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The Washington times., 1934-06-21

hair curling all over his leonine
head, was fond of wearing white
flannes, white from head to
foot, even at formal banquets,
for Mark made his own formali-
ties, and if others didn't care for
them it merely delighted his
often-cantankerous soul.
Patrick Francis Murphy, an
excellent business man and an
executive of a great New York
store, was an extremely courte-
Gus person who spoke with a
draWl and with a touch of the
English accent. Wit, rather than
humor, was his forte.
Job Hedges, once a Republi-
can candidate for governor in
New York State, liked to shock
his hearers with truths often
unpalatable to the listeners, and
talked in explosive barks.
Sim Ford, perhaps the quaint
est of the famous sexter, had a
salty humor, rather rural, and
had a way of writing and re-
writing his Spontaneous al.
dresses many times before he
sent the proofs to the news
papers well in advance of speak
ing.
Looking backward to those
gentlemen, so witty, so courtly,
one may we'll say, there were
giants in those days."
Directing Genius
Back in the black and bloody
days of Sim Fein against Black
and Tans, it was said of Rich
ard Mulcahy: "He has the
brains and the iron will which
is holding the Irish rebels
together"
Small, slim and mild spoken
with soft, brown sorrowful eyes,
he was the last man in the
world that one would take to be
the directing genius of the guer-
rilla war which, in the end, was
too much even for Proud Albion.
The Irish are said to be i'm
pulsive and boaStful, but not
Dick Mulcahy.
He is somewhere around 40
and q native Of Londonderry.
The English discharged him
from an obscure postal clerk.
ship and catapulted him into
the Sim Fein rebellion. The
daShing Michael Collins com.
manded the Irish rebels and
was a hero and a legend to his
people and to the Irish SYM
pathizers the world over, but
it was little Mulcahy as chief
Of staff, who laid the ground.
work for Collins exploits.
The Free, States won; Sim
Fein split over the treaty. Col
Inns was aSsaSSinated and South
Ireland embarked on a war Of
Self-extermination.
Then Mulcahy stepped in. AS
Minister Of Defense he broke the
rebellion, signing the death
warrants Of scores Of those who
had been his comrades in arms
against the Black and Tans.
The Sim Fein extremists never
have forgiven him this. Several
attempts have been made on his
life. He is a big shot now in
the White Guard" an organiza-
ton Of $1,000 Of the Free State
faction Of the old army which is
opposed to DeValera'S Repub-
hcan army.
Copyright. 1894. King Features
syndicate. Ine.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-21

While browsing through a
book of midgets (or rather a
book ABOUT mldgets) the
other day. I was interested to
note an explanation of why I,
personally, am afraid of them.
They have an inferiority COM
pleX.
What about MY inferiority
complex? I am the one who
feels i'll at ease with midgets.
am the one who feels out of
place. gangling. and a victim of
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The Washington times., 1934-08-24
Mrs. Thomas Runs
For Florists Post

Mrs. Amelia Guide Thomas, of
Guide Brothers Company, local
florists, will be a candidate for
director-at-large at the convention
of the International Florists TeIe-
graph Delivery Association in
Denver Col. next week. She is
opposed by Miss Emily Dunn, of
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
z SLAYERS DIE;
. CHAIR STALLS

EDDYVILLE, KY, Aug. "a
G.N.SO. Two doomed Slayers
were put to death in the electric
chair at the State penitentiary
here today in a double elctrocution
marked by the spectacular break
down of the death machinery.
Will CLANCY, Al, negro from
Louisville, was in the chair and
had been subjected to two bolts OF
current when the equipment
stalled. Physicians ordered a third
charge of electricity into the ne
gros body, but mechanics were
unable to repair the machinery
in time and he was pronounced
dead without it.
For an hour and fifteen minutes
electricians tinkered with the
stalled generator while George w
Tincher, 81, of Sharpsburg, Kyr
waited patiently to be led from
death row to the chair. He said:
81 don't mind: I'm ready to
go any time"
Finally at 1:20 o'clock Tinchel
was strapped in and at Lao
o'clock was pronounced dead.
Tincher denied that he killed
Ben Keenon, bank cashier at
Stamping Ground, the crime fol
which he was doomed. He laid the
murder on Francis Glenday, OF
Chicago.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24

lOgg's more than ever. Crisp
and refreshing. No cooking
or trouble to serve. Fine for
breakfast, lunch or supper.
Buy this greatest of all
ready-tO-eat cereal values at
your grOcer's. Made by
Kellogg in Battle Greek.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
By JULIA BONWIT

1t might be a good idea for the
major political parties to follow
the example of the So-called rad
ical political parties in running
more women for public office.
This was the gist of remarks
made today by Mrs. James H.
Wolfe, acting director of the wom-
ems division of the Democratic
national committee, in surveying
the results of recent primaries.
In New Jersey and Pennsylvania
alone, five women of the Social
ist and Communist parties are
running for Congress, one of
them for the Senate.
It's "Grand Idea"
Said Mrs. Wolfe:
"The Socialists and Commu-
niStS have a nice little habit of
putting women on their tickets.
'Tt's a grand idea"
Mrs. Wolfe pointed out that at
one time in her State, Utah, the
Communist ticket sponsored one
of their leaders for the governor
ship and his wife for the di-
rectorship of public instruction.
Of course, they didn't win the
eIection-either of them-but it's
a good example, Mrs. Wolfe
pointed out, of the tendency of
the radical parties to give So
so break to the women.
In New Jersey, Rebecca Grecht,
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
|CKES REDUCES
OIL QUOTA

A decrease of 1880 barrels
daily in the national allowable
production of crude oil was au-
thorized Thursday by Oil Admins
traitor Ickes in fixing the Septem-
ber total of 2,341,7 TOO barrels daily,
compared with 2,449, 300 barrels
for August. The allowable be-
comes effective at 7 a. m. Septem-
Der l (Standard Time at place OF
production).
Virtually all Of the States share
in the decrease. No State received
an increase. Allowables of the
three leading producing States
are: California, 457,00O barrels
100000 at present.; Oklahoma,
461 1000 barrels (now 480, 1000, and
Texas, 968, 400 barrels (now 1,101,-
30O.
The decrease resulted primarily
from the normal seasonal decline
in gasoline consumption and the
drop in gasoline demand due to
the drought, secondarily to neces.
oAUy VI 4CuuClLlS SdOO4lA1S 4A1VC1lCO-
ries, which, officials say, are still
considerably above a sound eco
nomic level.
Actual crude oil production this
year has run substantially in eX-
cess of the monthly allowables of
Oil Administrator Ickes, the ex-
ceSSeS ranging from 209,800 bar
rels in the daily average in May
to 114,700 barrels in the August
average. There has been, how
ever, a steady reduction in the
excess since May.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
INDIANA FEARS
PRISON BREAK

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug.
"a G.N.SD.-Grapevine rumors
of a plot to blow the walls of
the Indiana State Prison and to
effect a wholesale release of the
inmates of the institution, pre-
vailed today.
The finding of "home made"
shotgun in the prison was re-
ported. 1t followed the reported
finding of several firearms, con-
cealed in a waste paper basket,
and large quantity of explosives
in one of the buildings on the
prison grounds.
An attempt to short circuit the
entire lighting system on the
prison was frustrated. An auxili-
ary cable to prevent the throw
ing of the prison in darkness was
being installed today.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
RELIEF GRAF 7
UNDER PROBE

Faced with charges that the
Marshall county (W. Va relief
administration is crooked" AS
Sistant Federal Emergency Relief
Administrator Aubrey Williams
today ordered an investigation of
the administration of relief funds
in the county.
Mr.. Williams, who Immediately
dispatched an investigator to the
county, ordered the investigation
after a delegation of five men
presented him with petition
today, demanding the removal of
Donald C. Galehouse, Marshall
county relief administrator.
The petition stated that Mr..
GalehouSe shows political
favoritism" and that there are
persons on the relief rolls un-
deserving of relief and others
needing relief who are insuffi-
GENTLY cared for.
The delegation was headed by
A. Francis Chapman, a business
man in the county and chairman
of the Marshall County Peoples
Welfare Association, and four re-
lief recipients, C. o. Cats,
Thomas McClintock, Frederick
Clovis and Robert Bail, colored.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
|CKES To SEEK
NEW FUNDS
BY International News Service

by international NeWS ScENlCo
Secretary of Interior IckeS, as
Public Works Administrator, today
was making plans to ask Congress
for another huge public works
fund next winter.
With the present fund virtually
exhausted, applic cations from
States, cities and Federal depart
ments are pouring in.
Secretary Ickes announced that
no projects not applied for by Iast
February % can be considered in
making allotments from funds pro-
vided by the sale of bonds held by
the PWA.
Public works expenditures will
continue at high rate for posi-
bly, a year, even though Congress
appropriates no additional funds.
Actual expenditures now are about
100 million dollars a month.
Secretary Ickes expressed the
hope that Congress would grant
additional funds, but said no de-
termination has been made of the
amount to be asked.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
$51,2OO Slap Suit
Goes Into Court

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. "a ON.
SO.-Nita Cavalier, pretty film
actress and night club entertain
er, was in court today in her suit
against Mrs. G. Benton Wilson,
socialite, for $4,000 damages.
Miss Cavalier alleged that Mrs.
Wilson slapped her during an al
tercation on a downtown street,
Mrs. Wilson thought that Miss
Cavalier was going to meet Mr..
Wilson, which was erroneous, Miss
Cavalier test ed.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
MANCHUkUANS
To PROTEST

TOKYO, Aug. "a 0.N.SO.-Re-
ports that Manchukuo will make
a counter protest to the Soviet
government over the alleged plot
ting of Russian employees of the
Chinese Eastern Railway during
the negotiations for the sale of
its Soviet-OWned shares to the
new state were current here to-
day.
Such action, Occidental OBJ
servers agreed, would do nothing
to ease the strained relations be-
tween Soviet Russia and Japan
which were brought into the open
by a Soviet note protesting "the
aggreSSiveneSs" of statements
from the japanese war office.
At the foreign office it was
said the arrests of Russian en-
ployes of the railroad had no con-
nection with negotiations for the
transfer in its ownership.
MOSCOW, Aug. "a GN.S.).
The Moscow press today hailed
the Soviet governments action in
bringing the dispute over the
Chinese Eastern Railway in Man
chukuo out into the open by dis
patching a sharply worded note
directly to the Japanese govern
ment.
The Kremlin's direct action, in
stead of going through the for
mality of addressing its COM
plant to the Manchukuan gov
ernment, was the first step of
it's kind in the long and troubled
negotiations over the purchase
by the Manchukuan government
of the Soviet governments inter
est in the line.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
INSURED BANKS
DISPLAY SIGNS
By International News Service

By International News Service
No American bank depositor
will have any doubt in the future
as to whether the institution in
which he places his savings is in
sured by the Federal Deposit In,
surance Corporation.
Official signs of the FDIC were
mailed to insured banks today, to
be displayed as visible evidence of
their membership in the insurance
fund.
Heretofore depositors have been
unable to determine readily which
banks were insured.
Chairman Leo T. Crowley, of
the corporation, said:
"The first day four sacks of
mail containing orders for
signs from more than 5000
banks were received. The aver
age so far has been about five
signs per bank, but some of
the larger institutions are pur-
chasing several hundred. It is
estimated that more than
$4,000 of the signs will be
sent out.
"The intent of the corpora
tiOn is to let the depOsitOrs
know which banks are insured.
Of course, the banks may
engage in additional advertiS-
ing to acquaint the depOsitOrs
with the fact that they are
insured"
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
More WOrneninOffiCe
Held Nations Need

representing the Communist party,
is seeking election as United
States Senator, opposing Senator
Hamilton F.. Kean (RO. An
other Communist, Lillian An
drews, is seeking a seat in the
House.
The Socialist Labor party, of
New Jersey, is sponsoring Mil
dred C. Bopp in the Eleventh con-
greSsional district.
In Pennsylvania, predominantly
a Republican State, the Social
lists are running two women for
the House, namely, Harriet Nor
ris, who is seeking the seat now
held by Representative James N.
Beck (RD, and Sarah Limbach,
who hopes to gain the seat held
by Representative George F.
Brumm (RO.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
MuSsoHniD Dimes
OnArmyGow,
AndLikeS IT

BOLOGNA, Italy, Aug. "a.
Q.N.SD.-Premier Benito Mus
solini showed today that it was
not beneath his dignity to
sample the food from a field
kitchen in the maneuvers of the
Italian army which he is now
directing, but he would not be
photographed doing it.
Inspecting the field kitchens,
Mussolini passed great caul-
dronS of tomato soup, and
orderlies cutting up mutton. II
Duce hungrily shifted the air
and found the odor irresistible.
He demanded a slice of meat
and slowly munched it. Good"
he pronounced it.
He took some of the soup.
When he noticed a photo
grapher getting the focus, he
angrily ch a sed the photo
grapher away.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
Pottery Workers
Still Ban Peace

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. "a
G.N.SO Manufacturers and rep
resentatives of workers in the pot
terry industry we're still deadlocked
today as they entered the third
days session of their biennial
wage conference.
Demand for an increase of 25
per cent for the $4,000 workers
has blocked peace.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
Biqqest of Cereal Values

Kellogg's Corn Flakes are an
outstanding buy any time Of
year. Quality that can't be
initiated. A big package,
brimming with food value,
for only a few pennies!
Now, during the hot
weather, you'll enjoy Kel-
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
MARLBORO LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued at
Upper Marlboro yesterday to Nor
man G. Mcbride, 25, of 400 block
Eighth st. S. E., and Ruth A.
Mullikin, %, of the 200 block
Kentucky Ave. S. E.; George M.
Holmes, %, of the $500 block
Twenty'Second st. N. E., and No
rita George, %, of Keyser, w. Va.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
Police Heads Soon
Meet in StauntOn

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 24.-The
convention of the Virginia Police
Executives Association will meet
in Staunton September II and
18. Capt. Albert B. Moore, of
the New York State Police, who
has directed two police instructors
training schools in Richmond
will speak.
The Washington times., 1934-08-24
WABLE HEADS ORDER

CHARLESTOWN, w. Va, Aug.
24.-Walter R. Wable, of Rowles-
burg, has been elected president
of the West Virginia camp of the
Patriotic Order of Sons of Amer
lea. Berkeley Spring, w. Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
'Trachtenberg
Greeted by CP
of District 10
Bureau Pledges to Raise
Theoretical Level
of Membership

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Nov. So
District 16 of the Communist Party
through the district bureau sent
revolutionary greetings to Comrade
Alexander Tratchenberg on the oc-
casion of his 5Oth birthday, and
pledged themselves to utilize the oc-
casion to increase the distribution
Of revolutionary literature and raise
the theoretical level of the entire
membership.
The greetings follow:
THE District Bureau Of District
Is sends revolutionary greetings to
Comrade Alexander Trachtenberg
On the occasion Of his fftieth birth
Gay. We regret that because Of the
distance the members of our Dis
trict cannot be present at the BAN
quet to extend greetings personally
to one Of the outstanding Bolshe-
vikS Of the country-one who, in
thirty years Of service to the move
ment, has done much in laying the
foundation and helping to build our
Communist Party.
Our District viii use the fiftieth
anniversary Of Colnrade Tratchten-
berg as an occasion for more inten-
sive efforts to increase the circula-
ton Of revolutionary literature. to
raise the theoretical level Of our
membership"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
Musteites and
TrOtzkyites
Get Together

The Trotzkyite and the Musteite
fragments began a joint meeting
yesterday to go through the JOB Of
amalgamation. Although there was
much talk by both groups about
the necessity Of ratification by their
individual meetings, there seems
little doubt that the details we're
worked out before the formality Of
the amalgamation meeting.
The Trotzkyites, who for years
have been shrieking about their
being Misunderstanding have
agreed to give up their identity and
the label Of communism"
The Trotzkyites have also agreed
to take over the nationalist slogans
Of the Musteites who never speak
.of Communism but only of
"MarXism" that is American" and
not the international revolutionary
movement of Marx and Lenin. In
turn, despite the desire of the Mus
teite rank and file to defend the
Soviet Union, Music has willingly
accepted the counter-revolutionary
doctrines of the Trotzkyites.
The current issue of Labor Action,
the organ of the Musteites, calls
for the building of "the New Party
and the New international" This is
the Trotzkyite slogan of the Fourth
International" put forward in OPP
position to the revolutionary activ-
ity Of the Communist International.
The details of the "amalgamation"
of the two groups, and the counter
revolutionary character of the pro-
gram, will be dealt with fully in
future issues of the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

manufacturers association, Green
opposes strikes unless forced to call
them by the rank and file. He spoke
on Oct. l in the A. F. of L. con-
vention welcoming Roosevelt's no.
strike proposals Green, as in his
attack on the San Francisco strike,
has many times spoken against all
sympathetic and general strikes. He
spoke in the A. F. of L. of strikes
"as a last resort"
True to the employers needs,
Green advocates at all times COM
ptllsory arbitration" and puts for
ward work within government
boards rather than a fight Of the
workers for their demands. Green,
co-founder with Roosevelt of the
N. R. A., champions the arbitra-
ton of N. r. A. boards which he
helped to create, rather than any
struggle.
Green said on Nov. 25, in a
speech in Akron, THE national
recovery act provides for the CO.
operation between the government,
industry and labor, the govern
ment to develop within its power,
its scope and it's authority, indus
trial codes of fair practice, and in
dustry to be subject to the mini
mum requirements of these indus
trial codes of fair practice, but I'M
der separate control, with mini
mum of government supervision. ;"
Green adds, Nor have we at
tempted through our organizing eff
forts to interfere with the admin
istration of these industrial codes
OF feir practice by the industry
itself"
The whole compulsory arbitra-
ton, no-strike, employer-controlled
set-up is thus approved by Green,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
William Green Carries Out Roosevefs New Anti Labor Moves
Helps Employers Cut Relief Reduce Wages Strikes

balance in distribution of income
and stability In production" Green
says.
To this policy of Cooperation of
the classes" can be traced all of
Green's acts on behalf Of the en-
ployers. The class collaboration
policy, the attempt to make the
workers believe that their interests
are the same as those of the bank
ers and factory owners, is the basis
for all of Green's anti-labor activi-
ties.
The A. F. of L. leadership at its
recent convention in San Francisco,
as formerly, tried to hide from the
members the fact that their inter-
ests are just the opposite to those
of their employers-that the en-
i ployers, governed only by greed for
profits, seek to pay as low wages
as possible, speed-up work as much
as possible, and enforce as long
hours as possible. On the oppo-
site side it is to the interests of
tne workers to get as much wages
as they can, to shorten hours, and
reduce the speed-up. The policy
of Green is the employers program
of class cooperation, whereas it is
to the interests of the workers to
fight for their demands and rights,
to operate on a policy of class
struggle.
A No-Strike Policy
The employers program is now
being carried through under the
slogan of industrial peace Of a
ro-strike truce, as put forward by
Roosevelt in his Sept. 30 radio
speech. william Green has ac-
copied this bankers slogan as his
own. In common with the U. s..
Chamber of Commerce and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
By Carl Reeve

THE Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor
is carrying through in the trade
unions every phase of the present
accelerated drive of the Roosevelt
government On the standard of liv-
ing of the workers.
Especially. since the election,
President Roosevelt has stepped for
ward more openly as the direct
representative of the bankers in
putting over wage cuts, in attacS-
ing the unions and their right to
srike, in cutting down unemploy-
ment relief, and giving the en-
ployers and their company unions
a free hand in the anti-labor drive.
What is the position of President
William Green of the A. F. of L.
on these issues?
On basic questions of trade union
policy Green has carried out the
line of the employers. In practice,
he has carried out every phase Of
the employers program for cutting
wages, strengthening the company
unions, preventing strikes, length
cning hours and cutting unemploy-
ment relief.
"Class Cooperation"
The fundamental principle on
which the A. F. of L. leadership
operates was stated by Green in
the Mover Der Fsderationist.
monthly organ of the A. F. of L.
oh1cialdcm. 1--WE hold that lsbor
and employers are properly part
ners IN industry, with separate
functions but with interdeoendent
interests which can can best be
furthered by genuine cooperation
for production end for that con-
troll of industry that will bring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01

who helped create it. Green openly
approves the running of the codes
by the employers themselves.
Not only that, but the recent
sharpened attacks of the employ
ers and the Roosevelt government
on the workers are specifically ap-
proved by Green. The Chamber
of Commerce, the bankers, and all
the employers associations, set up
the cry, LESS government super
vision" They want to speed-up
the drive against the workers liv-
ing standards. Roosevelt floods the
N.R.A. apparatus with direct repre-
sentatives Of the bankers, such as
Moffet and S. Clay Williams. The
employers and the MIRA. officials
decide to separate the features Of
the N.R.A. which aid monopoly
(fair trade practices, etc. from the
labor provisions, so as to make it
easier to hammer down the workers
living conditions. And Green echoes,
under separate control with a
minimum of government super
vision" He assures the employers
that he does not object to their
administering their own codes.
What Form OF Protest"
Green said further in his Akron
speech, "It is necessary for us and
industry itself (the employers
IC.R) to unite and cooperate, elimi-
nate the unfair practices, take
out of industry those demoralizing
influences that have hampered in
dustry in its steady growth" Green
here offers to compete with the COM
pany unions in aiding the employ
ers to speed-up the workers and
make more profits. His speech is in
line with Francis Germans offer to
the textile employers to help COM