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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

WASHINGTON, May ga bull
letin issued by the Department of
Agriculture yesterday demands re-
duction in acreage of wheat planted.
a lowering of foreign trade barriers,
and drastic initiation, as necessary
conditions for any Sustained in
crease in wheat prices" or even for
holding OF the present price level
for the next few years.
The department gives some signifi-
cant figures. The present wheat
acreage in the United States is 61.-
100000 acres, which, counting IA
bushels to the acre, gives pros
pective crop for the coming year of
aO0,o00,000 bushels The domestic
market can not absorb more than
600,000,0Oo of this, leaving a sur
plus of 20o,0O0,0OO, to add on to the
existing car1y-over of 100000 900
bushels. Next year then, we can count
on an unsaleable wheat surplus of
56o,o00,000 bushels.
At Expense Of Farmers.
Cutting the acreage is one way
cur" that the administration will at
tempt--at the expense of the farm
ers. Initiation is another-at the ex-
pense of the workers and farmers
both A beginning has already been
made in both these directions
The third solution is increased ex-
ports From 1926 to this year wheat
exports have declined from 206.000,-
600 to 100000 bushels. Germanys
tariff on wheat is, sl62 a bushel, with
the requirement that 81 per cent OF
the wheat milled must be of domes-
tic origin. Italy's tax is $107. and
95 per cent Of the wheat must be
domestic. In France the tariff is IS
cents, and SO per cent of the wheat
must be homegrown.
Economic war is the method that
the Roosevelt government is adopting
to break down these tariff walls and
the World Economic Conference Will
be one of the battle fields.
Program Summed Up.
The Roosevelt program to help the
farmers can be summarized as fol-
lows: raise the prices of farm ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

Discharged Before Vacation
was slightly over year employed
as an attendant, within sixteen days
Of vacation. 1t seems a common
occurrence to be discharged before
vacation is due, l know of three
such cases recently, two wage cuts
during this time, four old employees
laid off, younger men hired for less
wages. The speed-up is vicious
the standard OF living is getting
worse, discrimination, especially
against male employees, is pro-
nounced.
Discrimination
Hospitals pay no rent or taxes, all
purchases are at low rates; dona-
tons are galore. articles made by
patients are sold. a private section
is kept for patients who can pay.
those who cannot pay are strictly
investigated by social service work
ers from the hospitals before &C
ceptance.
The hospitals get an allowance
from the city treasury of $3.50 a day
for each patient who cannot pay.
Every door and opening is we'll guard
ed, two special policemen, paid by
the taxpayers, spy and put employ
ees off the grounds when discharged.
The hospital is infested with spies.
Pay is always held back for three
days.
No package can be brought out
without being opened. Before you
start work, you are printed,
and you sign a declaration which
takes away all liberty, giving the
employer the power to fire without
notice, search where you sleep at
any time, etc.
Labor and No Pay
On April l, 1888, some attendants
were laid off and twelve nurses taken
on for six months course on tuber-
culosis, no pay, just board and room,
doing attendants work, lecture now
and then. Hospitals get lot of
cheap help in this way, student
nurses and student dietitians. etc.
IL Hour Day
Attendants male and female work
twelve hours day, with one and
to two hours off daily. no
full day off each week, only two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
G IOWA FARMERS
GET JAIL TERMS
Sentenced for Attack
on Judge Bradley

LIE MARS, Iowa, May 2a.-Martin
Rosburg, one of the farmers who was
arrested in connection with the Judge
Bradley incident, was sentenced to
six months in Plymouth County Jail
Two other farmers received sentences
of thirty days Imprisonment, and all
the six farmers tried, were given one
year suspended sentences in Fort
Madison Penitentiary. Appeal bonds
were fixed at 81 900 for each prisoner.
The cases grew out of the incident
that occurred April q last, when the
irate farmers hauled Judge Bradley
off the bench when he refused to stop
mortgage foreclosure actions pending
in his court. The Judge made the
mistake of insulting the farmers in
court on top of giving legal assistance
to the banks and insurance COM
panies that are swindling the farmers
out Of their land, homes and live
stock,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

locals Throughout the country
PiRn Work.
The bureau discussed the achieve
ments of the union since last meeting
Of the national committee apd took
up the planning OF work on the basis
Of the ship delegates reports.
Tho situation among the long
shoTcnen was gone over by the
bureau and some improvements in
the actual work among this impor-
tant section Of marine workers was
reported. The bureau outlined pro-
posals for the convention in connec-
ton with the struggles OF the long
shoremen.
The bureau stressed the pre-con-
vention work that must be carried
on by al branches and members.
The Trade Union Unity League in
support OF the M.WI.U. convention
calls upon the workers CT New Yorl;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

to aid the union as they can by at
tending the anti-war festival Of the
union on June 25 in Starlight Sta
dium, which is for the purpose of
raising funds for the convention.
The bureau decided to send a let
ter to all active forces with the re-
port OF the bureau and ship dele
gates meetings SO as to widen the
use of the lessons learned in the two
meetings.
The June issue of the Marine
Workers Voice, organ of the union,
will carry a special call Of the union
to all sea, harbor and river work
ers to struggle against the initiation
hunger program Of the bosses and
their government, the Roosevelt adj
ministration and for them to elect
delegates to represent them at the
national convention
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
ATTENTION ALL CLUB AND
MASS ORGANIZATION
SECRETARIES

All secretarleS OF workers clubs,
Two. branches, fraternal and
language organizations, Women's
Councils, etc, are invited to a very
important meeting called by the
District Committee of the Com
munist Party, on Thursday, June
l, at $50 pm. at the Workers
Center, So f. 18th ST., I'd floor.
C. A. Hathaway, District Organ
izer, will address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
Dept of Agriculture Tells
Farmers to Cut Acreage

chinery and OF all domestic neces-
saries to the farmer, through infls-
ton; cut down acreage and so d.
minish the product that the farmer
can SELL at the same time driving
the small farmers out Of existence.
OF into tenantry; aid the consolids-
ton of farms into fewer and fewer
hands, by this means, and by active
support Of the bankers program OF
mortgage foreclosures, using soldiers
against the farmers whenever neces-
sary, and carry out a foreign econo-
mic policy which is heading straight
for war in the interests of the big
agricultural exporting interests, and
the grain spectators who control the
eXportable surplus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
WORKERS WIN
METAL DEMANDS

NEW YORK. Workers of the Vim
Lighting Co. at 48 E. 18th st. recently
organized in the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union were
granted their demand for shorter
hours without reduction in pay when
a committee of workers appeared be-
fore the boss and threatened to
strike.
Hours of work were reduced from
81 to AZ per week without pay cuts
and the promise of substantial wage
increases within month were prom
ised by the boss. The workers are
busily organizing other chandelier
workers into the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
Carpenter Pickets
Attacked by Police

NEW YORK.-Rank and file car
penters of A. F. Of L. Local 1854,
who joined the picket line of the
carpenters on strike against the For
est Box and Lumber Co.. Long Is
land City, in an act of solidarity yes
terday were met with police mobil.
lied by the bosses. The picketing
continued however.
Leaflets distributed by the strik-
ers to the unorganized workers in
the mill and box departments and in
the lumber yard were favorably re-
ceived. According to reports, the
workers in these departments are
discussing the necessity for joint &C.
ton
The strikers are showing a mill
liant spirit on the picket line, and
have issued an appeal to all brother
hood members to join them in the
struggle
Against Fascism, hunger and war!
Demonstrate National Youth Day,
Nav 30!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
Form New Contingent
for New York Camps

NEW YORK-The third contingent
for the forest camps will be re-
cruited beginning tomorrow. The
quota of 1876 recruits will be selected
from among the unemployed youth
under threat of removing their fami-
lies from the relief lists. They will be
sent to the military camps at Fort
Hamilton, Brooklyn; Fort Wads-
worth, Staten Island, and Fort Slo-
cum, near New Rochelle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
BY Labor Research Association.

Chains Of welfare capitalism are
riyesed tighter on the workers in the
electrical manufacturing industry I'M
der the terms of a new super COM
pany union plan sponsored by Gerard
Swope Of Morgan's anti-mion Cen
eral Electric Company.
The New York Times labor expert"
calls it a comprehensive project for
social insurance. Actually it is
nothing more than the General Elec-
tries anti-union welfare" handcuff
system extended to the entire cleo
trio manufacturing industry-Western
Electric, Westinghouse and the rest
The board CT governors Of the Ma
tional Electric Manufacturers Asso-
citation has Just voted TO submit the
Swope plan to the associations mem
bers 1t is the hope Of SWope and
his fellow Morgan agents that it will
! be one of the first employer employee
collaboration set-ups to receive the
official blessing of dictator Roosevelt
under the provisions Of the new mis-
named National Industrial Recovery
Act.
Deduct from Wages.
The Swope scheme is briefly an
/ arrangement whereby workers in this
| industry would be locked from their
wages $3.50 or more a week-the Gen
eral Electric average-to pay one half
Of the premium on a sort Of inter
company insurance policy. The en-
ployers would be expected to pay the
other half but they could take it in
directly out of the pay envelopes Of
the workers as whole
Such a broader trade association
scheme is said by its sponsors to an
swer the objections of those who have
criticized the present welfare" pro-
gram Of the General Electric because
worker dropped from the G. E. pay
roll loses all insurance benefits
such as they are. The new scheme
would supposedly cover workers so
long as they were employed in the
electrical industry. But it makes alb
solutely no provision for the worker
rationalized out Of a job and forced
out of the electrical industry. Such
worker would lose all right to re-
ceive even the meagre benefits" of
the plan. In other words, the plan
is merely an extension of the cur
rent welfare" slavery of the work
ers in G. E. to all other workers in
the industry. But such pitiful "bene-
fits" as are provided under the plan
would not follow the worker should
he be dropped from the job in an in
dustry which is steadily decreasing
its staff as the result of speed-up
and naturalization.
An Inter Company Blacklist
When examined carefully the
scheme takes on the aspects of an
inter- company blacklist. For pre-
sumably the worker, in order to
! qualify for benefits, would have to
be on the card catalogue of all the
companies in the industry. And
should he be fired from one COM
pany, says the G. E, the other COM
panies would ask for his record be-
fore hiring him. If his record were
"Red'-if he were numbered among
the "undesirables" or the "agitators"
who fought for wage increases and
against speedup-he would be auto
matically barred from all electric
plants.
The labor policy of the trade as
ISOLATION in this industry is as bad,
if not worse, than that of the Cen
eral Electric itself. And the G. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
WHAT'S ON
TfieSdnll


AIEGAPHCNE BRIGADE FOR NATIONAL
YOUTH DAY DEMONSTRATION rehearsc
today at 10 noon 1885 Third Ave Boys anc
girls are invited to take part
RED FRONT AND YOUNG STORM mus
attend National Youth Day demonstration
downtown at headquarters, IL noon 95 Av.
enue B. Others at 18TH st and Lenox Ave
pm, Uniforms and arm5Gads
Wed1eSGGy
JOIN MARKS ON THE NEW DEAL" at
e5i Leggett Ave. Bronx Admission free
Auspices vel No. g. Bronx
LAST OF SPRING LECTURE SERIES I'M
de- auspices Of League CT Professioua
Grcups at irving Plaza at Sis pm Speak
crs: clyin. Cowley. Hook Freeman Sub.
ject; Culture in q Communist Society Ad-
miss On . cents. Auspices F.5.U
RECOGNITION MEETING Dr. Harry F
ward, A. J. Music. Dr. S Leroy commu.
nisy Church. $50 W 10th St pm Ad-
ln.-5.o@ T.S.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

afternoons from 1 pm. which means
double work for those who are not
off then as you are not replaced.
Patients are neglected and expert
mented upon for the benefit of the
internes. Some of the patients re-
fuse to serve as guinea pigs and go
home to die instead. The hospital
talks of economy when they have
seven supervisors (nurses) where
three would do. This is for the
speed up of the employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

cashed in the family is automatically
dropped from the relief list. All the
workers life's investment, all his plans
for security for his wife and children
are blown to pieces and on top of
that he will get no further relief be
cause now" says the officials in the
bureaus you have money"
This was being done in individual
cases up until now, but since the plot
of Tammany and the bankers to shut
off relief from the unemployed it has
been carried out on wholesale scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
URGE BRANCHES TO WIRE

NEW YORK.-All branches and
members of the International Labor
Defense here are called upon by the
New York District to send wires to
Judge James E. Horton, Decatur, Ala,
demanding that he release Roy
Wright and Eugene Williams, the two
youngest Scottsboro Boys, on writs of
habeas corpus sued out by the LID.
Hearing on the writS will be held be-
fore Judge Horton this Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
oLGIN AT SYMPOSIUM

The final symposium of the season
under the auspices of the League of
Professional Groups will take place
this Wednesday evening at Irving
Plaza on the subject of Culture in
Communist Society," with DR..
Moissaye J. Olgin. Sidney Hook, NAL
COIN CoWley and Joseph Freeman as
participants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
HOP PICKERS GET NO BENEFIT
FROM HIGH HOP PRICES

RICKREALL. Ore.--Beer has not
brought any prosperity yet 10 the
workers, and there is developing
struggle to secure at least part Of
the inflated currency by movement
insisting that wages for hop workers
be raised as the prices for hops go
up. Prices are increasing rapidly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

Blum, secretary of the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union.
Council Officers Elected
The following officers were elected !:
Permanent Chairman, Ted Baron of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union; Permanent Vice Chairman.
Harris Of the Metal Workers Indus
trial Union; Secretary, v. Linn of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, and Sergeant-at-Arms, Link
hurst of the Marine Union. An ex-
ecutive committee of 20 members was
elected and will meet within the next
week to take up the important ques-
tons confronting the unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
GRUB AS THEATRE ADMISSION

ARLINGTON, Va, May 2e.--Broad-
way plays will soon be presented here
at the Barter In" in connection with
a venture planned by Robert Porter
field, Virginia actor. Porterfield an
nounces that admission will be 30
cents, "or the equivalent in rations-
vegetables, fresh eggs, chickens,
canned goods, Jams and Virginia
hamy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
FAMILY OF 6 MOVED TO PITTS.
BURGH FROM WOOD BY
JOBLESS COUNCIL

PITTSBURGH, PA member Of
the Unemployed Council found 8
family in the woods back of teaches
farm and reported it. A committee
was sent to see them and found that
it was family of six living in a
tent. They were sent out there
through the welfare and they have
two small children, one Is months
and the other months old and two
sons nearly grown and himself and
his wife. We got them place at
6444 Penn Ave. and sent three trucks
out there and moved them in Sunday
afternoon. Now they are living COM
fortably there. The name of the
family is Hobart, George.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
BARKER, CHICAGO Tor THUG,
man y

CIICAGC,-POlice area attempting
to use the death of Lieutenant George
w. Barker, former head of the Bomb
Squad. to begin a wterror offensive
against the workers Here, according
TO the International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
Fingerprint Montefiore Hosp.
Workers; Spies Search Rooms
BY PATRICK BOSTON

On May IL, 1888 discharged
from the MOnfore heaa
and Miss Alice Otto head Demanding
examined the dormoy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
East Coast Marine.
Workers Meet; Make.
Convention Plans.
National Bureau of M.WI.U. Launches Drive
for 1000 New Members by July

NEW YORKA
Venon July launched by the Marine Workers
The national bureau the
planning delegate meeting reports
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
FIGHT EVICTIONS; MASS
AT BUREAU T'MORRROW|
Delegations Elected at Bureaus Tomorrow to
Bring Demands to City Hall; Workers
to Await Their Return

NEW 1ORK.-TOmOrrOw at 10 a. thousands of I'M.
employed with their families called at Home Re-
lief Bureaus in their They are asked to bring their dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

cording to the report.
The families included in the sur
vey were distributed as follows: 232
ON the lower East Side; 234 in the
middle East Side 1873 on the West
Side; 149 in the Bronx; 1873 in Har-
lem and 70 in Brooklyn"
Down with Hitler fascism! De-
mand the release of Thaelmann and
Torgler! Demonstrate National Youth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30
TRADE UNION COUNCIL MEETS:
HEARS MARINE, NEEDLE REPORT
Elects Officials Pledges aid to Bakers Strike,
Unemployed Work in Unions

NEW YoRk-A meeting Council last Fri
day evening Irving attended with dps r
all affiliated unions and opposition groups present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-30

SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your
fellow workers to read the Daiiy
Worker.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

IN the south side OF NJ street between
~ Eleventh and Twelfth streets, across the
street from the Farnham home at 1104. lived
Crosby S. Noyes. editor of The Star, and east
CT him, ON the corner. was the Mount Vernon
Seminary, boarding and day school for young
ladies' conducted by Mrs. J. Eddy Somers. This
is now the Elizabeth SOmers branch Of the
Y. w. c. A.
Farther Np M street, at the east Of Thomas
Circle, is the old residence Of Judge Andrew A.
Wylie and on the southeast corner Of the circle
Evening star., 1933-05-14

and M street (where Massachusetts, avenue
and n street come together) was the home for
many years Of Mrs Madeline v. Dahlgren,
widow Of Admiral John A. Dahlgren. . cele-
brated naval ofhcer and inventor Of the Dahl
gren gun.
Some Of the members of Congress, who prob
ably do not own property here. seem to think
that rents in Washington are too high. But
1t does not seem 50 to the man who has bought
property here and finds it difficult to make 1t
render 3 per cent net return, which Is likely
the case with nearly all the property holders
Of the city today.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

living there in 1878 Subsequently DR.. Farn-
ham moved to 1912 Eleventh street. and in
1869 he had returned to the old home, where
William L. Farnham, probably q son, was also
residing.
In the "reminiscences Of Mrs. James M.
Binckley, published in 1927, when she was ap-
preaching her ninetieth year, she refers to this
square saying: "The Farnhams lived near us.
on the corner of Eleventh and NJ streets.
They owned the entire block and their grounds
were our dearest play spot. The old house is
Evening star., 1933-05-14

IN the northwest corner of Ninth and II
~ streets. according to Mr. Stickney, Ham,
line M. E. Church had Its origin. Some time
ago the writer picked up this item from The
Star of September Z, 1872 which says:
THE New Hamline Church.-The corner.
stone of the new Hamline E. NJ Church. corner
of P and Ninth streets northwest will be laid
on Monday the 18th instant, at 4:30 pm. The
sermon will be delivered by Dr. c. M. Sims.
pastor of Madison Avenue Church. Baltimore,
and he will be assisted by DR.. ]. H. Dashiell Of
the Georgetown NJ E. Church. The main
building is to be completed by the first Of
December next. and the entire structure by
September /, 1873. when it will be dedicated.
. j. H McGill is the architect and Downing q
Bros. the builders"
In its time this church was regarded as an inn
portant edifice, and yet in so years it outgrew
its usefulness according to the verdict Of the
old congregation, at least SO far as the site
was concerned, for only a few years ago-m
1926-the new Hamline Church at Sixteenth
and Allison streets was dedicated, and who
knows but what this, too, may give way for
other quarters 50 years hence. . In the ono
Evening star., 1933-05-14

HERE are many people in Washington
today who can recall when there was
little need for avenues in the north
ern part Of the city in order to reach
more directly the places for which
they we're headed because the paths