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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Still Think Roosevelt
Will Fulfill His
Promises
BY BILL GEBERT

Democratic President Wilson was
elected in 1916 on pacifist plat
form, under the slogan He kept
us out of the war" And in April.
1877, President Wilson, serving the
best interests of Wall Street Amer
lean imperialism, declared war on
Germany.
The Roosevelt New Deal admin
istration has just been victorious in
the November 9Th elections. Just
as in 1915 the workers and the toll
ing masses thought that Wilson
really was against war and voted
for Wilson, now they think that
Roosevelt really wants a new deal
for the masses, that he really will
chase the money swindlers out of
the temple" But as Wilson, like
wise Roosevelt has no such inten-
tons. AS the pacifist slogans in
1915 were necessary to be used by
Wilson for the best interests of
Wall Street-to diSarm masses, to
place them in false security-the
New Deal slogans of Roosevelt are
needed today for the same purpose
for the best use in the service of
ruling class.
Strikes Against NR.A.
The toiling millions who voted for
the Roosevelt New Deal are not
critical enough as yet of the real
policy of Roosevelt. They voted for
Roosevelt, not because of his real
service to Wall Street, but because
of the fake promises that he made
to the toiling masses, which include
unemployment insurance, etc. We
must see in this vote for Roosevelt,
as the Daily Worker editorials have
correctly pointed out, contradic-
ton between the desire of the
masses and the real class character
Of the New Deal. The New Deal is
designed not for the purpose of
helping the masses, but the oppo-
Site-to attack the masses, to pro-
tect the interests of the robbers of
the masses, the capitalist class.
This has already been demon
strated in the course of the execu-
ton of the New Deal. We will
recollect the fact that in the early
stage of the N. R. A., the miners.
as well as other workers, went on
strike precisely for the execution of
the N. R. A. and especially para
graph Ia. But in the latter stage
they strucy precisely against the
decisions of the N. r. A., the out
standing case of which was the Ma
tional Textile Strike.
Masses Against Militarism
The masses who voted for Roose-
welt, Sinclair, Farmer-Labor Party
in Minneapolis or LaFollette in
Wisconsin, will fight, and more
than that. they will vote for the
working class candidates, for the
Communists. AS soon as it becomes
very clear to them that the Roose-
velt New Deal is an armed fist
against the workers.
Let us cite some examples of the
recent elections in Chicago. Fred
Britten, Republican Congressman
who has been Congressman for
number of years. and who is known
as q Big Navy" advocate of years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Mass Actions to Grow
AS Disillusion With
New Deal Spreads

cent elections, in many parts of the
country, the workers registered a
larger number of votes for the
Communist Party than in any
other period, in addition to the
mass support for the New Deal
which carries all kinds of promises
for the masses. AS the Daily
Worker correctly points out in its
editorials, that the masses brush
aside the reactionary American Lib
erty League leaders. The masses
are drifting to the left.
United Front
The task confronting our Party is
to become the organizer of these
masses and in all the struggles of
the masses to bring the class con-
tent. to raise the struggle to higher
planes, to strengthen the weak
nesses of the American proletariat,
its class consciousness. The Amer
lean working class, unfortunately,
as yet did not divorce itself from
the bourgeois class politically. This
process, however, will now assume
faster tempo than ever. 1t is pre-
ciSely because of this that the tasks
confronting our Party are:
l. To develop the broadest united
front activities, involving the broad
est masses of workers in action for
the demands they are ready to fight
for, and, in the course of it, TO
clearly point out the perspective of
the American working class, for the
next period, popularizing the revo-
lutionary way out of it, Soviet
America.
2. This task can only be achieved
if the Party is built. Anybody who
underestimate today the building
of the Communist Party into a
mass Party of the American prole-
tariat, to bring into it active, mill
tant American workers. trade union
lists of the A. F. of L., workers from
the basic industries, from the big
shops, is preventing crystallization
consolidation and unification of the
American working class as a class.
The Central Committee very cor
rectly estimated the situation when
it raised before the whole Party,
and before every member of the
Party, the problem of building the
Party. Unfortunately, as yet this
is not the problem of the Party as
a whole and of every Party mem
Der. There is only small section
of the Party that realizes how seri-
GUS the situation is. how necessary
it is to build the Party to that we
can take full advantage of the
present very favorable conditions.
Side by side with this the ques-
ton of political education of the
masses, the deepening of the polit-
ical understanding, the populariza-
ton of propagandistic literature is
the question of the hour. The
masses really want to know the way
out. No more can we answer these
questions only by calling upon the
workers to organize and fight. 1t
is necessary to point the way and
understand that without the strug-
gle for the bottle of milk for starv-
ing children there car9be no strug-
gle for the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat.' Brow r.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
SyndicaIism
Trial Delayed
For IL inv st
Prosecution Hard Up for
Evidence, Asks Delay
to Fabricate Some

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Nov. 10
Trial of the IS workers leaders in
dicted here on charges of criminal
syndicalism, has been postponed to
Nov 26 on request of the prosecu-
ton.
Neil McAllister, district attorney
of this county, who based his cam
paign for reelection heavily on his
persecution of militant workers, and
on his pushing of the criminal syn
dicalism cases, was voted out of of
flee.
McAllister has now announced
that he is not quite ready with his
evidence, which indicates diff
culties in its manufacture.
The International Labor Defense
is conducting the defense of the 18
workers, six Of whom will defend
themselves in court with an I. L. D.
lawyer acting with them only in an
advisory capacity, to protest their
technical legal rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19

They Just indicate the growth of
the army of the unemployed. In
reality, the army of the unem-
ployed in the country today is the
largest in the history of the United
States. 1t already reaches up to
$4,000 900.
Who are these unemployed? The
Illinois Emergency Relief Commits
sion, in one of it's reports, states:
"At the present time there are APP
proXimately 100000 employable I'M
employed in Illinois, of whom not
more than 100000 are receiving re-
lief" Naturally, the figure here,
too, is grossly underestimate The
army of unemployed in Illinois has
reached 100000. But what is very
important is that they admit that
there are nearly 100000 unem-
ployed workers who want jobs, and
that out of that tremendous army
of the unemployed only small
portion of them are receiving any
kind of relief, and that miserable
relief that has been received up till
now has been slashed below the
starvation level. Just recently, in
the State of Illinois, relief has been
cut from 10 per cent to IS per cent.
Payrolls Drop
How about the employed?
William L. Austin, of the Bureau
Of Census of the United States De-
partment of Commerce, reports that
in the City of Chicago the payroll
of the workers has decreased from
1857 DOT ,299 in the year 1881 to
1888 ,005 $50 in 1888, which means
from 1881 to 1888 the total wage cut
for workers in Chicago amounted to
$115, 100000. And the number of
workers at the same time has been
reduced from 282,51S to 247,672.
These are the official figures which
really throw light to what extent
the working class is being attacked
by the New Deal
To all this, one must always add
the increased cost of living which
on the average has increased above
30 per cent. Add this to the total
wages received in the year 1888 and
all indications are that the wages
of 1884 are even below 1888, and
you have a picture of the benefits"
of the New Deal for the working
class.
New Offensive
The Democrats are jubilant with
the results of the Nov. 9Th elections.
A special dispatch from Washing
ton, D. c., printed in the Chicago
papers, summarizing the optimism
of the New Deal rulers in Washing
ton, states Now we can really go
places" This simply means that
the Roosevelt New Deal prepares to
go places"-prepares for further
attacks upon the toiling masses.
workers. farmers, Negro people and
the lower middle class, which is
part and parcel of the fascist meth
DDS, sharpening of the attack upon
the workers and preparations for
war. Yes, the Democrats are speak
ing of going places. The Demo-
Gratis are using both ends of the
stick-terror and social demagogy.
Growing Disillusion
But the workers are also learning
in this period and learning fast.
They will also begin to learn much
faster as they begin to experience
more and more the benefits of
the New Deal. Already in the re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Haywood Broun Column
Is Censored BY Howard
Newspaper Syndicate

ut Seems To Me- syndicated
column of Haywood Broun, Presi-
dent of the American Newspaper
Guild, has not appeared for two
days in the columns of the World,
Telegram for the first time since.
Broun joined the staff of the
Scripps- Howard paper. No explana-
ton was printed in any of yester-
days editions of the paper.
1t was learned that Brouns
column was censored by the Scripps-
Howard Syndicate. which disap-
proved of is contents Broun was
in conference with Roy Howard.
owner of the newspaper chain, all
day Friday. At late hour Friday
night. the results of the discussions
had not yet been announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Elections Show the Masses Demand Relief

standing, whose motto has beer
America First" has been over.
whelmingly defeated by his New
Deal Democratic opponent. Does
that mean that the masses whc
voted for the New Deal favor a bis
navy? If they did, they woulc
have voted for Britten. But they
were against it. But Secretary O.
the Navy Claude A. Swanson de-
clares: THE overwhelming victory
of the Democratic Party shows the
country has full confidence ir
President Roosevelt and his policies
including that of building up the
American Navy"
And Immediately after the cleo.
tons, we read in the Chicago
Tribune the following dispatch:
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.,, Nov. IA
Plans for installation of the finest
government munitions research
laboratory in the world at the
Rock Island arsenal, within the
next two months, were announced
today by Lieut.. Col. Alexander G.
Gillespie, commandant."
And in a dispatch from Wash
ington, we read the following:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-The
Roosevelt administration today
replied to Japan's recalcitrant at
titude on naval limitations by
tentatively approving a 1935-1936
naval building program for
twenty-four new fighting ships, to
cost more than $12O,0O0,O0O."
The masses voted against a Big
Navy, voted for the New Deal, and
the New Deal does precisely what
the masses are opposed to. It builds
a big navy and prepares for another
mass slaughter of the toiling popu-
lation.
Unemployment Insurance
The jobless workers voted for the
New Deal because they felt that
Roosevelt's New Deal will bring
them unemployment insurance, re-
lief and jobs. But what are the
facts? just the other day the New
Deal President declared that there
will be some sort of unemployment
insurance, which really will not be
unemployment insurance, but most
important, that the fake scheme OF
unemployment insurance has the
objective of defeating the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill, H. r. 1898. Even that fake
unemployment insurance of Mr.
Roosevelt must be financed by
contributions not taxes" TIL e
money bags are not to be touched.
This is the motto of President
Roosevelt.
And how about the jobs?? Help
to small home owners, about which
we heard so much, is already taboo.
And Miss Perkins, on Nov. IS, de-
clared: ut is childish to believe we
will always have jobs for every
body"
So there is no unemployment in
surance, there are no jobs. What
the New Deal really admits is only
one thing, that the army of unem-
ployed will be permanently with us.
A nice perspective for everybody!
But let us examine the situation a
little further.
JObless Increase
According to the statistics of the
A. F. of L., the army of the unem-
ployed grows. From 10,10S .00t on
Oct. l, 1888. to 10.951.00O on oct. |,
1924 These finiires GRO not cnrrnct
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19

Opposition groups within the
A. F. Of L. or independent unions
can win support for the Daily
Worker IL the appeal is properly
raised. Recently, at an affair of
the newly organized Bronx, N. Y
Section Of the Opposition Group
OF Local 20, International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, the
emergency call of the Daily
Worker was read, and $3.50 COL
lected. The group pledged further
support at future affairs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Cleveland Workers
Plan Dinner Saturday

CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 1S.-Sec-
ton Eleven of the Communist
Party will hold a banquet and
dance in honor of A. Murphy, Sec
ton organizer, I. Q. Ford, Commu--
mist candidate for governor in the
recent elections, and John Williams
son, organizer fer the Cleveland
district on Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
WHAT'S ON

Chicago, III.
First Annual Dance given by Painters
Br. SIS Two. Saturday. Dec, 8 at
Mirror Hall, 1856 NJ Western Ave
Adm. use in adv, s5e at door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
= AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
PhiladeIphia, Pa.

Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed, Nov.
% at State Dance Hail., goth and
Market SITS. Good Dance Orchestra.
Come in costume. Prizes for best
costumes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Chicago, I'LL.

Chicago, I'LL.
by Unit soe, oil and si2
Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat
urday, Nov. "a. Workers Lyceum.
1888 Hirsch St. Auspices: Virgins
Br. Y.C.L. 9 and C.P. 512.
Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus
sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov.
"a at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and
Ogden AYES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19

According to the statistics of the
A. F. of L., the army of the unem-
ployed grows. From 10,10S .00t on
Oct. l, 1888, to 10.951.OoO on oct. /,
1884, These figures are not correct.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19

But the workers are also learning
in this period and learning fast.
They will also begin to learn much
faster as they begin to experience
more and more the benefits of
the New Deal. Already in the re-
Evening star., 1934-09-24
Chemical Prices
Move to Higher
Levels in Week
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. September 24.-Pre-
ponderence Of advances among changes
in prices of fine chemicals last week
moved the general level Of the markets
for heavy and fine chemicals upward,
the Oil. Paint and Drug Reporter
states in todays issue. Business
continued dull, but the interven-
ton Of President Roosevelt to bring
about resumption of work in the textile
industry gave the market better SEN
timent late in the week.
Higher prices were named on aloin.
benzoic acid, benzoate of soda, calcium
gluconate, menthol and castor pomace.
Local schedules on phosphates OF soda
we're readjusted and strengthened in
the New York and Philadelphia mar
ketS. Minor iodides and iodates of
soda and potash were cheaper Xylene
was in short supply. Quotations on
coaltar intermediates were extended
for the fourth quarter. A number Of
organic fertilizer materials were lower
priced.
The Reporters composite index num-
Der for prices of heavy and fine chemi-
Gals advanced from 1854 to 1855
compared with August /, 1914, as
1000. In comparison with average
prices in 1925 (as 1000, the Reporter S
index number is now 889, against 80 3
at this time last year.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
HIGHER LUMBER
PRICES EXPECTED
Housing Administrator Declares
Quotations at Relatively
Low Point.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Quoting the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tiSticS in support of his opinion, James
A. Moffett. Federal housing admins
traitor. declared in a letter to Wilson
Compton. head of the National Lum-
ber Manufacturers Association, that
present lumber price levels ARE rela-
lively low and may be expected to ad-
vance in the event of a healthy i'm
provement in demand"
He added that such an improvement
will occur as a result of home mod
erniZation and construction and that
reports Of loans by insured lending in
stitutions are showing daily improve
ment.
Citing the statistics to the effect
that saw mill wages averaged 35.7
cents per hour in 1925 and 43.5 cents
in June of this year. while wholesale
lumber prices are now at probably 80
per cent of 1925 levels, Moffett con-
tinued:
1T is obvious that the lumber in
duStry will not continue indefinitely
on market level 20 per cent below
1926. with wages remaining at 20 per
cent over those paid in that year Nor
does there appear to be any doubt
that the industry's assumption of fur
ther important responsibilities in con-
nection with conservation of the Ma
tion's forest resources has added to
its operating costs"
Evening star., 1934-09-24

of railway managements, but by that
of the Federal Government.
IF to this one and one-half bill
lions be added the hundreds of mil
lions of expenditures for grade cross
ing elimination and automatic train
control ordered by governmental au-
thority, it is evident that the net in
crease in railway funded debt in the
past Is years can be more than ac-
counted for by Government action
alone. In the face of this fact, it Ill
becomes Government officials to chide
the railways with the magnitude Of
their funded debt. This difficulty
which all but the weakest Of the rail-
ways find in paying interest on this
debt arises, not from mistakes which
management has made, but from gov
ernmental interference which has
made the debt as large as it is, and
from the Governments refusal thus
far to enable the railways to COM
pete for traffic under equal terms with
other agencies of transport"
Evening star., 1934-09-24
POULTRY PRICES
UNSETTLED HERE
Large Carry-0ver Faced,
With Demand Slow.
Eggs Are Steady.

Live poultry quotations were easy
and unsettled on the Washington pro-
duce market today. Considerable
stock was carried over from Saturday
and demand was slow and unsatis-
factory. Egg prices were unchanged.
The summary. with egg and live
poultry prices furnished by the De-
partment of Agriculture follows:
BUTTER-one- pound prints (92 scorel
IS; tub, ~; I-pound prints go score), %;
tub. 20, l-pound prints (ss scoreD. 20;
tub %.
MEATS-Beef. l2laal6; veal. 13a14;
lambs l6 pork lions, fresh, II, frozen, Il;
fresh hams, 20a2l; smoked hams. 22a24'
strip bacon. 25a27' lard. 13al4; COM
,EGGs-MaTket steady Prices unchang-
ed. Current receipts 24a26 hennery
whites 29a3l. Government graded and
dated white eggs: United States extras,
large. 34a37; United States extras, medi-
gsmS, "a United States standards, large;
Brown Tntad sata graded and dated
81; United States standards. large, 24Ia
LIVE POULTRY-Market easy and un-
settled Considerable stock carried over
from. Saturday. Demand slow and un-
some some fancy stocks brineinG up to is: Leg
chickens Plymouth Rocks. over three
POUNDS "oa@l under three pounds. la
80. mixed colors l5al7: Leghorns, I5a
i; Spring turkeys 10 pounds and over,
2oa?2; guiena fowl: ia pounds and over
eoal 90 pair.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
COTTON CUMMINGS
EXCEED YEAR AGO
Total 3,130,797 Running Bales
Compared With 3,102,l2l
in September, 1888.

BY the Associated Press.
Cotton of this years crop ginned
prior to September l6 was reported
by the Census Bureau today to have
totaled $780, 1877 running bales, count
ing 48,437, round bales as half bales
and including 1912 bales of Amer
ican-E Egyptian.
To that date a year ago ginnings
totaled 3,l02.l2l running bales, in
cluding 84,978 round bales and 61
bales of Americana Egyptian. while
two years ago ginnings to September
Is totaled 2,645,574 running bales, in
Guiding 52,254 round bales and 325
bales # American-Egyptian.
Ginnings to September Is by States
with totals for a year ago in paren-
thesis. follow:
Alabama POL 93T. t265 ,56iH. Arizona
IA 952. c3,0lOu; Arkansas, "63 .414. t3;
n22) California. 23.1l4. (43sI; Florida
II 905. Q5I74l; Georgia. 30I $50. GA
g42l: louisiana 224 425. Q76.46D;
Mississippi 395 lO4 (253s4a); Missouri
40242. q 3l6I: New Mexico. lO.O76
go; North Carolina. . 49,. t6s 633D
Oklahoma. Sc. S2.1. t53.155b: South Caro-
lima, 7O.173, Q70,610; Tennessee, a.
903. (ss46l: Texas 1.399.54S G.573,-
05I; all other States. 1.l2O. (629.
Evening star., 1934-09-24
u. s. GETS BLAME
FOR RAIL DEBTS
Government Control in War
Brought Huge Increase,
Magazine Holds.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 24-Re-
ferring in an editorial in its current
issue to the charge often made re-
Gently that the railways, during the
recent period of prosperity, excessively
increased their fixed charges to ex-
pand their plants too much, the Rail-
way Age presents statistics that will
be surprising to most persons show
ing that since the war the total in
crease in their funded debt has been
actually less than the investment in
their properties that the Government
itself has made or forced to be made.
THAT the railways spent large sums
for the improvement of their plant
eight and one-fourth billions from
1916 to 1932-prior to the depression
is well known" says the Railway Age
so also is the fact that, in normal
times, railway financing has always
occupied an important part of the
private capital market. What, ap-
pdlCllIly, Is llOt dOtQudIely IedIlZeQ Is
that most Of these operations repre-
sent refinancing of maturing issues,
and that new financing of capital ex-
penditures has, in the period since
Federal control, been relatively very
slight. While the capital investment
of the railways was increasing eight
and one-fourth billions, railway fund
ed debt increased less than two bill
lions.
The increase in funded debt itself
is largely the responsibility, not of
railway arrangements, but of the Gov
ernment. During Federal control Of
the railways, the Government invested
1857 million dollars on capital ac-
count, for which the railroads we're
required to issue securities or other
wise reimburse the Government upon
the return to private operation. More
over. the railways were in far from
satisfactory condition when they were
turned back to their owners at the
end of Federal control, and consider
able capital expenditure was necessary
to rehabilitate the plant. 1t is evil
dent that not less than one and one
half billion dollars, sum equal to
three-fourths of the net increase in
funded debt which occurred on the
railways from 1916 TO 1882, was eX-
pended not by the direction or desire