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Evening star., 1934-08-29
BRILLO PROFITS LAG.

NEW YORK, August 90 (P).-Brillo
Manufacturing Co., Inc, reports for
the six months ended June 80 net
profits Of STA 1896, equivalent after al
lowing for dividend requirements on
the class A stock to 80 cents a share
on the common stock, against s78, ,416
or 80 cents common share in the
first half of 1898.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
D. & R. G. VOTES TO PAY
INTEREST TOMORROW

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 29.-Directors
of the Denver g. Rio Grande Western
Railroad Co. today voted to pay in
terest tomorrow on the roads per
cent and Az per cent bonds of 1886.
The interest was due on July l, but
deferred under the 60-day grace per-
mitted by the indentures.
The board also voted to pay interest
on the Rio Grange Western first trust
IS Of 1889, due July l, at the end of
the 90-day grace period.
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, August % R.-Copper
Eagle, 900. Tin barely steady; spot and
nearby and future. 51.45a51 .55. Iron
quiet unchanged Lead steady; spot New
York, 375; East St Louis. $50. Zinc
dull; East St. Louis spot and future.
425. Aluminium. 20.00a23.30. Anti
mony SPOT S7b
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RUTTERICK LOSS GIVEN.

NEW YORK, August 90 (P).-A net
loss of $3.50 for the six months end
ed June 80 was reported by the But
terick Co. against net profit of 9,116
or 27 cents share in the first half of
last year.
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THOMPSON-STARRETT co.

NEW YORK, August 20 (P-
Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc, reports
for the quarter ended July 26 net loss
of S52,833 compared with net loss of
$55, 1903 for the quarter ended July 27,
1888.
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EXTRA DIVIDEND VOTED
BY WESSON OIL BOARD
BY tie Associated Press.

by JAe ASSOClaJeQ FreSS.
NEW YORK, August 29.-Directors
of the Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co.
have declared an extra dividend of
so cents and the regular quarterly
dividend of 1914 cents on the COM
mon stock, payable october to stock
of record September IS.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
PIERCE-ARROW REPORTS.

NEW YORK, August 90 (P.-
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. reports
for the six months ended June 80 net
loss of $681 ,088 against net loss of
$254,735 for the like 1888 period.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
Chica 20 Grain
BY the Associated

6y bilc hSoOCldttQ tSa.
CHICAGO, gust 90. - Enlarged
speculative buy g descended on the
grain market day and prices ad
vanced sharply. Bullish factors slim
ulating trade included realization,
based on aut oritative survey, of
heavy frost ds lage to small grain
crops in North n Alberta and Sas-
katchewan, Cal ida, strength in for
eign markets sprinkling of in
f1ation gossip.
Wheat and n showed upturns If
almost 2 cents at times, but heavy
profit taking f 'ced minor reactions
from the maxir I'm gains. Independ-
ent strength veloped in corn in
which premium for cash grain rs
high as cent over September fu-
lures deliveries we're paid.
Wheat closed q to rs higher than
yesterdays fini |, December new de-
liveries at $103 -s1037s. September
new options lwed the best gain,
finishing at 81 234 4-$1.027s, a range
of u to rs ae ance. May closed at
s1.0514-$1O53s.
Corn gained 4 to rs cents, De-
cember closing at 803s-80 Oats
were u to rs igher, rye 3s to 12s
up and barley howed range un-
changed to 2% advance Provisions
were higher
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Cash G. lin Market.

SdSu VI ttH Market.
Wheat, No. 2 d, 1.04; No. 2 hard,
1.o9l4; No. m <ed (mainly hard) :,
1.0815. Corn, N 2 mixed, 8l&4 80;
No. yellow, 8l2 90; No. 2 white. "a
84H. Oats. No. white, S. Rye, No.
2. 80. Barley, rs 1.30. Timothy seed,
16.50-l8.00 hum redweight. Glover
seed, 13.50-18.00 undredweight.
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CURB BONDS
ON Ais.
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED

NEW YORK, August 29.-Dividends de-
tic iare9 compiled by the Standard Statis-
Extra.
Pc Stock of Paw
r.ror, ~. Rate.riod. record. able
group NO. / Oil Cor 500 :. 9-l0 g-29
Reduced
Duke Power .....75c Oils 1o1
Initial.
U Sugar So pf. .S125 @ 1910 1-5s
Accumulated.
Worthgn Ball A pf. 50 3, $50 S-25
Evening star., 1934-08-29
COMMOD TY PRICES

NEW YORK, Au llst 29.-IndeX of IS
staple commodity ,rices December al.
1891, equals 100. 926 average equals
Evening star., 1934-08-29
n. Y. EXCHANGE BONDS
Received BY Private Evening
U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Received BY Private WI

High. Low. CIose.
Fed Farm Mtg
Loan 3s 49,. 9SlS 9S IL 1916
Fed + arm Mtg
Corpn 3A s 64 1902 100 IA 100 II
Home OwnLoan
Corpn 3s '52... 1915 $50 9S9
Home OwnLoan
Corpn IS 81. 1892 9S Is 9S IL
Evening star., 1934-08-29
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. Angus % lPl.-New York
Security Dealers ASST ,iation:
Evening star., 1934-08-29

Gen Baking 5hs 40 1O4h 104 1o4
Ger c Az IS 3S. 80. BIN sou 31s4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Chicago lid, LSNR
Call Conference
Urge Organizations to
Demand Negro Rights

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. iS.--The In
ternational Labor Defense and the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights,
have issued a joint call FOR a con-
ference to be held on February 3, at
2 D. M, at the Forum Hall, 322 E..
43rd St, Chicago, Ill. In this call it
asks all organizations and groups OF
workers to send delegates to the con-
ference to fight against the discrimi-
nation Of the Negro workers on the
G. w. A. projects and in the Stock
yards. and to continue the work Of
the Baltimore Anti-Lynch Conference
held some time ago.
The struggles that have developed,
especially around the Lake st. ter
ritory in the last few days, prove
that this conference is necessary par
ticularly to fight police brutality
against the Negro workers. Claude
Lightfoot, the secretary of the L. S.
N. r. was brutally slugged by police
under the orders of Captain Siege.
well known for his activities on the
South Side together with Barker in
smashing workers meetings and beat
ing Negro as well as white workers.
Police brutality against the Ne
groes is outstanding" the call states
THE growing unity Of the white and
Negro workers is feared by the boss
class. We must not allow the ruling
class to break this unity"
The I. l.. D. and the L. S. N. p.
calls upon all organizations to send
delegates TO the conference in Forum
Hall on February 3rd, 2 .. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Bear Mt. CWA Workers Fired,
Terrorized by Brutal Foreman

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-FiVe C.W.A.
workers were jailed at Bear Noun
tain Wednesday for resisting the for
chile removal Of their overcoats by q
brutal foreman. The men are not
permitted to wear overcoats while
working on the icy slopes Of a noun
tain.
Last Tuesday, natural leader
sprung up from the rank and file of
1,100 men who are working on Prof.
ect n there, and, with the aid of
four others, explained to all, that
they must fight together to improve
their conditions. On the long trip
from Chambers ST., New York to
Weehawken by ferry and then by
train to Bear Mountain, 500 sigma
lures to a petition were obtained,
which asked for the right to elect
their own foremen.
Skilled Workers Get Laborer's Pay
Eleven hundred men are working
at Arden, N. Y. Carpenters, me-
chanics and blacksmiths are using
their own tools and are doing skilled
work at laborer's pay, Six hundred
Of them are getting Coo an hour be-
cause they struck the first day on
the job but five hundred later arri-
walls get 56c an hour for the same
work. Men who get hurt on the job,
instead of getting medical attention
and Workmen's Compensation, are
fired at once.
Men sixty-fiye years old, though
weak and sickly, are chopping down
trees. Some, who have from five to
nine children, are taken off relief
and given jobs under the C.W.A. and
when they can't stand the pace and
get sick, they are summarily dis
| charged. Workers are travelling
from Coney Island, Yonkers and the
upper Bronx to get to WeehaWken by
$40 a. m. when the work train leaves;
many, therefore get up at $50 a. m.
and don't get home before nine at
night.
Negroes are about 80 per cent OF
the whole, which means that they
are being sent far away from their
homes to discourage them from APP
plying for work.
Fired for Lighting Fires
No clothing or boots has been
provided. If man lights a fire to
help warm his fellow workers, Lloyd,
the brutal foreman stamps it out and
fires the offender. Lloyd was so
rotten that three different gangs OF
men refused to work under him.
There is no sanitation whatsoever
for these LOO workers. The only
drinking water comes from a creek
which passes houses and dairy,
which means that the water is pol
luted.
Charles Seiderstricker, official in
the C.W.A, who spoke up on behalf
of the men, was, in his own words,
| "unceremoniously removed" and an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Bethlehem Steel Go.
WithdrawS Pay Cut
Postpone so Percent Cut
AS Shearmen Organize

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. l8.-Offi-
Gals Of the Bethlehem Steel Corpo-
ration were forced to back down and
postpone an intended wage cut of
nearly so per cent for shearmen in
the sheet mill at Sparrows Point this
week, after they learned that the
workers we're being organized by the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union to reject the cut.
Called together by the S.M.WI.U.,
the shearmen, who are unorganized,
unanimously voted to reject the cut,
which would result In bringing the
scale Of wages down from 10 cents
per thousand to IL cents and 8 cents,
Working two days a week and SPEND
ing carfare amounting to 80 cents
daily, the steel workers would have
found less in their pay envelopes than
the sum allowed unemployed workers
by the county relief board.
The shearmen decided TO elect a
committee of three to present their
decision TO the company. It was also
decided to call special meeting for
Sunday. Jan. %, to which all openers
and Shearmen'S helpers, who are all
Negro workers, are being invited.
Although none of the shearrnen are
members of the S.MWI.U., when
they saw the efforts of the union to
organize them, they instructed their
committee to report to the union and
get further advice.
The action of the S.M.WI.U. won
a partial victory for the workers when
the superintendent, later, announced
postponement Of the cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MEMORIAL

Rank and File Committees in each
local union to control the giving out
OF all @. W. A. Jobs TO organized
workers.
AL union officials participating in
the taking of money from the unem-
ployed O.W.A. workers should be i'm
medaitely removed from office.
A. 2. OF L. Workers. Demand In
your local unions-No assessments or
back dues to be paid by an UNI
employed member of the A. F.. of L.
on C.W.A. Jobs. All unemployed shall
be placed in good standing immedi-
ately without the payment of any
back dues. Organize the rank and
file opposition. Defeat the proposals
OF Hearst-Copeland for statae con-
troled fascized unions. Fight for
rank and file control Of the local
unions.
Note-A second article, on graft
OF A. F. Of L. officials on C.W.A,
work will appear tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19

The conference clearly exposed our
failure TO build strong Party Units
in the mills during the periods OF
mass struggle. This in the main is
responsible for the weakness of the
N. T. w. U, especially indicated by
the big turnover in membership. The
conference demanded that the Party
leadership In the center, district and
section assume more responsibility
for the development of struggle and
organization in the textile industry
in the light Of the Open Letter. In
connection with this, the Party must
develop regular agitation among the
textile workers in the name of the
Party. The Party must organize sep
arate meetings, statements and mill
papers in the name of the Party.
A systematic mass distribution Of
the Daily Worker must be organized
among the textile workers, especially
during strike struggles.
Activity Inside Mills
The central organizational task Is
the initiation of the most stubborn
fight for the fullest development Of
our activity inside the mills. Success
will depend on our activization and
development Of the workers to Until
ate and build organization under our
leadership. The textile workers are
in movement everywhere. They are
looking to our Party for leadership.
We must go to these textile workers
with full confidence In their readi-
ness to accept our line and to fight
and build a mass class struggle union
and q mass Communist Party.
The resolution adopted at this
Party Textile Conference viii be
printed in the Saturday issue (Jan.
2o) Of the Daily Worker. It must
be carefully studied by our various
Party organizations District and
Section Committees and units) and
IL must be used as q guide in our
everyday work ssnong tha masses Of
! kexta4s pse-A--@'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Chicago Committee
Calls Meet Against
War, Fascist Terror
Group Endorses Work
of U. S. League Against
War and Fascism

CHICAGO, Jan. ia United
Front Call for a Conference against
War and Fascism was issued here
today to all organizations, trade
unions, clubs, churches, pacifist or
CARNATIONS, etc, willing to unite in
resistance to the growing drive for
war reflected in the monster war pre-
parations and increasingly bitter
trade and currency wars by the i'm
perialist powers.
The Conference will be held Feb
10 and II, at the Abraham Lincoln
Center, 700 lakewood Boulevard, I'M
der the auspices Of the Chicago Com
mittee of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
The call for the conference is
signed, in their individual capacities
by DR.. Arthur G. Falls, Chairman
International Commission, Chicago
Urban League; Miss Julia I. Eel
senthal, president, Chicago Confer
ence of Jewish Women's organiza-
tons; Morris Pine, Chairman, Chi
cago Youth Conference Against War
and Fascism; Prof. Robert Morris
Loyett, chairman, League for Indus
trial Democracy; Mrs. Lola Nave
rick Lloyd, National Board member
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom; Thomas M
McKenna, Executive Secretary, Chi
cago Civil Liberties Committee; Dean
Curtis w. Reese, chairman, Chicago
branch, League for Industrial Demo-
cracy, Rev. w. B. Waltmire, execu-
tive secretary, Socialist Minister, Eel
lowship; and John Werlik, Local g.
Metal Polishers Union Of the A. F.
Of l..
All the signers pledged themselves
to work in their organizations to OBJ
tain support for the Conference and
to establish a broad and effective
base for the Chicago branch of the
American League Against War and
FaScisna.
Organizations are entitled to rep
reSentation on the basis of one del
egate for each so members or frac-
ton thereof for city-wide organiza-
lions, or one delegate and one al
ternate for each Chicago branch or
local Of city, state or national or
ganization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Boston StevedOreS
Garry on Meal Time
Strike for z Months
Defeat LILA. Officials
Move to Scab and Break
Their Action
BULLETIN

DOGL14AAN
BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 18.-ODe
hOur after a leaflet was distributed
on the docks exposing Ryan, head
Of the international LOngshOre-
mems Association, and his attempt
ed selI-Out Of the meaI-bour strike,
police visited the hall Of the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union and
beat up the port delegate who re-
fused to inform them Of the secre-
tary's residence or whereabouts.
The police visited the headquar-
tiers twice later. Ryan has post
poned a meeting Of the longshore-
men until Sunday fearing the ef-
feet Of the ieafIet would defeat the
selI-out.
BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 1S.--Long-
saoremen of Boston, organized In the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation, are today rallying their forces
to prevent a sellout Of their meal
hour strike, by Ryan, their president
These longshoremen have been
striking on the Job for the past two
months, refusing to work the meal
hour until they are paid the old
double time rate which was taken
away from them through the trea-
cherry of Ryan. AS q result Of their
action, many passenger ships in order
TO maintain their schedule have been
pulling out with as much as third OF
the cargo still on the dock. The ship
owners have tried all kinds of tactics
to break the ranks Of the longshore-
men, without success. The press has
launched the most vicious attack upon
the strike. Attempts have been made
to break their ranks by Offering in
dividual gangs the double time rate
to work certain particular ships,
These attempts have failed, largely
because Of the strong opposition
movement in Local 300, which is
leading the revolt against Ryan and
his officials. Local 300 has gone so
far as TO GUST entire leadt rship, pres
ideIlt. executive conlnettee. and ALL
The slaipowners, now desperate, are
playing their last card. They have
called in their faithful servant Ryan,
who furnished scabs to break the
lougshcre strike in 1890. This shiny
tool OF the shipowners, who was
warned BY the iongshorenen to stay
the hell out Of Boston. now dares
to come TO town and try to break
their spirit, Already the press re-
ports that he and the local officials
have negotiated a satisfactory agree
nent with the shipoWners.
The pressure Of the rank and file
has forced the officials to call a meet
ing ei Iii ghree locals at Fanua1 Hall
tonight. The longshoremen, who are
rapidly losing faith in their local
cfleials, are turning more than ever
10 the Marine Workers Industrial
Union for guidance. A leafiet issued
by the NJ. w. I. u, warning them
against a sellout, received a tremen-
oous response on the docks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Communist Party Textile Conference Plans York In Key Ceners
cozcEnrnAN

through an1algamation alone, but the
development Of our day to day work
in the shops, and of struggle around
immediate demands in the shop.
In fact, the immediate steps TO-
wards the establishment OF such a
mass industrial silk union are the
building of the broadeSt united front
mill committees in the mills and then
uniting them on district scale, The
conference stressed the fact that ID
is necessary to reject the theory that
such a mass union can be built thru
the q. T. w.
Role Of N. T. w.
On the other hand, although the
NEW. in its program and policy
represents the interests of the textile
workers, it has not yet been able to
become the mass union of silk work.
ers. Therefore, it would be a mis-
take to make pre-condition for the
formation OF one union, that all silk
workers join the National Textile
Workers Union.
The N. T.W. must build and
SVl C1lEtllSu lJS bdSS dIIlullS Clle ullOI-
ganized, at the same time it must
develop the united front, and take
the lead in the fight for one indus
trial silk union in the industry. The
building up and strengthening of the
National Textile Workers Union is
the best guarantee for the successful
organization of q mass silk union.
Opposition Groups
The conference strongly emphasized
the necessity of building opposition
groups within the A. F. of L. silk
locals as major task In preparing
the ground for the mass industrial
union.
There was good report on the
work carried on by the opposition
workers union CA. r. of ID In Phila-
delphia. The comrades reported the
growing influence of the rank and
file opposition, and the preparation
for the ousting of the Socialist Party
leadership in the hosiery union.
The conference severely criticized
toe nesases OF work tn tho A. p. Of l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
ny ANN BURLAK
tBecretray, N. 7. W. VI

On January It'll, the Central Com
nittee Of the Communist Party
brought together, for the first time,
the Party forces In the textile dis
trictS, including the Textile Union
organizers, A. F. of L. opposition
leaders, Party District organizers and
active Party members from the tex-
tile mills. This conference was held
Tor the purpose OF reviewing the
work of the Communists In this i'm
portant industry, and of making
plans for the development OF a real
mass movement around our program.
Leading members of the Central
Committee participated In the dis
cussion and In helping 10 formulate
the tasks OF the Communists in the
textile industry. The following I'M
portant textile eenters were repre-
scented: Lawrence. Mass; Providence,
r. T.; New York; Paterson, passaic,
n. j.: Easton, Allentown, Wilkes
Barre and Philadelphia, Pa, and
North Carolina.
United Front
The Central issue discussed was the
application of the united front policy
as a method for winning over the
broad nGssses Of textile workers to
our struggle program. The conference
noted the great desire for unity among
the textile workers, especially as ex-
emplified by the splendid fourteen
week national silk strike.
Because there are numerous unions
in the silk industry IN. T. w. u,
U.T,W, Independently the Confer
ence set itself as a central task the
bringing together Of the members of
the various unions and the unor-
ganised into one class struggle or
ganization In the industry. The ma
tional silk strike and the united
front policies proposed by the N. IT.
W. U. during the course OF this strike
have already laid a basis for such
a union. However, the question of
building such mass industrial silk
'snion cannot b. accomplished aseFaaT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Upsurge of Rank, File
in Detroit Shows
Growing Opposition

more suffering on the part Of al
rank and file and the entire working
class in general.
Most every one Of our members
when discussing the question Of lead
ership, reply that ~They sell us out
every chance they get" and that
''They 20 ne tools Of the bosses
These answers pretty generally,
think, express the sentiment Of most
rank and file members.
Green says he is against persecu-
ton and Fascisnl. What is his latest
outburst but a call for FasciSm and
persecution against a militant union
and a great section Of the working
class. What a coWardly way to fight
PaScisTn. Contrast this with the
heroism of George Danitroff in the
interest Of the working class against
Fascisln. What figure In drama
could rival the matches leader OF
the working class. Facing the most
fiendish enemies of the working class
he triumphantly emerged the victor
and restored the confidence and ad-
miration of the great mass Of work
ers in the leadership Of the Party he
so ably and heroically defended.
What have the Greens, Matthew
VOLS, Martells done for uS2 am
not q member of the Communist
Party or any branch affiliated with
it, but how can any worker with
( sense Of justice surging in his breast
fail to sympathize and lend help
ing hand TO your organization that
fights so valiantly for all workers, as
exemplified by the Scottsboro Case
in the face Of the open betrayal OF
our leadership
My local has about 400 members
Most Of us have been unemployed for
over three years, without any pros
pect Of ever getting work again.
Some Of our members are on the well
fare, most Of us can't get any relief
at all. But what do our leaders care
about that? The President of the
Detroit Federation Of Labor, Frank
Martel, drives q LaSalle automobile,
has nice home and INDUCES in ex-
penSiye parties, while the rank and
file rack their heads how they are
going to continue to live. The n.
r. A. and the part played by the A.
F.. of L. officials in the New Deal has
disillusioned many Of us to the ex
tent Of seeing the utmost necessity
for doing away with the capitalist
system, based on the scandalous and
inhuman exploitation Of the workers
and poor farmers, and establishing in
its place a society that will start
forging ploughs out Of swords and
produce commodities for the use Of
all instead Of few parasites.
AN A. F. OF L. MEMBER