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The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Plumbers to Hear
OF Housing Set Up

A meeting of 300 master
plumbers and steamfitters will
be held tonight in the plant of
the E. G. Schaefer Company, at
1921 Fourth st. N. E. The meet
ing was arranged by Claude w.
Owens, former president of the
Washington Board of Trade, to
explain the benefits of the ma
tional housing program. The
principal speaker will be j. K.
Gilchrist. of the Federal Housing
Administration.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Plumbers to Hear
Housing Program

More than 300 master plumbers
and steamfitters will gather to-
night at the plant of the E. G..
Schaefer Company, 23OO block OF
Fourth st. N. E., to hear details
of the national housing program
explained. j. K. Gilchrist, of the
public relations division of the
Federal Housing Administration,
will be the principal speaker. The
meeting has been arranged by
Claude w. owens, former presi-
dent of the Washington Board Of
Trade and president of the E. G..
Schaefer Company.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
D. C.. Democrats
To Go to New York

Indicative of the interest New
York Democrats living in WASH
ington are taking in the forthcom-
ing election in the Empire State,
a trainload of them will leave here
tomorrow at p. m. to go home to
register as voters. Saturday is the
last day. Arrangements were
made yesterday by the Absentee
Voters Headquarters recently
opened by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
D. c. HEADS BACK
ACE PENSIONS
FOR DISTRICT
Suggestion of Publisher For
Unemployment Insurance
Also IndorSed

Old.age pensions and a system
of unemployment insurance for
the District of Columbia will be
recommended to Congress in the
opinion of both Commissioners
Allen and Hazen, following a sug.
geStion made by George P. Mar.
shall, publisher of The Washing
ton Times. The matter was dis
cussed by Mr.. Marshall at a meet
ing of Commissioner Aliens auxil.
iary committee to study relief
needs.
This social program easily fits
with the general social program
Of the Administration, it was
pointed out today by Commis-
sioner Allen.
Backs Plan Fully
Commissioner Allen said:
"Old age pensions are
necessary part of the social
advance. President Roosevelt
has promised to present a ma
tiOnal plan for this and SINH
AdE SOCAdA AuSuEdHCC, uuCAuUIH&
unemployment insurance, at
the next Congress. 1 am for
1t 100 per cent
A similar statement was made
by Elwood Street, director of pub.
lie welfare, who added that he
Endorsed the idea of unemploy-
ment insurance, and said that it
was one of the great features
of the present social program Of
many other countries.
Committee at Work
A committee including Harry
Hopkins, FERA chief, and Sec
retary of Labor Perkins, is
studying the matter in European
countries.
Another suggestion made by
Mr.. Marshall referred to the
possibility of organizing a de-
partment store type of receiving
and disbursing stations for articles
that could be given to relief
families by people who wanted
to make contributions of material
such as clothes.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Silver Spring Gets
New Fire Truck

A new fire truck, especially de-
signed to fight fires in rural dis
tricts where water is scarce, will
be added to the Silver Spring VOL
unteer Fire Departments equip
ment within the next few weeks,
it was announced today.
The new truck, which will re-
place the old unit, will be equipped
with ladders, a 400-gallon water
tank, an individual pump, and a
battery of flood lights. It will be
delivered in November, officials
of the department said today.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11

for the job of assistant.
Mr.. Preston was superintendent
of the Senate press gallery for IS
years before he became Senate
librarian. He has received nation
wide recognition for his work in
overhauling the old Senate rec
ords, rescuing many of them
which had for years been suffer
ing deterioration from improper
storage and having them restored.
Also prominently mentioned in
connection with the position as
assistant archivist are DR.. T. P.
Martin, assistant chief of the
manuscript division of the Library
of Congress, and DR.. John c. Fitz-
patrick, well-known historian, who
was employed for more than 81
years in the manuscript division
of the Library of Congress and
who has carried on much impor'
tant research work for the Gov
ernment.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Ken Murray
Says:
FRUITS OF VICTORY"

FRUITS OF VICTORY"
The way st. Louis stepped all
over Detroit in that last game,
it looks like the Cardinals in
tended using that Tiger for a
rug.
They had so much Of Dizzy
and Daffy that finally Detroit
went GOOfy.
When Ducky Medwick m d g
that slide into third base, he
not only knocked Owen down,
but, from the looks Of fruit
thrown by the fans, he also up
set the apple cart.
so REMEMBER
When q baseball fan gets
through heaving q sigh Of de-
feat, he is ready to start heaV.
ing rotten apples.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Armistice Day Ball
Arranged by VIEW.

Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the annual Armistice
Day Military Ball by the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Department Of
the District Of Columbia, at the
Willard Hotel, November 10.
Stanley D. Harman, depart
ment junior vice commander, and
chairman of the general COM
mittee on Arrangements, has the
assurance of the American Le-
gion it will leave the field open
to the Veterans of Foreign Wars
for an Arinistice Day Ball.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
NeWsman Talks
TOLiOns' Clubmen

Immediate administrative plans
to cope with unemployment and
economic unrest were explained
by carter Field, newspaper cor
respondent, at the weekly meet
ing of the washington Lions
Club in the Hotel Mayflower
yesterday. Perry Miller spoke on
fishing. telling Of efforts to stock
nearby streams. President Arthur
Clarendon Smith awarded spe-
cial chevronS to 38 members Of
the club in honor of 10 years
service.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Poole Will Speak
On 'MOderniZing'

The Washington Chapter Of the
American Institute of Architects
will be addressed by John Poole, ex-
ecutive director of the Washing
ton Better Housing Campaign, at
a dinner to be held at $50 p. m.
today in the Mayflower Hotel. His
subject will be the "moderniza-
ton" drive sponsored by the Fed
eral Housing Administration. H.
P. Vermilyea, of the Federal
Housing Administration, also will
speak.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
HIP FLASK BAN
At GRID CANES

The old.fashioned custom of
drinking liquor out of a flask at
football games was declared illegal
today by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board.
Chairman George W. Offutt has
asked the police to act as pro-
hibition squads and raid football
stands whenever a thirsty foot.
ball fan takes nip in public.
The board members have re-
ceived complaints, they said, about
flask drinking at the Navy-Vir-
ginia game last Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11

however, Mr.. Vize obtained an
absolute divorce in Arlington
County, Va, but the decree made
no provision for the support of
the children.
Mrs. Vize then petitioned the
court to compel the support Of
her daughters, although admit
ting that the divorce decree re-
leased the husband from support.
ing her. The court held the at
torney must support the children
until they reach the majority age
of 81.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
CORNELL CLUB MEETING

The Cornell Club of Washing
ton will hold a luncheon meeting
at 1890 p. m, today, in the
University Club. The speaker
will be Gustav E. F. Lundell,
chief Of the analytical section of
the Bureau of Standards.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
JOHNSON IN HOSPITAL

Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, retired
Recovery Administrator, entered
Walter Reed Hospital yesterday
for treatment Of a sinus infec-
ton.
The Washington times., 1934-10-11

"What a mis-
I o r t u n e
going to Ii
beria!" And
e x C l a i m
nv 10 u S ly,
Lucky Fred
dy Hibbard!"
A b o u t
/ 5 0 of t h e
friends of the
n e W Charge
to Lii b e r / a
e a t hered at
the r Street,
c lu b la S t
n i G h t, and
l..
The Washington times., 1934-10-11
Now
Joys Of Africa.
A Kings Wisdom.
An Earl Meets Democracy.
By Helen ESSary

If Africa is family like last
nights farewell party to Freddy
Hibbard, people will stop saying,
The Washington times., 1934-11-14
SWAN HOLDS UP
TRAFFIC

LoNDoN-Emulating brave
Horatius, Cecil, a large and ex'
tremely pugnacious white swan,
held Blackfriars' Bridge traffic
up for more than half an hour,
retreating only when faced by an
overwhelming number Of police
armed with gunny sacks.
Swimming down the Thames,
Cecil apparently decided to rest
on the bridge, so he scrambled
up a buttress and parked right
in the middle Of the roadway.
Traffic, swollen considerably by
the closing Of Waterloo Bridge,
was forced to halt while Cecil
Strutted up and down the street.
Every effort to move either the
traffic or Cecil was frustrated by
the swan until, after the lapse Of
thirty minutes, several hobbies.
led by sergeant, charged, wav-
ing burlap bags over their heads.
With q disdainful parting hiss.
Cecil spread his wings and
headed up the river.
The Washington times., 1934-11-14

"He never roars without causeI" said Prudence.
IT don't like the way that third roar stopped just a.
it got started" replied Tom. II would think some
body had shot him, but we heard no gum" They
pressed on, breathleSS, impatient.
The Washington times., 1934-11-14

Just inside the stockade that enclosed their
island home, they saw faithful Boo-Boo the lion,
lying at full length on the ground Hes dead!"
cried Prudence, in panic. She rushed to her pet,
knelt beside his head.
The Washington times., 1934-11-14

Without stopping to give the alarm to the Cap
tain and jerry who were exploring the cave IN
Treasure Hill, Prudence and Tom started on the
run along the jungle trail to the camp, where BOO
Boo'S roars had suddenly ceased.
The Washington times., 1934-11-14

AS Prudence stopped to feel for breath at the
lions nostrils saying, "Poor Boo-Boo are you-"
she cHumpled to the ground without moan or
gasp. She lay with her head on the lions shoulder.
Tom rushed to raise her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Correct OrganizationaI
Policy and Perspective
Are Necessary
BY JAMES LUSTIG

Since the slowing up Of the strike
wave in September, 1898, a great
deal more attention was paid by the
leadership of the union, to the work
amongst the heavy metal workers.
It has to be emphasized, however,
that this work was not carried on
in the spirit of the Open Letter and
the 18th Plenum Resolution of the
Central Committee of our Party.
Concentration on the Navy Yard.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is one
of our concentration points. As far
back as a year ago we had a group
of Yard workers who adopted the
militant policy of our union. They
expressed this, by joining our Or
ganization. But we found at that
time that the recruiting of new
members came to stop. Not only
that, but even this group began to
decrease. Why?
All skilled workers of the Navy
Yard, the machinists, boiler makers,
welders, electricians, ETC., are or
ganized into the respective locals of
the American Federation of Labor.
And while many or most of these
workers are ready and willing to
take up militant fights against their
grievances. they are not willing
to leave their organization and join
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Work 10 Hours But
Punch Time for 5
InCar WheeIPIant
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
HAYS, Pal would like to call
your attention to conditions pre-
vailing in the o. S. Steel Cos car
wheel plant here. Before the NR.A.
we used to work from to under
the worst speed-up system possible
At least we got paid for eight
hours. Now. since the MIRA, we
are compelled to start work at six
am, but we must punch the time
clock at eight am, and work
through till four pm, getting paid
for only eight hours and working
ten hours.
Several workers objected to this
forced slavery system. The result
was we who objected to this ex-
ploitation were fired, and other
workers we're hired in our places
at a cheaper rate-all under the
N.R.A.
FRANK J. TOMAS.
signature Authorized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Work Must Be Carried
On i'm Concentration
Factories

bring about the best organizational
results.
The proper demands and the or
ganiZatiOn of workers around these
demands to fight for them is an
other phase of successful concentra-
ton.
I might mention here that besides
the above mentioned economic de-
mands, both the Party and the union
carried on agitation and propa-
ganda against the bosses war, de-
Tense of the Soviet Union and
against fascism.
If all that was said above will be
taken into consideration in our
future work, if we are not going to
depend on the spontaneity of the
workers, if we are to take the neces-
Sary organizational steps, by build
ing the Party, the Y. G. L., the
rank and file groups in the A. F.
L. and our union then and only then
will we be prepared for the quick
turn of events" Only then will we
be at the head of the workers lead
ing them against the offensive of
the Roosevelt government and the
bosses, for higher wages, shorter
hours, better working conditions,
against bosses war, against fascism,
for the revolutionary way out of
the crisis; then and only then will
We be in position to carry out the
Open Letter and the 18th Resolu-
ton of our Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Pre-COnventiOn Discussion

in connection with getting their Is
per cent cut back. With this they
proved that they are willing and
ready to fight.
This willingness on the part of
the workers was not utilized by us
to crystalline it into organizational
forms. We criminally neglected to
visit contacts, to talk to them and
convince them of the necessity of
organization. We confined most of
our activity to agitation and propa-
ganda. This agitation was in most
cases concrete, dealing with the
economic grievances of the workers
and therefore prepared the ground
for organization, but practically no
steps we're made to cash in" on it.
No special comrades were responsible
for this most important detailed
work.
The second prerequisite to success
full concentration is the assignment
of the proper forces, to establish
personal responsibility, to make a
systematic check-up from time to
time.
The Cry for Forces.
One of the most often used
excuses why concentration work is
not carried on, I'VE have not got
the proper forces"
How can this question be solved?
In the immediate neighborhood of
the Navy Yard there is metal
factory employing about 40 Negro
and white workers. All these work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Production in
Gary Steel Plant
Dropping Again
rBy . CAM steel Workerl

GARY, Ind.-Production is drop
ping down again after only two
weeks of pickup, but the bosses are
calling more workers in the mills,
as in the transportation Dept,
where they used to work IS to Is
men on eight dinkeys on each turn.
With the increase of the production
the company put in two more en-
gines in service but then they have
increased the gang to IS men to
the turn. Instead Of giving the
workers a few more days to the
pay, they have increased the speed
up.
Furthermore, in changing turns,
they give you a day off on Satur-
day but then they make you double
on Sunday. You either work day
turn or the afternoon turn. You
have to make a double turn, but
then you workers are making double
in time but not in your pay check,
and if one says something, they'll
ask you how many days you want
off.
But here is something that got
the transportation beat all to hell
and that's the 44-inch blooming
mill. You work the day turn one
day. next day you come out on the
II to 8 turn and on the third day
you have to come out on the 4 to
II o'clock shift.
At the end Of your days work,
you're not told when to call for
work so you are compelled to come
out whether you work or not, and
when you do come out, you are told
to go home and call the next day.
Some Of the workers live as far
as forty miles from the mills.
Workers of all departments, join
the rank and file union, the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, and only then will we be
able to better our conditions, be-
cause when you are in the above
union you are able to form shop
groups of rank and file workers and
put up a real fight for better con-
ditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
PARTY LIFE
Experience Shows Units
Need ofReUOIutionGryTheory
Indiana Unit Finds That Lack of Theoretical
Training Weakens Leadership

here for months. Naturally, having
read nothing, discussed nothing but
each other, and heard no speeches
by experienced leaders, most men,
bers of our unit were mere fooled
by the N. r. A. than the twenty
five or thirty non-Party workers
who were actually reading the Daily
Worker.
The most intelligent workers have
been driven from the Party Program
by the plumbers (some of them ex-
tremely serious) which our unit
makes. Our own members have lost
the enthusiasm for an interesting
novelty, which seems to have been
what first attracted them.
Now the unorganized workers, dis
illusioned and disguised by the N.
R. A, and seeing the pitiful pretense
Of security under the c. w. A. be-
ing rapidly withdrawn, are again
searching for leadership and Pro-
gram. That leadership and that
program can only come from the
Communist Party. But is our unit,
which is the Party in R. e, prepared
to give it to them? We must take
steps, in which we should receive
the help of our Section Leadership,
to overcome our weakness by estab-
fishing study groups, which will not
only give our comrades the theoret-
ical equipment for leadership. but
will train new groups of workers.
L H.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

ers joined our union during the last
strike wave, but since we were busy
at that time with the strikes, they
were neglected. One of our most
important task is to regain these
workers for our union. In success
fully mobilizing these workers, i'm
proving their economic conditions,
recruiting the best into our Party,
we transform them to potential Or
ganizers for our union, who will be
in a splendid position to carry on
day-to-day activity amongst the
Navy Yard workers. This work
must be considered as an integral
part Of the Navy Yard concentra-
ton.
This is one way to solve the ques-
ton OF forces.
The argument brought forward
by certain comrades that the above
proposal is contrary to the basic idea
of concentration because it wants to
organize the small factories first in
order to bring influence over the
large workers establishments, does
not hold water
These comrades look upon con-
centration as if on a blue print, in
mechanical way. A small factory,
surrounded by similar establish
ments, or entirely isolated, is the
same in their eyes as one at the
mouth of big enterprise, upon
which VIC concentrate. These COM
rades do not see how the capturing
of this small factory can be utilized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
CBy a Worker Correspondent

Wy NoAhAIA SVAA
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Il am an
American working at the Kalinin
Freser) Cutting Tool plant, stu
ated in Moscow, the largest tool
plant in the Soviet Union and Eu-
rope.
I am a member of the M.OPR.
(Russian section of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense) bureau in
my shop, and have been given the
task of building up an international
correspondence between employed
and unemployed workers in Amer
lea and the Freser workers.
I am writing to you in the hope
that you could get me in touch with
workers or groups of workers les
pecially in large factories) as well
as unemployed, who would like to
correspond with the workers in my
shop.
The Kalinin (Freser) Cutting
Tool Plant greeted the Seventeenth
Party Congress with the following
gift-165 per cent fulfillment of the
original 100000 ruble plan given it
for 1888 and 101 per cent fulfill
ment of the 100000 ruble coun-
ter-plan placed before it in July
by Ordzhonikidze, Peoples Com
missar of Heavy Industry, at the
request of the Freser workers.
This glorious achievement has
freed the country from the import
of 100000 gold rubles worth of
high-quality tools and has given
the Soviet machine building indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Transform the Factories Into SongtoIds OF the Party

another union. Therefore in order
to mobilize the workers of the Navy
Yard for struggle, it is important
to organize rank and file groups in
side the A. F. of L. locals, so that
these groups shall be able to furnish
the necessary leadership to the
rank and file in opposition to the
A. F. Of L. bureaucrats and mislead-
ers. simultaneously with this we
have to recruit the unorganized, I'M
skilled workers into grievance COM
mittees, shop committees and into
our union.
If this would have been followed
our position in the Yard would be
better than it is. Our union group
would increase more rapidly ideo-
logically and organizationally.
The first prerequisite to successful
concentration is correct clean
cut organizational policy and per-
spective.
This policy was hammered out by
us months ago, yet the results
achieved are absolutely unsatis-
factory-because we failed to carry
out our correct policy in practice
This lack of results can not be ex-
planned by, as some comrades
wanted in the past, that the Navy
Yard workers form special
stratum of the working class, that
they are bribed by high wages and
therefore they are not willing to
struggle.
The workers of the Yard gave the
lie to this false theory" A few
weeks ago, as a result Of our agi-
tation, more than a thousand Yard
workers gathered in the Yard de-
handing a mass meeting and action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
UseCryMy
COunHy'tO
Halt Strike
Faker Collins, With
Weasel Words, Leads
Into Blind Alley
BY an Auto Worker Correspondent

BY an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-Faker Collins,
who organized the A. F Of L. labor
unions in order to lead the workers
down a blind alley, fooled the
workers again by weasel words.
First Of all, we are American
citizens" he wept, in supporting
Roosevelt's strikebreaking appeal.
Such damnable rubbish!
First of all we are underpaid
working men or hungry unem-
ployedl That's what we are first Of
all, before anything else. We are
only American citizens on election
days or when being drafted for
War; American citizen" is only
a parrot cry to fool the workers.
Last year the Briggs strikers
threw over the best working class
leader in Michigan, Phil Raymond,
and decided to be intensively Amer
lean. The strikers paraded at the
Briggs Highland Park plant with
Stars and Stripes at the head The
police tore down the flag, tramp
ling it underfoot and telling a
striker with the staff.
The Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America must be rallied to
the strike cause. Many members
are refusing support unless Martell
and. Collins are eliminated.