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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Cotton Strikers of
South BIackIiSted
Through NRA Edict
Protests Made Against
Decision for the
Stretch-Out
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Direct
demands for investigation of the
National Cotton Textile Boards
decision in the strike at Brookside
Cotton Mill in Knoxville, Tennes-
see, have been received by President
Roosevelt, N. r. A. Administrator
General Hugh S. johnson, Secretary
OF Labor Perkins, Chairman Wag-
ner of the National Labor Board
and William Green of the American
Federation of Labor.
The Board recently ordered the
several thousand strikers to 90 back
to work under the very same con-
ditions-including terrific stretch
out and wages reduced below the
pre-code levels-against which they
had struck. The decision said strik-
ers on the payroll when the strike
began would be taken back.
.. d. Lewis, secretary of the
local union of the United Textile
Workers "a. F. of L. into which
the Brookside workers organized.
wrote to officials here that the
workers voted "to comply with the
decision, pending further adjust
ments," but that it is now evident
that it is Every unlikely that the
majority of the strikers will ever
get back to work on their jobs"
THE company is using the of
ficers Of the law, and their own
gate-keepers, to prohibit the strik-
ers from applying at the office for
their jobs" the letter said, "tell-
ing them either that they have no
jobs, or that if they are ever needed,
they will be sent for. The inten-
tons are obviously to get rid of
the leaders and potential leaders of
our organization so that there will
be no representatives of the en-
ployes to keep check on any viola
lions of the code, placing the com
pany in a position to take advantage
of those employees who are taken
back.
We are convinced that further
steps are necessary before a final
adjustment is reached"
The letter said the workers voted
to comply with the decision sowing
to the fact that our representatives
"a. F. OF L. International represen-
tatives) had promised to abide by
it. 1t also declared that although
the workers had appealed to the
Cotton Textile Board, before the
strike was called, Chairman Robert
Bruere of the Board held a con-
ference with Brookside officials in
Boston, but failed to respond direct
to the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

and the consumers. 1t contemplates
raising the purchasing power of
farm commodities while pro-
tecting the consumer against ex-
tortion-s
We are even treated to "revoIu
tionary" observation that
ut may he necessary TO review
very critically the influence of ex-
cessiye profits on our economic
life"
And there is even frowning at
"the laws that govern the distri-
button Of income which cause
polarization OF wealth and poverty,
a piIing up OF purchasing power at
one end of the social scale"
But
Professors, distributors and
others, however, hold strong
position In the economic system.
-. In seeking the cooperation of
professors and distributors in ar
rangements to pay increased prices
to farmers. the administration must
allow these groups a profit"
Who Gets the Spread?
Mr.. Wallace is very eloquent on the
subject OF the processing tax and
other measures designed to raise
the income Of the farmers, but when
it comes to measuring the actual in
crease in the income, the supposed
Of the condition OF the
farmers, the Secretary of Agriculture
is found mumbling that
I'VE cannot Judge what is essen
tally a longtime program from its
initial results"
eventually most of our raw
material prices should rise to the
extent to which gold in the dollar
Is reduced. IL may take certain
products a year, or even several
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Food Prices Forced Up and Manufacturers,
Distributors, Grain Spectators, Railroad
and Bankers Profit By It

and figures in the Report, which
points out that the farm mortgag,
indebtedness in 1928 amounted t.
SO 500, 10000 and that the reduction O
this debt by about one billion dollar,
In 1882
SIS largely the result. not Of nor
nal liquidation, but of foreclosures,
bankruptcies, and forced sales
Mortgage carrying charges alone
will take this year something like
Is per cent of the gross farm
income"
And here is another bright
feature:
Mortgage interest Is in arrears
on thousands of farms that have
not yet been brought under the
hammer"
mot yet but presumably there is
hope" of bringing also these thous-
ands of farms under the hammer
Just give the New Deal a chance
Nor is the situation any brighter
with respect to taxes. Mr.. Wallace
admits that "land values fell more
rapidly than did taxes. with the re-
suit that in 1882 taxes amounted to
nearly three times as much as
in 1919" To be sure, there were some
reductions in taxes, but
"thc average tax reductions,
though substantial, have been very
unevenly distributed among tax
payers. Many have had no reduc-
tons from the 1929 level"
1t would be inconvenient, OF course,
for Mr.. Wallace to tell the whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

| years fully TO reflect the change
Yet some of the results Of the 'Nep
DEAL have been very definite and
very quick in manifesting themselves,
For instance-the rise In this cost OF
living. Mr.. Wallace admits that
many commodities are sellinR 70
day at prices much higher thar
would be necessary To meet the
expense involved in raising waxes
and shortening hours"
He also admits that there Ia {. big
spread" between the prices the con :
sumers pay for farm products and
the prices the farmers receive. And
''in order that the consumer NAV
know that he is really helping zgri-
culture when he pays a little more
for milk or bread or cotton, the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration will publish facts about
spreads between consumers and
producers prices
Yet this information Is very conspi-
cuous by its absence In the Report.
Only by indirection can we infer from
it, that the manufacturers. distribu-
tors, grain spectators, railroads and
bankers get the lions share Of the
increase in food prices. The report
admits that in the past
manufacturers and distributors
took a steadily increasing share Of
the consumers dollar. In the
case of milk, the share increased
from S. to e2 per cent, in the case
of bread--from n to 81 per cent
Now, if the income from dairy prod
ucts this year should equal that of
1882 cf all goes weld, you can figure
out for yourself who has benefited
from the increase in the retail price
OF milk Certainly not the dairy
farmeri
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Fundamental Fact Is
N.R.A. Helps Bosses
Against Workers"
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureas)

Daily Worker Washington Bureaa)
WASHINGTON, d. O., Dec. IT.
The NR.A. has fired Mabel Byrd, the
Negro-problems expert, first jim
Gre Jed and then stynied in her work
OF gathering statistics on the effects
OF the New Deal on the Negro. Fri
day was her last day with the
NR.A.
Miss Byrds explanation, given to
the Daily Worker, Isl
It goes back to the fundamental
fact that the N. r. A. never had any
intention, nor has it any now, Of
disturbing the unjust relations exist
ing between capital and labor. I in
sisted upon getting at these funda-
mentals. have no doubt it was not
appreciated
1t is also true that the N r. A.
has no intention Of attacking special
Negro problems at their base.
AS for the official reasons given
me, Victor Szeliski, Acting Assistant
Chief Of the Division of Planning and
Research, in which was a unit,
number 10, informed me verbally two
weeks ago that the special problems
which had been the province Of my
unit, that is. Negro problems, were
not within the function of the divi-
sion and therefore after December Is,
unit 10 would be discontinued"
Protests against the action have
been made in kilograms from the
Joint Committee on National Re-
coVery and the National Organization
for the Advancement of Colored
People. They have been ignored.
They were sent to Secretary OF Com
1lercc Roper, who recently acquired
2 special Negro a6~'sor" for trade
matters: and to N. r. A. Admins
traitor General Hugh g. Johnson.
Since she came to Washington last
August from the University of Chi
csso. Miss Byrd has been waging
fight in the N. r. A. against personal
determinations aimed at her end
against general determinations
directed a. Negroes under the N. r
A. She was denied an Office for
four weeks, during which she was
N--IStNAASN- Az o va llC- IA WllkCil
census workers already had been jim
croTeJ. A special study Of Negro
pros.'enns in the field was called off
because Johnson decided it would be
'urepos5erous" TO have it made by a
Negro. So Miss Byrd's activities were
limited 70 conducting research as
well as she could here, and writing
UNDECIDED memoranda about it.
Her Reports Suppressed
Thee memoranda, however. told a
damning story OF the increased
burdens Of Negroes under the New
Deal--of special determinations in
the eject Of N. r. A. codes. OF whole
sale and still rapidly increasing dis
Placement OF Negroes by whites dur
ing the economic crisis, OF deliberate
Gnd concerted violations Of codes and
intimidation of Negroes to prevent
their even attempting to organize and
f1h-..
X naturally viewed the problems
frcn> a scientific basis" Miss Byrd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Wallace Argues Applying the Agriculture

years. The stability not merely
OF agriculture but also of business
hung in the balance The de-
preston robbed the farmers of their
independence and thereby
weakened the foundation of our
whole economic system"
BY describing this situation in the
past tense, Mr.. Wallace seeks to
create the impression that the trouble
is over and that NOW it can be told.
But when he takes up the various
aspects of agriculture, he cannot help
admitting that the situation today is
little, II at ALL better than it was in
March. The present facts, as adj
mitted by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, completely destroy the illusion
of an improvement in the situation
and show that Mr.. Wallace's past
tense is not-so-subtle subterfuge.
Let us quote from the Report:
"One out Of seven rural families
now receives relief"
"As to the results of the whole
campaign (of cotton crop reducing)
1t is too early to speak. The
situation in the cotton belt remains
critical Our emphasis).
"A fair exchange value flor farm
products) at this writing is not In
sight" tOur emphasis.
Farm incomes from livestock
products and from poultry and eggs
in 1888 seems likely TO be about the
same as it was in 1882"
IF improvement continues to the
end of the year, the gross income
from the dairy products should
equal that of 1882"
"Some farmers, notably the beef
cattle men, lost purchasing power
between March and October"
There are more OF such tell-ale facts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Auto Workers News
Becomes Bi-Weekly
Improved Issue Has
New Features

DETROIT. - With its new issue,
dated Dec. 10, the Auto Workers
News, organ of the militant Auto
Workers Union, begins to appear
every two weeks. In the past the
paper has appeared irregularly.
The decision to issue the Auto
Workers News every two weeks was
made by the National Executive
Board Of the union as part Of a
rwo-months organization drive it has
launched. 1t was felt that in order
to give leadership to the automobile
workers Of this country in face of
the attacks being made against them
by the powerful auto corporations, a
fighting paper. appearing every two
weeks, was essential.
The new issue Of the Auto Work
ers News is greatly improved in con-
tent and appearance. 1t contains
news from workers in all the lead
ing automobile plants. including an
article exposing an increase in speed
up of SIS per cent in one department
in the Ford River Rouge plant. A
new feature is a column Of Facts for
Auto Workers; the leading editorial
is on the Scottsboro case. The issue
also contains the call for the United
Front Auto Workers Conference, to
be held in Detroit Dec. IT.
A. 3. Maql, former editor of the
Michigan Worker, has become editor
Of the Auto Workers News, working
with a committee Of automobile
workers that has been set UP. The
paper sells for cents a copy;
bundle orders at 1 cent a copy can
be secured from the Auto Workers
Union, 42l0 woodward Ave, room is,
Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Detroit Threatens
to Close Schools
w orkers Dem a n d
Funds from State

DETROIT, Dec. l7.-With the
schools of Detroit threatened with
closing in March. the movement is
growing to compel the state govern
ment to appropriate funds to keep
them going.
A mass meeting has ben called by
the Save Our Schools Emergency
Committee for Monday, Dec 10, at
8 pm. in Northern High School,
Woodward at Clairmont, to consider
action to prevent the shutdown. The
Emergency Committee consists Of
the Highland Park Classroom Teach
ers, the Classroom Teachers of De-
troit, Northwest Detroit Co-opera-
tive, students groups, parents and
other groups.
The movement is receiving the sup
port Of the Communist Party, the
Trade Union Unity League, and the
Auto Workers Union. Various A. F.
Of L. unions, among them the Typo
graphical Union, have also declared
their support Of the struggle to pre-
vent the closing of the schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
~ NATHANIEL BUCHwALD

Ons is almost tempted to present
without comment the telling passages
OF Mr.. Wallace's report to the Presi-
dent. Despite the opposite intention
OF It's author, the report is damning
indictment of the New Deal slavery
embodied for the farmers in the
A.A.A. agricultural Adjustment Act)
and In the initiation policies of the
Roosevelt administration. Though
Mr.. Wallace is mainly concerned with
purveying his "baloney' ON the Roose-
welt farm policy, he, nevertheless,
blurts out, here and there, a few
significant facts about the present
condition Of the American farmers,
and these facts completely belle the
claims OF the New Deal demagogues
that the farmers today are better off
than they we're before the present
administration embarked OH its pro-
gram Of crop reduction, initiation and
slavery codes.
Mr.. Wallace Resorts to a Grammatical
Trick
Writing In the comforting past
tense, the Secretary of Agriculture
thus characterizes the condition of
agriculture in the United States:
Agriculture, in short. was very
sick, and the disease from which IL
suffered, threatened also the entire
community. Ruinous low farm earn
ings tended to separate farm opera
tion from farm ownership and to
degrade farmers into virtual serf-
dom. The collapse Of farm prices
caused heavy loss in farm valua-
lions, in which farmers equities
were destroyed. Average mort
gage debt per acre was nearly three
times greater than in the prc-war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
100 From Pittsburgh
Steel Mills Meet to
Plan Work in Unions
Death Rate Growing
Under NRA Regime

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 80.
Death rates Of 50 American
cities with a total population Of
81 millions have risen in the past
4 weeks above the rates for the
corresponding period Of 1882 is
shown in the Weekly Health IN
dex (4:145; Nov. 18) Of the Bureau
Of Census.
Negro infant mortality for the
week OF Nov. 4 rose in Z out of
the 10 cities which sent in a Ne
gro infant death rate. In several
Of these cities 16 to Is per cent
Of the Negro babies died within
month Of birth.
This increase definitely shows
the hardships imposed upon the
workers and especially upon the
Negro masses by Roosevelt and
his N. r. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Force POstponement
of Small Home Owner
Eviction in MineOla

NEW YORK.--The mass pressure
of indignant workers Of Mineola,
Long Island, frightened Sheriff Wade
to postpone the threatened eviction
yesterday of Waclaw Wisnieski from
his home because Of inability to pay
$50 in taxes and interest.
When the sheriff saw the temper
Of the crowd modified by the Work
ers EX-Servicemen's League and the
Unemployed Council, he announced
the eviction would be postponed until
five days later.
The W.ES.L and Unemployed
Council are rnobilizing the workers
in Mtneola to prevent the eviction.
Protest kilograms should be sent to
Judge Johnston, Mineola, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Three Coo. Bows KILLED

COUDERSFORT, Pa.-Two young
workers in the Civilian Conserpa-
ton Corps camp at Conrad. Pa,
were killed, and Is others were
hurt, when C-C.C. truck over
turned near here. Saturday night.
Three Of the injured youths may
die. physicians say.
The dead were. Theodore Engler,
Is, and Marion Dow, Is, Three Of
the injured, who have fractured
skulls are as yet unidentified, while
the ether injured youths names
are not as yet known, for they are
all new recruits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Over 200 Families in
McKees Rocks Order
Anniversary Daily
McKees Rocks, Pa.
Dec. IL, 1898.

McKees Rocks, Pa.
Dec. IA, 1898.
Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
Workers in McKees Rocks hail
the Tenth Anniversary Of the
Daily Worker by canvassing house
to house for readers for the
special Anniversary edition of Jan.
9Th. We have already received
orders from over 200 houses we
have canvassed.
We are determined to have
orders for more than 500 copies
in this little town. This will help
real development OF the labor
activities in building our Union,
Unemployed Councils, and in or
ganizing both Negro and white
workers in our community.
We hope all towns and cities
adopt the same method of wider
distribution of our paper.
Comradely yours,
M. C. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Jail for Murder, Death
for Self Defense-AH
Depends on Skin Color

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-May Han
son, SO, white, of Rockford. N, was
sentenced by an Illinois jury today
to IA years in prison for numbering
her divorced husband. She poured
can of gasoline on him and then
set fire to him as he was sitting in
his car.
On Dec. IL, in Jackson, Miss, Anna
May Harmon, a 17-year-old colored
girl, was sentenced to hang when she
killed her husband in sef-defense,
after he had attacked and threatened
to kill her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Author Found Burned 10 Death

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.-Lonis 10
seph Vance, popular author, was
burned to death today in his apart
ment when he fell asleep with.
cigarette in his hand and set fire
to the chair in which he was sitting,
His writings did much to popu-
lariSe the gentlemaniy and roman
tic type of criminal, whose crimes
and plumbers were usually justified.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Schooner Burns in North
Atlantic

HALIFAX, N. s., Dec. 1.-THE
fishing schooner Ellen Marshall was
burned to the waters edge yesterday
near here. resulting in the death of
at least three men. Nineteen of the
crew have been saved and rescue par
ties are seeking four men who are
missing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
IS FROM ILLINOIS UNIT

EVANSTON, Ill.-Unit No. 401,
sent contribution of IS to help
raise the $4,000 needed to assure
the immediate existence of the
Daily Worker, and to help meet
the expenses of the new. modern
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
2 Die in Kentucky Hotel Fire

MORGANFIELD KY, Dec. IT,
Two lost their lives and three were
severely burned when the Capital
Hotel here was enveloped by fire The
damage was estimated at $45,0 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
Machine Gun Bandits Hold
Up Store

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 17.-Seven
bandits, armed with machine guns,
held up the offices Of Butler Bros,
here today and escaped with $1,000
in cash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18
NeWs Briefs
Unemployed Worker Commits
Suicide in Hotel

KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon, Dec.
17.-Frank Hubbard, an unemployed
worker, respondent at not being able
to get job, committed suicide at the
Merrill Hotel here yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-18

X naturally viewed the problems
frcnl scientific basis" Miss Byrd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-04-27
(Mar. 30-May A.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That default has occurred in the con-
ditions of that certain mortgage,
dated the fifth day of April, 1927, ex-
ecuted by William Thomas Croft, a
bachelor. as mortgagor, to The Trav-
elers Insurance Company, a corpora
ton. as mortgage, filed for record in
the office of the Register Of Deeds in
and for the County of Redwood, and
State of Minnesota. on the 9Th day of
April, 1927, at $40 o'clock P. NJ, and
recorded in Book 30 Of Mortgage Rec
ords, page Al; that no acton or pro-
ceeding has been instituted at law to
recover the debt secured by said
mortgage, or any part thereof, that
there is due and claimed to be due
upon said mortgage, including inter-
est to date hereof, the sum OF Eleven
Thousand One Hundred Fifty-six and
24f1OO ($11, 1o6.24) Dollars consisting
of Eleven Thousand Twenty three and
54I1u0 ISL, O23.54) Dollars prime; pal
and interest and the further sum of
One Hundred Thirty-two and 70l100
($132.70) Dollars taxes for 1881 and
penalty thereon paid by said mort
gage, and interest thereon, and that
pursuant to the power of sale therein
contained, said mortgage will be fore
closed and the tract OF land lying and
being in the County of Redwood,
State of Minnesota, described as fol-
lows. to-wit: -
The Northwest Quarter (NRA)
of Section Twenty-Five (22), in
Township One Hundred Ten
(110) North, Range Thirty-nine
(39l West Of the Fifth Principal
Meridian Except One-half (h)
acre used for Town Hall pur-
poses), containing in all 1914
acres, more or less. according to
the Government survey thereof,
will be sold by the sheriff of said
county at public auction on the 18th
day of May. 1888. at ten o'clock A. NJ,
at the front door of the Redwood
County Court House in the city of
Redwood Falls in said county and
state, to pay the debt then secured by
sad mortgage and taxes, if any, on
said premises and the costs and dis
bursements allowed by law, subject to
redemption within twelve months
from said date of sale.
Dated March 29th, 1893.
THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE
COMPANY. Mortgage.
Strong, Myers & Covell,
Attorneys for Mortgage,
600 Security Building,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 39-6ts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-04-27
april 27-May Ally
CITATION FOR HEARING ON
PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE

Il
Estate of Donald Mckenzie
State of Minnesota, County of Red
wood, SIS. IN PROBATE COURT.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of
Donald Mckenzie, Decedent;
The State of ~ nnesota to all per-
sons interested in the granting of
administration of the estate Of said
decedent: The petition of Emma Nc
kenzie having been filed in this court,
representing that Donald Mckenzie
then a resident of the County of Red
wood, Safe of Minnesota, died in
testa,e on the 18th day of March,
1882, and praying that letters of adj
ministration be granted to E. N.
Montgomery and the court having fix
ed the time and place for hearing
said petition.
THEREFORE. YOU, AND EACH
OF YOU, are hereby cited and re-
quired to show cause, if any you
have, before this court at the Probate
Court Rooms in the Court House in
the City of Redwood Falls, in the
County of Redwood, State Of Mime
sofa on the 9Th day of June, 1888, at
10 o'clock a. M, why said petition
should not be granted.
Witness, the Judge of said Court,
and the Seal of said Court, this Goth
day of April, 1888.
A. r. A. LAUDON,
Probate Judge.
George A. Barnes,
Attorney for Petitioner,
Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
(Court Seal) 43-3ts.