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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
WHAT'S ON
Saturday

COME and have GOOD TINE at OUT
ING AND PICNIC Of Yorkviile Br F. 8. y.
on Sunday. July 20, at Tibbetts Brook Park.
Take Lexington and Jerome Ave subway
to Woodlawn Rd Station.
FELLOW-woRKERS- UNIT
PARITY pm. Apt. I'D, sos E. oath ST.,
Brownsville
CUBAN NIGHr-Tango dancers-cuban
songs-NATIONAL STUDENT LEAGUE, 5es
Sixth Ave. zoe adm. Given for benefit
CT Rev. Students of Cuba.
CONCERT AND DANCE-Coney Island
Workers Center, 2709 Mermaid Ave, corner
9th St. Williamsburg Plaza chorus OF CO.
Red Dance group-Bridge Plaza Dramatic
group and many other attractions. Well
known Jazz band. Adm. 25c. Auspices
Williamsburg and Bridge Plaza workers
clubs.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED for Saturday,
Monday, Tuesday for folding and mailing
for important work. American Com. for
Struggle Against War. Room 1910, lo4
PORTO R1cAN BRANCH OF ANr-M-
PERIALIsT LEAGUE, 24o Columbia st.,
Brooklyn. Dance and entertainment
special feature-Borious and company.
Good music, refreshments-an invited.
ORIGINAL RUSSIAN NIGHT-Cabaret
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rev. Art Ensamble,
dancers, singers, actors, city club center,
1858 W. 18th St. $3.50 pm.
do NIL Ml6S LIE patby VI
newly organized Westchester Youth Club,
1857 Manor Ave. Adm. iSc. Bronx.
Sunday
PICNIC-J Louis Engdahl workers Club,
Van Cortlandt Park, south Of tennis courts,
near lake, in case Of rain ut headquarters,
30s2 Hull Ave. Bronx.
Come and have GOOD TIME at OUT
ING OF YORKvILLE BR. F. S. u, at
Tibbetts Brook Park. Take Lexington and
Jerome Ave. subway to Woodlawn Road
station.
OUTING TO CAMP UNIT BY HARLEM
PROGRESSIVE YOUTH CLUB, 1898 Mad.
ison Ave- Truck leaves 1880 pm. SHARP
from club Round trip 81.
OPEN FORUM HARLEM INTERNA.
TIoNAL BR. F. s. u, 81 w. 128th St., al
pm. Speaker: Corliss Lamont. MY I'm.
pressions Of Soviet Russia" Adm. loc
Questions and Discussions.
LUNCH FOR TWO--by Women's Council
No. 10. Picnic grounds in Prospect Park
at pm. Open forum win take place
Brooklyn
BEACH OUTING--Midtown Section Of
I. L. D.--Bathing, refreshments, fruit, fun
Directions: Take Brighton line to Ocean
Parkway, west First st. exit. Lockers =,
Hellers Bathing Pavilion, 3047 W. FIRST
St, Coney Island. Bath at Beach Z. First
st. Everybody welcome
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

uueQ organization QeQlCaIeQ 10 IIle
logical, systematic and scientific
solution of human problems in the
q. s. A.
The American Concentration" was
formed last month with a nucleus of
100 former army officers and Of
ficers of the present army
reserves. New members are sought
only by personal contact, reads the
leaflet which has no address on it.
Among the seven planks of its
"unalterable program" are listed two
fascist classics which both Hitler and
Mussolini embrace in their respective
uationalism:
eliminate those destructive
tendencies fOstered by foreign and
local propaganda which are lead
ing to useless and bloody revolu-
ton prepare and protect our
selves from foreign invasion"
Not only is their Scientific" pro-
gram a duplication of Hitler's meth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

cd of attack on the working class,
but the Nazi slogan of Germany
Awake" is matched by the American
Concentration with America Awake"
The organization also has its
swastika. a red letter G cut through
by a red v on a white background
enclosed in a blue circle.
A worker invited to join the fas-
cist outfit voiced the sentiments Of
workers throughout the country
when he said that the fascist fun
gus with its own swastika will find
its poisonous growth blighted by a
revolutionary working class under
the leadership of the Communist
Party.
Get your unit, union local, or mass
organization to challenge another
group in raising subs for the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
City Library Has Facts for
Which Berry Spends So, 100

NEW YORK.-Off to study Eu-
ropean loan systems and taxation"
Comptrolled Berry pocketed $500 Of
the taxpayers money and sailed for
Europe Thursday, June 13 in de
luxe suite costing $685..
Had Berry left the $500 in the
treasury which is in such a delicate"
situation that no money is forthcom-
ing for relief, and taken the elevator
from the fifth floor in the Municipal
Building where his office is located to
the 22nd floor, he would have found
two books in the citys private library
there that would have saved the
money and the Comptroller's oh, so
very, valuable time.
The volumes are: London Sta
tistics, Vol. XXXV, 1930-31" and "The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
so Cent A Day on Piece
Work Exposes the
"New Deal"
by a Worker Corresponding

SANDUSKY, Ohio. The much
heralded wage increases is just SC
much bunk. While there has been q
slight increase in employment of a
few hundred out Of about 1000 u11-
employed, the conditions here have
improved very little.
An old brewery opened up several
weeks ago employing IS men and
boys at wages as low as 20 cents an
hour.
The old plant of the Jackson IN
derwear Co. began operations a while
ago. 1t only operates few months
of the year, and has wage scale
as low as Is cents an hour. Most
girls are working piece work, and
some making only SO cents a day.
And few have gotten jobs at the
Cedar Point summer resort. And
conditions of the employed are worse
than last season.
Families as large as seven to. the
family are receiving as low as $3.50
relief for two weeks. The Commercial
7onk, a state bank, which closed
when the National moratorium was
declared, still remains closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Brewery in Sandusky
Employs Men at 20
Cents an Hour
80 IS Cents An Hour
on Jobs in Bolivar. NY
(By a Worker Correspondent


BOLIVAR, N. Y.-An oil man start
ed small skimming plant last sum
mer. He is now moving to new loca-
ton and building a larger plant. He
pays 80 cents an hour
The Allegheny Refg. Co. is now
building complete plant that will
cost about 100000 when completed.
This is providing work for rs men
who get IS cents per hour and\work
nine hours.
Married men on the Welfare are
supposed to have first consideration,
but this rule seems to be broken BY
or through matter of preference.
Married men tell me how single men
get on the job when they are more
than anxious to work and men are
here for miles around to work. They
claim residence, to be married and all
requisites that are necessary to get
on. Last Monday few men were
hired while 500 reported anxious for
a Job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

Government Of European Cities" by
William B. Monro, professor Of gov
eminent at Harvard.
Had Mr.. Berry turned to page 434
of the first book listed he would have
found that statutory limits are inn.
posed on London borrowing, sone-
thing he would doubtlessly be inter-
ested in knowing. Similarly, all the
facts that he has announced he is
searching for could be found by a
few minutes perusal of the indexes In
these volumes
But, perhaps Berry and his pal j..
p. Morgan with whom he sailed, will
have good time in Europe on money
that would have given hundreds Of
New York jobless relief from hunger
for week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
It's the Old Hoover prosperity"
Only Wearing a Neav Deal Mask
'Norwalk Tire Compa-
ny Gave 5 PC. Raise
After 60 PC. Cut
Five Percent Raise
After 60 Percent Cut
(By a Worker Correspondent)


NORWALK, Conn.-The Norwalk
Tire Company has made much noise
about the raising Of wages. The
highest pay is $2.7O per day. This
week we worked four days. A little
raise has been obtained, but only
for those who work on day-Worll,
but those who work piece-work are
not getting any raise. He may get
a 5 per cent bonus if he gets less
than SIS week.
We got a per cent raise after
we got so per cent cut during the
economic crisis. When the bosses an
nounced a raise a few weeks ago, the
workers thought that prosperity was
coming back, but soon the workers
Of the Norwalk Tire Company found
out what that meant. They started
to realize this trick. What is ne
cessary for us to get better conditions
is to organize, so we may obtain
better conditions, otherwise we get
fooled and starve forever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

NEW YORK.-The printed speech
Of Roosevelt to the forced labor
camps deleted his reference to the
"dole." The president over the radio
said: eve are seeking to get away
as fast as we can from the dole,
soup kitchens and free rations." By
reference to dole he, of course, meant
the distribution of relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Retiring of Laid-Off
Girls Called Increase
(By a Worker Correspondent,

NEWARK, N. J.--Some time ago
the Newark Star Eagle" took pic
lures of the Watt and Bond cigar
factory. A week later on Saturday,
the paper carried big article stat
ing that Watt and Bond had hired
TOO girls which is a lie. There are not
that many girls in the place. Three
hundred girls had been laid off eight
weeks before the pictures were taken,
of which they have called about 200
back to work, and told they are only
there temporary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Secret "Patriotic" Band
Emulates MussOlini, Hitler
BY DAN DAVIS.

NEW YORKOu OF decayng capitalism anotn iaSS' fungus
has sprung up-the American Concentration
printed white blue explains that it "a discp-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
PLENTY OF GOLD

A NY ONE who has been disturbed by the
- fear that the nations currency was not
backed by an adequate supply Of gold viii
be relieved by news that the Federal Reserve
banks now hold more Of the yellow metal
than at any other time during the year, and
more than at any time during the two pros
porous years preceding the 1929 collapse.
Holdings have increased during the year
by s4o0.o00,000, to reach a total OF $780,
100000, which IS more than the reserve banks
have had at any other period during their
twenty years OF operation.
Total geld stocks Of the country. which
includes amounts held by the treasury, are
s4320, 100000.
1t may be puzzing to understand why,
with all the gold that is available the coun-
try remains OF the gold standard. Whatever
the answer is to that question, it is comfort
ing to know that the gold is there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
WE STILL CAN SMILE

THERE is something in the American
u spirit which seems to make it jocose
flip. and hard to impress. The American is
an incurable wisecracker; and he is, for some
reason. more likabe for it.
As an example consider the case of the
traffic cops of Cleveland, O. A thoughtful city
government there recently decided to dress
up its coppers. 1t designed snappy new uni
forms for them, with Sam Browne belts, semi
military bits of braiding, and comfortable
tropical helmets of white pith for protection
against the sun.
The result was very nice: the officers were
more comfortable than before, they were
easier for hurried motorists to see, and they
added to the appearance of the downtown
streets
But the citizens had to wisecrack about it.
People took TO asking the cops if they had
shot many lions recently, or if the war was
over yet. They were proud of their snappy
new garb-but they couldn't let it go without
making few jokes about it,
And the whole incident, somehow was
typicaly and delightfully."- American; despite
the depression and its worries we haven't for
gotten how to smile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
MORTGAGE RELIEF

IF President RooSevelts program TO ease the
mortgage burden on owners of city homes
is to succeed, the great insurance companies.
building and loan groups. and individual
holders Of these mortgages must Cooperate.
The plan is for them to accept the s2.OO0.-
100000 in bonds to be issued by the Home
Loan Corporation in trade for mortgages. 1t
is true, of course, that the bonds will bear
less interest than the mortgages. But they
will be tax exempt interest on them is guar
anteed by the government, and, above all,
they are safe investment while some home
mortgages are questionable.
The government must have this co-opera-
ton if its Home Owners Loan Corporation is
to furnish the relief expected
The government has furnished holders of
mortgages a good example to start with: TIE
Reconstruction Finance Corporation has
agreed to take the bonds as collateral security
up TO 80 per cent Of par; and the treasury
has agreed to accept them at 100 cents on
the dollar in security for deposits OF public
moneys
II the R F. c. and the treasury are thus
willing to accept these bonds individual
holders of home mortgages likewise should
accept them
Only thus viii home owner mortgage relief
be secured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12

INVESTIGATIONS of closed banks, which
are bringing to light some of the reasons
for their collapse, reflect considerable credit
on smaller borrowers for their integrity and
their business judgment.
BY and large it seems to have been the in
ability of banks TO collect on a relatively
small number Of big loans which pulled them
under. The so-called fnanciers, who required
huge sums of other peoples money to carry
on their operations, were the ones who left
the banks in the lurch.
The little fellows, in much larger per-
centage, stepped up to the line and paid off.
The condition was part and parcel Of the
era Of frenzied finance with its unwarranted
expansions and its gigantic deals" for which
depostors now are paying.
Current revelations should do much to in
dictate to bankers where they safely can farm
out their depositors funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
VAST JOB OF THE NRA

THE more one studies the program now
- under way via the NRA, the more does It
become clear that tremendous amount OF
patience, good sense, and straightforward
executive ability are going to be required of
the host OF officials responsible for the pro-
grams success.
The sheer bulk Of work to be done to be-
gin with, is appalling. The blue eagles lieu
tenants at Washington are tackling one of
the most complex jobs ever undertaken by
any group Of men on earth.
Not least Of the dangers facing these men
is the chance that they simply may get tan
gled up in red tape
Furthermore, in working out a way Of
beating the depression, it is quite likely that
policies Will be laid down which will affect the
life of the nation for many years after the
depression has passed.
The NRA not only must find a workable
program for the present. it must find one
that will head us in some direction that we
are willing to follow more or less pcrma-
nently.
All in all, 1t is an almost overwhelming
task. That the work so far has been done so
well is good testimonial to the caliber OF the
men who are on the job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
SATURDAY. AUG. u. 1898.
BUY NOW
THE time has come in the recovery drive
when success or failure is up to us.

THE time has come in the recovery drive
when success or failure is up to us.
The strategy has been planned. the ma
chinery set in motion We must help ourselves
now, If We are to be helped at all. The way
we spend our money now-today and tomor-
row and for the next few weeks-wiIl cast
the balance between employment, decent
wages and recovery or unemployment. starva-
ton. and chaos.
In spite Of Americans long training In self
government. IL is somewhat hard TO realize
that We individuals can be of such supreme
Importance now in this time Of economic
crisis. We have become accustomed to feeling
that we were helpless puppets where economic
matters were concerned-that mysterious
forces beyond our control determined whether
or not We should eat.
Today this is not true Our fate is in our
own hands. people that despises the dole,
that glories in working its own way out Of It's
own difficulties. has its supreme opportunity
TO demonstrate the strength Of this deter
mination.
The woman with shabby dress and worn
heels and market basket occupies a position
OF unique importance in the economic world
that few important" people have had in the
past
Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson
says:
The public must buy now.
1T must buy under the blue eagle and It
must buy to the full of its reasonable and
prudent needs. To support increased wages
there must be increased business. To get in
creased business there must be increased
buying
Increased wages depend upon increased
buying and We can't have one without the
other and that is as certain as that two and
two make four.
The point about buying under the blue
eagle is Just certain and just as simple
Increased wages come from blue eagle en-
ployers only. Blue eagle employers can not
continue increased wages If public patronage
goes to their competitors. Failure to support
the blue eagle is failure to support increased
wages and unemployment"
The blue eagle can not lead dumb. in
different or greedy people to the promised
land. It can not save by force those who
don't want to be saved
But the blue eagle can show the way to a
people with enough intelligence and will to
march behind It.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
THE NAVAL RACE STARTS

THE clang of hammers in American ship
Il yards is about to sound at louder. faster
pitch than We have heard in years. Across the
Pacific in the shipyards Of Japan an equally
accelerated clSnging is about to begin.
Unless all signs fail. these two nations pres
emily Will be embarked upon a naval building
race of the traditional type in spite of treaties
gentlemen's agreements. or any other forms Of
restraint.
1t is very easy for an American to deplore
this trend. No one who remembers the out
come Of the worlds last great naval building
race-between England and Germany-can be
blamed for dreading the advent of a new one
But 1t is not nearly so easy to say Just how
this race is to be avoided
Your pacifist, OF course, will remark that
the way to avoid a race Of this kind is to
build no more warShips under any circum-
stances: to let the other chap lay down as
many keels as ne chooses and TO pare your
own establishment down year after year Sc
cure in the knowledge that you yourself aren't
going TO war. no matter what happens
But it isn't likely that many Americans will
lIluoISc AHLS pldl LIE WOElO SUN IS Il peril
ouSly disturbed and supplemented planet:
international policies still have way of COL
liding head-on. in spite Of all we can do to
prevent It: and while war may be most cost
" and wasteful way Of settling disputes, the
world does not yet seem to have reached the
point at which 1t can assure itself that war
will be no more.
In short, America has very solid reasons
for maintaining a strong navy. and gov
eminent which failed to do so properly could
be called short sighted And the same thing
doubtless can be said Of the japanese.
Which leaves us. perhaps, right where we
started-except that it all underlines the
heavy responsibility which rests on the shoul-
Gers OF the statesmen OF the two nations.
There are, after ALL more reasons for the
United States and Japan to De friendly than
there are for them to be enemies
This country is Japans best customer:
Japan, in turn. buys heavily from the United
States. and the development Of Japan's Asiatic
conqueSts logically should open still larger
markets 10 American manufacturers
AS both nations prepare for trouble. 1t
should be possible for their statesmen to work
out way whereby they could continue to live
in peace.
self-interest on both sides of the Pacific
dictates such course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
NEW USE FOR A STADIUM

THOSE who have found something slightly
grotesque in the way American univer-
sites have spent vast sums on mammoth
football stadia doubtless will be interested to
read Of the new use which authorities at Ohio
State university have found for their institu-
TONS tremendous amphitheater.
One of the towers of this vast plant, it is
announced, will be turned into a mems dor
nitory this fall to provide room and board
for rs students at minimum cost. Rooms will
be available at an exceptionally cheap rate
with meals at a correspondingy low figure;
and President George w. Rightnlire says that
this is being done to enable men of good
scholarship and good character to attend the
university in spite Of the depression.
To the critics of "overemphasis" in college
football, it probably will be gratifying TO dis
cover an instance in which stadium is going
to perform genuinely useful collegiate func
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-12
|M.E.TracySays:

1.-TWO young scientists are setting out from
4 England to study conditions In the Tristan
da Cunha group Of islands and, If possible do
something to improve the lot Of its 200 in
habitantS.
This group of islands is located in the South
Atlantic about 1000 miles west Of the Cape Of
Good Hope and 1000 miles northeast Of Cape
Horn. 1t consists of Tristan da Cunha. with
area of about sixteen square miles; inaccessible.
with an area of some four square miles, and
Nightingale with an area Of one square mile,
together with a couple Of islets and some ex-
posed rocks.
Cough island, much larger than any Of the
foregoing, is too far away from the group to be
counted as one of its members
Tristan da Cunha, with population Of some
200. is the only one Of these islands that can
be described as permanently inhabited. Though
discovered in 1904 and visited by warships,
whaers, or explorers quite frequently thereafter,
it first was selected as an abode by Thomas
Currie in 1870
Some months later an American named
Lambert and an American named Williams,
both OF Salem Mass, joined Currie, with Lam
bert setting himself up as owner and sovereign.
DURING the war of 1910, Tristan de cunha
- was made a base of operations by Amer
lean privateers. This annoyance caused the
British government to annex it by proclamation
as a dependency of the Cape Town colony in
1916 After that, the population increased grad
ually.
The island is Of volcanic origin. circular in
shape and surrounded by high cliffs, except in
the northwest portion. where there is g plain
about mile wide. two miles long. and more
than 100 fet above sea level.
volcanic peak with fresh water lake in
its crater. occupies the center
Notwithstanding a mild climate, an abundant
rainfall and soil that was rich at the start, 200
people virtually have exhausted the resources of
Tristan Ga Cunha in but little more than one
century. and the two scientists will try 10 get
them TO move to Inaccessible island, where the
soil is in its virgin state
Outside OF that, they will study meteorological
conditions. keep records. and gather such other
information as seems desirable. They might
contribute a lot by going into the social as we'll
as the economic history Of Tristan ia Cunha.
ISLANDS OF this character epitoinize the hui
l. man problem, not only as revealed BY ex-
hausted resources and poor living conditions. but
as illustrating the influence Of basic emotions
traits. appetites and conceptions
Here we have the struggle for existence re-
duced TO a sufficiently small scale and suff-
GENTLY free from outside influences to permit
OF accurate deductions.
Most of our sociological studies are pitched
on too grand a scale, or deal with too COM
plicated conditions for us to be sure about the
facts. much less the conclusion, but islands like
Tristan da Cunha or Pitcairn should afford a
reliable laboratory.