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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

men and women are learning the
lesson of organization and the power
Of disciplined numbers and strength"
Hollis E. Taylor, president of the
Fort Richmond unit of the League,
couldn't share Napears enthusiasm
and neither could the audience, judg-
ing from the ovation Taylor enioyed.
81 asked Wagner to urge a direct
loan for home owners, Taylor
related, reporting on a home
owners delegation to Washington.
mo, no, no." Wagner replied. 'It
can't be done"
Ex-Congressman La Guardia, after
praising himself for his "radicalisn"
and attacking vague bankers and
politicians urged the homeowners
TO make their demands known be-
fore the president. 81 know he's in
sympathy with you" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

tons Of the jobless homeownerS-
against foreclosures; no deficiency
judgments, and relief for destitute
homeowners from all relief agencies.
The militant spirit of the meet
ing and the fighting program adopt
ed was given its most clearest ex-
preston by Mother Bloor, regional
secretary of the Farmers National
Committee for Action, representing
five farm groups. The veteran labor
fighter made flying trip from Sioux
City, Iowa, to bring a message Of
solidarity and greeting from the
farmers.
"You must join hands with the
100000 unemployed of America, .
the silver-haired veteran urged.
Gripping the audience the moment
she jumped to her feet, she told
them:
Don't think the farmers fight be-
longs just to them. Eishty-f1ve per
cent Of the farm population is in the
eastern states. They too are fight
ing evictions. The fight against the
system which made these conditions
possible is your fight. Everywhere
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

1 only that 1t was more cluttered. The
! children ran around barefooted, Their
thin legs straaEed with coal dust.
I The mother had so much to do pre-
pairing meals and mending clothes
picked up from the dumps or gotten
from charity organization that she
never had much time to think of how
she was bringing up her children.
The work and the long hours were
telling on her. She was under thirty
five but looked fifty.
"She Got Rheumatism
"She got rheumatism" the mother
explained. you see its hard to keep
this cabin dry when it rains. The
water leaks in from the roof"
The list of barge changes with
the tides and the towing and the
loosely joined planks of the cabin
roof frequently come apart. The
captain never knows when roof
might leak Only when the rain
starts dripping in does he know. But
it rained at night when everybody
was asleep rained directly on the
mattress in the kitchen where the girl
slept. When they awoke in the morn
ing her bed was very damp
She had not been feeling well any
way. She never had been a healthy
child. None Of their children were
very healthy and the parents could
not understand why. 1t was shortly
after her bed was soaked that she de-
veloped rheumatic fever.
They kept her in a hospital two
weeks" the mother added. ut was a
awful clean place. Everything was
white and the beds were clean. l
asked her when I went to visit her
and she said there was no bed bugs"
Gee" she sighed. lit must be nice
to be in hospital with nothing to do
but lay in a bed"
But sometimes a barge captain
would rather wander the streets with
his children or sleep in the doorways
around the docks rather than con-
tinue to live in the filthy cabins.
There was the case of one tied up in
the East River who took his wife and
two children and deserted the barge
because his little girl was being
eaten alive by the bed bugs"
Eyes, sir" said the captain who told
me the story He just took them
children and his woman right off the
barge and went to some charity place.
He just couldn't get rid of the bugs
and one night he woke up because his
little girl was crying and when he
looked at her there must have been
a million bed bugs all over that poor
kid.
$50 he took them away. That very
night he did"
So children die on barges and the
hospital records say rheumatism" or
infection" and only the barge cap
tains know where the rheumatism
and the infections come from.
So some die but the most of them
live on in theSfilth and Squalor.
Holy Kidnappers
Sometimes "Jesus screamers," as
the barge captains call the preach
ears, come aboard and try to take
the children from the mothers to be
put in homes. But even barge mothers
have not lost the instinct for their
brood and they fight desperately to
keep their children. That is why
children are hidden in the "cutaways"
below the cabin when strangers APP
proach. Mothers are always afraid
that their children will be taken from
them and put in homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
N.Y.U. Students HOPES Slim
for Jobs After Graduation

NEW YORK.-The immediate sal
airy hopes Of the New York Univer-
sity seniors have dwindied to the
point where they expect to be earn
ing no salary by September after
graduating of this year, poll Of
the uptown graduating class revealed.
This class includes the College of
Arts and Pure Sciences, attended
mainly by sons of middle-cla par
ents who before the crisis had plenty
of connections to place their sons af-
ter graduation. Previously these SEN
iors had said they would be earning
an average of $50 weekly Immediately
after graduation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

Shortly after 4 o'clock the decisive
attack was made. Eight closed taxis
drove at great speed one behind the
other straight up to the barbados.
The guards near the Nettelbeckplaz
had allowed the taXis to pass in good
faith
Before the workers on the barri-
cades could take cover policemen in
plain clothes jumped out of the cars
and opened a furious fire on the al
lev They drove forward at the point
of the revolver the thirteen workers
who had fallen into their hands, and
compelled them to tear down the bar
ricades. The prisoners were used as
cover against the shots Of the work
ers. During the first attack Kurt had
a small revolver mere toy in his
large hands. Nevertheless he had
felt he was not left completely help
less. Now, when he put his hands
In his pocket he discovered to his de-
spair that he had lost it when carry
ing rafters for the barbados. There
was no possibility OF replacing it. All
the swearing in the world would not
help. But at any rate he could put
up bluff-"And that gang" he
thought sis terrified even Of blanks"
So he knelt down in the middle OF
the empty street and taking pile Of
incendiary caps from his pocket
placed one after the other carefully
on fig-stone.
Peng it made quite nice bang!
The next one-peng =! He was
soon an expert in detoning the cap
by hitting it with small stone Now
he placed three or four Of the small
copper things together. BANG! That
sounded Ike something real.
Sssss t pfffee . fl bone! The
bullets of the police whistled around
his ears. They took the flashes Of
the caps for shots and fired furiously
in his direction. Lead squirted on to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Stage and Screen
metropolitan Opera Chorus
and Hall johnson Choir
at Stadium This Season

Tho Metropolitan Opera Chorus viii an
pear with the Philharmonic Symphony Or
chestra this coming summer at the sta
dun Concerts. The full mixed chorus Of
70 voices will be heard in two programs. the
first in July, and the second in August one
OF the programs will be devoted to Wagner.
the other to mixed excerpts from the Ital-
ian and French operate repertoire. The
chorus is being trained for these appear-
ances by Albert Sciaretti the performances
will be conducted by Hans Lange.
In addition to these unusual choral
events, two popular choral features are
again planned. The Ninth Symphony Of
Beethoven with the assistance of the Schola
Cantorum Chorus and the Hall johnson
Negro Choir with Hall johnson directing.
The Stadium public will find Mishe Piastro,
concert master OF the Philharmonic-syn1-
phony Orchestra. seated in his accustomed
place, as well as Reno Bolognini. the as
sistant concert master.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Scenes on the Barges Of the N. Y. Waterfront

She got rheG-
IN q tbs m y the
mother explained.
"YOu see it's hard
to keep this cabin
dry when it rains.
photo left. The
W 2 t r leaks in
fro m the Roof"
This is what a
b ar g e captains
wife told John L.
Spivak, the au-
thor of the ae-
cOmpanying ar
ticle which tells
of how a twelve
year-old girl died
as a result of
rheumatic fev err
from sleeping in
a rain soaked bed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
CHICAGO s. P.
SPLIT YOUTH DAY
UNITED FRONT
Order Socialist Youth
to Leave Conference
After Agreement

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 24.-The Ma
tional Youth Day conference held on
May ID endorsed by "a organizations.
The conference which was called on
the initiative of the Young Commu-
mist League also included representa-
tives Of the Young Peoples Socialist
League.
Three representatives of the Ma
tional Committee Of the Y.P.SL. were
present. One of them, Fish, declared
as representative of the National
Executive Committee I pledge to do
everything possible to build and re-
main in this united front. Hope this
example of Chicago is followed thru
cut the country"
Ordered to Split
On May % a meeting of the Social
list Party county executive committee
was held. This meeting decided that
the YP.S.L. withdraw from this
united front which had already been
agreed upon. No reasons were given
for this action. Fish, Mcdowell and
Jaffee, members of the National COM
mittee then withdrew from the con-
ference.
The leadership of the Socialist
Party and its youth organization are
acting as strike breakers in Il eir oS-
forts to destroy workers unity.
The Young Communist League is
sued an appeal to the members of
the Young Peoples Socialist League to
violate the decision of it's national
body Many members expressed de
termination to participate in t1e pa
rade and demonstration on National
Youth Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
BY JOHN L. SPVIAK.
ARTICLE U

She was twelve years old when she
died. The doctor said she got rheu-
matte fever from sleeping in rain
soaked bed.
They took the child to a hospital
from the coal barge moored off 123rd
Street and the Harlem River while
her parents and her little brothers
and sisters looked on alphabetically.
For twelve years the girl and two
little brothers and a baby sister had
lived on barge. Some slept in the
makeshift bed room furnished with
things picked up at the city dumps.
The others slept in the kitchen. Dur
ing her whole life her father had
been towed about New York harbor
earning his two dollars a day when
loaded with coal and a dollar day
when Tight" That was in the we'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

P h OF o right
elbows 4-year- old
boy at work on a
barge. Thousands
of children like
h | m hold down
jobs and dispIace
grown men who
walk the streets
idle and hungry.
Jesus screamers,"
as the barge cap
tainS call the
preachers, "come
aboard and try to
take the children
from the mothers
to be put in
homes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
WHAT'S ON
Thursdnn-

DANCE-Domestc Workers Section Of
FWIU for benefit of the Foltis-Fischer
strike at Estonian Hall, 20 West 115th St.
Admission 25c. Support US by comingl
INFLATIoN-Milton Howard, Education
meeting Office Workers Union Labor
Temple, 242 E. 14th st. p. m.
CLASS IN MOVIE, 7:3O pm, workers
Film g. Photo League, 220 E. i4th st. All
invited Expert instructor free
OUTLOOK FOR THE COLLEGE GRADU-
ATE, Pen & Hammer. ia w. 21st st., $50
pm. Open forum follows. Lecturer, Martha
Andrews.
SOVIET RUSSIA THRU THE CAMERAS
EYE" illustrated lecture, Community
Church, $50 W 10th ST. NEAR Broadway
Adm. free Latest scenes from U.sSR
Auspices West Side Br,. Fs.U. $40 pm
LECTURE Labor and the Theatre" by
strassbourE. Nature Friends Center, 10 e.
nth st., $50 pm.
(BrOnE)
ANTI-WAR MASS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
J. Cohen, Liston NJ. Oak Dr. s lie Roy,
Paradise Manor, II W. Mt. Eden Ave 8
(BrOokIyn)
MASS PROTEST NETTING Against t',e
arrest Of Anna Hall and against the sem
tence of Gonshak to two years in Jail.
ESQ pm 400 13th Ave. Auspices, Ella
May Br.. lid. Adm free.
INCARCERATION DEFENSE COMMIT
TEE. fighting the deportation OF militant
worker, Jim Grafton. irish Free State, star
Of Monster. 18Th St. and Willis Ave Two
bands. Irish and American dancing
Friday
PED DANCERS STUDIO PARTY. II Fifth
Ave. Entertainments. refreshments and
dancing. Adm rs cents.
LID. DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT
Tdttiefc pr
Hotel st. George. Adm. 90 cents; $40 pm
MASS MEETING, 249 Glove Rd.. West
Brighton. All Veterans attendl Concrete
Factsl Auspices WEsL. Come and learn
something new
Announcement
FREMONT WORKERS CLUB announces
opening of Its new headquarters at Ire
mont and Prospect AYES. Lester Carter will
speak Friday, May 49, $3.50 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Marine Union to Stage Huge
Anti-WU Festival in June

NEW YORK. of marine
workers, fishermen, sailors, longshore-
men and other harbor workers will
attend the second annual conven-
ton Of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union here in July
In preparation for the convention,
the union has arranged to stage a
huge Anti-War Festival in Starlight
Park Stadium on June 81.
A gala program OF sports, theatre
groups, dancing, ETC. to be climaxed
by an unusual type Of mass pageant
has been arranged.
Workers and workers organizations
are asked TO call for tickets to sell
among their members at the head
quarters of the festival committee at
8 East 18th Street. Phone: TO 64518I.
Demonstrate against imperiaIist
war! All out National Youth Day,
Nav qnf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
Natl Youth Day to
Stress Negro Rights

NEW YORK.-May 30, National
Youth Day, will be made the occasion
Tor mighty struggle for the Scots
Zorro boys and the rights of the Ne
gro people, according to a statement
issued yesterday by the Young Com
munist League. The day, observed
by working class youth and adults
throughout the whole world. will be
featured by ,Scottsboro protest DEM
onstrations, parades and mass meet
ings.
In New York City the main demon
stration will take place in Harlem,
with preliminary meetings in the
downtown and Bronx sections to rally
large groups of white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
SMALL HOME OWNERS CHEER
MOTHER BLOOR IN STATEN IS.
Brings Farmers Message of Solidarity in
Fight Against Foreclosures

NEW NOTWITHSTANDING the
Owners Defense League at Curtis High School,
land Friday night thousand called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

THE prOetarian
Wedding demonstrate 1929 despite the
Chief Zoebe The workers demonstration Is at
tackled by the police.
carrcade is erected which is also attacked by the police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25

Down with Hitler fascism! De-
mand the release of ThaeImann and
Torgler! Demonstrate National Youth
Day, May 80!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-25
(Bronr)

ANrI-WAR MASS MEETING-speakers
J. Cohen, Liston NJ. Oak. Dr. s. lie Roy
Paradise Manor, II W. Mt. Eden Ave. {
pm Adm. free Auspices, Mt. Eden Br FSU
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
EDITOR SPEAKS
To GRADUATES

Success will come to those en-
terprising young men and women
who have the imagination to
think up new jobs which have
never been done before, Joy Elmer
Morgan, editor of the Journal OF
the National Education Associa-
ton, last night told $50 graduates
of Central High School at their
commencement exercises.
Declaring that this country
needs higher standard of living,
the editor described some of the
new occupations which should be
introduced in the future.
He scored alley dwellings as
'below standards of common de-
cency" and stated that they must
be rebuilt, thereby creating new
jobs.
Jere j. Crane, first assistant su-
perintendent of schools, awarded
the diplomas.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Whistles on Tails,
Pigeons GiUe
Air RecitGlS

One Of the curious customs OF
the Chinese is attaching tiny
whistles to the tails of young
pigeons, says the Department Of
Commerce.
Extremely fond of birds Of all
sorts, the Chinese procures the
young pigeons and fastens the
instrument to its tail by fine
copper wire. The growing bird
quickly becomes accustomed to
it in the manner that we are
accustomed to pair of shoes.
The whistles are made OF
light wood and weigh no more
than a few grams. All the
whistles in the flock are at.
tuned differently so that morn
ings and evenings, when the
pigeons circle, the wind-cur-
rents blowing through the aper-
lures play an open-air concert.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
RAILROAD WAGE
SLASH PLAN
DROPPED

: Railroad employees were assured
continuation of their present
wage today, following an agree
1nent between the rail heads and
Joseph B. Eastman, Federal CO
ordinator of transportation.
Under the agreement the rail-
roads will surrender until June
80, 1884, the right to seek a fur
ther reduction in employees wages.
: The railroads on June is gave
notice of their intention Of declar-
ing q further wage reduction OF
12h per cent Of the basic wage
rate, in addition to the 10 per
cent reduction already accepted by
the rail brotherhoods under the
Chicago agreement.
Cooperate With Roosevelt
SIN announcing the abandon
Snent of the wage reduction plan
by the operators, Eastman said:
"ThiS agreement has been
reached because both the rail-
roads and the employees wish to
do nothing which would in any
way embarrasS or threaten the
present policy of the Admins
fration. They realize that the
Government has embarked upon
q wholly new policy designed to
nrOmOte business and industrial
activity and to further general
welfare.
; Neither side relinQuishes in
any way its views as to what
wages should be, but they have
agreed to q pOStponement Of
the controversy out Of defer
ence to what they believe to be
the desire of the Administra-
zion and the general public
Interest"
Voluntary Agreement
Eastman said the agreement
was reached voluntarily, adding {:
81 desire to express my
whOle-hearted appreciation Of
the attitude of both parties.
They have been reasonable and
amicable and they merit the
COmmcndatiOn Of the country"
The present agreement between
the carriers and the rail en-
ployes, by wl1ich the workers re-
ceive but 80 per cent of the basic
wage scale, now will remain un-
changed until next June, although
the original agreement between
the carriers and employees was
to have expired on October 81,
this year.
The agreement must be ratified
by the brotherhoods before July
- in order to become effective,
but that procedure is expected to
follow without delay.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
27O Courses Taught
At Summer School

The twenty-third annual sum-
mer school session of Catholic
University will open Monday, with
registration for all classes begin
ming tomorrow.
More than 27O courses will
be offered in 20 departments,
with the teaching staff to in
clude 65 members of the regular
faculty and AZ visiting teachers.
The Pacific Coast branch of
the summer session, renewed last
year after having been diScon-
tinued for some years, is to be
held in San Rafael, Calf.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Head of Princeton
! Gets Yale DeQree

NEW HAVEN, June %. - Dr.
Harold Willis Dodds, new presi'
dent Of Princeton University, and
Pearl s. Buck, missionary and
novelist, were among those receiv'
ing honorary degrees from Yale
University at the 232d COM
mencement of 1,121 graduates yes
terday.
Among others upon whom hon
orary degrees were conferred
was Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon
General Of the United States, doc.
tor of laws.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
III. B. NeUiLLs Named
Ontin1iRt GODernOl

H. B. Nevius, Of this city, was
named governor Of the Sixteenth
District Of Optimist Clubs yester-
day. The district is composed Of
clubs in washington, Baltimore
and Richmond.
The international Optimist con-
vention opened today with head
quarters at the Mayflower Hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Woman, II, Stabbed
7Tin1eS With O. Pick

Ivorine PearSall, colored. 21,
the First block L st. N. E., is in
serious condition in Casualty Hos
pital from injuries received in an
argument last night. Police said
the woman was stabbed seven
times in the chest with an ice
pick by a colored man whose
name was given to them.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Rep. Montague Out
After Iona Illness

RICHMOND. Va, June 22.-Rep-
reSentative Andrew jackson Mon
tague, former governor of Vir-
ginia, who succeeded the late
Capt. John Lamb, Confederate
veteran, in Congress, is now able
TO be up after an illness of sew
eral months. He recently under
went an operation in a local hos
Dital
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Charity Solicitor
ADDe1LS From Fine

Appeal of Paul Kelly, Of Rich.
mond, solicitor for a charitable
organization, who was convicted
some months ago of soliciting in
Arlingtn county without a permit,
will be heard Monday in Circuit
Court at Arlington court house.
Kelly was fined SIS and costs
at a hearing before the trial court
and appealed to the Circuit Court.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Advertise Together,
Retail Men Urged

Cooperative advertising in re-
tail business was urged Of mem
bers of the New Center Market
Dealers Association by Arthur c.
Smith, head of the Federation OF
Business Mems Associations, last
night. Sales would be increased,
he said, while cooperative adver-
Using would cut the individual
costs.
The Washington times., 1933-06-22
Burns PrOUe Fatal
To 3-Yenr-OLd Girl

Burns received Sunday while
she was playing in the backyard
at her home caused the death of
Ethel Jennings, colored, 8, of the
900 block Forty-seventh Pl. N. E.,
in Casualty Hospital yesterday.
The child's clothing was ignited
from a pile of trash her mother
was burning in the yard.
The producers news., 1933-06-09
FARM EXPORTS
CONTINUE
Deepening of World Crisis
Drives Down u. S. Farm
Products Export

The sharpening of the
world economic crisis carried
down the index of exports of
farm products to SO in April.
Exports of wheat and flour
were only 1,754,OOO bushels.
Exports of wheat and flour
during the ten months ended
April 80 were 37,982,OOO
bushels compared with 49,
$4,000 bushels during the
corresponding period of the
previous year.
With the exception of fruit and
tobacco, all farm products were
bslow the pre-war volume. Based
on the pre-war volume as 100 the
index numbers were: grains and
grain products, %; animal pro-
ducts, Sc; dairy products and eggs
"a; cotton, 65; wheat and flour,
20; hams and bacon, 81; lard SO.
The volume of fruit exported was
at 154 and tobacco at 118.
The producers news., 1933-06-09
NATIONAL YOUTH DAY.
MEET ATTACKED, COPS.
JAIL SEVEN WORKERS.
SMALL COMPANIES
HIT SHARPEST BY
INSURANCE DECLINE.

Despite the ballyhoo turned out
oy the insurance companies. in
April reported by 43 insurance
companies controlling 81 per cent
OF the total volume of life insur-
ance outstanding in United States
legal reserve companies, showed a
drop Of 23.5 per cert from a wear
ago.
The figures show that while the
insurance as a whole is declining,
the drop has been most noticeable
among the smaller and otherwise
weaker companies. This drop in
business, together with a deprecia-
tion in the value of the companies
assets, has caused a number of
failures and receiverships and an
increased corcentration in the
business.
VIM. A. Berridge, economist of
the Metropolitan Life, declares
that the ten largest companies
have SO per cent of the assets
while the next ten have 13 per
cent of the assets. Thus 20 CON-
panies control 80 per cent of the
total assets of all the U. S. legal
reserve insurance companies.