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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

underIies the N.R.A. and the entire re-
covery program"
Vol, claiming to be for 'the high
wage principle" which he says Hoover also
favored states, "The maintenance or in
crease of profits now depends either upon
a decrease in the cost or an increase in the
volume of production, or both" He be-
lieves of course, that maintenance or in
crease of profits" is necessary to ere
covery."
Thus, at the very moment when the
NR.A. is being reorganized, so as to cut
wages and smash the unions, at the mo-
ment when Roosevelt's anti-labor drive
is in full swing, VOL PIRATES about higher
wages as the underlying principle" of
Roosevelt's program.
Woll is throwing dust in the eyes of the
workers to make it easier for Roosevelt
to carry out the employers intensified
anti-labor attacks.
The New York Telegram, in a long
answer to Vol, repeats Roosevelt's pro-
gram for a lower wage scale, with higher
yearly average wages. This means wage
cuts, it means working longer hours to
get the same pay, it means speed-up.
Only the united front of the entire
working class, in mass struggle, can de-
feat Roosevelt's wage cut drive, which
VOL, Green and Co. are helping to ease in
by their demagogic praise of the NR,A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
New Wage Cut Plans

WAGE-CUTS to lower the whole stand
" ard of living of the workers, and in
crease profits, have now become one of the
main aims of the Roosevelt government.
The hearings of the National Industrial
Recovery Board, which began in Washing
ton yesterday, are aimed at ''reorganiz-
ing the NRA. so as to cut wages and
block labors' demand for the thirty hour
week with full pay.
The NIRB. announced that these
hearings will be held on the basis of
greater simplicity, flexibility, and uni
fornity' of hours and wages in the N.R.A.
codes, The NIR,B. favors maintaining
geographic and population and other wage
differentials' in the codes as Significant
realities of the present situation"
One of the chief demagogic arguments
of Roosevelt for putting over wage-cuts
is that the wage scale should be low and
the yearly average wages maintained.
Roosevelt said, ut is not very useful to
pay man ten dollars a day if he is en-
ployed only siXty-five days in the year."
This argument has been used by the Roose-
welt administration and the employers for
cutting wages in the building trades, the
auto industry, and other industries.
The workers know that this is empty
talk, that the wage scale will be lowered,
but that yearly average wages will not
rise but go down, if Roosevelt's plan goes
through.
Roosevelt is carrying through the anti
union, wage-cutting drive of the employers,
in his plan to "reorganize" the NR.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
THURSDAY, JANUARY 81, 1885
I7.I57,000 Unemployed

THE preliminary annual unemployment
L estimates of the Labor Research Asso-
citation for November, 1884, which were
issued yesterday, show 1857 900 unem-
ployed in the country, about one-third of
the working population.
This figure includes 508,0O relief work
ers on P.WA. projects 100000 relief
workers on F.E.R.A. projects, and $4,000
in C.C.C. camps, a total of 2,S50,000
Roosevelt's new work relief" program
at best provides for Jobs at slave wages to
only about 100000.
Obviously, Roosevelt's program, which
includes also the present relief workers,
will mean jobs for only few hundred
thousand additional unemployed.
At best, the program will require a year
to get under way
These startling facts again emphasize
the urgent need for a broader mass cam
paign behind the fight for the Workers
Unemployment, Old Age and Social In
surance Bill, H. R. 1927.
They likewise emphasize the need for
more attention to the organization Of the
unemployed workers, to the building of the
Unemployment Councils, and to the unfit
cation of the ranks of employed and unem-
ployed workers in the struggle for relief
and insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Says De Priest Speech
Provoked Hostility
New York, N. Y.

New York, NJ Y.
Comrade Editor:
wish to take exception to the
opinion of Comrade M. w. in the
letter criticizing the conduct of our
comrades at the debate between
Ford, Crosswaith and De Priest.
In the first place, the fundamental
correctness of the Communist posi-
ton and record on the Negro
question was effectively set forth
at this meeting by the speech of
Comrade Ford with it's careful
reasoning supported by facts in con-
trast to the inanities of De Priest
and the ISLANDERS of Crosswaitn.
That the comrades did not boo De
Priest in spite Of his ludicrous and
obnoxious attempt to present the
Republican Party as the friend of
the Negro people ought to have
proved to Comarde M. w. that 1t
was only the provocation of Cross
waith which brought upon him the
demonstration of resentment. I do
not believe that our comrades should
listen to such vicious attacks
against the Scottsboro fight, such
SANDER against the Communist
Party and such uncouth attacks on
the audience at the meeting without
protest. just last week, for ex-
ample, Crosswaith had accused
Comrade Ford and our Party of not
fighting against lynching because
we objected to the Wagner Costigar
Bill, that double-edged instrument
which can be used by the lynchers
against those gathering to defend
/ themselves.
AS to the effect on the Socialist
members, / am sure that many sin.
cere, thinking Socialists we're i'm
pressed by the logic and dignity o.
Comrade Ford, by his sincere appea
for united front They could moi
have failed to be ashamed of Gross
waith's inability to present reason.
ably his party's position and nj,
resorting to SANDER to defend tn,
bankruptcy of his position.
M. B. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Material Requested on
Political Prisoners
BY Burck
@@~Gk
Newark, N. j.

Newark, N j.
Comrade Editor;
In conjunction with our Paris
Commune celebration, March II,
1885 at Sokol Hall, we are going to
hold a Political Prison Exhibit from
$50 to $40 in the evening.
Implements of torture used on
prisoners, chains on chain-gangs,
sweat boxes, handouts, ETC., will
be on display as well as Voices from
Prison" letters from political pris-
oners, such as Mooney, Scottsboro,
Herndon, Sacco-Vanzetti, McNa-
mara and others.
We want to take this means to
appeal to any one who by some
chance came into possession of such
material to communicate with us in
regard to lending it to us for this
day. This exhibit, which will expose
the brutality visited upon political
prisoners, will be also means by
which we can raise funds for relief
for political prisoners and their
families.
PRISONERS RELIEF DEPT.
International Labor Defense,
1856 Market Street, Newark, N. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

cracy which Comrade Browder described at the recent
Lenin Memorial meeting as "the greatest den,ocracv
for the Oiers, but stern dictatorship against the er
plOterS the minority"
Our Congress acts in the interests of a capitalist
minority and the legislative mask for the Dictatorship
of this Wall Street minority.
To get real democracy, the rule of the majority in
the interests of the majority have to take the revo
lutionary road the Russian workers and farmers led
by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, took in 1917.
We have to set up proletarian dictatorship Soviet
government with American Soviet Congress- elected
from the ranks of the working class and toing farm
ers which has seized the of production and class
power into its own hands!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
The Eleventh Time

THE Senate Judiciary Committee of the
N. Y. State Senate has refused to re-
port on the child labor amendment.
Thus responsibility for failing to ratify
even this feeble step against child exploit
tation is, for the moment, stopped.
This is the eleventh time!
Republican legislatures, Democratic
legislatures: Tweedledee Tweedledum as
far as labor is concerned
The party of Roosevelt and Lehman is
as bad as the party of Hoover and Whit
man-for labor
The lesson for labor is clear: only the
independent political action of the working
class will aid the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
'S-ACT IN WORKERS INTEREST

The Soviet Congress in the hands of workers and
farmers. The delegates come directly from the fac
tories and fields They report directly back to the Or
ers and farmers They subject to immediate recall
by their feIIOW workers in the local SOUiets.
An American Soviet Congress, elected directly bg
those who wOrk, and BY working class that had seized
the of production from the Wall Street parasites
U0uEd sOLUe all the problems of the crisis.
It would abolish all payments to the Wall Street
bankers 1t would put end to the criminal insanity
of "overproduction amid starvation It would end u-
employment by Immediately ousting the capitalist
owners, and opening every factory in the country to
produce for the welfare of the masses.
This would be real democracy, Working class demo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

&c. 600, 900 WORKERS AND FARMERS VOTED


last election only 100000 voted less than so per cent
of the adult population eligible to UOte. the SOuiet
Union, IS per cent of the population UOted figure far
beyond anything eUer seen in capitalist den,Ocracv!
Capitalist apoogists tell that have democracy
because at periodic intervals the workers are permitted
to vote. &WgE
But not only millions of Workers, Negroes
migratory workers iObess and homeless UOrkers I'M
able to UOte but hO there be real democracy for
the workers 0hen oil the of po1er the factories
newspapers, radio, movies, and forth, are in the
hands of Wall Street minority?
How workers in the United States have any
democracy when their livelihood is at the mercy of the
capitalists who control their jobs?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

TWO Congresses are meeting now the Seventh All
Union Congress of Soviets in the US.S.R, and the
other "our" Congress in Washington.
And what contrast they present!
The Soviet Congress which the capitalist press
thinks of which such shudders that of dctatoral
minority" is most magnificent spectacle of democracy,
of real democracy in the of the real rule of the
people.
Premier Mootov speaking to the Soviet Congress
reports that it represents delegates speaking directly
in the name of 90OOO,O0O Uoters in the US.S.Rl
Ninety million voters, voting directly in the fac-
tories farms mines, shops, railroads.
Has history eUer seen such broad democracy?
Compare this with the United States Here in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Letters From Our Readers

Because Of the volume of letters re-
ceived by the Department, We can
print only those that are Of general
interest to Daily Worker readers. How
ever, all letters received are carefully
read by the editors. Suggestions and
criticisms are welcome and whenever
possible are used for the Improvement
Of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
New York, N. Y.


Comrade Editor
Here is an example of what stu
dents can do to help the Uneeda
Biscuit strikers. A few of us saw a
package marked National Biscuit
Company" being delivered by mail
to the lunchroom in school. We
Immediately went to the proprietor
of the lunch room in a committee
and told her that since the Uneeda
Bakers were on strike, she should
not buy National Biscuit products.
She became quite flustered but she
was forced to tell the mailman to
return the package. She knew from
previous experience, that she had
better not quarrel with us. She knew
that she would undoubtedly lose
much business if she did.
Students in all high schools and
colleges should take similar action
to keep Uneeda products of the
lunch counters and help win the
strike.
A STUDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Bar Scab Products of
National Biscuit
New York, N. Y

New York, N. Y.
Comrade Editor:
In our neighborhood the grocery
stores are still selling the National
Biscuit Company products. 1t seems
to me that our block organizations
should be doing something to stop
this. Some of the stores claim to
have old stock, but one store in par
ticular, at 255 First Avenue, seems
to have ample supplies and 1 am
told he gets it by mail. One store
which advertises in your paper also
has National Biscuit Company sup
plies on the shelves, claiming ii is
old stock. If we started some action
we'd get plenty of response.
u n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Suggests More Humor
For Popular Paper
BrooklYn.N.

brOCHlyu,N. I.
Comrade Editor:
I have read with lively interest
the discussion centering about pro-
ducing Daily" which would APP
peal to the masses. I have sever al
suggestions to make.
More features are needed. Why
not have Sender Garlin write 4 col
umn other than Change the
World?" Another suggestion IS q
column which satirizes the ruling
class" Get Robert Forsythe to write
it.
Get more humor and snorts.
agree with the comrade who re-
quested that the front page head
lines be written to reach non-sym-
pathetic readers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
ANTI-RED ALLIANCE

TOXIC, Jan. o. : Chang Kali
Shek, chief native agent of the
foreign capitalists in China, is
carrying on negotiations with the
japanese government, reports here
and in Geneva declare, whose main
object is to gain the support Of the
japanese nilitarists against the red
Army and Chinese Soviets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Required Reading for Mr.. Hearst

Ih with its instu ons belongs the people who
nhab it, Whenever they shall of the existing
en they exercise their uiona right of amending it,
their revolutionary right dismember overthrow it,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Vol on the N.R.A.

MATTHEW WOLL, who rails against
III Communists in Liberty" in letter
in the Scripps- Howard newspapers of Jan.
20, declares, 1.-THE principle Of high wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

w. R.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
King Who Reigned 10 Days
Left 10 Tons of Books

The libraries formed by Henry v,
Of France, and by the Empress Elisa
beth of Austria, have been acquired
by famous London bookseller and
will probably be exhibited to the pub
lie this fall.
Henry V, Of France, who reigned
for ten days in 1880 and died as the
Comte de Chambord in 1888, was
Henry, Duke of Bordeaux, grand.
son of Charles X, of France. His
magnificent library, consisting Of ten
tons of books in 81 huge cases, was
eventually left to the son of Don
Carlos-Don Jaime, Duke of Madrid
After negotiations lasting over yeac
1t has been bought from his heirs
and removed to London from the
Castle Of Frohsdorf, near Vienna.
Many of the books have superb
Louis XVI bindings, and a feature
of the library is an extraordinary
collection of French pamphlets writ
ten between 1920 and 1875, for and
against the monarchy.
The library left by the Empress
Elisabeth consists of huge number
of volumes in lavish bindings. LISTS
Coronation Mass, 1856, is in a spe.
cially ornate binding of salmon pink,
embossed with the arms of the en-
press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
Would Criminal Catch
Leprosy to Disguise
Telltale Fingerprints?

Would a desperate criminal be
willing to contract leprosy in or
der to escape the law?
DR.. Leonidio Ribeiro, director
of the bureau of Identification In Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, has made public
research which raises this question
for crime detectors. He gave convinc-
ing proofs, with photographs, that fin
gerprints Of persons with leprosy
change so greatly from what they were
before the illness that they are use
less for purposes of Identification.
Doctor Ribeiro's Investigations were
carried on in the colony for lepers in
Curupaity, Jacarepagua, Rio de
Janeiro. OF 200 cases examined for
his report, so per cent were found
to have changed fingerprints after the
onset of the disease. The number ex-
amined included both men and women.
In non-leprous persons, white streaks
were found in 10 per cent of those in
vestigated. In lepers, he found that
70 per cent had these white lines.
These lines so changed the papilliary
pattern that the prints no longer made
Identification by the fngerprint method
possible. Changes were not caused by
scar tissue, mutilation. liberation or
atrophy, but were found in lepers with
apparently normal finger tips. After
treatment the designs in many cases
reverted to normal.
It is estimated that there are more
than five million lepers in the world.
In this leper population there may be
many thousand criminals who, if their
crimes were committed before the on
set of their disease, could never be
identified by their finger prints.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
Shopping May Be Wearisome
Work or a Pleasant Adventure

Shopping has two aspects. One Is
of its tiresome element. The other
is of Its interesting element. 1t is
wearisome to stand about and wait
until busy statesmen have the chance
to wait on you In your right turn.
The walking from one store to an
other, and then through the shops,
in search of the needed, or wanted,
thing to accord with both preference
and price the purse permits, the
trying on of frocks, or being fitted
to articles, If clothes must be bought.
all these and many other of the ac-
tivities of shopping are tiresome, in
deed. Were it not for the pleasant
reverse side of the consideration,
stores would not be crowded, only
dire necessity would tempt purchas-
ers. Fortunately all shopping is not
of this sort.
Window shopping is the feature
that begins the pleasure, even be-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
Keeping Up
Wtjl6Seiien{e
&SeAn$Maye rn&e
Hurl Yep Models
Through Space at
200 Miles an Hour
Seek to Discover
Cause of Disasters

AROMA two-ton revolving
arm which hurls twelve-foot yep
pelin models through space at 200
miles an hour was exhibited to the
experts attending the lighter
than-air craft forum at the Daniel
Guggenheim Airship institute here.
The giant whirling arm-as long as
the average city block is wide-is de-
signed to make accurate tests on Yep
pelin models to check where the great
est strains occur in times of severe
storms; times of disasters like that
which caused the crash Of the Akron
off New Jersey.
The 12-foot-long model zeppelins,
whirled round and round by the de-
vice, have 60 small holes drilled in
them from the extreme nose to the
tail. Separate rubber tubes are con-
nected to each hole and the 60 tubes
run through the hollow, whirling arm
back to three-score manometers, which
indicate the air pressure at each given
hole in the hull.
The long glass tubes Of the mano-
meters contain red fluid whose relative
heights give an accurate picture to the
research scientists of the pressure
forces distributed along the, models
hull. AS final automatic touch, a
Photographic film passes behind the
tubes and makes a permanent record
Of the heights at one minute intervals
for each one-sixtieth Of the models
length.
knowledge gained from the tests will
be applied to the construction Of future
airships to make them more sturdy at
the points where they experience the
greatest strains.
The two-ton whirling arm which
makes 200-mile-an-heur speeds possible
is mounted 10 feet off the floor of the
laboratory on huge concrete and steel
base weighing four tons.
The arm resembles nothing so much
as the old-fashioned horse-powered feed
mill, which applied the elementary prin-
ciple of hitching horse to long pole,
made fast to the upright drive shaft of
the mill, and walking the horse round
in a circle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
Japanese Beetles Are
More Numerous Than
They Were Last Year

The Japanese beetle season is
now at it's peak. Although the
first beetles of the season were
found about a week later than
usual this year, warm sunny weather
during July helped the foliage de
stroyers to catch up to the schedule
Residents of parts of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania where the beetles
were first discovered in 1916 will be
pleased to learn that the beetles are
becoming less numerous in these 10
calities.
Unfortunately this cannot be said
Of other areas, for in general the
pests are more numerous this year
than usual. They appear to be slowly
spreading throughout the East in spite
of valiant efforts on the part of gov
eminent entomologists to check them
Large metropolitan areas Of New
York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, and
Baltimore are one field of noticeable
expansion for the beetles this year
They are being found there in city
streets and parks, as well as subur.
ban residential sections. Other points
outside the area of continuous infes-
tation report noticeable damage for
the first time.
This years increase was expected
by entomologists, because of favorable
weather conditions last summer.
One annoying feature of the beetle
season occurring during the past few
weeks was the sudden invasion Of New
Jersey beaches from the Atlantic high.
lands and Sea Bright to Manasquan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-20
California Bares
Gigantic Natural
Refrigerator Plant
Expect Thousands of
Tons of Dry Ice Daily

SAN FRANCISCO.-Nature
has provided raw material for
gigantic refrigeration plant by the
side of one of the greatest outdoor
lighthouses for winter fruits and
vegetables in the world-the I'm
perial and Coachella valleys of
southern California. Huge reserves of
natural carbon dioxide gas, from which
is made "dry ice," have been located
under the torrid Salton Sea basin OF
southern California, according to a
ciety.
One thousand tons of "dry ice" can
be produced each day at one location
on Mullet island alone, according to
Thomas B. Slate, pioneer construction
engineer in that field. The natural
pressure of 230 pounds to the square
inch reduces the artificial pressure nee
essary to turn the pure carbon dioxide
into its solid "dry ice" form, and can
sequently the cost is much less, esti-
mated by Mr.. Slate at $40 per ton.
Almost limitless possibilities in the
field of household refrigeration, air con-
ditioning, railway refrigeration, and
dairy technique are seen. Located as
they are on the transcontinental line
of the Southern Pacific, the gas fields
open new possibilities for the cheap
refrigeration of the vast tonnages OF
fruits and vegetables shipped eastward
across the continent every year. Not
only does dry ice" provide an ideal
cooling agent, according to Prof. G.
Ross Robertson, Of the University OF
California at Los Angeles, but the pure
gas itself, introduced into closed and
sealed freight car, creates an insulat-
ing blanket" which does not readily
conduct the outdoor heat.
Scientists are at loss to explain the
extreme purity of the Salton gas,
shown by tests to range from 99.1 to
99.6 per cent pure carbon dioxide.
There is no unpleasant inter-mixture Of
hydrogen sulphide, better known as rot
ten egg gas because Of its similarity
in odor to aging eggs. Like most nat
ural carbon dioxide, it is probably made
by the action of oxidized sulphur on
natural mineral carbonates such as
limestone. In this case, publication
is effected far below the surface by
some unknown process.
Although discovered some three years
ago, no reduction Of gas pressure has
been noted, indicating that almost linn
itless amounts of the gas are stored.
DR.. Dwight Roberts, California geo.
logist, estimates that about 35,OO0OOO,-
600 cubic feet of the gas are already
stored, capable of yielding nearly a
100000 tons Of "dry ice.'
Experience in Mexico has shown
| that carbon dioxide wells may run at
! full blast for years without diminution,
all of which suggests renewed supplies
by chemical action deep below the sur
face" said Professor Robertson.