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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

mitting suicide and base their opin-
ions on the fact that big capitalists
are overplaying the game by using
power gained by mergers in trusts
and thereby hogging an unequal
share of the profits gained in indus
try and commerce.
Huge salaries and unequal divi-
dends appropriated are given to
few stockholders and bonuses handed
to few favored officials and a sys-
tenn of convenient bookkeeping and
paying starvation wages to their un-
organized wage earners are bound to
be a menace against peace and the
security of our free institutions.
Political liberty and industrial free
dom are priceless heritages gained
and left to us by our heroic forebears
and they have created an undying love
and reverence for justice and liberty
that cannot be forgotten and never
will permit their beneficiaries to give
them up without struggle that will,
if it ever comes, equal in courage and
fighting ability that Of those liberty
loving souls who fought, bled and
died that we might have and enjoy
political liberty and industrial free
dom.
The trades union movement, the
sober minded men and women in all
walks of life and activities, will not
trade the priceless heritage of life,
liberty and the free pursuit Of happi-
ness for benevolent dictatorship, the
self-made rule of the courts or the
rule of money oligarchy regardless
of any other old name it may go by
or sail under.
There isnt the slightest danger of
America permanently losing its de-
mocracy or its political freedom or its
industrial liberty Of action.-Cigar
Makers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
No American Was EUer Born
A Prince, Nor One Serf!!

Slave labor in Liberia has just
caused the resignation of the presi-
dent and vice president of that coun-
try.
There is slave labor in other coun-
tries and their possessions and doubt
less good deal of the output thereof
finds its way into the United States.
Also there is much convict labor and
many of the convicts are political pris-
oners, as is Soviet Russia, land of ter
rible despotism. Unhappily, the out
put of these unfortunates also finds
its way into the United States, in vio-
lation of our law, either for lack of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

what officialdom terms adequate
proof, or for lack of complaint.
Added to the list there is an enor-
nous amount of semi-slave labor, as
in some South American countries,
like Venezuela, where tyranny is
nearly complete. The United States
accepts the products .of semi-slave
peon labor, asking no question.
At home we have vast numbers of
unemployed men and women going
hungry, and we have great numbers
working for six, seven, eight, ten dol
lars week. The United States COB
bles up the product Of these also.
There is a great deal of inequity
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

Nor will the day from hence e'er come
Such craftsmanship it's tide to run.
For ages back in Nazareth,
Twas left heritage for US.
Nor Time nor Man can e'er outlaw
The hammer, nail, or buzz saw.
The Carpenter who builded then,
Was guiding us, our kindest friend,
Then worry not Ger rusting nails,
The hammer beat no more prevails.
The science of our lives proclaim,
Material things are cast in twain.
Both good and bad will e'er prevail,
Tho force of life will never fail.
Then keep your tools all shining
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
COURAGE JUSTICE

Can freedom and liberty live and
thrive under a democratic form of
government? We think they can and
that they will in our own country.
Many thoughtful men and women in
all walks of life think so. But many
of them are thinking hard, fast and
seriously these times. If anything
temporily goes wrong capitalists
must assume and take the respon-
sibility. Some say capitalism is COM
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
bright,

And keep your faces smiling quite.
AS tides return from oceans swell,
Prosperity, / do foretell
To you, most noble ancient clan
Long live the nail and hammer man
Wallace Wilson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01
In Every Port

Hostess Ito young naval officer, a
recent bridegroom) 81 hear your
wife is one in a thousand"
Husband: "Oh, I say! You really
mustn't believe all you hear about the
navy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

Still going strong and one of the
Oldest members of the local trade
union movement, Ted goes right
along taking a keen interest in all
that pertains to organized labor. He
has been delegate to Trades Council,
and still is, representing the local
Machinists' Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-01

Composition ard Rhetoric. Sl29
additional Books in Literature required
throughout the year,
Golden Book of Songs Is cents
New Elementary Latin. l6
First Year As
Leitfaden der Deuschen Sprache S116
Primeras Lecciones de Espanol 92 cents
New Complete School Algebra 32
The First Year of Science.
Note Book for General Science
business Aritnnletlc l.16
goth Century Bookkeeping and Accounting. 32
Bookkeeping Workbook No. cents
Dudley Combination Locks so
Note -Bnders-Tabts, ETC.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
Z oilers Organize to Stop
RooSeVeIfS Hunger DriVe!.

WORKERS and Farmers, Unemployed and Employed,
w Small Depositors The widest possible mobilization
of the tog necessary to combat and defeat the
growing attacks of the Roosevelt administration
against the standards of living.
Hold meetings in factories Develop actions inside
factories against wage-cuts. Demand full payment of
Fight for raise in pay against food price rise Build
factory committees. Stop the lay-offs.
2-Strengthen your unemployed organizations. Build
block committees Fight for Unemployment Insurance at
the expense of the bosses and the government Fight
against Roosevelt forced labor camps For public works,
to tear down the Sums to build sanitary houses for work
and hospitals for the workers. Unemployed workers
employed public works to be paid regular trade union
Fight for raise in obess aid against food price
rise.
3-Veterans-fight RooseveIts slash in your compen-
satons Stop eviction of sick veterans from Government
hospitals Fight for immediate payment of the bonus Or
ganze United Front committees in veterans organizations
for joint struggle against the Roosevelt attacks the vet
Grams.
4-Stop the wage-cuts of the Federal Government
workers Stop the compulsory one-month furough with
out pay introduced by Hoover.
5-Toing Farmers-defeat the Roosevelt Farm Bill,
which raises prices for the rich farmers bankers food
trusts and marketing agencies and ashes prices for the
toing farmers Small and Middle Farmers-stop fore
your debts Workers and Toing Farmers-develop joint
struggles for better prices for the farm products of the
tong farmers and lower prices for the consuming
6.-Hold meetings in neghborhoods. Fight against
increases in the cost of living Build special Womens
committees against rise in prices of necessities Fight for
enactment of laws against evicons for immediate
forum rents and for moratorium workers debts to
banks corporations and loan companies Hold meet
ngs of small depostos Demand 100 per cent government
guarantee of payment to small depostors, and immediate
reopenng of all banks and full payment of deposits upon
request
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

asked if he thought the trial might
be interrupted by violence. he said:
I don't know. If any Niggers come
around the court house and start act
ing up. something might happen.
But If the Niggers and the outsiders
mind their business, there won't be
any trouble
Then he added
Most Of our officers and a lot
of people in Morgan County we're
raised in Jackson County,
{" Court officials and old in
habitants affirm that they cannot
remember a time when anyone here
abouts even suggested that a Negro
might be qualified to serve as a juror"
Purpose of Times Articles
"Only mass action can defeat the
lvnchers.' Patterson said. THE
u. s. Supreme Court decision. aimed
at lulling the workers into a sense
CT security, and smashing the mass
defense movement has in part sue;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

administration program, is rejected
by the majority of the farmers in
every county Of six agricultural states
canvassed by the K. c. Chamber Of
commerce.
Oppose Present Laws Also.
The survey at the same time showed
ia heavy vote against continuing the
present agricultural marketing act
and the activities of the Federal
Farm Board.
The questions and answers follow
do you believe the agricultural
marketing act and the activities of
the Federal Farm Board should be
continued"
The vote-No. 1854; Yes, 1874.
do you favor domestic allotment
plan?"
The vote-No, 3,7O3; Yes, 2,1O9.
"Do you favor the federal govern
ment attempting to control prices or
production through sterilization, al
lotments or other schemes to direct
Price movement against natural in
luences?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
BRITISH BANKS
CUT INTEREST
Almost Nothing Now;
Cannot Invest

LONDON, March 19.-For the first
time in the history of British bank
ing, England faces the suspension
Of interest payments on deposits.
There is ample money and deposits
but no place it can be invested
profitably. That is. there so little
chance Of capital investments that
will put workers on the job that no
thing is being produced with which
to pay interest.
Interest has been paid at the low
rate Of ten shillings on one hundred
pounds sterling. That is to say about
81 on $500 Zone half of one per cent
INTEREST,". 1t is now proposed to re-
duce this to 2la shillings on one
hundred pounds.
This indicates again the still rapid
decline Of capitalist economy and the
general deepening of the crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

PLAINLY
Some billions of deposits
are to be wiped out. Huge
losses are to be taken in re-
organization of railroads and
corporations, adjustments as
to real estate, bankrupts, etc"
MarveIs At Double Drive
In commenting upon the in
PRODUCTION of initiation with a
consequent skyrocketing of
prices of the necessaries of
life the letter expresses sur
prise that the Roosevelt adj
ministration should, at the
same time, slash wages, and
says: at is not usual to reduce
wages in the face of an ap-
preaching initiation"
Thus even some Of the capt
talist spokesman are surprised
at the viciousness of the drive
which simultaneously smashes
down the standards of life by
indirect wage cuts through in
flation and direct cutting of
money wages.
The letter warns its clients
that prices will rise from IS
to % per cent and adds that
''the situation is full of danger
ana uncertainties, first because
the public may be enticed into
expecting an initiation of far
greater proportions than is in
tended and, secondly, because
the SURPRISES still exist and it
is yet to be determined if in
flatiOn can put trade into move
ment."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
RED HOOK COURT
FAKE CONFERENCE
But Judge Must Order
Relief for Several

NEW YORK.-The conference Fri
day of Judge Eilpern, the Red Hook
Block Committee and the supervisor
of the Schermerhorn Relief Bureau,
where the workers staged one of the
most militant demonstrations We'd
nesday, showed up the court.
The Judge sat in his elevated chair
and courteously told the supervisor
that arrangements should be made to
give immediate relief to the workers
pending investigation. After Mrs.
ONiell, the supervisor lisped her
apologies, Mrs. Harmon the repre-
sentative of the workers wished to
speak. The judge stopped her with
an angry Just a minute :. :" and
the baihff piped up with a sharp
Listen to the judge" and when Mrs.
Harmon Indignantly replied she was
not on trial the Judge replied in
furiated You will be in a minute"
When Mrs. Harmon left the court
room the judge shouted threats after
her. Her case comes up at a. m.
today in the Adams and Myrtle
Ave. court. She was arrested together
with Mrs. Hammond and Mrs Sala-
Ear at the H. r. B. demonstration
Wednesday.
Workers must jam the courtroom to
prevent this vicious judge from rail-
reading Mrs. Harmon to Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
Roosevelt Farm Bill Is Attack on
Both Land and City Workers

masses in the city-are to bear the
whole brunt of this increase in COM
modify prices in the form of rapidly
rising prices for all necessary foods
and clothing. 1t amounts to a ire
mendous sales tax, placed not upon
the middlemen, the railroads, the
food trusts, but directly upon the
city masses who can now get barely
enough to eat and many of whom are
starving.
VIII the poor farmers benefit
from the rise in prices? Not one
bit. The food trusts, the market
agencies, the railroads will get the
full benefit of the rise in prices.
The e----es of the farmers were
not directed against the city work
erS but to compel the food trusts
to pay them higher prices for their
farm commodities. The drop in
farm prices did not prevent the
food trusts from retaining high
prices on the first necessities.
The Roosevelt bill provides for
more efficiency and organization
amongst the rich farmers, the food
trusts, etc, in order to help them
make more profits and sustain less
lc-5es in face Of the general drop
in commodity prices, and at the
same time through this better or
gani2ational monopoly on the part
of the rich farmers and marketing
trusts, to leave the small farmers
more at their mercy. BY his plan
of reducing the acreage, thousands
Of small farmers will be driven out
completely from the land. This
will also mean more foreclosures
and sheriff's sales which will be
conducted now more ruthlessly.
Acreage Reduction Hits Small
Farmers
The proposal for the reduction in
farm acreage-aside from its retro
gressive character and in face of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
BOYS FACE LYNCH DANGER IN
DECATUR, ADMITS THE NEW YORK TIMES

ceeded. Mass action has subsidized.
1.-THE purpose of the New York
Times articles now being published
daily, on the Scottsboro case, is TO
further this decentralization. Their
purpose is to create the illusion that
the bourgeoLsie will help save the
ScottSbcro boys"
Eor Conscious Fight
Governor Miller of Alabama has
received more than 10000 protests
against the legal-lynch plans of the
Alabama bosses. He must receive
million. And every protest must be
the expression Of militant, fighting,
conscious demand for the immediate,
unconditional release Of the Scots
boro boys
Demand change Of venue to
Birmingham for the trial
Demand safeguards for the lives
of the Scottsboro boys.
Fight. consciously and militantly.
against the lynch preparations of the
Alabama bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

Schuylkill county in the anth-
racite region followed, and now
this movement is assuming a
mass character.
The NIinersvilIe Borough Council
had compelled the unemployed to
work on projects which are included
in the borough budget, thus handing
over the money saved in this way to
the grating politicians and their
contractor friends
The chief demand of the Miners
vile Unemployed Council is that the
Borough stop the practice of forced
labor, at the same time demanding
that all who have been denied re-
lief because they refused to work on
these jobs be placed back on the list
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
strikers held Friday night, plans
were laid for large picket lines, and
a large committee was elected to go
to the Poor Board to demand i'm
mediate relief for the strikers and
their families. At the same time it
was decided to organize a march of
the NGinersville unemployed to neigh
boring towns in order to make tie
strike county wide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
Job Sharks Retreat
When Fighting 9Th
Swings Into Action

JOB sharks of the Interstate En-
ployment Agencies beat a speedy re-
treat in the case of Frank Duzlak
when they found that he was backed
up by the Fighting Sixth" Grievance
Committee of the unemployed
Duzlak was sent to a job in Brook
Ign, only to find that the Agencies
had misrepresented conditions. Re
porting to his job at the Broadway
Bedford Garage in Brooklyn, Duzlak
discovered that the hours were much
longer and the wages smaller than
stated by the Agencies.
Registering his dissatisfaction, Duz-
lax was Immediately fired. He came
back to the Interstate Employment
Agencies and asked for the return of
$40 fee he had paid for the Job
but was refused.
But Duzlak did not let matters rest
there. He came to the office of the
Fighting Sixth So West 18th Street,
who formed a committee Of six to
attend to the case. 1t was not long
after the Committee arrived at the
office of the Agencies that Duzlak
received the return fees due him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

Residents of Decatur, which IS
fit. miles south of Pulaski. the birth
place of the original Ku KluX Khan
of reconstruction days assert that
the defendants will get fair trial,
but they warn that they will stand
no nonsense, either from the defense
or its sympathizers, white or black -
the Times dispatch said
THE townsfolk don't care to listen
to legal arguments about race equality
or the rights Of Negroes TO serve on
juries, the man in the street viii tell
the visiting stranger.
q. Another county official, who
refused to permit the use Of his name,
insisted that the Negroes received
fair treatment at their first trial, and
asserted they would get the same
kind of treatment here
"He remarked a lisle regretfully
that if this thing had happened
twenty-five years ago there would net
have been any trial. When he was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20

mounting starvation throughout the
cou1ltry-iS aimed directly at the
farm tenants, small and middle
farmers. The promised increase in
prices for the farmers has strings at
tached with which it is proposed to
let the small self-working farmers
hang themselves. Big farmers will
lose very little or nothing and even
gain by reducing their acreage. For
them it will mean simply reducing
their working staff the required
amount or throwing out SO many adj
ditional tenants and sharecroppers.
For the small and middle farmers it
will mean cutting down upon an al
ready small acreage and-granting
an increase in commodity prices
leaving them where they are today.
The professors are to be taken care
Of, however, for Roosevelt has seen to
it that they shall not suffer. They
are to receive loans from the Re-
construction Finance Corporation to
help them pay the tax and to tide
over the short period until their re-
turns begin piling in from the in
crease in prices paid by the con-
sumner. Like all other measures pro-
posed by the Roosevelt regime, this
one gives direct aid to the food and
marketing trusts, to the bankers and
to the railroads. 1t is aimed directly
at the toiling masses in the city and
on the countryside.
Wage Cuts Via Initiation
The whole plan for increasing
prices" is subordinated to the we'll
worked out scheme for a general in
fiation, of which the banking holi-
day" and the issuing of an unlimited
amount of currency by the federal
government were but the first steps
BY increasing prices and reducing
the value Of the dollar" tremendous
wage-cut will gradually, from day to
day, be imposed upon the workers.
At the same time, by the glib prom
ises contained in his BILL Roosevelt
hopes to stifle the militant farm re-
volt and hold the farmers as allies
against the workers.
The National Farmers Conference
held last December in Washington
had already exposed all the elements
of the Roosevelt bill which had been
contained in various measures pro-
posed during the Hoover administra-
ton. 1t also exposed the leaders of
the so-called farm organizations who
are today supporting the new farm
bill. The representatives of the small
and toiling farmers demanded an in
crease in the prices of farm products,
not at the expense of the workers,
but at the expense of the middle
men, the railroads and the food
trusts. They demanded an end to
evictions and as result Of militant
struggle obtained it in many states.
Large sections of the farmers are
continuing their struggle against the
bankers and other holders Of mort
cages and the demand is now rising
for complete cancellation of mort
cages and all debts owed by the poor
farmers--about which Roosevelt says
not word.
United Struggle Of Workers, Farmers
Only by the united struggle of the
CITY workers and the toiling farmers
can this latest effort Of the bankers,
the employers and the trusts to make
the masses pay for the crisis be de-
footed. The starvation (through in
flation) plan of Wall Street must be
obstructed by the united action of
the workers and the consumers in
the cities. and the farm workers, the
tenants and small farmers on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
"Y" USES MACHINE TO WEED
OUT JOBSEEKERS

NEW YORK. - A new device
which determines whether or not
applicants for jobs are "neurotic" is
now being used by the Y. M. C. A.,
100 w 44th ST., it is announced.
Calculated to weed out 'unsatis-
factory" applicants, the machine is
described as a "boxlike affair about
two feet square, equipped with a
photograph operated by a crank"
The job-seeker is given an electrical
ly wired pencil to touch the perfo-
rations on the disk while it is ro-
tating. With the aid of an attached
numbering machine which jumps
one number eSery time the appli-
cant touches the dot or perforation
on the rotating disk, the examiner
is able to single out those likely to
get mad at speed-up tactics and ar
bitrary bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20
EXPEL 5 FROM
AMALGAMATED
Action Marks Brazen
Betrayal Of Workers

NEW YORK. - Five ryN-''-~~s.
members Of the Amalgamated Cloth
, ing Worker of America were eXre1led
by the Executive Board of that or
ganization as a result of one of the
most brazen cases Of betrayal yet
put over by the corrupt officialdom.
These workers were employed by
Bernhard & Schrag. They are now
jobless because CT the action of the
Amalgamated officials in the inter-
eets of the bosses.
Nv c.ioroes o~de~~ IT the Union
officials. the shop Of the contractor.
where the work was being done, YVES
stopped A meeting was called and
the workers were told that they could
rot return to work unless they paid
the sum Of 1872 cents which the con-
tractor had not received from the
firm of Bernhard and Schrag, for
additional work upon the coats.
Already Had Big Cut
Already working under a 26 per
cent reduction, some of the workers
refused to accept this new levy and
went to the Union demanding that
the organization sanction a strike.
j. Refused by the officials, they went
back to the shop and pulled out
the rest of the workers on a volun-
tary strike. But all this good worl,
was disrupted by the officials who
cooperated with MIR. Laura, manager
Of the shop, and the contractor.
The five workers were expelled
from the shop and then from the
Union by action of the Executive
Board.