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Evening star., 1933-11-12
TOBACCO AVERAGES
HIGHEST SINCE 1929
Virginia Sales in October Total
1927, ,260 Pounds, at $14.21
Per Hundred.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, November Ito
bacco sold on Virginia markets during
October brought the highest average
price obtained since 1929, the United
States Department of Agriculture and
Virginia Department Of Agriculture
market service reported today.
Total sales for the month amounted
to lf.227. .260 pounds at an average price
of s14.21 per 100 pounds. as compared
with sales of 7,834.922 pounds at an
average Of S8.94 In the same month last
year, the report showed The total paid
for the weed last month was 81 SOS, 100,
as compared With S699, 926 In October,
1892.
Quality OF the tobacco this year was
better than that sold last year, accord
In gto warehousemens reports, which
estimator this years sales as 81 per cent
good, 40 per cent medium and % per
cent common. as compared with Is per
cent good, 36 per cent medium and 40
per cent common last year.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
BUILDING SPURRED
BY PUBLIC WORKS
F. W, Dodge Corporation Reports
October Construction Total :
Showed Big Increase.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE r.
w. Dodge Corporation reports the con-
struction industry is forging ahead
under steam fired by the quickening
effects of the Federal public works
program"
The corporation said its figures
ahowed that construction contracts
awarded during October in the 81
States east of the Rockies totaled
$l45, 1857 ZOO.
This is a larger volume than has
been reported in any month since
November. 1881. with the single ex-
ception Of the May, 1882, total, which
exceeded last months total by less
than 100000 the corporation said.
"Of as great Importance is the fact
that the October total was 35 per cent
larger than the figure of SLOT ,273, 900
reported during october, 1882"
Evening star., 1933-11-12
Dividend Actions
Slated by A. T. & T.
And Penick & Ford
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. November 11.-At
least four important dividend
meetings are slated for next
week. On Tuesday, directors of
Penick g. Ford will take action
on the payment due at this time.
Wednesday win be the big day
with American Telephone direc-
tors scheduled to act on the quar-
terly payment of s2.25, then due.
and American Sugar Refining's
board Is also meeting.
The latter company. 1t is be-
lieved, may act to retire the re-
naming s3,515,000 of its bonds
outstanding of an original issue
of $4,000. 900, issued in 1922.
Texas Gulf Sulphur directors
act Thursday.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL
ALCOHOL NET DECLINES
Rx the Associated rress

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November n.--Ameri-
can Commercial Alcohol net profits for
the quarter ended September 80
amounted TO SIS, ,4o4, equal to 80 cents
a share, compared with sl60,4l7 in the
third quarter last year.
For nine months net profit was
$218,5i3. equal to 80 cents. o share,
compared with s4o4,622 In the drst
nine months of 1882.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
SEGREGATION OF STOCK
TRADING Is DELAYED
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, November 1l.-Segre-
cation of the round lot (l00-share
units) and the odd lot (less than 100
share units) brokerage business under
New York Stock Exchange ruling Of
October 10 has been deferred until
January /. 1t was to have become ef-
fective November Is, but the Govern
ing Committee of the Exchange is said
to have approved postponement in
order to give brokers additional time to
adjust their affairs. The effect on the
rule viii be 10 preserve The "odd lots
business for firms which specialize In
such transactions. 1t viii also keep
them out of the round lot" business.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
STATE AND MUNICIPAL
FINANCING AT S12,617,896
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 1l.-New
State and municipal financing scheduled
the Daily Bond Buyer. The largest
offering is a S4,l00.0 900 block of Long
Beach school districts of California 5
per cent bonds, tenders on which VIII
be received Monday.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
FAVORABLE DIVIDEND
CHANGES AGAIN TOTAL s18
BY the Associated Press.

0y tue AsSotlhteu fTe88.
NEW YORK, November if.-Eiaht-
cen favorable dividend changes were
recorded this week, the same number
as in each Of the two previous weeks.
Standard Statistics Co, reports. five
unfayorable reyisions occurred as
against eight the week before. seven
dividends were resumed, six were ir-
creased. four extras were voted and
one Initial payment was made.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
COAT AND SUIT PRICES FIRM

NEW YORK, November II 0P.-This
week has seen an appreciably flrmer
price attitude In the coat and suit
trade. Manufacturers who had been
willing to shade prices 50 to 81 or more
prices.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
sEABoARD TO BUY RAILS.

NEW YORK, November IL Cpl. pl.-The
Seaboard Air Line Railway IS planning
to buy 1900 tons Of steel rails, on
cials Of the company said.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
CURB SHORTS INCREASE.

|. NEW YORK, November IL 09--Ths
short interest on the. New York Curb
October 70 total Of 44,el3 shares on
October o..
Evening star., 1933-11-12

1Copyright, 1881
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Seize Furniture
OF Unemployed for
Property Taxes
BY Negro Worker Correspondent

BY Negro Worker Correspondent
NORFOLK, Val am the mother
of two grown boys and I live in a
three-room shack on Princess Ann
Road. Both of my sons have been
out of work for over year. Some
times 1 get days work with some
well-off white people, but they don't
pay much because they have to have
swell cars and play golf.
For the last three years have re-
ceived a notice from the city that l
must pay taxes on the junk that 1
have picked up here and there so
that we could have something to eat
and sleep on. Several times the col
lector called at my house and raised
hell about it. 1 told him that would
pay the tax but that 1 didn't have the
money. But he wouldn't let up on me
a bit.
The other day I received notice
that the city was going to sell my
furniture for the taxes, leaving us
with nothing to sleep or eat on.
They want taxes from me but still
they won't give me or my boys de-
cent wages or work so that we can
pay them. And if we do pay the taxes
it don't do us much good. No lights
on Church st. at night. Most of the
streets in the colored district are I'M
paved. The houses that they charge
SO much rent for are nothing more
than shacks.
Our preachers tell us every Sun
day that God will take care of every
thing and for us not to worry They
been telling us that for 70 years. But
he lives swell-off of our money.
We women in the Negro and white
working class districts have got to
organize and fight against the awful
conditions We've got to follow the
examples laid down by the Unem-
ployed Council and the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

on the proletarian children and their
fathers and mothers.
The workers Childrens Week is a
rallying cry for struggles against the
cruelties of the capitalist system to-
ward the children. 1t is rallying
cry for struggle against the exploita-
ton of children, against mass star
walton of workers children by
capitalism.
Every workers organization owes
closest attention to the interests of
the workers children. There is not
a proletarian purpose around which
workers organize that does not also
touch the lives of the workers
children.
Therefore every workers organiza-
ton has the duty to make itself con-
scious of this connection of its pur-
pose with the interests of the
workers children. Every workers
organization has the duty to organize
its own members for efforts on be-
half of the proletarian children.
Every workers organization has the
duty to organize workers children
around its own endeavors.
Failure to fulfill this duty means
to play into the hands of the enemy
of the working class. That enemy,
the bourgeoisie, does concern itself
with the children. Its schools, its
movies, its books and magazines, its
churches, its scout organizations, ETC.,
pump our children's heads full of
capitalist ideas and ideals These
ideals evolve around the accumula-
ton of capitalist property. Such ac-
emulation, in turn, costs the very
happiness and blood and the lives of
the working masses and their chill
dren. These capitalist ideals there
fore are part of the chains which tie
the working class to the juggernaut
of capitalist exploitation.
Our task is to break these chains.
When we neglect our duty toward
our children, we on the contrary help
to forge these chains.
Which militant workers organiza-
ton would consciously open itself to
the accusation that it helps to forge
the letters which chain its own
children to capitalist exploitation?
Yet many of our workers organiza-
lions unconsciously help to do exactly
this. They do this by complete in
activity in the field of workers chill
drens organization and workers
children's activity and struggle. They
do it by leaving the development of
the minds of their children to the
capitalist schools, churches, movies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
50 a Week Is Top
Pay At Dangerous
Job in Laundry
BY Negro Worker Correspondent

BY Negro Worker Correspondent
NORFOLK, Val am a presser in
the Sunlight Laundry. Our work is
dangerous. There is not a one of us
colored women that are working the
irons that cannot show great burns
and scars all over our arms and even
on our breasts.
I've known women ruined for life
by these burns which sometimes be-
come poisoned and full of infection.
There is not one of the so pressers
that is free from these burns.
And how much do you think we
make working at maddening speed
for 45 hours a week? From 81 to SO a
week. We are actually working harder
now and making less than when we
did not have the MIRA. fastened to
every window in the factory.
We are all saying to ourselves
what kind of a bird is thisP 1t is a
strict rule on the part of the COM
pany not to let any presser make
more than SO a week. Before the
MIRA. eagle flew over our heads we
made $40 and sometimes more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

there was no great shopping" prob
lem.
Grandmother had fourteen kids
and lost only one. That was con-
sidered pretty good record in those
days. So the diet must have been
not too ruinous. The point Is they
got ENOUGH to eat. The present
Boards Of Health and some people
seem to get more excited about a
slightly unbalanced, meal or "un-
sanitary" bulk Qoose } foods than
about the fact that workers don't
get enough of ANYTHING to eat.
When I was in the city with my
parents, Of course, I did not fare so
richly. If Pop" got tight before
coming home on payday, when he did
have a job, we got "ornneal
mush.
When l got to the seventh and
/ eighth grades, all the little girls went
each Wednesday to cooking school
and all the little boys went to Manual
Training to learn carpentry. 1 was
furious. didn't want to go to cook
ing class and piddle around with
sauces and gravies; I wanted to go to
Manual Training and saw wood and
hammer nails.
So if am not such a hot cook, it
strikes me as one more good argu-
ment for Communism. might have
been good carpenter. Under Com
munism a girl can choose.
Eventually I got interested in the
cooking. My mother worked in a
factory at SO a week. She rented
half house and sublet three rooms.
After school kept this clean and
did the marketing and cooking. In
another city l cooked for the two of
us until I finished high school. Then
l went to work, and we did not cook
much any more
Still later I helped my mother for
a summer in her little lunch stand.
| We made dinner at noon for about
eight or ten people. The rest was
mostly sandwiches.
But this is practically all the
experience have had with cooking.
Almost none with feeding children
and babies. So have been in cor
respondence with comrade who has
had such experience, and she is now
preparing some material.
| ] know quite well you cannot cook
quite the same for a lot of people
as for few. More about this later
also about really cheap dishes.
But the important thing is that all
this cooking business is not so i'm
portant. There are too many other
pressing matters to discuss in this
column. II there's going to be too
much dissension about the menus, I
shall toss them overheard and make
room for really important matters:
Women and War; Letters from Read
ers, Sewing Problems and Sex-life
under Capitalism.
Maybe that last one is funny too,
but Ill be darned if I think SO. We
have a growing army of 10000, 900
each Of single women and men, who
cannot live normal lives, marry and
have children. So what happens?
A lot of dangerous things, including
the. spread Of prostitution. disease,
and abortion. comrade doctor Is
preparing some material on this
subject
] Our column is definitely limited In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Negro Woman Urges
Stronger Fight for
Relief in Terre Haute

by Negro Worker Correspondent
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - When my
girl couldn't buy her school things,
the school board sent a woman to
i,,y-0ettec+e Sl'a came md found me
sick in bed. She asked me, couldn't
l find enough work to buy her school
things?
1t hurts me to say this, but I lost
my feet Shaving for the ruling. class.
I asked her, how did she expect
me to get a job, when there are thou
sands of people walking the streets
with two good feet and cannot find
work.
The girl went back down there,
and they threatened to send her
away When I get well and can get
enough food to get strong enough to
walk, am going down there myself.
When we had a good movement,
1 did get $40 a month through the
help of the workers. But now our
movement is broken up by the mis-
leaders.
There is still handful of us left
yet. I do wish we knew something
to do to build up a real movement
in this town so we would be able to
force relief.
Miss Ora Easley
455 N. Second st.
Editors Note: Steps are being
taken to bring about a better or
ganization in Terre Haute, and we
hope this comraoe will again be
able to join with other workers and
force the bosses to give them relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Funds for Daily Coming In
Slowly; Action Is Imperative

NEW YORK.-Only the efforts
of the most class conscious work
ers and of some of the Workers
organizations are making it at all
possible to somehow keep publish
ing the Daily Worker. On the
whole, funds are coming in so
slowly that we are facing imme-
date danger of going. back to four
pages. And then what?
The Red Front, of New York
City, brought in 1925, net pro-
ceeds of an affair it ran for the
Daily" and challenges all similar
organizations to do the same for
our "Daily."
Twenty-Five dollars was raised
by |. W. 0. Branch No. SIP at a
house party, to which members
donated refreshments. All l. w. o.
branches are urged to accept the
challenge by Branch No. SIP, to do
as much for the 'Daily"
New York District, Communist
Party, took action by rushing more
than $500 to save the daily" and
pledges to make all efforts to
raise more Immediately" How
about the other Districts?
]. Blumen, of Newark, N. j.,
turned in his fifth collection list,
his collections totaling so far $18.
Newark pledges to raise $3.50 in
stead of SITS, it's original quota.
Another Daily Worker Conference
will be held in Newark, Sunday,
Oct. Is, at Z Charlton ST., starting
l a. M, to quicken the drive. All
organizations are urged to send
DELEGATES, and all workers are in
vited to attend
The Yugo Slav Workers Club Of
New York, after winning the vic
tory in the Radnik Fund Drive
which closed Thursday, pledged to
raise $500 for the Daily" and
sent in yesterday $7.35 as start.
is YOUR NAME IN THIS RED
HONOR ROLL?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

story-books and scout organizations.
Childrens Week is the occasion to
review the activities of every militant
workers organization in the field of
children's work. 1t is the occasion to
mobilize physically and ideologi-
cally for more intense activity of the
workers organizations among the
children. Children's Week is the oc-
casion of mobilizing as many chill
dren as possible to make them con-
scious of the identity of their in
terests with that of their organized
and struggling parents.
The workers children are the most
burdened sufferers from the present
capitalist crisis At the same time
they are the most helpless. This
helplessness is not the result of their
youth. 1t is the result of the negli-
gence which worker-parents and
workers organizations show toward
the problems of the children. This
helplessness is the result of an mac
tivity of the adult workers toward
their children, an inactivity which
grows out of the capitalist theory
that the children are outside of the
class struggle and that the drawing
of the children into the problems and
activities of the class struggle is cruel
to them. According to this theory,
we owe it to our children to keep the
knowledge of the sordid cruelties of
capitalist society from them. Ac-
cording to this theory, we are to let
our children live in an imaginary
wonderland in which fairies reward
goodness and Cinderellas marry
princes.
Such an attitude toward our chill
dren, however, does not keep away
from them the sordid realities of
bankrupt capitalism. 1t does not
feed their hungry stomachs, nor does
it dress their shivering bodies. Even
the inconsistencies of these suffer-
ings, because of the occupation of
the mind of the child with fairies
and princes, does not solve any prob
lem for the child. On the contrary;
this Inconsistencies is merely the
basis of the continuation of their
misery. The first prerequisite for the
end of that misery is to make every
man, woman and child of the work
ing class conscious of it. After they
become conscious, they will fight
against it. AS long as they remain
unconscious of it, they will submit.
The capitalist theory of the treat
ment of children is based upon the
desire of capitalism to paralyze' the
children's consciousness by illusions
about fairies and the "once-upon-a
time" The duty of the working class
is to counteract this paralysis and
to awaken their children to a reai-
cation of the world in which they
live. Only then will the working
class be able to change this world
into better one
Childrens Week should be the &C.
casion on which every workers or
ganization discusses this problem of
the workers children. 1t should be
the occasion on which every workers
organization takes definite steps to
organize around itself as many chill
dren of it's own members and of the
children of the working class in gen.
eral as possible, and thereby attach
the children to the struggles of the
working class and wrest them from
the control of capitalist theology and
capitalist organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Negro Worker Nearly
Lynched for Entering
Store Through Front
BY RALPH GARRETTE
A Negro Worker Correspondent

SINPSONVILLE, N. Con Aug.
80 Negro worker, John Sherwin, was
told to get out of the City Restau-
rant. He said that he came in to
buy something. The clerk told him:
II don't give a damn what you want,
get out and go round to the back
door"
And when this worker started out
the front door, he was grabbed by
the clerk and others who were in the
place. He was beaten badly. Then he
went to have the clerk arrested.
The police told him that the clerk
ought to have killed him. He said that
he did not have any right to go into
the front door and not to do it again.
If he did he might get killed.
Those are the words that were
spoken to this Negro worker by the
police of this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

you work two days, another week
one, and sometimes if you are good
slave he will give you three.
Sometimes the boss will come to the
bench where you are working and
tear up all your work, and make you
go over all that work again. If you
will just look at him in protest he will
fire you.
Third, after 11:3o am, you can't
go to the water or the toilets. The
poor women have no place to dress,
they have to get their clothes on and
off the best way they can. It's a
strange but real sight to see women
stoop to their knees to dress and I'M
dress as the windows are low.
When you get ready to go home
the boss is standing at the door where
you have to come by and you have
got to let him look in your bag no
matter what's in there. These con-
scious robbers and bloodsuckers of
human labor always think we are
going to steal something from them.
You stem, stem, stem all day until
you stem enough for a mule to carry.
The boss who weighs the stuff with
out letting you look, shouts Sgt or
8, and God knows there must be more
than Is pounds. He might call 9 or
10 pounds sometimes-and that's only
when you have worked yourself sick
and you must have made 20 pounds.
That's how we are robbed so we don't
make 40 per cent under the MIRA.
minimum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Tells How Ruling Class
Tortures Her Mother
BY Negro Worker Correspondent

BY Negro Worker Correspondent
TERRE HAUTE, Ind am writ
ing piece ON what the ruling class
did to my poor mother in the South
some time ago. My mother went to
wash for the landlord one day and
big rain came UP and washed some
little ducks off in an old fashioned
we'll.
They wanted to tie rope around
my mother and let her down In the
well to get the ducks and she re-
fused to do SO. Here is what the damn
blcodhounds did. They hung her in
smokehouse UP by her heels and made
fire under her and smoked her.
I was small when that happened
but I will never forget it. never knew
a time would come so I could expose
1t, and this is what I am doing.
Some day hope the colored peo-
pie In the South will wake up and
organize and join the LID. They are
the only ones fighting for our rights
and the only ones to smash the Jim
Growing and the lynching terror in
the South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Millionaire Boss Grabs
Poor Workers Dollar
By a Negro Worker Correspondent

NORFOLK, Va.-For three years I
worked for big wholesaler Of this
town. did the dirtiest work and
worked long hours for the smallest
pay. Some time ago when went to
get my money on Saturday, he shook
his head sadly and looked at me with
tears in his eyes almost.
He said sadly: Jim, I've got to
take a dollar sout of your envelope
after today"
I say. why, Mr.. DR."
He answered: Business is very bad,
Jim, I've got to cut you dollar"
He was near tears, Mr.. D. was. He
put his hand up to his forehead and
the big diamond ring on his finger
almost blinded me. Maybe, it was the
ring; maybe it was the big Lincoln
car outside; maybe it was because
recalled that he had just returned
from a vacation in Cuba. Anyway, I
got mad.
said: mfr. D., you are worth thou
sands CT dollars. Why are you TAX
ing one measly dollar from a poor
man like me?"
You should have seen the express
sion on his face at that. Everybody in
the office laughed. Meanwhile I was
telling him some facts about his bust
ness, his fine home, his fine cars, and
his expensive trips.
In the end he laughed like snake
and the next week my dollar was in
my envelope At the first opportunity,
however, slle. fired me.
This is one one case in thousands.
realize that my victory was not or
ganized with other workers. We Nor
folk workers, black and white, must
organize in real fighting unions and
stamp out of existence million
Mr.. DIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

space, and all this material must
somehow be accommodated. I have
had valid criticism about the
menus, that ! do not state how many
people will be served by given dish.
I'll try to figure out something about
this.
II / thought / knew all there is to
know about the subjects to be dis
cussed in this column, I'd be too
dumb to live. l only meant to act as
a catalytic or as the mortar that
sticks the bricks together. The main
thing is to get the drinks mixed or
the house built. The column must
be steered in a revolutionary direc-
ton. SO am only the chairman of
this meeting; I'll introduce the
speakers as fast as space permits.