The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1933, Page 2

Page Two Birmingham Poli Negro, White Relief Meeting Is Raided In Southern City M ass LL.D. Organizes Defense for Jailed Negro Workers BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. i ion of the jim-crow ordinance which prohibits joint meetings of white and Negro workers Birmingham police last Sunday raid- | ed the delegated co ence called | by the Unemployed Counci and File Trade Union C ai the Community Ct ployment “relief” racket, and to map a program of struggle against the N.R.A. starvation codes, and its spe- cial discrimination a: Southern workers in the low wage differential | for the South. | ading the Old Pythian Hall, the police swung their clubs left and right in a wild orgy of savage bru- tality. Negro workers, and white A. | F. of L. rank and file members who | had defied the jim-crow, class col- | Jaboration policies of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, were especially singled out for vicious beatings. The docu- | ments of a Railroad Brotherhood member were confiscated. The police arrested three Negro workers. John Howard, Will Hosea, ‘Homer Martin, and four white work- erg, Bill Stone, Syd Brown, Marcus is, Communist candidate in the recent elections for head of the City Commission, and Wirt Taylor, organ- izer of the Unemployed Council. All seyen are charged with vagrancy, whieh carries a chain gang sentence, in addition to violation of the city jim-crow ordinance. Hearing on the charges will be held | before Judge Henry Martin on Wed- nesday, Oct. 25. The International Lebor Defense is organizing mass and legsl defense for the defendants, and calls upon all organizations through- ows the country to immediately wire | protests to Judge Hemry Martin, city | d Rank | court, Birmingham, Alabama. The ILD. announces tat the central point of the defe: will be a re- lentless fight agai the city jim- crow ordinance, which is aimed at isolating Negro masses for the most intensive exploitation, while at the same time venting a joint struggle of the starving Negro and white toilers against their common enemy-—the white ruling class, Southern Office of the LL.D. has Wired a vigorous protest to Gov. Miller of Alabama and President Reosevelt, demanding the release of the defendants and recognition of the right of the white and Negro workers to raeet together and erganize to bet- ter their conditions. Paneer BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 24—The authorities of this city have answered the demand of the unempioyed of Bemingham by a vieious raid on a Meeting of unemployed workers and Tepresentatives of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. As a result of this raid John Howard, Will Hosea, Homer Martin, Negro workers, and Bill Stone, Sid Brown, Barcus Ellis, Communist candidate for the City Commission and Wirt Taylor, organ- izer of the Unemployed Council were @rrested at the Old Pythian Hall. ‘The Unemployed Council of Bir- mingham called a Conference on October ist at which a program of demaads and struggle was drawn wu Whe meeting that was raided was a follow-up meeting for the purpose of mobilizing workers for struggie. * * NEW YORK, Oct. 24—The Na- tional Committee Unemployed Coun- qils_calied upon all working class | feanizetions aid particularly the mployed Councils today to send sts, telegrams and resolutions to Mayor of Birmingham and to Gov. B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., demanding the immediate release of the seven workers and all others who are in jail fighting against hunger. Minister Defends _Lynchers as State _ Starts Fake Inquiry | PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Oct. 24— As state and Somerset County au- ities prepared today to launch an , generally conceded in ad- to be of a whitewash character, the lynching of George Arm- in this town last Wednesday it, Dr. John J, Bunting, one of the ton Conference of the Meth- Episcopal Church, came to the defense of the Eastern Shore lynch- ams, decrying the censure levelled pos them for the Armwood and thew Williams lynchings. ‘Exonerating the lynchers, he at- tacked the International Labor De- for its activities in organizing and legal defense for Euel Lee, legal murder has been set for DOWNTOWN — THE LAST WORD IN FOOD AT POPULAR PRICES at the SWEET LIFE CAFETERIA 138 FIFTH AVENUE Bet. 18th and 9th Streets NEW YORK CITY All Comrades meet at the Vegetarian Workers’ Club —DINING ROOM— ‘Natural Food for Your Health "4 ay -| best known brand investigations, and ‘GUTTE “The story of relief duri sweet one.”—Mayor O’Brien’ Monogahela Democratic Club. OF NEW YORK | —by del | | | | | | | ing my administration was a } ’s campaign speech to the | 5:30—Robert Minor, Memorial Hall, 6:00—Robert Minor, candidate for M: Bryant Hall, 1087 Sixth Ave. Central Opera House, 67th St. Coney Island. Savoy Mansion, 20th Ave. and C. P. Election Meets Today International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, left wing. manic President at A. F. of L. Millinery Opposition United Front, 8:00—Robert Minor; I. Amter, Borough President; William L. Patterson, for Alderman, Harlem, at Workers’ Court of the Reichstag Trial, 8:00—Ben Gold, candidate for Aldermanic President; Arthur Burns, for Assembly; Mike La Vera, for Assembly, 15th St. and Mermaid Ave., 9:00—Ben Gold; Jim Lerner, for Assembly; Clara Shevelson, for Assembly, 19:30—Ben Gold, open-air rally, Hopkinson and Pitkin Aves., Brooklyn. | ing 344 West 36th St., Local 22 of the ayor; Ben Gold, candidate for Alder- | | ers. and Third Ave. 64th St., Brooklyn. 23 Per Cent Rise in Food Prices Shown in Report (CONTINUED FROM. PAGE ONE) culled from newspaper advertise- ments) than in the October ones, the latter were made up both on the basis of the lowest prices in three of the largest chain stores during one week, and the lowest prices of- fered by one chain during a whole month. “A certain stability of quality in the mercHiandise priced on the two dates (February and October) was assured by using the results of the mainly pricing those brands that are most stable in quality.” Among the individual items in the study it was found that the price of lard in the chains had advanced during the February-October period 66 per cent; eggs, 62 per cent; cheese, 50 per cent; milk, 10 per cent; three kinds of meat (combined rise), 19 per cent; potatoes, 114 per cent. Rises since July in the items of the budget selected have been greatest for potatoes, oatmeal, canned tomatoes and flour. Changes for single items very closely resemble those reported for Boston for the period of March to August by the New England La- bor Research Association, which found 100 per cent rise in the cost of cheap flour, 60-100 per cent in oatmeal, 40 per cent in evaporated milk, 50 per cent in canned tomatoes, 66 per cent in macaroni. Such changes,” says the report, “will rapidly eat up the small in- crease in payrolls that the bourgeois press is boasting about, especially since many of the unemployed work- ers are entirely dependent for their food upon employed workers.” Even the Annalist, Wall Street organ, re- cently admitted that any small in- crease in retail sales can be com-~- pletely explained by skyrocketing prices, without assuming that the workers are getting antything addi- tional in the way of food, clothing or other household necessities. next Friday, declaring: “One of the points of aggravation in the Lee case is that the fortune wasted to satisfy an alien organiza- tion in this state and to obtain jus- tice might have been expended for educational and refining purposes.” Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY—ITALIAN DISHES Dye Ranks Broken, Police, U.T.W. Heads Force Men’s Return ; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sued militant fighting policy and obtained unity with the rank and file AFL. members, the bosses were not able to get the men to return with- iut giving sizeable concessions, of 5712 cents an hour minimum and a min- imum wage of $23 for 40 hours, an increase of five cents an hour min- imum for all employes, and three cents an hour increase for women. But this increase and further better- ment of conditions must be guarded by the dye workers of Paterson at once putting through the proposal of the National Textile Workers Union for one united rank and file union jof the dye workers and organization inside every shop. The agreement on which the work- ers returned has not been signed by the biggest mills but only the smaller ones, according to the reports today. Only the fiercest terror and mobili- zation of police enabled the U.T.W. leaders and the manufacturers to get the strikers back to work. without much bigger gains which would have been won if the strike had continued solid. Less than half went back to work, but in order to keep the ranks unified, the N.T.W.U. will propose the workers go back tomorrow morn- ing in an organized fashion. Every mill today was an armed camp. At the National Silk mill plant in East Paterson, where the shooting of the picket line by police occurred Friday, the road was barricaded with sandbags, and machine gunners and snipers were perched on roofs and trestles. The resentment of the silk strikers, members of the U.T.W., at the send- ing of the dye strikers back to work by the A. F. of L, leaders before a Settlement was reached in the broad silk industry, was shown today when the strikers at the Roseland Hall meeting refused to allow any AF.L. leaders to speak, booed down the speakers and marched out of the hall. Hundreds of silk strikers came to the meeting called this afternoon by the N.T.W.U., where plans were laid to attempt to forestall sell-out of the silk strike by the U.T.W. leaders, which will follow their sell-out of the dye strike, Large meetings of the dye strikers last night at both Pas- saic and Paterson indorsed the pro- posal of the N.T,W.U. for forming one united union of the dye workers. A place with atmosphere where all radicals meet 302 E. 12th St. New York JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 220 E. 14th Street Welcome to Our Comrades All Comrades HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA Fresh Food—Proletarian Priees 99 ki. Meet at the | 13TH ST., WORKERS’ OENTRE-———! Former Y.?.S.L. Director to Speak on United Front Sol Larks, former National Dir- ector of the Young Peoples’ So- cialist League, who was expelled for his activity in united front struggles, will speak tonight at 8, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, on “United Front and_ the YPSL.” YPSL members and YCL members admitted free, General admission 15 cents. Hear I. Amter in role of George Dimitroff at Reichstag fire trial be- fore New York Workers’ Court, Central Opera House, New York, 8 p.m tonight | ney, who usually defends the Schulz gangsters, and Loeb are attorneys for this gang. That the asistant district attorney, Mendelson, is working _DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1933 forViolating Jim Crow Law ce Arrest Workers MILITIA 1S HELD! READY 10 BREAK COTTON STRIKE U Sheriff Asks More Aid Against Pickers FRESNO, Cal., Oct. 24—-Governor | James Rolph has ordered two com- panies of s' to be ready today to ‘ cotton pickers of Valley. The stz e alrea and ‘County and ai e demanding | dollar aj om | d by deputies kner of Kin: of the gro a minimum wage of one hundred pounds. Sheriff W. V. Bi to Rolph for r and Rolph has plane to the s' The strike is led by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial ion. Kings County is overrun with the armed forces of the growers who have tried in vain to prevent macs ting and mass meetings of er has appealed d. troops nt an air- Leads Shoe Strikers Fred Biedenkapp, Secretary of the Shos and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union. CHEER MINOR AT SHOE MEET AS8,000 PLEDGE 10 FIGHT Gangsters on Trial r Murderous Raid On Needle Offices Two Murdered When Union Was Reided Last April NEW YORK.—Seven gangs rticipated in the murderous last April which result’ 1 a fur ster, | 7 | t eral | Harry 6. xv, died several} a ago after having been in the ‘ince the attack occurred. session was concerned with | the selection of a jury which will hear the case of the seven gang- sters who are under the protection’ of the Associated Fur Manufactur-| 8. P. Mara, former district attor- closely with the defense, was evident in Mendelson’s failure to challenge a juror who admitted that he was a member of the fur association. The judge, however, desiring to cover up this brazen action to whitewash the gangsters, declared the juror un- qualified. vy Anxious to conceal their maneu- to leave the court. A number of im- portant witnesses were not called al- though the trial opened today. The gangsters who face trial are: Sam Cohen, Antony Bendetto, Sam Green, Harry Katz, Benjamin Le- vine, Barney Shore and Sol Horwitz, the latter, who claims membership in the union, failed to appear and his bail was forfeited. Several of the gangsters have been arrested since the raid on the Needle Union headquarters and are now out on bail. Three were brought in under guard. Katz came in displaying a deep knife wound on his face. Vote Delegation to Albany to Demand vers, the attorneys asked all visitors | NEW YORK.—Eight thousand shoe workers, Communists, Fusionists, mocrats, Republican’ and Social- rocked Arcadia Hall in Brooklyn y thunderous cheers for the mili-~ tant Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union Monday night, and az loudly booed the officials of the A. F of L, Boot and Shoe Union, Fred Bisdenkapp, secretary of the Shoe and Leather Union and the Communist candidate for Brooklyn ugh President, drew round after of applause as he told of the shoe hearings at Washi the Natio: Labor B viewed the situation. many of whom were of the Fusion Pa: heard the real is: of the election campaign when Robert Minor, Com- munist candidate for May spoke ion symposium which fol- lowed the meeting. “Lewis Pinkusson,” Minor charged, “who is a member of the Fusion group which nominated La Guardia, is a m of the law firm of Tach- na and Pinkusson, 110 William St., which took out the injunction for the National Slipper Association against the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union, your union.” Although invited, mayoralty can- didates for the other parties failed to appear. The Democratic Party sent a representative, Michael Spiro, wo asked support for a series of Tam- |many injunction judges as the | friends of the workers, He mentioned Peter B. Smith, Tammany judge, who | had issued the injunction against the | Furniture Workers Industrial Union which caused the arrest of Robert Minor when he picketed a shop>on strike. After a ten-minute speech he hurried away. A dramatic moment of the meeting came when Fred Biedenkapp read a telegram received from the four ; union organizers now serving a six months’ term in a Jersey City jail. The telegram, which was received with resounding cheers, said: “From the capitalist dungeons we send you our greetings. Although be- hind prison bars we are not discour- !aged. Our spirit is with you, Hold | your lines firm until victory,” It was i signed by the four framed workers: Maglicano, Ivanoff, Duchin and Ma- daxion. In his speech on the strike situa- tion, Biedenkapp declared that the 8,000 shoe workers present are the answer to the challenge of the bosses, Whaien and the labor fakers of the Boot and Shoe Union.” We have built a union which will stand like the | Rock of Gibraltar against any assault of the boss class.” The workers | ‘Leon Blum Release NEW YORK.—Forty-two delegates from 12 organizations, representing thousands of workers, unanimously voted last night to send a delegation to Albany to demand the uncondi- tional release of Leon Blum, a mili- tant leader of the Bronx laundry workers strike. Blum was framed up by the State Parole Board at the in- stigation of the Bronx Laundry Work- ers Association. The conference, called by the Bronx section of the International Labor Defense and the Laundry Workers Union, was attended by delegates from the Steel and Metal Workers Union, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Post No. 35; four shops of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union Union, Women’s Councils, and Workers Clubs. Bronx branches of the Socialist Party were invited but failed even to acknowledge the let- ters of invitation. ‘The conference was marked by the quiet attentiveness of the delegates and their evident determination to carry through the plan of action of the Resolutions Committee. A per- manent defense committee of ten was elected to direct the work of circulat- ing petitions and preparing for the meeting, Saturday, Oct. 28, from which the delegation to Albany will be sent off. By unanimous vote it was decided to invite Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, and Andrew Overgaard, of the Trade Union Unity Council, to head the delegation, An important step was taken in the mass defense of militant workers when the conference approved a mo- tion that each delegate return to his organization with a request for per- manent affiliation to the ILL.D., and the immediate election of representa- ores to the section committee of the ILD. Olgin at Election Rally Moissaya J, Olgin, Editor of the “Freiheit,” will speak at an elec- tion rally tonight, 8 p. m., at Her- man Ridder Junion High School, Boston Road and 173rd_ Street. Marty Gray of the Y. C. L, oth- {ers also will speak, \cheeved wildly when Biedenkapp pointed out that it was because of the mass resistance represented at the demonstration at Hotel Pennsyl- vania in which 7,000 shoe strikers ' participated, that the N.R.A. authori- ties in Washington stepped in after injunctions and terror had falied to break the ranks of the fighting shoe strikers, ‘ “Twenty-nine shoe manufacturers |made an agreement with the Boot | and Shoe Union through Mr. Whalen to make “union” shops in New York. Had they said they signed an agree- ment to make company union shops, scab shops, we could understand it. There is no room in Brooklyn or New York for the Boot and Shoe. They must get out.” A storm of applause followed in which the workers rose to vote by hand against the racket- eering officials. It was announced that all Boot and Shoe members have been called to a meeting to arganize together with the shoe workers of the Industrial Union into a united front to clean out the officials who have stabbed the workers in the back just as these officials have been kicked out out of Brockton, Several telegrams of greetings were read and one from the Shoe Work- ers Protective Union of Boston, de- claring that they would co-operate to keep scabs from entering the New York shops, indicating the mass sup- port of the New England shoe work- ers, Tremendous cheers ended the meeting as Biedenkapp expressed the determination of the thousands of strikers to continue the strike until the union is recognized and all de- mands are won. Earl Browder in Symposium Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, Herbert Herring, of Committee for Cultur- al Relations With Latin America, and Mary Borg, of the Anti-Im- perialist League will speak at a symposium on Cuban situation, to- night, 8 p. m, at National Stud- ents League, 683-6th Ave. The occasion will also be a sendoff for the Student Delegate to Cuba. Ad- mission 15 cents. * Hear the actual evidence in the Reichstag fire, presented to Work- ers’ Court at 8 p.m, tonight, in Cen- tral Opera House, New York, | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ; the rub comes in is that if we did | later was to take Machado's place State Dep't, Chase Bank,HushMachado $9,000,000 Robbery had visited Machado personally and warned him that he must “put his house in order financially,” said: “That, of course, could only be done by making a compromise with his ‘Machado’s’ political enemies, and naturally the only way he ‘Ma- chado’ could do that was to make some concessions, but the result of which would be that Cuba would pre- sent a uniform front rather than to have the security holders made ner- vous by not knowing when, it at all, the present government would be thrown out of power. . The Presi- dent admitted all thi ‘he letter also disclosed James’ conviction that Jose Obregon, son- in-law of Machado, then employed by Havana Chase at $12,000 a year, was, “from any business standpoint, perfectly useless,” but that they might as well keep him since “where not pay him his salary the Presi- dent would have to give him an allowance, and, in times as hard as these, it would be fairly difficult to do.” Robs Fund The letter showed. thirdly, that Bruce at this time knew that the Cuban pension fund of $12,000,000, had been re-“reduced” by Machado to $3,000,000 and this his procedure —which, it is well known, Machado followed, provide the blood and iron, the bullets, armored autos and pri- vate assassins of his terror—gravely concerned both Bruce and the U. Department of State. As Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the committee, chewed his big cigar through the reading of the document, amazement spread over the face of everyone in the magnificent hearing room. The most general second reaction, how- ever, was not indignation, but big bursts of laughter, the press, the Senators, even the bankers them- selves, laughed again and agcin at the drollery of this ccmplete, spec- tacular explanation of just how things were in Cuba. Taken as a whole, the document was a factual primer of banker-dic- tatorship in Havana. Personal Loans Personal loans to Machado, plans for financing Machado’s “public works” program, a gargantuan graft which Pecora has cited as violating the Sacrosanct Platt Amendment, a loan of $200,000 to de Cesnedes, who as the Wall Street agent in Havana —all these and more were discussed with brutal frankness in this docu- mont reporting ostensibly. the vrog- ress of the Rockefeller banking busi- ness in Cuba. “In this connection James com- plained against: one Henry Catlin, an electric bond and share official, who was also a member of Havana Chase’s Advisory Committee, saying: “He runs in and out of the palace (of Machado) every little while and 4s trying to get his own taxes re- duced and would be delighted to play the la“y bountiful with the funds of the Chase Bank,” which, of course, was the last thing Chase would allow, Some of the rare passages in the document follow in sélf-explanatory order: “The interests of the president (Machado): The president's per- sonal loan is now $130,000 and he promised to pay it off within 30 days. I should doubt very much whether he does this. The loan of Mestrie Machado is now about $45,000 un- secured. We had a proposition from them stating that they would pay this off if we would loan them $145,- 000 on Cuban internal Government bonds at market! value without margin. We decided we would rather take our chances on losing $45,000 than on putting up an additional $100,000, so that item remains the same, “You are familiar, of-course, with the transaction by which Sherrill and Rosenthal (other Chase officers) collected $200,000 from Cespedes. The collection was really the best single thing that has been done for the bank this year. S.] over the bogs to make a hunting day has opened with a bang. days. hang over the farm on their wa; On our way up to the far wardens. The old farmer who was at his gate watching a hunter and his dog. From the woods across the railroad tracks a gun went off, sounding like one stone hit against another. Even back in the city there are signs that the hunting season has opened. The! subway trains carry ads of Hanes; Underwear—some young gentlemen) ofe the leisure class in their slick} underwear holding guns. | Lenin liked to shoulder a gun) when he was in exile in Siberia and} go woodcocking. But you don’t have} to hide behind Lenin to admit a} liking for hunting. Even if you; don’t jerk your shotgun once off your shoulde? there is enough sport in tramping through the woods, sneak- ing up to a hickory tree, stumbling a day well spent. In the city most young workers can not afford Hanes Underwear. Or | the guns. A 22-rifle costs $22.50. Even shooting galleries are expen-; sive. Very few of us when we were kids could buy waterguns or air rifles. In school only the wéalthiest boys generally were meinbers of the “gun club. Whatever hunting we did was not out in the meadows ombrake, but in some filthy backyard after cats or sparrows or taking a bead at a bottle on the fence. ae hes ENCE city workers are seriously handicapped. “They don’t know which end of the gun to use,” says the ex-marine with whom we are squirrel hunting here. He is an ex- pert marksman, He would rather hunt than eat, He comes from an Alabama farm, where his folks are as “poor as snakes.” He laughs when he remembers Kelly and some of the other boys on the battleship Ar- kansas. “Most of the city boys couldn’t hit the side of a barn with @ 12-inch gun.” From the earliest days frontiers- men and farmers of America have used their guns like another arm. Age‘nst wild animals. For food. And it is so now still with tens of thousands of them. But game is much scarcer. About 30 miles southeast of Hous- ton, Texas, is Galveston Bay and miles of low country where rice is grown. Here hundreds of rice farm- ers have gone under, squeezed by dealers. Negro farmhands have told me that once they could take their guns with them and bring back from the woods food to last them a couple of days. “Now you can hardly see a duck around. They make the season short. Possim and coon is thinned out.” When more and more farmers can not buy meat for their fam- A-Hunting We Go By BEN FIELD Batting for Edward Newhouse YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York.—The hunting season The law’s been off squirrels for ten It will be off pheasants Monday. have worked as a farmhand ® the irrigation companies and the rice! Geese with long necks y South. There are deer tracks on the ridge where four weeks ago we cut corn for the silo. m the road was full of game lives West of the farm where I hunting country for the rich auto- mobile men in the southern part of the state. When bears raided the sheep, the farmers were fined heavily for attempting to kill them. Anything to keep enough sport for the big shots. The Minnesota farmers, better organized than those in Michigan, put up a stiffer fight. Deer were eating their clover. They warned the state politicians, stason or no season, they would put a stop to that. The farmers marched to the county seats and told the politi- cians that they could not afford to pay even a couple of dollars for hunting licenses. They would hunt without any, And they did not back down on their threat, Game wardens, many of them Farmer- Laber fakers, have been afmid to make arrests. . MNE reason for all these seasons and game laws and restrictions is to keep the use of firearms from spreading. Among the farmers this is difficult. The bosses will not hesi- tate to arm and deputize thugs and gorillas against Mexican cotton pick- ers in southern California, against steel strikers in Ambridge, against farmers who picket the roads for higher milk prices. When one of these toilers is shot down in cold blood the gangsters get away with it. Let an Italian worker kill a flicker and he is fined $5, This is what ac- tually happened in Pennsylvania, where the good “Christian” Governor Pinchot paid the fine and grabbed for himself space in every newspaper. The defenders of “law and order” must have guns. Sullivan Acts and other measures deprive the workers of bearing arms even though the Constitution expressly states that this right must not be infringed. Hunting is a fine sport. Like most. sports it has something to offer the farmer and worker. Not only food. The iron nerve, the firm hand, the keen eye, all are useful in the sharp- ening struggle, Contributions received to the credit of Edward Newhouse in his effort to catch up with Michael ,Gold and Dr. Luttinger in the so- cialist competition to raise money in the Daily Worker’s $40,000 | Drive. First day’s receipt } Sasha Stern {Red Spaks Soccer Chicago .... A. I. Gurshman Me Want, . City College Student De Total ilies a gun is a handy thing. I with whom we stayed lest July. I don’t believe he had the money to buy shells -for a shotgun. There wasn’t a single chicken on his farm. On the desk before me lies nis milk check: $7.85 with a deduction for cartage, Well, his cows weren’s making a living for him. So one day one of them went out and stenped on a rabbit. How the five chi'dren fell on that sweet meat. And for one meal the gaunt how to prepare her notatces—boiled, mashed, salad, potatoes, potatoes, day in and ont. ‘ The “they” that the Negro farmhand was referring to are re- “To touch for a moment on Obre- gon (Machado’s son-in-law), as we know, from any business standpoint, he is perfectly useless, He has has he the slightest ability in nego- tiating, which was something which we thought it might be possible to build him up to do...From what I could gather... Joe has very little standing with the president... It would seem to me that the best thing to do at the moment would be to jet things go on as they are... Rosenthal is very much concerned because he says that when he goes off on his vacation, that if Obregon is the next in charge, he will make all the bad loans all over again. “He is not threatening to resign, but is very scared that he is going to be fired. This is naturally, of course, the best way to have him as he can do the least harm. “Referring to the financing (to the| government of huge loans) I saw the (American) Ambassador and he thought that the renewal should be for 60 days. New Taxes | “I told him that we had thought that a renewal for 60 days woptld be’ undignified and the same had bet- ter be for six months—in accordance with the wishes of the president... The president has promised him to reduce it (the budget) to $60,000,000. Further the president said he would; receive $10,000,000 from the new taxes, i “The question was as to whether it would not be to our interest to keep as tight a hold as we could on the fiscal policies of Cuba. With this in mind, I had a talk with the president. I told him it was most important both from his standpoint and ours that he went right to work to reestablish the credit of Cuba.” (The passages concerning conces- neither any ability for banking norj sponsible for conditions in Michi- gan. Here the government has been trying to push the farmers off the marginal land in the north- ern counties to make it better sions followed, Then: “He (Machado) mentioned that in this last Congress there were one or two dissenting voices but said that in the Congress which would convene in April, there would not be one dissenting voice. (I suppose the two dissenting voices are already in jail, I also told the president that we held ourselves at his services... To give him confi- dential advice where he might re- quire it... I also stated that we felt we should keep more closely in touch,” | James then explained that the president was “very hard” for $1,500,- 000 and wanted Chase to lend him $1,300,000. James commented, terms would be.” . . . “The president had practically got to the bottom of the trust funds which of course he had no business in using. The funds are down in the neighborhood of ap- proximately $3,000,000 and they should be around $12,000,000, This money will have to be replaced ate some time as the trust fund is a pension fund... “Naturally the pub- lie do not know about this, although why they should not get on to it, I do not know, but it is worrying both the president and our own State Department very much.” “The president in the last tax uw inserted a clause to the effect that he should have power to sell short term treasury notes. Of course noth- ing could be worse... 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