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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26

those things which workers must bu
have gone UP at least so per cent
as the result of Mr.. Roosevelt's "ney
deal" policies and the N. R. A.
If at the same time the tota
amount of wages paid to the work
ers Gin terms of dollars) also rose 81
per cent, then the total amount O
real wages lin terms of what tn
worker buys would be exactly thu
same as before, neither higher no
lower. If wages did not rise SO fast
then real wages were being cut down
Everybody knows wages did no
rise so fast. Far from it. If we take
as our measure the most reliable
capitalist authority, the Annalist, il
shows that total wages in dollars in
creased much less than half as fast
as did prices.
What mas actually happened, then,
is really cut in total wages of more
than IS per cent for the entire work
ing class.
Thus are the real fruits of the N.
r. A. with regard to wages.
The situation was described in the
businessmen's newspaper THE Daily
News Record" for Aug. 30, as fol-
lows
1.-The latest index number (of
pricesJ is 43 points higher than it
was at this time last year. Tex
tiles, house furnishings, and like
commodities are increasing. The
increase is having it's effects in two
ways; helpful for the producers
capitalists-E.B0, but not any
too good for the consumer, for the
reason that purchasing power has
not increased proportionately."
Roosevelt, promised that the N. R
A. would increase the purchasing
power of the toiling masses, the
workers and farmers, But in reality
the opposite has occurred. There
has been a tremendous cut in real
wages. Under Roosevelt and the N.
R. A., the millions of workers are
getting less food, less clothing, less
shelter, than they did under Hoover,
N. r. A. Increases Permanent
Unemployment
OkJ1o-So dlC ouQDpO1Al WO
i showed the above facts to an en-
thusiastic supporter of Roosevelt and
N. R. A. He said:.
Maybe all you say is true. 1t
is hard to. deny, because these fig
ures come from the government
and the big capitalists themselves,
who have every interest to show
things not worse but better. But
still the N. R. A. has given more
jobs by reducing hours, and in
creasing production even tenn
porarily.'
Again we. will play safe and ig-t
more the newspaper ballyhoo, in or
der to take a look at the facts shown
by official statistics
Production in July was 80 points
higher than year before. But en-
ployment was less than IL points
higher
What does this mean?
1t means that a terrible speed-up
has been put across on the workers
in the factories 1t means that every
worker must produce more than
ever before, even with shorter hours.
1t means more workers displaced by
machines. 1t means constantly
fewer and fewer jobs for the same
amount of production.
1t means great increase In per-
manent unemployment.
1t means more starvation and
catastrophe for the workers.
That is what Roosevelt and the N.
R. A. has given the workers in the
matter of jobs. The reality is the
opposite to the promise
Continued Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
Can You Make 'em
Yourself =?

Today's pattern has a choice of
s'cevcs. II the double sleeve is used,
we TIL the under sleeves might be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
NRA Codes Cut Real Wages
and Act AS Strike Breaker
Roosevelt Price Raising Program Masks Pay
Cut for All Workers; So-Called Labor
Rights Are Trap Against Strikes

This the of of articles by Comrade Bowd
General Secretary
welt NRA In the third article
the supposed rights collective bargaining
these rights actually practice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
BY EARL BROWDER.

pUT why would anybody
expanding? Why did
already full?
The initiation dollar
prices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
LITERATURE IN ST. LOUIS.

SC. LOUIS, MO.
Comrade Editor: There is a good
field here for language papers and
will t.'y trip to Chicago to tie Dis
trict headquarters and build up an
apparatus on lie, allure sales in this
section. 1t will take about six months
active work to show our papers and
ma ~aZines.
l did not see a Liberator although
there are thousands of Negro work
ers here in st. Louis. / have been to-
one LID. meeting and I dld not see
a Labor Defender. The same goes for
tn Daily Worker.
At Food Workers meeting there
was not one piece of our literature.
With about 5000 organized in the
T.U.U.L, it is damned shame that
only SO copies of the Daily Worker
come to the Labor Temple. 1t is up
to some one here to build the sales,
and as field worker, I will stop here
and Go what can be done. Tell the
Daily Worker agent to look for me
in Chicago and we will get together
on literature in this part of District
8 of the G. P.
Comradely.
VI NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
Steel and Metal Worker Correspondents
Report Jobs Are Declining Under NRA
Coke Output Cut One Fourth,
Pig Iron One Third, at GARY
(By a Worker Correspondent.

GARY, Ind-In the U. Steel
Sept whole battery battery 70
atng the time This onefourth of the production
the Mills blast furnace
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BY HELEN LUKE.


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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
Letters from
Our Readers
JOB APPLICANTS INsUITED

JOB APPLICANTS INSUITED
CHESTER, Pa.-Several days ago
a youngA man applied at the Sun
Shipyard for job and was bully
ragged by the employment manager
foe being too we'll dressed because
he had a clean white shirt and
necktie on.
This worker had on a dark gray
coat and plum colored pair of
pants. The seat of the trousers
were patched and the patches were
frayed. Yet this overbearing lick
spittle of the bosses told this hon
est worker that he was too we'll
dressed, and that he would never
get job dressed that way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
A WAY TO SELL LITERATURE.

chicago. Ill.
Conlrade Editor: Here is an idea
% increasing the sales of literature.
A small rider leaf1et is gotten out
Like the one enclosed, as follows:
Your Dollar Under Roosevelt" is
the name of small pamphlet that
every worker should read. Many
questions that have been puzzling
you are answered in this inexpensive
pamphlet. 1t costs only two cents.
You may get it during the n2SG few
days by asking your Daily Worker
carrier to bring you one. Act at
once for there is only limited sup
ply.
DO you like your Daily Worker?
Help others to get the truth by CIV
ing them your paper after you are
through reading it. Give the names
Of your worker friends who would
like to read the workers Daily" to
the carrier on your route. Thank
you"
Northwest Workers Press Comm"
This rider leafiet is pasted to the
"Dailies" that are carried to regular
contacts by the comrade who has a
route established. Care must be
taken to paste only one corner of
the. leaflet to one corner of the
Daily" where no printing appears.
Fred Santley
Agitprop-Unit S09
FANG NrWSREET
Comrade Editor:
Here is a newsreel expression of
our much improved Daily Worker.
Front page-Brief editorials on
timely topics written in plain Ian
guage are 100 per cent. Rest of
page should contain little more
newso Inside of labor news.
Dels cartoons are fine addition
to Burcks.
The sport page is good idea.
Have Newhouse ask for contributions
by readers in different sports.
DR.. Luttinger's column combines
the unusual sound medical advice
plus fine social viewpoint.
IS. S. Utah is my idea of real
PAOAOtdlldll llOtCls luVCi Couiii6s WibAi
a fine message unfolded.
Michael Colds column-some days
he is unbeatable-other days way be-
low par. Is it his moods or bad
beer?
Burck's cartoons are there with a
punch.
OF all the best Improvements, /
think the last page especially, with
its foreign news and special articles,
is splendid
In all, what you have accomplished
is to make 1t at last paper that
can attract new readers and hold
their vtention.
Yours for the revolution
MAX MANGEL.
P.S.-We enclose check for the
SUSTAINING fnrd
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WHICH N lCCo pCSdu W ~ up, every
speculator and profiteer rushed to
buy and store up goods, in order to
make gamblers profits, With the
prospect of prices going up 80 per
cent, or SO per cent, Or even 100 per
cent, they bought at the old prices,
being willing to wait many months
before selling until the much higher
prices came into effect.
Now the warehouses are filled up.
Prices are high. The spectators
want to cash I'M on their specu-
lative profits. They must sell their
goods. But the real market, the con-
sumers' market, is very little larger
than it was before, and is shrinking
again. The goods moving out of
the warehouses therefore begin to
squeeze out the goods coming from
the factory. There is more than
enough, already manufactured to
fill all demands. Thee factories are
beginning to close up again.
"Overproduction" is with us again,
stronger than ever The N. R. A.,
which was promised to cure "over-
production, we now see really caused
it to be worse than before. Infla-
tion and higher prices, which we're a
part of the whole plan of the MIRA.
and new DEAL" have prepared a
new crash.
Roosevelt's boom lasts only little
longer than Hoover's.
The MIRA. offered up the figures
of production Tor few months, but
since July Is they have been drop
ping faster than they went up be-
fore. We can trace these facts, for
example, in the weekly business in
dex figure of the New York Times.
This shows the high point Of SO was
reached July Is, and then a drop,
drop, drop, every week, until at the
beginning Of September it is below
IS.
Clearly, the engine of the N. R. A..
which promised to pull us out of the
crisis, is missing fire, it is backfir-
ing. 1t is the same old engine
trouble that wrecked the Hoover adj
ministration.
How About Higher Wages?
LEV EN- if all this is true" object
Il TIE spoieslnen of the N. r.. A.,
yet still some. good has been &C
complished; we are forcing the capt.
talists to pay higher wages Tor
shorter hours, and thus improving
the conditions of the workers"
is that so? Again we can trust
more in the statistics of the capital
lists than We can in their newspaper
ballyhoo. Looking at their figures,
we find that they tell different
story.
Wages are worth what they will
buy in food, clothing and shelter.
What they will buy depends upon
prices. And prices are shooting up
ward like q skyrocket-this feature
OF N. r. A. has been very successful.
But the higher go prices, the lower
go real wagsS-Wages turned into the
things which the wage-earner needs
How much have prices gone up?
Different authorities give different
figures, depending upon how many
and what kinds of goods they base
their figures on. Those figures most
trusted by the capitalists themselves
are the ones given out by Dun and
Bradstreet, by the Journal of Com
merce, and by Moodys, These show
price increases under the N. r. A.
averaging 81 Fer cent, II per cent
and SO per cent, respectively. Since
those figures were compiled, prices
have gone up still more, and con-
tinue to rise.
1t is, therefore, very conserva-
tive judgment to say that prices of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
~ Doctor
LuHunqeN
nufUie4:

While many of them are ready b
concede that circumcision lowers to
certain extent the chances of in
lection, they dispute the other al
legged advantages. The religious affil-
iations of the disputants color strong
ly their medical convictions and it is
almost impossible to come to a deci-
sion by studying the figures sub-
mitted by e'both Sides While it is
true that statistics do not lie, 1t is
equally known that statisticians can,
compete with Armanias when It,,
comes to proving their point.
This question can only be solved !,
by investigators who have no religi-
Gus bias, in society free from big
otry. The answer to your question,
therefore, is that modern physicians
are divided in their opinion on the
advisability of universal circumcision
AS to the writer's personal opinion,
based on long years of practice, he Is
inclined to favor it as an excellent
hygienic measure when performed by 4,
good surgeon or nobel (religioW
OPERATOR who observes the rules OF
the sanitary code.
9~.
Burned Hands
Joe Ross.-We are surprised that
you should have hesitated in send
ing us your friend. We thought thst
you ought to know us by this time
Any unemployed Party member II
entitled to our services without cost
And this applies to full-time Party
functionaries whom we consider as
unemployed, because we know that
the gold we get from Moscow to pay
them is not enough to feed flea.
We wrote to your friend as soon as
we received your lsttsr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-26
CARRYING OUT THE OPEN LETTER
The Wickwire Steel Strike
An Example of Militancy
Correct Strike Strategy Spreads the Strike
and Wins the Demands Presented
By the Strikers
10y GIlC OGl 1IAS1 >
BY MANNING JOHNSON.
Buffalo District Organizer, C. p, U. S. A.

BUFFALO steel industry clearly
clothing shelter and against the Blue
Vutur
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
STERLING SE rs
3-MONTH TOP

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 G.N.SD.
The British pound sterling scared
to $3.431a, a gain of GIG cents,
to the best levels since October
Is, last, in moderately active
trading in the local foreign ex-
change market.
In the London market the
pound jumped to $3.44 after
opening at $3.40.
The present rate compares with
the all-time low of $31412 set
last November and the 1882 high
of 1888 of April 2.
Strength in the pound is being
attributed both here and abroad
to the absence of official control
from the market, traders abroad
reporting that thus far, the ex-
change equalization fund has not
sold pounds today.
The rise in the pound carried
with it the Scandinavian eX-
changes which rallied from to
II points and the Canadian dol
lar, which regained 1a of cent
at 8412 cents after displaying
acute weakness last week.
The rest of the foreign ex-
change list also displayed a
stronger tone against the dollar.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
COTTON LEVELS
LOWEST IN 6
WEEKS

NEW YORK, Feb. 6. IN. N. S..
Cotton futures experienced a fur
ther setback today to the lowest
level since December %, 1882.
Trading was moderately active
with a good deal Of March liqui'
dation featuring early dealings.
There was some Southern and
New Orleans selling combined
with some hedging.
Most of the buying was done
by commission houses and trade
sources.
The New York Cotton Exchange
Service today estimated world
consumption of all kinds Of cot
ton in December at 2,042, 1000
bales, compared with 2,039,000 in
November and 1,931,000 in De-
cember last season.
Consumption for five months
ended December 81 was put at
100000 bales against 1885, 900
in the like period last season.
Noon quotations were off 7 to 9
points, with March off 9 at SIS,
May off 8 at $50, July off 8
at 6.01, October off 7 at 6.22,
and December off 8 at 6.34.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
TRADING
Up IN MONTH

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 QN.s)-
The short interest on the New
York Stock Exchange increased
48,O71 shares from January 3 to
January 80 at a total of 1,845,-
O47 shares, official figures dis
close today.
This reverses the trend at the
close of last year, as the total Of
1,796,976 shares on January 8
represented a drop of 77,565 shares
from December 27, 1882.
An increase of 2,968 shares in
the short interest on New York
Curb Exchange since January 8
was disclosed. The total being
39,602 shares on January 30. Dur
ing the period covered, 2,468,876
shares were traded in.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
AY GU 7
HIT BY WEIR

Further wage cuts in the steel
industry we're stremuously op-
posed by Ernest T. Weir, chair
man of the board of National
Steel Corporation, in an inter-
view. Referring to rumors that
another wage cut is contemplated,
Mr.. Weir was outspoken in con-
demning the idea, declaring that
labor had done its part and that
a further reduction would only
produce decreased buying of steel.
He declared:
"SteeI manufacturers are not
justified in even considering
any further liquidation of labor.
1t would be unfair.
"We have gone, if anything,
too far along those lines. 1t is
true that the capital invested
in the industry has suffered a
very heavy reduction of its
earnings but labor has cen
tainly borne its part Of the
burden.
"AnOther wage cut at this
time will not add a single ton
to the sales of steel. On the
contrary, it may be expected to
produce a decrease in sales, for
buyers will tend to withhold
purchases in the hope of still
further concessions"
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
November Rail Loss
Near Double in Year

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission reports that 1865 Class
railroads, including II switching
and terminal companies, sustained
a net loss of $9,975,52O after taxes
and charges in November, against
a net loss of $5,212,095 in the
same month Of 1881.
For IL months ended Novem-
ber 80 last. net loss was $156, 188,,
907 after taxes and charges, com,
pairing with net income of $104,,
915,409 in first II months Of 1891.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
NeW York City Bank
Stocks Drop in Week

New York City bank stocks
during the past week decreased
in aggregate value by $31, 100000
or 1.8 per cent. The 16 leading
issues, according to Holt, Rose &
Troster, were valued at the close
of the week at $1,772,511,0 900,
which compares with $1,804,271,-
900 at the close of the pervious
week.
The average yield of the 16
stocks is now 5.66 per cent COM
pared with 5.56 per cent on
January o. The current market
value is 1.15 times their known
book value against III on Janu-
ary 27.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
SHORT SELLING
i TIPS STOCKS
DOWNWARD !.
By LESLIE GOULD


NEW YORK, Feb. UNS0
The stock market continued to
move lower under a steady drib-
BILE of short selling and nquida.
ton in a dull session today.
Rubber shares under the leader.
ship Of Goodyear were the out
standing weak spots in the list.
Goodyear Dips Point
Goodyear lost l point, dropping
to a new low for the movement
below IL, and the strong spon-
sorship this stock has been re-
ceiving appeared to have dried
up completely.
Motor shares were mixed with
Auburn and Chrysler ruled frac-
tionally lower, while General
Motors lowered around Satur-
days close as traders held off
pending the dividend meeting
this afternoon.
The weakness in the railroad
shares was the most bearish in
fluence under which the market
labored through the forenoon
session. Union Pacific lost /
point, Lackawanna, New York
Central and others suffered lesser
losses.
a.- Gold Shares Firm
Gold shares continued firm
under the leadership of Home
stake, which ran UP more than
a point.
Outside markets were mixed
with bonds and cotton weak,
while wheat rallied from "a to
" cent a bushel.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
Standard Brands
Profits Increased

Standard Brands, Incorporated
a merger of food companies in
cluding the Fleischmann's Yeast,
Chase & Sanborn, and Royal
Baking Powder companies reports
for the IL months of 1892 net
earnings of $15,OO1, ,491 applicable
to the parent company, after all
charges, including preferred diVi-
dends.
This is equivalent to $1.14 per
share on the 12,645,1 1855 shares OF
common stock outstanding and
compares with $1.08 per share in
1881 on 12,644,313 shares.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
BERLIN TRANSIT BONDS.

Speyer & Co., as fiscal agents,
announce that there have been
purchased and cancelled through
the semi-annual sinking fund,
$314,000 bodS of the Berlin Elec-
trio Elevated and Underground
Railways Co. 30-year first mort,
gage 612 per cent loan due 1855.
Out of an original issue of $15,,
100000 bonds, there remain out.
standing $12,811 900 bonds.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
Colombia Limits
Platinum Export

Exports Of platinum from Co.
lombia, South America, worlds
second largest producer of this
precious metal, will be limited to
those licensed by the Board of
Control. according to a govern
ment decree quoted by the Co.
lombian consulate general in New
York.
No platinum may be exported
from Colombia except via the
ports of Cartagena, Buenaven-
tura, Turbo and Tumaco.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
Good Business
News Items

January auto sales in De-
trOit and Cincinnati better
than last year.
New York textile and
clothing trade employment
gains reported.
New York Life Co. assets
increased $2O,977,152 in 1882.
Pig iron output up last
week, against loss year ago,
says magazine Steel.
National Cash Register Or
derS in January best in
three months.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
DAIRY PRODUCTS

CHICAGO. Feb. G.N.sl- Butter
6,752 tubs: steadier; old cars 12; new
Z; creamery extras and standards
1880: extra firsts 1f61SHc; firsts
154 @15&c: packing stock 1Zc; specials
176171ac.
Eggs-832O cases; steadlier' old cars
10; new 10; ordinary current receims
11hc; fresh graded extra ftrsts' less
than cars 12tac; cars 13c: flesh graded
frists. less than cars 12c; cars 12hc;
dirties 1Ohc: checks 9AC.
Cheese-Horns and daisies ga a Zoe;
twins 9h n 9tzc; prints 90 6B1Oc.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

bulk, s3@a5o; heavy, $8@S45; med
ium, $3,2OQ3.55; light, 1925 03.55;
light lights. s8.159S5O: packing sows,
S2.65@3; pigs, s3@3.4O; holdovers'
1000.
.Cattle-11, 600; 25c higher. Calves,
1900: steady. Beef steers: Good and
choice. s5.5O@725; common and med
js% usfss! ssrinss $40 eo1S yS
$235&S75; bulls, $2.5O63.75; calves,
SA5O07So; feeder steers. S3.5o@525;
stocker steers. 1905; stocker COW and
heifers, $2.5O03S0.
sher-15, 900; csc higher: medium
and choice lambs, $5.2506.25; culls and
common, $3.5O@4.75; yearlngs, $4@5;
common and choice ewes, $1.25@2.75;
feeder lambs, $4.509525.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
CLOTH MARKET

NEW YORK. Feb sD.-The
coarse yarn cloths market opened the
new week today with moderate activity
on print cloths and carded broadCloths
for quick shipment and with some
spirited bidding for later deliveries at
the same prices which was unsuccessful
A number of Centers had cleaned out
all available production for February on
some styles and were not selling fu-
lures, so that they were virtually out
of the market
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
FACTORY OUTPUT

While believing that definite
recovery in factory output is now
in slow progress, the Alexander
Hamilton Institute does not look
for recovery to the 1929 level un-
I'll 1926, If then.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
WOOL MARKET

NEW YORK Feb GN.s) Wool
quiet, domestic fleece. unwashed Ohio
and PENNSYLVANIA. 13A@21. Domestic
pulled, secured basis, 33Q41. Domestic,
Texas, clean basis 33045. Domestic
territory. clean hasis S3 m46.
The Washington times., 1933-02-06
NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK Feb. U.N.SD. .-Linseed
oil per lb IL car lots Turpentine, firm
4O. Rosin, firm. common, 290.