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Evening star., 1934-08-12
$75,394 IN WAGES
RESTORED BY N. R. A.
State Directors Adjust 928 Code
Complaints Affecting
1857 Workers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N. r. A. said yesterday that State
directors adjusted 928 code complaints
during the two weeks ended August
4, netting 3,867 workers $75.394 in
back wages.
1t brought wage restitutions during
the month ended August to $182, ,127,
N. r. A. said, adding:
Individual reports of the State di-
rectors continue to emphasize that a
substantial proportion Of complaints
lodged with them are either unjusti-
fed, the work of cranks, or the result
of workers misunderstanding of their
rights under codes
"Of the balance, the majority
prove on investigation by the directors
to be the result of employers mis-
understanding of their obligations
complaints that are usually adjusted
quickly when the requirements are ex-
planned to the employers.
In cases involving alleged VIOLA
tons of code maximum hours or mini
mum wage provisions, State directors
are not permitted to adjust on any
other basis than fun restitution of
back wages due the employees
involved"
Evening star., 1934-08-12

Plan I: Fourteenth, Pennsylvania
Peace Monument, First. B, Pennsyl-
vania, Eighth, M, Eleventh anc
Nichols.
Plans and 3, omitted.
Fourteenth and Decatur-Anacostia
Congress Heights.
Plan /. Same as above, extended.
Plans 2 and 8, omitted
Georgia and Alaska, District line
Wharves, Seventh street.
Plan l. Georgia avenue and Seventh
street.
Plan 2, omitted.
Plan 3, same as plan 1.
Georgia avenue and Rock Greek
Church oad-Seventh street wharves
Plans ] and 8, omitted.
Plan 2: Georgia avenue and Seventh
street.
Tak0ma- Seventh and Pennsylvania.
Plan l. Laurel, Aspen, Blair, Third.
Kennedy, Georgia and Seventh.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Seignorage Cipes Uncle Sam
Bic Profit in Silrer M0re

Thus, II under naturalization the
Government buys 10000, 900 ounces
of silver for 500, 90 900, it is required
to issue silver money up to the total
cost, 100000, 900. But the Govern
ment would value the silver at $685.
0O0, 900 and could issue certificates to
that full amount If it desired.
This is where the greatest possi-
bility for initiation in this means can
be found.
1t is estimated If the Government
buys enough silver to establish the
one to three ratio with gold, 1t viii
have to acquire far more than 1000 =
100000 ounces. Were all this used to
back new money, 1t would bring a
silver currency issue Of something
around $500, 100000.
Limitation Of Law.
So far the Treasury has announced
it will go only as far as the law re-
quires, and issue silver money up TO
the cost Of the new metal, on the new
purchases.
But the latest Treasury decision
was taken by observers as sugges-
ton that the more Expansive policy
may be adopted later.
The Treasury announced that on
the free silver bullion 1t held prior TO
enactment Of the new law, amounting
to 50. .00o, 900 ounces. it would issue
silver certificates not up to the cost
value, $46 300, 900, but up to the full
monetary value, $S0,000,000.
This, In itself, was mere drop in
the bucket, except for any indication
it might provide of future action.
It was noted the Treasury state
ment said "for the present" currency
would be issued only up to the cost Of
the new silver purchases.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
DEMOCRATSOPEN
DRIVE IN INDIANA
Fall Political Campaign Be-
aims With Annual Sum-
mer Outing.
NJ sl.s Annoe,asea preaa.

NJ tie Associated Press
FRENCH LICK, Ind, August IL.
--Democratic leaders fired what
amounted to the opening shots in the
TsaIi political campaign at the closing
session Of the annual Summer outing
of the Indiana Democratic Editorial
Association here tonight
Sherman Minton. Democratic noFni-
nee for United States Senator. In n
speech declared President Roosevelt
had upheld the Constitution instead
OF Withdrawing from Il. as charged
by Republicans.
Gov. Paul w. McFutt gave figures
10 refIIte, he said. "misstatement Of
truths by our opponents" that his
administration OF State government
was more costly than that Of the last
Republican regime.
Omer 8. jackson, Democratic State
chairman. and Frank Finney. presi-
cent Of the editorial association,
called on newspapers supporting the
administration 10 cooperate with
rarty leaders in the campaign pre-
ceding the November election.
Mrs Inez Scholl, State vice chair
man. and other members Of the party
ticket were introduced.
"One OF the issues our Republican
friends have been Haunting before
the people from the platform and In
the press Is embodied in the dramatic,
II somewhat ambiguous appeal, Back
20 the Constitution, Minton said In
his address.
"As II some one had run away from
the Constitution" he continued. "Ap-
parentiy this Is to be another cam
paign Of fear and fright. Already we
hear the tom-toms beating. see the
ghost dancing, hear the incantations
of the witch doctors and the venomous
kissing Of the whispering hags as they
executive fat and Communism.
Minton quoted from the Constitu-
tion in his effort TO show that Presi-
dent Roosevelts administration has
not withdrawn from Il.
I'm the Constitution itself We find
the machinery for carrying out the
simple purposes Of government that
is. the greatest good TO the greatest
number. and. which is expressed in
words, life, liberty and pursuit Of
happiness. Minton said.
Evening star., 1934-08-12


who bought silver at, say. a cents
in late June. and sold 1t on August
at 47la cents an ounce win have
to pay the Government half of his
profit. whereas the person who bought
silver at A cents an ounce and has
kept 1t or viii receive 1t shortly under
contract for future delivery, will
receive 50.01 an ounce from the Gov
ernment and will be exempt from the
special profits tax.
Treasury officials admitted frankly
that this situation was discriminatory,
but they said it was legally unavoid-
able. They said that in nationalizing
silver the Government was exercising
the power of eminent domain and was
therefore under the constitutional re-
quirement to pay just compensation.
The price Of 50.0l an ounce was
fixed as Just compensation.
They explained that 1t would be
unconstitutional to attempt to reduce
this compensation to any particular
individuals or group Of individuals
by taking part Of 1t back in special
tax.
without doubt. they said, the courts
would hold that an attempt TO apply
such tax was an attempt ct evasion
Of an explicit provision of the Con-
stitution. They readily agreed that
some buyers Of silver might have
thought of this point or had 1t brought
to their attention by their lawyers.
On the other hand, there was no as
surance that the Treasury would ever
use its power TO nationalize silver. It
could have carried on its entire silver
purchase program by the method Of
purchase instead of BY nationalizing.
They expressed absolute confidence
that there had been no leak" Of In
formation indicating the intention to
nationalize--at any particular time,
at any particular price, or at any time
or price.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
H. L. ROOSEVELT SAFE

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Reported on Lake Skaneateles.
NEW YORK, August II R.-Foyd
Bennett Field was informed tonight
that an amphibian plane in which
Henry L. Roosevelt. Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Navy, was passenger had
landed safely in Lake SkaneateleS,
near Syracuse, N. Y.
Albany Airport officials previously
had received radio message from
Department of Commerce officials
asking whether Roosevelt, bound for
Albany in plane, had arrived safely.
Roosevelt was accompanied by one
man, whose named was not learned.
Evening star., 1934-08-12

Continued From First Page.)
cars north of Colorado avenue and
bring them to town by way of Geor-
gia avenue instead of Fourteenth,
q radical departure from the Beeler
plans which proposed to abolish
these lines and substitute bus service.
They propose the connection Of the
Eighteenth street side Of the Potomac
Park loop with Pennsylvania avenue
thus taking the mass OF outbound
evening rush-hour cars out OF the
terrible congestion" on Seventeenth
street from F street to Pennsylvania
avenue, and permitting the large
number OF these cars that are east
bound on Pennsylvania avenue to
cross Seventeenth street with the We
hicular traffic.
Sager points out that In the not too
distant future the congestion of street
in the section to be developed as the
Municipal Center viii force additional
trunk lines into existence to take care
OF the rush.
His suggestions for the future in
clude a new east-west trunk south OF
the Mall, operating from the Bureau
of Engraving along C street and
Maryland avenue southwest to Third
street, north on Third street to c
street (north) where 1t would branch
out both east and west on c street.
A new line comes from the Potomac
Park district across the Ellipse in a
t. he ltWzA ~ K Tracks
in Pennsylvania avenue are aban-
doned east Of Seventh street, where
they are diverted into G street and
travel over to First street.
The western end Of the line in Po-
tomac Park is joined to line that
goes north on Twenty second street
to Florida avenue and cut Connect
cut avenue across the Taft Bridge.
No Estimates Of Cost Made.
Tracks In the vicinity of Peace
Monument would be taken up and
track on Third street from c street
north to Independence avenue sub
stituted. Tracks would be construct
ed on North Capitol street from
Massachusetts, avenue south TO Louis
lana avenue and along Louisiana ave-
nue. to the c street tracks.
There are no estimates as to the
cost of these future changes.
Sager said that in general double
track line ought to be able to move
from 5000 to $4,000 passengers per
hour, and that in Washington as high
as 5000 per hour are being moved
over the present system. In order
to move 5000 TO $4,000, he said, the
service must be speeded up.
THE present speeds" he said, "are
due partly to the type of equipment
some of which is not susceptible to a
high-speed operation. and also large
ly due to traffic congestion. The car
congestion can and will be changed
The automobile congestion should be
changed. A part of it win be changed
when the Capital Transit Co. can
furnish more satisfactory service, thu:
permitting many present users OF
automobiles to use the mass trans
portation service"
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Police Take Hearse.

JERSEY CITY, N. J. CP1.-Police-
men took charge Of q hearse which
apparently had been abandoned. cof-
fin and all.
Then appeared James Singleton,
colored undertaken, who explained the
casket was empty. He came from
Florence, 8. c., for q ocdy, but it had
gone South by train, so he went TO =
party in Harlem.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
WOMAN SEEKS RETRlAL.
Mrs Gaskin Given 90 Years in
Killing in Missouri.

Mrs. Gaskin Given 20 Years in
Killing in Missouri.
CARUTHERSvILLE, Mo, August
II R--A new trial will be sought
for Mrs. Ina GaSkin, 20, convicted
Friday Of second-degree murder in the
Staying of Charles Spencer. so. Hayt,
MO. night ofacer, and sentenced to
20 years in prison, her attorneys an
nounced today.
Mrs. GaSkin. wife Of Moreau Cas-
kin, Hayti street commissioner. shot
and killed Spencer with his own re-
volver June Is, but contended she did
not know the gun was loaded.
Prosecuting Attorney Robert W.
Hawkins argued, however, that Mrs
Gaskin killed Spencer because he had
spurned her for another woman, Mrs
Derondia Dunning. Mrs. Gsskin tes-
tined Spencer's dying words were
Sweetheart, you've killed me, but you
didn't mean TO"
Evening star., 1934-08-12
SECOND TWINS BORN
a4-Year-old Mother Has secon

24-Year-Old Mother Has Second
Set of Twins in Two Years.
Ry the Associated Press.
SALEM, Mass, August ll--When
Mrs. Alton Y. Marshall. %. gave birth
10 twins this week she set up some
thing of local record. In the past
two years. seven months and 20 days
Mrs Marshall has become the mother
Of 1--WE children, including q previous
set Of twins.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
Hunter Kills Woman.

Attracted by the baying of hounds
in the Black Forest of Germany q
hunter shot and wounded what he
thought was rare type Of unicorn,
but which proved to be an old peas
ant woman.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
New Barrage for Nile.

A new barrage is to be built across
the Nile just below Cairo to replace
the old Delta Barrage which has been
found to be beyond repair.
Evening star., 1934-08-12
THREE NEW PLANS
FOR STREET CARS
RER0UTING DRAWN

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-08-12
TREASURY DENIES
AGAIN ALL SILVER
WILL BACK MONEY

CONTINUED From First Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
FOR A MIGHTY TEACHERS
UNION

New York, N. Y.
To the Editor of the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
In Comrade Colds column on
May II there was letter by George
Davis criticizing the Party for its
failure adequately to help the pro-
fessionals teachers, etc. in their
own struggles against capitalism
Unit 40, Section 2, District 2, dis
cussed this letter, and approved it.
On this basis, we wish to offer the
following concrete proposal.
We recommend that there be in
stituted in the Daily Worker a reg
ular column, to be published once or
twice a week, devoted largely to
school and educational news. Such
a column could respond promptly
to important events of the day in
its scope. 1t could conduCt cam
paigns against such bills as the
Ives Loyalty Oath Bill (Which was
scarcely mentioned in our papers ,
1t could report such actions as are
now being taken against four teach
ers in Monroe High School because
they protested to the Teachers
Union about case of suppression
OF speech at their school. 1t could
report the facts and indicate line
OF action in the teachers fights
against retrenchment. In other
words. it would inform all the
readers of what is going on IL the
field of educational struggles, it
would attract more teachers to the
reading Of our paper (instead Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
IN MEMORY OF COMRADE
PHILIP FRANK
New York. I

New YORK, N. Y.
Member of the Prospect Workers
Center.
Although never able to join the
Party because he was too i'll, Philip
Frank is mourned by the members
OF the Club, and many comrades
whom he induced to join the Com
munist Party. From the bed and
from the chair to which he was for
many months confined, he watched
the progress Of proletarian strug-
giles all over the world. Nothing
was too near or to far, too large
or too small, for him to be inter-
ested in and his prophesies were
invariably accurate and invariably
along MARKHAM lines.
Imperial Valley, Minneapolis. To-
ledo, Soviet China, Bulgaria, Cuba,
Florida, Moscow, New York, he
watched them all. Although physi-
cally limited by four walls, the spirit
of this revolutionary fighter was on
the picket lines and in the iails.
When workers were beaten he
WINGED, and when they were vic
torious. none was happier than he.
Comrade Phil, we will not forget
you. We will take your place and
do the many things you woulS like
to have done!
With one hundred and fifty mem
bers of the Prospect Workers
Center alta the burial given its de
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
fin, H.,la
ANTLWAR MASS MEETING FRIDAY

The Harlem Womens Anti-War
Committee is holding a mass meet
ing Friday evening, June % at
o'clock at the Julio Mella Club,
l413 Fifth Ave, near 10th St.
Speakers will be Joseph Brodsky,
LID. defense attorney for the
Scottsboro boys; Wiliana J. Bur
roughs, chairman of the Women
Anti-War Committee; Title Littin-
sky, and other prominent speakers
Of the labor movement.
This meeting will be a protest
against the ever-speeding war plans
of the munition makers and Wall
Street bankers, which, if allowed to
mature will precipitate war in
which millions of working class men,
Negro and white, will be slaughtered,
and thousands Of women and chill
dren plunged into the depths of
misery, starvation, and sacrifice.
At this meeting the coming In
ternational Women's Congress S
Against War and Fascism will be
discussed, and delegates for the
coming City Anti-War Congress will
be chosen. Every Negro and white
worker should attend this important
meeting to strike a blow against the
impending slaughter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
WeinStOCk Gains
Support in Locals
OIL Painters Union
Answers Stand erous
Attacks of Zausner
Vigilante Clique

NEW YORK.-Phillip zausner
secretary treasurer of Painters
District Council 9, is not doing Sc
well in his campaign of vulgar
SANDER against Louis Weinstock
the rank and file candidate for the
Office of secretary opposing zausner
AS statement after statement con-
tinues to come from the poison pens
of zausner's Vigilante Committee
accusing Weinstock of being an
"impostor" because he supported the
recent taxi strike and denouncing
him because he is a Communist,
support for Weinstock's candidacy
for Office of district secretary grows.
Speaking Monday night before the
painters of three locals, 51-847- 459,
Weinstock exposed the Zausner
machine as racketeer group which
spent over 100000 of the union
funds for gangsters in one year to
muzzle the voice of the rank and
file.
Answering the accusation Of the
zauSner Vigilante Committee, Vein
stock admitted that he spoke at
meetings Of the taxi strikers and
added that he spoke at many other
union meetings and would continue
to speak in support of struggles of
the workers. He pointed out that
zausner's statements about Vein
stock being scab boss in Brooklyn
was false and malicious as was the
statement about Weinstock hiring
underworld characters to protect
him.
Indeed, Weinstock pointed out, it
is well known that Zausner is the
man who hired the gangsters, it is
Zausner who is known as the scab
boss.
Rank and file painters from the
locals tore up large number of the
leaflets gotten out by the Vigilante
Committee.
The program of the rank and file
group which Weinstock represents
has in it the following points.
l. Six hour day and five day
week
2. 50 wage scale.
3. Right of security of shop and
job.
4. Job and shop committees.
5. Strict union conditions.
6. Organizing every state, city
and county job in the jurisdiction
of District Council 9.
7. Every painter in New York a
union painter and for a minimum
initiation fec.
8. Full democracy in the union.
8. Rank and file leadership.
10. Unemployment insurance and
for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill H. r. 1898.
II. For the right of Negroes to
join the union without discrimina-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
THEATRE BRIGADE at
C A MP NITGEDAIGET

. The Theatre Brigade, a group
of actors from the various work
ers' theatres in New York City,
will give weekly performances Of
plays under the direction of
John E. Bonn at Camp Nitge-
daiget, Beacon, N. Y.
Q In addition to these actors,
campers are drawn into the casts
as well as workers in the kitchen,
dining room and on the grounds.
Spontaneous improvisations are
feature of the weekly campfire.
o The big production of the
season will be a revolutionary
operetta set to the music Of the
Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,
Mikado. Organ and his fred
list" will be the basis for one of
the slxits in the operetta. Dan
Davis is writing the words.
0 Outstanding dance groups,
singers and other musicians,
puppet shows and numerous en-
tertainers are brought to camp
for the unusual Saturday evening
programs which are always fol-
lowed by dancing. The Red Syn
copators supply the dance music.
[ See ad on Page 2 ]
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
MOuldy Food at the
Transient Bureau
By q WORKER CORRESPONDENT

MADISON, Wis.-The food at
the Wisconsin Transient Bureau
is terrible. They buy rotten fruit.
mouldy fruit, deny men clothing
they have earned. 1t takes hours
to see a case worker and then no
results. There must be lot of
graft in the buying and serving
of this food.
Other transient camps have but
ter every meal, here we have it
twice q week. We get only three
teaspoonsful sugar day, one at
each meal. The milk is watered,
the food poorly cooked. They
served pigs feet that were rotten,
and made men sick. Something
should be done about this tran
Sient camp at once. Do what
you can for us. About 500 of us
are here.
Complaint after complaint has
been made with no results. A man
who lives in town and whose title
is cook" but who doesn't cook
a thing, buys up all the rotten
fruit or anything that is about
spoiled and has it served to the
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Farm Women and Labor
Emancipation

To go on with the outline of lit
erature to fill the need of those
undertaking to organize women.
especially farm women (as requested
by Mrs. B. B. b. After a sub
scription to the Farmers National
Weekly, a good foundation will be
the two books, Women and So
cialism," by Bebel, and Women
Who Work." by Grace Hutchins.
Bebel's book gives the necessary
historical outline showing h o W
women came to be in the secondary
position they occupy in our private
property systematic inferior posi-
tion which Fred Chase showed how
to begin to alter, in the article re-
printed yesterday.
Ccmrade Chase's picture of farm
life TALES with such experience as
I have had, by the way. On my
two grandfathers' farms, these pa
triarchs Though they did not sur
vey more than a hundred acres
apiece, to be sure), we're indeed
monarchs of all they surveyed:
within the bounds of Superimposed
Federal, State, and county law, they
were petty dictators par excellence,
and their word was law; their vim
nlen-folks" stood in awe of them,
walked the chalk line" and has
ntened to do their bidding.
1. So august, indeed, was the mai
C.sty of these two-horse tyrants, that
erne royal commands we're not i'm
parted direct to an insignificant bit
all a gran -dotter" like me; oh, no
rlle imperial decree was first passed
M grandmother, thence to mother,
Wild so down to the grandchild. It
Us thus I received news of the
ijestic ultinhtum that would not
= permitted to come to the dinner
! lie in the big blue-serge gym
olis, 1mers in which I'd been riding
luLuut on my uncle's bicycle Ito the
lEo lite shock and horror OF the
no stryside) but would have to ex-
o-lapge them for decent skirt.
le ps'haDs such conditions have i'm
nve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
We Feel No Lack of Food,
Writes Farmer in U.S.S.R.

we do not fear this summer Dur
ing the work in the field the food
is prepared by a communal kitchen.
The little children are accepted in
nurseries and the bigger ones in
the kindergarten.
The work on our farm is organized
perfectly well. Every worker of the
collective farm knows his place and
his specific work. If you have to
work with horses, you receive a def
mite number and have to keep them
in good order, The food and water
is brought to you. If you are a
millwright you do your special work,
etc.
The collective farm has = milk
farm, consisting Of 10 COWS. The
working conditions at the farm are
good. The worker receives 200 grams
Of butter day. The shock workers
receive premiums consisting of cloth,
money, etc.
We have in the neighborhood a
collective farm working much bet
ter than we do. There every worker
received for each working day eight
Kilograms of bread-and there are
farms where every working day is
paid by 10 to II Kilograms.
Best regards from myself and my
fellow workers.
S. M KASATKIN.
U.S.SR., Volga District, Village
Sofino, Noyospassky Region.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Plumbers Union Asks
Aid To Win Strike

NEW YORK. = The plumbers,
steamhtters and helpers of Samuels
and Dickstein are in their sixth
week of struggle against unbear-
able conditions existing in their
shop. Samuel and Dickstein and
Co, are determined to smash the
strike. The police department of
the La Guardia administration is
modified; also the United Associa-
ton of Plumbers and Gasitters.
Local 463 formed united front with
Samuels and Dickstein against the
workers on strike, of their union,
the Alteration Plumbers, Steamit
ters & Helpers Union.
To resist this treble alliance of
which the police department and
the A. F. of L. is playing the lead
ing role, the Alteration, Plumbers
Steamfitters and Helpers Union is
calling upon every unemployed
member of the building trades, every
member of working class organi-
cation to come to the strike head
quarters, 1854 Broadway to help
picket.