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The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Liquor Restrictions
Asked by Citizens
Of PetWOrth
MR.. ROMNEY

Columbia Heights, Fourth Pres
byterian Church,
North Cleveland Park, 1923
Window st. N. w.
Wednesday Night
Association of Oldest Inhabit-
ants, Old Engine House, Nine
teenth and K Streets Northwest,
Central Citizens, Blake School.
Friendship, Jannay School.
Thursday Night
Arts Club. 2O17 I st. N. W.
The Washingtonians, Brighton
Hotel.
Friday Night
Brightwood, Paul Junior High
School.
Saturday Night
Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Pleasant Ii
brary.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Government Is Paid
In BUILDING Rdzing

The Government will profit $3.50
by the razing of the old Botanic
Garden buildings. This was
learned when the contrac
awarded the Goldman Wrecking
Company, of Chicago. for demoli-
tion of the structures, was made
public.
Under the terms, the company
will pay the Government $3.50 to
do the work on condition it gets
title to salvaged brick and other
materials,
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
MONEY MARKETS

NEW YORK. March 3 .N.sD.-Call
money was held over today at 1 per
cent on the big board and III per ceut
on the curb. Outside money was un-
changed at y to y per cent.
Time money rates we're unchanged at
the lower levels established late yester-
day with so, 80 and 120 day paper at y
to per cent and $50 and $50 day
paper nominallly quoted at 1 per cent.
Commercial paper was also unchanged
at the lower rate of / to 4 per cent,
set late yesterday.
Bankers acceptances were quiet. with
rates unchanged at Ss to "a per cent
for 80, so and 80 days, y to Is per cent
for 12O days and l to y per cent for $50
dayS
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

Workers in the Walker-Johnson
building, home Of the Civil Works
Administration, are no end irked
with the elevator service IN the
building.
The nine.story structure, taken
over by the Government during
the rush to organize and put into
operation the gigantic relief pro-
gram, has three lifts. They are
small, slow, and by no means
modern.
Even with the three in opera
ton, the service has been made
,qalate hecaree Of the hundreds a
persons: calm ldatl9tan6 ha
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Park Field House
Plan Is APPROVED

Designs by Nathan C. Wyeth.
Bloomingdale Playground field
house in Mcmillan Park have been
approved by the Fine Arts Com
mission. The commission recently
rejected a design submitted by
Major J. D. Arthur, jr., District
engineer. Plans call for the field
house to be located in the West
side Of the park. and not to en-.
roach upon the mound area sur.
rounding the parks memorial
fountain.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
COARSE YARN DULL

NEW YORK, March G.N.SD.-The
coarse yarn cloths market experienced
one of the dullest weeks in some time,
during the past six days although to-
ward the close of the period there was
a slight pickup in inquiry reported in
some sources
Mills in some cases were somewhat
apprehensive as to the maintenance Of
were satisfied to await further de-
velopments before adding to their
current contracts.
Higher raw cotton in the last two
days caused 4 number to feel that in
quiry should expand. but the advance
failed 10 hiring 2ay GppQSc&AblO In
ssSS sstN s9EsDaA% Ai&A0 N
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Slow Aged Elevators lrk
Workers in CWA Offices

clerks who must go from floor to
floor. To add to this, almost
daily one of the elevators breaks
down"
Recently all three were out Of
order at the same time, forcing
even callers on Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins to walk the nine floors
to his office.
Officials have explained that
replacement of the elevators is i'm
possible while the building is oc,
cupied by the relief adminlStra.
tiou becanSS AZ tho tts.up It you'd
hcaNztaaaS. ...
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Air Passengers
Gain in Januuru

Commercial aviation transport
companies carried 2S,170 pas
sengers during January, 1884, as
compared with 24,366 year pre-
vious, the Commerce Department
reported yesterday. A year ago,
80 companies were operating as
against "a this year. The trans
ports flew a total of 10,783,454
passenger miles and carried
155,726 pounds of express. The
express weight compares with
74,268 pounds during January
1888.
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END CHICKERING'S
JOHN BARRETT
DECLARES
Little Hope Held That Factions
Can Be United; Antagonisms
Preclude Full Accord
By DUNCAN FORSYTH

Once more, apparently, the olive
branch Is held out as between
organizations of Federal employees
affiliated and not affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
In this instance the peace move
takes the form of an invitation
from John j. Barrett, president Of
the United National Association
of Post office Clerks and head of
the National Legislative Council
of Federal Employees Organiza-
tions, suggesting that all organi'
cations, affiliated or otherwise,
join in the work OF the council.
Unity Attempt Failed
Only last December, meetings
were held by representatives of
the United and of the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks
with view to amalgamation.
Both organizations, at their an
nual conventions a short time
before, had adopted resolutions
favoring the idea, but the meet
ing ended in disagreement.
Creation of the National Legis-
lative Council is a comparatively
new development. The council is
now composed of the postal
groups and others not affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor, and includes the National
Federation of Federal Employees.
All Groups Invited
Mr.. Barrett's invitation is ex-
pressed as follows:
Every association in the Gov
ernment service is invited to be-
come a member of the council.
They are allowed to retain their
identity, and they have a vote
and voice in all proceedings of
the council. 1t is imperative
that pickering and squabbling
among the various organization
representatives should be ended
at once.
I'VE ask every Government
empl0ye to try to persuade the
officers of his organization to
join our council and sit down
together so that we can present
one definite proposition on each
measure coming before the Con-
greSS affecting Government en-
ployes The old saying, In
union there is strength is just
as true today as it was 100 years
ago.
every association, whether
affiliated or unaffiIiated, is
herewith invited to join with us
for the ultimate good of all Gov.
ernment employees"
Reflections Foreseen
From sources close to the coun-
Gil. however, it was privately ad-
mitted that the invitation prob
ably would not be accepted, and
that, even if there were a rap
prochement, the antagonisms be-
tween the National Federation of
Federal Employees and the Ameri-
can Federation of Government
Employees were too deep to make
an accord between them possible.
Mr.. Barrett's group has in
formed the Substitutes Associa-
tion, which is outside their ranks,
that it will cooperate with that
organization.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Only IL Days Left
To Pau Income Tax

Only IL days remain in which
to file income tax returns. The
time expires midnight of Thurs
day, March IS.
The place for District residents
to make their returns is in the
Washington branch of the office
Of the Collector of Internal Rev.
enue for the district Of Maryland,
room 1902, Internal Revenue Build
ing, Twelfth St. and Constitution
Ave. The office is open from
9 a. m to 5 p. m. daily.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
Third Enrolment
In CCC In1DendS

The third enrolment Of young
men in the Civilian Conservation
Corps, beginning April /. was dis
cussed yesterday by President
Roosevelt and Director Robert
Fechner. Fechner said several
thousand applications are on
hand. Many of the camps will
be moved North for the summer.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

meeting Of the
PetWorth Citi-
z e ms Associa-
ton last night.
The resol u
tion. adopted
a f t er spirited
debate. was in
t 70 d u c e d by
j a m e S G.
Y a d e n, .presi-
d e n t of tn e
Federation of
C i t i z e n S
Associations.
u n d er t h e
t erm S of Mr..
Xaden'S reSnl11.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
VANADIUM DIVIDEND

Vanadium- Alloys Steel declared
q dividend of IS cents. payable
March 10 to stock Of record the
same date. In November, 1888, a
special OWNED Of IS cents was
paid, prior to which there were
no disbursements since SEPT 90.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

National ASS0-
citation Of Real
Estate Boards
and the board
Of directors at
meetings in the
washington Ho-
tel this week.
Action of the
committee and
board was a sig
nal recognition
Of the work
Of H. Clifford
Bangs and Wav-
erley Taylor. ac-
cording to local
aaoalfnrS Mr.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
President Names
5 to Labor Board
BY International News Service

President Roosevelt today ap-
pointed five new members to the
National Labor Board. They are
Clay Williams, Winston-Salem,
N. c., vice chairman; Leon Mar
shall, formerly head Of the Johns
Hopkins University Institute Of
Law, vice chairman: and three
employers representatives, Henry
Dennison, of Massachusetts,: Ger
ard Swope. president Of General
Electric, and Ernest Draper, New
York manufacturer,
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued
at Upper Marlboro yesterday to
William o. Herbert, 80. Oakland,
and Iona G. Ross, q, Bentley
Springs, Md; William M. Long,
56. and Frances Weidman, 38,
both of the 500 block Fourteenth
st, N. E.
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

realtors. MI. A~' N0A
Bangs is generally credited with
being the father" Of the present
code.
Fee-splitting on an unethical
basis, as we'll as fee7shaving are
tabooed under the code, and
the business Of operating free-lot
schemes and advance fee rackets
will stamp the offender as a
pariah.
The high rnoguls of the real
estate world who gathered here
for the meeting, which was almost
as secret as Ku KluX Konklave,
have returned TO their homes.
They included:
Hugh Potter, national presi'
dent, Houston, Tex; Herbert U.
Nelson, executive secretary, Chi
cago; Gen. Nathan w. MacChes'
ney, general counsel, Chicago; H.
Clifford Banks, w. C. Miller and
Waverley Taylor. of this city; j.
Soule Waterfield, Chicago; Paul
E. Starke, Madison, Wis; Joseph
Wagner, Davenport, Iowa; Joseph
Laronge, Cleveland; Stephen w.
Sleeper, Boston; Maurice F. Raidy,
Worcester, Mass; L. T. Stevenson,
Pittsburgh; Harry G. Kissell,
Springfield, Ohio; Cyrus C. Will
more, st. Louis; Edward A. Nc.
Dougall. Queensborough, N. Y;
Irving B. Hiett, Toledo; Clarence
c.. Heat, Louisville; Harry A.
Taylor, East Orange, N. j.; Nor
ton G. Thalhimer, Richmond, Va;
Walter S. Schmidt. Cincinnati;
Leon P. Todd, Camden, N. j.; j,
w. Cree, jr., Pittsburgh; Mark
Levy, Chicago; Harry E. Gilbert,
Baltimore, and Lawrence G.
Holmes, special representative of
the association, of Indianapolis.
They haven't gotten over the
efficient administration of Viii
liam c. Miller last year, while he
was president, and sprung a
pleasant surprise on their fellow
realtor as the meeting ended.
Mr.. Miller was presented with
. silver coffee set by Mr.. Steven
son, on behalf of the association
Mr.. Todd and Mr.. Bangs aided
In the presentation. which was
made in an impressive ceremony
At last the Administration has
ironed the rough spots out of
the projected legislation to guar
antee the principal as well as
the interest on home loan bank
bonds.
This will interest realtors, as
Paul j. Frizzell has stated in
several public addresses that this
has been the only obstacle to
acceptance Of the bonds by note
holders in the past.
The most important feature
from the property owners view
point is the provision for loans
for home modernization purposes.
Not only will the home loan bank
board make these loans through
it's own agencies. but will fur
nish funds to building and loan
associations for the same purpose
Bonds for this purpose will be
purchased from the bank board
by the Home Owners Loan Cor.
poration, it is contemplated.
This should please Mr.. Arthur
B. Heaton, resourceful and far
sighted "renovizing" champion,
who showed all Of us last summer
what just little outlay of funds
could do to q dilapidated house
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
LICENSED TO WED

Only one marriage license was
issued in Rockville yesterday.
Booth G. Graham, 81, Hampton,
VA. and Margaret q. Brown, %.
Hos seQens1l l3la 1Eont. :za0etpea -
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

Lost or Found" Many
articles are lost daily and the greatest
percentage Of them are advertised by
II you've found OOmet1tnE, Read Ne
Lost and Found Columns 0k the
A11 AD M0E108.N - stAG i1sWSpaDsS"
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
BY A. ]. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

Sale of hard liquor would be
banned in Petworth under a
resolution adopted at a special
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
CODE
APPROVED BY
REALTORS
BY DICK BAKER

Without a single basic change,
the brokers' code was approved by
both the executive committee of the
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
CHICAGO

CHICAGO March 5. 1Ns).-Hogs
MReceipts, bnES * 9 2S9Ooh steady Top; s4s5:
medium s45o99ss: night isSt. :t4S@4sS 4SSt s.
light lights, $4.oO@47O; packing sows.
S3:25 @S,65; pigs. $9.5O@s.5O. Hold
Cattle, catls-Rseeipts. Rec 400; steady. Calves,
and choice, s6.SO6zs5; common and
medium. $4.oo@6.5O; yearlings. $3.50 a
$50. Butcher cattle: Heifers, $3O0@
s.25; cows, $275@4OO; bulls. $2.5O@
800: calves, $500 @7.5O; feeder steers.
stocker cows and heifers $25O04.o0.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000; steady: lambs,
5000 $1,000; common $6.00@7.5O;
yearlings. $7.0o@9.5o; feeders, $1,000
$50; ewes, $5.OO@5.5o.
BUFFALO
BUFFALO, N. Y. March , GNs.l.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900; holdovers, 500;
slow, bulk unsold. plain quality retard-
few loads desirable. 1so-a4O pounds
$S.1o@5.25; 3oO-pound butchers, $49O;
pigs and unfinished underweights quo
ted, $3.5O@4.25.
Cattle-Receipts. 1875; weeks steer
and yearIing run moderate: quality
rather plain; market uneven. but
mostly steady: good to choice, $6.25 a
SIS; top. $7:15; medium and shortfeds.
S5@6; yearlings, heifers, $5.s5; better
weak to 25 cents lower; fat cows, 1926
93.75; cutter grades. $1,75@3; medium
bulls, $S.2S@S.5O; common lightweights,
So down.
Calves-Receipts none: vealers closed
so cents and more over last week; good
to choice mainly IS; few, $3.50; COM
mon and medium, $4.5O@6.5O; light
weight culls downward to SO.
Sheep-Receipts, none; lamb supply
very light during week: market strong
to Is cents higher; good to choice wool
skins 25@1O.35: common and me
dium S. 25d $50; shorn lambs, &s75
down; handyweiEht ewes. $5.75: mixed
sheep, S405.2S..
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
MEETINGS

MEETINGS.
The following citizens asSocia-
tions will meet next week:
Monday Night
Cathedral eight s-Cleveland
Park. st. Adams Parish Hall.
Citizens Of Takoma, D. c., Ia
;oma Public Library.
Dupont Circle. Mayflower Hotel.
East Washington Heights, Brad
bury M. E. Church.
Forest Hills, Ben Murch School.
Kenilworth. Kenilworth School.
Manor Park, Whittier School.
Michigan Park, Bunker Hill
School.
Progress of Georgetown, Curtis
School.
Sixteenth Street Highlands,
Brightwood School.
Tuesday Night
Arts Club, 2O17 I St, N, w,
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

ton only Class B licenses, pro-
viding off-sale of beer and wines,
and Class E, allowing hard liquor
on doctors prescriptions. would
be allowed in the neighborhood.
Even these beverages would not
be allowed for sale in the area
bounded by Hamilton Street on
the north, Rock Creek Cemetery
and Soldiers Home on the east,
Rock Creek Church Road on the
south, and Georgia Avenue on the
west.
There is further provision that
no sales be allowed within 1000
feet of Soldiers Home or Roose-
welt, Mcfarland, Petworth and
Raymond schools.
More than 80 new members were
admitted at the meeting, Presi-
dent John T. Thomas presided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11

The most immediate problems of the industry
around which we must rally the men to fight
are:
y The immediate, unconditional return of the
10 per cent cut and an additional 10 per
cent increase in wages to Offset the rise in
the cost of living.
q To abolish speed-up and lay-offs, violations
of agreements and force immediate settle
ment of all unsettled claims
81 Against compulsory arbitration and for the
right to strike.
d Against all gag rules and restrictions OF
the Grand Lodge officers which sti1e the
very life Of the unions act as an obstacle
to the unity of the rank and file and
restrict them from acting directly to settle
their grievances.
s. The broadest mobilization for the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill
CHR. 1899, for jobs and cash relief against
forced labor and for the establishment Of
relief committees in the lodges to repre-
sent the men in the fight for these de-
mands.
81 The immediate establishment of the S-hour
day in the railroad industry without any
reduction In the hourly or monthly pay
checks.
y To arouse railroad labor against the war
preparations OF the Roosevelt government
to establish anti-war committees on the
Job; to mobilize railroad workers to stage
demonstrations and wherever possible pre-
vent shipment and export of war material.
81 Against international fascism, against the
rapid growth of fascism in the United
States and particularly as it expresses it
self in the railroad industry (Co-ordina-
ton Bill, Compulsory Arbitration, etc.
To carry out these tasks 1t is imperative to
develop broad opposition movement inside
the 81 standard railroad labor unions with their
100000 members, inside all independent jim
Grow railroad unions and in all cases with
special attention to the transportation brother
hoods.
To develop mass struggle for the destruc-
ton of the company unions; to carry on sys-
tematic work in the company unions building
groups around the immediate demands of the
men, at the same time leading the workers
toward the formation of a class struggle union
Of their own choic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11

tons and Units to carry on systematic day to
day work among railroad workers, with particu-
lar emphasis on those workers organized in the
reformiSt unions
The capitalists and their government fully
appreciate the Importance of railroad transport.
To this end they have enlisted the railroad
union leaders as their agents, in order to spread
and put into practice the false theory that the
interests of labor are Identical with but sub
servient to the political and economic needs of
the capitalists and their government.
These union leaders in order to stihe opposi-
ton to their collaboration policies, have i'm
posed the most stringent gag rules in the lodges
and locals, expelling members for any effort to
break these laws, and have worked hand in
glove with the companies to discharge workers
who persist in the fight for their rights.
The strictest government supervision has been
extended over the railroads to give them finan-
cial support but especially to undermine the
fighting capacity of the rank and file to keep
them tied in a knot, defenseless before the
attacks of the railroad arrangements. In 1926
the Railway Labor Act was drawn up Jointly
by the roads and the railroad union officials
and enacted by the capitalist government over
the protests and warnings of the militant ele-
ments in the railroad labor movement grouped
around the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
RaiL,Uay Labor Act ShackIes the Workers

Transportation Act was accepted by the
Brotherhood Chiefs against the protests of the
rank and file Brotherhood Unity Movement
after few meaningless changes which made
it easier for the union officials to face the
membership.
Under the rail co-ordinator, the attacks orig
mating after the passage of the Railway Labor
Act were intensified. Mass lay-offs have been
carried out Speed-up has been multiplied
through consultations, doubling of work. and
lengthening of train runs. These economies
at the expense of railroad labor have become
the basis for the capitalist solution of the crisis
Today million men who built and operated
the railroads walk the streets. Many of them.
after lifetime Of service in the industry, are
unqualified for any other work.
The stagger system has reached an extreme
whereby tens of thousands receive only one or
two days work week. Overtime, which was
given major consideration in fixing basic rates,
has been completely abolished, and on a num-
Der OF roads, straight hourly rates are replacing
the obligation to pay mileage basis Earn
ings have already been reduced by approximately
half since the present basic rate OF pay was
first put into effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Results Of Party York in the Industry

Although the Importance Of winning railroad
workers is generally accepted and placed as an
outstanding task in all of it's resolutions, the
Party as a whole and especially the Districts,
have failed to mobilize their basic units and
turn them toward systematic and persistent
work in this industry
The Central Committee in turn has badly
neglected railroad work and has failed to check
up to see that the resolutions on railroad work
are carried out by the Party. There has been
slight improvement in this respect before and
little more since the Open Letter.
Although Negro railroad workers play very
important role in the industry, especially in the
South, where they are employed as hremen,
brakemen and switchmen, in addition to doing
most of the work in the shops, yards and track;
although they are barred from membership in
the transportation brotherhoods and forced to
organize into Jim Grow unions, in spite of some
steps taken in Norfolk, Birmingham, st. Louis
and New York. we have not carried out q sys-
tematic struggle for Negro rights, against white
chauvinism and for the unity of Negro and
white railroad workers around their immediate
demands.
AS result of its neglect only in very rare
cases has the Party participated In the growing
movement of the railroad men or taken the
initiative in mobilizng them for struggle. This
explains why only ITO railroad workers were
recruited into the Party in the years 1933-1934
Although this recruitment is an improvement,
1t is still insignificant What Is more important,
it shows the great possibilities for successful
work among railroad workers if we apply the
principles of the Open Letter and carry on
concentrated activity in the railroad industry.
The rank and file opposition within the stand
ard unions, that is the Railroad Brotherhoods
Unity Movement, which accepts the class strug-
gle program. has established 40 loosely organized
groups and has some 300 active supporters It's