The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1932, Page 1

Samm (Bim TOMORROW IS THE DAY! The Ninth Anniversary Celebration of the Daily Worker, takes place tomorrow night, New Year's concert and ball have been arranged. Make this a powerful demonstration for Eve. A meeting, - the fighting champion, leader and organ- izer of the American workers. a demonstration for all the struggles that the Daily is leading. Make this Bronx Coliseum, tomorrow! “Dail Central ¥ (Section of the Communist es Nowker ° Rinunict Party U.S.A. 1. Send greetings fo Anniversary-Lenin the Daily Worker, SEND GREETINGS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION! r the special Ninth Memorial edition of Jan. 14, Get your friends and shepmates and pe yes greetings. Vol. IX, No. 312 In the Day’s News COLLISION KILLS 10 WORKERS WELLINGTON, N. Z., Dec. 29,— Ten out of the thirty workers were killed when a launch on which they were being transported, collided with a.small steamer in Napier Harbor, eel Se . HOOVER MAY GO TO JAPAN TOKYO, Dec. 29.—Directors of the Institute of Research in National Economy have informed the press that President Hoover may be invited to Japan after March 4th, to act as the institute adviser. It will be remembered that for many years Hoover performed yoeman service for British mining interests in grabbing Chinese mine property and exploiting miners in Australia—operations from which Hoover made huge profits. . * # TO COMPLETE DARWIN SURVEY LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—A small band of scientists embarked on a 200 foot craft today for a voyage to the volcanic Galapagos Islands. These were discovered just 100 years ago by Charles Darwin, who found the isles rich in Aboriginal specimens found nowhere else. The present expedition plans to extend the sur- vey of the islands and to recommend that they be established as a per- manent sanctuary of scientific re-| search, RUMBLINGS OF “OIL” FRICTION NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Lead/ng American oil companies will not yn- dertake any. open interference in the present controversy between the Per- sian government and the British oil interests. The outward “hands-off” policy was announced by B. R, Jack- son, American representative of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. who feels that with such a policy U. S. im- perialism can grab some concessions for itself. a MINE “ECONOMY” KILLS 13 BONYHAD,. Hungary, Dec. 29.—A mine explosion which Killed 13 miners and injured one at Nagmanyok, adds to the series of major mine disasters, due to “economy” operation by the mine companies, which have taken the lives of hundreds of miners. whims $277,730,841 FOR WAR PLANS ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Although president Hoover, in his budget mes- sage declared that the budget pro- vided for a decrease of $18,215,000 in military appropriations in the com- ing year, as compared with last year, a close examination of the budget revealed that in reality the budget is several million dollars greater and will amount to $277,730,841. No mo- ney for jobless but plenty for war preparations. . * DEMAND TAX ON WEALTH HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 29.—The 62,000 teachers of this State counter- ed the attempts to reduce their sal- aries with the declaration that there was sufficient wealth in the state to support the present public school program, and demanding that this wealth should be taxed so as to meet the expense. PATR@NIAGE JOBS SCARCE ALBANY, Dec. 29.—at least 1,600 hundred office seekers applied for j the 214 available jobs in the State Senate in anticipation of Jan. 4, when the Democratic Party takes control of the Senate. MRS. MOONEY GOES TO ALBANY Present “Mooney Re lease Demand to Roosevelt BULLETIN ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 29,—Presi- dent-elect Fraulilin Delano Roose- velt yesterday refused to see Mrst Mooney, who, accompanied by a delegation of the International La~ bor Defense, including William Patterson, and by representatives of the rank and file of A, F. of L. the state capitol here ask Roosevelt what he in- tends to do abo se oe eg rc son, Tom Mooney. “Pah ltt insists on being | cop te ee inca tail NEW YORK.—Mrs. Mary Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, went up to to ask President- Roosevelt. what he intends to fo about her son’s continued impri- sonment. Mrs. Mooney wired Gov. Roosevelt Tuesday, asking him to set an hour for her to see him Thursday afternoon. Up to the time of her departure from New York, no an- swer had been received. LOZOWICK AT FORUM NEW YORK. — Louis Lozowick, well known revolutionary artist and critic, will lecture on “The Political Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at “E> Now York, N.¥., under tho Act of March 3 187%. Let 16,000,000 Jobless Starve: has just returned over Eighty When the 3,000 National PROTEST CUT IN HOSPITAL STAFF 500 in Demonstration Against Dismissals NEW YORK—Hundreds of hos- pital workers supported by members of various working class organiza- tions, protested yesterday at the of- fice of J. G, William Greef, Com- missioner of Hospitals against the discharge of 800 foreign born work- ers and the intended dismissal of hundreds of others. At the same time, a delegation re- presenting the Hospital Workers League, and the Council for the Pro- tection of Foreign Born, both located at 799 Broadway, presented a peti- tion to Mr. Greef demanding im- mediate reinstatement of all dis- charged workers, abolition of the last wage-cut and an 8-hour day for all hospital employees. The petition presented by these organizations has the endorsement of Several other organizations such as the Federation of Social Service Workers, Independent Pharmacists Union, the International Labor De- fense, etc. ; The delegation composed of Dor- othy Wilkes, who led three other hospital workers, P. Olshen and E. C. Morgan, exposed Greef’s “econo- my,” wage-cutting program. “The cut of $1,500,000 in the Hos- pital Budget and the discharge of the foreign-born workers effects not only the 1,400 who were discharged, but is a blow at the standard of liv- ing of all the workers, native-born as well as foreign-born,” declared the committee. Hits Native Born Too “A general campaign has been launched against the non-citizen workers in the attempt to mislead those of us who are native-born into the belief that this is being done for our benefit.” The committee pointed out at the same time that the lay- offs were planned long before the idea of victimizing the foreign born was worked out by the city author- ities, and that no new additions to the hospital forces are intended by the city. ‘The alarming growth of deaths among neglected and destitute work- ers was given as a further reason by the delegates as to why the reduc- tion of the Hospital Budget consti- tutes a crime against the toiling population. Greef evasively replied that he agreed with the grievances voiced by the delegation, but could not do any- thing about it. The entire delegation replied that the organization of the hospital workers and their sympathizers will be extended in the effort to smash the attack of the City on the hos- pital workers. A mass meeting of protest will be announced in a few days, Prisoners Revolt Cartoon” at the John Reed Club, 450 Sixth Avenue, near 11th St tonight at 8 o'clock. in Attica Pen on Christmas Day ALBANY, N. Y., Dec, 29. — Disat- isfaction over rotten conditions, while President-elect Roosevelt was eating his 40-pound turkey, caused about 60 prisoners to revolt on Christmas Day in the new State prison at Attica. The prisoners were given a dose of tear gas. The capitalist press made much ado over Roosevelt's enormous Xmas repast, bub news of the revolt of prisoners was suppressed. The rebellion is one of a whole series of prison revolts sweeping the coun- try in the last few years. Hunger March Film to Be Shown Jan. 2 All workers and thelr sympathizers should not fail to see the Hunger March picture which ts presented for one day only, on Monday, Jan. 2, at the Fifth Ave. Theatre, 28th St. and Broadway, from 10 a.m, to midnight, under the auspices of the Workers’ Film and Photo League and the [League of Professional Groups. $80,583,504 TO BIGGEST BOSSES BY GOVERNMENT “TOG POOR” FOR REUEF Demands for Insurance, But Give Over | 52,000,000 to United Fruit Imperialists Swope and Wagner Propose Fake Insurance; Scientists Admit Payrolls Fell Two Thirds and Dividends Doubled in Last 8 Years WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.—The U. S. government big corporations and the richest men in the country. terests of 16,000,000 cold and starving unemployed demanded ~—* winter relief and unemploy- Starve; “Lose” Their | | Million Dollars tax refunds to Hunger Marchers, in the in- ment insurance, their demands were taken by Congress, and | lost somewhere between Speaker | Garner and the Ways and’ Means Committee. The national govern- ment, when it notices hunger at all, pleads “poverty.” But it has $80,583,504 for the big bosses. Six of the refunds were greater than a million dollars each. They were: United Fruit Company, $2,960,297.67. Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Oval Co., $2,189, 133.09, ° NationalAniline& Chemical Co., Inc., $1,455,693.62. Botany Worsted Mills (New Jersey), $1,446,027.57. Reading Railroad Co., $1,288,130.38. United States Cartridge Company, $1,221,096.70, Another large refund was one of $949,909.77, made to the Fair Stock Trust of Chicago. Two Million for Empire. ‘The United Fruit Co. is the spear head of Wall Street imperialism in Central America, and dominates Nic- aragua, Honduras and Guatemala. It got the largest gift from the U. S. Treasury, @ little subsidy to bribe more generals and hire more assas- sins. Pocket Money for Boss Politicians, Leaders of both big political par- ties got little tokens of esteem from the the biggest capitalist govern- ment. Andy Mellon, former secre- tary of the treasury, U. S. Ambassa~- dor to England, and owner of vast scab coal interests, was given $7,869, and his brother got $5,858. Chapin, secretary of commerce, got $3,746, Sam Reyburn, Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Inter- state and Foreign Commerce, was Biven $2,607. J. Henry Roroback, vice-chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee gets $10,167. Barny Baruch, Democratic boss and prob- able member of Roosevelt's cabinet, drew down $15,653. “To the victors belong the spoils.” “Just As Good.” Such a storm of demands irom employed and unemployed workers for unemployment insurance, such a number of demonsirations, including the National Hunger March and a score of state marchces, has broken loose, that the big industrialists can not entirely ignore it. They will not, without further pressure, grant what the workers want, but they have reached the stage of offering some- thing they try to say is “just as good.” Wagners P'lan. - Senator Wagner of New York, in a radio address Dec. 27 pointed out that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation wth $1,500,000,000 in its hands, had given out only $360,000 for relief work, principally construc- tion projects which gives more to contractors than to the unemployed. He proposed again his own special system of unemployment insurance, with small payments, administered by the state and with no workers’ control over it, thus establishing a neat blacklist system, Swope’s Swindle. Gerard Swope, president of “The General Electric Co., speaking at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, now in session at Atlantic City, praised his company’s particularly bad sys- tem, He asked that all work to make (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Hofstadter Committee Adopts Secret Report For Charter Changes NEW YORK.—By a strict Repub- lican vote, against the Democratic votes, the Hofstadter Committee (often referred to as the Seabury Committee becaus? Seabury was its attorney) adopted a report to the legislature embodying many of the suggested changes in the form of government which Seabury had re- commended. This is the committee that investigated the Tammany NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932 Florida Syn for Rockefeller While Hooverville Tenants Freeze STARVING RAID BAKERY WAGON Minnesota, N ew Jersey Jobless to March TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 29—Just be- fore Christmas, a group of 50 starv- ing unemployed rushed a bakery de- livery wagon and seized all the bread in it. Instead of giving more relief, the county authorities hired a deputy sheriff with a shot gun to ride the wagon hereafter. * * More State Marches NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 29.—The death of Lillian Sonnenberg, starved and without medical attention, on Christmas eve, at the very time an- other child of the family was elected on the children’s delegation to de- mand relief from Governor Moore, hhas filtered through working class districts and is rousing unemployed workers especially to struggle. Their next big drive for relief will be a state hunger march, with delegates from all the industrial cities of New Jersey, to reach Trenton Jan. 1, when the legislature is in session. Wednesday, workers of Hillside, where Lillian Sonnanberg died, held a mass meeting and called for all to rally to the Hunger March. Children Barred Out Governor Moore had police bar- Ticade the state house against the children. Mass support is needed for the demands of the State Hunger March. As proposed by the New Jer- sey Unemployed Councils, they are: | 1. Prevailing Trade Union Wages for all labor on public works for mu- nicipalities, counties, and _ state. Against all forms of forced labor, and for unemployment relief. 2. Winter Relief to the extent of $25 for each unemployed worker and $5 additional for each dependant. 3. No discrimination against single workers and Negroes in the distribu- tion of relief. 4. Immediate appropriation of funds for a broad system of public works, including the building of schools, roads and hospitals. The State and Hunger March Com- mittee appeals to all Unemployed Councils in the State of N. J. to or- ganize the unemployed in the blocks arid neighborhoods of their respective cities and towns to call mass meet- ings and carry on struggles for relief, to approach mass organizations and A.F.L. unions on the basis of winter relief, unemployment insurance and the fight against forced labor. Financial support and the election of delegates are to be strongly stress- ed in approaching all these groups, oy ee Iron Miners to March VIRGINIA, Minn., Dec. 29.—Senti- ment is spreading through the metal -mining districts for the Minnesota State Hunger March, to demand re- lief, some time in February. There is a case here of a farmer whose daughter died in the southern part of the state, and will not have a funeral because the family has money neither to bring the body here nor go there.” ee ae Cash for Mine Operators BUHL, Minn., Dec. 29.—Borgen, the county auditor, cut the school district levy $152,980 for 1932 on a law passed (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Celebrate 5-Year Plan Success at Daily Worker Affair Tomorrow! To millions of workers throughout the world, tomorrow night is some- thing more than the end of the old year and beginning of the new; it marks the successful completion of the first Five-Year Plan in the Soy- iet Union and the beginning of the second Vive-Year Plan. This world- historic event will be celebrated by thousands of New York workers when they gather tomorrow night in the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms load, at the celebration of the Ninth Anniversary of the ‘daily’ that prints the truth about the Five-Year Plan and fights unremit- tingly in defense of the Soviel Un- graft, and was easily satisfied by the resignation of Walker, and continu- ance of the Tammany system. ‘The report eae is secret until ion—the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker anniversary comes in the midst of unprecedented struggles of millions of American toilers against capitalist hunger, ter- \U. S. ARMING ITS ICOLOMBIAN TOOLS | Armed Forces of Three) Gorged with profits and tax re- turns to the companies he owns, Rockefeller, grandfather of trusts, wanders down to the golf links and warm sunshine of his palace, “The Casements” at Ormond Beach, Florida. Thousands of those whose toil made Rockefeller’s for- tune shiver, unemployed and hun- gry, in the tar paper shacks in the North, MANEUVER ON THE SALES TAX Try to Find New Ways of Putting It Over WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—The division in the Democratic Party ranks over the question of the sales tax, caused by fear of the bitter op- position to this robber scheme on the part of the millions of workers, farmers and small businessmen who voted the democrats into office at the last election, is forcing the demo- vering’ behind the scenes. With Governor Roosevelt Speaker Garner actively supporting it, and with republicans and¢demo- crats pulling together, everything was set to put across the sales tax in the present “lame-duck” session of Congress, but the democratic press the bag too soon. To save the face of Roosevelt, who conducted one of the mosf demagogic campaigns in American history under the slogan of championing “the forgotten man,” it was arranged to have Roosevelt back down on his support of the sales tax, This is a maneuver aimed to lull the masses into putting their faith in Roosevelt, while leaders of both parties hold secret conferences in an effort to find ways and means of putting over the sales tax in less brazen fashion. The Ways and Means Committee of the House, with the democrat, Collier, as chairman, has postponed its meeting “to survey the budget problem” from Jan. 3 to Jan. 4, in order to give more time for working out the strategy of the sales tax situation. At the same time it was announced that Roosevelt has invited Garner to‘confer with him next week on the delicate sub- ject of the budget, which both demo- crats and republicans are determined to balance by putting new burdens on the masses. Only the vigilance of the working and farming masses of this country and their active strug- gle against all sales tax and similar proposals can defeat these maneu- cratic leaders to do a lot of maneu- | | war. and} agents evidently let the cat out of| States in Motion BULLETIN. NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Eudicio Robinez, secretary of the Commu- nist Party of Peru, was arrested in Lima yesterday, in the drive of the government against the workers who are resisting the im- perialist war between Colombia and Peru, according to news dis- patches published in the Italian | Press here today. The charge | #gainst him is “circulation of anti- war propaganda.” The dispatch states that a vigorous persecution of all Communist Party leaders, who have been leading the strug- gle of the Peruvian workers against | war, is being carried on. | The Consolidated Aircraft Corpora- tion of Buffalo, N. Y., has just com- | pleted a large sea plane for the Co- Jombian government as part of the deliberate policy of U. S. imperial- | ism of arming its puppet states in| South America. The plane is for} use in the undeclared war now rag- ing between Colombia and Peru. The ‘New York Times makes the signifi- cant admission that “the big plane might be used in case of hostilities as a bomber,” Converge on Leticia. Meanwhile, the naval and military | forces of Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador are converging on Letticia, scene of the present armed conflict which reflects the bitter rivalry be- tween U. S. and British imperialists, | as well as the attempt of the South | American bourgeoisie to find a c: alist “way out” of the crisis through | A Colombian military expedition | has arrived at Para, Brazilian port, | for transport up the Amazon River | to the Leticia region. It is supported | by a strong naval force. The former | S. merchantman “Bridgetown” is | oad with mar munitions and 787 | soldiers. This vessel now converted into a gun boat was recently sold to} the Colombian government with the | knowledge and consent of the Wall Street government. It is also com- manded by an American, Captain Bertram Taylor, Brazil, Ecuador to Join War. Under the pretext of maintaining its “neutrality, the Brazilian govern- ment has sent a large land, sea and air force to Tabatinga, five miles from Leticia. Soth the governments of Brazil\and Ecuador already have made clear their intention of partici- pating with Colombia in the war with Peru. All three governments are under U. S. influence. Further North, in another unde- clared war, the Bolivian forces con- tinued yesterday to push their of- fensive against the Paraguayans, The present Bolivian offensive was madé possible by the timely arrival of huge war supplies from the United States. Anti-War Meet. Against this criminal war drive, the workers and intellectuals of South America are rallying to the call for an anti-war congress at Montevideo, Uruguay, February 28. They have calied on the workers, farmers and’ intellectuals of the U. vers. ror and war, struggles in which the “Daily” plays an all-important roje as teacher, leader and organizer cf the working masses. Tomorrow night's celebration will therefore be a nighty mass tribute to the work- ers’ fighting champion and a demon- stretiou of support for the campaign to build the Daily Worker into a powerful mass organ. Clarence Hathaway will read a statement of greetings from W. Z. Foster at this affair. ‘ An unusual concert and ball has been arranged. he program in- cludes: songs by modern Soviet com- posers, sung by Sergei Radamsky; the mother of Langston Hughes, noted Negro revolutionary poet, who will recite lynching poem by her son, after ich it will be sung by Marie F the International S. to support the congress. I Workers Order Symphony Orchestra; the New Dance Group; the Intter- national, Choruses, and the Freiheit Singing Society. After the concert there will be dancing till dawn, with music by a double brass band of Ne- gro and white musicians. Tickets are on sale at the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. They are 40 cents in advance, while if bought at the Coliseum, there will be an additional 20-cent press fund tax. ATTENTION, FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY MEMBERS! All members of the Freiheit Singing Society must come to the) | rehearsal for the Daily Worker | | anniversary celebration tomorrow | at 6 pm, at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms Road. | farmers and _ intellectuais, CITY EDITION organizations All greetings must be in not later than Jan- to send 8 Price 3 Cents _ MASS INDIGNATION AGAINST | MURDERERS OF NEGROES SWEEPS OVER THE SOUTH | Huge Mass Funeral Planned in Birmingham for Cliff James and Milo Bentley Next Monday as Protests Grow _| United Move of W hite and Negro Toilers force Release of Four of Jailed Croppers—Must Push Fight for BIRMNGHAM, Ala., Dec. the working-class districts of news of the deaths in jail of the two cro James and Milo Bentley—the | derous landlerd-police terror unleashed on Dec. Negro croppers of County. Cliff James, the ieader of the Sharecroppers Union at Notasulga! (Reeltown), was turned over to the | police by the heads of Tuskegee In- | stitute, when he tried to secure me- | dical attention at the Tuskegee hos- pital for his wounds, following the Battle of Reeltown in which Negro Tallapoosa croppers heroically resisted the arm- | lynch | ed attacks of landlord- police gangs. Landowners, Gov't Responsible White and Negro workers hold ma rich landowners and their BENE and county authorities a agents at Tuskegee In: responsible for the murder of James and Bentley. James was the second | Negro cropper betrayed to the police by the Tuskegee Judas leaders. There | is every indication that the Tuskegee | | heads participated with the landlords and police in every step of the mur- der drive to crush the resistance of the croppers to their starvation con- ditions and to break up the Share- croppers Union, leader of that re- sistance. Lynch Inciting Reformists The Tuskegee officials not only | aided the bosses in their drive on the Negro croppers and exploited farm- ers, but actually joined in the lynch- incitement against the Negro masses, as shown in the false information jgiven the police by Dr. Eugene A. Dibble, in which he deliberately mis- | quoted Cliff James as stating “he was |sorry he didn’t kill any of the offi- cers.” A few days before his death of neglected and infected wounds, James categorically repudiated Dibble’s lying | information to the police. James and Bentley were denied medical at- tention by the sheriffs. Following the death of James, Bentley was rushed to the Kilby prison hospital in a dying condition, He died two hours later. With the death of James and Bent- ley, the total toll of landlord-police murders of Negroes in the present | struggle is at least seven—not three as erroneously reported in today’s Daily Worker. Several sheriffs ad- mitted “seeing the bodies of 4 or 5 Negroes” in the fields after the Battle of Reeltown. In addition, two sted Negroes are reported Mighty Protest in Birmingham Birmingham workers are rallying in a mighty protest against the land- lord-police terror. A number of pro- test meetings already have been held here. fense and the Communist Party have issued thousands of leaficts, acquaint- ing the workers with the real facts in the tremendous struggle in the “Black Belt.” Sympathy with struggles of the Tallapoosa croppers and exploited farmers is widespread throughout among the Southern toiling masses. From Andalusia, Ala., a white farmer sends the following | message of solidarity “Rejoice to learn how game Tal- Japoosa farmers Our farmers are behind them, Preparations are under way for a mass funeral in this city for Cliff James and Milo Bentley. The bodies which are now in different under- takers’ establishments in Montgomery will be brought here. Tentative plans are to have the mass funeral next Monday, starting from the Pythian Hall. Force Release of 4 Croppers As a result of the tremendous pro- tests by indignant workers, poor the au- thorities have been forced to re- lease four of the arrested croppers held in Dadeville jail, Tallapoosa County. The four are L. Simpson, Wood, Greathouse and Bentley, who bears the same name as the murdered cropper leader, Milo Bentley. Every effort is being made to mob- ilize ever broader masses for a still greater protest and defense move- ment to force the release of all “the defendants who are in danger every movement they remain in jail, as shown by the murder of Cliff James and Milo Bentley. Mass organiza- 29.— Ma The International Labor De- | the | Release of Others s indig nation swept yesterday with the per leaders Cliff two latest victims of the mur- 29 against the CITY WORKERS’ WAGES SLASHED ut’ 6 to 40 Per Cent to Pay the Bankers this city > cuts ranging t to about 40 per ordered for all city em- ng more than $2, scale that the special session early ordered for the teachers. the same session, the legislat- | passed a law permitting all but the teachers to be cut by the Board of Estimates, and this has now been done, |.. The | clearly hand of the bankers was exposed in the whole drive for wage. cuts. for city employes, ‘The syndicaté of banks, led by J. Pier- pont Morgan, which handles the city debt, levied public notice on the city that reductions of $40,000,000 would have to be made in the 1933 budget. Of this $20;000,000 must be in wage cuts, Make Way For Graft The Tammany government put up ja feeble show of resistance, but | since the orgy of graft partially ex- posed in the investigation of Walker and others had depleted the treas- ury considerably, and since no Tam- | manyite had the least intention of economizing on graft, the “resis ance” was more than usually faked The bankers’ representatives not |only accompanied Mayor McKee to | Albany to get the special session ot | the legislature called, but t lly, througn the newspapers, | nounced that the wage cut laws must | not have a time limit attached. And | the legislature obeyed orders. $200,000,000 Interest | The Tammany board of estimates | was repeatedly visited by committees (CONTINUED ON PAGE ‘TWO) 'Printers’ Officials Declare Wage Cuts Have Been Accepted NEW YORK.—Officials of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union announced yesterday, without waiting for the count of the ballote, | that the employers’ wage-cut scale had been accepted through the ref- {erendum voté@ on Wednesday. | The referendum was a trick affair, | providing no chance to yote against the scale, but only a choice between | accepting it or calling in the Inter= national office of the union to are range arbitration. The members of j Local 6 had previously yoted down | both arbitration and the ‘employers’ | proposed scale. The negotiations and Struggle by the rank and file against the new scale has been going on for months. Both local officials and internas tional officers were in favor of cuts, But, of course, their salaries aren't cut. Electrical Worker A Suicide in A.F.L. Union Office NEW YORK, Dec. 29—The dead body of Peter Levinist, 60 years of age, was found hanging yesterday morning in the office of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 7th floor, 130 East 25th St, Levinist was member of Local No, 3 of the electricians union, which is affliated with the A. F. of L. A member of the organization for the last 41 years, but reduced to destitus tion by three years of unemploy~ ment, Levinist ended his life in the office of the organization whose highly paid officials failed to help him, His dead body at the union head- quarters registered a mute protest against the grafting officials who, ac- cording to court records, squandered tions, unions and churches are being $7,500,000 out of the Union visited, and protest meetings called) but refused to aid its Unemplore throughout, rank-and-file member =~ the whole South. alee