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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
Uncdshable Checks Menace Daily!

READERS:
THIS call for immediate action For cash and money
orders to keep the Daily Worker going
The closing of all the banks has put heavy burden
the Daily Worker at time when the threat to its life
was already very great. The Daiy" has hand $685.
checks received during the past few days that be
cashed At time when every cent counts, the Daily
is thus deprived of over $500.
serious et-down in the drive is further aggravating
the situation Sunday yesterday only s48331 less
$3.50 day, received.
Readers, the fact that reading Daily
no guarantee that there will be
On the promise increased appeals
in getting certain payments postponed for
was given in You that
the Daily Worker will be wiped
THE Tag Days this Saturday and Sunday
key to the question OF the future existence OF the Daily
must If
made in district the will double
Every reader Communist unit every organization
participate actively.
1t will be any Day money comes in But
need funds today friends
trbutons together with all collected
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Force School Heads
to Reinstate Negro
Girl at p. S. SO

NEW YORK. - A signal victory
against white chauvinism in public
schools was reported today by the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
which by the use of mass pressure
forced the reinstatement of Ethel
Drayton, Negro school girl, to her
class in Public School Sc.
The girl was denoted to lower
grade and was otherwise Inundated
because she stepped aside to avoid a
mud puddle while marching in line
into school. White children did like
wise, but Ethel Drayton was the only
one picked out for punishment.
Supported by the N. Y. District
International Labor Defense, the
Women's Council of Bronx and the
Parent Committee Of Upper Bronx,
the l.. S. N. r., issued a leaflet con-
denning the demotion Of Ethel
Drayton and calling for a demon
stration in front of the school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
BOSS CONGRESS
OPENS ON THURS.
VIII Aid Bankers Not
the Poor

WASHINGTON, March CT II :
bankers congress opens at noon
Thursday at the special call of Pres
ident Roosevelt. This is the seventy
third congress Of the United States
RooseYelt's call asserted briefly that
the public interest" requires the pre-
sence OF the House and Senate in
Washington.
Roosevelt VINO, since his Inaugural
ton last Saturday, has decreed
emergency measures to aid the bank
erS, announces in his call for con-
vening congress that: 1T is, OF course
essential that the first business be
fore the congress will be the present
banking and financial situation" At
a time when millions of men, women
and children Of the working and
farming population the forgotten
men" that Roosevelt demogogically
talked about to catch votes during
his presidential campaign. Nothing
is suggested about action on unem-
ployment relief demands and unen-
aploymeut insurance.
One of the first acts Of congress
whose vaSsalage to Wall Street is
guaranteed in advance will be to push
through some sort of bill to meet
government obligations in clearing
house scrip.
1t is expected that the foreign re-
lations committees will carry out
further provocations in regard to the
struggle against Japan in the Pa
ciflc and in regard to fiercer attacks
upon the colonial and seni-colonial
masses in Latin America, as well IS
more dirty intrigues in connection
with the war debts, besides a contin-
uation Of provocation against the 81
Wet Union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
Marx Anniversary
Supplement of the
d a ii y Work err

In cOmmemorating the 5oth An
niversary of the Death of Karl
Marx, the Daily Worker will have
special SPACE supplement on
Saturday, March 18th which in
addition to other articles will con-
tain the following basic articles:
1.-The Present Crisis Bears
Out the Teachings OF Marx, by
]. Allen.
2.-The Materialistic Concep-
ton of History, BY M. Bedacht.
3.-Leninism as the develop
ment of Marxism by A. Markoff.
4.-Stalin's Contribution to
Marxism-Leninsm, by B. Gebert.
5.-What is the Marxist Con-
oeption Of the State, by v. J. Jer-
ONE.
6.-Marxism and the Peasant
Question, by H. Puro.
THE Lessons of the Paris
Commune, BY F.. Brown.
8.-The Communists Are the
Only Adherents of MarxiSn, by
S. Bloomfield.
Send In your additional order,
for this issue Of the Daily Worker
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ing of gold or silver coin or bull
lion or currency of any kind.
How long the holiday" may
last is probleInatical, as it will prob
ably be extended. Meanwhile the
groups Of banks in various parts OF
the country are preparing to issue
clearing house certificates e d
upon frozen deposits" in their banks.
This highly fictitious currency will be
used to make up pay rolls. Unem-
ployed relief is being cut of in most
centers. AT the same time there is
a rise Of food prices.
Suspend the Gold Standard.
Rooseyelt's secretary Of the treas
ury, the Wall Street industrialist,
banker and munition manufacturer,
William H. Woodin, denies that the
country is off the gold standard, and
explains that what has happened is
only suspension of the gold stand
ard" At the same time he closes the
United States treasury and ties up
deposits even in the postal savings.
Printing sssip for New York.
NEW YORK, March 6.-Printing
presses Of the American Bank Note
company are working twenty-four
hours day turning out millions OF
dollars worth Of scrip today to be
used to meet payments, while the
big bankers hold the gold and the
regular United States currency for
their own robber purposes
Depositors with money in banks
will get about one-fifth Of their de-
posts paid in scrip when the banks
open. They will probably never see
any cash for their deposits.
Derositors Are Organizing.
Already retail food prices are ris-
ing and it is generally considered
inevitable that the merchants will
charge higher prices for goods bought
with the scrip that is being turned
out on New York presses, than with
dollars. It Is expected that dollars
will drop out of circulation and that
soon only the scrip, that cannot even
be redeemed in government tender,
will be the circulating medium.
Small depositors are already start
ing to organize and demands are be-
ing heard on all hands for irnmedi-
ate cash payment TO small depositorS
in the full amount of their de-
posts in dollars. Meetings are being
held in dozens Of places and there
are indications of the beginning of a
big movement to fight against the
banditry of the bankers and their
Wall Street government.
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cause goods are not sold. Govern
ment securities do not yield because
Of the de5iine in income from taxes
and revenue, industrial bonds cannot
yield dividends. Under such condi-
tons there is q heavy drain upon
cash money gold or notes.. In
the United States there is approx-
mately s42,0Oo,OO0000 in bank de-
posts, OF which less than $1,000 0Oo,-
900 dirculates in currency.
Hoarding by Rich.
This seven billion, however, repre-
sents about two billion dollar raise
in the past weeks. This two billion
rise in circulation was not due to an
actual increase in money for cur
rency purposes, but most of it was
boarded. The capitalist press and
the government tries to make it ap-
pear that this enormous amount is
boarded by poor people. AS matter
OF fact it is being boarded by the
big bankers themselves, who have for
weeks been withdrawing gold and
gold certificates from circulation and
boarding it in preparation for the
bank holiday that is now on.
These scoundrels and swindlers
have slowed away this money for
their own use, while conspiring to
rob the small depositors of their
savings, and using the power of the
government to carry out their rob-
berry.
Nov We have Roosevelt aiding the
bankers with his new deal" by de-
claring nationwide bank holiday
which also affe6ts even the postal
of savings of hundreds of thousands
s. al depositors who thought that an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

class districts, with orders to crush
any attempt Of the masses to organ
ize resistance to the Japanese in
vaders
Chiang's Fake Gesture.
From his headquarters in Hupei
Province, where he is waging war at
the head of well-equipped army of
over one million men against the
Chinese Soviet Districts, Chang Kai-
shek yesterday engaged in q dema-
gogic gesture of resistance" to the
japanese, sending orders to Marshal
Chang Hsiao-liang, a fellow traitor,
to resist to the last man." Chang
himself is neither sending troops,
munitions nor any of his large fleet
of military planes against the Jap
anese invadaSs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

ers-Roosevelt is the medium for in
creasing starvation and the methods
he uses to carry it out means an in
crease in capitalist terror.
Against this new deal for the bank
ers and the rawest kind Of deal for
the toiling masses there must be re-
lentless and determined struggle. This
fierce drive Of the new hunger gov
eminent should spur the workers and
farmers to decisive action against
wage cuts, against high prices, 1t
should be met with increased strug-
gle for emergency relief and unem-
ployment insurance.
Demand Dollars.
In this struggle large strata of the
population represented by small de.
positors, can be involved in special
organization on the basis OF specia
demands-first and foremost O.
which must be full immediate pay
ment in dollars to small depositors
Make the big fellows who are re-
sponsible for the new campaign o
| pillage bear the burdens of their owl
criminaiity.
Workers should demand to be paic
in dollars-not scrip. Meeting
should be held in factories, in mill'
and mines, in all industries, to dis
cuss this and fight indirect wage cuts
Unemployed workers should insis
! upon cash relief.
! The first measures OF Roosevelt
constitute a declaration of more
drastic warfare against the working
class. Take up the challenged Defeat
the Wall Street Roosevelt conspira-
eyk
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, hSar0 at many pQlnUSs Inc na-
tional" and city governments have
increased their military and police
guards in many cities in an effort to
crush the growing popular support
of the call of the Chinese Communist
Party for an armed peoples war
against the Japanese invaders and
the Marking traitors.
Thousands Killed.
The excitement of the masses is
further famed by persistent reports
that the Kuomintang militarists hcve
closed the passes from Jellcl. Prov
ince against the retreating troops,
resulting In their slaughter IN thous-
ands by Japa lese bombing planes,
cavalry and artillery.
In Peiping itself. the police and
gfiMaSg az netroll,ng the working
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.rlI =
prevented by Alexander, Negro work
er, who, besides answering Welsh,
brought to the forefront, again, the
main purposes Of the Conference TO
mob lie united action of all workers
in the struggle for Unemployment,
relief and to compel passage of bills
directed against evictiOns, injunctions
and other legislation in the interests
of the workers.
Hear Negro Delegate
Theodore Parker, a Negro delegate
representing the 18th Street Block
Committee stated that he was for
merly secretary of the Democratic
Club, but experience In unemployed
work disguised him with both the
Republican and Democratic policies
and that he proposes to Join the
Communist Party.
A non-partisan speaker, represent
ing the Unemployed Committee of
the International Workers Order and
the Coney Island Unemployed Coun-
Gil told of a thousand cases including
al nationalities, where relief was
won in the poorest section of Brook
Ign through mass activities, and 155
evictions prevented.
Tells Of Long Hours
Herbert Mendel of the Bakers
Union 1874, Amalgamated Food Work
ers, described 10 to 16 hour day,
though contracts call for an eight
hour day. The conference, he de-
clared, must fight for the limitation
Of hours bill.
Holiday" A Problem
The bank holiday prevents pay
ment for food and other expenses by
check. Delegates gave to the collec-
ton in money to carry on conference.
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RECOGNIZE OUR COMMITTEE,
SAY BROOKLYN TENANTS

NEW YORK.-After a conference
with the landlord, the tenants Of $40
and 444 Williams Ave, Brooklyn have
declared the houses ON strike yes
terday when the owner refused to
recognize the House Committee. The
forty families living in the houses
have already forced the landlords 10
grant reduction in rent.
Organization on the part of the
workers seems to be dread to own
ers Of houses, but these tenants are
determined to make this landlord
agree to their demands; recognition
of the house committee and a re-
duction of Is per cent on the rent.
The East New York Unemployed
Council, 48l New Jersey Avenue, is
leading the tenants.
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a TYPICAL SCENE AND TYPICAL
LYING ANSWER

NEW YORK.-Two to hundred
small depositors stood in line before
the Continental Bank and Trust Co.
at 4th Street and Second Avenue.
They wished to make Withdrawals
but the bank was only receiving
deposits" and not paying out any.
When do We get our money!" was
the question from all sides and the
banks answer?-"We will pay to-
morrow"
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reductions is developed by the vet
Grams, the veterans bill will record
considerable "shrinkage" after treat
ment by the Roosevelt administers
| ton.
This course was indicated with
characteristic demogogy in Roose-
yelt's radio address from his library
In the White House last Sunday
In this address Roosevelt called upon
the veterans to Sacrifice" In the
present times as they did In war,
giving clear indication of his inten-
ton to follow in the footsteps OF
Hocyers '4ceuomyss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
VETS APPROPRIATION FACES CUT
BY RO0SEVEI,TS ADMINISTRATION
Follows in Hoover's Footsteps Who Vetoed the
Vets Bill
Vets Bill

WASHINGTON, D. c., March g.
Roosevelt's administration has beer
squarely confronted with the billion
dollar Veterans appropriation voted
by the 72nd Congress and pocket
vetoed by Hoover.
Hoover refused to approve the bill,
without considerable reduction in the
appropriations for veterans pensions
benefits and other charges. If the
veterans administration is to con-
tinue, the new administration viii
have to act before June 80.
It is safe to predict that unless
organized action assinst |
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Albany Delegates
Work Out Laws
Workers to Greet
Them on Return
more news of Albany Conference
on Page 8
BULLETIN

More news of Albany Conference
on Page 81
BULLETIN
ALBANY, n. Y, March 6.-The
Capitol Building is filled with
State troopers in an attempt to
intimidate the delegates to the
Workers Conference. A committee
is ready to see the Lieutenant Gov
er-lCr tonight in regards to a Joint
session of the Legislature tomorrow
to take up the workers bills.
NEW YORK-A call to all workers
in New York to greet the returning
delegates from the Albany Workers
Conference for Unemployment In
srance, relief and labor LEGISLATION,
at the meeting scheduled for Thurs
day, March 8. p. m. at st. Nicholas
Arena, Goth St., and Columbus Ave,
was issued by the Provisional Com
mittee for the conference.
In addition to reports on the work
of the Conference, one of the prin-
cipal issues at this mass meeting will
be the present banking situation and
IT'S effect on the wage Garner, small
depositors and other sections of the
toiling population. 1t is expected that
by the time of the meeting, a program
of organization and struggle against
losses in wages, small deposits and
ether effects of the banking crisis.
will be presented TO the state legis-
lsture.
ALBANY, March Estate troopers
filled the Capital building, as repre-
sentatives of the Workers Conference
were preparing to attend a confer
ence with Lieutenant Governor Bray
and leaders of both houses of the
State Legislature for joint session
of the Legislature to consider bills
presented by committee OF IL from
the Workers Conference.
Two delegates of the Spartacus
Youth Club Of New York Just ar
rived. They had been taken off the
freight train at Kingston Saturday
and held in Jail.
Take Up Reports
During yesterdays session the
conference discussed reports made by
Carl Winters and Clarence Hathaway
yesterday. Attempts by Lovestonites,
especially Welsh of the Association
of Unemployed to turn proceedings
into debate on party policies was
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'tensification of the difference
in the bourgeois camp owing tc
the autocratic attitude of the
Nazis towards their allies.
100000 Red Votes
Despite the atmosphere of terror
ism and repression in which Sundays
elections were conducted, the German
Communist Party received approx
mately five million votes. This is
about one million less than in the
Reichstag elections last November,
but 100000 more than in 1880.
The Communist votes are particu-
larly significant because the chief
repressiVe measures of the govern
ment have been directed against the
Communist Party, with confiscation
OF election campaign material, pro-
hlbition OF the whole Communists
press and of Communist election
meetings and demonstrations, and
mass arrests of Communist function
aries, over 5000 of whom are now in
jail. In addition, Communist watch
erS were absent from the polls, as all
known Communist workers are sub
jected to immediate arrest.
The votes lost by the Communist
Party went partly to the Socialist
Party, as many Communist synlpa-
thizers expected the invalidation of
the Communist mandates. The So
clallstS suffered small losses, but I'M
doubleday many former Socialist
voters went to the Nazis and were
replaced by former Communist
voters,
The Centrist Party shows 2 fair
increase, but lost control of Bavaria
to the Nazis. The Nazis claim a vote
OF 17,300,0o0, about A per cent of the
total poll. Their present Nationalist
allies barely gained 4 or cent over
their last November vote. The two
parties together barely obtained the
necessary majority, claiming So per
cent of the total poll According to
these figures, the new Reichstag will
be composed as follows: Nazis will
have 288 seats; the Nationalist, So;
the Communists, Sd; the Socialists,
118, the Centrists and Bavarian Peo-
pies Party, 81; smaller parties, IL;
State (DemocratS) 5.
The police announced today that
six arrested Communist leaders were
shot dead while attempting to escape
in the courtyard of the Obe-hausen
High School in the Rhineland," the
usual pretext for this type of murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
PICTURES OF UNEMPLOYMENT
DEMONSTRATION, AT ACME

On the same program with Under
the Roofs of Paris" the Acme Thea
ire is presenting the first pictures Of
the Unemployment Relief Demon
stration held on Union Square on
Saturday. Pictures Of the demon
strations in other cities, taken by the
management. including Albany, Buff
falo, etc, will be shown at the Acme
as quickly as released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
LAW ENCOURAGES FORE
CLOSURES

PHOENIX, Ariz.-Arizona bankers
can well profit through mortgage
foreclosures All property under jur-
isdiction of the banks exempt from
all taxation of the City, State, and
County governments. Even if the
property lies idle after the worker or
farmer has been evicted the banks
have nothing to worry about on this
score Of taxation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
PRESIDENT BARS
NEGRO GROUP
Wont See Delegates
for Negro Rights
NEWS FLASH

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rooseyelt'.
police, armed with shotgilns, gas and
clubs, in a brutal attack on a loca,
demonstration, melted out the new
deal" OF the new President as the
latter tried to side-track the workers
delegation demanding the special
session OF Congress take up unem-
ployment insurance and the protec-
tic1 of the small depositor caught in
the c4ak crisis.
Roosevelt. interested only in saving
the bankers, instructed his secretary
Howe, to evade the delegation, with
the demands adopted at the National
Conference here March and 5.
A delegation of Is workers will de-
nnand a conference with Roosevelt
at the White House today.
SCOTTSBORO, Ala, March g.
Judge Hawkins postponed render
ing q decision on the motions
filed in behalf of the 8 Scottsboro
Boys by the attorneys for the In
ternational Labor Defense until to-
morrow.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today refused to see
delegation Of Negro and white per-
sons, headed by William l.. Patterson,
Of New York, which came here to ap-
pear before the Governors Confer
ence to protest against the fragrant
violation Of the constitutional rights
OF the Negro People by the federal
and various State governments and
the courts. The decision refusing to
see the delegates was given to Pat
terson by the presidents secretary,
Howe.
Will Return.
Patterson replied in the name of
the delegation that the delegation
would return within few days re-
inforced. The delegation is CON-
posed of representatives of 81 organ
izations of Negro and white workers,
with an approximate membership of
100000.
Raise Scottsboro Issue.
The delegation will visit Miss Per-
dns, Roosevelt'o Secretary of Labor,
10 protest against the growing at
tack on foreign born Negro and white
workers and demand a halt to de-
portations. 1t will also visit several
Senators to raise the question of the
lynch terror against the Negro mas
ses, the frame-up and attempt to le-
gally lynch the nine innocent Scots
boro boys, the chain gang sentence
against Angelo Herndon and the lynch
X verdict against Fuel Lee and other
NEGRO victims Of capitalist justice.
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Nea1,S Briefs
sEAMEN REFUSE TO TAKE SCRIP

SEAMEN REFUSE TO TAKE SCRIP
NEW YORK.-The Marine Workers
Industrial Union issued a statement
to seamen in New York today calling
their attention to the fact that U. S.
shipping articles specify payment in
lawful currency which scrip is not,
taking advantage of the so-called
holiday" the Standard Oil Company
shipped out the crew OF the James
Magee without pay due and said they
would be paid in scrip on their re-
turn. The S. S. Leviathan intends to
sail Wednesday without a pay-off for
the time the crew has been working
in port. The union calls upon all
ships crews dock gangs to take &C
ton for cash wages.
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MooNEY-sCoTTsBORo MEET

PHOENIX, Ariz.-About $50 Negro,
white and Mexican workers were
present at the Tom Meoney-ScOtts-
boro meeting, held recently. Reso-
1utions for new trial Of Tom Moo
ney, and for the release OF the
5cottsboro victims were passed, as
we'll protests against the imperial
list war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
GERMAN NAILS ANNOUNCE
THEY WILL DISSOLVE The
new ELECTED REICHSTAC
100000 Voted Communist Despite Ban on All
Election Activity
Hitler Cops Murder Six Jailed Communist
Leaders
(BY Innrecorr CahIe.l

BERLIN, March 6-The NaZis already have announced
heir intention OF using the majority secured in
sundays election to dissolve the ReChstag forcing thru
resolution authorizing the government to continue in
for a period of several years.
The NaN victory will probably lead to an ;ncreasad in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
PRES. ROOSEVELT, WALL ST.
AGENT, DEGREES SCRIP"
PAY ROLLS FOR WORKERS
Proclaims a Nationwide Bank Closing; Living
Cost Rises
Small Depostors Organize for 100 Cents on
Dollar in Cash

WASHINGTON March 6.-ROosevelt late last night in
vOked wartime measure the trading with the enemy act
for the next step his hunger drive against the working class
He declared ouday bank holiday which under the he
invoked prevents the expectation, the boarding