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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Praise ''DoiIy'' for Offer of
Mars Book as Prize in Drfve

NEW YORK The offer of Hugo
Gellert's Karl Marks Capital in Pic
lures" as a premium and prize in
the Daily Worker circulation drive
has already brought forth telephone
calls and airmail letters from work.
ers praising the Daily Worker man.
agement for making possible this Of
fer.
The phone calls were mainly from
subscribers in B'klyn who asked that
a copy of Capital in Pictures" be re-
served for them and that they had
sent in So to renew their subscription
to the Daily" for a year, and an adj
ditional dollar for the book immedi-
ately after reading the announce
ment Of this remarkable offer in
Saturdays issue of the DAILY"
An airmail letter from worker,
L. j., in Philadelphia, states:
Il want you to know how pleased
l am with cur Daily Worker for
making this great offer. Please,
comrades, be sure 1 would be doing
my best to get new subscribers for
cur Daily even without d prize.
BUT 1 WANT THIS BOOK. I
couldn't afford to buy il. Three
dollars is lot of money for one
who is without wO-k most Of the
time. Please put one Of these books
aside for me as I'm going to send
you more than enough new subs
pretty soon and get the book free"
Karl Marx Capital in Pictures"
is just off the press. 1t contains sixty
pages of essential text from Marks
history-making Capital" and an
other sixty pages Of creative Htho-
graphs by the well-known proletarian
artist, Hugo Gellert.
Although selling for three dollars
The Daily Worker MANAGEMENT thru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Theatre Employees
Plan WalkOut
Discuss Strike at Regular
Meeting

NEW YORK, Feb. pa strike Of
ushers, doormen, ticket takers and
JanitorS employed in the motion pic
ture houses is looming here as the
result Of a Walkout Of 16 workers at
the Paramount Theatre in Stapleton,
L. /, who we're Disseminated against
by the management on account Of
union activities.
The Theatre and Amusement En-
ployes' Union of Greater New York.
affiliated with the A. T. Of l., called
a meeting last night at Palm Gar
den. Sind ST, near Eighth Ave,
where a strike vote was to be taken
as we went to press.
Meanwhile Mrs. Eleanor Herrick.
acting chairman Of the Regional La
Dor Board, who had q hand in the
betrayal of the taxi strike and has
been active trying to break the hotel
strike, is reported to be active trying
to prevent the waIkout Of the theatre
men, which will involve large num-
Der Of workers.
The theatre men are demanding
that the Long Island theatre rein
state the Is workers and recognize
the union. The demand for union
condi ions and recognition will be put
forward in all movie houses in the
CITY, according to the union men.
Warning the theatre employees
against pinning their hopes on man
euvers with the N. f. A. officials.
the Trade Union Unity Council OF
Greater New York, with offices at
799 Broadway, advised the workers to
base their struggle on elected rank
and file committees from each thea
tire and q general rank and file strike
committee composed of workers
elected from each theatre.
Once the workers have voted to
strike they should not permit a set
Element to be negotiated unless it has
the approval Of the majority of the
strikers, the Council stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Kelly Miller Offers
Fascist Program
For Negro Masses
Negro Reformist Stakes
Hitler Percentage Policy
In Enterprises

NEW YORK-Percentage employ
ment Of Negroes, on the line of Hit
ler's fascist program limiting the
number of Jewish workers in enter
prises, universities, ETC., is proposed
by Kelly Miller, Negro reformist
leader, in a letter in yesterdays New
York Herald Tribune.
DR.. Miller, who is also a leading ex-
ponent of a program for driving
Negro workers back to the ruined
farms for a bare subsistence, admits
that the N.R.A. "acts on the fascistic
principle" and that there is much
complaint about discrimination
against the Negro under operation OF
the N.R.A. codes" He agrees that the
codes permit such discrimination
under the guise of regional or local
differentials and where the wage level
is mandatory under the codes en-
ployers often supplant Negro by
white workfolks." He nevertheless de-
tends the MIRA. blue buzzard, declar-
ing President Roosevelt undoubtedly
intends that there shall be fair
and impartial treatment under his
sheltering wing"
Silent on the jim-crow denial of
relief to Negro jobless, Miller opposes
unemployment relief, declaring long
continued public dole will lead to the
enfeeblement of will and weakening
of character of the Negro masses. He
urges the fascist principle of setting
quota" Qimiting) for Negroes in in
dustry. He warns that unless the gov
eminent engages in a gesture of do
ing something for the Negro masses, -
"the great standing idle army Of
Negroes will constitute menace to
the entire industrial economic and
social structure
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Furniture Workers i'm
Washington Today
To Hit N.R.A. Code

NEW YORK.-To protest against
the slave furniture code of the MIRA.
and to put forward the demands
worked out at the recent Nat onal
Convention of the Furniture Work
erS Industrial Union, delegation of
furniture workers, headed by Joe Kiss.
chairman of the union, will appear
at the code complaint hearing to be
held in Washington today.
Kiss will put forward demands for
the 30-hour, five-day week without
reduction in pay and minimum
wage Of rs cents an hour for I'M
KILLED workers.
The delegation will demand that
piece work be done away with in the
furniture trade and the right to or
ganlze and strike for better condi-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

a special arrangement is enabled to
offer this book for only one dollar to
all subscribers renewing their sub
scription to the Daily" for a year.
The very same book, beautifully
printed and Illustrated, IL offered
free of charge to workers who obtain
either yearly subs to the Daily
Worker ($6 per year,, or 10 six
months subs $3.50 EACH.
Because Of the much higher postage
rate for mailing the Daily Worker to
Manhattan and Bronx, New York, the
subscription price for these two
boroughS is SO per year, and IS for
six months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Hold United Front
Conference on CWA
Sunday, March 4th
Continued from Page -

the conference and future actions, all
organizations are asked to send any
possible contributions with their del.
egates.
In contrast to the broad united
front character Of the Emergency
Conference, the Socialist and Love-
stoneite leadership, despite the sim
cere desire of the workers for united
front struggle for continuance of
C.WA. have called conference for
March /. To this conference they
have excluded TU.UL. unions, the
Unemployment Councils, and the Re
lief Workers League, and all mill
tant organizations.
This conference follows the meet
ing Of the provisional united front
committee, on Feb. 10, which had
called the Feb. 18th demonstration
in which Socialist, Communist and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Jerome to Speak on
AUSTRIA and United
Front at NTWIU Hall

NEW YORK.-In response to
urgent calls from workers in the
needle trades for Qualification of
the issues involved in the Austrian
workers struggles, V. j. jerome,
Communist writer, well known for
his brilliant and devastating criti-
cism Of Sidney Hook and other
renegades and revisionists, viii
speak at the auditorium Of the
Needle Trades workers Industrial
Union, 131 W. 26th st., on We'd
nesday, Feb. %, at 2 pm.
All needle trades workers are
urged to attend this forum, where
a thorough discussion will be held
on the background of the armed
revolt of the Austrian workers and
the attitude Of the Socialist lead
ers and the united front policies
OF the Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
HGthGtOGy to Speak
at Ford Birthday
Banquet, March 3

NEW YORK.-Clarence Hatha-
way viii speak at the banquet held
in honor Of James ". Ford, secre-
tary Of the Communist Party of
Harlem, and candidate Of the C.P.
for President in 1892, on the
occasion Of his fortieth birthday.
The banquet viii be held at the
Esthonian Workers Club, q West
115th ST., Saturday, March 3, at
8 p. M.
Musical entertainment viii be
furnished by large jazz band.
and the Italian Workers Chorus.
Eugene Nigoh viii render piano
solos. Admission will be so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Free Milk for Racqueteers

OW there tennis players there are tennis PLAYERS
Some are amateurs and pros The pros today
VINO used to give away their exhibitions for nothing openly
ag To-Day about the money they get for hitting up before
Oeorgeous Beautiful and lovely, lovely, lovely" re-
marking audiences The amateurs still maintain their simon
pure financial chastity by stunning the professional faint
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Cork Workers Strike
Following Fake Pledges

BROOKLYN, Feb z6.-Five hun
dred workers Of the United Cork
Workers Union. affiliated with the
A. +. of L., struck at 10 o'clock today,
demanding that the fake promises
given them last November following
a strike for 10 per cent increase in
wages be carried out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Referendum Demanded
by Fur " orkers Union

NEW YORK.-In a letter addressed
to members Of the Board Of Direc-
tors Of the New York Fur Trimners
Association, Joseph Winogradsky,
manager Of the Fur Workers Indus
trial Union, warned the bosses against
ratifying an agreement with the IN
ternational Fur Workers Union
against the will OF the workers in
the trade.
The letter was sent prior to a meet
ing Of the Association held last night.
where the bosses were going to at
tempt to ratify an agreement with
the A. F. Of L. Union, which has only
small percentage of the organized
fur workers.
The Fur Workers Industrial Union
is demanding that the referendum.
which the bosses agreed upon before
the National Labor Board, be carried
out and that the workers shall decide
which union represents them.
City Hall stating that they will smash
the injunction menace BY carving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
MAss RALLY ron 1IpRARr r.npA1nN

NEW YoRK-Robert Minor rovoIntion.
ny leader will be the main speaker Thurs
day, March /. pm. at rally arranged
by the Harlem Workers School TO be held
at the Renaissance Casino. 13sth street and
Seventh Ave. Minors subject win be Tho
Meaning Of the Recent Upsurges in Europe
TO the American workers.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

All C. w A. workers are asked to
report at their union headquarters
Immediately, Or at the general office
of the Relief Workers League, 90 E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

City Hall stating that they will smash
the injunction menace by carrying
on q campaign OF mass violations and
mass picketing.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11
The Liquor Bill
Common Sense Prevails


The House has shown commendabe speed in passing the
liquor control bill for the District
Likewise it has shown great deal Of common sense in
making the tolerant and liberal without sacrificing
the objective of temperance in the of alcoholic beverages
Intoleran fanatics who would have put such legislative
strait jacket in the law would perpetuate the boot
logger and the speakeasy met with little sympathy when the
showdown the measure.
The bill goes before the Senate for final considerations
is to be hoped that that body will follow the example
Of the House and expedite its passage.
Every day that final enactment is delayed is costing the
District thousands of dollars
Every day that final enactment is delayed gives the boot
logger an opportunity to cement himself in the community
Extensive public hearings have already been held the
bill Everyone the District who has the slightest interest
in its provisions has had opportunity to make known his
views either before the District Commissioners before the
joint hearing or both.
While the Senate Committee may want to hold hearings
on the passed the House those hearings should
be confined to amendments which made the floor
Of the House.
They should not be allowed to prolong themselves and
delay final action.
Several members Senate have announced that they
will the Senate substitute the government
dspensary system for the licensing system provided in the
House Bill
It would be most unfortunate such procedure prevailed
It would the Federal Government in the liquor bus
ness and would give hearty to those who want
to continue operate illicit business after liquor has
been legally restored xA
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

Never sail without your anchors.
On lengthy voyage, or brief
Test, when currents run too strongly,
Ship and voyagers come to grief.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

YOU can't roll hoops or have
German measles any more, you
are getting old. You think
that just because you gasp for
breath when you lean over to
fasten your skates, you are no
good any, longer. Poppycock!
Life is just beginning for you,
if you only knew it-and II
Life only knew it.
Just think of all the things
YOU can do after 40! Prof.
Webster was 81 when he cut up
DIR. Parkman and threw him
into the furnace of the Harvard
Medical School, and DR.. Park
man,N was 10 himself! Nero
was So when he set fire to
Rome. Thomas Jukes was 54
when he married his own
daughter to conceal the fact
that he had killed her first hus-
band. And 1, myself, was AZ
when I fell down a flight OF
steps and got water on the
knee. Middle age? Bosh!
In the old days there was
perhaps some reason for grow
ing old after 40, or possibly for
not reaching 40 at all. The In
dians did a great deal toward
The Washington times., 1934-01-11
"COst of Living"
Government Paw

L
President Rooeves decision continuing the Is per cent
pay through the current fiscal year the best argument
which has yet been advanced for repeal Of the economy act
provisions affecting Government personnel
That decision and the figures which it is based clearly
show the faacy of attempting to regulate Government
salaries upon the basis of "cost Of living
It shows that cost of living varies greatly in different
sections Of the country that salary schedule which is fair
in community brings distress and hardship in another
It shows that the economy act provision salaries
small moderation under the budget recommendations PRE-
VENTS THE GOVERNMENT FROM GIVING IMPETUS TO
THE RECOVERY MOVEMENT WHICH IT IS FOSTERING
Had the President the law been able
that instead of continuing the salary cuts he would
wages their basic schedules would have
given to hundreds of thousands Of workers
would taken practical step in the rehabilitation march
Under the law and with the figures presented him by
the Department of Labor the cost of living, he
strained from doing this.
The restoration salaries by the would have
been direct and sound invitation to private employers to
follow suit.
Hundreds of such employers would have accepted the inv
Eation and the actual well the psychological stimulus
to trade would have been tremendous.
The action of the President should discourage Federal
employees and the others who believe in the justice
prosecuting their demands that Congress abolish
the "ost of living procedure and return salaries normal
It should rather soy the ranks Of those working toward
this end.
only hope for relief lies in the action of Congress
The President had been expected to grant Of relief
but he has been preuded from this by the provisions of the
law.
Congress wrote the law and and should modify it.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11
Surplus and Schools
Where To Spend the Money

Confronted with the prospect Of surplus Of about six
million dollars in the fiscal year 1885 result Of the
budget figures submitted to Congress- the District Comms
sioners preparing to submit supplemental estimates WHICH
would utilize the money be raised from local taxpayers
The preparation Of such estimates should be approached
with the greatest caution. .
Bound up with the entire matter of the surplus and the
District appropriation bill for the coming the matter
Of the Governments proporonate share Of the
penses of the National Capital.
Federal Government share to be SILL further re-
duced to be kept at its present inadequate level large
part the prospective surplus should be devoted to reduc
tion Of taxes
If the Federal does not want to do its full
share toward building and maintaining the Capital there
is no reason whv the residents of the District should be dis
proporonatey burdened with taxes to make that share
Simply because the surplus money would be in the Treasury
to the credit of the District is for spending that
money foohly without regard to the tax burden Of
citizens
Should it be decided to Congress expend the full
income for the 1885 fiscal year. primary consideration should
be given to the needs of the public school system
If there extra money available that is where is needed
and should be spent.
Virtually every high school in the city is at present at
tended by students than adequately be
dated.
In the graded schools children being sent class in
dapdated and antique buildings which disgrace to
the city.
Several of these buildings recommended for abandon
ment than of years ago but still in
Teachers virtually all of the schools attempting
give instruction to classes which too large.
Under these circumstances the place for surplus funds is
plainly indicated.
But before any projects upon which expend
the prospective surplus is made there should be definite
understanding the position of Congress with regard
the proportionate share.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

Sion W n c. n Elsle Robinson
that old world never knew. A
million amusements. "a million
distractions.
YET, STILL LIKE MOSES
AND ABRAHAM, DAVID AND
SOLOMON, WE NEED TO
HEAR THE STILL, SMALL
VOICE OF GOD.
We may not call it God.
We may call it Beauty or
Wisdom.
But whatever we name it,
each one of us has a need Of
it. each heart has a cry
which the harsh shout Of the,
world can never answer :.
each bewildered brain listens
for a Voice which alane can
bring comfort and peace and
strength.
But we will never hear that
Voice unless we shut out the
noise.
Not merely the noise of the
world. The noise of the world
is oppressive, but a man may
still hear God in spite Of the
racket of street cars.
AND THE NOISE WE MUST
CUT OUT IS THE NOISE
WITHIN OURSELVES.
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

The bleat Of our self pity.
the hiss of envy. the bray Of
conceit. the below of hate. ..
the whimper of fear. the snarl
of peeviShneSS. the humble Of
suspicion. the snare of lazi-
ness. the snap of intolerance
the giggle and gaggle and
guggle of foolishness.
These are the noises that
really drown out God. and the
Voices of Beauty and Wisdom.
BE STILL AND KNOW
THAT AM GOD!
Whatever your need, if you
would find a solution. BE
STILL!
LET THE NOISE BE
HUSHED WITHIN YOU, BIT
BY billet THE DIN DIE
AWAY UNTIL YOUR SPIRIT
IS EMPTY. READY TO BE
FILLED. WAITING TO BE
FILLED.
And then softly, gently, the
Voice will come.
From all sides it will come
From everything you behold
and everything you experience.
That Voice which runs like
one long chord through all
things and all life. through
laughter and tears and sunsets
and ships, through ploughed
fields and budding trees and
men bending over benches,
through child-beds and graves
and wedding feasts and labor
conferences, through books and
hammers and aeroplanes and
loaves of new-made bread,
through roses and heaped fruits
and moonlight and sweat
From all sides the Voice will
come
Quieting your confusion, COM
forting your pain, answering
your ignorance
Whispering: IT COME. BE
NOT AFRAID. BE STILL
AND KNOW THAT I AM
GOD"
Copyright, 1894. by Eing Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
The Washington times., 1934-01-11

diamond blazing in their white
shirt fronts. Gone are the
dance halls and the red-stock-
inged girls, the buckskin- clad
fur traders, the red-shirted
miners and the frontier deputy
sheriffs. But life springs again
wherever gold or silver springs
from mother earth, and Central
City, romantic and fascinating
symbol of the old West, may
again play its part in the stir
ring drama of the new day
and the New Deal.
Strange Career
In other words, once we get
past the so mark we are not
likely, on the average, to live
as long as our great-grandfa-
thers and great-grandmothers.
It is one of the mysteries of
life.
Once more 74-year-old Samuel
insult is a man without a coun-
try. He is not only a man with
out a country, he is an outlaw.
For the government Of Greece
notifies insult that he must
quit the country by January 81,
an undesirable AMEN.
A strange career, insults, this
man who held the world of pub
lie utilities almost in the hollow
of his hand a bare four years
ago.
Ruthless, as we'll as tireless,
with seemingly only one idea
burning in his active brain
riches, and the power over men
that goes with riches. Finally
came the day when the Waif
from Westminster Road had a
town house in Chicago, an eS-
tate of 1000 acres at Forest
Park. The day when he stood
ruddy, smiling and confident as
the great people of Chicago, the
Potter PalmerS, the Marshall
Fields, the Rockefeller -McCor-
micks, flowed past him in the
foyer of the Chicago Opera
House, bowling to him in
friendly, graceful fashion for
bringing into being this palace
of the operatic art.
And then 1929 and his fatal
battle with that hard handed
old fighter, Cyrus Eaton, the
turn of the tide, the retreat of
the bankers, desperation, flight,
disgrace and now outlawry.
From the dingy streets of
Whitechapel to the shadow of
the Parthenon! With the fu-
ture to bring no man knows
what to this old, broken, disil-
lusioned man, who fought all
his life for the things that do
not really matter.
Copyright. 1884. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nC)
The Washington times., 1934-01-11
The Human Side of the News
Ghost Mining Towns Reborn-Samuel insult
By EdWin C.. Hill

After many years silver is
coming back into its own. One
of the final DEGREES issued by
President Roosevelt in the long
series Of brilliant and fortnight
strokes which made the final
three-quarters Of 1888 so elec-
trified, was the virtual remon-
etization Of silver on a basis Of
one to SO as compared with
gold.
The scratching Of the Presi-
dents pen across the parchment
Of that decree stirred the old
ghost towns Of the silver mining
centers of the west back to ac-
tive life. The old mining towns
that made millions over night,
back in the sixties and seven
ties, ghost towns for many years,
are filled up again as old claims
are combed over and new claims
opened up. The land that Mark
Twain delighted to write about,
that poured the fortune of Midas
into the pockets of Flood, Fair,
O'Brien and Mackay, huns once
more to the chorus of pick and
shovel and the humping eXplo-
sions Of giant powder.
Central City
Even old Central City, with
its romantic history, may
again come into it's own. In
Central City bloomed the first
culture of Nevada Territory.
1t had the first theater and
the first grand opera house.
Booth played there and Ade-
lima Patti scared her golden
notes, as booted miners
stamped applause and showered
gold coin upon the stage.
President Grant made two
visits to Central City, walking
over solid silver bricks from
his carriage to his hotel.
George M. Pullman got his
start there, and the inspira-
ton also for the Pullman
berth. A neat man, detesting
dirt and disorder, Pullman
was annoyed when miners
pumped themselves down upon
the clean blankets of his fastid-
iously made bed. So he put
hinges on the bunk and swung
it up against the wall of his
cabin, and there was the first
Pullman berth, the simple idea
which made millions for
George M. Pullman and revolu-
tionized railway travel the
world over.
Central City is coming alive,
though in tune with modern
times. Gone are the two-gun
men and the desperadoes. Gone
are the pallid gamblers in their
ministerial black, the single