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NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK, May G.N.sD.-Pe-
troleum, steady crude Pennsylva mia.
217@255; linseed oil FER lb, 9.309.5
carlots. Turpentine, firm, Sc. Rosin,
firm, common, $50.
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SALE OR LEASE. gasoline station on Wis.
,consin Ave, in Bethesda business district
with necessary pumps. Wonderful oppor.
tunity right party. Terms reasonable.
THOMAS E. HAMPTON
1855 Wisconsin Ave-, Bethesda, Md.
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have each man, each section, and
each country, produce what he or
it is best fitted for. Then each
trades with others.
This system makes possible the
greatest production. There are
boundless opportunities in the fu-
ture for further division of labor
and cooperation through trade.
But this system requires deli
cate adjustments, and when it
breaks down, on account of inter
ference, great suffering results.
The depression is partly due to
restrictions which now prevent in
dustries, regions and nations from
trading their products.
HOstilitieS and mistaken ideas
as to protection, currency un-
certainties, mOnOpOlies, and
price fixing, are some of the
things which prevent us from
cooperating and prOspering
through trade.
(2) The use of money and
credit are necessary in such mutu-
ally beneficial trading. But in the
postwar boom we came to rely
more and more on credit, and ter
ribly abused it.
Credit, whether it be in the
form Of currency (notes and
checks or not, is just a promise
to pay. It is somebody's debt.
It is not safe to use too much of
it.
That, however, is just what we
did. People got the notion that
any amount of credit could be
issued by governments and cor
porations.
So while the people spent, the
debts (credit) piled up.
Then came the day of settle
ment. Governments, railways,
farmers, and other could not pay.
Credit is good thing, if you
don't make too nuch of it. It is
very bad when issued in excess of
ability to pay. When that occurs,
the only thing to do is to stop
borrowing and try to pay off or
make some arrangement with
those who hold your promises to
pay.
My third point is that it is no
use to try to do impossible things.
It does no good to call them
Experiments
Impracticable and harmful ex-
pedients not only waste time and
labor, but in the end destroy the
morale of the people.
The present "swing.tO-the-
right" course Of the admins
tration is a confession that it
has made mistake after mis-
take. Where is the world eco
nomic conference? The gold
buying policy? The Army
air mail? The Blue Eagle
Parades? The balance budget?
The sound but adequate cur
rency? The exports to Russia?
Labor peace?
what DO L nave TO propose?
Well, I think that from the
beginning it has been clear that
we have to clean house-to clear
the channels of trade, and to re-
store credit by settling debts,
sooner or later, one way or an
other, this must be done before
we regain prosperity.
Meanwhile, we must support all
our needy unemployed, that is
their right.
We should break down the
obstacles to trade; destroy
manipulation, monopoly, and
graft; settle debts by adjust
ment, payment, or bankruptcy;
and establish a sound monetary
system on a definite standard
of value.
Then we should seek some way
to revise our political system so
as to insure that wise and efficient
Government officials are selected
to guide our affairs according to
sound ethical and economic
principles.
No system will work without
wise Statesmen-not men who
"do something" but who do the
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Auto Sales
HORN MOTORS. INC. Chevrolet Sales
and Service, Atwater Kent Radios,
Herndon, Va. Tel. Herndon 81.
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Principal Produce Markets

u. s. No. /. S2@2.1O. New
stock: Supplies moderate: demand mod
crate: market steady. Florida, double
head barrels spaulding Rose. U. S. No.
Peppers-supplies light; demand light,
crates, green, fancy. mostly around
$2.75@3; choice mostly around 81:
Squash-Supplies light: demand light;
market steady: Florida. % bTshel han ham
necks, S1.60@1.75.
Cucumbers-supples light: demand
light; market steady. Ohio, hothouse
stock, cartons, one dozen. mostly 81.
Oranges-Three Florida arrived; 4
broken and unbroken cars on track.
1, according to grade and size.
Grapefruit-No carlot arrivals; three
Florida, boxes, $3.25@S.75.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, May 1 G.N.s).-Butter
saIted and unsalted creamery higher
scoring, 2615 @27k; creamery extras,
25@26k; creamery firsts, 23% Q26.
Cheese-Steady State whole milk
flats specials, 1S@19; average run,
15@16; Wisconsin whole milk fancy
young Americans 12A 913;.
1917 q 20: standards, 1S@1Sh mediums,
1874 @17h: nearby brown specials.
1904; standards, 18@1Sh; mixed spe-
cials, 1871 @20; standards, 17h @18;
firsts, 16k @16%: seconds, 15h q @16;
mediums. 15h. Pacific Coast white
Fancy packs, 24@25: standards, 23@
2Sh; mediums, 2Oh @91h.
100 pounds no. 1 fluid milk within
the 201-21O-mile zone.
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Auto TOwing
EXPERT REPAIRING AND TOWING
Prompt Service Reasonable. Work Guar
STINNETT'S GARAGE
904 Barry Pl n. W. North 7016
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Personal Loans
LOANS UP to $500 on household goods
or auto. Quick courteous service
American Fidelity Loan Corp.
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Legal Notices

HARRY A GRANT, Attorney
Transportation Bldg.
Filed April, 20, 1884, Frank E. Cum
ningham, clerk
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FARM AND GARDEN
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Then we should seek some way
to revise our political system so
as to insure that wise and efficient
Government officials are selected
to guide our affairs according to
sound ethical and economic
principles.
No system will work without
wise statesmen-not men who
"do something" but who do the
right thing.
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Piano Tuning
STEINWAY. Knabe. Chickering Players
Estimates free. Tuning. So Repairing
VIM. Woolley. I'LL N st. N. W. PO. 1915
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Beer
POTOMAC BEER SUPPLY
Silver Stock Lager and Extra Fine Beer
Jolly Scot Ale
2O12 14th St. N. ". Decatur 5S42
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WIscoNsIN BEVERAGE SHOP. All pop.
ular brand beers. liquors. Prices right.
We deliver. CL. 97S7. 2414 wis. Ave.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Answer the Brutal
Police Murder

THE cold-blooded murder of William
Heaterly, unemployed Negro worker,
by Philadelphia police. is brutal chal-
lenge to the whole working class.
The shooting down of this unemployed
worker by police invading his home to throw his
family the streets is gauge of the brutal fas-
cist policies of the national and local governments
Heaterly's blood cries aloud for united front of
struggle Of Socialist Communist and non-Party
workers against developing fascism in the United
States.
The murder of Heaterly is sinister threat
to the unemployed workers. Negro and white strug-
Cling for the right to exist for bread for their fam
lilies and roof over their heads 1t is a bloody
prelude to the further cutting of relief and the
carrying out of wholesale evctions against the
employed throughout the country
Philadelphia workers. white and Negro had mo-
bzed their forces to protest and prevent the evic-
ton of this Negro worker and his family in one of
the first efforts of the workers to block the re-
newed eviction drive and to take up the struggle
for unemployment relief and social insurance
Cold-blooded murder the answer of the land
lords and capitalists and their police wstchdogs
All reports of the killing of Heatery agree that
the worker had offered no resistance when the po-
lice forced themselves through the ranks of the
protesting workers into his home. The Negro worker
was shot down by the police in a cold -hooded at
tempt to intimidate the workers and break their
struggles against evc+ions and misery and for
the unity of all workers
The murder of Heaterly emphasizes, moreover
the growing fascist attacks on the Negro people
already exampfied in the increase of lynching and
frame-upS of Negroes throughout the country in
the fiendsh lynching of Claude Neal in Florida on
october 27, and in the intensified drive by the
Alabama lynch lords and their white and Negro
agents against the fight for the Scottsboro
boys and Angelo Herndon.
The unemployed workers, the Negro masses and
the entire toiling population of this country must
answer this deliberately vicious attack on the
struggles Of the unemployed workers and the Negro
masses with thunder of protests and the further
development of the fight for relief and social
insurance, against lynching and fascist terror
against the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

for attack on Japan. japanese imperialism is for
tifying the inundated islands in the South Pacific
and Wall Street is maneuvering to seize these
islands from Japan.
Roosevelt is building war bases in China, through
the o. S. Army aviation division gathering strength
and force by shipping hundreds Of planes for i'm
mediate use against the Chinese Soviets.
Each power wants to dominate the Chinese
market, and is prepared to plunge the world into
new slaughter to decide the issue.
But, as this conflict grows sharper. there is one
important and outstanding fact. japanese i'm
perialism is rapidly preparing for war against the
Soviet Union, daily shipping more and more SOL
ders to Msnchuria. These conflicts are not mll-
tualy exclusive or contradictory. The very sharp
ness of the conflict of Wall Street and Japan may
force the issue of against the Soviet Union
rapidly Dominant finance capitalists in the
U. S. would like to see this issue of the struggle
accomplished. Foremost among them are j. P,
Morgan and the du Pont brothers. Around them
are an extremely powerful force
The danger of war throughout the world is ex-
tremely sharp, not only in the Pacific but in Eu-
rope.
To meet it We must raise the alarm, speed up
all Of anti-war and ant-fascist activities, build
the American League Against War and Fascsm,
arouse the masses to the realization of the grave
danger, how to fight it by revolutionary struggle
against American imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

In the question period he was
asked as to his attitude to scabs.
but he evaoed this by saying he
would discuss 1t next Tuesday in a
talk on capital and labor. An
other ticklish point was touched on
when somebody asked why he has
his printing done in q non union
shop. Coughlin thereupon launched
into defense of his anti-union
activities, while at the same time
making a den1agogic plea for the
organization of the uns kille d
workers, calling on the U. S. De-
partment Of Labor to aid in initial
ing what would undoubtedly be
fascist unions. Only a week ago
the Detroit Federation of Labor
adopted a resolution condemning
Coughlin for his use of non-union
labor at low wages on construction
work at his church.
The Coughlin movement is as
Stunning serious proportions and
there is widespread talk about it
throughout Detroit. In a press
conference earlier yesterday he
claimed that 100000 people had
enrolled in his National Union for
Social Justice since he launched it
IN radio broadcast Nov. II. Even
discounting this figure. it is clear
that the movement is being or
gained on broad basis.
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unions foster the organization of
company unions. He emphasized
that the longshoremen in refusing
to load goods of non-union truck
men are thereby forcing these men
who do not want to join the team
sters union to do so.'
The climax of his morning s
speech was when he countered the
arguments of Joseph Ryan and
Wheeler that the issuance of an
injunction will encourage Commu-
mist activity on the waterfront. He
stated:
Called 1t "Sovietism"
Let your honor be reminded that
if control is permitted in this case
control will next be over the entire
business"
In beginning to describe the ma
chinery of the workers through
which the. conspiracy" is carried
out, Merritt stated:
THE fundamental concept OF
this, gentlemen, is kind of a So
y:etism. If shipper wants to. snip
goods, he will go to tie headquar-
ters of the union,-not to the
United States Government-for his
passport. To me Sovietism is COM
plete abdication of government and
handing it over to privately con-
! trolled hands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
The War Danger SharbenS

THE London naval talks have collapsed
But more is breaking than just this
conference, The whole structure of navy
strengths and relative position of the vari-
GUS imperialist powers in the Pacific, i'm
posed at the Washington Naval Conference of 1922
after the last world war, is smashed to bits
Out of the wreckage each mperialst power now
is girdng for war to seize the greatest amount of
spoils. Japanese imperialism is denouncng, that
is. ending, the Washington treaty which was forced
by Wall Street because of its dominant position
after the last world war japanese imperialism has
since seized Manchura, is opening a bitter struggle
for domination in China American imperialism is
doing likewise-only with greater war expenditures
At the London naval talks, the japanese repre-
sentatives exposed the fact that American i'm
perialsm is building naval ornaments more rap
idly than any other country in the world under
the Vinson bill The japanese considered this as a
threat to their advance in the Far East They de-
manded, therefore, parity equality in naval ton
mage with the U. S. This the Roosevelt govern
ment refused to grant because each is out for suf-
ficient arms to get the greatest share of the
markets at the expense of the Chinese and Jap
anese masses
When even no SHAM face-saving agreement
could be arrived at, the japanese decided nothing
more could be done through talk and decided to
end the Washington treaty. Then Wall Street
barred its fangs. Congressman Vinson, sponsor of
the Vinson Bill Immediately declared, treaty or no
treaty, Wall Street would build to vast superiority
over Japan. This opens up the most dangerous
naval arms race the world has ever seen.
In such building venture, neither power will
wait until the other has caught up but may at any
moment decide naval superiority by armed struggle
whole series of complicated questions are in
volved Each of them emphasizes and increases
the danger of imminent war American imperial
ism is fortifying Alaska and the Aleutian islands,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
The Peoples Fight on the
Sales Tax

THE fight against the wholesale robbery
of the LaGuardia sales tax also means
a fight to expose the opposition to the tax
that comes from such a friend of the
people" as Grover Whalen, acting for the
cty's biggest merchants.
The city merchants, led by Whalen of Tam
many police brutality fame, are bowling against the
sales tax Of LaGuardia
But the only reason they are bowling is because
the tax will undoubtedly shrink the amount of buy
ing by the city's population, and in this way, cut
Into their profits.
What these merchants want instead is another
kind of tax that will rob the masses in some other
way. a way that will not affect their profits
The merchants want tax on subway rides, di-
rect wage cuts (such they themselves have insti
tuted in their own stores, and a whole series of
taxes light, gas, rent, that will affect some
other groups of capitalist exploiters other than
themselves.
The plea Of the merchants is not against the
LaGuardia- Wall Street program Of protecting the
bankers. It is merely plea for different kind of
attack against the masses
The fight against the sales tax is a fight not
only against this particularly vicious robbery of the
masses, but against the whole Wall Street program
of LaGuardia which is specifically the program of
the Morgan Rockefeller banks.
The Communist Party proclaims as the slogan in
fighting the sales tax Make the rich the employ
ers landlords and bankers pay to care for the job
less and for unemployment insurance"
Heavy taxes for the bankers and rich merchants
Heavy taxes on the profits of the big utilities and
corporations! Stop the Infamous swindle of the
Bankers Agreement, which drains $780, 900 from
the people every year to pay the banks.
This is the way to fight the sales tax to make
it true PEOPLES FIGHT against the handful
Of capitalist robbers and their government tools
in the City Administration.
The issue is clear. 1t is a fight between the
property owners the capitalist exploiters and the
banks against the broad masses of the citys popua-
ton. Against all these plunderers the bankers as
well as the Grover Whalens and the merchants
Make the rich pay. Make the bankers pay. Make
the utility and subway cough up their profits
Not single tax burden on the backs of the masses!
That must be the slogan in fighting the sales tax
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

should aim to destroy what he
termed plot to dictate to New
York shippers by the unions, and
to force" the ship owners to more
aggressive action against the unions
through declaring that they are not
executing their services to the com
munity properly.
Merritt spent the entire morning
analyzing all the ramifications of
the waterfront unions, in an at
tempt to picture how the "plot" to
dictate" to shippers who refuse to
employ union truckmen, works. At
ter showing how the longshoremen
have been always alert and turned
back non-union trucks, he said he
refused to believe that the men
would acS so on their own accord,
but must be carrying out the orders
of leaders above. He then summed
up the picture by saying, Here are
these merchants and shippers,
hearing from the sovereign rulers of
the port of New York on what shan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

they will protect scabs with guards
and police.
The employers again declared to-
day that they will try to open the
mills Monday with scabs.
1t was rumoured today that many
special deputies were being sworn
in by the sheriff at the Court
House, to act as strong arm men
against the strikers.
The strike remains one hundred
per cent effective.
On Saturday at 10 a. m. a special
membership meeting Of the broad
silk workers will be held, to hear
the report Of the delegates to the
national convention of the silk fed
Grafton. Unless otherwise an
nounced, the meeting will be held
in Carpenters Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
FaSciSm and Communism

THAT arch demagogue, Father Coughlin,
has proclaimed his opposition to both
fascism and communism"
This is the shrewd trick of dema-
gogue who himself is one of the leading
organizers and preparers of fascism in America
1t is the old, typical trick of all those who are
paving the way for fascism in this country to thus
lump the danger of Communism and the danger
of fascsm together in order to conceal the advance
of fascism.
It is necessary now to sound warning and alarm
among the American people against this trickery,
the latest evidence of which can be seen in the
notorious Hearst editorials charging Communism
with causing fascism.
The experience Of Germany has shown that fas-
cism is advanced step by step by precisely those
people who proclaim their opposition to "fascism
and Communism alike"
1t was in this way that Bruening, for example,
instituted one reaconarf step after another
arguing all the while that these measures were
necessary to fight fascsm and Communism
1t is in this way, too that Social-Democracy
supported one reactionary after another on
the ground that it was fighting both" fascism and
Communism
This talk about fighting" fascsm by people who
couple this fight with fight against the revolu-
tionary movement of the working class does not
change the fact that it is these people who are lay
ing the grounds for American fascism
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unless they act in a strictly i'm
partial manner"
Thomas MacMahon. president o:
the United Textile Workers Union,
who was instructed by the shop
chairnen's meeting not to interfere
with the activities of the settle
ment committee, also issued state
ment in which he said, The en-
ployers are showing disposition
to be fair in this situation. There
is an honest difference of opinion
among them on the question of the
one hundred per cent union shop
The misunderstanding between the
employers and our union on the
union shop can be adjusted if the
employers desire adjustment"
The Paterson city administration
hiss refused permission to the strik-
ers to hold a tag day to raise relief
funds.
The inter county mayors con-
ference has issued statement that