The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1933, Page 1

] { a ; Have the Daily Worker on Sale in Every Headquarters or Neighborhood Where Workers Live or Meet Vol. X,No. 141 pe (Section of the Communist International ) orker ist Party U.S.A. All Leaflets, Etc., Issued Mention the Daily Worker in Posters, Organization ! Cards, by Your WEATHER—Probable showers and cooler today. Matored s¢ mocomé-cines metier 24 the Post Ofte: of Mow York, W. %., emder fm Set of Warvh 2, 187%, : NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Railway Workers Must Act! The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is taking place in Cleveland in the midet of the most relentless drive ever made against the standards of life and working conditions of the railroad workers. It is marked by sharp clashes between the official bureaucracy, under Grand Chief Alvanley Johnston and a so-called progressive group. In spite of efforts of the machine to pack the convention, Johnston escaped tlefeat the first day on the question of the chairmanship by a vote of 170 to 138. As the convention proceeds it is clear that the Johnston machine is on the defensive. The progressives, however, ere under leadership that is highly questionable. An article in todays Daily Worker by R. V. Straun exposes such people as H. B. Ward and Carl Randolph as not fundamen- tally different from Johnston, Secretary-Treasurer Cassell and the other members of the official family. Well-paid time-servers in the bureau- cratic machine, they are trying to get the jobs of Johnston and Cassell, to promote themselves by utilizing the vast indignation of the rank and file against the treachery of the Johnston machine. The very nature of the opposition of the progressives discloses that they do not intend to take up the fight to beat back the fierce offensive the railroad owners have been waging for years agatnst the workers. These “progressives” devote their time only to the contemptible Swindles practiced against the membership, such as the officials using the brotherhood banking venture to make loans to themselves and to relatives. They show that these officials tried to sell to the membership bonds and securities at ten times the market prices for such paper. They show how the financial enterprises, embracing at one time 72 companies, have cost the membership many millions of dollars. It is necessary that this peculation be exposed and the racketeering officers driven from their positions and out of the organization. But merely to expose these things, and deliberately to evade taking up the fundamental question of the fight against wage cuts, unemployment, the speed-up, is at best inade- quate. At worst it means to help the railroad owners by paralyzing action against the offensive. What is in store for the railroad workers was plainly set forth by Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania road, in his recent Harvard speech. It means more wage cuts. The scrapping of “unpaying” roads to eliminate competition means throwing approximately 200,000 railroad workers out of jobs. The whole series of wage cuts that have been carried out with the aid of the Brotherhoods and railway crafts are to be extended by another general 20 per cent wage cut. What Atterbury said at Harvard was not new. It was a restatement of the Roosevelt railway “reorganization” proposals—which are themselves only what the Atter- burys, the Willards, the Lorees and other railway magnates have been driving toward for years. The railway engineers, once the very flower of American labor aris- tocracy, the boasted sheltered section of the proletariat, are down to the standards of semi-skilled laborers, and the end is not yet if the employers have their way. Not one of the “progressive” leaders has touched upon the elementary problem of mobilizing the railroad workers for struggle to stop the drive of the bosses and to win back some of the lost ground. Instead of leading a fight, these “progressives” simply try to place themselves in office where they will be in a position to arrest the growing rank and file revolt and divert it into harmless channels. ‘The one program that will avail to rally the railroad workers to strug- gle is that of the Brotherhoods Unity Movement, the details of which are set forth in the Straun article elsewhere in this paper. It is imperative that there be set up without a moment’s delay oppo- sition groups inside all the railway unions to fight for unity of action to beat back the offensive of the employers and to organize a counter- offensive. That the revolt of the rank and file is incoherent and without direction can be partly attributed to the failure thus far to build such groups—a defect that the. very facts of life ery out against. ‘The railway ers, organized and in action could be a formidable foree, and could weli take the lead in turning the tide of class struggle along the whole front. A Leader in the Struggles of the Southern Masses co being discontinued for nearly a year because of lack of finances, the “Southern Worker”, weekly organ of the Communist Party in the South has again resumed publication. ‘The Daily Worker, central organ of the Party, greets its re-appear- ance and hails as a real achievement the fact that it will again serve as & courageous fighter for the Negro and white toilers of the South. ‘The “Southern Worker” has already proved that it can be a potent force in the struggle for the rights of the Negro masses by its militant fight against the whole system of national oppression in the South. It has made thousands of Negro city workers, tenant farmers and share- croppers look upon the “Southern Worker” as the leader in the struggle tor the rights of the Negro People. ‘The police department of Birmingham—the puppet of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (subsidiary of the United States Steel Corpora- tion)—-had made a systematic search of every print shop in that city, “the Pittsburgh of the South,” in a fruitless attempt to discover where fe “Southern Worker” was being printed.” . . ia bringing the fighting organ of the Party in the South to the exploited masses—Negro and white industrial workers and sharecroppers in the Bleck Belt—the courage and ingenuity of the workers ‘was a great factor in spreading the “Southern Worker.” Before its suspension, the paper had taken a leading part in a num- ber of key struggles, and was a nightmare to the landlords and bosses of the South. Already during its brief existence, it had played a leading role in the Scottsboro fight, in the organization of the Sharecroppers Union in Camp Hill and other sections of Alabama and in the strike of the Harlan, Ky., coal miners. atte od movement in the South suffered a severe blow when the “Southern 4 Worker” was forced to suspend. Now, when thousands of Negro and white workers in the South are beginning to realize the urgent need for unity for struggle against their oppressors, the “Southern Worker’ is in a position to play an historic role. June Communist Off Press The Rising Strike Movement—Editorial. A Warning Against Opportunist Distortions of the United Front Tac- tte—By ©. A. Hathaway. : _ The Communist Parties of the Capitalist Countries in the Struggle ‘The Class Struggie in the American Countryside—By H. Puro. The Rise of the Revolutionary Movement in Cuba—By R. Martinez Villena. The Scottshoro Struggle and the Next Steps—Resolution of the Poli- tical Bureau. ‘The Political Connections of the International Armament Firms—By Jan Relling. The Transition to Communism—the Opportunism of the German So- Democracy—Introduction to the new edition of the “Critique of the Program” by Karl Marx—By Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute. Book Reviews; Yoward the Setmre of Power—Lenin. Review by M. bo! ig é sae LOCAL VOTES | NO HOSIERY WAGE CUTS. | 10,000 Members inPhil. | Local, Backbone of Union | 5TH WAGE CUT SINCE 1930 |Socialist Leaders’ Plan | for Another Cut | Defeated PHILA., Pa., June 12.—The organ- ized hosiery workers of Philadelphia, held at the Kensington Labor Ly- ceum on Friday, June 9, by a vote of 953 to 275, overwhelmingly rejected the proposal of the Socialist United Textile leaders for a 20 per cent wage cut. iery Workers Union is the largest jocal in Philadelphia, having a mem- bership of 10,000. It is the backbone | of the U. T. W. and the center of gravity among the hundreds of thou- east section of Philadelphia. This is the first time since the | spring of 1929 that the hosiery work- ers have so emphatically rejected a wage cut proposal. The last wage cut which the Socialist leaders (Rieve and McKeown of Philadelphia and Banachowitz of Milwaukee) put over in 1931, was a 30 to 45 per cent re- duction. When McKeown, Socialist candidate for Mayor in the last mu- nicipal election in Philadelphia, rose to speak, he was hooted, and after babbling incoherently while vainly trying to get order for five minutes, was forced to sit down, Rieve, the president and chairman of the recent Continental Congress, was so sure that he and his Socialist colleagues could put the cut over that he didn’t arrive at the meeting until 10 o'clock. The solemn expres- sion on his face when he discovered that the meeting was over and. the wage cut beaten certainly was a sight for proletarian eyes. the hosiery and textile workers gen- erally. Several of the workers openly | expressed their repudiation of the Socialist Party and the United Tex~- tile Workers. The action of the Philadelphia local follows closely on the action of the Northampton local, which unan- imously repudiated the cut, and the Newark local, which also voted | against the reduction. The hosiery workers have finally torn down the yellow flag of defeat- ism which the Socialist U. T. W. leaders had nailed to the masthead of the Hosiery Workers Union in the spring of 1929. Considering that the hosiery work- ers have taken five cuts, Friday's vote indicated that the hosiery work- ers have emerged from the three- year wage cut stupor into which the Socialist leaders had hypnotized them, That local 706, the very back- bone of the U.T.W. has repudiated the McMahon-Rieve policies, un- doubtedly wil give impetus to the growing revolutionary spirit of the unorganized textile workers of Phil- adelphia. at a general membership meeting) The Philadelphia Local of the Hos-| sands of textile workers in the north-| The vote is a militant expression | of the fermentation going on among | | | | | | | line |Worker Loses His iLife As Result of |Roosevelt Economies (By a Marine Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—As a direct result | of the economic forces by Roose-| |velt, a dredge-worker of the U. S. | Engineering fleet here lost his life.! The crew of the 8. S. Clinton, sand sucker, were told by Captain Page that if “they cannot walk the pipe let them look for jobs| | somewhere else.” | | The graveyard watch from mid- | night to 8 a. m. is a time when/ nobody can see at all. The pipe! jline is 20 inches (diameter) and| | |the government makes no provi- | |graveyard watch and drowned be-| | | sions for a life line to be rigged for | those walking it. This is an/ | “economy” measure. | The man slipped off during the |fore anyone could reach him. As| |yet volunteer dragging by crew members has failed to locate the |corpse. Dredye-Fleet Worker. | MORGAN PROBE TO ADJOURN FOR SUMMER SEASON |\Committee Deciding Whether to Continue; Probe Being Quieted WASHINGTON, June 12. — The Senate Banking and Finance Com- mittee is now trying to decide wheth- er to continue the Morgan investiga- tion during the summer, or discon- tinue it and take it up again in the fall. The probabilities are that the probe will be discontinued until the fal. ‘The whole Morgan investigation is | being played down. The present dis-| fulfill the guarantee to the delega- | Fench press is illustrated by the fol | tion of Wall Street bankers who hold | lowing quotation closures about the far-reaching ram- ifications of the Morgan railroad holding company, the Alleghany Cor- poration, though fully as spectacular in some respects as the previous tes- timony is being given the minimum publicity. Partial Disclosures Senate investigators today dis- closed that Morgan partners are di- rectors of 89 corporations and banks with assets of more than $18,000,000,- 000. These disclosures are far from the | s¢ | SUBWAY FARE RISE IS HINTED Rumor City Gov’t Has Agreed to 7 Cent Fare After Next Election More Cuts in Wages of School Teachers Being Prepared NEW YORK, June 12.—At the open hearings held today at the City Hall on the proposed $15,000,000 auto taxes | and the taxes on bridges and various | city departmenta! services, the opposi- tion was so great, that it was openly rumored that the city will turn to a 2 cent increase in subway fare and | further cuts in the wages of city em- Ployees to raise the required amounts. Traction Stock Rise in Wall Street. It is openly said that the city gov- ernment, dominated by Tammany, is pledged to increase subway fares im- mediately after the coming elections in Noyember. This.has not been de- nied. The report is strengthened by the fact that the published correspon- dence between the mayor and the bankers mentions two letters, while the mayor has made public only one letter. What the contents of the un- published letter are, has not been dis- closed. In response to these developments | traction shares were strong on the! Wall Street stock exchanges. To Meet Banker's Loans ‘The city has proposed new taxes on The city must raise this money to over $236,000,000 of loans which fell due June 10, and which were extended the other day until December 10. The bankers are headed by Winthrop Al- drich, a financial agent of the Rocke- fellers, and Frank Polk, a Morgan ‘agent. The tity is paying the bankers an exorbitantly high interest rate of 5% per cent. The prevailing rates are about 2 per cent. The difference costs the city over 000,000, or ever $1,000,000 a month real state of affairs. The exposure in | tj] the next payment falls due. the ‘Daily Worker, revealed that the assets of companies, and those within their immediate influence total more than $50,000,000,000. The country’s leading banks, rail- roads, public utilities, and manufac- turing companies are part of the Morgan empire. Building Laborers Win, 10 Cents an Hour Rise BISMARCK, N. D—A wage in- crease of 10 cents an hour for build- ing laborers has been won by work- ers of the Lundeff-Bicknell Co., who went on strike on its job at the North Dakota capitol building in Bismarck, N. D. Previous to the strike, labor- ers received 30 cents an hour. Now they will receive 40 cents an hour, mortar mixers will get 50 cents and the work-week will be limited to 48 hours. Senate Silccdicgs Ac F. of L. in Recovery Bill Amendment ‘Permits Loans to Prop Up Federation Finances | Insure Continued Role of Bosses’ Tools WASHINGTON, D..C., June 12.—That the A. F. of L. is cashing in on the National Recovery Bill was revealed today with the news that the | Senate, during the final night session of discussion on the bill amended the | measure to PERMIT FEDERAL LOANS TO LABOR FEDERATIONS. } FLYER MATTERN IN KHABAROVSK All Set to Take Off for Nome, Alaska KHARBAROVSK, Siberia, June 12. —James Mattern, Texas flier who is circling the globe, landed his “Cen- tury of Progress” plane here today at 3:20 a, m., Moscow time after being unreported for more than 25 hours after taking off from Beloye station, near Irkutsk on Lake Bai- kal. Mattern was completely exhausted when he landed here. He was un- able to answer questions by the lo- cal press and went to bed immedi- ately at the local hotel, falling into a deep sleep. He hoped to reach Nome, Alaska on the last leg of his world flight. It was impossible to determine why he had landed at Sofiskoye, but it was believed that he had lost his route due to his condition and had, landed at Sofiskoye as the first size- able town. He was obliged to re- tam to Mikewberovsk for The public workers section of the bill has been amended as follows: ——®“To make loans to finance the con- struction of or purchase of buildings, equipment and apparatus to be used for, or to promote the welfare of non- profit federations of labor Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, who proposed the amendment, de- clared that it was offered at the re- quest of the American Federation of Labor to permit federations of labor which own and operate buildings and housing projects to “secure tempor- ary financial assistance to prevent the forced sale of properties.” He added many of the labor unions’ properties have been hard hit. For their service to the bosses the U. S. government now proceeds to subsidize the A. F. of L. and pre- vent its financial collapse. The A. F. of L. comes openly under government protection, and overhauling of his plane. When Mattern stopped at Krass- noyarsk Friday he handed a letter to the press in which he expressed hi: appreciation of the assistance ren dered him in his flight by the Sov- jet Union. “Repairs on broken sta- bilizer_ was accomplished speedily and efficiently,” he wrote. Mattern expressed the hope of making a leisurely visit to the So- viet Union at the conclusion of his Tound-the-werld flight. Despite the extension by the bank- the Morgén controlled | ers, the budget crisis will be even| greater on December 10, when the im- mediately collectible loans of the city will total $430,000,000. To meet the interest payment to the bankers and to guarantee the loans of the bankers, the City gov- ernment has been cutting relief to the bone. The expenditures for wel- fare, and hospital services have also been drastically cut. Demanding Wage Cuts. The realty interest who oppose the auto taxes are openly demanding more cuts in the salaries of the teachers. The strategy of the City Administration is, obviously, to make it appear as if the continuance of relief and the avoidance of the re- sented auto tax will depend upon the teachers taking another wage cut. The city government is attempting to line up the population against the teachers in the City’s schools. These developments are foreshadowed by the ‘expulsion actions of the Board of Education against militant teach- ers, and by suspension proceedings of the A. F. of L. local of Teachers against militants. The city administration has re- fused to accept any suggestion that the surpluses of bank and insurance companies be cut. The suggestion that stock sales be taxed was also rejected. The city is determined that the masses must pay the loans to the bankers. 700 SHOE WORKERS FORCE PAY RAISE 400 Strike and Call Meeting in Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 11.— Seyen hundred shoe workers of Laird Shiber and Company, leading man- ufacturer of high priced shoes, com- pelled the management to raise their wages 10 per cent, which represents only a fraction of the wage cuts re- ceived since 1929. When 400 workers walked out of the shop on Monday, June 5, and held a meeting deciding to strike if the boss would not raise wages 20-per cent, the management. immediately offered a 10 per cent increase and 5 per cent more as soon as production reached 4,200 pairs, 5 per cent additional was offered when the production went over the 5,000 mark. The offer of the bosses was ac- cepied but with great dissatisfaction yy the workers. On advice of the committee that they prepare for a strike after the slack season and with the coming of the busy season in July, the workers accepted the offer. ‘The workers know they @he vic- tory is due primarily to the activity of members of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, | Ernst Thaelmann i | | | | | | As King George LONDON, June 12.—The breakdi rency stabilization is reported as the posal for the estab | rejected by the Engl | fighting for foreign markets wi Bistirstoe Cacatenist ivedsrvih | reek ee ae tere cee Germany, taken before his arrest. See on Page 4 article by Trostel about imprisoned workers’ lenders in Germany. Z FRENCH ARM FOR TRADE BATTLE AT CONFERENCE os Under , Which h dence “tha wil] lead , as an additional inducement | rejection of America’s first~terms. LONDON, June 12.—The was opened by King George toda Museum, which will house a ccl j gates leave. The delegates Ministers, 20 Foreign M by King George, in expressed his confi- t this common endeay ficial Marley Opens | Unpleasant Auspices | i after the King began speaking, shou's | Says Delegate and singing we heavd from dem- | oy PER onstrators in the street The sounds PARIS, June 12—The atmosphere of shi ing rose ard fell all during | of profound gloom prevailing in the|the King’s speech. making the loud enegycers in the hall crackle like m2- to the pound, was thought to be too low. England and the United § cannot agree on raising the values of their moneys. of the negotiations, the dollar immediately went to a new low figure of ay in the Kens included on proceedings were begun with a =-————_ WORLD ECONOMIC MEET OPENS WITH CLASH OF DOLLAR AGAINST POUND Workers Demonstrate Outside Conference Hz Opens London Economie Parley BULLETIN own of secret negotiations for cur- result of a clash between the United States and ‘he European powers, principally England. An American pro- ment of a joint fund to keep currencies stable was sh because the suggested figure for the doilar, $4.30 es, e weapon of depreciated currencies, After the breakdown to the English to yeconsider their World Economic on Geological lection of fossils after the dele- President, 8 Prime and 47 Cabinet members. The “FIGHT OF ALL AGAINST ALL AT LONDON’—Pravda | French capital over the prospects of | the Economic Conference has. not autos equal to the state taxes a 25| prevented the French government | | cent toll on the East River bridges, a| from arming itself for serious fights | |5 cent tax on all taxi rides, and mis-/*t London, at the same time as it | cellaneous taxes on buiding, ete. The | Kes the most celiberate prepara- | | total to be raised is $30,000,000. | tons for coming war. chine guns. Describes Cap'talist Crisis. Aféor the King had concluded Remsay MacDonald welcomed the delega ‘T hone your stay here will at | be pl f and above everything The pessimistic note struck in the | else s I |U. S. S. R. Shows All Toilers the Way Out of Crisis From the Daily Worker's Specia? Moscow Correspondent profitable, the English) MOSCOW, June 12,—Soviet news- fe ont ton to the|papers today devoted editorials to eee ion from Le Temps. | d e which the ecoybmic structure| the opening London Economic Con- re eric Jenny, the financial editor, | the whole capiti world has!ference. The Izv contrasts the | writes: ‘We are unhappily forced to|shown in the last five years. “The|economic conditions of the capitalist admit that the conference is going | economic life of the world has for world with those of the Soviet Union to open its labors under conditions| years been suffering from a decline just as deceptive as possible. The fall | which has closed factories, limited of the-dollar* and-Americah repudi- | employment, reduced standards of ation of the gold clause have already | life, brought some states to the verge complicated its task. And now Ger- | of bankruntcy and inflicted on others | |many has just declared a moratorium. | budgets that cannot be balanced,” | | ‘Truly, a world conference could hard- said MacDonald. \ly open under more unpleasant au-| MacDonald's principal point in his| 7 speech was his reference to the To Demand Higher Trade Barriers.| “tragic” fall of world prices to “well Henri Queuille, one of the French | below the levels at which production | delegates, speaking at Rodez yester-|°&" be remunerative.” The English | |day promised to go to London “to| Will press for a general inflation pro- | defend French agriculture.” (iauen aeereoes 4 an eae he inte | a 2 2 nypocritically | see pace cara clei announced that “hours of labor, rates| | American goods, to counteract the| 204 Reps wires Bere nance’ me effect of Roosevelt's depreciation of| “°P° % te conference the dollar. The report is also gain-| ing ground here that the special 15| U. S. Delegates Cold On Debts. References were also included in ment has consistently refused to) | deny the rumor. | debts must be dealt with before every | May Drop English Surtax. obstacle to general recovery has been | L'Echo de Paris states that the| "moved and it must be: taken up) government promised England that| without delay by the nations con-/| the special tax would be removed) cerned.” These remarks produced no ie a Niet for ~ DAN ita aot on the American delegates, loan rec rante ion to} i es mat i prewiicy. ie then ye) though Morrison, one of the U. 8.) | ports are true, the French cabinet is| representatives may have been re-| placing itself in a difficult position | ferring to this passage when he said| by remitting the English tax at the| that MacDonald's speech “aside from same time as imposing a special|® few spots” was a very fine address. American one—iwo moves that will) greatly intensify the already stormy atmosphere at London. Will Ask for Stable Dollar. ‘The French program at London} calls for an immediate attack on the | fluctuating dollar, and to a lesser! degree on the pound. The powers} that the French government has just) obtained, for tariff regulations by de-| |is considered that Daily Worker Canvass Reveals Price Rise pointing out that the volume of in- dustrial production, with an index of 100 in 1928, has risen in the U. $ S. R. to 218.5, while in the capitalist world generally it has fallen to 67 and in the U. S. A. to 57. Crisis of Senile Decay Quoting from Roosevelt's “Looking Forward,” Izvestia shows the decline of capitalist production to be due to the inherent nature of capitalism and the private profit system, and char- acterizes the present crisis as “ crisis of senile decay.” Drawin: tention to the pessimistic foreca: the capitalist press about the ou of the London conference, cularly to the statement of the FI cial News that “in banking chance: cess for the conference ar Miieh wea iinposed when the muprah| MacDonald's speech’ to the subject of | Sgtins” the Tavestia remarks: “Far pound went off gold, will be dropped.| War debts, which was describéd as “in| ent.” 5 . George Bonnet, Finance Minister,|the front rank in importance,” ' “It Socialism Unconquerable has been questioned in the Chamber| cannot be dealt with here,” said Mac-| Jn conclusion, Izvestia states: “The of Deputies, and so far the govern-|nonaid, but “the question of war| socialist world is unconquerable. Tt wants to, and can, conquer the cap- italist world in peaceful competition. It will inevitably conquer in armed competition if forced to fight with arms for its life. The capitalist world has done all that it could to kill us. It did not succeed. The cap- italist world boycotted us financially, declaring that revolutionists could not be trusted about moni We remain the only honest pa and w (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) cree, will be used to try and force} By PASCUAL j they certainly couldn't pay a higher American and England to adopt) NEW YORK.—Roosevelt’s starva- price measures for stabilizing their cur-| tion program ts already making itself Staples Increase rencies. The French argue that no| felt. Investigations by the Daily| The following is the increase of the determinate heights can be fixed for| Worker of twenty-six grocery stores | cheapest grades of goods selected: customs barriers as long as the val- ue of foreign currencies continue to fluctuate as wildly as they are now doing. ARRESTED FOR CUTTING PRICE ‘Milk Control Board Aids Dairy Trust ALBANY, June 12—The State Milk Control Board had before it to- day the case of Mrs. Lulu Boice, milk dealer of Hudson, who was charged with selling heavy, whipped cream at the minimum price set for medium quality cream. Mrs. Boice was unable to appear but was represented wy a lawyer and her son-in-law appeared to testify | for her. | This is the first case since the Board set minimum prices to be |charged the public. ‘The purpose of | such action is to prevent anyone sell- ing milk or cream under the price set by the milk trust. Farmers get 4 cents a quart for milk that is sold retail at 14 cents. The dairy trust and the railroads get the balance, \ reveal increases in the prices of basic) foodstuffs. | cents on the average; the price of a dozen eggs has risen 1 1-5 cents; shoulder of lamb has increased 3 cents. | The price of ten groceries and three | meats sojd January 1 was compared to the price sold at the present time, to determine what was in all cases | concentrated in Harlem, Lower East | Side, and the Midwest Side of Man- hattan. People Can't Buy Grocery stores, stated that the workers in their neighborhoods have so little money they would lose trade if they increased prices more. This is despite the fact, they said, that wholesale prices have gone up all wlong the line. Another factor that was forcing many of the storekeepers to keep their prices at the same level, especially in the very poor working- class sections, was competition with |the markets. One grocery man said | that people come into the store just as usual, but they don’t buy as much. And he hax not increased prices any. Despite sharp increase in whole- sale prices, five grocery stores and eight butcher shops of the 26 stated that could not increase their prices. They gave various reasons, most of them saying that if ti customers not per the ow price, | A pound of butter has gone 4's Butter: 4 1-2 cents, Eggs: 11-5 cents. Bread: No increase. Onions: 1-5 cent Milk: 1 cent. Coffee: 1-5 cent. Sugar: 1-5 cent. Swiss Cheese: 1 cent. American Cheese: 1 cent. Beef: 2 cents. =| Sirloin: 2 cents. definite increase. The survey was) Lamb: 3 cents. Meats have gone up 2 1-2 to 4 cents wholesale. One storekeeper pointed out if re tail prices weren't increased, then the storekeeper was either cutting prices or “gyping” on the scales, Another factor in the case to ex: plain why the results of inflation are not being fully felt immediately by workers buying foodstuffs, is that grocery stores have stocked them- selves up when prices were low. A case of canned goods, according te storekeepers has gone up twenty cents. Will Rise More Despite increasing unemployment in New York City, rising wholesale Prices started by Roosevelt's inflation scheme -will inevitably force food- sellers to ratse their prices or go out of business. These increases will inevitably be loaded onto the backs of the workers te raise thy wet of Bring. RET ;