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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
once OF the Comptroller OF the Currency.
February s. 1884
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Company of Washington" District Of Co.
lumbia. that the same must % presented
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cred that particularly affects those
communities.

cred that particularly affects those
communities.
Have Day in Court.
When q tariff bill or national
revenue measure Is being considered
rates are proposed that affect par
ticular areas Of the country, where
certain basic industries prevail. The
views of the lawmakers from those
areas may not prevail, but they have
their day in court before the vote Is
taken.
But even If all the advantages of
national representation, from the
standpoint Of local law-making. are
overlooked for the moment, there still
remains the fundamental fact that
the great majority of the 100000 per-
sons within the borders of the District
OF Columbia pay national taxes, bear
arms in national defense, are affected
by all the national laws that apply
to every other American community,
and yet have no voice in the Congress
that levies those taxes, passes those
laws and sends them and their sons
to war.
In other words, even if it be held
that the District does not need voting
representation in Congress for the
purpose Of taking part in the franz
ing OF its own purely local laws, plain
justice would still require that, as
Americans, they be given the same
measure Of representation that the
same number of American citizens in
any other part of the United States
are entitled to and do receive.
Some legislators take the view that
governments are organized from the
bottom up, and that the District,
therefore, should start by first seeking
a measure Of local self-government
to be followed later by representation
in the National Government. Various
proposals for the election of local off,
cfals. such as the School Board and
the Commissioners, have been put for
ward in the past and no doubt will
arise in any future discussion of gen.
eral reorganization.
No Conflict Seen.
There is no conflict between the
movements for national representation
and for various degrees of local suf-
frage, but regardless of whether Con-
gress allows the District to elect mu-
nlcipal officers or continues the ap-
pointive system, the need for repre-
sentation in Congress remains vital.
If Congress permitted the election
of municipal officers, the real govern
ing power would still be in the ma
tlonal legislature in the levying OF
taxes, the making of appropriations
and the enactment of the more i'm
portant new laws. The District would
still be without a real voice in its
government if it merely selected its
administrative officers without repre-
sentation in the law-making body.
The joint resolution containing the
proposed constitutional amendment
that would give Congress the power
1t now lacks to extend national repre-
sentation to the District has been in
troduced in the present Congress by
Representative Mary T. Norton. Dem
ocrat, Of New Jersey and Senator Ar
thur Capper, Republican. Of Kansas
Both have taken an active and con-
scientious interest in the welfare OF
tie District from the beginning OF
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CREEL IS CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR CANDIDATE
Author Resigns as Regional Di-
rector of Emergency Employ
ment Administration.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 81
George Creel, author, has announced
his candidacy for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination at the Au-
gust primaries.
At the same time he sent his resig-
nation to President Roosevelt, asking
that he be relieved as regional direc-
tor Of the Emergency Employment
Administration.
Others who have announced for the
Democratic nomination are 2. T
Malaby, Sheridan Downey, Milton X
Young, Justus Wardell, Avery c
Moore and Upton Sinclair.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
A. ]. McGARRAGHY, Attorney.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia-In re the application OF
1sadore Bryan for change of name
Equity, No. 51050.-Isadcre Bryan having
ing his name to Irving Bryan. and having
applied to the Court for an order of publi-
such cases, it is. by the Court. this 10Th
day of April. AID. 1884. ordered that all
persons concerned show cause. If any there
1884. why the prayers of said petition
should not be granted: Provided copy OF
this oroer be published once week fol
The ee fSSel EVenins Star eAS NEWSPAPER ev eau tssn5
JENNINGS BAILEY Justice. true copy
Test: frank E CUNNINGHAM. Clerk. BY
HARRY NJ. HULL. Asst. Clerk.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Lenin's Letter to the
American Workers in
Good New Translation
Reviewed by
HELEN SHERIDAN

NEW YORK. = When Lenins
world-famous Letter to American
Workers was published in the
United States in 1918 it proved an
invaluable weapon in steering mill
tant sections of the working class
movement towards the world Com
munist battalions that were reborn
with the October Revolution.
Published now for the first time in
a complete and ungarbled transla-
ton by International Publishers,
that famous letter can play an even
more important role today when i'm
perialist war threatens to convulse
the world and Socialist "watchdogs
of imperialism" stand with their
governments in aiding war prepara-
tons.
Hence the Importance of the Let
ter to American Workers. 1t is a
compendium of applied Communism
because it is a fierce indictment of
imperialist war; a sharp exposure of
bourgeois democracy and an in
structive analysis of the only real
democracy, the proletarian democ-
racy guaranteed by soviet power.
The Letter to American Workers
can be obtained for cents from the
publishers at 381 Fourth Ave, or
from Workers Library Publishers,
Box 148, Station D., New York City.
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TUNING In

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he demanded of the company that
he be given the right, as promised
under the N. R. A., to organize
a local of his own selection, he
was kicked out of the plant, black
listed, and spied upon. The N. r.
A. worked only from one end, and
that was the company end.
Under pressure of millions of
workers, most motor car manu-
facturers were eventually forced
to recognize the rights of workers
to organize, but they did so by
means Of a convenient N. R. A.
loop-hole which permitted the
manufacturer to set up and oper-
ate his own company union. The
worker has no privilege in a COM
pany union. 1t is merely another
department of the plant, and the
manufacturer rules it with the
same hand of steel that rules
throughout his organization. Ford
alone was able to deny workers
the right even to make a show of
organizing a union.
The immediate effect of the N.
R. A in the automobile industry
was an overnight toll of life and
blood, extracted, as might be ex-
pected, from the worker. Depart
ments that received orders to
speed-up we're streWn with the
bodies and limbs of men who we're
being fed to the N. r. A. No
preparation was made to safe
guard the worker, and he was
slaughtered right and left. Work
ers found their machines geared
up to higher speed, with no warn
ing given, and they were unable
to adjust themselves overnight to
the new tempo. No safety devices
were provided in most plants, and
even where they we're installed,
the foremen ordered the workers
to remove them because they re-
tarded production.
Given an inch, the manufac-
turerS took a mile. The speed-up
has never been halted; it is in
creasing notch by notch every
day. A worker finds his machine
speeded up several notches again
and again, and the company
unions are deaf to his demands
to stop it.
In the plants of the l.. A. Young
Spring and Wire Company, where
girls are employed on light work
at wages of 81 and SO a week,
the speed-up came recurrently
without warning. In the course
of a week thirty-six girls lost one
or more fingers, and in some cases
hands, because of the increased
speed of machines that had been
geared to higher ratio without
notice to the workers.
At the Hudson body plant, the
speed-up has increased the pro-
duction of tenders in one depart
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to install safety devices, because
And where they are installed, the
safety department winks at the
foreman, and the foreman orders
them disconnected as soon as the
safety men have left the depart
ment. Even fire extinguishers in
many plants, including Hudson,
have been removed from entire
buildings to make room for new
machinery.
In Detroit you are known by
your hands. If you have all your
fingers intact, you are either
non-automobile worker, or a new
worker. If you have one finger
missing, you are an accepted
worker. But when two fingers
have been torn from your hands,
you are an outcast. The hiring
departments look at the state of
your hands before they look at
the color of your skin. There is
no use in filling out an applica-
ton blank for a job if you are
eight-fngered. You are done for.
You might as we'll get out of
Detroit and stay out. The finish
ing touch has been put to you for
the rest of your life.
At the Dodge plant, the speed
up has increased 25 per cent dur
ing the past season. The machines
in the press work department
were increased in speed without
warning, and during the first
hour under the new production
schedule two workers in this one
department lost fingers. During
the second hour the increased
vibration shook loose a motor
from the top of machine and
fell, killing the worker operating it.
Hour after hour the toll increased.
Those workers who were able to
remain at their machines were
forbidden to gather in groups of
more than two. The foreman held
over them the threat of losing
their jobs if they talked about the
loss of life and limb under the
new schedule.
At the Midland Steel plant,
where chassis frames are made
for Chrysler and other motor
cars, the speed-up increased faster
than the finished product could
be safely removed and stored.
Frames piled up, ten, fifteen,
twenty feet high. Workers were
forced to continue at their places
regardless Of the danger from
falling frames. When the first
worker was crushed to death by
topping frames, the foreman
ordered the workers to turn their
backs on the piles of steel. When
the second man was killed, the
foreman threatened to fire any,
one who looked at the stacks.
When the third stack toppled
over, crushing a third worker to
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they retard production, is general.
ment from 615 man per hour
to 10 man per hour. This was
accomplished by firing 10 per cent
of the workers in the department
and by raising the pay OF these
remaining l per cent. At Hudson
new production schedules are still
being posted from day to day
For every wage increase of l per
cent, the lay-of is 10 per cent,
and the production IS per cent
higher. The breaking point is not
far off. Neither Hudson nor N. r.
A. nor Roosevelt can stop it now.
boy D. CHAPLIN. president of
II the Hudson Motor Car Com
pany, receives an annual salary
Of $4,000, not including his bonus.
The average worker at Hudson at
the present time receives between
SIT and $18 per week.
The Hudson plant, and every
other motor products plant in
metropolitan Detroit, is Uttered
with fingers, hands, arms, legs,
and crushed bodies. The refusal
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death, the foreman fred two men
who demanded that something be
done to stop the slaughter.
kT PLANT after plant the toll
n continues under the sanction
of N. r. A. At Budd Wheel, Motor
Products, Ford's Chevrolet, Muir
ray Body, Kelsey Hayes Wheel,
Briggs Body, Chrysler. Tern
stedt's, Packards, Dodge, and
wherever motor cars are as
sembled and products manufac-
tured, the killing speed Of the
conveyOr and assembly lines and
Of the presses and drills turns out
hour after hour the eight-fingered
men of Detroit.
When once a worker has lost
the required number Of fingers.
he may as well go whistle up a
rain-pipe for an automobile plant
job. His days in that kind Of
work are over as far as the COM
panies are concerned. You will
find Det-oit's eight-fngered men
filling gas tanks at garages, wash
ing dishes in restaurants, and
standing in lines before employ
ment agencies that ship men out
Of town. You will see many Of
them walking up and down Mich
igan and woodward AYES, not
going anywhere, but hoping some
thing will turn up.
Once you become eight-fngered,
you are a marked man. Hotels
will not hire Negro porters if even
so much as one finger is missing.
Transportation companies inspect
the hands of applicants even be-
fore handing out application
cards. Store owners shake their
heads at job seekers whose fingers
are not all there. Work for the
eight-fingered InarroWs down to
filing station jobs and dish
washing, but already there is
growing tendency to close these
jobs to them. Eighteen or forty,
it does not matter; if you are
eight-fngered, you are done for
in Detroit.
Appeals to the A. F. L., to the
NJ. E. S. A., to the company unions
are without effect. These boss
ridden organizations will never
come to the aid Of the worker.
The mangling of hands and the
crushing of life will only stop
when workers band with their
own automobile workers union
and force the automobile manu-
facturers to reduce the speed-up
and to install, and operate, safety
devices that cannot be discon-
nected by the foreman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Economic Notes. Ira
Organ, Analyses Silver
Program and Initiation


NEW YORK-A careful analysis
Of the Roosevelt silver program and
the prospects for more imitation are
included in the June issue of Eco
nomic Notes" monthly organ of the
Labor Research Association. It car
ries also articles on the profits that
corporations are drawing under the
New Deal" such as the 5000 per
cent profit increase recently re-
ported by the Standard Oil Go. of
New Jersey.
The monthly analysis of strikes in
New York City also appears in Eco
nOmie Notes, together with list of
strikes reported in progress in mid
May, through the country. Some
10000 workers we're involved in
strikes covered by this survey.
The June issue carries also special
articles on Labor Under Mussolini. {"
and the Dividends Of Rail Workers"
compared with the toll taken by the
railway capitalists. Libraries and
the Crisis presents the latest facts
on the curtailment in this vital So
cial service. A story entitled Where
to Get the Funds shows the rich
sources in estates and inheritances
from which the money for unem-
ployment insurance might be drawn.
Economic Notes is on sale at work
ers' bookshops. Those who wish it
regularly by mail may subscribe at
the rate of IS cents a year by
writing to the Labor Research Assn,
30 E. II ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Manifesto of Eighth
National Convention
of C.P. in New Edition

The stirring manifesto of the
Eighth National Convention of
the Communist Party to the
American toiIers has been sold
out and a new edition has been
printed and is ready for con-
t;nued distribution.
Orders should be placed at
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tributed! The cost is low. A
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Detroit: The Eight Finger City
By ERsKINE CALDWELL.

II
THE N.R.A. has poured
I millions Of dollars into
the pockets Of automobile
manufacturers. Companies
that operated during the
first quarter of 1888 at
losses of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars were able with
the help of the Government to
speed-up production to such an
extent that millions we're made
during the first quarter Of 1884.
The Briggs Manufacturing
Company, corporation making
automobile bodies, operated at
loss of 1895, 1853 during the first
three mnths of 1888. At the end
of the corresponding period in
1884, the profit Of the company
was 81 $50, 500. This was made pos
sible, and legal, by a government
that rose to power on promises Of
helping the worker.
The worker, however, has paid
the profit with his own blood.
Under n. r. A. sanction, manu-
facturers have been able to speed
up production at a rate ranging
from 10 per cent to 25 per cent
by requiring workers to increase
their output, and at the same time
the companies have been laying
off workers by the thousands. The
laying off of ore worker out of
each ten formerly employed, fore
mig the remaining nine to increase
their output anywhere from 10
per cent to 25 per cent, was the
golden road to company profit.
In most cases this actually made
money for the manufacture with
out his having to increase produc-
ton. The saving accomplished
merely by means Of firing one
worker out of ten employed netted
him thousands of dollars over
night.
The worker himself was the
goat from the start. If he pro-
tested against the speed-up, he
was fired outright. If he asked
for more pay for doing more
labor, he was laid off. And if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
"LOhengrin" At The Hippo
drOnte Thursdnu Ni0ht

"Lohensrin" will be presented for
the first time this season on Thurs
day evening at the Hippodrome with
Rachel Morton as Elsa, Dreda AYES,
formerly of the Metropolitan, as Or
trud; Din1itri Onofrei as Lohengrin,
and Karl Schiffeler. Other operas
of the week are: 1.-THE Barber of
Seville" Tuesday night; "Forza del
Destino," Wednesday night; MA
dame Butterfly" Friday night;
Carmen" Saturday evening, and
"Rigoletto" on Sunday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Mary of Scotland" Moving
Tonight To Guild Theatre

Mary of Scotland Maxwell An
derson's play, will be transferred
this evening from the Alvin to the
Guild Theatre. Margalo Gilmore
will replace Helen Hayes, who is
leaving for Hollywood, and Stanley
Ridges will replace Philip Merivale.
Other changes include Lowell Gill
more, who will take over the role of
Lord Darnley; Charles Francis, the
part of Lord Morton, and George
Cotton, who replaces Quentin An
derson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
"Whue Parents Sleep" At
Playhouse Tonight; "CaUiar"
GThursday At Forrest Theatre

while Parents Sleep" farce by
Anthony Kunmins, an English i'm
portation, will be presented by Will
liam A. Brady at the Playhouse this
evening. Lionel Pape and Ilka
Chase, head the cast.
Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler"
will be revived by Josef G. Geiger
tonight at the Roerich Theatre,
Riverside Drive and 103rd st. with
Giovanna Borgese in the title role.
Mothers in the cast include Dorothy
ferguson, James Rand, Freda Lubin
Sand E. A. Witty.
Caviar" a new musical comedy,
with score by Harden Church, book
by Nine. Leo Randole and Newman
Levy and lyrics by Edward Heyman
will have its premiere on Thursday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
WHAT'S ON

REMEMBER June 8, Daily Worker Day
and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Noun
On sale at all Workers Bookshops.
Monday
THEATRE ARTS WORKSHOP by-weekly
sessions. Alfred SAKE on "Newsboy from
Script to Performance at Theatre Col
lective, SO w. 18th St, $3.50 pm.
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STAGE AND SCREEN

evening at the Forrest Theatre.
Nanette Guilford and George Hous-
ton are featured. Other players in
clude Hugh Cameron, Dudley Gle
ment and FRANKLIN Foy. The or
chestra will include many members
of the New York Philharmonic.