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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Militant Union Only
Way to Get Living Pay,
Say Cannon Workers

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
CONCORD, N. CT have been
working at Cannon Mill, plant six.
for several months. Conditions
have improved but little in the last
six months. We still have plenty
of room for Improvements in this
mill. Better ventilation for one
thing, better working conditions all
the way around.
We need better wages for the day
worker, since $12 per week is the
limit now, and the piece workers
are not getting enough. What we
need most of all is more National
Textile Workers Union members.
1t will take this to ever get liv-
ing Wage-let's all get together and
join an organization that will do
something for the working people
and not the mill owner.
BY Textile Worker Correspondent
CONCORD, N. Gust few
lines about working conditions in
the Cannon cotton mill No. 6. They
are bad now, but it is up to us to
make it better, and we can do it by
all sticking together, as we have got
the big wheel arolling, Now let's
all join the National Textile Work
ers. Come on and let's put up a
fight for our rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

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Can You Make EN-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
An Appeal to the
Textile Strike rs

The Daily Worker invites all
textile workers to write on their
strike activity.
During the strike, first con-
sideration in the publication of
news and correspondence will be
given to the textile strike.
This invitation is extended not
only to Communists, but to ALL
textile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
BY Textile Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; happened to be
mill worker in Lewiston, Maine,
last year, and at that time I was
working for Hill Manufacturing Co.
as a spinner or a doffer or any
thing else. I am an all-around
hand in the spinning department.
In that mill I found the workers
were completely exhausted. No rest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
IN THE HON E
Women and the Election Campaign
BY HELEN LUX

"A Platform of Struggle read it,
and sell it. 1t sells easily at open
air meetings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
Keep Taxes Down
Encourage Home Owning

Encourage Home UWnlng
The District Government trying to figure out tax
rate which will meet set of expenditures over which the
District Government has no control
Congress told the local authorities what tney may sPeno
and what they MUST spend
In the decisions these expenditures the voice OF the
District The taxpayer was unable to influence
the expenditure the saving of dollar
CONGRESS DIRECTED THE EXPENDITURE OF MIL
LIONS OF DOLLARS SOME OF WHICH IS UNNEcEs
sARY, SOME OF WHICH IS wAsTEFUL, AND SOME OF
WHICH WILL MERELY SATISFY THE PASSING WHIMS
OF vAGRANT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OR SENATE
On the other hand Congress refused to permit the District
20 spend its money projects or services winch tne local
taxpayers felt to be necessary the proper conduct OF their
city.
But now the taxpayer ignored in the preparation OF the
appropriation BILL will have his day in court
He will be permitted to dig down into his pocket and pro-
duce the cash necessary the appropriations
by Congress
The District has to meet bill of $350oo,oOo
After imposing that bill upon the city Congress has retired
and has the appointed officials of the District the task
Of determining how much will demand Of each taxpayer to
inset the bill
The citv is fortunate in that Major Daniel Donovan the
veteran wizard of the cy figures bears much OF the re-
Sponsib,lity for determination of the tax rate
Il is certain that it humanity possible Major Donovan
will find way retain the present tax rate Of $1oO per
hundred dollars of valuation.
Every possible effort should be made by the District Com
ssoners and their advisers prevent increase in the
tax rate on real estate at the present time
The obligations placed upon the city by the Congress may
make it impossible hold the existing rate but to raise
the rate now would distinctly the disadvantage Of the
property ownes of the community.
STRENUOUS EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE NOW TO
ENCOURAGE THE BUILDING AND BUYING OF HOMES.
TO HIT THE PROSPECTIVE HOME OWNER WITH AN
ADDITIONAL TAX BURDEN MIGHT WELL PROVE DIS
AsT6oUs TO THESE EFFORTS
Should an the rate be necessary however
should be borne mind that the results from the
fact that expenditures of the city determined by
body which has little with the to be paid
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
BY John Snure, J.

Back in the days of 1918
when Woodrow Wilson was
President, a cry went up
throughout the country that
construction by the Treasury
of public buildings was pork"
The accusation was borne
out in some quarters if not all,
according to records of that
time.
In the administration Of
President Roosevelt the Treas
ury plans to spend almost half
as much money as it has done
in 20 years, including 1913.
A rush order has been is
sued for the department head
ed by Secretary Henry Morgen-
thau, jr. The department
plans to spend $167, 100000 as
fast as possible in construc-
ton of postoffices and Federal
buildings.
Since 1913, $500,O00,000 has
been allotted and 100000, 900
spent in construction.
The money to be spent now
is actually from four funds
including PWA, SOS, 100000, in
cluded in the deficiency bill,
holdover appropriations from
1925 and moneys allocated by
other divisions of government.
Treasury officials say that
the faint of pork" has been
eliminated from the present
plans, although it is agreed that
at least one building or enter
prise will be constructed in each
congressional district.
According to the present pro-
gram at least three contracts
will be let daily in order to car
ry out the building plan.
Selections of towns for build
ings are made by the procure.
ment division of the Treasury
and Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter General Smith w. Purdum.
Purdum and officials of pro-
curement decide Whether'a town
should have a new postoffice,
customs house, repairs to sea-
walls or merely improvements to
an already standing edifice.
If the Treasury Department
building plan progresses as rap
idly as officials hope, the PWA
is going to look like it was an
chored. Treasury officials be-
lieve that their program is
emergency relief and should be
rushed so they are going to blast
it along.
There is one group that is
worried. Its members are in
Congress. From all reports they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30

dark cloud heralding the ap-
proach of this plague, simply
grab my garden and run like
the devil to place of safety.
Before 1 got used to it, I con-
fess was a little ashamed Of
the size of my portable garden.
But it had to be. I live in a city
apartment and you cannot have
a truck farm in a city apart
ment. Any city dweller can
easily make himself a portable
garden. The greatest difficulty
is getting the needed soil, be-
cause Manhattan real estate is
expensive. Soil is $40 a pound.
/ get mine by going up the Hud-
son a few miles and filchlng
some earth from one OF tne
estates there.
Planning the garden was fun,
much more fun than laying OUT
a big garden, where you just go
berserk and plant everything.
I knew 1 had to proceed with
caution and moderation. I had
room for only one vegetable
and for a vegetable lover it is
quite a task to get down to
cases and decide which you
like best-the radiSh, the pea,
the bean, the onion or what.
I raised an onion last year,
complete in every detail. Year
before I raised a superb radlsh,
but a gull flew in from the
river and ate it. Sea gulls will
not eat onions; they pull them
down socially. For that mat
ter onions don't think sea gulls
are so hot.
My bumper crop was in 1881
when managed to raise a car
rot and a turnip, perfectly
formed and healthy in every
respect. I had them stuffed,
and they hang on the wall Of
study now.
OF course life for the apart
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
The Presidents Vacation
Well Earned, and Nav It Mean Return to.
Americanism


You NAV nave read that the u S. Horsor of big
cruisers sailed Monday from the New York Navy Yard in
Brooklyn for Annapolis Maryland where the President of the
United States will board her for cruise to Hawaii and back
You NAV have enved the President He will have the big
kes privae yacht in the world at his disposal He will 60
fishing en- route Foreign dignitare will turn to him.
And
On the other hand suppose the chief executive Of
hundred and twenty five million people, responsible
be for their welfare charged with the duty Of
bringing them out Of Depression open to criticism for
slightest ac weighted down with the problems of whole
country and many of the problems of the world we'll
Do you think then that you would be entitled to vacation?
The is eyes, and that the United States should be
glad to give you few weeks off in which rest and reflect
and plan for its future.
Whatever you think of Mr. Roosevelt-and he is
human being after anone doubt that he carrying
the heaviest loads his shoulders of any President in his
tory
This newspaper earnestly trusts that he will return more
firm adherent of the principles which this country
founded and on which it grew to greatness.
Good luck and pleasaN vacation Mr. President and may
you back better American than when you left!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
The Human Side of the News
Acs):~-te Prophecies Worlds Critical State
By Edwin C.. Hill
BIZ EdWin C.. Hill

On that night recently when
Alfred P. Sloan's three hundred
prophets we're telling what the
world might expect and look
forward to in the next decade
and the next century, lady
past seventy was talking to re-
perters in New York city, about
a man who, in 1887, foretold
many of the things which are
coming to pass in these times.
He was her husband, Edward
Bellamy, author of Looking
Backward, a prophetic novel
on a economic theme which has
been surpassed in sales only by
Uncle Toms Cabin"
Bellamy was neither a Social
iSt nor a social reformer and yet
most of his theories and doc
trineS have been appropriated
by those who since his time
have advocated a radical change
in the Capitalistic system. Even
Technocracy, that fetish of a
year or so ago, borrowed largely
from the dreams of Edward Bel
lamy.
Came to Pass
AS one remembers, the Tech.
nocratS were to do away with
money and pay wages in ergs.
In Bellamy's Utopia there was
to be no money either, the in
dividual being paid according to
his merit in the form of credits
at a central store.
Looking Backward" told the
story of a man who went to
sleep in 1887 and awakened in
the year 1000 A. D. A DR..
Leete explained to him all that
had happened in the United
States during the one hundred
and thirteen years that he was
emulating Rip Van Wrinkle. Dis
cussing the nineteenth century,
DR.. Leete. went on to tell how
he, In 1000 A. D., was puzzled
as to how the "shrewd fellows"
of 1887 came to permit the
waste of labor and capital by
misdirected industry with the
attendant industrial warfare
and periodical commissions which
overwhelmed the wise and the
unWiSe alike.
Bellamy foretold many of the
things which have taken place
in Russia under it's five-year
plan, although in his Utopia the
revolution was bloodless and not
all fomented by the Reds. His
idea. was to change human mo-
tives and thereby establish eco
nomic equality. He talked very
much like the present Admins
tration in Washington has
talked in its outlines and argu-
mentS for the New Deal.
Aside from the capital and
labor question, Bellamy foresaw
the automobile, and he pre-
dicted, most remarkable Of ail,
that the day would come when
the people, &tting at home,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
Lady Luck and a Sailor
They Met in Mid-Ocean

Destny-otherwse known Lady Luck-is like lightning
suddenly Illuminating dark places like wanderer accidentally
kicking glittering stone to discover gold field
Captain Giles stedman the bridge of the steamship
American Merchant competent sailor In fighting the
fury of Atlantic gale to the lives of 20 British sailors
sinking vessel he merely performing routine duty
of the sea-
the report with which he described the turned out
be brilliant literary document revealing unsupported
talent st. Marys College, of Baltimore has honored him with
the degree of Doctor of Letters.
The magnificent skill with which he carried the
also showed him to be uncommonly brilliant master Of
marine science And Colgate University confes upon him the
honorary degree of Doctor of Science
When Captain Stedman goes about his job staff captain
OF the mighty liner Lev1shan-a post to which he was pro-
he may well inwardy that human life be
trolled more by chance than by design.
STILL he reflect that if he had not been ready to take
advantage of the breaks Lady Luck would have passed him
by-for someone else who would appreciate her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30

are having a difficult time Sc
curing any favOritism for par.
ticuIar towns in the way of
building construction.
If they secure favoritism they
will cry pork" next year. But
meanwhile they are mad be-
cause they can't get it as they
wish.
Not content with it's vast pro
gram in the United States, the
Interior Department, headed
by Secretary Ickes, has taken
control of Puerto Rico, which
was formerly administered by
the. Army.
Moving with its customary
Slowness the department has
failed to announce its policy in
connection with supervision of
the Caribbean island and the
people are beginning to wonder
what is in store for them.
Industry in the island has
Stagnated, according to reports,
and at the present time the
people are in the worst con-
ditiOn of their history.
Starvation is prevalent, &C
cOrding to surveys, and at the
present rate of animal industry,
natives can hope for not more
than seven pounds of meat per
year. If the milk supply was
allotted individually there
would not be more than enough
to feed each child two tea
spoons.
Mothers, they say, are unable
to give proper nourishment to
their babies and the death rate
is exceedingly high.
Sugar interests have exploited
the island, the people and its
resources. Salaries are low and
money received finds no bene-
ficial resting spot in Puerto
Rico but is sent to Golfers in
OGner paTCS OF IIle WOTlQ.
The natives are awaiting the
arrival of President Roosevelt,
who will stop over on his way
to Hawaii. While they do not
believe that the Chief Executive
will have an opportunity to wit
ness the actual deplorable con-
ditions, it is hoped that he may
realize the necessity of making
provision for the economic re-
Mobilization of the island.
Meanwhile, the people are
straining at the leash and OBJ
servers say that the Interior De-
partment would be wise to an
nOunce a constructive policy for
the island dependency.
Copyright, 1884, The Washington
Times.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
Educating for Tomorrow
Is Problem of Today
By James T. Williams, Jr.

All educational roads from the
North, South, East, and West
lead this week to the Federal
City, where the National Educa-
ton Association is holding its
seventy second annual meeting.
Twelve thousand members of
this vast voluntary organization
of citizens engaged in educa-
tional work and aiding in the
advance of education are ex'
pected to attend this meeting
at which Educating For To
morrow" is the chief subject Of
discussion.
It is high time to take
thought for Education's Tomor-
row in this country. The eco,
nomic depression has delivered
a body blow to the American
system of education. Compelled
by decreasing revenues to re-
duce expenditures state, county
and local governments have
struck at education instead of
undermining the obsolete SyS
tenn of county and local govern
ment from which nearly every
state in tie union suffers to-
day.
Public schools all over the
country have been closed.
school terms have been short
ened, teachers have either gone
unpaid or have been subjected
to reductions in salaries in or
der to pay the wages and ex-
penSes of the thousands OF poll
ticianS that this obsolete SyS'
tenn of county ard local govern
ment keeps on public pay rolls.
Handicapped
Educating for Tomorrow" Is
a task that will be under an
increasing handicap until this
ODSU1CIC OyoCCAAA Va NONAAVJ GSAAA
local government is modernized
to meet the needs Of a new
day.
This system, as President
Roosevelt has truly said, is an
inheritance from the days when
the OK cart was the chief
means of transportation in this
country. 1t is as much out OF
place today in the field OF gov
eminent as is the OK cart in the
field of transportation.
But as the President has also
said, the people cannot look to
the politicians to get rid Of the
OK cart system of government.
Politicians live by this system.
They fatten on it. The more
politicians on the public pay
roll the greater is the grip Of
the politicians on the throat Of
government and on the purse
Of the people.
At a Citizens Conference on
the Crisis in Education, which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30

GQG fGOCTdl COVc1AIA1cAAC doOCAA-
bled in the Federal City at the
beginning of the depression,
these timely declarations of
policy then made may we'll be
reiterated by the representative
body of American educators
now meeting in the Federal
City.
Education is a necessity not
a luxury because the growth OF
the child cannot be halted or
postponed during an economic
emergency. Therefore, educa-
tional service should be &C.
corded a high degree of priority
in determining the purposes
and services which there shall
be supported by the States
during a depression.
THE major wastes in educa-
ton should be eliminated
through the abolition of the
control over. and interference
with, education by politicians,
of political appointments and
of political corruption.
Local school governments
and local school districts should
be reorganized and consolidated.
Administrative control of the
schools must be centralized in
the superintendent.
Estate administrative organi-
zation of education must be re-
organized through the creation
of a nonpolitical and profess
sional agency for the admins
tration of the educational pol
icies of the State, where such
agencies does not already exist.
THE State must assume the
responsibility within its means
of assuring adequate public edu-
cation to all local communities
irrespective of their financial
condition"
Primary Function
Under the American system
of Government the support and
control of education is a pri-
mary function of the State.
The fostering leadership of edu-
cation, it's advance by means
of research and by the distribu-
ton of the fruits of research
to the several States, is an
unacceptable responsibility of the
Federal Government. These two
responsibilities can neither be
exchanged nor merged.
The States can best do their
part by giving their people
fewer politicians and more and
better schools"
The Federal Government can
best do it's part only by re-
storing the Department of Edu-
cation, which once existed, and
placing at it's head a Secretary
of Education with a seat in the
Cabinet of the President.
Copyright, 1894. TIE Washington
Times(
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
A CITY GARDEN
By Frank Sullivan

The advantage of my garden
Is that it is portable. I can
take it with me wherever I go.
Being fond of the garden 1 find
this to my liking, and consider
it a definite improvement over
the two or three-acre country
garden which cannot be rolled
up and shipped away without
great expense and trouble. For
instance, 17-year locustS have no
terrors for me or my garden,
because if I see the ominouS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30
Worlds Critical State

would receive whatever musical
program they desired by turn
ing a dial, attached to a little
box on the wall which con-
nected with the great music
hall which the state operated
for it's citizens.
Japan's national hero has de"
parted to whatever world is re-
served for heroes, and with
him goes an epoch in the life
of the nation. 1t was Fleet
Admiral Marquis Heihachiro
Togo, who almost single handed
lifted Japan to the rank of a
great world power. It was tiny
little Togo who made more his
tory than any single individual
has made since Naroleon.
That day in 1904, when Ad-
miral Togo trapped the Russian
fleet, off Tsushima, in the Sea
of Japan, and sunk or cap
tured every one of Admiral
RojestvenSky's 20 ships, Japan
became a modern nation, sens
ing her own power, glimpSing
herself as mistress of the Far
East.
If Togo had been beaten in
that desperate sea fight 80
years ago, Japan would have
been no more important today
than Portugal or Siam. That Bat
tie of the Sea of Japan was one
of the decisive battles of his
tory, and no man knows today
what consequences may yet
arise from that terrific en-
counter; what endless ripples
may circle from that event far
out into history and time.
The passing of Togo, the pow
der mill of Asia, ready for the
exploding spark, the reputation
of just debts by our one.time al
lies, all tend to throw into high
relief the critical state Of the
world today. Over at Geneva a
disarmament conference died on
its feet.
Plain and Ugly
The great arms and munitions
NntS of Europe are working
de- and night. It is incredible
that civilized nations should
even contemplate another war,
with utter ruin an absolute GER
tainty for victor as we'll as for
vanquiShed. Yet the facts are
there, plain and ugly
No truer words were ever said
than those uttered by Cardinal
Hayes when he remarked that
"unpreparedneSs at this critical
hour of the worlds history, with
hatreds developing about us, and
disloyalties even in our own
land, would be supreme folly"
War Is horrible, and out Of
the war we must keep if it is
humanity possible, but UMPIRE
paredneSS and it's advocation
lead directly to war, invite ag-
erosion, tempt the greed Of
predatory nations.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-30

ment garden is not all a bed of
roses. It is exposed to perils
which the country garden never
knows. A good-sized garden in
the country runs comparatively
little risk of being sat on. I
know of only two or three men
and women who could cover an
acre of ground by sitting down.
But you have to be on the alert
every moment to protect an
apartment garden from being
sat on by absent-minded, or in
some cases actually malicious,
guests. Even if a garden cover
ing an acre were sat on success
fully, it would probably re-
cover, given time, but a porta-
BILE city garden is never the
same. You might as we'll give
up for that year.
I have had to be constantly
on the watch about cigarette
butts, too. There is a perverse
quality in human nature, at
least in the human nature of
most of the people that call
themselves my friends, that will
make them walk past 20 full
sized ash trays just to be able
to grind a used cigarette into
the soil of a portable garden.
Also, nobody goes around
pouring spirituous liquors on
large truck gardens, but this iS
one of the perils the portable
garden must face. People are
constantly emptying the dregs
of Scotch highballs or gin
rickeys into my garden, and I
do not like it. It arouseS the
beast in my vegetable, which Is
ordinarily a well-behaved, kind
and amenable lettuce. After
such orgies, it lashes around in
it's box for half the night, flap
ping its leaves and behaving
generally in disgraceful man
ner. I wouldn't mind so much
if the people who feed liquor