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The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Club Elects

Officers elected at the recent
meeting of the Capital City
Club are Mrs. Lillian Martin,
president; Mrs. Emma Gass,
vice president; Mrs. Frances
Neville, secretary, and Mrs.
Stella Lewis, treasurer.
The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Mar
tin, 9 @ st. N. E., next WedneS-
day night.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Dr.. Hill to Speak

Some Observations of West
ern Europe" will be the sub
ject Of a talk by DR.. Charles
E. Hill, professor of political
science at George Washington
University, before a luncheon
meeting Of the Faculty Women's
Club at the Mayflower Hotel
Friday afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of the club, will preside
and introduce the speaker.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Song Recital

Miss Rose Marie Delano, dra-
matte soprano, will sing for the
National Democratic League
tonight at it's monthly reception
at the Racquet Club.
Miss Delano, who has a studio
of singing, has sung in many
cities Of the United States and
abroad. She studied in New
York and Italy.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Education, Topic

adult Education" will be the
subject Of a talk by Miss Maude
Alton, principal Of the Ameri-
canization School, before the
education section of the Twen-
tieth Century Club tomorrow at
a luncheon meeting of the group
at the Y. w. C. A.
Mrs. Lawrence Martin is
chairman of the committee on
arrangements. Mrs. Edgar B.
Calvert is in charge of reserva-
tionS.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
akona Club Lunch

The executive board Of the
Takoma Park Women's Club
will hold a luncheon meeting
at the home of Mrs. w. H.
Youngman, $40 Fern st., Fri
day afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. Paul Burk and Mrs. Fred.
erick c. Lincoln will assist Mrs.
Youngman,
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Ohio Club Partv

The Ohio Girls Club will
hold its annual benefit card
party Friday night at 1925 Mas
sachuSettS Ave. N. w. Miss
Leona Shields is in charge of
arrangements. The club will also
sponsor q dance on March 3.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Help Kidneys
Don't Take Drastic Drugs

You have nine million tiny tubes -
filters in your Kidneys which may be
endangered by using drastic, irritating
drugs. Be careful. If poorly functions
ing Kidneys or Bladder makes you suf-
fer from Getting UP Nights, Leg Pains
Nervousness, Stiffness, Burning, Smart
ing, Acidity, Neuralgia or Rheumatic
Pains, Lumbago or Loss of Vitality,
don't waste a minute. Try the Doctors
prescription called Cystex (pronounced
Siss-tex), Formula in every package
Starts work in Is minutes. Soothes ana
tones raw irritated tissues. 1t is help
ing millions of sufferers and is guaran.
teed to fix you up to your satisfaction
or money back on return of empty pack"
age. Cystex Is only 75c at all druggists.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Moose ParN

Columbia Chapter, No. 368,
Women of the Moose, through
its ways and means committee,
will sponsor a 500 card party
at the Moose Hall, 1414 I st. N.
w., Saturday night.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
WOOdside Citizens
To Hold Card Pdrtu

Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the card party to be
given at the Grace Church hall,
in Woodside. Friday night, by
the Woodside Park Citizens Asso-
ciation.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14

and sets 5:44 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow, TOO
a. M, and sets 5:45 p. m.
The moon rises today, 7:18
a. m, and sets 6:46 p m.
The moon rises tomorrow, 7:46
a. m. and sets 1853 p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14

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The Washington times., 1934-02-14

strel show with "home talent"
next Wednesday night at 8
o'clock at st. Luke's Parish Hall,
Bladensburg, Md.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT

District of Columbia-Fair and
not so cold tonight with lowest
temperature about % degrees;
Thursday fair and warmer; mod
crate southwest winds.
Maryland and Virginia Fair
and not so cold tonight and
Thursday.
Local Temperatures
Yesterday Today
4 p. m....... % 4 a. m. ..... 13
8 p. m. 81 8 a. Niece. II
Midnight. 80. 15INoon. ....... %
Departure From Normal
Accumulated excess of tempera-
ture since January /, 1884, 54
Deficiency of temperature since
February /, 1884, 1877.
Accumulated deficiency of pre-
cipitation since January /, 1884,
2.08.
Deficiency of precipitation
since February l, 1884. 0.60.
Tide Tables
Today-High tides, 8:13 a. m.
and S:43 p. m. Low tides, 2:36
a. m, and 2:55 p. m.
Tomorrow-High tides. 9:03
a. m, and 9:31 p. m. Low tides,
1928 a. m, and 3:46 p. m.
The Sun and Moon
The sun rises today, 7:01 a. m.
The Washington times., 1934-02-14
LIFE LONG" FRIEND"
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The Washington times., 1934-02-14
Minstrel Show

The Ladies' Auxiliary Of
Prince Georges County Fire
Department will present a min
The Washington times., 1934-02-14

ADVERTISEMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Mass Conference
in Portland Sunday
for Jordan Defense
28-Year Old Negro Youth
Faces Legal Murder
in Frame-Up

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. "a state
wide Save Theodore Jordan Anti
Lynch Conference" will be held here
Sunday, Jan. IA.
The fight to save the Scottsboro
boys, and to save Theodore Jordan,
28-year- old Negro worker now in
oregon State penitentiary, framed on
murder charges and sentenced to
hang, will be the central work Of
his conference.
The conference, called by the In
ternational Labor Defense, has been
endorsed by the Council Of Economic
Research; the Finnish Workers Club;
the Finnish Women's Club; the Ma
tional Lumber Workers Union; Young
Pioneers of America; Young Com
munist League; Portland Section OF
the Communist Party; Multnomah
Federation of Unemployed (compris-
ing four unemployed organizations ;
the Library Forum; Flour and Cereal
Workers Union Local No. 1883, A,
F. Of L.; Progressive Educational
League; Marine Workers Industrial
Union, and the Fishermen and Can
merry Workers Industrial Union.
A broad mass movement over the
whole country, with special concen-
tration in the northwest, is being
developed by the International Labor
Defense, to save Jordan's life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Demand Jobs ReeEec Delegates Feb 3rd Conference
Var IS. Social Insurance
AN EDITORIAL

The intends conclude the C. W projects at the
by At the Representative Brten chairman OF
House Naval Affairs Committee demands s7SOOo for lo1
of S000OO0000 mainly Despite bis
allowing unemployment insurance
continuing the W. A Jobs They
tapered beginning Public works in the form
abandoned by the federal govern
dropped absence Of suitable
program"
a-gnnerng The government tells
the 100000 unemployed arve spends billions for war pr
poses.
The every day WAR VERSUS UNEndPLoY
NIETT INSURANCE
We workers perfectly to the government that We
The 100000 unemployed
swelling millions Of parme workers the masses
foregn-bor Unemployment and Social
Insurance
today for the whole working class THIS VIII
the National Convention
Against Unemployment February and B. All work
organizations anal organizations CLUBS
veterans Negro youth professional organizations
Of the most important
held will take place at time OF the
preparations with practically at door
the convention the National Committee Unemployed
appeals organizations and sympathzes
funds the National Com
mtee Unemployed Councils 4 East 18th Street. New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Students Protest
LunchrOom Prices
Boos Greet Principals
Talks; 5 Suspended

NEW YORK. Police, r. o. T. C..
and members of the football team
were called by DR.. Harry A. Potter,
principal of New Utrecht High
School, to dispense over 1000 students
who came out irto the hall in front
of his office and presented petitions
demanding lower prices in the lunch
room, free food for students whose
parents were unemployed, and &C
ademic freedom.
When the principal denied the de-
mands OF the students, boycott of
the lunchroom called by the Nat onal
Student League chapter. was taken
up by the students. The principal
came to thu lunchroom to speak to
the students, but was booed and
Missed out of the room.
Five students have been suspended
and threatened with expulsion. The
suspended students, Morris Oshatz,
Adoph Ross, Betty Kressel, Margaret
Kahn and Rachel Scheck, have been
leading the fight and the action was
taken against them in order to smash
the students boycott.
The Students Rights Committee
calls upon all worker, student and
teacher organizations to support their
fight and send kilograms demand
ing the immediate reinstatement Of
the suspended students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
MINI. UphOlSterers
Turn Down SeII-Out
Fight on ALL. Led By
Rank and File Group

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. - Following
the advice in q 1eaflet issued by a
group Of rank and file workers, the
upholsterers decided to reject the
sell-out settlement engineered by the
A. F. Of L. leaders and continue the
strike which has already lasted two
months. The leaflet, distributed at
mass meeting held on Dec. 18th
where the leaders were to give their
treacherous report, called upon the
workers to stand pat against piece
work and for the firing of all scabs.
The negotiations for the settlement
had been carried out on the basis
proposed by the bosses: to maintain
the old wage level Of 81 cents an
hour, open-shop policy and discrim-
nation against militant strikers.
The rank and file program called
for mass action to defeat the sell
out.
The A. F. OF L. leaders had waited
for weeks before organizing a mass
picketing demonstration. When this
was finally done the Unemployed
Council modified hundreds Of unem-
ployed to assist the strikers.
The MIRA. board Is preparing to
break the strike and has announced
that it has been empowered to make
an arbitrary decision which the
workers will have to accept.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Form Local Metal
Union in Waterbury
Fifth of SMWIU to Be
Organized in State of
Connecticut

WATERBURY, Conn, Jan. g.
Twenty seven metal workers here
formed local of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union Sunday,
and established headquarters at TIA
Bank st.
Officers we're elected and an ap-
pllcation sent to the National Offioe
for a charter.
This is the fifth local OF the union
to be organized in Connecticut, the
others being at Bridgeport, New
Haven, Branford, and New Britain.
A mass meeting Is being arranged
by the union for Jan. 10, at which
the principal speaker will be Sam
Kreiger.
A delegate will be elected to at
tend the national convention Of the
union to be held in Pittsburgh in
the latter part of March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
100 Artists Demonstrate
For Jobs or Cash Relief

NEW YORK.--Demanding art work
for needy artists or immediate cash
relief, 100 jobless artists led by the
Unemployed Artists Association dem
onstrated Tuesday afternoon at the
Whitney Museum Of American Art.
10 w. 9th st.
The artists assembled at Garibaldi's
statue in Washington Square Park,
and marched three abreast to Wav-
erly Place and MacDougall ST., where
the police broke up the march.
When this police intimidation was
mentioned by the delegation to Mrs.
Juliana r. Force, director of the
Museum, who is in charge of the
Public Works Artists Projects, she ex-
claimed she is against intimidation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Alabama Tenant
Farmers Cut Off
Relief, C.W.A. Jobs
Shar e troopers Union
Starts Mass Action
for Relief

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. TO-
Plans are already under way here
to stop C.W.A. protests early in FEB
ruary, cotton planting time, in order
to force Negro and white workers to
accept Jobs on cotton plantations at
starvation wages.
With this same end in view, Th3d
Holt, state relief administrator, has
announced that all tenant farmers
employed on farms or to whom farm
work is available" cannot be given
relief or C.W.A. jobs unless both
tenant and landlord are destitute"
This move, which will cut thous-
ands of sharecroppers and tenant
farmers off relief or from Jobs Tn
which they have been getting q bare
existence. was brazenly admitted in
the announcement TO enable farm
work to be carried on without inter
ference"
The Sharecroppers Union, with
/ 5000 members in Alabama, is leading
mass campaign against this action
/ Of the landlords and the govern
ment. The Unemployed Councils Of
Alabama have announced their sup
port and coopcvaIlon in this CAM
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
500 Ohio Farmers
Stop Foreclosure
Farm League Blocks
Mortgage Action

LEETONIA, Ohio, Jan. 10.-Farm-
ers, led by members of the Ohio
Farmers League, blocked a sale of
farm chattels in Lorain County, near
La Grange, on Jan. 3.
The Bank Of La Grange, which
had closed its doors sometime before,
was selling the live stock and tools
Of George Sprague, who had been
induced to give a bill of sale to the
bank to cover debt on the farm. A
hardware company also had a lien
on some hay and corn for $206.
Due to the mass action of the
farmers the hardware company was
forced to throw off $1O6 and the bank
to relinquish $500 in deficiency
judgments.
The result does not represent a
complete victory for the farmers.
However, this is the first time any
such action has ben taken in that
vicinity Much interest was created
by this action though and many
farmers are expected to join the o.
F. L. in Lorain County.
About 500 farmers were present at
the sale. Only a few came to buy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
c. W. A. Head Dies
Was Banker, Tool
of Traction Trust
La Guardia's Aid Was
Republican; Kept CWA
Men Off Jobs

NEW YORK-Travis H. Whitney,
Mayor La Guardia's New York City
Civil Works Administrator, died Tues
day in Post raduate Hospital Of
stomach ulcers. The ulcers were not
caused by starvation or inferior food.
Whitney, a corporation lawyer with
offices at 70 Wall ST., was a stand
pat Republican for years, and known
for years as the mouthpiece of the
utility corporations, for whom he was
long lobbyist at Albany.
Whitney, who was the bankers
and the traction interests represen-
tative in keeping the unemployed off
relief, was one of Mayor La Guardia's
best supporters. Whitney's wife.
Rosalie Loew Whitney, was one Of
La Guardia'S chief advisers in the
municipal election campaign. He has
an identical program with La Guardia
for raising the traction fares of the
city.
When he died, Whitney was q
member Of the Republican Club, q
director of the National Exchange
Bank and Trust Co., the National Ex-
change Bank Financial corporation
and director Of the New York Rapid
Transit Corporation. He was a mem
Der Of the Bankers Club.
For five years, beginning in 1924,
La Guardia's aide, Whitney, was vice
president and Director OF the Brook
lyn-M Transit Corporation.
In 1929 he became active in the af-
fairs Of the United States Shares
Corporation.
During the war, Whitney did not
go to France, but took desk JOB
as head Of the war commission on
reconstruction"
Whitney in some Of his last state
ments denounced the attempts of the
C.W.A. workers to get their back pay
and to get some Of the worst grieV-
ances remedied. He expressed anger
at the demands of the C.WA. work
ers. One of Whitneys last state
ments was, II have no time to bubble
over the salaries of those already on
the pay roll" Those "on the pay
roll" were protesting at not receiving
their pay.
Whitney is temporarily replaced By
another representative Of the bank.
ers, Col. Walter A. De Lamater, who
is commander Of the list Regimen
of the National Guard. This mill
tary officer can be relied on by L;
Guardia to keep as many worker
as possible from getting jobs, to Gu
down payrollS and in general, to carr.
forward the work begun by whitnes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Led by Steel Industrial Union,
Mechanics Win Skilled Status

NEW YORK-The Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, through
the activity of its Unemployed Com
mittee, has won demands of 1879
skilled workers in the city dock de-
partment who had been transferred to
unskilled G. w. A. work
These men are carpenters, painters,
dock builders. iron workers, plumbers
and sheet metal workers who we're
getting wages of S112o to $1,000 a
day in the city dock department, be-
fore the C. w. A.
After the C. w. A. the men were all
laid off. ana after approximately a
month without work, were given Jobs
on G. W. A. projects at unskilled
work with wages around $3.50 to
$500 day. Most of the men are
members of A. F. Of L. unions.
Led by the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union, the men made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Spokane JobIess Single Men
Vim Long Fight for Cash Aid

they given three meals a day instead
of two and also tobacco. This was
granted, but after two weeks the
tobacco was cut off.
Win Butter
Then under the leadership Of the
U. c. the men began to struggle for
smaller concessions. They demanded
butter and were told that they could
have it but because of the budget"
allowed, they would have to be sat
isfied with one meal Of soup only.
They agreed and after getting butter
immediately started a fight against
the soup. Soup was finally dropped
from the menu and butter stayed.
1t now began to get cold anc it
was impossible to heat the Fair
grounds buildings. A struggle was inn
mediately started for cash relief.
Three committees were elected. One
went to the court house with the de-
mands, one to the city hall and one
to the welfare boa.d.
The following two days two iemon-
STATIONS were held. The first to the
county court house with 300 men and
the next Gay a secoad one on the city
hall with 450 workers.
Win Cash Relief
Two days efterward cash relief Of
81 week was granted The loca
faker, Mckay, was invited to join the
demonstrations, hut as usual, refused
saying that if the men got cash re-
lief he would be unable to organize
them.
The miSleaderS under the direction
of Mckay, the Socialist Party ano
the Spokane County Unemployed
League tried at all times to get con-
troll Of these 700 men in order to keeI
them in a pacifist attitude.
Today the brewery and Playground,
billets are things of the past No one
is even asked to work for direct relief
any more. All committees are treated
with respect. When we have a DEM
onstration, a permit is always refused
for the use of the streets. We al
ways take the streets and SO far have
not been molested. The former Fair
grounds men and 1000 married mer
are getting cash relief. Their stand
ard of living has gone up and onlI
struggle brought about this change
However, our fight has just begun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
Sheet Metal Union Shows
Up Pechman Go. Scheme
to Avoid Union at Meet

NEW YORK-The slippery bosses
OF the Pechman Store Equipment Co.
evaded paying back pay to the work
ers at conference with the Re-
gional Labor Board yesterday by
announcing that they were going out
of business. The bosses admitted
that they had locked out u workers,
members of the Independent Sheet
Metal Workers Union to avoid union
recognition, against which action the
union had called q strike.
The union representative CON-
PEELED Secretary Ben Golden Of the
MIRA. Board to declare that if the
company went into business again
under whatever name, the workers
were to be paid all back pay due
them from the time they we're locked
out.
Steps for an organization drive and
to expose the racketeering officials OF
Local 1877 GA. F. of ID will be taken
up at the next meeting of the union
at its headquarters, 800 Broadway
tonight at 730 p. m.
Joint action of the independent
union and the rank and file of Local
1877 is being worked out to defeat the
corrupt officials who are working
with the bosses to undermine con-
ditions in the shops. Unorganized
sheet metal workers as well as
members of the union are invited to
the meeting tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11

three demands on the city: ID re-
lnstatement as mechanics and not
unskilled workers, q pay to be the
prevailing trade union rate with a
minimum Of three days work week,
- the month of work lost after being
laid eff and transferred, shall be
made up, at trade union wage rates.
They also demanded pay for Dec. IL,
when they were told to report for
work and then sent home without
working.
After their committee presented
these demands the men won the pay
for Dec, IL. and won Reinstatement
as mechanics at skilled pay. One
hundred and eleven of the men begin
work at skilled pay next Monday and
the rest are to be re-employed at
skilled wages, it is promised. They
were working under the jurisdiction
of the City Commission Works
Bureau
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
50 c. W. A. Workers
on Strike in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. l0.-Fift
eva workers here went on strii
against the continued employment
Of foreman who used intimidatio
to make the men work.
The foreman would go among Il
men carrying a pick-axe handle ov
his shoulder, and saying to the sui
foreman that they must get Il
maximum of work from the men
it would go hard with them"
c. Wigs, C.WA. project enginet
on learning Of the strike, sent Il
vestigators" to the project with t
intention of giving information
a federal grand jury Of those "
had participated in the strike,
order to intimidaate the men.
After the strike, in order to pI
vent the men from organizing furtt
for their demands, the gangs We
split up and sent to other projects
The leader OF the strike was fiji
by Wigs in q further attempt
intimidatc the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
lid Asks Funds for
ScottsborO Appeal

NEW YORK. - Urgent need OF
funds to carry on the fight to save
the Scottsboro boys was expressed in
a statement issued by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense last week, as
motions were fled in Decatur court,
demanding the reversal of the lynch
verdicts of death against Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris.
The funds necessary for legal ex-
pense alone in obtaining the records,
filing complete motions, and follow
ng them with appeals to the state
supreme court, will run into thou
sands of dollars, william L. Patter-
son, national I. L. D. secretary said
This money must come from con-
tributions by the friends of the
Scottsboro boys, Of the struggle of
the working class, and Of the liberia
ton struggles Of the Negro people.
Money for Scottsboro defense
should be sent Immediately to the
national office of the international
Labor Defense. Room $50, 80 E. 18th
St, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-11
40 Per Cent Cotton
Destruction Is '34
Plan Of Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-One
Of the first acts of the Roosevelt
government in the new year will
be to complete the arrangements
for the destruction of 40 per cent
Of the country's normal cotton
acreage, 1t was announced today.
The Roosevelt government will
pay rich cotton plantation own
ers SIPS, 100000 in direct subsidies
to repay them for the reduction of
their acreage.
The purpose OF the plan is to
reduce the supply of cotton in
order to raise prices for the city
consumers. Actually, it gives pro-
fits to the monopoly middlemen
and rich farmers, but tmpoverishes
the small farmer by reducing the
market for his cotton, and sends
the retail prices of cotton goods
out of the reach Of the city con-
sumers.