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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
Shut Your Eyes and Vote"

In Prof. Raymond G. Moeys magazine ''Today" Edward
G. Lowry writes; . w
"The members of Congress don't know uOhat they
legisLang about. They don't understand the effect
or the purpose of some of the they enact
ing This is LITERAL They confess it friends, and they
unhappy about It. Take the AAA amendments, for
example. talked about them Nth tue Senators, old
friends.
"'What do they mean? What effect ,Oiu they haze?
Are they necessarily
"T don't knOw.'
":Didn't you study them and examine ther?'
swell, yesterday morning before they up to
the floor sent for the texts and tried to read them
carefully ! could, and Uhen got the floor
talked with of the sOho supposed knOw
all about the subject But confess don't understand
them and can't explain them to you / VOTED FOR
THEM because the President Wanted them and recon-
n,endcd then1 OF course knorO that's sUay egs
late but What to do? So much stuff up
here that haze time to study and examine it be-
fore acting'"
Seldom has franker admission been made that
gressmen have not only surrendered their rights and
duties to the White House, but what passes for their brains
as well .....,..,....,. ...
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A Political Tax Bill
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Senator Barbour Of New Jer.
sey gives the reasons why the
tax bill which the House has
just passed in supine silence
will retard rather than hasten
recovery. He puts the case so
plainly that "he who runs may
read"
This extraordinary measure,
he points out, seeks to curb the
creation of wealth in every
State in the Union, regardless
of whether the wealth has been
honestly or dishonesty &C.
quired, regardless of whether it
represents the savings of the
hard-working well-to-do or the
surplus Of the idler, regardless
Of whether it is used to promote
the public welfare or to Sacri-
flee the public welfare to serve
some sinister special interest.
ATTENDANT EVILS
Because it is drafted for the
purpose. of curbing the creation
of wealth alike by the thrifty
and the Spendthrift and the
miSer, Senator Barbour points
out that this tax bill is open to
the following specific objec-
tons:
FirSt-It will operate as .
curb on private initiative.
Second-It is contrary to all
sound economics and Is "a
threat both to living standards
and to employment"
Third-Its objective is not to
balance the budget but to gar
ner votes by encouraging the
many to believe that the quick.
est way to pay for the New Deal
program is by penalizing all who
earn anu save
Fourth-It ignores the prin.
cipIe of taxation expressed by
Woodrow Wilson in 1919 when
he said:
"There is a point at which in
peace times high rates Of income
and profits taxes discourage
energy, remove the incentive to
new enterprise, encourage ex-
travagant expenditures and pro"
duce industrial StagnatiOn with
consequent unemployment and
other attendant evils"
Senator Barbour takes the old
fashioned position that taxa
ton is a scientific problem to
be approached with caution, so
that in any tax system as a
whole the principle of ability to
pay is soundly established. He
even goes back to the theory Of
taxation set forth by the franz
ers of the Federal Constitution.
They commended that taxation
has but one function which is
to raise revenue for the legiti-
mate operating expenses Of gov
eminent.
The trouble with Senator
Barbour's analysis of the tax
bill which the Senate will now
debate is that he fails to take
into account the political rea-
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sons for the drafting, submis-
sion and jamming of this bill
through the Congress in mid.
summer. Nobody at either end
of Constitution Avenue seri.
ously pretends that this is a
tax bill to raise revenue. It is
generally admitted in the cloak
rooms Of both Houses of Con.
gress that this is a tax bill to
raise votes.
The genesis of this bill is to
be found in the radical propos-
ais put forth from Louisiana,
Wisconsin, Michigan and Cali
fornia. The Administration is
following what it believes to be
the first rule Of politics-it is
seeking to consolidate it's own
preferred followers. These are
the radicals.
This bill was drafted to win
the votes of the radicals in the
coming congressional campaign.
It was drafted upon the theory
that the Solid South would not
dare vote against it and that
the West would jump at the
chance to support it. With the
votes of. the South and West
the Administration hopes to
win the next presidential cleo.
ton. That is all there is to
the present tax bill. That is
why it passed the House in
silence, and why so few of its
supporters in the Senate have
attempted to defend it.
OLD DEALERS
In analysing this political
bill from the standpoint Of a
tax-paying citizen Senator Bar
bour lays himself open to the
charge Of being influenced by
the constitutional views of such
d-fashioned Americans as
Grover Cleveland and Calvin
Coolidge. Their philosophy
was we'll expressed in the in
augural address of the latter.
Speaking from the East Front
of the Capitol March 4, 1925,
Mr.. Coolidge said:
"The only constitutional tax
is the tax which ministers to
public necessity. The cOllec-
ton of any taxes which are
not absolutely required, which
do not beyond reasonable doubt
contribute to the public vel
fare, is only a species Of legal
lied larcency."
But both Grover Cleveland
and Calvin Coolidge were firm
believers in the government OF
the Constitution. Both were
opposed to Europeanizing the
American system of govern
ment established by washing
ton and saved by Lincoln.
They were Old Dealers in that
they believed in the superiority
of the American system to
that of any system in Europe.
If Senator Barbour is not care
full he may be accused OF echo
ing their sentiments.
copyright, 1885. The Washington
TimeS.)
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Early rising has several
points in its favor, such as get
ting first crack at the bathroom
and the best of the coffee brew,
but it is likely to lead to melan-
cholia if you happen to be with
a weekend group of late sleep
ers. One can roam about alone
just so long, and then madness
sets in.
The man who finds himself,
either because Of abundant
health or an uncomfortable bed,
up early in the morning on a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
Once Overs

You leave home in a bellig'
erent mood.
You are prepared to fight
your way into conveyances and
are not adverse to crowding
women aside as well as others
less aggressive than you are.
If you drive a car, you give
little thought to the rights OF
others as long as you feel you
can avoid damage to your own
car or injury to yourself.
You crowd into lanes Of travel
to which you are not entitled.
In many ways you have lost
those fine attributes which be-
long to a fair-minded human
being. a
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When the Hole had its
foreclosure on District property
amid some ceremony there was
considerable tumult and shout
ing as Harvey Jacobs, general
counsel for the New Deal
agency, bought in the property:
Although that 1DGS the first
foreclosure sale in the District,
torecloSe on its mortgages SO9
the Hole has been forced to
times in the States.
Considerable care has been
exercised, however, to foreclose
on only those lands that have
been abandoned or where the
owners refused obstinately to
make their payments.
The Government agency has
no desire to buy in large par
GELS Of the land on which they
lent money and as q matter OF
fact is being most lenicnt In
the majority Of cases so as not
to be forced to acquire prop
erty from borrowers.
Despite their objections to
the rule of Secretary Of Int
rior Harold L. 1ckes. many
members of Congress have re-
trained from attacking him
because of the fear of loss Of
public works allotmentS.
It appears, however, that
Representative Francis D. Cul-
kin, Of New York. believes in
voicing his criticism.
Taking Ickes to task for an
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that he will
pla &c his
name on only
one more bal
lOt-and that
as q delegate
to t h e Re-
publican Ma
tiOnal G on
ventiOn.
Persons who
know Reed,
however, say
that he con-
tin u e S to
h a v e t h e
thought that
some daY he
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
WISE WORDS

But, soon or late, the fact grows
plain
To all through sorrows test:
The only folks who give us pain
Are those we love the best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
But be not afraid Of great
ness; some are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Shakespeare.
He has seen but half the uni
verse who never has been shewn
the house of pain-Emerson.
Nature has given women so
much power that the law has
very wisely given them little
Samuel JohnsoHN
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t hr ough fu-
ture nouriSh-
n1ent. So it
i S W i t h
y o u ngSterS
lacking jobs
a n d educa-
ton on the
threshold of
lif e. TIL e Y
OOA ! "a ! ! " AL
s o C. I A L
M ALNUTRI-
TON, a n d
if this state
is prolonged,
t h ey cannot
flIllV recover
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
What Effect?


Have you realized how self
ish, arrogant and discourteous
you have become since you have
been a resident Of a large city?
You had a kindly feeling for
everyone when you left the
little town where you knew
everyone.
You are just the opposite
now.
You think only of yourself as
you mingle in the crowds Of the
big city.
You walk right over those
who through no fault of their
own, interfere with what you
want to do
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'Tckes is q third-rate lawyer
and is without experience or
background in the matter OF
public works.
Numerous other statements
and releases made by him to
the public press bristle with
falsehOOds about Congress and
show that Honest HarOld'S
ghost writer's Of whom there
are more than three score un.
lawfully on the pay rolls OF his
various activities, are as ignor.
ant as himself on the various
problems Of national develop
ment."
Copyright, 1885. The Washington Tmesf
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q r { ! 10 IN
which he con"
dennned Con.
gre SIS for
W a s t e I u !
S p e n din g.
Culkin S a d
recently:
'"The fact
is that Con-
gresS, which
has been pill
IOried by this
bureau CIR t,
has ever been
most cOnServ-
alive as to
public spend
H.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07

In Pittsburgh, former Sen"
ator David A. Reed, cOnServa-
tive RenmhIinan. has announced
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
The Early Worm
BIZ RObert BenchLey

slumber so that possibly they
may awaken by themselves.
Stumbling over chairs, playing
the radio, or even a well,spotted
coughing spell have been known
to accomplish this, but you can't
count on it. Usually the best
you can get is the weak salts
faction of hearing someone roll
over.
There are always four or five
books on a shelf in a beach
house or sailboat, but somehow
they never seem to fit in with a
9 a. m. mood. 1.-THE Golden o.
trich," lost Heritage" Lady
Alice'S Compact" and Modern
Clipper Ships" all of them look"
ing as if they had, at some time,
been dipped in brine, usually
constitute the layout, with
possibly a copy of last weeks
"Time" and a "New Yorker"
with the cover torn off.
Then when brooding sets in.
You have no right to be off on
this junket, anyway, with all
that work to do at home. The
office may be calling for you at
this very minute. The house
may be on fire. Your embezzle-
ment may have been discovered.
What are you making of your
life, anyway?
Pacing up and down, smoking
innumerable cigarettes, shadow
boxing-none of these expe-
dents serve to calm you. But
they wear you out, so that, by the
time the other members of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
The Deadliest Starvation

children suffering from
malnutrition in their early
years can never make up
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07

party have come peering out for
breakfast, you are overcome
with a belated drowSiness, and
sleep like a tired child during
whatever excitement may fol-
low.
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Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-07
The Greatest Show On Earth
Blu John Snure, T.

n. = horse will be drawn from the
- political grab-bag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Rallies Called Reports Show
F or Chicago Nazi Economy
Youth Nominee On the Skids

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Jacob Arvey,
Democratic boss Of the Twenty
Fourth Ward, who is being opposed
as Aldermanic candidate by youth
full Samuel Lissitz, workers nominee
endorsed by the Communist Party,
is making every effort to intimidate
Lissitz' supporters.
Arvey's henchmen have been
making systematic visits to all who
signed Lissitz' nominating petitions
in an effort to persuade them to
withdraw their signatures and thus
void Lissitz candidacy. The names
Of registered voters have been
stricken from the rolls Of the cleo
ton board to create an excuse for
challenging Lissitz' petition.
The reply Of Lissitz' supporters TO
this drive is two mass meetings on
Friday to demonstrate the wide
spread popularity of their candidate
In the Twenty-Fourth Ward. One
meeting will be held in the Vim
chovsky Hall, 1904 West Roosevelt
Road, and the other will be at the
Culture Center, 1928 West Roosevelt
Road.
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longshoremen-and particularly the
heckers-have, on their own i1iti-
alive, undertaken to give practical
support to the struggle of the
teamsters. This is in sharp contrast
to their attitude of craft Separation
and narrowness of few years ago.
For example, the checkers on the
important Bush Terminal Docks
have repeatedly refused to check
goods handled by union truck
drivers. Checkers and longshore-
men on nearly all docks in the city
have made it hot for the non-union
teamsters, have deliberately slowed
down and hampered the movement
of non-union trucking.
The bosses injunction attack and
the maneuvers of the bureaucrats
aim precisely at smashing this soli-
darity, basic principle of the rank
and file movement in the trade
unions brought powerfully to the
fore in the great West Coast ma
rine strike and the San Francisco
general strike.
Took 1t On "the Chin"
So fearful are the A. F. of L.
misleaders of the developing unity
of the workers that Ryan found it
necessary last Monday morning to
make an appearance, for the first
time in years, at the early morning
shape-up on the Cunard piers, in
order to deliver a talk to the long
shoremen, warning them against
taking any sympathetic strike ac-
ton with the teamsters. Two days
later special and well prepared"
meeting of the important deep
water local, No. 791, was called in
order to railroad through motion
committing the longshoremen to a
non-strike policy until the expira-
ton of the present agreement on
Oct. l. Ryan took personal charge
of this meeting. In his speech, de-
voted almost entirely to attacking
the rank and file movement and the
Communists, Ryan referred to his
stinging defeat in San Francisco
last summer, saying. Il took it on
the chin from the Communists on
the West Coast
Ryan knows that the fighting
rank and file leadership of the San
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

Ign. Here the vote for the impor-
tant position of business agent was
125 for the progressive candidate,
openly backed by the rank and file
group in the local, as against 1872
for the machine candidate,
Fighting Spirit Rising
1t is clear that the fighting spirit
of the New York longshoremen is
rising, that they are more ready
than ever to struggle against the
employers and the treacherous lead
ership of the I. L. A. officials,
against layoffs, speed-up, racketeer-
ing, discrimination and starvation
earnings. This situation, together
with the looming big struggle
against the Humphrey union
smashing injunction, means that
the militant elements and Commu-
nists inside the I. L. A. must i'm
prove and increase their activity.
Committees Of action and rank and
file groups must be set up in each
local and on each dock. The Com
munist Party dock nuclei and union
fractions must be built up by re-
cruiting as rapidly as possible the
most advanced and militant work
ers. Unless the Communist Party is
built up and becomes the firm back
bone of the whole movement, the
rank and file longshoremen will not
be able to meet the attacks of the
bosses and the bureaucrats.
An important task of the mill
tants and Communists in the LILA.
is to draw the masses of longshore-
men into attending their local union
meetings, and in those cases where
the locals do not meet to develop a
mass campaign for such meetings,
The rank and file movement must
prove itself the most active and
constructive elements on the docks.
They must prove that they are try
ing to build the I. L. A. locals into
effective weapons for defending the
daily interests of the membership.
The struggle against the bureau
Gratis must be carried forward on
the basis of concrete. positive pro-
posals, instead Of, as has been too
much the case in the past, through
general attacks and charges. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

theory that the I. L. A. in New
York is Just a racketeering appa-
ratus, which it is impossible for the
longshoremen to transform into an
instrument for struggle against the
shipowners, must be rooted out.
Joint Action Necessary
OF basic Importance in developing
the work in the 1, L. A. is the ques-
ton of solidarity and joint action
among the waterfront crafts. The
strategic and tactical lessons of the
West Coast marine strike must be
constantly and widely popularized.
The rank and file policy of Great
ing a Waterfront Federation, a
fighting alliance of longshoremen,
teamsters and seamen, must be
placed in the very center of all agi-
tation and activity. This means
also that the neglected and very Sc
rious problem of concentration work
among the teamsters must be
tackled without delay.
The leading role of the Party in
the struggles of the longshoremen
must be brought to the fore. Ryan's
constant attacks and SANDERS
against the Communists must be
met by developing mass sale and
distribution Of the Daily Worker
and the low priced pamphlets on
the waterfront. On the basis of the
actual conditions and experiences of
the longshoremen, the Party's policy
on basic questions = unemployment
insurance, trade union unity, Negro
rights and liberation. the Labor
Party, the united front, the defense
of the Soviet Union, the struggle
against imperialist war and the
fight for Soviet power-can and
must be clarified.
The increased possibilities of mass
work among the longshoremen-and
the other marine crafts-the dan
gerous intensilcation of fascist re
action and war preparations, make
it more urgent than ever that the
District and Section committees
shall, as directed in the Open Let
ter, concentrate the fullest forces of
the Party for this most important
woodwork in basic industry,
among a decisive stratum OF the
New York working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
BY P A UL CLIN E

Francisco and other West Coast 1.
L. A. locals is a constant threat to
his bureaucratic power. It is a real
stimulus to the East Coast men to
build the rank and file movement
and wrest control of their union
apparatus from the misleaders. And
Ryan sees with growing alarm that
the New York longshoremen are be-
ginning to move in this direction,
that they are entering on the path
of rank and file organization and
action.
Defeat Ryan Proposal
An outstanding indication of this
was the successful struggle against
a proposal by Ryan to boost dues
from SO quarterly to $3.50. This
proposal was made shortly after the
signing of the new agreement in
the latter part of October. Locals
No. 808 and No. 800 overwhelmingly
voted down this proposed dues
boost. The rank and file groups de-
veloped an active agitational cam
paign against the dues increase. AS
a result the Ryan machine was
forced to make an open retreat and
withdraw it's proposal.
Another recent sign of the rising
militancy among the longshoremen
was the action of a group of long
shoremen on the Morgan Savannah
docks. This action was directed
against the squeezing out of forty
five men from the regular gangs
with resulting increase in speed
up) and was led by rank and file
workers over the head of the LILA.
delegates. The workers by acting in
body and militaptly placing theis
demands before the business agent
and the hiring boss we're able to
force certain concessions Suisse
quently at meeting of their local
union workers from these docks
took the floor and made an agrees
sive fight for motions on job protec-
ton, union democracy, etc. These
actions, though small in themselves,
are significant signs of developing
rank and file initiative and organ
ization
A further indication of the growth
of opposition sentiment to the Ryan
machine was the result of the recent
elections in Local No. 808, in Brook
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Maurice Sugar
Is Endorsed
By Auto Union
A. F. L. Federal Locals
Vote to Support Him
for Judgeship

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 12.-Mau-
rice Sugar, prominent labor attorney
and workers candidate for Judge Of
Recorders Court, has received the
endorsement of the United Automo-
bile Workers, afiliated to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. This au-
tomstically gives him the endorse
ment of all the federal locals Of the
U. A. w. in this city.
The campaign to elect Sugar is
gaining daily despite the conspiracy
Of silence on the part of those loyal
nouthpieces of the auto companies,
the capitalist press. He has been
endorsed by practically every section
Of the labor movement, including
the Detroit and Wayne County Fed
Grafton Of Labor "a. F. Of L., the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America, the Society Of Designing
Engineers, the Communist Party,
the Trade Union Unity League, the
International Labor Defense and
many others.
There will be no primary elections
for Recorders Judge this year be-
cause the withdrawal Of number
of candidates has left only eighteen,
the required number, in the field.
OF these eighteen, nine will be
chosen at the elections on April l.
Organizations and individuals are
urged to aid the campaign for Sugar
financially. Headquarters of the
campaign committee are at 101b
Barlum Tower. Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
W orkers in Industry Gel
Even Less Than
Minimum Wage

wooden workers was prevented In
July, 1894, and Wool Board was
set up by the N. r. A. which did
nothing to improve conditions.
1.-The general textile strike of
Sept. l, was betrayed by Francis
German, who aided Roosevelt and
the N. r. A. to drive the strikers
back to work. New investigations"
were ordered, new boards set up.
The new Works Assignment Boards,
like the Textile Labor Relations
Board, the Code Authority, the
Winant Board, and other N. R. A..
Boards, stalled the workers, denied
their demands, investigated de-
layed, hemmed and hawed, while
the manufacturers worsened con-
ditions still more and built up com
pany unions
Today, following Germans be-
trayal of the strike, thousands are
being fired for union activities,
evicted, and speeded up. Wages con-
tinue to go down. The workers de-
mand higher wages, union recogni-
ton, and end of the speedup, and
the thirty week with full pay.
Determined to Win
The honeyed words of MacMahon
and German. Have faith in Roose-
velt," do not have the same magic
they once had. The textile workers
are determined to win their de-
mands. In Paterson, in New Eng
land, in the South, and in the Al
lentown silk area, the workers in the
U. T. w. are holding rank and file
conferences, are demanding action
from their leaders, are preparing
strike.
A strike against the conditions
brought about by Roosevelt and N.
r. A, is brewing in the textile in
dustry. This time, German will find
betrayal by arbitration of Roosevelts
strikebreaking boards more difficult.