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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12
PLANNERS|NDORSE
PROJECT
Revision in EIectrifying
Plans Is Approved by
Commission.

Approval Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads revised plan for identification
Of it's line in the District was given
today by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission following
an inspection tour yesterday of typical
overhead structures set up along the
! embankment across Potomac Park
! and at Sixth street southwest.
The District Commissioners will be
asked to approve the program. plan
ming officials said and then the car
rier will have the right of way to pro-
coed with electrification here. The
railroad hopes to start running cleo
trified trains between Washington and
New York on January /.
In the approved plans the poles
originally set at SO feet high were
fixed at 80 feet, in the Potomac Park
area. The pole has an ornamental
base and ornamental cap and is of
tapering construction. At yesterdays
inspection, the railroad had poles
painted battleship gray and dull
aluminium.
Color Left to Railroad.
The commission decided to leave to
the railroad its own choice of these
colors. At Sixth street southwest,
near the railroad tunnel, the commits
sion approved poles 38 feet high.
On the Virginia side of the Potomac
River, near the washington Hoover
Airport, where the lines are to be
electrified leading to Potomac Yards,
the commission decided this Is prob
lem for the aeronautics branch of the
Department of Commerce The COM
mission is anxious that the electric
superstructure over the railroad will
not Interfere with the taking of and
landing of planes at the airport.
For the most part the transmission
lines in the District will be under
ground. The commission favored the
granting of temporary permit for
five years to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road by the National Park Service for
overhead transmission lines through
Anacostia Park, over the Anacostia
River.
Final approval also was given by the
commission to revised lighting plans
for the Mall. These we're presented by
John Nolen jr. the commissions di-
restor of planning.
Highway Plans Endorsed.
Plans of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion for development of park high
way through unit No. 2 of Rock Greek
Park-from the East-West Highway
to Connecticut avenue in Chevy Chase,
Md.-also received commission in
dorsement. subject to a check by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12

the McNary- Haugen bill the deeper
my admiration becomes. A piece Of
social legislation, it surpasses any
thing an American Congress ever
framed.
1.-THE remaining troublesome con-
sideration Is its dependence on nou-
existent cooperative structure. Per-
haps, however, ways around this diff
ficulty may be found" ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12
3O-CENT WHEAT
TAX TO CONTINUE
Processing Levy Will Not
Be Reduced Despite In.
creased Price.

copyright. 1894. by the Associated PressJ
American wheat will continue to
bear a processing tax of 80 cents
bushel when the coming marketing
year starts July / and probably for a
considerable time thereafter.
Despite wheat's recent climb to 81
q bushel Farm Administration othclals
will not tamper with the present rate.
Considerable pressure has been
brought to bear in recent weeks for
reduction of the tax when drought
damage, which clipped the prospective
crop to about soc ,000,0 900 bushels, sent
prices climbing.
Argument of Proponents.
Proponents CT the cut pointed out
that the difference between the mar
ket price and the pre-war parity, the
gan which the administration
sought to bridge in its program of
making benefit payments to farmers,
had been drasticallv narrowed.
They argued. then, that the admin
istration did not need the 30 cents
tax for benefit payments.
In reply administration ofhcials
maintained that wheat benefit pay
ments might be increased during the
coming marketing year, and at any
rate. would not be reduced from their
present level of 90 cents bushel on
that portion of farmers wheat
which goes into domestic consumption.
Furthermore, they added, the tax
rate was not cut a year ago when
sneculative efforts doomed wheat
prices to about their present level.
Neither was it increased last Fall and
Winter when prices dropped to about
SO cents per buShel.
The probability of increased oeneflt
payments was strengthened by reports
of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies that increases in prices palo
to farmers for their goods had not
kept pace with increases in prices Oh
things farmers buy.
Wallace Holds Power.
It also was pointed out that the
agriculture adjustment act so READS
that it is not necessary for Secretary
Wallace to take any action before the
start of the next marketing year 10
continue the tax at its present rate.
The tax, the act says, shall be de-
termined by the Secretary OF Agrl-
culture as of the date the tax hst
takes effect, and the rate so deter
mined SHALL at such intervals as the
Secretary finds necessary to ettectuate
the declared policy, be adjusted by
him to conform to such requirements.
The processing tax shall terminate
at the end of the marketing year cur
rent at the time the Secretary pro-
claims that rental or benefit payments
are to be discontinued with respect to
such commodity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12
SPAIN STILL IMPOSING
STRICT VISA RULINGS
Americans Have Difficulty OBJ
tanning French Visas Despite
officials Promises.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, June 12.-Americans here
still are having difficulty, it was
learned yesterday, obtaining French
visas, despite the official assurance
given after the Smith College Incl
dent that certificates of good char
acter would not be required.
Among the recent complaints was
that of the wife of an American
newspaper man, who had lived In
France several years, but was required
to obtain q letter from the consul OF
her home territory before being given
q visa to return after visit to Spain.
In the case of several Smith COL
lege students recently the visas were
issued without the expense and trou-
BILE of obtaining the certificates after
the matter had been taken up by
the American consul.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12

bour, Borah, Couzens, Dickinson, Glib
son. Goldsborough, Hale, Hastings,
Hebert, McNary, Metcalf, Norris,
Steiwer, Townsend, Walcott and
White. Total, II.
Grand total against-5l.
Pairs on the bonus amendment
were announced as follows, with no
positions given-Keyes and Van Mugs,
Reed and Trammell, Vandenberg and
Pope, johnson and Carey, Fess and
Dieterich, and Kean and Tydings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Letters from Our Readers
THE SLEEPING GIANT LABOR
is WAKING
New Kensington. Pa.

Being an ardent admirer of both
you and your paper for quite while,
I have become very enthusiastic and
I write these few words on how I
interpret your paper and your party
the Communist Party.
If were a cartoonist I could do
it better and clearer but as I'm not,
I'll try my best with pen and ink.
I think of labor as being a Sleep
ing giant-unaware of his great
strength, tied to the earth by a
group of little men with apologies
to Swift for extracting this from
his book-rGulliver's Travels"). And
I think of the Communist Party
using the 'eDaily Worker" for a
spear prodding this sleeping giant to
awake and get his rights.
But maybe I'm getting to be pest
bothering you like this and more
than likely I'm wasting some of
your valuable time, so I'll close with
a toast and hope that the Commu-
mist Party goes over the top.-L.J.L.
Editor Note: - Fred Ellis, the
American cartoonist who is now
living and working in the Soviet
Union made an excellent drawing
of this and we published it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09

came acquainted with stockysrdS
worker who works in day depart
ment in a key plant, Armor's,
while I was selling Daily Workers.
He moved outside the territory of
Section to a place near the stock
yards. I visited his home paying
my own carfare Il am unemployed
and made arrangements for a meet
ing with him at his home with a
number of other workers in his de-
partment, under the personal guild
ance of one of the leading members
of Section 3.
I reported all this to my unit buro,
and asked for IA cents car fare,
which said it wasn't interested and
even criticized me for going outside
the section to work. I know if
didn't take care of this contact no
one else would. I am bringing an
A. F. of L. member into the Party.
I am trying to do the most i'm
portant work that the Party is talk
ing about. The leaders of the unit
are not doing this. On top Of this
they criticise me.
L. K, Chicago,
Unit Dol, Section 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
PARTY LIFE
Unit Leader Understands
ToskWith DaiIyWOrker
Chicago Worker Criticizes Unit BurO for Lack
of Interest Outside OpUn Territory

AS a member of the Communist
Party, at my unit meeting I Of
fered to sell Is copies of the special
A. F. of L. issue of the Daily Work
er, when a motion was made to
order so additional copies, for a unit
Of 10 members. We only get 80
D ally Workers every Saturday,
which is very poor for such a large
unit.
This special issue is to boost the
most important task of the Party,
the development of mass struggle
for unemployment insurance.
The unit organizer spoke against
ordering so extra copies. An amend
ment was made to order only 20
extra copies and the unit organizer
led a majority vote in this amend
ment.
During the discussion I stressed
the Importance of circulating the
Daily Worker among the A. F. of
L. workers and pointed out that a
big unit like ours should handle
more than so extra copies as that
is less than three copies to a mem
Der.
We haven't recruited a new mem
Der in our unit for several weeks
and the last one was recruited by
new Party member transferred
from another unit, who came in
through strike.
How can we build the Party and
the Daily Worker if the unit lead
ership does not show the way?
S. H.,
Unit 314, District 8.
The above facts are correct.-CF,
Sec. Org. Sec. g., Chicago, III.
Knowing that the district is con-
centrating on the stockyards, I be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
On venereal Disease

III fCnCACdl OloCdoC
B. c., st. Joseph, Mo.-The tone
of your letter shows that your APP
proach to the subject of venereal
disease is not in the right frame of
mind. You seem to be actuated by
mere curiosity in question which
should interest you vitality. How
ever, the figures that we are going
to print below might interest other
readers of the Daily Worker who
will appreciate the seriousness of
the venereal peril.
Gonorrhea is not merely lovers
catarrh!" The incidence of VEN
ereal disease is entirely out of pro-
portion to other infectious diseases.
Gonorrhea was known to the Chi
nese 5000 years ago. The Bible
describes the disease and provides
rules for the prevention of its
spread. Six hundred and seventy
nine thousand (679,000) new cases
Of gonorrhea are reported in the
United States every year. Over
eight per cent $50 are male ard
nearly three per cent CD are fe-
male.
In other words, nearly six SD
per cent of the population of the
United States are suffering from
gonorrhea alone. 1t should not be
forgotten that this represents only
about half of the number Of the
cases reported A large number of
cases are never reported, either by
the physician or by the health au-
thorities. The main reason for this
is that there are more cases treated
by pharmacists and friends" than
by physicians. Those who treat
themselves with dimes worth of
potash potassium permanganate)
in a gallon of rain water only apply
for treatment to the physician
when their condition becames seri-
GUS.
There are twice as many cases of
gonorrhea reported than there are
of diphtheria; there are four times
as many cases as of smallpox and
six times as many cases as of
typhoid. There are more cases of
gonorrhea reported than there are
of tuberculosis. A little over 10
per cent of all the totally blind in
New York City owe it to gonorrhea.
These are the figures for 1924 and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09

district should take immediate
steps to mobilize forces in the cam
paign. Only in this way can we
obtain Bolshevik victory in the
drive to gain new subscribers for
our Daily Worker, one of our most
powerful weapons in our struggles
against the capitalistic oppressors.
The Daily Worker appeals to
every class-consciouS worker, to
every Party member, to every
member of militant trade unions,
A.F.ofL., opposition gorups, of
mass organizations, especially of
the TWO, the LID, to help
put the drive over the top.
Every reader of the Daily" get
ting only one new subscriber will
assure victory in the drive. APP
proach your friends and fellow
workers, explain to them how the
Daily Worker fights for the work
ingclass, urge them to subscribe to
the Daily" Do this at once,
The table below shows the num-
Der of new subs obtained by each
district since the start of the drive
up to and including April 4th:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
STATEMENT OF THE STRIKERS
OF KARP BROS. FRUIT MARKET
2221-65th ST, BROOKLYN

Lately the socialist" press, the
Forward" and the New Leader, "
have been publishing articles about
an agreement that the officials Of
the Grocery, Dairy and Fruit Clerks
Union Of the A. F. of L. signed with
Mr.. Karp, who, so they claim,
opened a fruit market and took in
20 workers, all members of their
union, and that the Food Workers
Industrial Union put up a picket
line in front of that store.
Such lies could only be printed in
these socialist" papers.
We who worked for Karp Bros.
for many years had to work under
the most unbearable conditions. On
Thursdays and Saturdays we had
to come in at $50 in the morning
and had to work until 2 or 8 the
next morning.
The officials of Local 1888 of the
A. F. of L. union never came to
our support. We, the workers, then
got together and decided to Join
the Food Workers Industrial Union,
under whose leadership we walked
out on strike on March 20.
Then came the officials of Local
1913, Messrs. Sadofsky and Hoffman,
with an old injunction they had
against the F.WIU., and had us
all arrested and charged with VIC
lating Section 500.
But when even a capitalist judge
in the Coney Island court, had to
rule this injunction out, and dis
missed the charges against us, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Job Sharks Must
Be Eliminated
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The misery SUI
fered by the food workers in the
hotels where they slave IL to IA
hours day is only accented by the
insults and degradation which we
have to put up with at the en-
ployment agencies on Sixth Avenue.
According to law, they are only
supposed to charge fee of 10 per
cent Of the monthly wages. In many
cases, however, one job let's say,
500 a month, is sold or 5 times,
the same sign appearing again and
again on the board. Where there
is this 10 per cent, each worker
fired within week is given back
three-flfths of the fee, which is Sc.
The remaining 81 is pocketed by the
shark. This is done four times and
he has made SIC for the month, plus
$40 of some worker who is allowed
to keep the job more than one week,
in which case nothing is returned,
realizing thus a profit Of $26 on one
job. There are hundreds of such
cases.
These job sharks have spread
their tentac1es all over the state of
New York. 1t Is impossible to es-
cape them, and once on Sixth Ave,
the sharks take care to have you
return ever so many days, back
where you leave off, round and
round in a vicious circle from boss
to agency.
When Gov. Lehman called a
meeting in Bryant Hall just before
election time, he promised that if
elected steps would be taken to
change this situation. He has been
in office for two years, but the sit
uation is worse than ever. For in
stance, the Hippodrome agency has
printed contracts where they pre-
pare to extract from the worker a
fee of 10 per cent of his weekly
wages for 10 successive weeks; which
Is actually Is per cent of the
monthly wages.
Soon a petition will be issued by
the Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union demanding the abolition of
these shark agencies and the setting
up Of free employment agencies
where the workers will be in con-
troll, to be maintained by the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Wagner Bill Is Machinery to
Weaken Strike Effectiveness
Peace of Death Is Only Peace Proposed By
Measure, Dunno Tells Senate Committee

white workers, to keep them as a
permanent submerged, oppressed
nationality, thus maintaining a
continual division in the ranks Of
the working class.
We demand the abolition Of the
use Of injunctions against workers
and their organizations; the ceSsa-
ton of all prosecutions of unem-
ployed workers, of strikers, Of I'M
employed organizers and of union
organizers for labor activity. We
demand the cessation Of espionage
among foreign-born workers and
attempts to deport them for labor
activities. These are proposals that
fit into the needs Of the working
class in this, the fifth year of the
worst crisis in the history of cap
italiSm.
Monopoly capitalism has re-
ceived great favors and the best OF
service from its government. Con-
centration of capital with the &C
companying ruin Of farmers and
huge sections of the midle class and
the progressive impoverishment OF
the working class is the outstanding
feature of the New Deal. Never in
American history has this process
been so rapid. The main burden
falls upon the working class.
The peace that the Wagner Bill
and the official program of the A.
F. Of L. proposes is the Pax Ro-
mana-the peace of death-for the
American working class movement.
It is program Of preparation for
new drive against the working
class, preparation for imperialist
war, and another step towards fas-
ciSm. We are against it. We shall
do our best to expose it, to arouse
and organize American workers
against it.
The measures we propose are
those the working class needs. But
these measures in themselves Will
not solve the main problem facing
the working claSS-the question OF
power, the question of which class
is to run this country-a minority
Of multi-millionaires and billion
aires with their hangers-on holding
the natural resources and control
ling the government in the interest
of their small minority, or the
working class with its dependents,
the overwhelming majority of the
population Of this country, who Will
rule it in the interests of the work
ing class and its allies, the ex-
plotted farmers and oppressed
Negro masses.
THE END
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
CONTRIBUTES TO ORGANIZE
MASSES AGAINST N. RIA.
STARVATION
Albany, N. Y.

Dear Comrade:
Enclosed is $500. Two dollars
from Comrade Katchman and $500
from myself. Two dollars for the
new press, and $500 to have Com
rade Minors speech before Boss
johnson of the N. R. A. published in
pamphlet form for united front
propaganda to organize the masses
against N. R. AS hunger and star
walton campaign against the mid
die class, poor farmers and the
working class.
I also suggest that we change the
name of the Daily Worker" The
name 'eDaily Worker" would indi-
cate that we are working daily to
feed all the ruthless exploiters, muir
derers, and thieves, and all their
lickspittles in the country. It doesn't
sound revolutionary to me. I am
sure most of your readers and the
executive committee vii support my
suggestion. Let us call the DAILY
Worker" ''The United Front" which
sounds more revolutionary and more
appealing to human intelligence.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Exposes More RacketS
Of Steuben TaUernS

The writer doubts that there are
10 employees who have been with
Steuben's longer than six months,
as Steuben's policy is to fire their
help shortly after they are put on,
so that they can collect another fee
from another sucker.
The Cameo agency is operated by
Nat Stark, a brother of one of the
owners of Steuben's.
There are several other rackets
worked, including the charge of $40
for bonding some of the workers
before they start to work, and
charging so cents for meals of food
that can't be sold, and taking away
in addition % cents for the time
spent in eating.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Jail Is Limit
OF Southern
Hospitality
By a Worker Correspondent


MIAMI, Fla.-Last fall, another
comrade and I left Cleveland for
the South.
In Savannah, Ga, we applied to
the RIG. Office for work, but we
were told to go to the Transient
Bureau. When we got there it
started with a third degree ques-
tioning.
We were told to wait till 8 p. m.
for another interview. My partner
said, What if the second interview
is completed-what do we get out
of it?" We'll" said the r. F. C..
agent, I'VE will send you to the Sal
walton Army and there you wait till
we need you. Your board and lodg-
ing will be taken out of your pay"
well" said my partner, because
at the end Of the week the Saliva
ton Army would collect every cent
I earned for board and lodging and
I would get nothing" So we left-it
was not worth the trouble. It's a
great racket for the Sallies.
We arrived in Miami, Fla, Nov.
18. One day, on Second Ave-, N.
W, two policemen in a roadster
stopped me. They asked my name,
where from and what I was doing.
replied that I was on my way
looking for work. Get in this road
ster. We will have to take you to
police headquarters" saw that
I was under arrest for a serious
crime-looking for work that ]
could not find.
In the Jail new prisoners were
brought in right along, like myself
arrested for walking the streets OF
Miami with workers appearance.
Next day, the prisoners were
brouht before the Chief of Detec-
tives to be Investigated. If penni-
less, you are kept in Jail till the
next truckload of unfortunate work.
ers is dumped at the couny line.
And now few words about the
big wages paid in Florida under the
N.R.A. codes. Restaurants: $4-S5
week, no room. Farm work
Negro, only SIPS to $3.50 per day,
no room, no board, 10 to IL hours
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
BY WILLIAM F. DUNE
article VIII.

Important as these sections of
the Bill are, they are lesser signifi-
canoe when compared with the
main purpose Of the bill. Running
through the whole language Of the
bill is the intention to delay, and
the provisions for delaying, deci-
sive action by workers against en-
plOyers on questions Of wages,
hours and working conditions. The
more important the employer, the
more decisive the industry, the
more workers it employs, the more
would the National Labor Board
under the provisions of this bill
vancouver to delay action by
workers until the favorable mo-
ment had passed.
The American working class does
not need and does not want any
such legislation as this. There is
too much Of it now.
We do not wish to offer amend
ments to this bill. We are against
it the same as we were against
Clause Ia and for practically the
same reasons-becauSe it is intended
to be used as another Will-o'-the-
wisp to dance before the eyes of
the working class while the en-
ployers and official labor leaders in
the N. r. A. machinery, thinking of
national recovery" in terms of AL
the people" which means the cap
italist class, trick them further into
the swamp of starvation wages and
permanent mass unemployment.
We propose a flat IS per cent
increase in wages for all the en-
ployed workers in the United States
and reduction of hours, immediate
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployrnent Insurance Bill, guar
anteeing to all unemployed work.
ers at least a standard of living OF
minimum decency-al war funds
to be turned over for this purpose
main finance to come from taxa
ton in upper brackets.
We demand the cessation of the
use Of private police and gangsters,
of labor spies paid by employers
and employers organizations. We
demand the cessation of the use OF
police, state troopers and the Ma
tional Guard against striking work
ers. We demand the cessation OF
the organized lynch and murder
terror used against the Negro
masses Of the South, to prevent
their organization, their obtaining
political rights and equality with