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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Typo Union No. 6
Votes for Strike Il
Demands Not Met
AT. Il. Members Ask
'29 Scale, 30-Hr. Week,
Jobless Insurance

NEW YORK-Members Of Typo
graphical Union of the A F. of L..
voted unanimously to strike, if the
publishers fail to meet their demands,
at a special membership meeting Sun
day, December at Stuyvesant High
School.
The printers are calling for a 80
hour week at the 1929 wage scale and
the 1evying of per cent assessment
on the publishers pay rolls for I'M
employment relief.
The strike vote was taken following
the rejection Of the publishers
counter proposal for IS hour week
and an hourly wage Of $685. by an
overwhelming vote Of COL to 4. The
Unions Scale Conference Committee,
which had met with the publishers
in 13 daily sessions, unanimously urged
the rejection Of the publishers offer
in its report to the membership and
was upheld without a dissenting vote.
eff we are to take care of our I'M
employed as well as our employed
members" said one Of the speakers,
I'VE must vigorously insist on our
three basic demands. The sentiment
for strike here is warning to the
publishers and Mr.. Howard that we
are determined to get what we want"
Charles P. Howard, president of the
International Typographical Union
has repeatedly refused to sanction a
strike when asked by the local. His
famous slogan is 1.-THE International
is committed to arbitration"
At union meeting recently when
the scale committee vas elected, the
membership instructed the committee
to refuse arbitration Of any part of
the proposed scale.
The speakers at the Sunday meet
ing stressed the Importance of a slid
ing scale to overcome the Roosevelt
imitation policy and the committee
was instructed to negotiate on this
basis. The Union turned down sug-
gested changes by the publishers in
certain shop practices which they
have tried to put over for years at the
expense of the printers.
The old newspaper scale expired
yesterday and the union is rallying
for militant decisive action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
After Feb. Is, Who
knowsp Says CWA
Head to Delegates
Hunger Hearings Go
Forward Preparing
for Dec. 10 Meet

NEW YORK-"The money is to
provide Jobs until Feb. Is; after that,
who knows?" was the brutally calIous
answer mnde by Frederick Daniels.
Executive Director Of the State Civil
Works Administration to a United
Front workers delegation last Friday
The decoration which demanded as
surances that Negroes and single
workers would not be Disseminated
against by the eva, consisted of
representatives from the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
Furniture Workers Industrial Union
United Women's Council and the
Unemployed Council.
Wants Proof
Daniels, who had ATTEMPTED to evade
the delegation, airily denied all of the
charges of discrimination and de-
manded proof
Mass Hunger Hearings to secure the
open discrimination proof Daniels re-
ouested and to prepare for the Dec.
10 Conference Against Unemployment
at irving Plaza, are going on through
out the city. The 200 workers who
attended such a hearing at the st.
Georges Church Sunday, called by the
West Side Council, unanimously en-
dorsed demonstration to be held
Friday at the Home Relief Bureau.
The workers will mobilize first at the
Turkish Workers Club, 402 w. 4oth
Street, at II O'Clock.
Workers Speak
Workers arose spontaneously from
the audience at the Hunger Hearing
to tell of their plight in the fifth
winter of the depression. Mrs. Da
Vigo, an italian mother with family
of eight, told how she was forced to
beg in the street because the Home
Relief Bureau denied her aid when
she refused to send her son to the
C.C.C. military camp. A Bear Noun
tain worker spoke Of the hardships he
had to pass through on this forced
labor Job.
A similar Hunger Hearing will be
held Thursday, Dec. 7, by Locals
and 8 Of the Workers Committee on
Unemployment together with the
Downtown Committee Of Action at
the East Side Workers Club, 1875 East
Broadway at $3.50 pm.
The hearing to be held by the East
Side Unemployed Council will be pre-
coded by a demonstration at the 18th
Street Relief Bureau, demanding more
relief and opposing all rent cuts. The
workers will meet at BAT e. 72nd st.
at IL am
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
u. S. Keeps Gold Bid
Steady as Big Govt
Financing Due Soon
To Continue Initiation
Drive, Officials
Declare

NEW YORK. Dec. 5.--Following
the same tactics that it pursued
earlier in the year, the Roosevelt gov
eminent is soft-pedalling for time
it's aggressive inflationary moves to
prepare for the s70ooo0,0oo govern
ment loan refunding that Is coming
in the middle of next week.
Then, it will again resume its price
raising program through further pur-
chases of gold abroad.
The present price for gold has
been maintained at s34.01 an ounce,
SO that the dollar rose to IS cents
for the day, after having touched a
low of SO cents last week. Govern
ment bonds also rose in response to
this temporary hating of the Roose-
welt initiation drive abroad.
1t was made clear by Treasury Of
fiicals that the temporary stop in
gold bidding has in no way affected
Roosevelt's resolve to continue cheap
ening the dollar in his fight to drive
wedge into foreign markets to
permit United States monopolies to
enter with their products. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
1000 Cheer Call for
Fight on Lynchers
at Harlem Meeting
Adopt Resolution De.
nouncing Decatur
Verdict

NEW YORK-For the third time in
two days thousands of Nero and
white workers assembled In Scots
boro protest demonstration in Harlem
hurled back their answer to the De-
catur lynch verdict against Haywood
Patterson when last Sunday NIGHT
over 1000 anti-lvnchine f1ehters
packed the huge Rockland Palace,
155th st. and 9Th Ave.
A few hours before, there had been
N overflow meeting in front Of the
Two. Hall, as Lenox Ave, in sup-
port e an Emergency Scottshoro anti
lyr1ching conference in which. despite
the brief notice, 149 delegates repre-
senting As organizations took part.
Sundays meeting was militant. The
assembled workers responded with
thunderous applause as Richard B.
Moore, General Secretary Of the
League for Negro Rights, raised the
demands of the recent Baltimore
anti-lynching conference.
Moore Calls For Militant Struggle
1--WE are seeing the rise of fascism
in the United States" Moore declared.
1.-THE Negro people must rise to the
occasion. With correct leadership,
they will answer the brutal challenge
Of the lynch lords. And they will not
have to fight alone. The white toilers
will fight by their side.
Jack Stachel, Assistant National
Secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League, pledged the support of the
revolutionary unions and the opposi-
ton groups in the A. F. of L. in mob
LIKING the workers for the Scottsboro
mass defense. The white workers, he
declared, must be as much concerned
as any Negro worker over the Decatur
verdict. The T.U.UL. looks on the
question not only as a challenge to
the Negro masses but to the whole
working class. He drew parallel
with the rise Of Hitlerism in Ger
many, pointing out how the ruling
class and the Social Democratic lead
ers paved the way for fascism. Lynch
terror will be used not only against
the Negroes, but against the white
workers. Already, under the N.R.A.,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
SSO,OOO,NO loan
Dawes Got frOmRN
Is Now in Default

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA huge
loan of 100000 made to the Dawes
Central Republic Bank of Chicago BIZ
the r. F. G. is now in default, the
records of the r. F. G. disclosed to-
day.
This loan, the largest Of the Hoover
administration to any bank, was
made to the Dawes bank two weeks
after Dawes resigned as the head OF
the r. F. G. He resigned, it was
said, to avoid having to approve the
loan to his own bank. After resign
ing from the r. F. G. he became
head Of his bank again.
Collateral Depreciates
The huge loan, r. r. G. officials
explain. was secured by sufficient
collateral. Examination, however, re-
veals that the loan is secured b.
paper whose face value is only
slightly above $4,000 900. At the
present price levels, it is a certainty
that the collateral is now valued at
far below this figure, so that the de-
fault means the likelihood that the
greater part of the loan will never be
repaid. The Dawes bank is now In
bankruptcy,
Roosevelt Follows
The policy of lending huge sums Of
government funds to big banks
through the r. F. c. has been con-
tinued by the Roosevelt government.
1t is a fact given but little pub
iicity that Roosevelt's present chalr-.
man of the r. +. c., Jesse Fl. yone4
arranged and approved SS0,000,-
900 loan to Oklahoma banks b
which he is interested.
The r.. F. G. loaned over $500. 0O0,-
900 to banks, railroads, trust COM
panies, etc. More than two and q
half billion dollars is still outstand-
ing as unpaid. Large portions Of
these government loans which are. II
reality, subsidies, have gone for the
payment of interest payments to
bondholders. dividends. rents. etc, y
bankers and Wall Street invoG>G
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Start Talk Of New
Public Works Plan
Already Has Hints of
Subsidies to Big
Railroads

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-To con-
ceal the fact that the present Public
Works Fund has already been prac-
tically all allocated without having
any effect on the army of 100000
jobless, a new announcement of a
projected $14,oO0,o00 public works was
made public today.
No provisions for financing or any
other details were made public, ex-
cept that it provides large subsidies
for railroads, industrial monopolies, all
cloaked with the same talk of hous-
ing improvement that preceded the
present Public Works program, which
In practice has been mainly war
building program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05

has broken his promise of min
imum and union wage scales,
and further proves that concessions
can be won on @. W. A. Jobs through
the organized strength Of the work
ars.
Working under the Temporary
Emergency Work Relief Admiristra-
ton, the workers had received $40 per
month for 96 hours; under the pro-
posed G. W. A, arbitrarily meted our
to them, they would have received
$50 for 100 hours, minus $40 for
transportation charges, or $50 per
month. AS a result OF the strike the
workers won an increase to S72 per
months for 100 hours, minus SO for
transportation charges, leaving thepa
with a net monthly wage Of s64..
One group of Bear Mountain work
ers who had been working on Home
Work Relief during the past year
we're informed last Saturday that
they would go on Civil Works pay
Monday, with shorter working week
and corTespondingly smaller pay. In
the past the yhad received $24 per 46
hour week With two weeks work PEI
Month Under the 9. w. A. tSey
were told that they would work
throughout the month for SIS per 30
hour week With transportation
charges deducted this would have
actually meant Is per cent wage re-
duction, when one take into consid-
Grafton the increase in hours from IS
to 120.
Strike Meeting on Train
This group called a strike meeting
on the train on the return trip from
work Saturday and voted to call a
strike. It was decided to deputize the
entire group to pull out on strike the
ether group, when they reported at
Weehawken ferry for the trip to Bear
Mountain on Monday.
At $50 the workers assembled or
the ferry dock at And st. Word was
sent around that a strike was in pro-
greSs. The police In their usual
strike-breaking role, broke up groups
of more than three workers and ended
UP by herding the entire crowd on
to the Weehawken ferry. Assembled
at the railroad terminal in Wee
hawken, the workers refused to board
the train.
After milling about the depot for
over an hour, the workers returned
to New York and joined the second
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
GOVT PLANS
.$4OO,OOO,OOO
new TAXES
Heaviest Burden Will
Fall on Masses to Aid
Wall Street Loans

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. -
That the next Congress will
impose new taxes on the masses
amounting to over S400, 100000
was admitted today by the
members % the House Ways
and Means Committee.
At the same time, the Roosevelt
government is permitting the sur
taxes on large incomes, and certain
taxes on corporations and dividends,
to expire at the end Of this year,
without making any attempt to re-
new them.
In addition, the Roosevelt govern
nent has extended the Hoover excise
taxes, which take over 00,000,000
every year from the mass Of small
consumers.
Wall Street Loans.
While levying these huge taxes on
the masses, the Roosevelt government
has persistently refused to levy any
kind of heavy surtax on large in
comes or corporations. 1t has re-
fused to consider any capital levy on
Wall Street fortunes.
The occaSl7n for new, heavy taxes
comes from the fact that the Roose-
welt government is granting such
enormous subsidies to Wall Street
monopolies through the RIG. and
MIRA. agencies.
A typical government expense Is
the sT0oo00,00o loan, which is held
largely by Wall Street banks. which
is falling due on Dec. IT. 1t is to
meet such bank loans that the Roose-
welt government is resorting to new
| taxes on the masses.
over s4,ooo,o0oo0o has been set
aside by Roosevelt, for example, to
guarantee mortgages held by banks
and investors. The total subsidy to
monopoly capital by the Roosevelt
government has been estimated to
reach $1,000 100000. This must be
paid for by taxes
It is significant that the govern
ment is raising new taxes to pay the
loans of the very same Wall Street
interests who have been receiving the
government subsidies.
War Program
In addition, the Roosevelt govern
ment has launched the largest war
building program in the history of
the country, having spent already
more than $1,000,000,0o0 for war ma
terials in the last six months alone.
That the main burden Of the gov
eminent tax program is laid on the
masses was revealed by the recent
Senate investigations into the in
come taxes of the country's richest
bankers, most Of whom paid no in
come taxes at all.
The Committee of the House is
making q pretenSe of tackling this
problem, but the fundamental profit
and loss exemptions, which permit
wholesale evasion, will probably be
retained.
Indirect Sales Tax
The Roosevelt government has sue
ceeded III putting into effect a vir-
tual Sales Tax through its various
processing taxes, and through its SUBJ
sides for the deduction of hogs, cot
ton, wheat, and corn. This takes a
toll from the masses amounting to
hundreds of millions of dollars, the
cotton processing tax alone amount
ing to $350,000,000 year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Decatur Judge Openly Assists State
Prosecution AS Second Trial Closes
Callahan BUSHES
Norris Trial for
End Lynch Verdict
Faith and Loyalty to
LID Reaffirmed by
Scottsboro Boys
BULLETIN

NEW YORK.-Judge w.
W. Callahan was charging
the jury as this issue of the
Daily Worker went to press,
according to a wire received
from Decatur, Ala. The case
Of Clarence Norris was al
most ready for the jury after
trial that was even more
speedily rushed than that of
Haywood Patterson.
States Attorney Knight
concluded his summation at
4:45 pm. .
DECATUR, Ala, Dec. 4. -
With defense evidence cut to ;
minimum by rulings from
Judge w. w. Callahan, the cas-
of Clarence Norris, SECOND
Scottsboro boy to face re-tria
here. was ready to 60 to the jury to
night, unless closing arguments b
counsel, and the judges lynch-charg
are put over until morning.
The defense scored in forcing int
the record the testimony Of Rub,
Bates, who again repudiated he
original charge Of rape in deposition
taken last week in New York hos
pital where she is recovering from
major operation. Judge Callahan
had refused to recess the trial o
Haywood Patterson for a, few hours
last week, to permit introduction o
this deposition.
Joseph Brodsky, International La
Dor Defense lawyer, read the deposi
ton into the record.
Limits Defense.
The state rested its case at 1000
and before two O'Clock Judge Gala
han had forced the defense to con
clude its presentation, by cuttinl
short all questions Of witnesses by de
Tense counsel.
Callahan ruled that each side mus
be limited to three-quarters Of al
hour in its arguments, though if hi
charge to the Jury Is ANYTHING Iikl
the one he made in the Patterson
case, this will add an hour and {
quarter Of instruction and incitemen
to lynch verdict from the bench
to the prosecutions allotted time.
II appeared late this afternoon tina
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
CONGRESSMAN
HELP NAZl
PROPAGANDA
Ham Fish Refuses to
Face Daily Worker
Proofs on Nazis

BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. $50
The prediction that Hitler's
Nazi propaganda campaign in
the United States may collect
few Congressman was made
today by Emile Gavreau, man
aging editor of the New York Daily
Mirror, before the House Inni-
grafton and Naturalization Com
n1ittee's investigation Of Nazi &C
Invites in America.
1--WE have few now" blurted
out Chairman Dickstein Of the
committee, referring to reaction
airy politicians already publicly ut
tering Nazi doctrines. Then Dick
stein hastily collected himself and
added, That's off the record"
Resulning the inquiry suddenly
shut off last Nov. Is, when Clarence
Hathaway, editor OF the Daily
Worker, set forth such damnfng evi-
dence that Dickstein called halt.
saying, cit got too hot" the COM
nittee heard further warm facts.
Gavreau made the following asser-
tons:
THAT he personally was threat
ened by telephone on five separate
occasions by individuals seeking to
stop his newspaper articles on Hit
ierism in America.
THAT Gerlnan-American resi-
dents of the United States are be-
ing forced into the Nazi movement
here under the threat of harm to
their relatives in Germany"
3-That Nazi propaganda here
attacks non -conforn1ing German
Americans irrespective OF American
citizenship.
THAT on every German steam
er coming into American ports
there is a Nazi leader who super
seNe5 the captain.'
5--That Count Won Luckner, war
famous German sea-raider, sis con-
Quoting propaganda here under the
guise of selling wine"
6-That the same people who con-
Quoted German propaganda here
during the war are conducting Nazi
propaganda here now"
Fish Shouts Denial
Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
rich and fashionable red-baiter, was
summoned by Dickstein by phone
to testify. He hurried from his Of
flee, rushed to the hearing table to
enter blanket denial of all
charges :. levelled against him by
Bsthaway, and took the opportu-
nifty to issue a tlainly yelled threat
of concerted campaign against or
ganized Communism in the United
States. Hathaway has charged Fish
with attending Nazi meeting in
the George Washington Hotel in
New York.
Gavreau also identified for the
Committees record a Nazi propa-
ganda book entitled, Jews Are
Looking at You" 1t was written by
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
UTW Strikers Vote
Rejects Sell-out
Union Head Threatens
Charter Suspension

PAWTUCKET, r. 1.-The rank and
file of the United Textile Workers
Union here have rejected the pro-
posal to accept the silk and rayon
sellout plan, 1t is reported.
The local union is now being
charged with stuffing the ballot box
by Vice President Francis German, in
order to enforce acceptance of the
agreement.
German is not only a leader of the
U.T.W. but also one of the officials
OH the state MIRA. board, is at
tempting intimidation of the local by
threatening to suspend it's charter.
In Paterson, 244 of the 400 silk mills
reopened Monday, following the Is
per cent wage increase agreement
signed Saturday. About 5000 throw
sters are still out on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Federal Govt
Holds Hunger
March Leader

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. /.
Whidden, who led q hunger march
on city hall here last week, has
been arrested and is held for fed
eral investigation. Herbert X.
Hyde, U. s. District Attorney. has
Announced drive against all
workers who join in protest against
starvation and unemployment. The
International Labor Defense is or
gaming mass and legal defense
for sShidden, and against the at
tacks Of the federal agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Arrest 2 Lynchers
of Lloyd Warner

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. 5.-Police
today arrested two leaders Of the
mob which took Lloyd Warner, Ne
gro youth, out of Jail and lynched
him last week. Police refused to
divulse the names of the arrested
lynchers.
The arrests followed wide pro-
tests after Assistant Attorney Cen
eral w. o. Sawyer, detailed to Gin
vestigate" the lynching, had re-
ported ''no progress"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05

THE Women's Council show that
! they are determined to do their
utmost. They sent In $50 yester-
day, proving that they are in the
drive actively. But what about
the Friends Of the Soviet Union,
the International Workers Order,
the trade unions, the Icor, all of
whom have done very poorly so
far? What about the remaining
sections and units who are tagging
and tagging badly?
THE management Of the Daily
i Worker calls upon you work
ers Of New York City to answer
these questions not only to 1t but
10 the workers of Seattle, Phila-
delphia and Boston, who have
raised their quotas. Prove that
you are with them, not against
them, in the battle to save our
Daily Worker. There can be no
delay. The Daily" Is in imme-
diate danger. New York Workers,
rally to It's support at once. Hold
affairs, contribute, get donations
from your organizations, from
your fellow workers and rush the
funds at once and do your revo-
lutionary share to save our Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Win 2OP.C. Increase
After Marching On
State Headquarters
Workers Taking Steps to Set Up Permanent
Organization Following Strike Struggle
Against Roosevelt's G.. w. A.

NEW YORK, Dec 4.-Three thousand New York workers
employed the Bear Mountain project struck against Roose
vet cut under the Civil Works Administrations marched
the State Civil Works office E. 2Sth ST. and won
considerable concessions.
This first strike a c. W A. Job proves that Roosevelt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
500 Produce Handlers
Reported on Strike

NEW YORK-Eight hundred driv-
crs, cllcuffers, hslp3r3 and porters
of the lower Washington Street
,roduce section went on strike yester-
Gay, 1t is reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Spivak's Article on
Decatur Trial, News
of Protests on P.3

Information regarding mass
5cottsboro protests and demonstra-
tons throughout the country as
well as John L. Spiyak's special
article on the Decatur trial will be
found on page 3 of today's issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-05
Booze Flows to N. Y.
AS Prohibition Ends

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Thou-
sands of gallons of wine and whis-
key were being rushed here today
in preparation for the official end.
ing Of the 18th Amendment. Wine
and whiskey will be perfectly le-
al after midnight.
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