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Evening star., 1934-12-21

dence that bids of private companies
for the construction of naval destroy
ers doubled between the Fall of 1888
and the Fall Of 1884.
Meanwhile Pierre du Pont, Of the
Delaware munitions firm, called for
exhaustive study by the wisest" minds
to devise a practicable plan to elimi-
nate excess profits in wartime. He
said the Du Pont company already
was on record as favoring such elimi-
nation.
Calling for study now "to avoid
hasty and inefficient measures later"
he told the Associated. Press:
1.-THE regulation Of wartime profits
must apply to every business and every
individual. 1t must not impair the
efficiency. productivity and inventive
ness of American industry"
Although the committee had in
tended to bring up the question of
warships costs in public hearing today,
it put the matter of till after the
holidays to make more detailed in
quiry.
Huge Increase in Cost.
Investigators said data gathered by
their agents showed that in the Fall
of 1888 the low bid on certain cruiser
type was $4,000 900, but that year
later it was $16,000,000 for virtually
the same ship. They said increased
costs would not account for the dou-
bled price.
THE committee" Nye announced,
had expected before adjournment for
the holidays, to lay the preliminary
ground work for its important January
inquiry into the amazing increase in
recent costs of naval armaments and
the methods Of purchase and sale.
But our studies have developed the
necessity for such broad inquiry and
involves such vital implications and
conclusions that the committee has
decided to postpone any public hear
ings upon this phase until it can deal
with it continuously and conclusively
next month"
Watson, Republican leader of the
Senate when defeated for reelection
in 1882, asserting he was q protec-
zionist long before the lobbyists, told
the committee:
mot one cent of Du Pont money
ever came to me or any campaign
committee Of mine"
Then, as the committee members
and spectators laughed, the jovial
Watson added:
II think some times they were a
Evening star., 1934-12-21

emphasized the problem was one for
the Maryland authorities to work out.
Plans Of the District to tear down
sections Of the fence about "Jimmy's"
property standing on District-owned
property were revealed early last
Summer In The Star. At that time,
it was disclosed, bids would be asked
shortly for the construction. Several
days ago, Hazen said this morning,
reporter for morning newspaper
sought to arrange a big event for the
fence ra1ng and asked that q steam
roller be used to knock down the fence.
This plan was rejected by the Com
missiners who said the work would
be done in a regular and orderly
way
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Republican National Committee not
to upset the G. o. p. apple cart at
this time.
THE Democrats will make plenty OF
issues for u.s." said Senator Dickinson.
They always do. 1t is merely q ques-
tion OF time"
There Is to be one change In the
Republican headquarters set up here
however. Chairman Fletcher an
nounced today that Mrs. Ellis A. Yost
Of West Virginia had resigned as di-
rector of the womens division. The
headquarters statement continued:
Mrs. Yost has contemplated fol
some time asking to be relieved of her
position at headquarters, but she con-
Evening star., 1934-12-21

sented to remain at her post during
the last campaign.
I'm announcing Mrs. Yost's retire
ment Chairman Fletcher expressed the
highest appreciation of Mrs. Yost's
loyal cooperation and effective work
IS director Of the women's division and
his regret at her desire to relinquish
her duties"
No announcement was made Of o
successor to Mrs. Yost as director Of
the women's division.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
BARUCH ASKS U. S.
LAY IN VAST TIN
>. STORE FOR WAR

(Continued From First Page.)
that all business men are crooks. not
to be trusted, and that no one should
be allowed to get rich"
Baruch said the War Industries
Board found there were many things
not produced in this country that
were necessary to the war program
and industrial progress. One of these,
he said, was tin.
Would Store Supplies.
Asked his choice among three pos
sibilities-buying and storing tin, &C
qulring a tin mine in some other
country or making an agreement with
Great Britain, which now controls the
world supply-Baruch replied:
''If it is a question of preparedness,
I say be prepared against everybody
and have it right here in storage.
Making an agreement with Great
Britain might be a good solution, but
I'd rather have it here, and I'd be
prepared against everybody, even my
best friend"
Chairman McReynolds, Democrat,
Of Tennessee, recalled suggestions that
the United States accept tin in pay
ment of war debts and asked Baruch's
reaction.
by taking tin for the debts, I
think we would be helping things"
Baruch answered.
James E. Watson, former Repub-
ncan leader of the Senate, appeared
voluntarily today before the Munitions
Committee. He said he resented the
implication in previous testimony that
he had been Influenced" to support
o postwar embargo on dyes.
A War Department spokesman also
told the Munitions COMMITTEES that
drafting industry in time of war
would "add to the confusion and not
eliminate it."
Col. Harris conceded, under COM
mittee questioning, however, that he
could run the Du Pont Powder Co.
under such a draft.
Warship Costs Amazing"
"A sweeping inquiry into what Chair
man Nye called amazing increases"
in recent costs of warships was ordered
earlier by the Senate munitions inves-
tigators. They said they wanted to
determine If there had been "collu-
SION in bidding.
The Investigators said they had evi-
Evening star., 1934-12-21
ENGLAND ENJOYS "BOOM"
More Money in Circulation Than
in Many Years.

LONDON, December 21 HD.-Eng.
land has gone spendthrift this Christ
mas. Financial experts said today
that more money was circulating than
at any time since the boom years.
The bank notes in circulation have
risen to f401 1907 (about $2,010,-
000,000). smashing all records since
1928, when Bank Of England notes
and treasury note issues were COM
bined.
The total Is about 1000 900 higher
than at this time last year.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
POLICE ARREST 5
L0ITERING NEAR
"JIMMY'S" PLACE

CONTINUED From First Page.)
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G. 0. P. COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OPPOSE
LIBERALIZED PLAN

CONTINUED From First Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10

by Stefan Volpe, member of the Com
nunist Party of Germany, who was
forced to leave Germany, and Is now
in the Soviet Union. Radamsky will
call upon the masses at the Coliseum
TO sing the song with him.
The program will begin promptly at
z o'clock. There will be no one adj
mitted during the presentation of
numbers. The program will include
singing by the Freigheit Gesangs
Verein, the Daily Worker Chorus, the
Ulranian Workers Chorus. JeromeS
''Newsboy" presented by the Workers
Laboratory Theatre, who will also
present new Scottsboro play; mass
dancing by two dance groups, who
viii present dances based upon the
Nazd regime; a group of solo dances
oy John Bovingdon, one of which will
be Underground" based upon the
story OF an illegal printing plant.
Tickets may still be obtained at ad-
vance prices at places listed elsewhere
u this paper, or may be obtained at
&he box-ofice before the affair.
This meeting is under the auspices
M the Central Committee Of the Com
nunist Party. Doors open at 6 P. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Wall Street Aviation Kings,
Gorge on Roosevelt War PA
Vol Times Anti Soviet Blast
TO Hitler, Hayashi Var Thrust
National CiUic Federation Letter to CordeH Hull
bpstigates Rupture Of U. S.-Soviet Relations

NEW YORK-Timed to coincide
with the intensified Japanese and
German Fascist war provocations
against the Soviet Union, the Ma
tional Civic Federation, under the
signature Of the A. F. of L. strike
breaker, Mathew VOL, has addressed
a lying and scurrilous anti-Soviet
letter to Cofdell Hull, secretary IF
state, deliberately instigating rup-
ture in relations with the U.S.S.R.
The National Civic Federation, sup
ported by some of the most out
standing heads Of scab and company
union corporations, has sent this
document entitled Moscow Pledges
Prove a Nockery," to every capitalist
newspaper with covering letter.
1.-THE covering letter, signed by
Ralph M. Easley, who circulates fas-
cist propaganda for Hitler in the
United States, calls for fascist meas
ures against the American working
class. 1t calls attention to the
further humihating fact that the
United States government has no
secret service through which it may
inform itself upon those subversive
activities in our midst"
Fully Aware
At the same time, the letter to
Secretary of State Hull declares that
the United States secret service is
fully aware Of Communist propa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
New York AFL Bill
For Job Reserve"
Up in Legislature

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 9.-The New
York State Federation Of Labor has
introduced in the legislature an "un-
employment insurance" bill which
differs in no fundamental feature
from the employers reserves" bills
now before the New York State Leg
islature here.
The three unemployment inSur-
ance" bills now before the state leg
islature at Albany all are based on
the reserve" system, and none apply
to workers now totally unemployed
The bill proposed by the State Fed
Grafton of Labor differs from the
Steingut- Mastick Bill chiefly in that
the A. F. of L. bill calls for the state
government to handle the insurance
fund.
These three bills are the same in
that they give insurance" to the
workers for a maximum Of few
weeks, that they contain "miScon-
duct clauses which allow the en-
ployers to withhold the insurance
if they try to organize or strike, and
they all apply only to those now
working in industry.
The A. F. of L. bill is called the
Byrnes-C Condor Bill. All the bills
require per cent of the employers
payroll to be paid into the fund to go
to those now working, who are laid
off for a limited time. Both bills al
low the employers to dictate the dis
tribution of the funds, the A. F. of L.
bill merely allowing this distribution
at the call Of the employers to go
through the state treasury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Congress Will Try
To Kill Workers
Insurance Bill
Jobless Council Warns
Mass Pressure Is
Necessary

NEW YORK THE National IN
employment Councils from its offices
of 1893 Roadway, has issued state
ment calling on all organizations to
exert mass pressure on Congress for
the enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. There is
otherwise danger, the national COM
mittee says, that the bill will die In
committee. The statement follows:
Efforts will be made to kill the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill which has been intro
duced in Congress by Congressman
Lundeen and now bears the number
HR7598. The bill is before the Com
mittee on Labor of the House OF Re-
representatives. and an attempt will be
made to kill it in the Committee SO
that it will not be reported to the
House.
THE National Executive Board OF
the National Unemployment Council
calls upon all working class organiza-
tions-Unemployed Councils, unions,
veterans, fraternal small homeowners
and farmers organizations to imme-
diately telegraph or write the Con-
gressmen Of your districts as well as
Chairman Connery Of the Committee
on Labor Of the House of Represen-
tatives, Washington, D. c., demand
ing the reporting out of the bill and
the passage by the U. s. Congress.
This is Of extreme Importance in
view Of the fact that Roosevelt
favors the Wagner-Lewis bill which
provides no insurance to the present
army Of 100000 unemployed. It
is State Bill and excludes large
sections of those now working and
provides insurance only for small
number Of weeks at very low rate.
"All organizations that have al
ready endorsed the Workers Bill must
send letters Get all A. F. of L. and
independent unions, T.U.UL. unions,
fraternal and unemployed organiza-
tons. etc. to endorse the bill and
send copies of such endorsement to
the Daily Worker and the other
pspers. Letters should b cent TO
tes oonsressuens =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
HUGE WAR FRIGHTENING, War Sec Y WOODRNCREYEAL
Monster Meet TO Open
National Drive To
Aid German C.. r.

NEW YORK.-A nation
vide campaign to aid the Ger
man Communist Party will be
launched tomorrow night by
Earl Browder, secretary of the Com
munist Party of the U. S. at meet
ing at the Bronx Coliseum, at P. M,
where thousands of workers will mass
to pledge solidarity to the German
workers revolution and protest
against Na1 murder and terror.
Robert Minor, Central Committee
member, will open the support the
German Workers Revolution" meeting
and affair, as chairman Earl Brow
der will make g. comprehensive report
on the German situation.
Thousands Of Socialist workers
have been invited to show their solid
arity to the maturing German work
srs' revolution. Leaflets distributed
10 them have met with rousing res
ponse.
Sergei Radamsky, well-knoWn tenor
and Soviet teacher of music, will sing
''Rote Soldaten, Rote Kolonnen," a
German revolutionary song, which
will be presented for the first time in
thi~ country. The song was composed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
6 US. Ships
on Strike in
Cuban Port
No Nazi Flag Can Fly in
Any Cuban Port; Vel.
Forces Concession
Special to the Daily Worker

Special to the Daily Worker
HAVANA, Feb. g. American sea-
men on six ships in Antilla harbor
have gone on strike, refusing to load
cargoes in that port where the dock,
railway, and sugar workers are on
strike.
While President Carlos Mendieta is
using armed force everywhere to try
to break the general strike, and the
army has been modified for scab
duty, he has been forced to issue a
decree establishing 7-hour maximum
working day for young workers. This
is entirely victory for the Young
Communist League of Cuba, which
has modified broad masses for this
fight for many months.
The anti-Nszi feeling Of the Cuban
workers is so high that not a ship
flying the swatstika flag has sailed
into any Cuban port for many months
No Cuban dock worker would unload
such a ship. and all German ships
have long ago accepted this condition.
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ganda, but more funds should be
allocated for the setting up of a
secret, terrorist police, which could
be used against all working class
organizations.
That the A. F. of L. leaders who
have broken strikes, and whose ac-
tiyities have sponsored the rapid
growth Of company unions are blind
the latest move of the Civic Fedora
ton is shown by the extensive quota
lions made by some Of the most
vicious Of the A. F. Of L. strike
breakers.
Decent American citizens" says a
quotation of Hughe Frayne, repre-
sentative of the A. f. of L., would
be put in jail and shot for doing
things that are being done by the
Communists.
What These Things" Are
What these things" are is revealed
by Thomas F. Mcmahon, president
of the United Textile Workers Of
America, who tells of the difficulties
he had in putting over a strike
breaking agreement in the textile
industry due to the mobilization Of
the workers against it by the Com
munists.
Throughout the big strike in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
eva Workers Freeze in Open.
But Officials Refuse Fires
Workers Collapse, Refuse to Work in Weather la
Below; Laid Off Without Pay

NEW YORK.-A group of C.W.A.
workers in Marine Park, Brooklyn,
threw down their tools and refused
to work in the bitter cold without a
fire after one worker died and six
were taken to the hospital frozen
stiff.
Later the C.W.A. officials told the
men they could stop work, but in
formed them that they would receive
no pay.
Yesterday was the coolest day ever
recorded in the history of the city.
At TIPS am. it was 14.S below zero.
The suffering Of homeless ,unem-
ployed was extremely intense as the
bitter winds dashed through their
threadbare clothes and froze their
fingers and toes. Three men dropped
on the street overcome by the cold
and undernourishment.
Tbs unemployed msn xhs col
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Paris Workers Surge
In Streets, Protest At
Var, Reaction Cabinet
S. P. Ready to Sabotage
General Strike Call
Communists Support

PARIS, Feb. g. Thousands Of
workers, led by the Communist
Party, battled police in the streets of
Paris today In protest against the
Cabinet of war and reaction an
nounced today by Premier CASTOR
Doumergue with the full support of
the growing fascist forces of France.
Faced by lac, police and guards,
azcatt--Ss Fsr army detachments, the
workers su14yed through all sJreets
leading to- the Place de la Republique,
in the working caass district Of Paris.
They held their ground as the
police charged again and again. Bar
ricades were thrown up at the church
Of st. Ambrose. The battle was
called one of the most tiercely-
fought of the past week.
Socialists Discuss Calling Strike Off
Already the Socialist Party, which
refused to support Doumergue, is
discussing calling off the 24-hour
general political strike which the
National Labor Federation announced
for Monday. The revolutionary unions
fComtinued on Page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
By JOHN L. sPIyAK

BROCKTON, Mass. There is an
abundance, in Brockton, of female
labor, especially Of middle-aged mar
ried women. This type of labor can
be utilized, as result of experience,
for skilled OF unskilled operations"
This announcement is carried in a
nlimeographed booklet issued by the
Brockton Chamber of Commerce last
March in an effort to get manu-
facturerS TO cine here where labor
costs axe cheap"
The statement gives an accurate
picture Of the intense struggle for
jobs. the wages workers receive and
the despairing effort married, mid
dle-aged women" are making to hold
on to their disintegrating homes and
families. The Chamber Of Com
merce advertisements regarding labor
conditions ars worth quoting at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
In the Daily Worker
Today.

Page 3
SPORTS, by Jerry Arnold.
Page 8
q. 3. Brotherhood Sends Fake
Strike Ballots to $4,000.
Page 4
capitalist War Against Workers
Fatheriand," by Harry Cannes.
syuicy Profits ON War Contracts"
by Robert Dunn.
Hrhe Tasks Of Communists in the
Fight Against War;" by up.
Page 5
@nperialist War Propaganda
Technique.
Page 6
Discussion ON Comintern Anal
ysis. Mass Work" by Jack sta
cheI
abstract Speeches Do Not Help
Party Work." by Max Young.
"A Weapon to Fulfill the Open
Letter." by Gertrude Haessler.
Page 7
devised Marine Code Reveals
Wage Cutting, Strikebreaking
Role Of N.R.As
News Of Marine and Waterfrons.
Page s
Letters from Miners.
Page 8
Change the World" by Michael
Gold.
What's On; Tuning In.
Page 10
SditoxiaIss {
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Section Ia Means
? AFL Head
Tells Auto Workers
Strikebreaker Calls Cop
When Union Delegation
Comes 10 Hearing
DAILY Worker washington Bureaul

DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul
WASHINGTON, Feb. "Section
Ia of the National Recovery Act
means nothing" Richard S. NEWMAN,
a leading official of the A. F. of l..
International Machinists Union, to-
day told Fred Greller, research coun-
sci of the Auto Workers Union, after
the public hearing on the proposed
code for the commercial vehicle body
industry.
Asked why the A. F. Of L. leader
ship doesn't fight the deceptions of
the N. r. A., NEWMAN replied that
''not enough workers are organized
to do that"
When the delegation representing
the Auto Workers Union entered the
sun parlor of the Washington Hotel,
william Tobin, A. F. of L. strike
breaker on the N.RA., ran out and a
policeman returned in his stead
though no officers have ever at
tended these hearings before. The
policeman advanced threateningly on
]. j Williams, organizer of the A.
w. q. when the latter told .NR.A
officials that 'the proposed breadline
codes, if enforced, will call forth a
situation similar to conditions now
prevailing in Paris"
The militant workers committee
wno consisted of williams, Greller,
James Adams and Meyer Appiebaum,
eft the hearing at midday adjourn
Elent after reiterating their readiness
sg strike against the proposed 3T1s
snts an hour # President Roosevelt
should approve the code.
The Presiding Labor Advisory
5oard admitted Greller's charge that
discrimination against Negroes is
widespread wherever MIRA. codes are
4 oplied. NEWMAN. however, pleaded
that provisions against such discrim-
inatory practices can never be made
part Of the code"
just before the opening Of the
BEARING, MARITIME, of the N.R.A. Con-
sumers' Advisory Board and an as
sistant deputy administrator, in
formed Williams that the A.W.U.
branch Of the Trade Union Unity
League was making its appearances
ano protests felt and was bothering
the National Association of En-
ployers.
The employers proposed code in
eleven states of the Black Belt pro-
vidss Tor wages under 371z cents an
hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10

of "peace." The miners will be COM
PEELED to walk the streets and their
families will have to suffer the hard
ships of winter and unemployment,
while Father Curran enjoys himself
in the sunny South.
Just as the convention was nearing
adjournment, Secretary Shuster made
a speech praising Father Curran and
proposed that the union arrange a
victory" banquet on Curran's re-
tul 4 from the South. The miners
voted to go back to work for they
saw there was no hope in winning.
because of the way the strike was
being led by Thomas Maloney, dis
trict president, the leader agreeing
to injunction and arbitration same
as Lewis and Boylan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10

lapsed were James Quinn, Morris
Sacks and an unknown man, found
at Central Park West and 103d st.
Charge Officials With Murder
"The C.W.A. officials are guilty of
murder for making the men work
and not allowing them to warm
themselves by a fire." C.W.A.
worker told the Daily Worker yes
terday.
Following the strike which took
place Thursday in the north side of
the park, police were called. The
cops arrived in three radio cars and
forced the men to return to work.
The foreman, fearing that the
workers would continue the strike
then told them that they could knock
of. eve want to show that we are
tcossssasd on Pass "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Cheap Labor Used by Brockton
Chamber to attract Industry

length without any comment, for they
tell their own tragic storyI
Wages Lower Than Average
Wages" the Chamber states,
compare favorably, in some In
stances are lower, than those of the
average Massachusetts, industrial
community.
"Brockton has the reputation Of be-
ing the home of highly skilled and
highly paid labor. The high skill is
still available; the high wages have
dropped to competitive levels In
vogue elsewhere. This is an ideal
situation for industries requiring
skilled hands
1.-THE labor situation, as it relates
to the shoe industry and allied trades,
is the best it has been for rs years.
Labor has amiably accepted wage re-
N0owS1Nsse9 on Rdas 81