The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 5

{) FRATERNAL ORDERS UNABLE TO REPLACE SOCIAL y MAX BEDACHT Because of the practical absence of social insurance in America, millions of Amerioan workers belong to fraternal organizations. Of course, fraternal organizations cannot substitute for social insurance. They cannot supply unemployment insurance; they cannot organize old age pensions; they can- bility by not guarantee a continued dis the workers by unemployment, old age, by permanent disabili are political problems. They can| not be solved by saving, nor can} help; | they be solved by mutual certainly they cannot be solved by “charity.” They can only be solved by a political struggle for a full measures of social insurance, Mutual Insurance Meanwhile, however, the workers attempt to solve a part of the prob- lem by means of mutual insurance. That is why so many A an workers are membi of fraterna mutual benefit societies. That is why the organization of mutual benefits is considered in almost every workers organization. That ig why the payment of mutual ben- fits is practiced even in the trade unions. However, the combination of trade union and mutual benefit society is not a wor! le one. trade union is primarily an instru- work- ment of struggle for better ing conditions. This fact union an obj of cap’ eution and even suppression. Th result is that, either the union b comes a very insecure admin tor of insurance funds, or it steps struggles so as not to endan- rer th> security cf the insurance nds. Thus, insurance as a side- } Hne for unions has contributed very | much to the submission of the embers of A. F. of L. unions to e reactionary policies of their bureaucrats. Militant trade unions cannot seriously co: bination of their fu izations for econom ruggles and | organizations for insurance. Yet | the members of the militant unions | have as much reason to be inter- | ested in mutual benefits as even the tive work therefore r the com ion as organ- Special Option It is for this reason that the ternational Workers Order workers fraternal organization has decided to institute a special option, open only to workers organized in trade unions. If workers organized | in a trade union decide to utilize | this option in a body, they can ob- | tain either $400 death benefit at an approximate cost of 10 cents per | week, or $250 death benefit and $4 jreek sick benefit at an appr imate cost of 15 cents per ie cost of this insurance is based upon the regular insurance rates, on the step rate ystem, plus a minimum of cost for administra- tion expenses. Any union that makes use of | either of these options automati- cally becomes a branch of the In- | ternational Workers Order with | full rights to participate in the making of decisions concerning the tules and by-laws, etc., of the | Order. Trade Union Affiliation The use of any of these options by any union helps to solve two roblems; rst, it supplies the mem~ ers of the union with some desir able protection; second, it does not burden the union with responsibility for the administration of the insur- ance funds ¢ollected. The affiliation of trade to the I. W. 0. by means of utilizing this option helps the trade union movement in another direction. The International Workers Order is a conscious workers organization. It supports the struggles of the | workers to the best of its ability. Its growth will increase its ability to give such support. Its growth | will establish a powerful auxiliary | to help the workers in their strug- gies. ‘Needle Union To _ MobilizeIn Support Of Tailors’ Strike | NEW YORK.—At NRA headquar- | ters yesterday Grover Whalen repu- diated his promise to the custom tail- ors strike delegation that he would ‘publicly condemn the Merchant Tail- | ors’ Society for violating the blanket | code which the bosses had signed, if | he failed to persuade them to accept | the offer of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union to conduct an | immediate referndum to determine | which union the strikers choose to Whalen did not receive th strikers. Evading responsibility, he informed ‘the strikers through his representative Wolff that he had exhausted all means and could do nothing further in. the strike. “We don't believe in the NRA, It’s a strike-breaking agency for the pur- pose of aiding the bosses,” said the strikers to Wolff. When the strikers di ded that Whalen issue a state- w Int as he had promised, Wolff eva- ‘a said he would take it us. by the Merchant Tailors entitled and Destroy” in which the NRA % definitely implicated in strike- ‘breaking. bosses declare that A! Party. unions } INSURANCE. FIGHT The problems raised for insurance, Letters from Our Readers THE 100TH “DAIL | Chicago, Ill. |Comrade Editor: Today, I celebrate an important joccasion, it is the reading of the one-hundrdth copy of the Daily Worker. Some people read thous- ands of numbers of newspapers yet don’t think anything of it, but 1 find that by having read one jhundred numbers of the “Daily,” I |haye learned more about the labor movement and the class struggle |than in many years as a member jand supporter of the Socialist | The presidential election of 1932 together disillusioned me. I found the S. P. as the political or- | zer and leader of the working |class doesn’t mean a thing, and |that the Literary Digest, in deco- rating its front covers with the faces of the three graces was quite correct, since the tribune are the servants of the same master, the jcapitalist. class, each in ‘their |sphere of influence, and the sooner | the P. members will learn what eneral Pershing already knows— that Norman Thomas (and his part; is not dangerous (to the |capitalist class) the better off they | will be. | The Daily Worker has improved |considerably in the last three |months, “not only editorially but {also typogravhically and is much better to read. Yours truly, —J. Le WHAT IS THE PARTY DOING IN HOBOKEN? Union City, N. J.! or: | | Comrade I have been a reader of the Daily for me time, and I like the new up swell. I am a veteran, and for the Fighting Vet column, I hope this will continue for a long jtime. The person who writes that |column sure knows his veterans. His analysis of the American Legion was |the best thing I’ve read in a long |time. I live in Hoboken, and while |i am not a member of the W.ES.L. |I wish they would send some organ- |izers over here. We have a V.F.W. | Post No. 107 at 11th St. and Washing- ton, There are lots of unattached |vets over here and I am sure some jof them, including myself, would sign up if a post were started here. Tell the boys to bring a strong group |with them the first time they come lover to speak. \ | What is the party doing in Ho- boken? I never see speakers or much \activity. You know, we have a large |Seamen’s house here right near the |Hudson Tubes, A good place for the | |marine workers to ‘organize. Why | |don’t they come over too? Also, why ; don’t we penetrate Union City, West |N. ¥., etc.; a lot of good German jand Italian workers in these parts. | ~—A Veteran. | P. S—I'd like to see the Daily on more news stands in Hgboken, too. | NO EXCUSES FROM NOW ON Chicago, Til. Comrade Editor: I am a Daily Worker salesman and jin my rounds of delivering the Daily Worker I find a great many Party members that do not read the Daily Workér. Their claim is that they cannot get the three cents. Under the present Daily Worker drive, my suggestion is that: Every unemployed member of every revolutionary organisation should see his Daily Worker agent and get five Daily Workers and sell them for 15 cents, He could have one and four cents profit. It would not take over one hour to sell five papers. GEORGE WORKMAN Unit 1205, Section 12. WOULD RATHER MISS A MEAL Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: As a regular reader of the “Daily” since it moved to New York, I want to express my thanks to the staff in putting out the “Daily” in its pres- ent form. It is now a pleasure to read of the struggles of the workers everywhere for the betterment of their living conditions. I would much rather miss 4 meal than miss a single issue of our “Daily.” No efforts must be spared that the “Daily” gets into the of the workers, — to see hands gAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933 National Civic Federation, Aided by Labor Chiefs, Has Long Record as Workers’ Foe By SENDER GARLIN Tat Pvc in 1901 ic Federa-| Together,” Federation Has Conspired Against U.S.S.R. and Helped Break Strikes The National C tion, whose latest demand is for the suppression of the Daily Worker by the U. S. Govern-| ay ment as a pre-condition to rec- ognition of the Soviet Union, has carried on an unceasing, vicious an- | ti-Soviet campaign since 1917, Backed by many prominent finan- | ciers, and having the “moral” sup-| port of tn lieutenants of American the Civic | Federati d itself into| frenzies of gainst the Work-| ers’ and Peasants’ Republic. | It has not stopped with mere bom-| bastic publicity releases, and with} rabid speeches banquets of Manu- | facturers’ Associations and Chambers | of Commerce. It sponsored one of tic most | paipable forgeries ever exposed: the so-called Whalen documents, which sought to prove that the Amtorg ‘Trading Corporation was re engaged in “subversive activities.” ‘ | By means of this torgery—while RALPH M. EASUEY i hoping to strike a blow agzinst the | the ratiroad workers of that com-|gaged in the field of intoxicating | recent convention. ee pinion tin lenders of tie | pany liquors and members of the Civic | it was revealed: (New..York livic Federation hoped to push |‘ ———— * Federation, shall not be elicib> to ‘ iS ANSON S<yews emptogad | through a whole series of repres- ee Oe membership in the. United Mine Pete ah al ra sive legislation to fingerprint aud | Tne “public” is represented in the } workers of America,” PF ithentWational civic deport militant. foreign-born work- | National Civic Federation by such| “This. of course, Was many years | ey "es panier ‘syeahed ers and to outlaw the Communist | personages as Elihu Root, former| igo, in the old, militant dice of the a ce Secretary of State and author of} the proposed reactionary new con- Party and the revolutionary trade unions. Easley and the Whalen “7 their many declared that “Hf it should find the Whalen Photostats genuine, it would nat- urally be expected, in view of the infamous character of these docu- ments, that the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce wonld lead all true Americans in the demand that the whole bunch of reds at 261 Fifth Ave. (Amtorg—Editor) be taken out and shot!” Organized back in 1901 as a “get- together” movement of labor and which was rejected even by the most loyal of capitalism; Col. | velt, until recently in the Philippines as pro-consul for American imperialism; and Nicholas Murray Butler, whose university is | supported by the millions. from the} House of Morgan, and other leading capitalist institutions. ti The most interesting group, of course, is the one alleged to be rep- resenting the interest of “the wage- earners.” This includes such horny- handed sons of toil as Frank Feeney, president of the International Union of Elevator Constructors; Thomas F. MacMahon, president of the United Textile Workers, whose officialdom has just betrayed the strike of the Paterson silk workers; William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes in America, and— above all—Matthew Woll, that slick medicine-fakir of the A. F. of L. The directors include such men as| i; Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treasury under Hoover and T. Cole- man DuPont, both of them executives of powerful open-shop corporations which have used labor spies, armed guards, state police, private thugs and strikebreakers in their vicious campaigns against labor. Get Millionaire Backing That the National Civic Federation cannot be dismissed lightly—in spite of the fact that its spokesman is such a wild type like Easley—is shown by the fact that it has the backing of powerful §panciers. On the exec- utive committee of the Federation is, for example, Nicholas F. Brady, who is president of the United Electric Light and Power Co.; president of the New York Edison Oo.; director of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Atlantic and Gulf Petroleum Co., Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., National City Co., and U. 8. Tire Co, Mr. Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal” at a salary of $10,000 a year (from report of Treasurer Kennedy of the U. M. W. A.) is chairman of one of the roe a Civic Federation Commit- Ss. How John L. Lewis, president of the U. M. W. A, would be able to Teconcile Searles’ activity in Kasley’s outfit with his editorship of the union’s official publication would be extremely interesting, for a resolution adopted at one of the conventions of the U. M. W. A, some years ago characterized the National Civic Fed- eration as “an auxiliary of the cap- italist class in the exploitation of the workers, and an agency to forge fet- ters:on the limbs of the workers.” And the constitution of the U. M. W. A. puts the thing rather tartly: “Mine managers, top foremen, op- erators, commissioners, persons en- B ti a GEORGE DJAMGAROFF capital, it has worked hand-in-glove with the open shop bosses, has taken an active part in strikebreaking and has carried on venomous “anti-Red” campaigns against militant work- ing class organizations for years. Seventy-five-year-old Ralph Mont- gomery Easley, a high-salaried pro- fessional patriot of long standing, is the chairman of the Executive Council of the National Civic Fed- eration and is the most vociferous and rabid of its officials. A close second to Basley is Mat- thew Woll, acting president of the federation. Woll is also vice-presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, president of the Photo En- gravers Union—a small group of United Mine stitution for the State of New York | jones. Easley written with thi Second Coming of Christ” disciples of Judge Rutherford One of these releases, dated Dec. 1, 1930, was headed with the rhetori- “Shall We Recognize came, cal question Soviet Russia quick as a flash, “No!” “Three thousands representatives— |men and women—voted against it questionnaire Also, they voted in favor of nment, seeking its destruction, and to save our basic industries from demoral- dumping Brasol & GROVER WHALEN Workers of uring “America Mast N ts Principics for imes over fon sent out flamboyant “te! cterizes the ann b; ” The answer to protect our gover zation through Moscow's program.” One of, these “representative men” Was none other than the famous Joseph E. Grundy, notorious tariff lobbyist for the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers Association, who was shown to have bought his seat in the United States Senate. “To Bring Labor and Capital | agenda of wall street. 11 America—'!,. the days of Virden and Mother ‘ot Barter Away joviet Gold,” are words which the National Civic Fed- eration long ago inscribed on its gi trimmed banner. Periodically, some- the signature of Ralph sometimes over the signature of Matthew Woll, the Civic Federa- hysteria which cha uncement of “the the y Easley—Friend of Criminals Easley, in American history, al) Brasol and Gaston B. Means. including a Russian MATTHEW WOLL chief of the Civic Federa- tion, has had the benefit of intimate contact with some of the shadiest political Boris It was monarchist and Jew-baiter, who was responsible for circulating the forged “Protocol of Zion” among high officials in vari- ous departments in Washington and among diplomatic representatives of various foreign countries and through- out the U. Ss. Brasol, incidentally, was associated with George Creel, who as chairman of the Public Information Department during the war helped poison the minds of the masses and make them receptive to the imperialist war prop- cidentally . Pi P J.| , the former Helen Gould, i hh Ave., is extremely was Creel | who helped gather “data” for the| famous Sisson forgeries 1 aimed | to show that Lenin and other leaders | of the Russian Revolution were in the | | pay of the Imperial German govern- | ment. | Means provides a chapter | recent history. This crony is now serving a ston Penitent sum of $105,000 on he would turn ove | bergh baby to her ne missing Lind- | When Means was arrested on a | charge of extortion in connection with this case, Easley rushed to Washing- |ton, according to the “Washington Post.” According to a lawyer in the case, Easley was on his way to a nee with Means in the Wil-| lar Hotel, when the latter was} | arrested | | — Quite a place, the, Willard, Hotel! | | It’s the same swell. join (open- shop, of course), where the Am- erican Federation of Labor held its its contribu- donors to ion paid f fund, one of the la is in the “patriotic” wo ation. Rose from Ranks This lad Means is a dynamic in- divid real “American” t He graduated from the civilian ranks and became a right-hand man to William J. Burns ‘when Burns took over the Department of of the | t years Means has established an international reputa- tion: he has been arrested for murder when he was charged with the shoot- ing to death of Maud King, a wealthy | widow he had been hired to guard as| a Burns detective; he has charged with faking a will, German ting rum gs} bribing an ney-General, etc, etc, Whalen Part of Gang Grover A. Whalen, former Commissioner, and now head NRA in New York, was for a time (and now head of the NRA in New York, was for a time and (probably still is chairman of the Civic Federa- tion'’st “Department on Subversive | Movements.” ‘Thus the vice-president of the Am- erican Federation, Matthew Woll, and the strikebreaker Whelan mect in joyous collaboration for the slaying of the Red dragon and saving Am- erican institutions for those who own them Nice hook-up: Whalen, Woll and Easley, emember the notorious Whalen Forgeries, which “proved” that the Amtorg Trading Corporation was carrying on Red propaganda? ‘Well, it was old man Easley who palmed them off on Whalen. Not that Whalen didn’t know they were for- geries, of? course. John L. Spivak, now special cor- respondent for the Daily Worker, exposed the Whalen documents as forgeries shortly after they were turned over to the capitalist press to be emblazoned on their front | pages. “While in Washington,” Spivak swore in his affidavit which he read to the Fish Committee, (July 15, 1930), “I learned that, Ralph M. Eas- ley had had those documents at lease six weeks before Mr. Whalen issued them to the press and had shown them to several people in’ Washing- ton, one of whom I was informed, was Hugh Kerwin of the Department for Conciliation of the Department of Labor,” Spivak further declared that while in Washington he learned that Mrs. Henry Loomis, sister-in-law of for- mer Secretary of State Stimson, had been a heavy contributor to Russian highly skilled workers, organized on the basis of complete cooperation with the bosses. For pin money Woll runs the Union Labor Life Insur- It was once remarked that the Executive Council of the National Civic Federation looks like a page out of the Directory of Directors. The Council, it is interesting to note, is divided into three groups: “On Part of Public;” “On Part of Employers;” and “On Part of Wage-Earners.” Heading the open representatives of the bosses are: Nicholas F. Brady, President of the Consolidated Gas Co., of New York; T. Coleman Du Pont, chairman of the Executive Comm. of the Equitable Office Bldg. Corp. Otto M. Hidlitz, of the Build- General ifugh Rashington, D. C. Dear General Johnsons of which I sent you, being made b. the Commi they could make trouble forth-- it would be wel against the “Daily vorker*. shoving its venomous sp : You can well of the “Daily \vorker” whe fe in sympa’ howd of the Ree This this letter to Grover Whalen, which is raters tearalemncthmrs rare joviet forgery-mongers are attempting to nse the Daily Worker's struggles against the strike-breaking slave- GEN, H. L, JOHNS: 3. Johneon, National Recovery Administrator, You will recali that, @8 one of the conditions governi ment, that Moscow shoulé abandon it: In this connection, this country of the Third International, to various poimts for distribution among which Ralph M. Easley enclosed in R/O nists on the LRA. prowuoting unrest, 1 to ask irit. That sheet, Sincerely yours, THEY WANT TO “SQUELCH” DAILY act tn a re etna nena oe Si ¥ of ¥75,000,00 \ in my letter to sen.tor vagner, T suggested Phat, in view of ti in every \oseible place where instigating strikes and so Chairman Jones of the the proposed loan, @ propagand:ic: KeReAs whioh, of course, woiild include the aquelching of the I am sending you a aopy of tie “1: nies fe the official organ tn ia sent daily in large bundles the foreign-born wor ers. reaps NER Pen escact that the venonous ons): u,on Jo wis,and everybody els the operation of the bitusinous coal code, will hava in ty A copy of my letter to Senator wagner was sent also ty ir. Grem with the idea of having such an appeal made to the ‘Ralph September 23, 1933, ? ee | & copy Vicious attacks He¥eG. to stipulat 0 the Soviet Govern- fgn in this countey ily ‘orker* aughts connected with | shoe in his glove. WALL STREET’S By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Page Five (Daily Worker Washington Bureau Litvinovy-Roosevelt recognit hand of capitalist brutality and important difference, how- at this stage of the American not domestic midable Italian and German capitalists. Until the increasing militant aware- ness of the workers is considered dangerous to the present half-masked | capi dictatorship, the various | Roosevelt representatives will con- tinue to go through the motions of listening to strikers’ protests (when not dickering secretly with manufac- and will even allow steel s to protest “off the record’ vately) against the campaign of tear gas and the use of a brigade of diseased prosti- tutes, the latest strike-breaking tactic. | There is still time to use demagogic | ts to lull many workers into a false sense of security—time to dot the country with NRA Regional | Labor Board Impartial Chairmen who can be trusted to “settle” strikes at their point of origin; time to fuse associations into one con- mechanism so that ‘co-| ordination” will not be necessary; | time to deport foreign-born labor | at time to persuade workers | to the mills on the promise of | elections” many weeks later; | time to gull the unwary with em-| Pp ent and wage “statist: which | no relation to the worker's real | | anti-Soviet | was George | “A.B.C. News | monarchists active in work, among whom Djamgaroff,"head of the Service,” devoted to anti-Soviet pro-| paganda. | Soon after it became a national body, the Federation injected itself in steel and railroad strikes, each} | time, of course, on the side of the | bosses. Active As Strikebreaker | Easley’s organization was active as a strikebreaker in the great steel! strike of 1919 and in the Passaic strike of 1926. On April 1 of that) year Easley wrote a letter to Ivy Lee,| John D. Rockefeller’s publicity man, | that “Mussolini would make short! work of the Reds in those strikes.” | Interesting insight in the methods | used by the Federation in its periodic | “reform” spurts is given by Norman} Hapgood, who says in his book, “Pro- | fessional Patriots,” that the commit- appointed by the organization to) investigate and turn in a whitewash | report of child labor in southern cot- ton mills some years ago included | the wives of two presidents of south- | ern cotton milis and of the president | of the Southern Cotton Manufactur- | ers Association. Not even phoney “representatives” of labor were in~- cluded in the so-called investigating | committee. A comparatively new member of the Executive Council, representing | “the public” is none other than} Joseph R. Ryan, head of the long- shoremen’s union, president of the} New York Central Trades and Labor Council, Tammany’s chief undercover in the ranks of labor in New York,| and a man who rules with a horse-| Ryan, who appeared before the City Hall hearing Wednesday af- ternoon to call for a fight against what he called “Nazisism” and “Hitlersism,” has taken a leading part in the drive against the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and has rendered valiant service to the A. F. of L. bureaucrats in their fascist campaigns against militant unions, One of the leading members of the Executive Council of the National Civie Federation is James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany. Re- viewing Hitler's “My Battle,” in the New York Times on Sunday, Oct./ 15, Gerard declares that: “Hitler is doing much for Ger- many, his unification of the Ger- mans, his destruction of Commu- nism, his training of the young, his creation of a Spartan state animated by patriotism, his curb- ing of parliamentary government, so unsuited to the German char- acter; his protection of the right of private property are all good; after all, what the Germans do in their own territory is their own business, except for one thing—the Persecution and practical expulsion of the Jews.” After this paean of praise for the Nazi murder regime, it is not sur- prising to find Gerard saying of the | “Brown Book of Hitler ‘Terror”:— “As for the outrages and atroci- ties set forth, I have no doubt that many instances given actually oc- curred, but since the World War (plows man!—S. G.) I have fought shy of atrocity stories...” These are the people who demand the suppression of the Daily Worker! These are the people who war against the Soviet Union! coal regions. ° Jasley. codes of the N.R.A. as a weapon to interfere in the Feproduced on | relations of the U. 8. Government and the Soviet notorious anti- | Union. Note the reference to the “sympathy” of Wil- liam Green, president of Labor, and the solicitude the American Federation ef for John L, Lewis, i JAMES W. GERARD OE | TON.—Whatever eventuates from | is obviously false, the forthcoming ruthl jon conv repression will conti 1e to seek | out the militant worker throughout America The bankers and industrialists who financec i the black |march on Rome and Hitler’s brown @———— = battalions prc ever even dreamt e timid of plans so elaborate and precise as{ with the “corr used in 1918 by those which evelt war| Wilson and Gompers and ant the di Until e national concern about the ss of the recovery program rises narrow interests of any ” the Roosevelt ma- e itself to dealing above the particular grouy chine will con with oradic outbursts of protest, despair and resentment. But when that time is past, militant labors e tested in a ruthless new capitalist offensive, new guns! ts? sg Sots HE: latest encyclical of the Federal Emergency Administration of Pub- lic Works, the principal feeder of the monstrous war machine which is be= ing constructed to slaughter workers in the impending imperialist war for markets, bears eloquent testimony to what the Roosevelt administration stands for and points to, Out of “public works” allotments totalling a little more than two bil- lion dollars, $367,692,430 went for ab- solute war preparations—$238,000,000 for a navy “second to none.” In ad- dition, $396,870,850, a “public works” sum even larger than that which is being spent for the identifiable death- dealing instruments, went for ace tivities intimately connected with military preparations—$321,037,315 for the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, $24,833,535 for the Coast Guard, $1,000,000 for the Panama Canal and $50,000,000 for the Tene nessee Valley development. Lest there be any doubt of the mili- tary nature of the civilian conservae tion camps, a veritable breeder of fas- cists, one need only refer to the ree port made to Roosevelt by Colonel Duncan K. Major, Jr., on July 2, 1933 According to the New York Times, the Colonel stated that the conserva tion corps mobilization “had been the most valuable experience the army had had since the World War.” If there is any doubt of the significance of the expenditures for the Panama Canal, one should read the cryptically illuminating Army and Navy Journal for October 14, a propaganda fortress for the military clique: “To win Pan- American friendship, President Roose- velt, in a White House press con- ference, thought it ‘perfectly absurd’ that the Panamanian government could not have its own radio station and referred to the complaints of Panama merchants at the destructive competition of post exchanges. and comissaries in the Canal Zone. TI (the staff columnist—S. W.) suggest that the President have a second thought. Should he do so he will realize the necessity of American control over communications at the canal ..” (emphasis mine—S. W.) And finally, if any one doubts the signific- ance of the Tennessee Valley expend- iture, he need only be told that this valley is the seat of Muscle Shoals, potentially the world’s greatest nitro- gen manufacturing plant. Nitrogen? yes, nitrogen—e-x-p-l-o-s-i-v-e-s. In his enumeration of allotments for “public works,” Public Works Ad- ministrator Harold 1. Ickes an~ nounced that “it has been calculated that 85 per cent of every dollar of the $3,300,000,000 fund will go for wages ...” Now, aside from the fact that even if 85 per cent of this huge sum did go for wages it would not justify the collosan slaughter prepara- tions, the “calculation” (by whom?) the thousandth Tepetition of Navy Department and shipbuilders’ profit propaganda, “Where did you get the 85 per cent figure?,” I asked the publicity depart- ment of the Ickes organization. “From the Navy Department and our own construction engineers,” was the an- swer, mettle and bru New muzzles, UT if we look at the most recent breakdown survey of material and labor, the pamphlet entitled “Relative Cost of Material and Labor in Buiki- ing Construction, 1931-1932,” issued October, 1932, by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics—its fig- ures included classes of work involyed in ship construction—we see that “for the 15 cities taken as a whole 61.6 per cent of the money spent in the erection of buildings went for ma- terial and 36.4 per cent for labor.” Yes, irrespective of what Maxim Litvinov, People’s Commissar for For- eign Affairs of the Soviet Govern< ment, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, agree upon, the class conscious worker will prepare himself to resist the onslaught of new muzzles, new guns, new mobil- izations. Mooney Plans Appeal. To U.S. Supreme Court SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.~The San Francisco Examiner carried a report today that Tom Mooney plans to make an appeal to the U. S. Su- preme Court next month in the 17- year-old battle to break down the frame-up by which he was railroad- ed to jail for life in connection with the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing. Despite overwhelming proof of Mooney’s innocence, Gov. Rolph of California has twice rejected appeals for a pardon for Mooney, } WEALTHY JUDGE CUTS '™ COOK’S PAY PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The rising cost of living has so affected the buying power of Orphan's Court Judge Tremble’s $14,000 salary, that last week he reduced the pay of the cook who has been working for hint for 35 years because of hard times.” She used to get $15 per week, now ae gets $10. TF, MINOR FOR MAYOR Against Tammany lynch tewee on Negrees—VYote Communiotg 4 Stree maneonmarinse e@oanss