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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
The Republic Agreement

THE agreement made by the officials of
Steel and Tin Workers, just concluded,
with the Republic Steel Co., continues the
very conditions in mills against which the
steel workers have been fighting.
The agreement applies only to the very
skilled departments in the Republic Steel Co. plants
The bulk of the steel workers continue to work
without contract, dominated by the company union.
The agreement provides for the same wage scale
which existed before This means reduction in
real wages when the increase in the cost Of iv1ng
Is taken into account
The steel companies applaud this agreement.
The AA officials will point to it victory. They
will use it as fig leaf to hide the fact that they
have betrayed every demand put forward by their
rank and file and by the steel workers.
The "A leaders, who referred all the steel work
ers' demands to the National Steer Labor Board
following out the strategy of the companies and
the goyernment-to persuade the workers to ac-
cept one victory" after another which in reality
are series of defeats.
Meanwhile speedup, low wages, company unions,
remain yoke upon the steel workers The Re-
public agreement does not satisfy the demands of
the Republics skilled steel workers for higher wages
to keep pace with living costs.
The masses of the steel workers demand: 81 an
hour minimum wage for common labor; abolition
of company unions; no discrimination against Ne
gro workers or young workers; recognition of the
union and workers unemployment insurance These
are the demands which were adopted at the "A
convention in April by the rank and file delegates
These demands still the grievances of the
more than 100000 steel workers These are the
demands betrayed by the A.A officials and the
Steel Labor Board
Only the program put forward by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union will win these de-
mands for the steel workers. The SMWIU calls
Tor the setting up in every mill of broad united
front committees of action uniting all workers In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
They Are Whipping
Thaelmann Again

THE Nazis are again whipping our COM
rade Thaelmann.
A new wave of terrorism is rising in
Germany. Fascist murder is running
loose
The Nazi press yelps rabid anti-Soviet
Indictment, seeking to provoke a war of
intervention to seize the Soviet Ukraine for the
Prusian Junkers. The Storm Troops are drilled in
preparation for the August 10 elections
Faced with growing bankruptcy, there is no doubt
that the Nazs will seek to float their sinking APP
paratus in a sea of working class blood. And the
first that they will strike is the great leader of the
German working class. Ernst Thaelmann whose
Bolshevik spirit whips or tortures have been
able to COW.
1t has already been reported that Goebbels, Hit
lers propaganda specialist is thinking of dangling
the body of Ernst Thaelmann before the masses as
a rabid and ghoulish Indictment to new mass muir
ders Of Communists and militant workers.
PREPARING for the Peoples Court trial." the
Nad beasts are trying to break Thaelmann's
spirit to wreck his mind and body to bring him
before the Fascist judges, broken and unprepared
But they will fail Thaelmann is made of Boil
shevik granite!
We cannot passivey watch these sadists torture
our contradict The working class of the world, the
great masses everywhere who hate the barbarism
and reaction for which Fascism stands cannot stand
idly by while ThaeImann's life is in danger at the
hands Of torturers!
Redouble the protests at the German Consulates!
Wire to the German Embassy at Washington de-
manding safe release for Thaelmann! Pass pro-
fa14 o1,,ht1
to the German Minister Of Justice at Berlin de-
handing Thaemann's released Organize protest
actions everywherel Stop the hands of the Fss-
cist torturersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Paris Worker
Appeals For
Aid to Rakosi

PARIS, Aug. 13.-An urgent APP
peal for aid to the Hungarian Com
munist leader, Matthias Rakosi, now
facing another term of imprison-
ment and death in the jails of Hun
gary, was made here by worker
delegate, Becker, who has just re-
turned from an attempt to visit
Rakosi in Jail.
Rakosi has just completed an
eight and a half year sentence at
hard labor. With the expiration
of his sentence, the Hungarian Fas-
cist authorities are keeping him in
Jail pending the pinning of new
indictments on him to keep him
there for life. Rakosi is suffering
terribly from tuberculosis and other
pains contracted in the hell-holes
in which he has been confined.
Life in Danger
IT had the honor" the worker
states, "of being sent by the I. R. A.
and the c. G. T. U. as delegate
to Hungary, in order to see for my
self the conditions under which
Rakosi, wrongfully kept in prison,
is living"
AS soon as the traveller arrives
in Budapest, which has been named
the Queen of the Danube" he
observes that the country is under
the fist of fascist dictatorship.
The actions and conduct of every
citizen especially the workers, are
under the strict superintendent of
a strongly ORGANIZED and disciplined
police force.
The workers live in the depths
of want and misery. Those who
are fortunate enough to have work
receive a minimum wage, barely
saving them from starvation.
Poverty and want drive many wo-
men to prostitution. In broad day
light, from the earliest hours of the
morning onward, these women may
be seen in the main streets of the
city, looking for someone who
might give them some money.
The population is intimidated.
Nobody ventures a loud word. For
the soldiery rule. Spies are every
where.
These are the first impressions of
a country ruled by the knout of
Admiral Horthy and his fascist
bands.
The prisons are crowded with
workers who have dared to rise
against the fascist dictatorship.
There is one prisoner who has be-
come a symbol: Matthias Rakosi!
Our delegation made every pos
sible and impossible effort to gain
permission to visit our comrade
in prison. The authorities replied
by categorical refusal. But our
comrade will hear, through the
walls of the prison, that the pro-
letariat is watching over him.
I'VE must act quickly! His life
depends on u.s."
In April this year the term of
eight and a half years imprison-
ment, to which Rakosi was sem
fenced, expired.
He was sentenced for returning
as revolutionist to his native coun-
try, in order to lead the workers
in the struggle against the regime
of oppression.
Hungarian capitalism is fully
aware of the value of Rakosi. 1t
is aware that this man is de-
termined fighter. Hence it is doing
its utmost to annihilate him.
Let us rise and save Rakosi!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
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being stopped. The soldiers shouted
down the officers, and these then
withdrew. In this same camp a
company refused to appear at drill
on an occasion when they were
already tired out.
At Mourmelou, the soldiers re-
turning from days leave were
forced to walk long distance to
their camp. They protested by
singing the international" and
shouting "Soviets everywhere An
officer attempted to arrest soldier,
but was obliged to desist in face
of the protests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

A CABLE on Friday from Shang-
"A hal told of the strike of the
rickshawnen against lowering their
wages. All police have been called
out on duty to prevent the rick
shawmen from slashing tires on the
rickshaws, somewhat like the New
York taxi drivers did during the
last taxi strike.
There could be no more just pun
lshment for the irnperialist robbers
and number of their native pup
pets in China on the day of the
complete victory of the Soviets then
to harness them to the rickshaws
and condemn them to pull them
for the rest of their lives, which
wouldn't be very long. The Soviets,
at the same time could be extremely
generous with their pay, increasing
it 100 per cent, say to about 16
cents in American money, per day.
The American, British, aJpanese,
and other imperialist police in
Shanghai are modified to break
the strike of these men, in order
to protect the profits of the rick
shaw owners. When we say that
the fat imperialist robbers in China
ride on the backs of the workers.
in the case of the rickshawmen it
must be taken literalls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

STATIONS in the Rochard camp; GOO
ressrvists protested against the bad
food, and sent delegation to the
officers. The whole battalion fol-
lowed the delegates. and refused to
obey the order to disperse given by
the colonel. Next day two men
were arrested.
At the camp at Avord, 400 re-
servists organized a gala On the oc-
casion of the expiration of their term
OF service. The officers adopted a
provocative attitude, and endea-
vored to insist on the festivities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
TUESDAY, AUGUST IA. 1894
Drought and the S. P.

I'VE WONDER what drought-stricken
" farmer, facing ruin and stark poverty
would think of the words of Norman
Thomas in this weeks issue of the So
ciaIist Party New Leader"
Commenting on Roosevelt's drought
program, Thomas states: Roosevelt has
returned to the United States in excellent cam
pagning form He and his administration are act
ing vigorously in the matter Of the drought"
Acting vigorously" is heP In the way that
butcher acts vigorously when he slashes the throat
Of calf, maybe.
If ever Roosevelt distinguished himself the
most brutal servant of big capital and the landlords
it is in the way he is handling the drought situa
ton.
Roosevelt has not lifted a finger to help the vast
majority of small stricken farmers. He has dis
played the most brutal indifference to their plight
He has urged with cynical rlthlessness that they
get off their land cor it will be their funeral"
More, Roosevelt has deliberately used the drought
calamity to tighten the grip Of the mortgageholders
and big landowners
Roosevelt has appropriated only s225,OOO,OOO to
solve $4,000, 100000 calamity.
And this money goes not to aid the stricken
farmers, but to destroy cattle and to guarantee
the investments of the creditors who bleed the
farmers!
Roosevelt acts vigorously only to preserve
profit and protect the capitalist elements in the
countryside.
And Norman Thomas, speaking for the Socialist
Party, who comes before the toiling farmers with
program for the way out of the crisis does not
utter one single solitary word Of criticism con-
demnation of Roosevelts criminal, brutal drought
program He endorses it as being "vigorous"l
THE real needs of the stricken farmers are en-
bodied in the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill
proposed by the Communist Party 1t calls for i'm
mediate cash relief to all impoverished farmers
food and fodder distribution by the government
Why doesn't Norman Thomas mention this Bill?
Why is he silent on 1t? But he prefers Roosevelts
capitalist drought program to this real working
class measure.
Norman Thomas, in short forced by the bitter
experience of the workers to retreat somewhat on
the matter of Roosevets Socialism" in the NRA
is again attempting to build the capitalist Roose-
velts prestige before the masses having his good
points" as well as his shortcomings"
Thomas by this talk, is helping Roosevelt to put
over the most brutal criminal program of farm
destruction in the interests Of the big wealthy farm
ers and landlords.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
French Reseryists
Protesting Bad Food
Shout For Soviets'

PARIS, Aug. 13.-Of late the mil
liant activities of the French re-
servists workers serving military
6uty), have increased. The demon
STATIONS in the camp at Courtine.
where the reservists released two of
their comrades arrested by the po-
lice, have been followed by demon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

GLIDING workers of the A to fight for these ana
mill demands. Only such program of broad united
front preparation of struggle, to include members
Of all unions and unorganzed steel workers. will
bring victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Savings Withdrawn
From German Banks
AS Crisis Spreads

BERLIN, Aug. 13-The tendency
to withdraw savings from Hitler's
savings banks, already conspicuous
in May, continued to increase in
June. 48,400,0oo marks more were
Withdrawn than in May. but only
100000 added to deposits, SO that
the falling off is very marked.
The economic crisis has been in
tensified by the Nazi policies, par
ticularly the crisis in the financial
structure. Initiation is rapidly gain
ing Roadway.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
EXPORTS CAIN
IN OCTOBER
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
United States exports during
October were $13,343,OOO greater
than exports in October last year,
the Commerce Department re-
ported today.
Total exports in October, 1894,
were $206,352,O0O, as compared
with $193,069,00O at the end of
October, 1888. The October fig
ureS compares with $191, SOL 900
exports in September, or a gain
of approximately per cent.
This gain, it was pointed out,
compares with an average in.
crease of 16 per cent ordinarily
experienced at this season of the
year.
Seasonal gains was shown of
$6,300,000 in manufactured
tobacco and $11,20O,00O in cotton.
Apple shipments increased about
100000 from September to Octo-
ber. while dried and evaporated
fruits jumped $1,2O0,OOO.
The United States imported
during October 100000 worth Of
furs and fur manufactures less
than during September. Other
import declines were grains, ST.
100000; cane sugar from Cuba,
$13,700,000; manufactured silk,
$2,000,000, and crude petroleum,
100000,
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
TO AWARD TURKEYS

In accord with the Thanksgiv-
mig spirit, turkeys will be
awarded as prizes at the bingo
party in st. Johns Hall, Forest
Glen, Md, tonight under the au-
spices of Forest Glen Council,
Knights of Columbus.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
TIP ON ARREST
WINS PRIZE

Information on the arrest of
John j. Coughlin, jr., on a charge
Of false pretenses growing out of
a complaint that he was holding
down two Government jobs, one at
the NRA and the other at the
AAA, captured first prize last week
in The Washington Times news.
tip contest.
The second prize was awarded
for information that Samuel F,
Beach, local attorney, was ap-
pointed Assistant District Attor.
ney after the resignation of John
r. Fitzpatrick.
Other awards were made for the
following tips: An automobile &C.
cident at Thirteenth and F SITS,
N. w.: a fire in Warrenton, Va:
an automobile collision at Blair
Road and New Hampshire Ave.
N. W., and the mad scramble for
coins when a bank messenger, hit
by a taxicab, dropped $50 in silver
on the street.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
PAROLE HEARING
POSTPONED

The hearing on the paroles of
Albert Sutton and Harry Yudele-
Wit, tentatively scheduled for to-
day, was postponed until some
time later this week." it was an
nounced today at the District
Building.
Both men, who were arrested
last week on charges of violation
of parole, are to be given a hear
ing to determine whether their
paroles will be revoked. The post
ponement is due to the illness of
Commissioner George E. Allen.
Yudelevit. paroled last summer
from Lorton Reformatory where
he was serving a 10-year SEN
tence, was arrested Saturday in
downtown liquor store.
The day before, Sutton was ar
rested in his apartment because
the Parole Board was "dissatis-
fled with his mode Of living and
his source of income"
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
TOWN AROUSED
AFTER BRANLS
ENDFATALLY
Liquor Board to Call Special
Session to Consider
Revoking Licenses

Reorganization Of the Capitol
Heights, Md, police department
will be demanded at a meeting Of
the town council tonight as an
aftermath of brawls in liquor
places.
Mayor Thomas j. Lockett an
nounced he will ask the dismissal
Of several officers and appoint
ment of new men in an effort to
keep peace.
It was also learned that the
Prince Georges county liquor
license board will call a special
meeting to determine of the
licenses of the places should be
revoked.
Action Follows Death
This action came following the
death of a man early yesterday.
The dead man is Bennett A.
Wells, 80, son of Horace A.
Wells, who died from a weak
ened heart, according to DR..
James I. Boyd, of Forestville,
who performed an autopsy. The
body showed no evidence of being
pummeled with brass knuckles,
although those who brought him
home said he had been il! a
fight. Policemen Albert Ander-
son and William E. Clifton are
holding three men for inveStiga-
ton in the Hyattsville Jail.
Hearing Tonight
Meanwhile, Judge oscar T.
Poore is to hold a hearing tonight
for a group of men who fought
police in his office early yeSter-
day when brought before him for
disorderly conduct. He refused to
divulge their names, yet it is said
they started a fight with police
when bounced" out of a beer
parlor for being disorderly.
Fights have become common
place in the District line town
since District people have learned
that the sale Of beer and wines is
not prohibited at any time in the
county. The sale of whisky is de-
MED after specified hours.
To correct this, civic organiza-
tions have protested to the county
and liquor commissioners, but a
change can be made only by
legislative act.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
3 Bronx Men Held
After Raid on Still

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Three
men rounded up in a police raid
on still in the Bronx were held
in $500 bail each for trial when
arraigned before Magistrate Anna
KrOSS.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
B0NUS,BUDCET,
TAXES EYED BY
PRESIDENT
ConferS With Senate Chiefs
on New Deal Plans for
Next Congress
By EDWARD B. LOCKETT


WARM SPRINGS, Ca, Nov. 26
G.N.SO President Roosevelt to-
day studied plans and data pre-.
sented to him within the past
few days with a view to formu-
lating the legislative program
which his New Deal will send to
the new Congress in January.
Politics we're the order of the
day, with Senator Joseph T.
Robinson, of Arkansas. the Demo-
cratic leader of the Senate, and
Senator Pat Harrison, of MiSSis-
sippi, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, as the con-
fereeS.
The impending action of the
new Congress on the soldiers
bonus was one of the matters
considered Apparently, Mr..
Roosevelt has decided that this
is an issue which must be met
at the session which will con-
vene in January, and is prepared
to meet the issue with decision.
Bonus Big Issue
Unprejudiced officials Of the
Administration were of the opin-
ion that the new Congress would
probably enact legislation calling
for immediate payment of the
remaining portion of the bonus.
To all intents and purposes, the
Administration not only is pre-
pared to meet such situation,
but expects it. Officials near the
White House would not venture
the opinion that such action was
inevitable, but on the other hand,
they obviously did expect such a
move.
Should legislation calling for
payment of the bonus be enacted,
it would be the job of Senator
Harrison's Finance Committee to
dig up the money to pay the bill.
Taxes, and the general problem
of the budget, which the Presl-
dent has said will be balanced as
speedily as possible, were the
other subjects discussed.
Edsel Ford Guest
In addition to Senators Rob-
inson and Harrison, others to see
the President this week included
Edsel Ford, son of the motor
magnate, who has been a house
guest of cottage owners here for
the last two days and has seen
the President informally several
times.
Rudolph Hecht, the new pres
ident of the American Bankers
Association, native of New Or
leans, also was one Of today'S
callers. Secretary of Commerce
Roper also has asked the Presi-
dent for an appointment, and
was expected here today. Just
what he would talk about was
not known.
Later on this week Postmaster
General James Farley will be
here, as will Administrator James
A, Moffett of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration. Another
caller will be Frank Walker, who
was for a long time executive
secretary of the National Execu-
tive Council, . sort OF super
cabinet.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
|NSULL To FACE.
STATE TRIAL

CHICAGO, Nov. 26 IN.S)
Samuel insult, fallen utilities czar,
acquitted of mail fraud by Fed
eral jury Saturday, is eager to
face a second Federal indictment
and pending State charges ito
complete his vindication."
Mr.. insult is confident, a close
associate revealed today, that he
will be found not guilty of violat-
ing the national bankruptcy act.
His attorney, Floyd Thompson, an.
nounced he would demand an
early trial.
United States Attorney Dwight
Green, who headed the prosecu-
tion in the mail fraud case, is to
confer with Attorney General
Cummings concerning the case, it
was learned, and it was expected
the indictment would be quaShed.
Samuel Insults younger brother,
Martin, was to have gone on trial
today in Cook county criminal
court for allegedly embezzling
$344,0OO from the Middle West
Utilities Company to protest his
private brokerage accounts. The
trial was postponed until De-
cember 3, however, as many of
the documents and records used
in the mail fraud case are wanted
by the State as evidence.
A second State embezzlement
charge involving both Martin and
Samuel insult, is scheduled for
trial January II.
It was rumored on Lasalle
street today that Samuel insult,
sr., has planned new ventures and
will return to the business world
in an effort to recoup his fortune
as soon as his remaining court
battles are out of the way.
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
BANK
DRIVE SEEN
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bank talk; so much so, in fact
that it was thought the plans
were shelved permanently. Mr..
Owen said:
"The Government already
has made money legal tender
and has taken gold out of cir
culation. The Government, in
my judgment, will be compelled
to perform its constitutional
duty to furnish the country
with Oney adequate to its
needs and regulate the value
thereof by regulating the sup
ply.
WILL EXPAND DEPOSITS
II have talked to Treasury
officials with regard to this and
1 believe they realize the i'm
pOrtance of this duty. To ac-
cOmplish it the Government
be compelled to supply the
bank demand deposits which
now transact nine-tenthS of our
monetary business. 1t can
easily be accomplished in this
manner:
LET the Government, by an
act of Congress, authrOize the
purchase by the United States
of the stock of the IL Federal
Reserve Banks. Let the stock
be paid for by a credit entry on
the books of the Reserve banks.
Let the IL Reserve Banks be
erected into a Central Reserve
Bank with IL branches and sub
branches. Let this Central Bank
buy the public debt Of $1,000
million dollars.
"The reserve banks would
then own the bonds and the
member banks would have H.
900 millions of reserve.
PRODUCTION TO RISE
"What is far more important
our national production of goods,
which uniformly runs three
times as much in value as the.
demand deposits, would not only
be restored from $1,000 million
dollars, as at present, to $1,000
millions as in 1929, but the in
crease would approximately be
three times the $1,000 millions
by which demand deposits
would be increased.
Treasury officials have been
studying these problems for a
year and no doubt by the time
Congress meets there will be re-
ports coming from the Treasury
Department showing the impOr-
tant exercising control over the
supply of money"
The Washington times., 1934-11-26
Football Player
Killed on Field
ByAuto

HAVERHILL, Mass, Nov. 26
(I.N.SD.-One of the most un.
usual football deaths-that of
a boy killed by an automobile
while making an end run-today
had been recorded with the
death of Francis Donovan, IA.
Donovan was playing in a
scrimmage game on a field near
his home.
He took the ball and started
to make a run, and got in the
path of an automobile driven
on to the field by a man who
was learning to drive.
The operator of the car, po-
lice said, was Philip G. Gren-
non.