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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-15
new LEVY IS !
q CENT CUT
UNDER LAST.
Will Provide County Reve-
nue. Of $l47,067 for Cur
rent Fiscal Year
PROPERTY VALUATION
SET AT $2o,300,OOo.OO

The board of eommissioners OF
Henderson county today announc.
ed a countrywide tax rate Of 20
cents on each 500 of property
valuation for the fiscal year 1884,
'35.
This is a reduction of Is cents
from the 1933.'34 rate. Five years
ago the countrywide tax rate hero
was 81. Thus the countrywide
rate has been reduced almost two
thirds and in addition property
valuations have been reduced Is
per cent since the present board
took office. In other words, .
hom. valued at $4,000 in 1928 ID
now valued at $4,000 and has q
total. tax of $21 as against a tax
of $50, then, it was pointed out.
Based on an estimated property
valuation of $20,300,000, the new
countrywide levy is intended to
raise $147,067 in revenue. OBJ
servers recalled that as recently
as four years ago it was neces-
sary to raise more than half mil
lion dollars to meet the imme-
date financial needs of the coun-
ty.
The summary of the uniform
budget estimate as published else
where in this issue Of The Times
News shows the total budget re-
quirements to be $429,851.02,
but the equivalent of revenue
from other sources, principally
due to the refunding of obIga-
tons, brings the total amount Of
money that must be raised down
to $147,067.27.
The budget estimate also re-
veals that the new rate of 70
cents is composed Of the follow
ing items, with the amounts to
be raised by each:
Rate Revenue
General ------ $62,861.77
Ordinary OPP rat
ing expenses lib
Special purposes -.O9
FOOT TeHGl ------sOo
Health department .02
P a t o n Memorial
Hospital - ---.01 100000
Schools &c months
term) 49, ---.15
Supplemental 2,977.50
Capital outlay - $4,000
Debt service - 22,697.00
County debt serv-
ice 49, ----.23 45,801.00
Total ---- ITO $l47,O67.27
Additional levies in the town.
ships and special districts also are
set forth in the budget estimate.
These include 16 cents to apply
on Balfour school bonds, 5 cents
for East Flat Rock school bonds,
Is cents for Flat Rock school
bonds, IL cents for Hoopers
Creek school bonds, 6 cents for
Mills River school bonds, and go
cents for the Druid Hills sanitary
district. While the Druid Hills
rate is larger than the county
wide rate and residents of that
district must pay both, it was
pointed out that the Druid Hills
rate was at one time approxi-
mately $1.75.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-15
WEATHER

Generally fair tonight AMI
Thursday
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-15
GOOD AFTERNOON

Our own politicians might take
a tip from Hitler. He makes
himself sole ruler and then lets
the people vote for him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
The Shirts

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Shirts and Shorts
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Tobacco
Pay Averages For
Below SIS A Week
Workers in Lancaster Plant Need Organization
To Fight for Better Conditions

s14. Nearly every employee of the
firm must depend on relief from
the Emergency Relief Staten; if
they didn't have this help they
could not keep body and soul to-
gether.
To the workers of P. Lorillard g.
Co.. Don't you think it's about time
you did something to force an inn
provement in your pay and work.
ing conditions? Aren't you sick of
asking for relief? Living on a char
ity dole? If you are-then or
ganize! Form union among your
selves, do as other workers in your
city are doing. We know there will
be some backsiders. There we're
some at the Linoleum plant, at the
Carbon Steel Co., and Silk Mills.
But they are organized and are get
ting results. It's up to you'll It's
your duty to yourself and your fam
lily.
Don't let fear hold you a pris-
oner ana make slave Of you. Fight
for yourself. It's your job-your
welfare-and now's the time.
There are some of you willing and
ready to organize. Why not band
with them and join the Tobacco
Workers Union? I'll even suggest
the name for you, THE United
Tobacco Workers" Think it over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

merely a negative attitude, but
should be accompanied with the
raising Of vital immediate demands
of the workers as a further basis for
exposure and struggle against COM
pany unionism.
The basic elementary tasks of
building our union, as we'll as oppo-
sition work in the A. F. of L. union,
should also be stressed in the edi-
tors note, instead of the usual
vague statement to establish griev-
ance committees. On the question
of organizing such committees I
suggest the comrades study the
pamphlet containing Comrade Plat
nitsky's brilliant report to the thir-
tenth plenu1n of the E. c. G. L.
The same vague conclusion is incor-
porated in another otherwise good
article exposing company union
ism in the No. issue, with nothing
about the nature of demands, forms
and methods of organizing griev-
ance committees.
In an article in number four re-
porting Bethlehem workers protest
against Austrian Fascism," we come
across such thesis language as, the
Austrian situation proves again that
peaceful reform of capitalism policy
of the Social-Democrats and of the
Socialist Party in this country, must
inevitably lead to the defeat of the
working class" There is no explana-
ton what is the situation in Aus
tria, what Social-Democracy is, its
past and present role, etc. Many
Party members are not sufficiently
versed in such matters. Surely it
is unreasonable to expect an aver
age worker who is not politically
developed to know all the ramified
and complicated theories and prob
lens Of fascism, social-fascism, the
crisis, social-democracy, ETC., in a
single paragraph of highly concen-
trated political formulation. Our
comrades must cut out such high
falutin stuff when propagandizing
the masses.
A Serious Error
A very serious defeatist note is
struck in an article on May Day,
1884" in this number five issue. Last
year a May Day greeting was held
in Bethlehem and workers came to
this meeting from nearby towns
with several hundred Bethlehem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
By a Tobacco Worker CORRESPONDENT

By a Tobacco Worker Correspondent
LANCASTER, Pal am sending
this brief outline of the deplorable
conditions existing at the P. Loril-
lard Tobacco Co., as an open letter
to its employees.
The conditions of sanitation and
cleanliness are poor, the lavatories
and dressing rooms are never
cleaned properly. The women's
dressing room is in charge of a
woman. She is there during the
entire day. Her duties are to keep
the women's dressing room clean.
But the shower bath (for mem and
lavatories are never cleaned. The
ventilation is also poor.
The women stripping tobacco are
forced to sit on wooden benches
straddled, when chairs could just
as easily be used. Their pay is
poor, ranging far below the re-
quired $40 per week, ordered under
the code. They have no guaran-
teed wage. Their hours are three
days GA hours per week.
Very few of the men receive any
where near the SIS base of code
wages, the average pay being 81
cents per- hour.
What person or family can exist
on pay as low as S720, or $12, or
even $14 a week? And few make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

Steel Workers taking part. "This
year." writes the editor, none can
be held, owing to the unorganized
conditions of the workers, which
make it impossible to fight against
the police terror of the city admin
istration."
This is sheer capitulation before
a difficult situation and it is spread
among the workers. Were the work
ers more organized last year than
this year? OF course not. Yet a
meeting was held last year. 1t is
bad enough that our enemies try
to make the workers feel helpless.
This discouragingy st a tie m n t is
printed and circulated month be-
fore May Day Gin the April issue)
when there is ample time to set
to work with yigor and Bolshevik
determination to organize the kind
of demonstration that would sweep
aside all obstacles. How foolish it
is to propaganda the workers in
this fashion when the sharpening
class struggle brings forth the great
est deeds of heroism from the ranks
Of the proletarist. Such pessimism
must be rooted out of the workers
ranks because it acts like a brake
holding back the masses precisely at
o time when they are "rarin' to go. .
We must fight 1t with all our energy,
In the same issue there appears
three articles, one on the so-called
pay-raise, another on war prepare
ms, and the third on the bosses
lear of THE STEEL WORKER.
These articles are merely factual
reports with no real analysis, no
program of struggle, and no organi-
rational advice. All articles end up
letting things hang in the air. In
the article on war there is not even
an effort at politicalizing it.
THE STEEL WORKER is very
important paper, yet its circulation
decreases rather than increases. This
fact and its great shortcomings from
an organizational and political
standpoint shows that there is not
much attention paid to it by the
leading committees of the Party in
the Philadelphia district. Bethle-
hem is a concentration district and
concentration upon THE STEEL
WORKER. to make it q real guide
and leader Of tho Bo5hie ',cm steel
workers Is 9 task that must be
tackled at once
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Health Food Signs Insult
Applicants at Home Relief

years, had no work at all for the
last eight months. He has a wife
and two children. His relatives and
friends, though poor people, helped
him as long as they we're working.
Now they, too, are out of work. He
is in arrears for three months rent
and received a dispossess which he
brought to the Home Relief Bureau.
After filling out long list of the
most humiliating questions, the man
was told to go home and wait for
the investigator. The landlord
got tired Of waiting and sent an
other dispcSsess. What is to be
done, asks the man in despair,
A woman applicant tells her story.
She had a good business, a dress
goods store. She lost her store two
years ago. She has had a very hard
time since to take care of herself
and three children. She could not
struggle eny longer and as a citizen
and taxpayer for many years, she
applied to the Home Relief Bureau
for assistance.
She was given a food ticket by
the Department of Public Welfare.
Though on the ticket was enumer-
ated a long list Of food articles such
as butter, cheese, eggs, sugar syrup
various dry fruits, veal. beef, poul-
try, etc, ETC., the woman was told
that they have just bread and pork
to offer her. There were three
husky, well-dressed men behind the
desk and not single applicant.
81 am not a fighter" said the
woman, Out 1 am sure that with
out fight, nothing will be done"
We nurses, who are moro ex-
plotted than many other workers,
can no longer hold aloof from the
general struggle of all toilers. We
too must organize into union and
together with the organized work
erS and professionals We must mill
family fight for our immediate needs
and for better world to live in.
Join the Nurses and Hospital
Workers League which alone IS in
terested in the welfare of nurses and
hospital workers. For detailed in
formation write to Dorothy Wilkes,
IS E. 18th ST., N.Y.C., Room IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Only Relief Given Sick
Worker Is to Saw Wood
Ev a Worker Correspondent

bV p NOshST CDITtSpohuSAb
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-I have lived
and worked in Cleveland since 1916,
mostly at the printing trade
Being out of work for long time
and in bad health, ! applied to the
Cuyuaro County Relief for assist
ance. After waiting all day for my
name to be called. was questioned
about my history from birth. I was
given a ticket fer the woodward.
where I was supposed to saw wood
for my meals (no room.
I went to the woodward and
awaited my turn to saw wood, al
though I am in such low physical
condition as to be unable to hold
down regular employment.
I took the ticket back to the Guy
uago Relief and told them that they
ought to be ashamed of themselves
to send man in my condition to
such place.
Charity in America Is racket.
The highsr-ups get the charity, the
deserving poor nothing!
The workers of America must
unite for unemployment insurance
for everybody, regardless of race,
color, or creed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

did it also as representative Of an
organization which serves the pur-
pose Of helping the workers in the
solution Of their problems.
These activities Of Comrede
Thompson did not find favor in the
eyes Of Jhe Birmingham police
They arrested Ccmrade Thompson
on a charge of vagrancy.
What Is Vagranoy?
Vagrancv is a capitalist crime.
But it can never be committed by
capitalists. It can only be COM
mltted by workers. A useless para
site capitalist has his idleness re-
ported in the society columns Of
the big capitalist papers as the
do.ngs Of a weu-kncwn clubman or
clubwoman. or as famous bridge
expert or the like. But a worker
Who builds and runs railways, vino
constructed sky5crapers and who
fought and bled in the war, if he
becomes penniless because the
closed factory doors 90 not permit
him to earn living, then he be-
comes guilty of the crime of va
grancy, This crime is punishable by
hard labor on the rock pile, or en-
a convict construction gang hired
out to some greedy capitalist con-
tractor.
Vagrancy is the crime of pow
erty in capitalist society. In tho
vagrant, capitalism Furnishes the
victim Of its own crimes.
However, in the case of Louise
Thompson, even vagrsncy was not
committed, The comrade has a
home in New York. She earns and
receives wages for her work. None
of the evidences of vagrancy arply
But still the fact remains that she
vas arrested and put under $500
bail for the crime of vagrancy.
We must protest against this out
rage. We must show that all these
efforts to prevent the workers from
organizing and fighting will be OF
no avail; that on the contrary, they
will fight so much the harder. Ano
as a demonstration of that deter
ninstion, we must swamp the au-
liberties of the State of Alabama
and Of the City of Birmingham
with mass protests against the out.
RACES committed against the work
ers of Birmingham; against tht
shooting down Of the iron ore work.
ers, against the terrorism agains
the workers, against the unlawful
arrests.
We must and we will continue oul
special efforts to organize the work
ers of the South into the Order
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
PARTY LIFE,
EishWorker Flags Comrades
ndIHngofSeanMurayMeet
Criticizes irresponsible attitude OF Party Mem.
bers in Providence To,Oard ARRANGEMENTS

Sean Murray Of Ireland spoke
here to a meeting Of 1872 Tuesday
night (4-24-3D, out of which will
come the organization of an Irish
Workers Club
This meeting was hastily arrang-
ed q days. by few sympathizers
after receiving an SOS wire from
DO No. to the writer, who is not
a Party member but who follows
the Communist line. The C.P. here
turned down the date for Murray
that was offered them many days
before I received the wire.
The committee told Murray that
the meeting is yours, we have no
suggestions to make. We have been
criticized for the advertisement
cards we got out, by the Party
comrades who refused to arrange
a meeting for him. They said it
hid the face of the Party" We
told them they had sat on the
face of the Party"
Murray made a fine connected
talk that brought out the consist
ent and revolutionary methods and
tactics that must be used by the
workers not only in Ireland but in
all capitalist countries. His appeal
to the Irish workers to study and
apply the teachings Of James Con-
molly was we'll received. Seventeen
workers of Irish birth or parentage
signed UP for the club.
This is a small matter" but 1
am afraid this "ducking difficulties"
is being done by many C.P. groups
around the U.S.A., and is holding
back the organization of the revo-
lutionary movement among 'the
decisive strata of the American
workers"
I read the Daily Worker. When 1
say read it I mean just that; but
I think q lot of the people in the
Party just glance over it to see if
their name is in that issue. Wish
you would keep a standing urge
square in your paper to have every
one read Joseph Stain, Report of
the work of the Central Committee
Of the CPS.U." If they are so
damn busy just insist that they at
least read the last Is pages.
Hope this letter will see the light
of day, not like former letters, be
ducked in the waste basket.
Long live Red Sparks" (where
the hell is hep
J. G.
Right to Live Club
Providence, R. I.
Note by the District Organizer
OF Boston District
The criticism made by Comrade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

support the demand for unemplov-
nent insurance" While this ad-
vice is good and necessary, it does
not answer the immediate problems
raised by this worker. In the same
issue a very good article cites in
stances exposing the AA.ITS.W
union, but ends without word as
to what are our problems and tasks
in this A. F. of L. union.
In No. issue, the conditions in
No. 6 Machine Shop is exposed and
states; "A real grievance committee
must be established, ETC." But there
is no indication as to how such
committee is to be organized. In
the same story the writer mentions
the need to defeat the imperialist
war plans. But how? This ques-
ton remains unanswered except to
state that "the Communist Party
is pledged to bend every effort
toward this Such reply does not
teach the workers what they are to
do.
Must Ieu HOW
The workers must be advised how
to organize department committees
around specific grievances and con-
meet up these problems with polit-
ical exposure of Bethlehem as part
of the International Armaments
ring. This should be accompanied
with agitation for the organization
of anti-war committees and point
ing out how, by developing organs
of leadership, carrying out strug-
giles for partial demands the work
ers in this war industry can both
advance their material conditions
and prepare to act decisively in
Gripping the war when it takes
place. 1t is also necessary to bring
before the workers the American
League of Struggle Against War and
Fascisra as a broad organization.
In an article by "a Steel Worker"
dealing with the company union,
after showing how unrepresenta-
tive of the workers this outfit is,
he states: Write on the ballot in
big letters, I am opposed to the
company union,'" and concludes
with I'VE need militant union that
we can trust" which, of course, he
states is the Steel and Metal Work
ers' Industrial Union. But the
methods Of struggle sgain1t com
pany unionism must not assume
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
BOUNDED BY CREDITORS
BY a Worker Correspondent

DENVER, Cola worker with q
wife and four children has been cut
Of work for the past four years and
in that time has accumulated lot
OF debts.
He owes about $1,000 for rent. gro
Gerry bills, hospital and doctor fees
There has been quite a lot of sick
ness in his family probably from
undernourishment, because he had
not been getting too much from the
relief stations on which he had to
depend all this time. While he was
on relief the creditors did not
bother him, but it so happened that
he ran into a job and is getting
$40 per week. AS soon as his credi-
tors heard that he was working
they began f1ocking to the place
where he is employed and every
few hours this worker is called into
the office to listen to a groceryman
rent man Or some doctor asking for
something on the various accounts
he owes.
If this worker is left alone he
will make enough for him and his
family to exist on, but, with credi-
tors bounding him day after day
some threatening him with the loss
of his job and others saying they
will garnishee his wages, he is be COM
ing a nervous wreck. The chances
are that if the boss has to call him
into the Office much more he will
fire him. His wife said he is worse
off now than without q job.
A Daily Worker was given this
worker and he promised to read it
and it probably will not be long
until another worker finds out how
this CAPITALIST system works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Resort
Boss Refuses
Wages to Cook
By q Worksr Correspondentl


NEW YORK;, Anna Wachtel.
worked for Morris Mendel, the pro-
p-istor Of The Mirabeau Hotel. at
500 Lexington Ave, Lakewood. New
jersey. I worked there from March
20, 1884, until April s, 1884, as a
first cook, although I was engaged
as a second cook when I was hired
frcm Schatzberg's Agency at 1871 E.
Third st., New York, where I was
compelled to pay $3.50 as fee for
this job.
When I got there I worked about
IS hours a day during the week Of
the Jewish Easter holidays. The
boss. Mr.. Mandel, was a mean dog.
He denied help to ALL and worked
all of US in the kitchen very hard.
On the last day, when I was to
be laid off, he refused to pay me
my wages, or my fare back to New
York, because I refused to work
three more days without pay, 1
called my husband up and he came
from New York with a truck that
belonged to a friend of his to take
me home. When my husband ar
rived in Lakewood, and asked Mr..
Man6el where I was, he said that
I had gone home. This was not
true, but by accident my husband
noticed me and stopped, and took
me home.
When I came back to New York
I referred this matter to the Hotel
and Restaurant workers Industrial
Union, asking them to collect the
wages due me, but for some reason
or other I have not been paid yet,
and I am compelled to sue him
through the courts.
Mr.. Mandel also advertised that
he observed the strict kosher laws,
but he has the pots and dishes
washed with soap, and the food is
ordered by the boss to be cooked
on Saturday.
The other day he came up to my
home and made an attempt to hit
me, but I told him to get out at
once, or else I would scald him
with pot Of hot water. So he ran
downstairs. There was also another
cook whom he did not pay for three
months, as I was told by the dish
washers wife when worked there.
ANNA WACHTEL.