very miserable.
Here it is entirely different. 1 went
TO lock at the pay sheet at mine
number four here in the Don Bias,
where Comrade Giambattista works,
and I saw many pay slips for 500
and 600 rubieS, and Comrade Clam
oattista drew $88947 rubes for one
pay. So you see the men here get
paid for their work and don't have
70 worry about Job. Not like Amer
lea, where the workers are on starva-
lion wages which the new starvation
President Roosevelt is putting across
in tle MIRA.
] hope you Will send this letter to
The Daily Worker in order to let
ny. comrades and friends know about
ne and my intentions to stay here
and help build socialism in the U. S.
S. IR Also 7 want to let you know
when We start TO work in 9 steel mill
or cost mine, We get all Of our work
ing clothes free, besides our clubs,
theatres and many Other things, such
8 s-inSfTarce.
ANTHONY REA