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Evening star., 1934-03-30

instead of death and invited them
with some eXceptions) to join his
government either officially or un-
officially. That would have been all
right for them except that he also in
vited a few persons - johnson, Hull.
Roper. Farley, Cummings ct al. to sit
in with him.
The result is these brain truSters are
far more dismayed at the administra-
ton than you could possibly be. They
have found Mr.. Roosevelt was not
alone q liberal but also Q conservative.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
TARIFF BILL FACES
VICTORY IN SENATE.
Leaders Say Reciprocal
Trade Measure Will
Be Unaltered.
BY the Associated Press.

py lIlC aooONAoASA aS9S'
After a round of good old-fashioned
tariff debate, the Senate is expected
to pass President Roosevelt's recip-
rocal treaty bill virtually "as is"
That was the prediction today Of
both Democratic and Republican lead
ers as they surveyed the measure
passed along to them yesterday by the
House
Although the bill probably will re-
main in committee for more than a
week, its appearance on the floor will
end with a bang the four years Of sur
cease from general tariff debate since
Congress built the highest tariff wall
in history during the Hoover admin
istration.
Limited to Three Years.
After several days Of comparatively
listless argument, split distinctly along
party lines, the RooSevelt-approved
proposal passed the House yesterday,
272 to Ill 1t was first amended.
however, to limit its life to three years
and to prevent any reductions of for
eign debt.
1t would authorize the President to
negotiate tariff reduction agreements
with foreign nations without submit
ting them to the Senate for approval
as is required with other treaties. 1t
also empowers the President to change
tariff rates so per cent up or down
without recommendation from the
Tariff Commission as is now the law.
The change to limit the authority
Of the President to three years was
expected to eliminate a big talking
point in the Senate.
Democratic members from indus
trial States. like Senator Walsh Of
Massachusetts. had indicated they
would oppose the legislation unless it
were placed on an emergency basis.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
100000 IN FURs SOLD

MONTREAL, March 80 R.-Four-
day sales of 100000, close to the
largest in fur history here, were re-
ported last night Ly the Canadian Fur
Auction Sales Co. at the close of its
March auction.
Compared with the last sale, silver
fox pelts declined per cent in price,
the average being S37.09.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
N. R. A. OPEN TO PRESS
Conferences to Be Resumed.

Conferences to Be Resumed.
Censorship Move Is Disputed.
Gen. Hugh s. johnson has an.
nounced the N. r. A. will restore
press conferences after almost a
month during which newsmen have
not been received because of the pres
sure Of code revision conferences and
strike negotiations.
Last week Alvin Brown, executive
ofhcer, wa ordered to inform all di-
visions no news should be disseminated
except through the publicity section.
The order was understood to have
resulted from Johnson's irritation at
the manner in which news had been
handled, but N. r. A. officials main
tanned 1t was caused by pressure of
work.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
THREE-P0WER AIRMAIL
AGREEMENT PROPOSED
France, Germany and Italy
Would Pool Interests in South
American Line.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 30.-A three-power
airmail agreement by which France,
Germany and Italy would share the
operation of the air line to South
America, was under consideration
today.
The plan now studied is to pool the
resources Of the foreign-f flying lines
of the three nations, divide the traffic
between them, and fix uniform rates.
The three powers are represented as
wishing to avoid a costly competitive
race by making a partial fusion of
their lines in South America and
linking them to Europe with semi
weekly flights across the South
Atlantic
Such three-power pool would re-
place the proposed air France and
Lufthansa fusion which aviation cir
cles believed is blocked by the French
governments opposition to co-opera-
ton with the German organization.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
WELCOME PLANNED.
Governor Of Bahamas Will Greet
President at Nassau.

NASSAU, Bahama Islands, March
80 P).-Sir Bede Clifford. governor
of the Bahamas, today planned to
welcome President Roosevelt to Brit
ish waters.
The yacht Of Vincent Astor is sched-
uled to dock at Montagu Beach. where
the Governor and Lady Clifford are
expected to board it and pay their
respects to Mr.. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Insurance Bill Passed.

The Senate yesterday passed a bill
making minor changes in the original
charter Of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Of the District of Columbia. which
was incorporated by IN act of Con-
gress in 1855. The bill was called up
by Chairman King Of the District
Committee. It now goes to the House
for approval.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

The only thing which can bring an
economic revolution in the European
sense) to this country now is new
economic collapse That Is hardly
a chance worth believing in.
A studious European with dis
interested viewpoint recently looked
at the situation in this novel way:
Your democratic traditions make
it impossible for you to have revo-
luton such as there has been in
Russia and in Italy.
your people are the second and
third generations of the ambitious
people of Europe, those who wanted
to get ahead in the world and left
Europe for that purpose. Nowadays
they want to own a home for Them
selves. They want to give their chill
dren better opportunities for advance
ment than they had They are dis
contented with their lot. They always
are looking for advancement for
themselves
Evening star., 1934-03-30
WELCOMES INVESTIGATION.
Thayer Says His Files Show No Trace
of Alleged Letter.

CHATEAUGAY, N. Y, March 80
CP).-Senator Warren T. Thayer. ad-
vised today Of published reports that
impeachment proceedings would be
started against him in the State Sem
ate said:
Il welcome any investigation"
The Senator said he had not been
able to find in his files any record of
letters such as we're introduced before
the Federal Power Commission yester-
day.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Borah 10 Oppose.

is expected to hold that the tariff
agreements under the pending bill
would be the same as treaties and,
therefore, the Senate should not sur
render its constitutional power to pass
on them, even though there is a lin
itation placed on the Presidents au-
thority.
There also is in the offng a pro-
posed amendment to provide an in
termediate commission, before which
the parties concerned with the rates
to be changed by the President could
have a hearing before the tariff
changes become operative.
Another attempt may be made pro-
viding for submission to the Senate
of all reductions in the tariff made
by the President.
Few Increases Seen.
Although he would have the power
to raise as well as lower rates, it is
generally conceded to be unlikely that
he would proclaim many increases.
lower tariff walls all around to foster
Only two Republicans voted for the
bill in the House. They were Repre-
sentatives Peavey wisconsin, and
WEIGH California;.
Eleven Democrats voted against It.
They were Brown CMichigan), Burke
California;, Carpenter (Nebraska) +,
Connery (Massachusetts), Duffey
(Ohio), Gray Gndiana), Maloney
(Connecticut), Montet Oouisiana), i,
Moran (Maine), Scrugham (Nevada)
and Secrest (Ohio).
After battering down Republican
amendments designed to curtail the
broad discretionary authority granted
the President and several proposed
by Democrats to prevent reduction
in duties on sugar, lumber and other
products. the House adopted by a
voice vote the amendments favored
by the Ways and Means Committee.
The first limited to three years the
authority for negotiating trade agree
ments. Another provided that moth
ing in this act shall be construed to
give any authority to cancel or re-
duce, in any manner, any of the
Indebtedness Of any foreign country
to the United States"
Close Test on Sugar.
The closest test came on an amend
ment to prevent the lowering Of the
sugar tariff, but the proposal was de-
feated, 121 to ia, on teller vote.
Amendments by Representative
Evening star., 1934-03-30
MRS. FARLEY TO SAIL

VIII Vlslt italy. Accompanied
by Mrs. Cotillo.
NEW YORK, March 80 CPl.-Mrs.
James A. Farley, wife of the Post
master General. and Mrs. Salvatore A.
Cotillo. wife of the State Supreme
Court justice, plan to sail from New
York tomorrow on the liner Rex for
trip through Italy, France and
Belgium
While in Rome they have been in
vited to be the guests of Prince
Portenziani. governor of Rome, and
Ambassador Breckenridge Long. They
are to be received by the American
Ambassador to Belgium.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
NORRIS SCORES PRACTICES.
Says Thayer Testimony Indicates
Power Activities.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne
braska, told reporters today that tes-
timony regarding alleged power lob
bying by Warren T. Thayer of New
York, State Senator, represents "a
| universally of the activities of the
power trust that exists in nearly
every locality in the United States"
The Nebraskan added that Govern
ment ownership appeared to be "the
only ray of hope"
He said he hoped "the New York
Legislature will profit" by the discov-
cry of letters read into the Federal
Trade Commission records yesterday
and purporting to show that Senator
Thayer, one-time chairman of the
New York Senate Committee on Pub
lie Service, had asked the Associated
Gas e. Electric Co. for election ex-
penses.
Norris said the Trade Commission
had the authority to summon Thayer
to Washington and that he hoped it
would do so.
Condition Held Chronic.
"The great difficulty" Norris said,
"is that this sort of thing is going
on all the time, and it's very hard
for the Federal Trade Commission
or any one else to keep up with it.
They're way behind now. BY the
time one of the power trust schemes
comes to light, they've figured out
some new one.
t,@1 ell Low
and more obnoxious incidents are
still undiscovered, or how many men
there are in public life who have been
doing and are doing similar things.
Regulations will not cure the evil
we have tried that long enough to
know that the power trust regulates
the regulators.
Electricity is a human necessity
and must exist in every modern home.
The power trust must be thrown out
root and branch, and this can only be
done by Government ownership and
operation
Meanwhile, the Trade Commission
received testimony today from A. M.
McDermott. a commission examiner,
that bribery figured in the sale of the
Paris, Tenn, Municipal Power Co. to
the Kentucky Light &
Power Co., an Associated Gas & Elec-
trio subsidiary.
The commission was told that
George L. Fryer, Paris city attorney,
received the "bribe"
Quotes Court Decision.
Part of a court decision in the suit
of the city against the Kentucky
Tennessee Co. was quoted:
That the contract was obtained
by the bribery of Fryer George L.,
city attorney of Paris, Tenn, through
the agency of Byrd q. H., who rep
resented the company and Rankin,
his attorney, the means therefor be-
| ing provided by the defendant, and
by other corrupt and unethical
practices"
The commission has been investi-
eating the financial set-up and activi-
ties of power companies under 1928
Senate resolution.
The testimony introduced today was
to the effect that the Kentucky
Tennessee Co. took business reprisals
! against ]. T. Porter, coal and ice
dealer of Paris, city councilman
who led the fight against the sale of
the plant.
This was related in a letter by H. D.
Fitch. president of the Kentucky
Tennessee Co., to S. j. Magee. vice
president of Associated Gas d
Electric.
Fitch told OF setting up = very
Evening star., 1934-03-30
GREEN ASKS RETURN
VIII Not Oppose Senator Tram
nell in Florida.

Representative Green of Florida an
nounced yesterday he would not en-
ter the Senate race against Park
Trammell, but would be a candidate
for return to the office he now holds
The Representative had been men,
toned by his colleagues as a possible
candidate for the Democratic NOM
nation to the Senate in the June S
primary.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Delay Is Expected.

Leaders do not expect the bill will
be taken up by the Finance Commit
tee for week or 10 days, since the
$3.50, 900, 900 revenue bill, just reported
by that group, will hold the attention
of committee members on the floor all
next week.
II see no reason why the tariff bill
should lead to protracted discussion,
said Senator Robinson, Democratic
leader
Senator McNary of Oregon. Repub-
ican leader, thought the bill would
pass within a week after it reached
the floor. although he said there would
be much discussion of at least four
angles.
One of these is the question Of con-
stitutionality, which was raised when
the flexible provisions were enacted in
1922 and further changed in 1880, en-
powering the President to change
rates within the SO per cent limit
after recommendation by the Tariff
Commission. The flexible clause,
however, has since been upheld by the
Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Different in Europe.

I'm Europe it is different. The
peon knows there is little chance for
him to better his lot and does not
worry about it. He lives his life in
an entirely different way. He con-
tents himself with what unambitious
beauty and simple comfort he can get
out of his surroundings. His life is
acceptable poetry. Yours is ambitious
business prose. Personally I prefer
the European way, but I doubt that
your people will.
"You can make reforms but you
cannot legislate that inherent feel
ing out OF your people. As ! recol-
lect you once put prohibition in
your Constitution, but you still
drank. So ,UiH it be Uith the re-
forms you are no1D enacttng.
think your revolution has been
uery mild.
"Your Constitution and your laws
are what your people want them to
be from time to time. Your Govern
ment can 20 no further than your
people will let it. Your people are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

Relief Funds
Inadequate
BY a Worker Correspondent

WILMINGTON, DeI.-$9T,0O0 is
the barest minimum amount set by
an executive of the Relief Commits
sion to care for rural relief needs of
New Castle County, Delaware, dur
ing December, January, February
and March.
Miss Mullen, the executive, said
that the commission will have an
need for funds to meet re-
lief funds in rural New Castle
County during the coming winter
and that the appropriations of the
Wilmington City Council were voted
only for use within the city limits.
Miss Mullen also pointed out that
the recent additional appropriation
amounting to $4,000 will only care
for the needs of the rural county
till the end of the present month.
The total amount is approximately
half of what is required for the
needy of Wilmington during the
coming winter.
1t has been also pointed out that
the Negroes are heavily discrim-
mated against throughout the en-
tire state in their efforts to get re-
lief and secure employment on
public projects. However, it is ex-
pected that action will not be taken
by the relief authorities concerning
the discrimination as this has been
called to our attention before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Fascist Trends
In Taber's Address
Speech at Annual Grange Session Full of Contra
dictiOns and Empty Hopes

spirit and has given a mighty people
new courage and new hope. -
Reluctantly and doubtful he admits
the benefits to the Soviet Union;
but his language is certain when he
describes the benefits of Fascism to
Germany.
He bewails "the suffering, priva-
ton, and hardship almost I'M
equaled in the annals of history
when referring to the Bolshevik
revolution-sufTering mainly caused
incidentally by the presence Of for
eign armies fighting the Red Army
in 1918 on Russian soil. Yet the
only fault he finds with the Ger
man Fascist revolution is that "it
has destroyed liberty, crucified con-
science, and made the individual the
pawn of the state" Nothing is said
about the suffering of workers, So
cialist as well as Communist in the
concentration camps, or the suffer
ing Of the Jews. And there were no
foreign armies on the soil of Ger
many either, Mr.. Taber!
The major part OF the speech is
full of contradictions. At one time
he warns the farmers not to look
to Washington for help. Later, he
congratulates Roosevelt for his "A.
A. program. At one point he states
that corporation farming Is I'M
American, again he points out that
the corporation Is here to stay, we
have merely to humani2e it. The
intensity of modern nationalism is
lamented, yet, Hitler's nationalism
is blessing. I'VE must. estab-
lish constructive and broad gauge
land retirement programs in the
area Of seasonal and restricted rain
fall" but only God can make it
rain"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Robbery By Landlords
Leaves Tenants Destitute
Landlord Receives Double Payment from Govern
ment and Tenant for Same Acreage

following agreement: for the use
of the house and a small piece of
ground, about an acre, he was TO
do IS days of work for the land
lord, throwing in the use of his
team of horses also. The other
days of work had to be found hap
hazardly among the other farmers
Such possessions as this tenant
had were those which happened to
be left him after a previous land
lord had taken his best stock for
rent of another farm. This latter
landlord, by the way, owns untold
numbers of farms in Iowa and
Minnesota. 1t is said here that all
Of this mans renters are staying on
their respective farms for next year
because they are so heavily in
debted to the landlord that If they
moved they would have nothing
left to take away.
Back to the Christian landlord
The last tenant has been notified
by said landlord that he must find
himself another home. He discov-
cred that his successor was to be q
preacher, kept by the so-called
Christian to preach in local rural
church. 1t leaked out that the
landlord has said that he wanted
more Christians" in the neighbor-
hood The Christian" landlord has
received money from the govern
ment for retiring so many acres Of
land and not raising so many hogs
in the corn-hog reduction program.
When it became known that the
drouth would ruin the cattle feed,
the government gave orders through
the county agent that a crop to
take advantage of the later rains
could be sown on this retired land.
The tenant planted soy-beans. Now
the Christian landlord, besides get
ting the government money for the
retired acreage, also asks rent of
the tenant for the crop of soy
beans.
One can easily see that the ten
ant will get nothing for his work
on the field.
You can imagine that nothing
would please the tenants so much
as to have these landlords and all
that goes with landlordism wholly
eliminated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Insanity Scare
Used Against
SOkOI Worker
By a Food Worker Correspondent

BY rood worker correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Some weeks
ago you had a letter in your columns
dealing with conditions in Sokol's
Cafeteria, Pitkin and Rockaway
Ave, Brooklyn. I would like to let
you know some more of what hap
pened in there.
Right after the story appeared in
the Daily Worker, Mr.. Sokol began
picking on a worker by the name
of Jack Stein, saying that he sent
the story to the Daily Worker.
He kept driving Stein all the
time, piling all kinds of work on
him. Finally, Stein couldn't stand
it any longer and one day went to
the cashier and asked for nickle
to make a phone call. Mr.. Sokol
understood that he wanted to call
the union Oocal 325, Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union, A. F. of
L., and would not let him.
Stein insisted on calling up, and
SokOl became very ABUSIVE. He told
one of his flunkeys to call up the
Kings County Hospital to get an
ambulance for Stein saying that he
would put Stein away in the psy-
chopatic ward.
Stein then tore himself away in
his working clothes and went to
the union Nothing has been done
about this case by the union yet.
This worker has always been good
union man, and that is the only
reason he received such treatment
from Mr.. Sokol.
Sokol has been getting away with
all kinds of things. I think it is
about time to put stop to 1t and
show the power of the union. With
the newly elected leadership, if the
rank and file pushes the issue we
can stop Sokol's bull doing tactics
and really turn his place into a
union house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
By a Worker Correspondent

CHARLES CITY, Ia.-One farmer
had this experience: He was strug-
Cling along on rented farm that
was heavily mortgaged and which
reverted back through the hands of
several spectators to the original
owner. The farm renter, who must
move always does his moving on
March / and, naturally, in order to
make arrangements, he must know
whether he must move or not by
January. In latter February, came
the landlord saying he had made a
deal with a large landowner of the
neighborhood, a man who is a
strong churchman, and who calls
himself a Christian.
This latter landlord told the
renter he would have to move as he
intended to farm the land himself.
The renter had about two weeks to
get another farm. He succeeded in
getting one, but this was owned by
a family living in the town and
they held him up for high rent. In
his extremity, the farmer moved on
this place.
In the deepening depression the
crops did not pay the rent and the
poor farmer lost all his best milk
cows and some Of his machinery to
the landlord. This left the farmer
starving since without his COWS he
had no income, which, though small,
had been dependable, with which to
buy groceries.
I will bring the story back to the
landlord who calls himself 8 Chris
tan"
He had adopted a half grown
orphan boy from an asylum. who
does much of his hardest work for
nothing, thus saving his own son,
and also saving a hired mans
wages. He rented the house on the
newly acquired place to tenants.
One of these tenants was a painter
who eventually found it best for
him to move down into the town,
and he had decided upon this move
in the fall. His Christian landlord,
however, told him that he would
have to pay his house rent UP to
March /, whether he moved in the
fall or not.
He found new renter under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

ence. They repeat each other. Bad
speakers talk endlessly. The good
speakers come on when the audience
is ready to pass out. The collec-
tons are interminable and badly
organized. The entertainment which
should offer variety and counter
balance the heaviness of the speak
ers is usually disregarded or shelved
until it is too late.
Newcomers who could be easily
enthusiastic are smothered in a
torrent of indigestible verbiage.
They are repulsed rather than at
tracted. There is no sense in the
conduct of our affairs of audience
psychology-no theatrical appeal.
The movement needs a stage man
agerl-a stage manager with theo-
retical knowledge, to plan and run
its meetings, to start them on time
and end them on time-to arrange
them so that they hold an audience,
so that they go swiftly and build to
a climax and send the listeners out
enthusiastic rather than tired
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