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The Washington times., 1933-10-11
PRICE RISE LAID
TOPRODUCERS
CONTINUED from Local Pqee)

(Continued from Local PGee)
Of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, who presided,
sought to learn how much stress
manufacturers laid on the cotton
tax as a reason for their price in
creases. In one instance, reported
by B. B. Burgunder. president OF
S. Kann's Sons Co., extra charges
were said by a manufacturer to
include 30 per cent for higher
costs under the NRA and per
cent for the tax.
Manufacturers Blame Tax
In another case, reported by
Harold Levi. vice president of
the Hecht Co., goods costing 5000
were said to include $26, or 1917
per cent, for the cotton processing
tax. He also placed on record a
bill from a manufacturer in
which $54 Of a $128 shipment was
claimed to be due to the tax.
Levi and other local store exec
utives stated that goods had been
bought in June under a definite
contract whereby increases neceS-
STATED by taxes and NRA regula-
tions would be allowed, but that
they expected any such increases
to be reasonable.
He stated. however, that the
margin of profit taken by his
store had not increased as much
as would be called for under the
extra charges laid down by man
ufacturerS.
Tax Held Negligible
Several Of the local merchants
agreed that the cotton processing
tax Of "a cents per pound was
negligible as far as retail prices
are concerned. Some stores were
shown to have absorbed any in
crease due to the tax without
passing it along to the purchaser.
In answer to questions on COM
plants that clerks in stores here
have blamed the tax for price
raises, Levi asserted that on
August 18 all employees Of the
Hecht Company were told to make
no reference to the tax in sales
appeals.
Similar instructions we're given
to workers at s. Kann's Sons &
Company on September 9, it was
stated by President Burgunder,
and also to employees Of Lansburgh
81 Brothers, according to Adolph
Weyl, treasurer.
Retailers Not Responsible
Weyl said:
'PriceS today are not of our
making. They come down to
us in this way from the manu-
facturer. The retailer is carry.
ing the load"
Among those present at the
hearing were Julius Garfinckel,
president of the store company
bearing his name; G. N. Everett,
president of Woodward & Lo-
throp; A. C. Case, general man
ager of the Palais Royal; I. Gold
enberg, president of Goldenberg's,
and Radford Moses, president of
w. B. Moses & Sons Co.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
SCHOOL
OPENS To zoo

Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Congress
woman from Indiana, today saw
a long cherished dream realized
when the renovated Tenley
School, 4400 block Wisconsin Ave.
N. W., was opened at 9 a. m. to
more than 200 children.
It was Mrs. Jenckes who as
sisted priests of st. AIMS parish
and sisters of the Immaculate
Seminary to modernize the old
school, after negotiations with
the Board of Education, which
had abandoned it. Until the
opening of the newly equipped
edifice, children of the parochial
school had studied in a wooden
building next door, described by
Mrs. Jenckes as a '+firetrap."
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
PWA Guard Grants
To Be SDent Here

All of the $66,94 allotted by the
Public Works Administration to
the Militia Bureau Of the War De
partment for improvements and
repairs to National Guard equip
ment in the District of Columbia
late yesterday will be spent at
Fort Sims, Anacostia, it was in
dicated by Public Works officials
today.
Among the larger items are con-
truction of three warehouses, $780,
900; two artillery sheds, $4,000;
two kitchens and a mess hall,
$1,000: two magazines, $4,950, and
replacement of a gas tank, $1,50O.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
$1,000 Suit Based
On Crash Injuries

Suit asking $1,000 damages for
injuries received in an automo-
bile accident was filed in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court to-
day by William A. Hayhoe, 5000
block Rainier Ave-, against Perry
E. Wightman, 3700 block Thir-
tieth St., both of Mt. Rainier.
Hayhoe charges that the car
in which he was riding with
Wightman, and driven by the de-
fendant, left the road and struck
a telegraph pole near Mt. Rainier
six weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
Bible Distribution
Planned bY Bureau

Five thousand contributors at
" cents apiece are being sought
for a fund to provide Bibles for
neglected rural districts and for
eign countries by the Interna-
tional Religious Bureau, 900 block
of Indiana Ave. N. w.
Each contributor to the drive
will receive free a copy of the
Four Gospels and a large Testa-
ment, it was announced. The
Bibles will be distributed without
regard to the race or creed Of
the recipient.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
Naval Academy Gets
Improved SeUerS

Annapolis will not leave the U.
S. Naval Academy behind as re-
CARDS its antiquated sewerage
system now that the Public
Works Administration has allo-
Gated $225, 900 for installation Of
a new sanitary system, naval Off
cials pointed out with satisfaction
today.
Recent allotment Of $490,000 to
Annapolis for a new sewer system
made it appear the Academy
would be shabbily equipped by
comparison. Work on the Acade-
my's project will be started within
80 days and provide employment
to more than 200 men for q year.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
$50 To Be Employed
At Fort Humphreys

Approximately $50 men will be
put to work at Fort Humphreys,
Va, soon on the $2,500,O00 Public
Works project to modernize this
Army post, it was announced yes
terday.
The project not only will go far
towards solving unemployment in
Fairfax county, but many county
industries will be aided, it was
pointed out, for such materials as
are available must be purchased
there.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
1000 Bond Holds
Suspect in Robbery

Pleading not guilty to a charge
of robbery, George Jackson,
colored, 25, of the First block
Congress ct. S. w., was held to
the Grand Jury under $4,000
bonds by Judge John P. Nc
Mahon in Police Court yesterday.
Jackson was charged with
holding up Alfonso Barto, 1900
block M st. N. w., and Con-
stantine Nicholson, 1900 block L
st. N. w., Saturday night at
Seventh and o Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
Teacher to Describe
School Curriculum

Prof. E. M. Douglas, principal
Of the Takoma-Silver Spring High
School, will discuss the various
courses offered to students at that
institution at the meeting Of the
Parent Teacher Association to-
night.
Chairmen Of the various com.
mittees who will serve during the
coming year will be announced
by o. M. Johnson, president. A
program of work for the year will
be drawn up.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
POST OFFICE STATEMENT
Twelve Months Ended September 80, 1888

Twelve Months Ended September 30, 1888
Statement Of the ownership, management. circula
tion etc. of The Daily TIMES, which has been filed
with the postmaster required by act of Congress-
August oath, 1912
General Manager, c. Dorsey Warfield, Washington
D. c.; Managing Editor J. J. Fitzpatrick, Washing
ton, D. C.
Owners The Washington Times Company, William
Randolph Hearst owning 1000 of the stock.
Known bondholders mortgages and other security
holders holding per cent more Of the total amount
of bonds mortgages other securities, none.
Circulation Statement
Average number of copies Of each issue Of this
publication sold distributed through the mails
otherwise to paid subscribers during the twelve months
preceding the date Of this statement:
Net paid circulation 1O6'6SI
Net unpaid circulation Cmade up of copies
for employees services, etc.) .............. Ills
Total average net circulation ............ 1O7,75S
(Signed) C. DORSEY WAKEFIELD,
General Manager
Subscribed and sworn to before this 9th day Of
October. 1888
(SeaD GRACE HESS,
Notary Public
My commission expires May l. 1887.
The Washington times., 1933-10-11
ROBBERS TAKE FLOUR

Breaking open the door of a
freight car on siding in the
5000 block K st. N. W., robbers
last night took three sacks Of
flour before they were frightened
away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Father Was Captain in
Northern Army in
Civil War

body, too. The South Dakota farmer
who made the announcement said:
"His case is now up before the state
pardon board, but It's not up to
theIn," and the delegates vote
loudly seconded him.
Saul Waldbaum, International La
Dor Defense lawyer who came as a
fraternal delegate with the farmers
from Pennsylvania, reported on the
work in that territory-the work
around the $l.18 sale ard others con-
Quoted by the United Farmers Pro-
tective Association of Pennsylvania.
He urged the farmers to form a
Farmers National Defense Bureau
and pledged the support OF all I. L. D..
lawyers in this work.
The defense program of the farm
ers Is one of the most important prob
LENS facing them. And don't they
know It'll They realize what they
are up against and they are ready
to Highland to defend their right
to fight. They welcome the ali Of
the I. L. D., which they recognize as
the only organization that can de-
fend the interests of the workers and
farmers, and they have learned many
times In practice the soundness Of
that part of It's program which EN-
phasizes the value and power of mass
defense, mass action on behalf of
those who fall victims In the war
against oppression, starvation and
for the right to a decent life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Letters from Our Readers

I with the definite object of rousing the
workers lass-consciousness by con-
cretely linking UP his own job, his own
shop with the whole industrial situa-
ton.
Along this line. the article in to-
days (Oct. 23) issue about Worcester,
Mass, deserves comment. There is a
tendency to neglect New England in
the endeavor to concentrate on the
decisive sections of the national eco
nomy. This is the first notice about
Worcester I have seen in the Work
er" in g blue moon. Yet Worcester
is one of the leading industrial CEN
tiers in the country, with hundreds Of
factories many of them of national
and international Importance.
Worcester, city and county, con-
tains certainly over thousand fac
tories, surprising percentage Of
which are Of national Importance.
Worcester is the greatest wire and
wire goods center in the world, hav-
ing three American Steel and Wire
Mills. o W.ckWire- Spencer plant and
many lesser enterprises in this line.
It has the greatest loom works in the
world (Cronlpton-K nowles), the larg-
est tannery (Graton- the
largest envelope factory GU. S. En-
velope), the largest corset shop (Royal
Worcester), great wrench chain, and
screw works, pressed steel and mall
leable iron mills, car-huilding works.
the Norton Grinding Co, greatest in
the world, the WIlittall Carpet Mills,
great thread, textile and textile ma
chinery plants, Wright Vacuum
Cleaner plants, leather, shoe and
slipper factories, plus literally hun-
dreds Of others. Throughout the
county, including Fitchburg, Leo
minister, Webster, Southbridge, and
'nnumerabIe mill towns, there are q
great number of additional plants.
Why cannot more effective organiza-
tional work be done in this region?
Here, if anywhere we should md g
red stronghold.
HI. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Celebrate Recognition of
USSR by Helping daily -

NEW YORK-The Icor Branch OF
New Brunswick sets splendid ex-
ample to workers and their organiza-
tons as to how to celebrate the rec
ignition of the Soviet Union.
Instead of sending a cablegram to
the U.S.SR.," this Icor Branch
writes, I'VE decided to send the 1854
to the Daily Worker $4,000 fund,
and through the columns Of our
Daily to express our greetings to our
comrades, the workers and peasants
Of the Soviet Union. Long live the
Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the
working class!"
Which working class organizations
Will be next to celebrate the victory
won by the Soviet Union with a con-
tribution to the Daily WORKER
Jobless Raise Funds
The Unemployed Council, No. L.
Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio, held a
house party at which 1923 was raised
for the Daily Worker. Several unem-
ployed councils of that city have
held affairs to help save our Daily"
FINNISH NOrkcTS
In Chicago, the Finnish workers
put UP cardboard at their center,
the Finnish Hall, 24o9 N. Ha.stead
ST., and they began to challenge each
other as to who would contribute or
raise the larger amounts for the
Daily. $26 was raised within two
weeks. Every organization can fol-
low this example. The bulletin board
shows who are active in the battle to
save our Daily Worker.
There still remains $4,000 to be
raised in order to complete the drive
and to assure the immediate exist
ence of our Daily. Rush your con-
tributions, celebrate the recognition
of the U.S.SR. with donation to
the Daily Worker, ask your friends
and fellow workers to contribute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Adventures of Grischa and
Mischa, Two Soviet Pioneers

Mischa: Read me that letter you
got from Mary, the Pioneer in Amer
lea. can understand it, because ]
take up English in school, just like
you.
Grischa: Just listen TO Whist goes
on there:
NOV. Z, 1888
Deer Con1rade Griscns:
I'm picking out this day TO write,
because it's the day OF the great
celebration. Believe me, 7 wish our
parents here were strong enough to
kick out the bosses right nowl Then
my father would get Job, instead of
going crazy from being out Of work.
Most of my friends fathers are In the
same fix.
Ny friend Joe tainted in school the
other day. He ate nothing for two
days. Lots Of us can't fix our shoes.
II 1t rains, our feet get wet. II it
doesn't, they got frozen. have a
friend, Louise, a Negro girl, who can't
go to school because she hasn't even
got shoes"
Mischa: 50 that's what bosses
make out OF a rich land like America.
Grischa: Wait, I'm not done yet.
Listen:
My troop Is trying to organize the
others In school Once we issued a
leaflet. The principal ran around to
every class but no one would snitch
on who did it. So now he's trying to
put all OF us off with THANKSGIVING
fairy tales. Thanksgiving q certain
holiday in America when they tell us
to be thankful Even If we're starv-
ing we're supposed to be glad over it.
AS If my father can be thankful lust
like n1i''iorn'-e '''-7 PockefelIerl
But the principals making the
teachers lay ~ ~ thic:. about
Thanksgiving. You see here it's not
like in the Soviet Union. Here the
teachers are afraid for their Jobs, and
It's not so easy for them to help us in
our struggles. They tell us those
Thanksgiving lies even though they
don't like the lies themselves.
That's all this time, Grischs. MY
troop sends Pioneer regards TO your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
MORE SPECIAL PAGES


Comrade Editor:
First I want to congratulate the
Worker" on the great Improvement
recently effected in its pages. 1t Is
clearly on the road to becoming a real
mass paper and thereby q mass or
ganizer to the Party. Michael Gold,
DR.. Luttinger, Ed Newhouse, LIENS, :"
Quirt, Helen Luke are doing fine work
and will gain thousands of readers
for the paper. The general makeup
OF the paper has also improved. I
have tried leaving 1t on subway seats,
and in every instance the paper found
its way into the pocket of the first
conner. Friends whom I have shown
the Worker" constantly ask me to
loan them my copy. OF course I urge
them to buy their own.
There is one suggestion that /
would like to make. I think it would
be good idea to devote certain issues
to particular cities and districts, on
the order of the recent Norfolk, Va,
issue, but more comprehensive, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
TIE DAILY WORKER ON THE
MESABA RANGE

L1lbDll1Es N14ln4s
Con1rade Editor:
read conlrade F. Browns letter
in the Nov. 18th issue on the short
comings in the Daily, and 1 agree
with him especially on the point he
raises when ne quotes Con1rade
Browder that the building of the
circulation of our paper goes along
at such a slow pace.
have been made responsible to
build the circulation on the Mesoha
Range and would say from what I
have noticed that in the party units,
and even on a section and district
scale, the leading comrades have not
made the Importance Of the Daily
clear enough-in speeches and talks,
yes, but the actual steps to carry
cut all the good plans and proposals
have not been taken. This can easily
be seen from the fact that we have
on the Mesoba Range over 20 min
ing towns and in only three Of them,
namely Hibbing, Virginia, and Eve
leth, have we circulated the Daily.
The possibility of building the
Daily circulation can be seen from
the fact that fer the first time we
have actually built house to house
route in Hibbing. We have now three
routes, which means 100 papers q
week.
The reason that we have not done
this in the other towns is that we
do not realize the necessity of in
tensifying our efforts to organize
these miners which is important, be-
cause Of the war danger and the i'm
portance of mining as war indus
try. It also shows that we do not
understand the Importance of using
the Daily Worker to bring to the
attention of these workers the war
danger and the necessity Of organiz-
ing.
These shortcomings must be re-
moved. The only way to do this is
to take up this question in the Sec
ton Committee. Steps must be taken
to call together comrades from the
towns to conference to take up the
question Of beginning to circulate the
Daily by organizing house to house
sales, Red Sundays, ETC., to begin to
build routes by concentrating the
sales from day to day in working
class territories. This means making
plans. but these plans must be car
ried out. Our aim on Messaha Range
must be to establish sales of the
Daily in every town, to double the
sales where We have routes. Through
the Daily we can approach thou
sands and thousands OF workers.
Comrades let's act now! Build the
Daily Worker on the Range!
Conlradely,
Ronald LassiIs,
Section Daily Worker Head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

Of the Y. G. L. in fighting the hunger
and war program of Roosevelt, -
against the wave of lynch terror and
for the freedom of the Scottsboro
boys.
Proportion Of Youth in Industry Low
The tabulation of new recruits
shows 8 very small proportion of en-
ployed recruits. This emphasizes
sharply the need of more consciously
organizing the recruiting activities
around large shops. In New York
for instance out of 105 recruits, only
20 are employed. Most of these were
strike recruits. The bulk of indi-
vidual members in shops and MEM
bers of the revolutionary unions,
were not organized for effective
recruiting. The New Jersey District
offers a good example. Out of Ii
recruits in the first 2 weeks, eight
are employed and two of these in
one of the largest textile mills in
the world.
Among the recruits as a whole
though, the ratio of employed to
SIuGCIIS Aif4 AICLu PLOqCu % lAlOLC
than to 1. The recruiting drive
will not attain its object if it will
not succeed in broadening the base
of the Y. G. L. in the shops, mills
and mines.
Three New shop Units Formed
A step in the entrenching of the
Y. c. L. in industry has been the
formation of 8 new shop nucle;-in
mining (Seattle); iron works Cali
fornia), and in food factory Dos
toni.
More nuclei can be formed if the
Y. G. L. will cooperate closely with
the Communist Party recruiting
drive. The second outstanding aim
of the Party's drive is the task Of
building a Y. G. L. nucleus in every
shop where the Party has a unit.
Every Young Communist unit in the
territory of shop in which there
is a Party nucleus is obligated to
assign the necessary forces r. ?~~'-tt
the Party in establishing Y. c. L.
group in the shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02
Taxi Strikers Fight
Phila., Police Rule
lRv a Taxicab Striker

PHILA., PA, Dec. lon Sunday,
November 26th, the P,R.T. locked out
1000 taxi-cab drivers under the ex-
cuse that they insisted upon the
right of wearing their union buttons.
These P.RT. taxicab drivers have
since put up a courageous fight to
curtail "scab service" throughout the
city. They continue this fight despite
the efforts of LIE Strange and his
cossack police to break the strike.
Threatened, manhandled, arrested
on the slightest pretext, the drivers
nevertheless remain undaunted in
their struggle to defeat the powers
that attempt to deny them the right
to organize and maintain their own
union.
Police regulations as defined by in
spector Driscoll limit the drivers to
four pickets at South Garage, and all
the others are driven away, SO that
the resultant condition Is little better
than a'1 = ',zc"s are fol-
owed back and forth from the lines
to the union quarters. They are
intin1idated and pushed off the side
walks. They are dragged into sta
ton houses like criminals, searched,
and slated in trumped-up charges.
These instances of police brutality
are being reported by drivers from
all parts of the city and are not al
ways the work Of mere patrolnen
Last Tuesday evening at Fifteenth
and Market Streets, Inspector Ran
kin approached one Of group OF
men who we're picketing peacefully,
and after tearing the picket badge
from his coat, showed him into the
gutter. This was the signal for SIM
liar attacks by the notice upon Other
union men and resulted in their be-
ing driven away from the vicinity.
Later when these same men, minus
badges, attempted to picket the
South Garage, they were driven off,
the officers telling them they were
not allowed to picket without badges.
Such fragrant violations of citizens
rights are not new to the residents
ri the City of Brotherly Love. On
the contrary, 1t has become an estab-
lished custom of the police to commit
atrocities upon any worker or group
of workers who da-es to question the
supreme dictates Of the money lords
OF Philadelphia and their political
parasites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-02

The first TWO weeks of the drive
already indicate its weaknesses. The
"retqrns" show that only the New
York District has shown definite
jrnproS ement in recruiting. For the
first two weeks, New York recruited
los members as compared to a.
recruits for two weeks in the pre-
yious month.
The districts with basic industries
pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago)
show very little gain. The Pitts
burgh District has the best showing
among the 8, with 49 recruits as
compared to q during the previous
month.
New York records its gains as q
result of participation in num-
Der OF strikes and because Of more
thorough mobilization of its mem
bers. The Pittsburgh District owes
its improvement to the mass &C
tivities that it has been involved in
clearinghouse strike, fight against
Negro discrimination at the Soho
Bath House, etc..
Challenges Issued
The method of issuing challenges
has stimulated spirit between a num-
Der of districts. To date, New Jer-
ssy has challenged Pittsburgh; Mil
waukee has challenged Connecticut;
California is out to beat Cleveland,
and Buffalo has thrown the gauntlet
10 Philadelphia.
Among these contestants, the
California District would seem the
most formidable rival During De-
tober even, this district recruited 107
members. The bulk Of new fighters
came as a result Of the Y.C.L.'s par
ticipation in the recent strike strue-
giles. In reaching the figure of LOT.
California tripled the rate Of recruit
ing Of 2 months before (August).
The tempo OF the drive on the
whole, in every district, in every unit,
must be tripled if the drive is to sue
coed, The districts with the best
results have shown that the Y. @. L.
viii grow if it leads the battles of
the youth for better life. The sue
cess OF the drive rests on the success