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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN

There may be those who regard as COM
monplace that greeting of this time of the
wear that has come down through the GEN.
turtles but The Times-News knows no more
fitting way to greet its readers and all the
people of its town and section of the coun-
try than to wish for one and all
A MERRY CHRISTMAS!
For young and old our wish is that the
Christmas season may bring real JOY and
the attainment of their most cherished de-
sires. The Times-News earnestly hopes
that Santa Claus, the incarnation of the
American Christmas spirit, will visit everH
child; and that their elders may find the
happiness they are seeking in helping to
make the children happy, in seeing their
joy, and in meditating upon the more sub
stantial things of life which are unseen.
The innocent pleasures of the Christmas
season are good and harm no one. The
evils of the season are as ugly and hateful
as the sins of any other season of the year.
Christmas should be celebrated in civil
lied and Christian way. The ideas some
people have of the way to celebrate Christ
mas are pagan ideas. Let us put these pa
gan and harmful ways of Christmas OBJ
servance out of our lives, and in spirit Of
goodwill. fellowship, benevoence, help
fulness, seek the true meaning of Christ
mas for ourselves and seek to aid others in
finding it.
There is a better spirit abroad in Hen
Jacksonville and the surrounding country
this Christmas than prevailed at this time
last year, regardless of material conditions.
Our people are coming to the end of four
years of hard experience, not only with a
brighter outlook and more hope for the
future, but with the foundation of what
has been learned through these years I'M
der their feet. They have courage and de-
termination and cheerfulness which were
sadly lacking little while ago.
Under these conditions We believe that
there will be this year larger measure of
the true Christmas spirit in the community
and the surrounding country And so The
Times-News unites with all its friends and
neighbors in wishing that all men and wo-
men and children everywhere may be
made happier and better by the expert
ences of another Christmas.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
Newspapers OPINIONS
AND THEY CALL US GOOD SPORTS

Suits for damages aggregating 100000 against
the estate of the late J. T. McCabe of this city,
growing out of automobile accident in which
Mr. McCabe himself lost his life, should give every
owner of an automobile something to think about
At least two of the men who rode with Mr. Nc
Cabe on that fateful Sunday evening September
3rd, were lifelong friends. They knew Mr.. Nc
Cabe's habits, knew all too we'll the fact that he
was a one-arm driver were familiar with his con.
duct as an automobile driver. But they gladly
availed themselves of his hospitality countless
times.
But their host smashed into another car on the
highway between Elizabeth City and Moyock, his
car turned over, all received painful injuries Mr.
MeCabe died of his own injuries. And now every
last one of the survivors is suing the estate of THEN
old friend to recover their individual damages
They asking for $4,000 all told, half Of whic
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Nlsf service sum correspondents
WASHINGTON. - The Agricul'
w tural Adjustment Administra
TONS big fight will go right on
OTIS supposed to be all over.l
Transfer Of Administrator
George n. Peek merely has cleared
the air. Now the AAA presents q
united front for strict control ant
consumer protection as we'll as
better farm prices.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
Assistant Secretary Tugwell,
Chief Counsel Frank and Con-
sumers' Counsel Howe rule the
roost. Chester Davis. the new
administrator, will follow Wal
lace's adIsce
That's bad news for the pack
erS, grain exchange operators. SUI
gar refiners, tobacco companies,
milk Ntrusts," tanners, and other
first process groups which must
SCI NHCll SOuSS anu maj hclLI =
agreements from AAA.
Transfer of other codes to lenient
NRA has left them in a sad pickle.
Some of them will have to open
their books when the secretary
wants to find out whether farmers
are receiving enough money or if
consumers a2e being gouged. The
AAA will watch their operations
closely, with power to regulate.
The AAA will veer away from
price-tiXing-eXcept m,nimums to
farmers-and toward freer cOmpe-
titiOn on the distributing end. All
of which the industries expected
the Peek influence to prevent.
Packers probably will be first
to take it on the chin. AAA liber-
ais feel the code they insist on is
pretty a1ful from both farmer
ana consumer standpointS and
whisper a readiness to license the
industry ii necessary.
Few know it, but Peek took that
lob only after insisting that he
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
|Ehringhaus Wins
Praise OF Press
The Timcs-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

Sir Walter ifotel
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.-The &C
ton of Governor j. c. B. Ehring-
hans in voting for repeal of the
e;ohteenth amendment, though
neIsonally dry and in favor of
prohibition, and then in announc,
ING how he voted after repeal had
been defeated by a majority OF
$4,000 is commended in an edi,
torial in "The Monmouth Amerl-
can" published in Long Branch,
New Jersey, which has come To
the attention of several here. The
editorial is printed under the head
ing. New High Mark Of Courage
Set by Governor Ehringhaus OF
North Carolina" and reads in part
as follows:
governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
of North Carolina. who had al
ways been in favor Of prohibition.
at the recent election there on
ratification of the repeater of the
eighteenth amendment, voted
without having announced how ne
would vote. He maintained 81.
lence throughout the campaign, q
very heated campaign, because he
had such fine sense Of proprlety
that he did not think, as head OF
the state government, he should
undertake to influence voters who
should use their own judgment.
"Then, after majority of 49,,
600 had been rolled up against
repeal. he told how he had voted
He had voted for repeal because
the Democratic national platform
had pledged it and because he re,
garded the pledge as binding. OF
course this had no reference to
the retention of state prohibition
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23

vice are 80 Little Town of Bethle-
hem,' Joy To The World" and
1T Came Upon the Midnight
Clear"
These songs have been used in
The Times-News annual Christmas
service. published in this issue of
the paper in order that those at
tending the service may have cop
les of the carols to be sung.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23
FIRST WEDDING IN 3s YEARS

RAID ROAD FLAT. CAL
Wedding bells rang for the first
time in this historic Mother Lode
town in SO years when Ruth
Brandt and Cecil Dennis Harrison
were married here recently. The
last wedding was performed in
1SQ5
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-23

The only sound money that interests all
of US is the kind that rings true when You
PUNK it down on the counter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27

all his energy to smash the unity Of
the workers, and to an extent sue
ceeded. This proves beyond doubt,
that his only reason for entering the
united trent movement at all. was to
destroy the unity of the workers and
TO pave the way fer new effort by
the City officials to put over the re-
lief cut.
BE On Guard!
Cannon's example therefore falls
flat. These experiences prove, first,
that the reformist leaders refused to
come into the struggle for the work
ers' needs until they are forced in
by the masses themselves, and sec
ond, after they come in, these lead
ers have to be closely watched to
prevent them from disrupting The
unity which the workers themselves
have established.
This Chicago Experience, empha-
sizes the need of watchfulness to
prevent the Socialist and renegade
especially Cannon himself,
from disrupting the workers fighting
front.
And in New York. the three rene
gade groups not only want to bring
in such Socialist" leaders as Thomas
and Hillquit, who by their acts have
shown themselves to be no different
than Borders, but they propose to
bring into the workers movement,
Tammany racketeers such as Sulli-
van and Ryan, the leaders of the A.
FL. central bodies here. who have
been the tools of the Wall Street
bankers in stopping relief appropria-
tons
Clearly. the policies OF Cannon,
Weisbo-d and Lifschitz are destruc-
tive policies. They are designed to
hamper, and IL possible to destroy the
Albany conference.
Reject Renegades Plans
The workers must decisively reject
these policies, as was done by the
representatives to the preliminary
conference last Sunday. Casting
these leaders aside, the workers, rely
ing upon their own mass strength,
and with real revolutionary leader
ship, should go forward with the pre-
oarations for really broad mass
in Albany, where fight
ng movement Of workers can be de-
eeloped, capable of forcing concss-
sions from the bosses and their Pc
itical henchmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27

militant struggle for the workers
burning needs. And because they
were not ready to enter into such a
struggle, it was the special role Of the
renegade groups to convince the
workers that they, also, should do
nothiar to improve their conditions
lmtH these reactionary A. F. of L.
and S. r. leaders were ready to act.
In other words, without the partici-
patton Of the leaders who refused to
join Che struggles, there could be
no struggle for relief by the workers
themselves.
The Chicago Experience
Cannon, with the utmost demagogy,
but without success, tried to use the
experience of our Chicago comrades
as the means of proving the correct
ness OF his disruptive tactics. He
claimed that by directly inviting the
Socialist leaders in Chicago, a broad
mass movement had been set up
which stopped a so per cent relief cut,
He conveniently omitted number Of
experiences of the Chicago movement
which must be emphasized.
Cannon failed, for example, to point
out that Borders. the Socialist leader,
stubbornly opposed unity in Chicago.
Borders only came into the united
front movement when it became clear
that he was being deserted by his
rank and file followers who had
been convinced through direct con-
tact with the members Of the Unem-
ployed Council of the need for a
united struggle. In other words, the
leaders" came into the movement
only after the unity of the workers
themselves had been established.
Cannon's second omission was that
Borders, after he entered the Chi
cago unity movement under the pres-
sure Of the masses, devoted all his
efforts to prevent the very mass
struggle from taking place which re-
suited in stopping the so per cent city
relief cut. The demonstration of So
900 workers at the Chicago City Hall
took place in spite of Borders, and
not through his help The efforts Of
Borders to stop the Chicago move
ment can we'll be compared to Cam
mons efforts to delay, and If possible,
prevent the Albany conference.
The final point overlooked" by
Cannon, was the fact that Borders,
Immediately following the huge uni
ted workers demonstration, exerted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
1000 PROTEST
FCLTIS LAYOFF
Smash Injunction and
Picket; Battle Cops

NEW YORK. - Undaunted by a
mob of cops heavily armed with
blackjaclls and guns, a thousand mil
liant workers demonstrated in front
Of the Foltis-Fisher Company build
ing and forced the headmen there to
admit committee Of workers from
the Food Workers Industrial Union
and laid-off Foltis workers to present
demands for:
l. The immediate reinstatement
Of II workers fred since Jan. /, 1888.
2. No discrimination against mem
bers of the union.
3. No further lay-offs and the
right to organize.
The committee reported they were
told that the bosses had no right to
grant them their demands because
the company was in the hands of
a receiver. The bosses referred the
committee to the courts. and after
a look at the demonstration outside.
promised and investigation. The
committee warned that 1t would fol-
low up the case.
Upon hearing the report the work
ers formed a line and proceeded to
march from w. 9th Street down
through Fifth Avenue, finally wind
ing UP at East It'll st. and Second
Avenue, where they began to picket
the Adele Cafeteria and the STRAIT
ford Restaurant, both on strike, and
the first with an Injunction.
Within few minutes about two
hundred police arrived and innne-
diately began swinging their clubs on
the heads of the workers who we're
on the picket line. tearing down the
placards on which were printed the
demands Of the food workers.
The workers fought back furiously
with the sticks that remained in
their hands when the signs we're torn
down. A gang Of thugs working with
the police drew guns. which struck
down many of the defenseless work.
ers.
In the struggle that ensued the
window of the Adele Cafeteria was
completely smashed.
The owner selected one OF the food
workers and blamed him as the guilty
party, ordering the police to arrest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
Descriptive Activities Concealed Behind Phrases of Unity
~Role of the Renegades' in the Unemployed Movement

differentiate between the rank and
| file Socialist workers and the Social
list leader, Norman Thomas, who
| joined with j. P Morgan in putting
over the vicious block aid scheme,
| designed to make the workers bear
| the burden Of maintaining the I'M
employed. He ignored the anti-work-
ing class policies Of the Socialist
| Party leaders in Milwaukee and
Reading, and the growing revolt of
the rank and file workers of the So
cialist Party against these policies.
Lifschitz, with the support Of Cannon
and Weisbord, quite consciously
avoided this necessary differentiation
between Socialist" leaders and So
cialist workers, only because he
wanted to drive these workers from
the conference, and bring the so
cialist" leaders into the conference as
the means of destroying the effective
ness Of the whole movement.
Opposed TO Unity
These renegades from Communism
did not want to see broad unity of
the masses from below. On the con-
trary, they wanted unity with the
very leaders whom they pretended to
condemn. They wanted to prevent
the masses from turning to Commu-
mist leadership by bringing them again
under the leadership of the Thomases,
HillquitS and Greens. Just as the
LoYestoneites, a few weeks ago united
with the reactionary and corrupt
Socialist Tammany bureaucracy Of
the 1. L. G. w. u. in futile attempt
to defeat the revolutionary workers
OF that organization, so in Sundays
conference, LifshitS, Cannon and
Weisbord we're anxious to bring the
workers under the same kind Of reac-
tionary leadership.
In Cannon'S resolution previously
referred to, the one proposing the
two weeks delay" we find the fol-
lowing, which clearly discloses their
desires:
1.-THE respective central Organiza-
tions of the Communist Party, the
A. F. Of L., the Socialist Party, and
the independent trade unions, shall
be directly invited to participate"
In Cannon's sheet, the Militant, OF
January 81, their complete reliance
on the reactionary leaders is put even
more bluntly. In an editorial deal
ing with Sundays conference, written
by Cannon HIMSELF, we find the fol-
lowing gem:
1.-THE branches of the Socialist
Party and the local A. F. of L.
unions are invited to the united
front-but what of the central
bodies of these organizations? What
of the leaders? Emphasis in the
originate. A. H
In other words, the reason for the
proposed delay was to bring in the
central organizations of the A. r. of
l.. and the S. P. The central organi-
cations of the Communist Party and
the independent trade unions were
already represented. All other bodies,
including the A. F. of L., and S. p.
central bodies, could have been rep
resented in the conference if they
had wished to join the struggle. The
call for the conference had been
issued publicly. The renegade groups
had had no difficulty in being rep
resented. The central bodies of the
A. r. of l.. and the S. p. were not
present, not because they were un-
aware of the conference, but because
the ydid not wish to enter into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
WHAT'S on
FRIDAY
(Mantdttan)

MASS MEETING tonight at 1880 pm. at
Stuyvesant Casino, End Ave. and 9th st.
Come and hear the demand OF the Filipino
people for unconditional Independence OF
the Philippines. Prominent Filipino and Am
erican speakers, and Filipino music. Aus
pieces: Filipino Anti-Imperialist League
MEMBERSHIP MEETING of Harlem Pro-
gressive Youth Club, 1888 Madison Ave, u
$50 p. m.
STUDY GROUP on peace Policy of the
Soviet Union" meets tonight at pm. at SO
w. 114th st. Apt. "A. All comrades in
terested in forming an FSU debating team
invited.
PARTY-DANCE of Neighborhood workers
Center, SIS e. 18th st. tonight at pm.
Auspices 18th and 18th st. Block Committee.
Tickets 10 cents. Everybody invited
DEBATE--"will Technocracy Solve the
Present Crisis" tonight at p. m at Amer
lean Youth Federation, 1879 Second Ave At
firmative-Chas Francis Potter, author hu-
morist. Experimentation F. Dunno of the
Communist Party. Adm. 25c.
LECTURE by Herbert Benjamin at q nm.
at Workers zulSumft Club, 81 Second Ave.
Subject: THE Salvation OF the Unemployed
Situation In the U. g."
LECTURE by B. Freedman, Asst. Natl.
Secy. FSU at pm. at Irving Plaza, 18th
and irving Pl. Subject: Drama and
Graves will speak on "Education in Soviet
Russia" Adm. Csc. Auspices FSU
LECTURE by Bob Harrison on youth in
Soviet Union tonight at Downtown Branch,
GIG r. i4th st. $50 pm.
LECTURE by NJ. Liliensten tonight at $50
at eli Grand Youth Club, $50 Grand st.
Subject. 'Technocracy and the Worker"
LECTURE by Charles Alexander tonight
at pm. at Manhattan Workers Club, 40
Sheriff st. Subject: World Crisis and In
tefnational Situation"
LECTURE by M chiikovsky tonight at
- nj FNN..a.
18th st. Subject. MARKHAM Approach to
.as,sic." Discussion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
BY C. A. HATHAWAY

The preliminary conference held
last Sunday in New York City at the
call of the American Federation OF
Labor Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief, provides a firm
foundation for the statewide confer
ence on workers legislation to be
held at Albany for February 25, &c
and 27. The Communist Party, which
first urged the calling of such a unity
conference, was officially represented,
and fully supports this effort of the
representatives of more than seventy
organizations to unite all sections of
the working class in struggle for its
burning needs.
Energetic Drive Necessary
1t is now necessary to rally all Of
the forces represented in Sundays
conference, as well as the organiza-
tions which they represent, in most
energetic drive to make the Albany
conference the largest and most rep
resentative gathering ever held by the
workers of New York state. This
can be done if demands such as the
following are clearly formulated and
brought to the attention of the
masses Of workers, organized and un-
Observation-Disclosures of the A. F.. Of
L., Of the T. U. U. L., Socialist, Com
muniSt and non-Party workers:
The immediate appropriation Of
adequate relief funds sufficient to
provide for every unemployed and
part-tinle worker. (The conference
should agree on the definite amounts
and on proposals to force the rich to
bear the burden for the relief)
2.-Unemployment insurance at the
expense of the state and the en-
ployers.
3.-1mmediate suspension of the
eviction law in its application to I'M
employed and part-tine workers.
4.-The shorter work-day without
reduction In pay.
5.-A legislative enactment prohib-
ting the use of injunctions in labor
disputes.
6.-The maintenance of trade union
wages and working conditions on all
public works, city and state.
mo discrimination in the pay
ment Of relief, or in handing out jobs,
against Negroes, single workers, youth
or foreign-born workers.
These simple demands, as well as
the giving of full attention to the
innumerable secondary and special
craft demands of the workers, can
be made the basis for the broadest
mass movement, movement con-
fined not merely to the legislative
halls in Albany, but one that will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
100000 SOVIET SOLDIERS AND
CITIZENS IN VICTORY MARCH

BY special arrangement with Am
kino, the Embassy News Reel The
atre, 1850 Broadway, between 46th
and 47th Street, will present, COM
mencing tomorrow (Sat., Jan. 2sth)
and continuing all week, 1.-THE Vic
tory March of the Soviets," COM
plete reel depicting in sound, pic
ture, music, song and Russian and
English talk, the passage Of the Red
Army and 100000 workers before
Stain. Voroshiloff, Yekunidze, Gorky.
Kalinin and other leaders standing
st review on Lenin's tomb, in cele-
bration of the 18th anniversary Of
the Bolshevik revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27

him.
A woman worker of the Union
placed herself in front of the police
man and defied him to make the
arrest. The cop struck her from his
way and tried to arrest the worker.
The woman worker pushed him away.
March To Cooper Square
Amidst spirited booing and indi-
yidual scufling, this woman led the
workers down 7th st. into Cooper
Union Square. The police were now
chasing the workers who gave ground
slowly, fighting every inch Of the
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
SUNDAY

LECTURE by Joe Brandt at Downtown
Workers Forum, 90 Avenue @, between 9Th
Snd 7th Sts., Sunday, Jan. 2sth at pm.
Subject: The Communist Party in Action. .
Questions, discussion. All workers welcome.
LECTURE by John j. BALKAN, Sunday
night at $3.50 pm. at Brighton Beach Gem
ter, $3.50 Coney Island Ave. Subject: Share
Choppers in South" Auspices Bill Haywood
Dranch, LID
The Washington times., 1933-12-19

eTS IdSL hASAL
at the meeting
of the Brook
land Citizens
Association.
Through the
citizens aSSo-
cia tions, Mr..
Hazen said, the
mmissioners
are able to as
ce r t ain the
needs of the
various neigh
borhoodS an d
always welcome
the ass o c ia
tons advice on
The Washington times., 1933-12-19
R|TCH|E TOFREE
WOMAN GIVEN
LIFE TERM
Grace Cothron, Convicted of
Killing Chauffeur, Among
80 Granted Paroles

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 19.-Thirty-
nine persons now serving prison
terms in Maryland will receive
Christmas presents from Cover.
nor Ritchie in the form Of paroles,
it was announced today.
Citizenship will be restored to
three other persons, all on recon-
mediation Of the parole commits
sioner. The paroles and restora.
tions will become effective Friday,
unless cause to the contrary Is
shown.
To Free Woman
Among the 80 to be paroled Is
Grace C.. Cothron, serving life at
the House of Correction for her
part in the murder Of q colored
chauffeur in Montgomery county
about IA years ago. The actual
murder, according to the testi.
mony, was committed by her hus.
band, who is serving life.
In announcing his intention Of
paroling the woman, Governor
Ritchie said:
"This case has caused me
more concern than any can re-
call. 1t has been before me on
numerous occasions thr Ou 6 h
hearings and interview during
the past six years, and have
investigated it thoroughly from
all angles, including the wOna-
ans mental conditions and hab-
its and otherwise"
The governor pointed out that
at an early age the woman was
married to a man whose vicious
habits undoubtedly had an unfor-
tunate influence on her. She was
II at the time Of the murder.
Wants to Give Her Chance
Two of the three judges who
sentenced her recommended elem
ency several years ago, and the
third is dead, the governor ex-
planned. The parole commissioner
recommended a parole in 1881. as
did the States attorney who pros
ecuted the case. The governor
concluded:
81 have decided to give her
the chance in life which Ger.
tainly she has never had. If
she does not keep the conditions
Of her parole she cal be re-
turned to prison. If she does
keep them, an u n fort tun ate
woman will have been restored"