The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1928, Page 2

atte dom eet ee eo ot Brges2 Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, -GOKILLED IN FOUR. DAY STORM OFF EUROPEAN COAST * Many Workers,Seamen Among the Dead PARIS, Nov. 18 (U.P).—The tail of a four-day storm, which took the ~ lives of more than 60 persons in England and Eure coast of France sea and land commur wrecking a number of b its dying tremors. The wind was of such intensity that ships which ordinarily make} as high as 18 knots an hour were! «reduced to less than one-third speed as they attempted to make Cher- bourg Harbor. Many of the ves- “sels which filled the harbor today < were damaged. Death Total Reports of additional deaths in *the storm continued to pour in to- day, making totals of at least 12 in France, 20 in England, 12 off the coast of Holland and many others in isolated towns. A belated dispatch from Amster- =dam told of the death of a sea cap- tain, his wife and their ten chil- dren. All were drowned when their small sailing vessel, Noordster, was sunk in the storm off Terschelling Island. Vessels arriving at Dutch ports reported terrific gales and high seas which struck terror to the hearts of passengers and sailors but no other disasters were reported. Workers Killed. Two sailors in the naval encamp- ment at Fecamp, France, on the English Channel, were washed from their boat and carried out to sea at the height of the storm today. Both were drowned. At Bethune two workmen repair- ing a wire line were struck by lightning and killed. At Hazebrouck three houses were washed away by the rain. Hazebrouck is in the de- partment of Noord. Wireless messages received at Dunkerque indicated © that two schooners had beenj abandoned by their crews. One ‘Wessel was at Sables D’Olonne, on the Bay of Bis- cay, and the other was wrecked apparently in the same vicinity. The crews of both vessels were saved, the report said. Fishing Boat Sunk. Five men drowned in a terrific gale which wrecked and sunk a fishing boat off the coast of Spain, dispatches from Aviles, Spain, said. Other dispatches reported high rivers in France, with damage of several million francs in the Isere River Valley where floods wrecked houses at Avignon and Grenoble. It was feared that the total. of deaths would be increased as de- layed reports reached Paris. number of fishing vessels were caught in the gale and some of them have not been reported. battering and ings in Rises, Shaw Again Lauds Mussolini; Jeers at the Italian Workers Continued from Page One paraging the war and repudiating A| \é grilled. trimmer. Grill Negro Seamen of “Vestris” They are, left to right, Samuel Ramsey and Geral Strong, firemen; Charles M. Harris, passenger; and Joseph Garner, coal The Negro seamen of the “Vestris,” who slaved hardest and re- ceived the lowest wages, have been vici- ously abused by many white passengers and flunkies of all sorts. But despite these slanders the truth of the heroic role they played is coming to| light. Now the Negro survivors are being | put on the witness stand in an effort to | hrow the blame for the disaster on them and their white fel- low-workers. Above BY FASGIST GOV'T for Union Activity (Red Aid Press Service) BERLIN, (By Mail).—After the betrayal of a few trade union of- ficials in Italy, who openly went over to fascism, trade unionists, who are opposed to the fascist-controlled are three Negro sea- trade unions, decided to organize men and a Negro pas- unions among the workers and to senger who have been | propagandize for free unions in,the | factories in spite of the fascist ter- ror. These free trade unions, which /must work illegally, have published an illegal trade union newspaper, | SHANGHAI POST OFFIC WORKERS GO ON STRIK The Postal Employees’ Union, one of the “seven big” in Shanghai, has been presenting wage increase and other demands to the Nanking government; four times since last spring. The Ministry of Communications, however, repeated- | i ly ignored and sidetracked the de- mands, though the cost of living in Shanghai has advanced enormously. This, coupled up with the reduction of a death gratuity, cuts in the wages of the employees engaged on jraft desks, as well as the deep sympathy with the Peking Postal Workers’ Union strike declared on the previous day against the han- dling of a local Japanese imperialist daily paper, precipitated the crisis. The crisis culminated in a gen- eral tie-up on October 2, when 3,000 employees of the lower ranks struck work and the entire Shanghai postal service system halted. The strikers gathered in the compound of the Central Office and fiery speeches were delivered. The municipal po- lice, outside, were powerless to in- tervene. Hence, in addition to the riot squad, a detachment of the Chinese Garrison was summoned. The combined armed forces, namely, the imperialist or so-called International Settlement, and the Kuomintang or so-called Chinese jnationalist forces, divided their “spheres of influence” as follows: The Kuomintang soldiers dispersed the mass meeting of the strikers and ejected them from the post of- fice compound with brutal force, while the “specials” received the ‘strikers on the street and gave them an addi- tional beating-up as well as stripped | off the uniforms from the letter carriers and then chased them away half naked or arrested them. Atrocities. | The joining of the Kuomintang | soldiers with the imperialist police and “specials,” and the atrocities inflicted upon the striking Chinese aroused indign&tion among the | Masses. Immediately, the Strike Commit- tee issued a manifesto of protest jagainst the armed forces, brutali- | ties and called upon the masses for | support of the strike. “The action Labor | imperialist police andj their assistance to the strikers. The Peking, Tientsin and Nanking postal -workers also sent messages of sympathy and encouragement. As early as 1925 the Shanghai Postal Employes Labor Union came nto being, but owing to craft divi- sions and inner disputes the clerks and assistants, or the so-called kigher-ups, did not join at the in- ception. The result was the estab- lishment of an organization of the ‘kigher-ups,” known as the “Shang- hai Postal Employes’ Association.” | This association (400 members) re- fused to join the strike and per- formed strikebreakers’ duties on the pretext that the “public welfare” must be eput above the individual interests and that a strike of gov- ernment employes is impermissable. For this “loyalty” the association ‘got the glorification of the imper- alist and Kuomintang press, as well as from the Nanking government ond Central Kuomintang offices. Denounce Scabs. The strike committee at once is- sued a statement denouncing the scabs. “The Shanghai Postal Em- ployes Association is a traitor to our class. We are not afraid of these traitors and we will resort to final measures in case of abso- lute necessity. ... The entire body of laborers in Shanghai and all postal workers throughout the coun- try are supporting us, etc.,” ciuded the statement. A strongly worded manifesto in |support of the strike and sharp condemnation of the strikebreakers was published on the third day of \the strike by many workers’ unions and clubs, The Shanghai post of. fice strike became very popular in- deed overnight. It had rapidly as- ter. In fact, the strike threatened tc develop into a general strike of Shanghai, or a general strike of |the post office employes of the |country, or both. “Battaglie Sindicala,” which waz | very much read, especially in Turin. | The fascist government has now |for some time carried on a hunt for those, against whom the fascist unions had declared war, and arrest- led a number of workers, whd were suspected of having taken part in the organization of these unions. The arrested workers appeared be- fore the special tribunal and were sentenced as follows: Venegoni to 10 years prison, Bron- | za to 7 and one half years, Bonte to |6 and one half years, Buona to 6 | years; Bianco, Ferraris and Os to 5 years each; Rey, Ceccherini, | mollo, Sardrone, Atanero to 4 years jeach and Vecchieri to 3 years. All of the prisoners are denied tacir | citizenship. TERROR RECORD |Workers Arrested on Many Counts (Red Aid Press Service) ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, (By Mail) ;—The royal minister, Jankowitsch, j has instituted libel proceedings |against the widow of the murdered | Croat leader, Raditch. At the same jtime three press processes were started against the widow. * * * Newspapers report that in Novi- con- | grad, Mate Ostritsch, who had just’ |returned from America, had been arrested, because he is said to have | spread various Communist pamph- jlets and leaflets, written in Serb- \Croatian language, among the | school children. * * * In Serajevo Magdalena Leonnar- itsch was sentenced to one year * to have insulted the parents of the king. In Novisad, a gardener, Nagy, was sentenced to three years in | prison for insulting the king. * * * IN YUGOSLAVIA the ideals for which the soldiers had,}of the Kuomintang and the imper- tas they believed, fought and suf- | ialist police is a direct insult to our fered and died. |national dignity,” declared the “This infuriated them, and they| manifesto. Further, it urged the found their spokesman and leader | strikers not to be afraid but rather Hence the Nanking government and the Kuomintang became ex-| On September 18 the police of |tremely alarmed. The central head- | Laibach arrested the worker, Vladis- |quarters of the Kuomintang in-|lay Maximov, on his way from |etruected the local Kuomintang to|QOdessa where he had worked. He |negotiate with the strikers. The was brought by two secret agents Municipal Council, etc., adopted an|to the political department of the |attitude of challenge, namely, un-| police. Since then he has disap- conditional surrender or discharge | peared. and break-up of the union and the jn Mussolini, a journalist and war veteran. He organized the fascist march on Rome, which went thru the scandalized liberal opposition like a red-hot shot through a pound ‘of butter. But when he had done this, and thereby, of course, upset the existing government, he had to organize a fascist government to carry on. And he did it. The hour had found its man. But he could not have done it otherwise than as a dictator. “Under such circumstances a dic- tatorship is a life-or-death necessity for the nation. rangling as to whether it was justified and twad-| dle about usurpation and are idle.” tyranny Why Organize Labor? “Selling Efficiency” to Bosses Is Much Easier The delegates of the “ local New York of the Int Typographical Un Typographical conferen in their report back to the “Big Six” membership show what they said at the conferen One of, the delegates, John an, idea of organizatio tion of salesmanship.” He cited t fact that his success was to sell competency to the non-union em- | ployer.” No bother with the non-union workers, just organize the bosses and the workers can take care of themselves or o the devil, that is Brother Sullivan's bright idea, British Mill Workers Threaten Walkout MANCHESTER, England, Nov. 18.—A strike is threatened at the big cotton waste mills of the Fails- worth Co. The workers are de- manding an improvement of the miserable working standards they ‘are forced to endure. The mill does not belong to the Master Spinners’ Federation, the employers’ organization. ‘ ‘dpaLantidbcatlidns Workers (¢ ona nt) Party for the en: the 40- reports | ! become bolder end remain firm to fight for the attainment of the full jlist of the demands; which were as follows: 1. That the wage system be re- | vised throughout the country ac- jcording to a uniform increase of | 58.88 per cent in each successive |rank and Shanghai employes to be given an allowance in addition. 2. That the postal regulations be revised within a year and thai representatives of the employes’ union be admitted to the committee appointed to carry out the revision. 8. That the postal authorities permit the ' ion, and al- $10,000 for its inauguration, end a subs'dy of $500 monthly. 4, That the postal authcrities ue $2,000 to the Shanghai Posta! | dering direct assistance to the loyal | Union and increase the |employes of the post office, and, | dis. members of the P. be exempted from the ittee tal end be given the | promotion he postal authorities is- 2,000 f e opening of a ol for employes’ children, and $200 per month for its maintenance. | 8. That an adequate solatium be |wiven to the family of a deceased employe. 9. That no limit be placed on \& leave, and medical expenses be borne by the post office authorities. | 10.—That the new year bonus of ene month's pay be issued to those | having less than three years’ ser- |vice and a bonus of two months’ | pay be issued to those having more than three years’ service, 11. That all employes be given holidays on Sundays and other gen- eral holidays and that extra pay be issued for work on these days. Five other demands of minor na- ture, one demanding restoration of a wage cut on draft desk workers. Mass Support. The response of mass support was prompt. Thus the next day sympathetic mass meetings were held by seven Shanghai labor unions. Other labor unions pledged immediate employment of strike- breakers, Of course the four hundred scabs were far from being able to run the postal service. The assistance of additional scabs was badly needed. | Not one of the strikers accepted the |inducements to return to work. | Finally it was agreed to utilize the Boy Scouts Association inasmuch as |this organization embraces all na- tionalities, including Chinese, The |Roy Scout Association Commis- |sioner at once gathered over two |hundred Scouts and “explained” to |them that, although the Boy Scouts Association is a non-political body, and its assistance: should not be jgiven in breaking strikes, but ow- ling to the fact that the post office strike is a grave danger to the “pub- ic,” there ‘is no “cbjection” to ren- furthermore, one should not forget ‘that their assistance is being re- rested by the postal authorities nationalist government, public at large of st Press. orning four hundred couts, mostly h, White Rus- stans, Japanese, American, ete., and la few Chinese, undertook the sort- The imperiel'st press was full of joy and most lavishly praised the heroism of the boy scouts. Not much less sympathy was expressed to the Japanese Street Union | (seabs, spies and shopkeepers’ or- | ganization) for joining the strike- breakers, ‘South Africa Fears New Bubonic Plague JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, | Nov. 16 (U.P).—-An army of rats, | guided by blind instinct, fled snap- ping in panic across the plains in the Cape Province today to escape what they seemed to\ know, though human experts cannot yet be cer- tain, was an outbreak of bubonic plague. Three Europeans have died with- in 48 hours and three others are gravely ill of what phvsicians be- lieve is an outbreak of the Mack, rg-out and delivery of the mail. | Oil Workers Lives Are Endangered in Blaze PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 18.— Lives of bil workers and fire fight- ers alike were imperiled in a blaze that threatened the Bisbee Linseed Oil Works here. Bags of sawdust, stacked in the |form of an encircling wall, were | utilized last night to hold in check streams of blazing oil which threat- ened the plant. terless battle which started shortly | before midnight when an 800-gallon still boiled over and the contents j ignited from the fire beneath, The firefighters worked in~ con- stant danger of the flames spread- ing to more than a score of other large stills and oil vats. The pres- ent building replaces the plant de- stroyed by fire several years ago. Younes Pioneers Form Branch in Chester, Pa. CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).-A Chester branch of the Young Pion- eers of America has been organized. The branch has 11 members. At a meeting last Sunday, Comrades Gittelman and Robinson spoke for the Workers Party. \Irish Bus Drivers Win Belfast Strike BELFAST, Ireland, Nov. 18— Four hundred busmen of Belfast who have been on strike against the victimization of a union worker have won their demands. Also ‘the Belfast Omnibus Company has been forced to recognize the Amalga- mated Transport and General Work- Jers’ Union. The worker who was |fired has been + #istated. L. 1. R. R. KILLS SIX Six persons were killed by Long Island Railroad trains within seven hours yesterday. Four brothers were killed when a car in which they were riding was struck this aftewroon. An elderly man and his wife were killed a few hours later lin a similar crash, Four fire companies fought a wa- | RK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928 IN NEW YORK '13 Workers Sentenced Hold Meet of Women’s’ Committee A meeting of the Women’s Com- mittee of the National | Workers’ Union was held Sunday, | November 18, at 10-a, m. in the of- ficé of the National Union, at 104 Fifth Ave. Ellen Dawson came in from New Bedford and Sonia Kaross from Easthampton, Mass., | to attend the meeting. Local heddquarters have been opened in New York City by Di trict 1 of the National Textile Workers’ Union, at 247 Sixth Ave., (corner 16th St.) according to a statement of Sarah Chernow, or-| ganizer. This district which covers | New York City and vicinity con- | tains about 36,000 textile workers. Besides the workers on cloth and rayon there are about 15,000 work- lers on knitgoods alone, making sweaters, jersey cloth, knitted caps and gloves. Many of these work-} jers get as little as $12 a week, with |no extra pay for overtime or legal holidays. Although they are sup- posed to work only 48 hours a week |the usual week is a 55 or 60 hour jone. At the American Knitgoods Co., 158 West 24th St., for exam- | ple, where the working week is sup- |posed to be 46 hours, girls work every night till 7 o’clock and the} whole day on Saturday. The work-| ers at the Franklin Knitting Mill, 511 East 72nd St., and in the great majority of mills in New York,| work very long hours for extremely \low “wages. | “We expect a big membership | from these exploited workers,” said | organizer Chernow. ‘They have | shown they are fighters. In. our} last strike in 1924, we put up a bit- ter six weeks’ struggle in spite of the bad leadership of the United} Textile Workers, whose officials tried to discourage mass picketing and every other really effective way of winning the strike.” | Local headquarters have also been opened at 151 Broadway, in| Paterson, N. J. The response of | the dye workers in the organization | | drive of the National Textile Work- | |ers’ Union shows its timeliness and | proves the falseness of the policy| |of the officials of the Associated | | Silk Workers, who opposed such al campaign. \Australians Will Vote ‘Upon Natiovalist and) \Labor Party Nominees | | MELBOURNE, Nov. 18.—Voters jof Australia are to ballot Saturday sumed a mass and political charac- | prison becausein 1927 she is said|for offices of the Commonwealth |government between the Nationalist Party led by Stanley Bruce, present |premier, and James Scullin, leader of the Labor Party. | Twelve of the 36 seats in the sen- ate are to be filled by Saturday’s jelections. The conservative Na- |tionalist Party has now a majority jof 26 in the senate. . Following much the same schem- \ing policy as Baldwin of England, Bruce attacks the wishy-washy la- jbor leaders as “reds.” Following jthe example of MacDonald of Eng- \land, Labor Party leaders deny the |charze vigorously and have expelled all elements who, by. their fight against class collaboration and de- fense of the interests of the workers, are suspected of being Conmuniate Drive to Organize Paper Bag Workers An organization campaign is be- ing conducted in the paper bag fac- teries of New York, by the Inter-. national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul- phite and Paper Mill Workers, ac- cording to an announcement by the brotherhood. A mass meeting of these workers will be held tomor- row at 8 p. m. at Grand Mansion, 73 Ludlow St., New York. WIFE SLAYE® TAKES LIFE. NELIGH, Neb., Nov. 18 (UP).— Ernest Witmere, young farmer who killed his wife on September 26 “because she smoked cigorets,” com: mitted suicide in his cel] in the coun- ty jail here by taking strychnine poisoning. 5 Years Saturday, January 5th. DAY OPEN! KEEP THIS | Textile péigcialist Soviet Republics, to an in- “When the railway train crosses the border into the Soviet Union the very atmosphere changes with the crew. There is an end of surliness and suspicion, all are comradely and friendly.” Thus did William Gropper, revo- lutionary American artist, describe his first reaction to the Union of ‘view for the Daily Worker. He had just come back from the Soviet Union, and had stopped on his way |in France, Germany and Austria, | making contacts everywhere with workers. perience of the newly returned, but in his case it is even more enthus- iastic, beause more embracing, more piercing and more understanding. “In Russia there is life and en- ‘TRADE UNIONISTS OPEN OFFICES | |GROPPER, PROLETARIAN JAILED IN ITALY) OFMILLUNION ARTIST, RETURNS HERE a girl who etches decorations on finished glass. There will be beau- tiful and modern pictures taken through sheets of glass, through tumblers; the glass worker will be shown at his work and the girl at hers. And there will-be pictures as well of the nurseries the factories have built for the children of wom- en who are employed, of the clubs and the method of factory govern- ment and recreation. “This is the method by which a picture is made as well as by which | life generally is carried on. Every- | one is a worker. Everyone belongs His experience is the typical ex-| to a union. There are unions not} | only for peasants and artisans, but |for philosophers, teachers, musi- cians, actors and writers as well.” In the six months that Comrade | Gropper spent in Russia he worked thusiasm,” he almost shouts, ges- | 25 an artist for a number of news- ‘MILITANTS IN - PALESTINE ARE IMPRISONED Raids, Deportations, Arrests Many (Red Aid Press Service) JERUSALEM (By Mail).—Raids, |arrests ard deportations against revoluticnary workers are taking place’ in all parts of Palestine. Such reports reach us daily from various towns. The worker, Chansch Holdmann, was deported after he had spent two months in jail for taking part in a demonstration against the con- ditions in the prisons and the pun- ishment of political prisoners. | ticulating with his hands, | artists and writers as well as ac-/| |one end of the table sits a worker | Daily Worker will be celebrated in Manhattan Opera House But Bill) | Gropper did not even attempt to tell | the interviewer everything. He| | imited his remarks to one incident. “Everyone participates in the life | of the country. It is all-inclusive | }and serious. The feeling of higher | and lower is gone. All that re-) mains is the respect and self-respect | that workers have for their com- rades and themselves. | “But I was telling you about the} meeting of the Motion Picture! Workers’ Union,” he continues. “Everyone is invited. There are} tors, camera men and a director. At or a peasant. They sit sand drink | tea until some one says, perhaps: ‘What would be interesting?’ “«T work in a glass factory,’ says the worker, ‘I should like to see a picture about a glass factory.’ “The artist and the cameraman are enthusiastic. They will make; their story happen in a glass fac- tory. The man will be a glass blower and he will fall in love with |Gropper worked with the revolu-| In Tel-Aviv there were five raids on workers’ homes. Four workers were arrested, charged with belong- papers and magazines including Pravda and Bezbozhnik, After his first month in Moscow, spent: as a guest of the Voks (USSR Society | ing either to the Communist Party, for Cultural Relations) on the occa-|to the Young Communist League or sion of the celebration of the Tenth|to the Red Aid. ie Anniversary of the Revolution, he| Int Haifa two raids took place, in travelled through the country, into|Bin-Jamina the police searched two the Ukraine and the Caucasus. In| workers’ homes and arrested the the latter country he and his wife | ccupants, worked in the fields among the| ,In Jerusalem the arrest of the peasants. | working woman, Sonia Reginska, While he was in Berlin Comrade |*7d her eight-year-old child has | caused great protest from the work- i | ers? organizations. All attempts, at aot tli Terie eine acts least to bring about the release of Fahne (Red Flag) and in Paris on| the child, have until now failed. Henri Barbusse’s Le Monde. In the Both mother and child are to be de- latter city Comrage Gropper ar- Ported. ranged for the publication of a vol-| |ume of Russian drawings, copies of Poor Relief Officials which, in Yiddish and English, will shortly be on sale in New York. In the little time thatthe reporter could take to look through proofs of this volume, as well as in folios of thac decd it a te ine Pah | LONDON, Nov. 18.—Stories of i oe awn gs, 4 rans the at harsh treatment told by unemployed e Russian experience has been of | ..orkers and their families show how great advantage to Gropper’s work.|.4. British government-is attacking Force Down Payments ito British Unemployed PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 18.— The mock grand jury investigation of police corruption and racketeer- ing in this city adjourncd at 2:15 a. m. today after an extraordinary session during which the twenty- three employes of the Piccadilly Cafe were quizzed more than five hours. District Attorney Monaghan left City Hall shortly before 3 a. m- aft- er leaving sealed instructions for GRAFT “INQUIRY” IS ON IN PHILADELPHIA attorhey commented; “there will be| several learned among other things that the Piccadilly Cafe has. been getting $25 | a quart for wine and $10 a pint for whiskey.” ny the working class for the benefit of the capitalist taxpayers. At a Newport conference’ of trade junion representatives. county coun- cillors and members of parliament, it was shown that government’ com- missioners in the Bedwellty Poor Law Union had cut relief to the attaches of his office. He declined Point where the poor were in utter to reveal what he had learned from | ‘tarvation. the grilling of the night club work- | ers, but said important arrests wil! | § be made today. Children are unable to attend chool for lack of clothes and shoes. Aged workers are ejected from their homes for not paying rent because the entire lack of relief or receipt of so little that all is taken on food, makes payment impossible. Families of 5 and 6 members are compelled to live and pay rent on a sum no n+re than $5 a week. 1,0¢0Q British Silk “We obtained some surprising fig- ares and information,” the district | We important arrests. 17 Firemen Overcome by Fumes in Blaze Seventeen firemen were overcome by smoke, sewer gas and carbon monoxide while attempting to put out a fire in the basement of the Melrose - Stock /Paper company plant at 18-22 E. 133rd St. early yesterday morning. Ten of these. were overcome so badly that they needed medical aid. To keep the blaze from spread- ing throughout the entire building, most of the firemen stayed in the basement until the fire had been put out, and until many of them had almost succumbed. English Farm Owners Fire Union Laborers LONDON, Nov. 18. — William Holmes, of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, has issued an account of the fight the union is making’to organize the land workers. Land owners, he says, uses every effort to prevent organization, and that there have been 400 union mem- bers discharged by the land owners so far this year. BUSINESS REJOICES BLOOMBERG, Pa., Nov. 18.—A banquet and parade organized by business men here, with the favor of the bankers, yesterday in- |auguated the opening of the four- | |teen mile improved road between | |Benton and Shickshinny. The road | |taps a farming country. The Workers (Communist) Party | tights for the organization of the unorganized workers. of the Workers on Strike LONDON, Nov. 18.—At Peterbor- ough there are 1,000 workers on strike at the Celta Artificial Silk | Works. The Celta Mills have always refused to recognize the trade union, The workers are fighting for better conditions. Negotiations are going 12 Dead When Small | Sailing Ship Sinks AMSTERDAM, Nov, 18 (UP).— Reports today told of the death of the captain of a small sailiny ves- sel, his wife and their ten children when the craft was sunk off Ter- ; Schelling Island. Although no other disasters were reported here all vessels arriving at Dutch ports had encountered fierce winds and rain. Sailors said seas were ‘running high and probably a number of smaller vessels had been wrecked. on, but the workers refuse to go jback to work until final settlement is made. TREASURY BALANCE, WASHINGTON, Noy. 18 (U,P).— The treasury net balance for No- vember 14 was $136,726,768.73. Customs receipts this month to the 14th were $22,560,908.69. AMERICAN NEGRO PROBLEMS by JOHN PEPPER The most thoro and clearest analysis of the problems confronting the American Negroes today. 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