The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1933, Page 1

7 Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Vol. X, No. 160 Mmtered as recomd-slass matter at ths Post Offier .: New York, M. Y., mmder the Act of March 3, 1878, Daily Central Or Speed-Up- Roosevelt Style A stagser-plan is now being developed under the industrial recovery (slavery) act that will give the bosses an opportunity of speeding- up the workers far beyond the records established heretofore. The auto- mobile industry has already set the example. An increase of production in many plants was actually achieved with less workers than ever before. ‘The textile code, for example, sets a 40-hour week, with reductions in pay. But the textile bosses will so speed up preduction that they will be able to grind out of their workers more production in 40 hours than they previously got in 50 or more hours. The pay will be less and the output as great or greater. The bosses are already discussing ways of doing it, and they will do it. The Annalist, a boss sheet, stresses the fact that the codes “will re- quire fresh effort by managers again to increase the productivity of la- por.” The same paper adds: “Employers everywhe-e will endeavor to xet the output formerly obtained during lenger hours.” . ei the $12-$13 wage, the bosses will try to squeeze oui as much in less hours than they got formerly for higncr wages and longer hours. It is interesting to read the Annelist a little further along this line “This imperative necd to increase productivity comes at a time when the existing plants can produce much more than is likely_to he demanded by the markets remaining to them; consequently pro- duction costs must be lowered withont inereasing productive capa- cliy, and more’or less complete reorganization of their manufac- taring methods will be needed by many cencerps if they are to surrye.” Production must be speeded Many will be fired. ts are low. ed to do the OILED down this means up. Lezs workers will be Production cc: This is down the Tk. ing of the werkers and raise their profits. Policy of U.S.S.R. Soviet Union, which dates from the: first hours 5 been steadfastly intained for more than ved an outstanding success with the signature at the in London yesterday of non-aggression pacts between the sven of the states that adjoin its frontiers. Poland, Ru- ’, Fsthonia, Latvia, Persia and Afghanistan, have initialled gression treaties with the Soviet Union. At a time when the danger admittedly greater than it has eevr been since 1914, the Soviet has taken a concrete slep in tie direction of ensuring peace. Pacts iso been signed with the representatives of Czechosiovakia and Jugo- > defining an aggressor. 2 striking successes of Soviet diplomacy are not to be explained by '¢ that the capitalist powers who in the past have sent armies Lory of the Soviet Union, have blockaded the Soviet Union, ervyention and have supported all sorts of counter- ary ity in the Soviet Union, have suddenly changed from into sheep. The successes of Litvinoff at London are to be ex- ed by the sivengthening of the position of the USSR. through the , accomplished Five-Year Plan, explained by the efficiency and of the Red Army, explained by the inflexibly adhered to peace ~’ of the Soyict Union, of which the Red Army is a guarantee, and which has been summed up in the words of Comrade Stalin: “We do not desire a foot of foreign soil, hut neither will we surrender one inch of our own,” The Peace 2 Poliey of ti ‘HE more than doubling of the level of production in the U S. S. R. during a five-year period in which production in the capitalist world has falion by almost 50 per cant, has immeasurably aliered the economic land- scape of the world. Soviet mountains stand in bold contrast to the capi- talist marsh. Indications of this new state of affairs are to be found in the drop- ping of the anti-Soviet embargo by Great Britain, in the Moley conver- sations with Litvinoff and the $4,000,000 loan given by the R. F. C. to the Soviet Union for the purchase of cotton, in the trade rapproachment be- tween France and the U. S. 8. R. The Soviet Union refused to be brow- beaten by England, and called her bluff. Neither England nor the United States, engaged in titanic struggle with each other, can afford to ignore the trade possibilities of the Soviet Union. Hence the American loan. Hence the talk of speedy recognition. Hence the hurry of England to re- sume trade relations. Hence the attempts of France to gat in ahead of her European rival in trading with the 160,000,000 workers and farmers under the Red Flag. 4 fa imperialist powers have dishonored their signatures before. The signing of the peace pacts may have lessened the immediate danger—not removed it. Definitions of aggression have not abolished the possibility of aggression. Trade relations have lessened the immediate danger—but trade relations between the imperialists have never stood in the way of war. Much less will they stand in the way of intervention against the es Soviet Republics when the imperialists determine that the time come. Even now the signs are multiplying. Japan has signed no non-aggres- sion pact. She has refused to do so. She is already embarked on the path of war. The Hugenberg memorandum at the London Conference suggested the Soviet Union as a suitable sphere for German “colonization.” Hugen- berg has been not only disavowed, but dismissed. But the memorandum has not been disavowed. It represents the avowed policy of Fascist Ger- many. It represents the wish of every imperialist power. The deadlock reached at London in the struggle for markets, the shrinkage of world trade to one third of its 1929 level, the decline in all the capitalist world cannot but make more attractive to the imperialist powers the idea of rejuvenating the capitalist world with the life blood of the Soviet Union. Capitalist stability has ended. The conditions of economic war already rage all over the world. The antagonisms between the capitalist countries has blown the Economic Conference sky high. ‘The powers are rapidly proceeding to the final stage of their fight to re- divide the markets of the world—a redivision which will be carried through by the military general staffs and not by the “economic advisers.” And with every day the contrast between the two worlds—the world of Socialism, and the world of capitalist exploitation—is growing greater. The class hatred of the capitalists directed against the working class government of the Soviet Union, will sooner or later unite the wolf pack against the conquering fortress of Socialism. The working class of the world hails the peace policy of its father- land, hails the successes of Socizlist construction in the Soviet Union. ‘hat working ‘class must remember that the danger of war against. the Soviet Union is hourly growing, and that it must be prepared to rally to the defence of its Fatherland in danger from the attacks of inter- national capitalism. The City’s Budget AY audit of its financial condition for 1932 cost New York city the tidy little sum of $100,000 for the accountants, This money was appro- priated by the Board of Estimcée at the request of Controller Charles W. Berry. Outstanding in the whole financial report is the heavy tribute paid to Wall Street bankers, who swallow up approximately half of the more than one billion-dollar budget. In 1932 the bankers were repaid $578,050,000 for “temporary loans.” Interest on public debts alone totalled $100,745,640. During the year when the number of jobless nee lief increased to @ million and a half, close to a billion dollars ($827,05,051 to be exact) was either paid to bank- ors or kept in reserve funds to assure them they would receive principal and interest when it comes due. Today the Board of Estimate will consider the need of cutting relief of the unemployed. A million men, women and children are affected by the decision that Mayor O’Brien and his Board of Estimate intend to carry through. They will undoubicd’y repeat once more that there is no way of mecting the relief needs of the unemployed. There is plenty of money, but it all goes to the bankers and rich bankers, Stop paying hundreds of millions into the coffers of Wall Street's bankers, Use the money paid to the bankers and the reserves kept in sinking funds for relief to the unemployed. There is plenty of money, b ut it all goes to the bankers a nd rich bondholders. The lives of the workers must come. before. vayments to EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1933 3,000 Rochester 1,000 WIN — Jobless Strike on STEEL STRIKE City, County Jobs IN MICHIGAN Join in Support for Jobless Insurance BURLINGTON, -Ia., July 4.| —Delegations from the Unem- |'Three thousand welfare work- | Consider Demands; Men Solid ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 4. Iowa Jobless Groups’ Officials Refuse To Get 5 to 10 PC. Raise, Force Withdrawal of 20 P.C. Wage Cut |RANK AND FILE LEAD ployed Councils and Unemploy- ers out of 8,000 doing forced | oeq] eainenist Unit! ed Leagues held a meeting | here and decided to issue aj joint call for a state conven- | to a strike call of the Relief | tion to form a state federation | of all unemployed organiza- tions. Both organizations cooperated in presenting a resolution to the conven- tion of the State Federation of labor endorsing the Workers’ Unemploy- | Washington Square where demands started Saturday under ment Insurance Bill and will. un-| were adopted and a committee of 27|ship of rank and file doubtedly work out a program for | With Fred Struble as chairman elect- |The strike was directly developing a struggle for the support | of the bill as part of the national | campaign. | The resolution presented to the A. F. of L. convention reads: “The jaa | State Federation of Labor goes on | record in fayor of the Workers’ Un employment Insurance Bill, whereb; unemployment insurance is to be| paid to all unemployed workers at the expense of the employers and the | government.” | The two unemployed organizations also decided to hold a State Hunger March simultaneously with the con- | vention. | 200 STRIKE AT FIVE BROOKLYN INCINERATORS | <r YORK.—Two hundred in- cinerator stokers, Negro and. white, iin five Brooklyn plants went on | Strike yesterday. against. a -20...per cent wage cut which would mean/ | $1 off their $5 a day salary, against | the attempted: lengthening of the eight-hour day they now work, an against a terrific speed up. The! workers have appealed to the Trade. Union Unity League for strike lead- | ership, An unusually serious danger faces hundreds of thousands of New York | |workers should the head of the ‘plants, Dick Van Etteh, carry out {his threat to hire scabs to dump }the garbage and acids burnt in the |incinerators into the ocean. The \already polluted beaches which the | workers frequent would be covered labor on city and county “re- lief’ work projects responded Workers’ Strike Committee. The strike started as a result to 35 cents an hour. The strikers held a meeting on ed to present them to the officials. These demands are: an hour on all relief jobs; no cuts, but an increase in, our budgets; no discrimination against strikers; no piece work; recognition of the strike committee; removal of all straw boss- s from jobs.” Committee Sees Gates While the meeting was in progress the committee went to see Alfred | Gates, high-salaried director of work ‘They were forced to wait out-/ relief. x side of Gates’ office for a consider- able time. Finally the chairman in- formed the relief director's secretary that the 3,000 strikers would march) on his office if he did not see them.! He then consented to meet with them. Arrogantly, Gates refused to con- eede to the demands of the strikers. He showed a sudden surprising “lack of knowledge of the relief jobs.” The committee reported back to the strikers, and received a determined |reply to continue the strike. The meeting was then adjourned and an-/ jother held later in the afternoon in | the Labor Lyceum. pitalist press is making fran- tic-efforts to demoralize the strikers. Although the Strikers Committee en- rgetically carries on the strike, the ‘Democrat and Chronicle” reported that “a committee representing the} relief workers engaged on all city and county projects urges all persons to remain at work pending a resurvey of conditions to be made by the Roch- ester-Monroe County Committee.” This lying statement was repudiated by the actions of the strikers who are continuing the strike. Fill Labor Lyceum In the afternoon the Labor Lyceum was overfilled when a full report by! ‘Started Action; TUUL, Urges Shop Groups | MONRO# Mich., July 4—Forcing the restoration of a 20 per cent | of a cut in relief work from 45) wage cut, winning a 5 to 10 per cent wage increase, 1,000 workers at the |Newton Steel Company here were victorious Monday in a strike which the leader- committees. attributable and leaflet to organizational work “Fifty cents distribution by the local Communist | the B, of L. E. and since failed) was | Party unit Workers in the hot mill received a \5 per cent increase, besides the gen- eral withdrawal of the wage cut of 20 per cent which was put into! effect last February and a 10 Bi cent increase was gained by those in other departments, | Trade Union Unity League or- ganizers are assisting the workers in| solidifying their gains, and to clect |shop committees to enforce the | gains. The men return to work! tomorrow. | PROTEST SLAVERY. LAW TODAY Demonstrate 11 A. M. at Union Square! NEW YORK.—Workers will gather in Union Square at 11 a.m. today to demonstrate their determination to struggle against the starvation code set up by the National Industrial Re- | covery (Slavery) Act, to defend their |rights to organize in unions of their own choosing and to defend their right to strike. ‘The combined attack of the police, | with the refuse. jthe strike committee was accepted the a. F. of L. officials, the bosses This threat on the part of the boss is looked upon by the work- ers as-the usual attempt to preju- dice the public against the strike unanimously by the strikers. Tre- mendous applause grested the re-| ection of the Needle Trades Work- ‘age, marks of a member of the strike committee, who said, “these people are blood suckers and they are trying land the Socialist leaders on the fur Jers’ Industrial Union is a concrete example of the workings of the Slavery Act, stated representatives of orker nist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International } 7 | holding or How YOU Can by Day’ Column Help to Boost the Daily Worker! Read ‘Day on Page Two! THE WEATHER—Today, fair, warmer; light westerly winds. CITY EDITION Union Johnston, Put Over Price 3 Cents Chief, 10 p.c. Wage Cut to Bolster R. R. Stock il Chiefs’ Treacher Ra y Exposed by Wm. Z. Foster William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League in a pam- phlet headed “Wrecking Labor Banks” xposed the crooked machinations of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers ‘officials and their banking schem: He characterized at the| time their activities thus: “The whole thing constitutes the greatest mass of grafting in the history of the Am- erican Labor movement.” “The Cleveland Bank ‘controlled by | the clearing house of all wildcat spec- | ulations,” said Foster. “As fast as it would get loaded up with bad paper coming from the criminally incom-| petent and reckiess investments new investment corpofations would be organized, the stock of these! being sold to the trusting Brother- hood members, and then the worth- less paper exchanged for the new! company’s good money.” Already at a previous convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, Foster warned the railroad | workers that Johnston the newly! elected Grand Chief, parading as a, ~~ progressive, will follow a similar pol-| iey as the other leaders. “The real GEN JOU N SON T0 ry w were just about as deep in the mud! as the Prenter crowd were in » PUSH THRU COA mire.” i fact’ is that Johnston and his group The present exposure proves the continuation of the policy of the grafting Labor Bank politicians. This| 2() Hearings To Be Held time directly initiating a wage cut in x 6 order to assure the fat profits ot the) At One Session If Needed, He Says railroad magnates to whom they are only servants. + WASHINGTON, July 4—General Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the industrial “recovery” act stated today that codes would be taken up ry soon for some of the leading ALVANLEY JOHNSTON Pledge of Employment. Vanishes as Roosevelt —@ CONVENTION OF BOF L. E. GETS BANKER LETTER Delegates ~ Whitewash Johnston To Cover Own Betrayals CLEVELAND, 0O., July 4- | The triennial convention of thé | Brotherhood of Locomotive | Engineers heard charges from lits banking ‘committee that Grand Chief Alvanley Johnston carried through a 10 per cent wage cut involving a million | workers in order to bolster up | stock of the railroad compa- |nies. The wage cut which the | railroad workers suffer for the jsecond year saves the com- | panies $125,000,000 each year. These negotiations were conducted etween the Standard Trust Bank connected with the union, and the Chase National Bank of New York Johnston was desirous that the Chase Bank should not call a loan of $400,000 of the brotherhood or- ganizations and in turn promised the wage cut, so as to assure more for railroad securities and protec- tion of their dividends. The charges involve also the Order of Railroad Conductors and no doubt, affects the leaders of all railroad unions. Smith’s Letter This was disclosed in a letter from C. Stirling Smith, president of the Standard Trust Bank, to Harold L Van Kleeck, vice-president of the Chase National Bank. “I have been spending a great deal of time. with Mr. Jobnston on Talks of Public Works ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 4.—Presi- dent Roosevelt fittingly chose to dis- cuss the “pul works” program of, the “recovery on the battle eruicer ianapolis as the first step under 0 program is the building of 34 battleships. But as they proceed to the second the promise of rapid “employ- industries such as iron and steel, coal,|the voluntary wage cut which he oil, automobile, woolens, lumber and is endeavoring to put through,” Mr. women’s apparel |Smith wrote, “but he is meeting with so much opposition from the In order to speed up these codes) other Wrotberhooas gt it is going and get the slave conditions over into take an awful lot of effort on his short order, General Johnson said/ part to put it over. that ‘as many a 20 hearings would)” “He js, however, being suppotied be held at one time, 100 per cent by the conductors’ or- ‘The main thing necessary, he said, ganization and the engineers and was for the leading bosses in the in- conductors have almost finally de- dustry to get the codes lined up. cided that they are going to put We won't take any! Sections One and Two of the Com- responsible for any spread of dis- | wage cuts.” SAGE Carty who” nave; called” thi | ease the dumpin; bring about. ping may bring about: | ‘The strikers should raise the de-| qemonstration. mand that the city administration | 7 sloyment Insurance Bill. The city) 14 tithe ash of the élave act must be made to pay higher wages| having felt the lash of the slave act. on relief jobs. We should compel | Other workers of New York have also re ae cs ;.\ felt the blows land. While Hillman, however, the federal government t0| named one of the Recovery (Slavery) | | | | and to make the strikers appear {5 cut our pay. | i | The five plants, which are located lat 57th Street and Flatlands Avenue, |Georgia Avenue near Jamaica Bay, |Hantton Avenue and East 16th | Street, West Eighth Street near 86th | |Street, and the Greenpoint Incin- Go to see every subscriber when his| irdustries" so that every unemployed subscription, expires to get his re-| worker and his family have sufficient newal. | to live on. s | surance Bill proposes that the gov-/as drawn up by the clothing bosses, | ernment pay “the average wages in|with Hillman’s knowledge. provides for a $15.20 wage for a full week in the clothing shops of this city. | “Grocery clerks are faced with a) [slavery code providing $12 for junior i $16 for senior workers, for a MEET SCORE SCOTTSBORO BETRAYAL ve een eae | wage averaging $12 for a 48-hour week. ‘Delegates’ Pressure Wins Floor for Ford, coaes, in which Green and Hillman | taki rominent pa:t, th | Mrs. Patterson, Lester Carter eae anne es meoralen eth ce slavery law, to strike. i “The furriers are breaking through the chains of this slavery law. All (By Our Special Correspondent) CHICAGO, July 4.—The mass protest growing out of the movement | of |posed rise in bread prices from 5 to! spent for the year. This brings the expenditure for public works down to about one-third of what it was under the Hoover regime. a long step ahead. And all the in- dustries seem to be sitting up nights with this thing in order to get their codes in without wasting a minute.” Towa Bakers To Raise Not a word {s said about the work- ers having anything to say about the erator, are without toilets. The men | . ts |are allowed no time for lunch, and eer with-|jaw administrators, goes through | . codes. As long as the bosses are are constantly urged to “keep| 4 maneuvers with the bosses about Bread Prices Later On agreed on wages and hours, as well moving.” | "The Workers Unemployment In-| wage increases, the recovery code! as their price-raising schemes, Gen- aes Tae eral Johnson thinks everything is all WASE'NGTON, July 4—Secretary | right and they will get immediate ac- Agriculture Wallace today wired tion on their codes. to the Iowa Bakers Association that they should not proceed with the pro- sociation work out how high they 8 cents a loaf. As a result, the price|should shove up bread prices under increase has beon:dclayed for a little| the code they will submit to General while- until the American Bakers As-' Johnson LITVINOV EXPLAINS PEACE POLICY OF SOVIET UNION | led by the International Labor Defense to free the nine Scottsboro boys workers must provide a mass sup- |ment” of workers is vanishing into Bb GBC a 4 ‘hin air. The original plan was to! “Tt should be remembered,” he said, Cee i rriyaiy le a ie oa | $end $3.300,000.000 in two years. Out “that once an industry comes to us) To assure the bankers of their of the discussions on the Indianapolis, with a code. the hardest part of the|interest in the railroad bosses, the the major opinion seems to be that joh already is accomplished. When | {etter continues: ag not ¥ than $1,000,000,000 will bejan industry agrees within itself that’s) “Mr. Johnson carries a lot of in- fluence with the other organizations, so they will probably fall in with |him in the end. He fully appre- ciates what it means to the country and particularly to the holders of railroad bonds and with this in view he is doing everfthing he possibly can to bring about the necessary reduction.” Further on Smith writes “I can hardly believe that the Chase would want to ruin the Engi- neers’ Bank when they are trying to \do so much to bring about more sat- \isfactory conditions and increase the value of railroad securities.” | Called by President Evidently Johnston was called by |the Presidert to give his advice on |national wage cuts in other indus- |tries, as the letter to the Chase Bank states: “Mr. Johnston was forced to leave for Washington last night at the call of the. President, but will return not later than Fri- jday, and he and I will leave for |New York on Sunday night to dis- |cuss the matter with you and if absolutely necessary make some fur- ther arrangements to have the loa’ occupied the center of the stage at the national conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which closed here on Sunday. Despite the repeated attempts of the N.A.A.C.P. leadership to stifle the growing rank-and-file opposi- tion from the floor of the conven-/ tion, the delegates forced discussion on the Scottsboro’ movement and other important issues. At the final mass meeting, the convention leadership was forced to give the floor to Mother Patterson and Lester Carter, chief Scottsboro defense witness, who called for en- dorsement of the struggle being waged by the I. L. D. - James W. Ford Speaks. James W. Ford, Communist can- didate for vice-president last fall, was enabled to speak because of the overwhelming sentiment in his fa- vor, ‘The success of the I. L. D, in the, defense of the boys was repeatedly pointed out by rank and file mem- bers, Leaders of the convention 1 sorted to the most despicable dema- gogy and arbitrary methods to throttle the prevailing sentiment en- dorsing the policy of mass action. A resolution calling for public en- dorsement by the convention of the mass action Crh igi aii RG A ORE RE the floor and lost in the Resolutions Committee by a vote of five to seven, despite the fact that the com- mittee was packed by the reaction- ary leadership. Communism, together with the Scottsboro case, was the most im- | portant issue at the convention When the discussion arose, rank and file opposition forced the leaders to recognize the rights of Communists to speak. Strikers Score Sell-Out A delegation of strikers from the Sovkin’s factory also won the floor, criticizing Oscar DePriest and the Urban League’s sell-out policies in the strike. They called for support of the strike by the N.A.A.C.P., but their resolution, too, was pigeon- holed. The confevence was characterizcd throughout y poor attendance and | jack of iwterest. In none of the regular conference meetings did the attendance exceed 100. Many of the delegates stayed away, expres- sing the opinion that the autocratic control by’the leadership would pre- vent the formation of new policies, whatever the opinien of the. dele- policy. was kept trom |gates port for them in this vital task. Let the mass demonstration at Union bosses and their government that no law of the bosses’ Congress and no treachery of A. F. of L. and Socialist |leaders can defeat th® right of the | working masses to strike for better | conditions.” Conference Endorses ‘Jobless Insurance ROCKFORD, Ill.—Endorsement of Federal Unemployment Insurance ‘and demands for a 50 per cent in- crease in relief were unanimously approved by’ delegates representing | 8,000 workers at the Winnebago | recently. i | Included within the main resolu-| tion was this clause: “Stoppage of all evictions and foreclosures against | unemployed workers; a moratorium hy ne owners and poor faxmers.” Th? conference elected a Ccvumittee of Action and an Executive Com- mittee. Griffy was chairman af the { ‘eee: able - toda. to- eign -sonveptdons ' prex - 206,000,000: Square at 11 a.m. today show the) ‘Soviet Definition of Aggressor Finds Place in taken over.” . The letter was like a bombsh | New Treaties |thrown into the convention. Afte’ |the letter was read, Johnston spoke [Rockford United Front’ \s. BR. jless. In order to fill this gap, the delegation of the Soviet Union to the Disarmament Conference pre- isented, about five months ago, a ‘detailed definition of aggression. That Soviet definition of aggres- sion drew considerable attention at Geneva, and was regarded by many countries as a possible and serious measure to increase the safety of nations. It was also ascertained that some states found our definition of aggression a hampering one. “This led us to consider the ad- visability of carrying out our defi- nition of aggression in conventions, ‘st. with a limited number of states, so that other states might later join ey tiations with some of our neighbors, among whom Turkey welcomed our proposals with particular warmth. As a result of these negotiations we MOSCOW July 4—Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commissar of the U. 8. .. interviewed by the press in London yesterday, made the following | | statement: “International life now knows a number of acts and projects | the wage movement. I never knew referring to the abandonment of war, to non-aggression, etcetera. Without any generally accepted definition of aggression, obligations of “non-aggres- |sion” are to a large extent value-@—— jbearing the signatures of seven coun- |tries that neighbor ours. “This non-aggression convention \is a new link in the chain of meas- lures that the Soviet Union is sys- |tematically forging to consolidate | peaceful relations with all of its |neighbor states. The U. S. 8. R. is |maturally ready to sign similar con- ventions with any state. Such con- ventions, however, do not exclude from the agenda of the Disarma- jment Conference our proposal hav- | County Relief Conference held here yy g\'s. R. Non-Aggression Treaties |ing the object of a universal accept- lance of a definition of aggression. |In my speech at the Economic Con- lference I pointed out the impor- tance of an atmosphere of calm in |the political life of nations for the on debts, interest, etc., of all small|in. We entered into practical nego-|solution of the international eco- nomic problems. I believe that the | action that we completed at London will help in consolidating peace be- tween our countries, representing paophes \to the delegates saying, “I never in my life knew or heard tell of that letter that Mr. Smith wrote about a thing about it.” Johnston contra- \dicts himself, as he was surely aware \of the point in the letter which |states, “Mr. Johnston was forced te leave for Washington . .. . and he jand I will leave for New York on Sunday night to discuss the matter with you . .. .” in negotiating the loan. The delegates themselves involved in the betrayal of the railroad work~ fei) yours confidence in their grand ef. The action of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is similar to that of the ‘American Federation of Labor leaders. Recently, Thomas McMahon, head of the United Tex- tile Workers Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. cooperated with Deputy Administrator Allen to re- duce wages of textile workers accord- ing to the textile code. It is this gang working in collusion with the bosses and government who want ts negotiate all agreements on condi. tions and wages under. the- Indy v a i