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The Washington times., 1934-12-08
World Of Music
Capital Music Season
SIackens as Holiday
Season Approaches
MUSICAL EVENTS OF WEEK

Sunday
Rachmaninoff recital. Con-
stitution Hall, 4 p. m.
Christmas music program.
Y. w. C. A., S p. m.
Chanukah concert. Jewish
Community Center, 8 p. m.
Wednesday
Chapel Choir. A capella
music. Grace Lutheran Church,
8:15 p. m.
Saturday
Lisa Gardner Dancers. Cen.
tral High School, 8 p. m.
With the approach of the holi.
day season, the first halt of the
music season is drawing rapidly to
a close, and there will be little
activity until after the first Of the
year.
Tomorrow Rachmaninoff will
appear in a piano recital at Con
Stitution Hall, the last artist to
appear here this year.
The following Sunday the Ma.
tional Symphony Orchestra will
present it's final concert Of the
year, truly splendid program OF
Christmas music of many lands
having been arranged in honor OF
the season.
The amateur groups in the Capi.
tai are busy, however, the various
choral groups being in rehearsal
for Christmas concerts. It has not
yet been decided just which of the
many splendid organizations will
be called upon to go to the White
House Christmas Eve for the an.
nual carol singing, but several
groups are ready if called upon.
An interesting event of this week
will be the appearance here of the
famous Chapel Choir of Capital
University, Columbus, Ohio.
Organized seven years ago, this
organization has become one Of
the most noteworthy a capela or.
ganizations in the country.
They will be heard next WedneS.
day night at Grace Lutheran
Church, Sixteenth and Varnum
Streets N. w. The program in.
cludes sacred works of Bach, Liszt
and MendelSSohn.
The appearance here tomorrow
of Sergei Rachmaninoff is wei.
coined by those who heard him in
recital with the Philadelphia Sym.
phony Orchestra earlier in the
season.
Then he played his new con.
certo with the orchestra. But to-
morrow he will give a full length
recital, and, to the joy of musi
clans, will play seven of Chopin's
best-known compositions. In ad
dition he will give Tausig's bril-.
liant arrangement of Won Weber'S
Invitation to the Dance
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Slight Gains Made,
Saws William Green

Indications are that unemploy-
ment is being slightly reduced,
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
said today.
Mr.. Green disagreed sharply
with National Industrial Confer.
ence Board report in New York
giving the unemployed figure at
o,604, 900 in October.
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For Safe Riding

To the Editor of The Times:
Are we progressing or is 1884
merely completing a cycle which
will bring us back the speed
Of the horse and buggy?
It wasn't so long ago that
the horseless carriage began to
be thought of as being too
speedy. Then came the air.
plane, which caused Joe Miller
to say II like the terra firma
and the more firmer, the less
terror"
Now the street car which
many have been saying is too
slow and should be replaced
by buses, is blamed for several
traffic accidents, due to its
speeding.
1t may soon be a case Of
using airplanes, not for their
great speed, but because it's
safer up there where there are
no street cars.
SAFETY FIRST.
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Letters to the Editor

Editor should erceed 200 DordS They must
be stoned address. These DH
be held confidential publication the rer
nUted interest,"
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correct time Of day or night tele.
phone District 1000, the office of
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For the correct time telephone
the office Of THE WASHINGTON
TIMES, District 1000, at any
hour of the "a.
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A Real Menace
To the Editor of The Times:
Now that the traffic situation
has become so bad that 1t bids
fair to exceed 1882 (the record
year, in the number Of deaths,
I think it's about time the Off.
cials stop trying to find excuses
and start applying a few RENE
dial measures.
Instead of sending a young
army securing for stationary
automobiles to which they can
attach a parking ticket, they
might better concentrate On
reckless drivers.
In my humble opinion, reck-
lesSness doesn't necessarily i'm.
ply fast driving, although un.
necessary speed might be a
contributing factor.
One of the most dangerous
practices of which motorists and
bus drivers are guilty, Is dis
charging passengers at the car
or bus stop opposite the safety
zone.
Every time such a stop is
made, a traffic hazard presents
itself. A motorist driving be-
hind such a car or bus Is forced
to either stop, try to squeeze
through the narrow space be-
tween a crowded safety zone, or
take to the car tracks, If no car
is waiting.
It's a darn dangerous situa-
ton any way you look at it,
and something ought to be done
about it.
SECOND GUEssER.
BoiIs at Baking Trust
To the Editor Of The Times:
The NRA imposes a burden
greater than the small indie
pendent baker can bear under
existing conditions. The in.
dependents have but five out
of sixteen votes on the code
authority. The other II votes
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
INQUIRIES
!. ON FILA LOANS
RECEIVED

This Is the last of series OF
articles on the national housing
pro gram. The Washington
Times has been The OILY ne1DS-
paper in the United States gtu.
ing complete information on
this project.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

men operating nets on a small scale.
If they succeed in closing these
lakes it will drive us from our homes
which we have built after many
years effort Fishing is the only
means of gaining livelihood here
Those lakes which they closed
years ago for their angling have no
fish because they take the good fish
and leave the rough ones in the
lake. We kill a lot of rough fish
and plant lot of good ones every
yea. That is why we have the fish
which the capitalists want to take
away from us and make these lakes
1shless like they have made other
ones.
Canada did not close its side of
these lakes. I don't see how these
robbers can close our side of the
International waters.
We need help from every honest
worker to send protests against this
action to Governor Floyd B. Olson,
St. Paul, MINI. and the Department
of Conservation, State of Mimi
esota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
BY a Farmer Correspondent

MINNEAPOLIS, Minimize prsc-
tical value of contacts with work.
ers at our county seats was clearly
demonstrated at the Ottertsil
County Relief Conference held at
Fergus Falls, MINI.
Before this. we farmers were &C
customed to fight alone We held
relief meetings and fought fore
closures, we protested to relief
authorities as one group standing
aloof from all others. Most of the
smaller cities that are headquarters
of county officials have no labor
organizations at all. thus further
breaking any tendency to form
united actions.
When we come tramping into our
county seats with demands and get
no support from the relief workers
and the unemployed, we feel as if
entering strange land. How much
stronger would we be if we knew
that several hundred townsmen
were behind us?
Fergus Falls. like many county
seats, had no labor organization. We
farmers Of the United Farmers
League once held an snti-war street
corner meeting there. and in our
discussion with workers afterwards
found that they we're crying for a
fighting organization but did not
know how to build one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Shoe Lockout
Threatened
To Cut W ages
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

BY Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-The Boston shoe
manufacturers are attempting to
starve the workers into accepting
wage cuts. Although the season is
drawing closer, more shops close
down. Many firms threaten to
liquidate or move to unorganized
centers, unless the workers accept
wage cuts. Five big shops have al
ready gone out of Boston.
The officials of the United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union are
passing the buck from the District
Council to the general officials, and
back again. Though McKassey and
other union officials do speak pub
licly against wage cuts, they do not
take steps to mobilize the work
ers to struggle against removals
of shops, for unemployment insur-
ance and for an energetic campaign
to organize the unorganized shoe
centers.
The shoe workers are losing what
ever confidence they had in the lead
ership of the union. The danger
is that many workers do not see any
solution in the present situation.
Some are even favoring wage re-
auctions, only because the union Of
ficials continuously follow policy
of passivity and the mass of shoe
workers can only see the industry
moving away from Boston and othe;
organized shoe centers.
The militant rank and file and
the Communists are the only ones
that show the way out of this situa-
ton. They propose to mobilize the
shoe workers for struggle against
wage cuts, for general strike
throughout the shoe industry, for
the establishment Of a uniform wage
based on an hourly rate for skilled,
scmi-skilled and unskilled workers
and above al for unemployment in
surance to be paid for by the Gov
eminent and the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Maynard Relief Crop Nets
Thirty-Fiue Gents When Sold

This is a common example of the
truck farmers experience with the
Boston market in selling their pro-
ducts. The farmer seldom does bet
ter than break even in his dealings
with the marketmen.
A direct result of the farmers
position is the low wages and poor
conditions of farm laborers. Wages
range from ten to fifteen dollars a
month for working hours Of twelve
and fourteen hours day. The
farmers take advantage of the work.
ers' dire needs, and force their help
to accept farm products instead of
money for wages.
The conditions of the farmer and
the farm laborer grow more and
more intolerable as the Roosevelt
hunger program advances. The
United Farmers League, with a
program of militant struggle for
better conditions for the farmer
calls upon all farmers and farm
laborers to join organized farmers
to fight for decent conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Com III UnIS is
p oil Y O t e
Despite Terror
By An Agricultural Worker
Correspondent

CENTRAL POINT, Ore.-Despite
the reign of terror conducted in
Jackson County, which resulted in
the frame up against Comrade
Cluster, organizer of the Cannery
and Agricultural Workers Indus
trial Union, on charges of non-sup-
port of two children; and the arrest
of two other comrades on Criminal
Syndicalisn. and the formation of
local Vigilance Committee of 200,
the Communist Party polled Is
votes in the last elections.
Another sign of which way the
wind is blowing is the fact that the
sheriff that tried to make political
capital out of deputizing the 200
vigilantes, got a back-fire and was
badly defeated.
For Governor, Peter Zimmerman,
who was an independent candidate
and ran on the platform of state
development of power sites, state
bank and against the Criminal Syn
dicalism Law, ran second here in
Jackson County as well as all over
the state.
Gen. Martin, who was elected, was
supported by the New Deal-Love-
Roosevelt Power Co. Bunk Sheet, a
Republican paper which often
points out that the reason for their
support of Roosevelt is that he is
trying to save the capitalist system.
Most of the workers around here
are employed in the orchards, can
neries and the fruit packing houses.
Many workers only have this short
seasonal work to depend on for a
livelihood.
Thirty to forty days is about the
average time the pickers get in. The
pay is from 20 cents to 271a cents
an hour for 9 hour day. Even
when several members of the family
work through the season it is hard
shedding through the year.
Here as elsewhere it is hard to get
on relief, where there are plenty of
well paid officials to tell applicants
after hard, humiliating grilling,
that there is no relief in sight at
present due to shortage of funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
UFL Helps Organize
Unemployed Council
Carry Through Joint Actions At County Seat
Despite Demagogue's Opposition

In two or three days we rounded
up rs of them into an unemployed
council. We established contacts
with the best of them. We told
them to stick by the fighting farm
ers, and we'd stick by them.
Came the time for relief con-
ference. The United Farmers
League issued call for united ac-
ton The workers In Fergus Falls
spread the news and a large num-
Der of them came to the meeting
at the court house. Together, we
ran up jeint demands, joint COM
mittees and joint plans of action.
A slick demagogue is now lead
ing the unemployed council in Fer
gus Falls. 1t is not affiliated to
the National Council thanks to the
work of this master mind. We
could not get the Fergus workers
educated quick enough to depend
on their own forces. But when
the time comes for real fight for
relief, we ignore demagogues and
spread our proposals among the
rank and f1lers, among our sincere
contacts, They respond to a man
and our slick demagogue has to
trail along pretty fast or be ex-
posed for what he is.
Let us not neglect the smaller
cities. There are many of them
and they always form centers in
which the broader struggles are
concentrated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Tarrant City
.TObIess Form
Relief eague
BY a Worker Correspondent

TARRANT, Ala. = In Tarrant
City we are organizing a Relief
Workers League to carry on a strug-
gle for the needs of the unemployed
workers. So far we have A white
workers and Negro workers signed
up with the league and we are only
beginning.
Mr.. Bowers of the Blacksmiths
Union and Mr. Strange of the
Dairymen's Union came to our
meetings and gave us a great deal
of encouragement. They said that
our organization will be backed up
by the labor unions because we will
be able to help the labor unions a
great deal during strikes, etc.
Dave Smith was elected president
OF the League and j. G. Owen was
elected secretary. They are good,
honest men and will give the or
ganization good leadership.
At the last meeting Bob Gullege,
the head of the White Legion, but
ted in unlimited. He came with a
member of the Hod Carriers Union
as a blind, and didn't tell anyone
that he was head of the White Le-
gion. This rat Gullege is trying to
get in good with the workers so he
can get them in his fascist organ
ization and stop them from fighting
for relief.
Hc has boasted of his strikebreak-
ing activities in Kentucky and in
Gastonia, North Carolina. Now he
has his Office in the Hillman Hotel
along with Milton McDuff's detec-
tive agency. A great many members
of the White Legion are stool
pigeons who carry all the informa-
ton they can get from workers or
CARNATIONS to Gullege, who gives it
to McDuff, who turns it over to the
police and the labor takers.
The recent frsme-ups of union
men on bombing charges, which is
intended as hard blow to organ
lied labor, is a result of the work Of
the }Ynite Legion and McDuff. If
Gullege comes out to our meetings
again we are going to expose him
to all the workers and let the work
crs decide if tehy want him around.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Soviet Farmer Reports
Progress in COllectives
CoIlectivization in Mid-VOlga District Almost
Complete As determination Is Introduced

days ana very many have 300, so
even in the weakest collective farms
each family will have at least from
one to one and a half tons grain,
besides vegetables and money. And
in the better collective farms there
will be from four to five tons per
head. not counting the rest.
We have many tractors. harvesters
and other complex machines. This
years harvest has been completely
gathered by harvesters and we have
motor trucks to carry our grain to
the state elevators. The tractors
work day and night and the tractor
drivers in three shifts, eight hours
day each.
In our district all collective farms
have day nurseries for the babies
and the older children are all sent
to school. Many of the grown up
men and women study also. There
are special courses in winter for
those who can't read and write we'll
In our district only the very old
people have remained illiterate.
Now you see that we live very
we'll indeed. We threw out all the
koolaks $50 are called the former
rich farmers), the bourgeois and
the saboteurs, so that they should
not trammel our work and prevent
us from building up our collective
farms.
We call you to follow our example,
because we know very we'll what It
feels like to work for bourgeois and
landowner. Please, write us and
tell us how you live and how you
fight your bourgeoisie Tell us also
please, what the young Communists
in your district are doing. You
rust take them more TO task, let
them do more propaganda and the
fight will get along better.
All the workers of our M. r. S.
send you their fraternal greetings
I read them your letter and they
wish you to organize and arrange
your life as we did ours, because
we really are masters of everything
in our country.
Please do write me and ask any
questions you would like to ask.
will be happy to answer.
With heartiest wishes,
STEPHEN KASSATKIN,
Sofiino Novospasskiy Rayon,
Sredne-Voljskiy Kray.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Minnesota Workers and Farmers in United Relief Acto
Jail Threat for Trying
To Organize CCC Boys
Bv a worker Correspondent

BY worker correspondent
ESCANABA, Mich. Il am an
exc. C. c. boy, having been re-
leased from the forced labor
camps.
A cOmrade and were threat
ened and IS years in Leaven-
worth, Kan, for fighting for our
rights. Colonel Wood of Fort
Sheridan said we were creating a
revolutionary spirit among the
boys. We were only telling the
boys to stick together. After the
hearing, I was placed on 6 months
parole.
In months and II days Com =.
pany 646 was asked to sign over.
The excuse for this was that win
ter was almost here. II you don't
think you could take It, Won we're
supposed TO 60 home. But, the
fact is that there was a strong
unity amongst us. More than 50
per cent of the fellows turned
down the offer to be slaves for
another six months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Displacement of the Womb

OISuldceIntHb OF the WOMB
M F, Corona, L. I.-You state
HA' that you have two children.
~ years and weeks respectively;
that your doctor has just told you
that your womb is very "low," for
which he inserted ring to hold it
up, you also state that your doctor
advised an operation to cure this
condition. You do not state your
age, nor do you mention whether
you have any complaints.
From your letter it is difficult to
determine whether your condition
is one Of turned womb Cretrover-
sion), or one in which the chief
supports of the womb have been
loosened (prolapse). After giving
birth, woman's womb may be
turned. This is one of the rea-
sons why it is 50 important that q
woman should have adequate post
partum fcare after child BIRTH
The early recognition of a turned
womb, its correction by the doctor.
followed by the insertion of a ring
in the femsl canal and special ex-
ercises and douches by the woman
such steps will often save the
woman from an operation later on.
These cases which Go not respond
to such treatment may need an
operation.
The mere finding of turned
wont is net in itself a reason for
operation. Many women 60 along
all theft lives with turned wonbs
and are never disturbed by this
condition If there are no asso-
ciated complaints-such as, back
ache, dragging sensation inter-
nally, bladder trouble, discharge. or
irregularity in the monthly flow
there is no need for operation or
any other treatment If, however,
these complaints are present land
are not due to other causes, the
doctor should try to treat them
medically. If medical treatment
fails to relieve the patient, or only
relieves her temporarily, then she
should have an operation to cor
rect the position Of the womb. The
age of the woman is also an i'm
portant consideration Many doc
tors feel that such an operation
should not be performed until the
woman has given birth to as many
children as both she and her hus-
band desire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

Hy a Soviet Farmer Correspondent
MID-VOLGA DISTRICT, U. S. S.
P.-First I want to tell you about
myself. I was born in 1900 and
am the son of a very poor widow,
who had to work very hard all her
life for a big landowner. We were
three brothers and a sister. The
elder children had to work for the
landowner as soon as they we're big
enoueh. but I never did, because I
always hated the landowners like
mad dogs. So 7 got sent down from
our village school for insubordins-
ton. When I was old enough 1
got modified in the civil war and
I fought for three years and a half.
Then I came back to the village
and began to farm. and to work
in the Village Soviet, and also
learned my trade Now I am car
penter in our NJ. T. s. machine
and Tractor Station. I work eight
hours a day and then I am free
to do as I like.
The colIectivizstion in our district
is almost complete, there are very
few peasants that farm on their
own. We work very we'll and this
years harvest has been gathered in,
almosts without any losses. Even
IN the weakest collective farms
workers will receive not less than
five Kilograms grain per working
day, but mostly it is eight to twelve
Kilograms and in the best organ
lied collective farms they will re-
ceive even sixteen Kilograms per
work day Every family has an in
dividual vegetable garden. Those
that had no land have received from
the collective farm half a hectacre
land and enough seed.
There is a collective vegetable
garden as well and we have so many
vegetables, that we feed cattle on
them. Our collective farm has also
milk farm, the best in the district
Our gain last year, not counting
the increase Of the herd, was $4,000
roubles in money. We have also
laid by enough silo to last us the
year round. Green fodder is good
for the cattle; before the collec-
Invitation we did not know anything
about it or how to store it, and the
good herbs wasted in the fields, but
now we use them all.
Not one of our collective farm
workers has less than a 100 work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29
Wisconsin Pioneers
Faced With Eviction
BY a Farmer Correspondent

GRANTSBURG, Wis.-Burnett
County, Wis. polled Is COmmu-
mist votes for State officials. We
had no county Communist can
didates.
Burnett County is composed
mostly Of farmers who immi-
grated from Sweden and Norway
20 and 80 years ago. These farm
ers came to a wild primitive Sec
ton of Wisconsin, cleared away
the virgin timber. erected their
little log huts. and later after
long years Of hard toll and
struggle built their semi-modern
homes.
Today these same farmers are
being fOreciOsed for unpaid taxes.
Their long years of hard work for
security in their old age have
been in vain. The capitalists
have reaped the profits while the
farmers are facing poverty and
despair.