The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1934, Page 1

oO CIRCULATI ON DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Total to date. .1,946 Vol. XI, No. 64 > Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter st the Post Office st New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879 (C.W.A. MEN FIGHT AGAINST ROOSEVELT APRIL 1 FIRING NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934, CLASS DAILY AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) WEATHER: Fair, colder. NRA Hears How AFL lHeads St Strike For Collins Ignores Wage| Demands; Says “We Are Not for Strike” RAYMOND SPEAKS | Auto Workers Union Has Delegation at Hearing | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 14. —The National Labor Board today opened a hearing called. | to head off the general strike | in the automobile industry, by | calling American Federation of La- bor officials who crawlingly testified that they have labored to prevent strikes but nevertheless “don’t know how long we can keep the men back.” More than 100 labor union rep- | resentatives were present. The Auto | Workers Union and A. F. of L. del- egates were there—amused to see, present, a delegation of about 20/ representing company unions. What the latter will say in defense of universally hated company-union- ism is something the Independent Union members are eagerly waiting to hear. Among the delegates were spokesmen for workers in Fisher Body and General Motors plants in Flint, Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis. Waiting to testify, union repre- sentatives bitterly condemned the Automobile Chamber of Commerce's and Henry Ford’s new fake hours reduction program. They declared that the promised reduction to 36 hours is “a laugh” because the work- week was 36 until the N. R. A. recently extended it. “In organizing these workers there is no intention to foment, foster, or (Continued on Page 2) Auto Bosses Maneuver To Stop Strike Men Not Being Fooled by Fake Increases; Demanding Action By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT Mich, March 14— Faced by widespread discontent of automobile workers which has al- ready broken out in a wave of stop- pages and department strikes, Ford, General Motors and other manu- facturers, have resorted to maneu- vers to head off the immediate strike situation and surging of work- ers into trade unions. Auto work- ers, stirring as never before, have been demanding wage increases, slowing down of speed-up, and an end to company unions. Ford work- ers have been talking and acting in the direction of realizing the 1928 wage scale of $7 and $8 a day, 30 hour week, and slowing down inhu- man speed. To check this move- ment, Ford has announced an in- crease from $4 and $4.40 to $5. General Motors, Chrysler and others have announced a 36-hour week, which means the four-shift system, and promise corresponding increase in hourly wages to make up for hours decreased. These ac- tions do not remedy the basic evils. With a small number of exceptions among the lowest paid, the weekly wage will remain the same in the face of rising living costs. More- over, thousands who wrung pay in- creases through militant actions in February will receive no further hourly increase, which means that (Continued on Page 2) i eichathainahsieasidegtatenietshiiiiaihaainteenianin ieee ea ciel In the Daily Worker Today } PAGE 2 Sports, by Sam Ross. PAGE 3 Pre-Convention "!scussion. PAGE 4 Letters from Farmers, “Party Life.” “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” “In the Home.” PAGE 5 “Change the World!” by Sender Garlin. “The Hordes That Battle” by Freeman. Joseph “New Orleans A. F. of L. Unions Shattered,” by John L. Spivak. “Leaders of the Red Army.” “Creative Writing on a 10 Per Cent Commission Basis,” by Russell. Gene . PAGE 6 Editorials Foreign News. em Auto Demands Foster to Write on Youth Question in Monday’s ‘‘Daily”’ A special feature of the pre- convention discussion will be an article on the Youth Question, by William Z. Foster, chairman of the Central Commit‘ee of the Communist Party, which will appear in the Daily Worker on Monday, March 19. In this article Comrade Foster will deal with the most urgent and burning problems confront- ing the Party and the Young Communist League in organizing the youth for the struggle against fascism and war and for the proletarian revolution. ‘This Bill Will Stop Strikes,’ Says Wagner Bill Dunne te Expose Strikebreaking Act at Hearings By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 14.—Flat- ly declaring “this bill will prevent strikes,” Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board today pre- sented to the Senate Labor Com-} mittee his bill proposing to estab- lish compulsory arbitration under the pretense of making good the NR.A. promise to recognize the right of workers to collective bar- gaining. Three soft-paunched but hard- faced members of the Labor Com- mittee heard Wagner's presentation speech lauding this bill, which is a life-and-death matter to the work- ing millions of Americans. And the three committee members didn’t bat an eye when Wagner, despite a free flow of demagogy, virtually admit- ted that this bill is the supreme strikebreaking scheme of the New Deal. Bill Dunne, who came to Wash- ington to testify against the Wagner bill on behalf of the Trade Union Unity League, was unable to speak today because all time today and for several days to come was re- served for supporters of the legisla- tion. Dunne will testify later. Describes Measure Frankly admitting that the bill was inspired to thwart the great spring stri%e wave now rolling up, ‘Wagner gave the following descrip- tion of the necessity (of the bosses) for the bill: “Since the passage of the Reco- very Act, trade associations (em- ployer combinations) have been strengthened enormously, and in- dustry has gained practically un- challenged control of the (N.R.A.) code authority mechanism. During the very same period, genuine co- operation among employees has received one setback after an- other. The 40,000,000 working veople in this country rightly feel that this is unfair... In addition, employees are becoming impatient at the denial of their rights, and PHIL RAYMOND Leader of the militant Auto Workers’ Union, who attacked the N. R. A. automobile code hearing in Washington yesterday. | Ttalian Fascists Seek | Deportation of Worker Now Living in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill., March 14.—Ar- | rested at the request of the Italian fascist government, Santo Virrusso, | tried and sentenced to life impris- | onment in Italy while he was re-| siding in this country, yesterday awaited the decision of a federal commissioner on an Italian request for his deportation. Virrusso was acquitted of the charge of murder while he was in Italy in 1923. In 1927, the Musso- lini fascist government resurrected the case, and sentenced Virrusso to life imprisonment while he was liv- ing in Chicago. Nazis Kill Communist For ‘Arson’ Same Fate Honored for Thaelmann, Whose Trial Nears BERLIN, March 14.—Richard Bahr, 24, a Communist, was be- headed with mediaeval brutality in Ploetzensee prison yesterday, along with two common criminals who robbed and murdered an woman, on the charge of setting fire to two barns and a haystack. With this act of official ferocity, solemnly approved by the highest judicial authorities of the Nazi state, the German ruling class re- veals its terror of Communists and its maniacal resolve to destroy every one it can get in its clutches. The statement refusing to com- mute Bahr’s sentence declares he must die “because hs is Commu- nistically inclined.” The charge of firing barn and haystack is ob- viously a reprisal for the Nazi de- feat in the Reichstag fire trial. Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, will face trial for his life on charges of “high treason” very soon. Only a gigan- tic campaign of protest on the part of the world proletariat can save him from the fate of Richard Bahr. Intensify the demand for Thael- mann’s freedom! Raise the ques- tion in hundreds of meetings, in the unions, in the shops, in all or- ganizations. Crowd the German Consulates with demonstrations and delegations, flood them with (Continued on Page 2) Legal Butchery Of 3 Negroes old | Speed Plans to New York Unions to Aid Cabmen Sm Call Unions to Elect Delegates at Once for Cab Strike Meet NEW YORK.—All trade unions and workers’ fraternal organiza- tions, societies, clubs, etc., were called upon by the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York to elect delegates to the Anti-Com- pany Union Conference to be held at the Manhattan Lyceum on Sunday at 11 a.m. All unions of the Trade Union Unity League, A. F. of L. locals, branches of the International Workers’ Order, Workingmen’s Circle, Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League posts, all Unemployed Councils, Women’s Councils, shop organizations should elect dele- gates at once for this important conference. Set For Friday Lynch-Rulers Hesitate | on Plan to Let Father of “Victim” Do Job JACKSON, Miss., March 14.—The Senate bill authorizing the father of the girl in a “rape” frame-up to | act as State hangman of three Ne- | gro youths in the legal butchery set for tomorrow in Hernando, Mis- | sissippi, received a setback in the | House today as the result of nation- wide protests against the measure. The bill, supported by Senator Collins, cousin of the alleged “rape” victim, was hurriedly passed by the Senate on March 7 to enable De Soto County authori- ties to keep a secret agreement te permit the girl’s father to spring the trap, as a reward, de- manded by Senator Collins, for what he termed the father’s “re- luctant consent to let the law take its course.” Collins is the author of another bill, now before the Senate, to make every hang- | ing of a Negro a public holiday in Mississippi. The Senate measure was sent to the House, which was expected to rush it through into law. Mean- while, however, a furious storm of protest rose from all parts of the country following exposure of the measure by the Communist press and the International Labor De- fense. Governor CVollins and other Mississippi officials were flooded with protest telegrams from organ- izations of workers and intellectu- als, North and South. The House | decided it had better pigeon-hole the measure, and Representative Walter Sillers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, came forward in fake opposition to “le- galized butchery in this state.” U. S. GUNBOAT SINKS OFF CHINA HONGKONG, March 14—The U. S. gunboat Fulton, belonging to one of the two fleets which America maintains in Chinese waters to pro- tect U. S. imperialist interests and help the Chinese war on the Chi- nese Soviets, burned up and sank | families. Rally All Big Mass Conference at Manhattan Lyceum Sunday Morning NEW YORK.—Picketing contin- ued at the Parmelee garages yes-| terday and the Taxi Drivers Un-| fon of Greater New York was) busy working out plans for a con- ference of delegates of all labor organizations to be held Sunday | at 11 a, m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., where a broad| campaign will be launched against | all company unions in New York. The strikers have set up head- | quarters at Germania Hall, 16th) St. and Third Ave., where relief | is being distributed to the drivers. | Coffee and sandwiches is being| served to the strikers twice a day, | at noon and 6 p. m. Cooperating with the union, the Workers International Relief, 870 | Broadway, is collecting food and! relief for the striking drivers. It | is the aim of the union to give| baskets of food to all strikers with | Relief donations are/ being accepted at the strike head- quarters at Germania Hall. In a further attempt to break the strike, officers of the so-called Drivers Brotherhood of New York, the Parmelee company union or- ganization, sent letters to the dri- vers stating that the Brotherhood had arranged for the men to go back to work. The dirty, sneaking, strikebreak- ing nature of the so-called Broth- (Continued on Page 2) Marines Fire on Havana Student Demonstration Strikers Standing Firm Despite Government Ban on Unions HAVANA, March 14—Several | thousand high school students dem- | onstrated in Central Park today, at | the call of Ala Izquierda, revolu- tionary student organization, and demanded the ousting of U. S. Am- | bassador Jefferson Caffery and the | end of the Caffery-Mendieta terror drive against the Cuban workers. They then marched to the union headquarters of the striking dock | workers, who were meeting. Ma- rines sent to disperse the demon- stration fired, but no one was re- ported injured. Although the government has | outlawed their unions because they remain out, the Havana dock, drug- store, telephone and ferry workers remain solidly out. Scabs pro- tected by the army are doing some of the work. A bomb was exploded at the headquarters of the dock workers’ union, injuring one worker. Soldiers with bayonets and ma- chine guns broke up a demonstra- tion at Matanzas today. Twenty former army oficers were arrested at Santiago last night, charged with conspiring against the Mendieta government. UNEMPLOYED GIRL TAKES POISON NEW YORK —A young unem- ployed girl, Constance Sacre, at- tempted suicide yesterday by drink- ing poison in a restaurant at 562 Seventh Ave. She was taken to) Bellevue Hospital in an unconscious state. Her condition is said to be resolutions of protest! in Bias Bay, north of this city. The crew escaped. serious. There was 35 cents in her purse. Roosevelt New Deal of Firing, Relief Cuts Can Be Defeated AN EDITORIAL Roosevelt government, with breakneck speed, is carrying through the firing of all C. W. A. workers by March 31. The federal and local governments are determined to provide no relief for most of the unemployed fired from C. W. A. jobs. | This relief cutting policy of Roosevelt is openly announced in the Illinois C. W. A. instructions, based on orders from Washington. “It is useless to transfer the C. W. A. load to the relief if no economy is to be effected,” says the C. W. A. Roosevelt has decreed firing, relief cuts and starvation for the un- | employed. While making empty promises of “unemployment insurance” through the Wagner bill, the Roosevelt administration carries out its hunger program. The administration's Wagner Bill, misrepresented as “unemploy- ment insurance,” calls for no federal unemployment insurance what- | ever and on a state scale provides only benefits for those now in in- | dustry for a Imited period. It does not apply to those sixteen million now totally jobless. La Guardia in New York, Perkins, Wagner, Green boost these and similar fraudulent bills in order to give some hope, to sow illusions among the unemployed that the government will “do something” for them in the near future. But while La Guardia talks of “unemploy- ment insurance,” he announces that the city government will cut down | relief and will not provide relief for most of the fired C. W. A. workers, As La Guardia’s commissioner of public welfare openly admitted, “a minimum subsistence for the destitute only,” will be the rule after April 1. Now more than ever before the masses of workers and farmers see the burning need for security through the enactment of an effective unemployment insurance bill (H. R. 7598). Despite the demagogy of Roosevelt, La Guardia, etc., with their fake Wagner Bill, despite Green’s slanderous and lying attack on the Workers’ Bill as “unconstitutional,” the workers ans farmers, in increasing hundreds of thousands, are demanding passage of the Workers’ Bill. Now more than ever, when Roosevelt has decreed starvation, the employed and unemployed must extend and deepen the mass campaign for security, for the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598). The Workers’ Bill must be taken up and endorsed in every organization where “orkers and farmers gather, and these organizations as well as millions of individuals, must force Congress through their mass demand to enact the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). The C. W. A. workers can defeat the. firing by mass action and or- ganization. The unemployed can win unemployment insurance through their mass pressure on Congress. Adequate relief can be forced out of the Roosevelt government by the mass action of the unemployed and employed workers. ©. W. A. workers—demonstrate at the ©. W. A. offices against C. W. A. firing. Organize job committees on all C. W. A. jobs and de- mand continuation and extension of C. W. A. jobs. Demand restoration of the wage cut and union wages and conditions on all C. W. A. jobs. Unemployed workers. Demonstrate at the relief offices for jobs or cash relief for all unemployed. Demand cash relief equivalent to the prevailing wage in the industry at union conditions. Employed and unemployed. Demand of your local Congressman the immediate passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Socisl In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598). Runaway Prices U.S. War Dept. Due Soon, Big Head Whitewashes Price 3 Cents Workers in Chicago, New York, ash Co. Union Pittsburgh Act, Demand Jobs March Through Chicago Loop on March 31, Against Layoffs HOLD YOUTH MARCH City Hall Protest in New York City Following the strikes of C. W. A. workers against pay cuts in Can- ton, O., Utica, N. Y., Allentown and Bristol, Pa., and demonstra- tions of C. W. A. workers against Roosevelt’s April 1 firing, in Bos- ton, and other cities, new actions of the workers are announced. In Chicago a mass march will take place March 31; united front conferences are arranged for both New York and Chicago on March 18. In Philadelphia a hunger march is scheduled for March 29. A youth march in Turtle Creek Valley (Pittsburgh) has been called. The action of the masses in all sections against C. W. A. firings and against the announced policy of relief cuts, is on the increase, 3000 Meet In New York NEW YORK.—More than 3,000 workers, representing every C. W. A. job and project in Greater New York, jammed Beethoven and Webster Halls on Tuesday night in a mass protest against C.WA. firings and the paup- ers’ oath questionnaire which has been forced upon every New York C. W. A. worker. The entire meet- ing endorsed the Greater New York Conference on C. W. A. and Unem- | ployment called by the Unemployed | Councils and the Relief Workers’ | League, to be held at Irving Plaza, March 18th, at 1 p. m. The Mareh 18 Conference will jconeretize the struggles against C. | W. A. firings and the paupers’ oath; j will lay plans for struggles on the | jobs; will formulate petitions and | protests to be signed on the jobs jand sent by worker delegations to | Roosevelt, to La Guardia, and to local C. W. A. officials, and will lay Plans for a huge protest meeting of all C. W. A. workers at Madison Square Garden, and plan a city- wide demonstration. Paupers’ Oath. The meeting on Tuesday night | was called as a result of the dele- | gated conference, held at the Grand | Opera House on Monday night, at which 700 delegates responded to an overnight call for action, issued by the Federation of Architects, Enzi- jneers, Chemists and Technicians. The 3,000 workers present at the two meetings protested against the mass firings on C. W. A., and laid | plans for a concerted and organized |refusal to sign the paupers’ oath. ;On less organized jobs, the work- Banker Predicts, Contract Graft NEW YORK.—The imminence WASHINGTON, March 14—A of a huge inflationary rise in let vi- prices was predicted” today by. complete whitewash of the activi ties of the War Department’s con- tracts for supplies was given today by Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring in a statement to the House Military Affairs Committee investigating charges of wholesale | Frank Vanderlip, former President of the National City Bank, at the annual meeting of the New York Exporters Club. “In the not very distant future,” | (Continued on Page 2) Fear Vet Protest; House Will Debate | 1933 Economy Act he said,” there is grave danger of a great inflation of prices— of prices running away.” The Roosevelt N.R.A.-inflation program has already sent prices more than 20 per cent above last graft and corruption in the War) (Daily Worker Washington Bureaii) Department. | WASHINGTON, March 14.—Fear- It was shown that Woodring | ful of the veterans’ protest votes at had changed the specifications in | the polls next fall, the House of Rep- many contracts to make sure that | resentatives today voted, 247 to 169, the orders went to certain firms. | to debate the partial return of ben- Woodring attributed the charges | efits taken away from veterans and year. With further inflation {0° -orruption in the handling of certainty because of the avowed|war contracts as coming from objective of the Roosevelt govern- | “sniping critics.” He is a Roose- ment to raise prices, a further|velt appointee and is an advo- rapid increase in the cost of living | cate of a policy of open militar- is certain. ism. Congressmen Fear Another Veterans Bonus March On Washington a, . Pressure of Last March Won Concessions for Veterans (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C. March 14. —Representatives Connery of Mas- sachusetts and Patman of Texas, “prime movers” in the so-called bonus bloc in Congress yesterday revealed to the Daily Worker that they are less concerned with the final enactment of the bonus cash payment bill than with the prospect of another mass march of veterans on Washington. Both of these gentlemen, who have been misleading veterans for a@ number of years, fearfully op- posed any mass action on the part of veterans. They, as well as all those who voted for the infla- tionary Patman bonus-payment bill, know that President Roosevelt will veto it even if the Senate ap- proves the measure just passed by the House. Yet Patman declared that a mass march of the veterans would be “ruinous,” and Connery asserted that it “would do no good.” Gains Won By March The Veterans National Rank and File Commiitee’s answer, as well as the answer of all rank and file vet- erans throughout the United States, is another march on Wast:ngton before the adjouzmment of the pres- ent session of Congress. What Pat- man and Connery refuse to admit, but what is true, is that cverything the veterans gained has been the result of mass pressure. Over 400,000 veterans were able to borrow on an average of $500 by the removal of a two year restriction clause and the interest rate on loans made to veterans on their adjusted service certificates was reduced from 4% to 3% per cent as a result of the veterans march on Washington in 1932. The granting of loans in itself was, the result of mass pres- sure. As a result of the rank and file convention held in Fort Hunt, Virginia and in the District of Col- umbia May 12-13, 1933, with the subsequent deluge of telegrams from all over the country demanding re- peal of the Economy Act of $100,- 000,000 was saved for the veterans. Lundeen Atraid Representative Lundeen of Min- nesota told the Daily Worker he would “be on hand to welcome them” if the veterans marched on time he made a veiled suggestion that poverty and distress might ac-. company the march. Ie said: “Tl say what I said when the veterans came last spring. I know of no citizen who has a better right Veterans Mass on Washington For Cash Bonus Early in May NEW YORK.—The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League called on all rank and file members of veterans organizations and all unorganized veterans to support the mass con- vention of veterans to take place in Washington the first week in May. E. Levin, the chairman of the W. E. 8. L., will tour the industrial centers to mobilize the veterans in support of the mass movement on Washing- ton, the W. E. S. L. announced. Levin will visit Pittsburgh, Cleve- land, Detroit, Chicago and other cities, The W.ES.L. statement urges all veterans to support the call of the Veterans National Rank and File Committee, located in Washington, for the mass convention in Wash- Washington again, but at the same ing, for the mass convention in Washington the first week of May. The W.ES.L. in answering the plea of congressmen not to come to Washington (see accompanying Washington dispatch) stated that the last bonus march won for the veterans all concessions that the veterans had gained. Telegrams and letters should be written to the con- gressmen demanding the cash bonus and repeal of the Roosevelt Econ- omy Act but this is not enough. It ‘was not until the march of the vet- erans in 1932 that congress was forced to act. It is the fear of an- other bonus march that forces them to make concessions at this time, the W.ES.L. stated. The veterans, the W.E.S.L. said, are not afraid of the “hardship and distress” which is feared by congressman Lundeen, @ than soldiers to come here and Roosevelt Will Try to make their demands. I hope there « * will be no poverty and distress i] Kill Bonus Bill connection with their visit and I'll * say that any soldiers who come in Senate here either singly or in groups will) A find me on hand to welcome them.” the Rank and File Committee's call Patman, the Texas Democrat) for a march on Washington?” who introduced the inflationary; “Oh,” exclaimed Patman, “such cash-payment bill which provides action as that will absolutely ruin for “controlled expansion” of the! us! It ruined us before, you know—” currency by payment of the vet- “Don’t you know that your bill erans’ certificates in greenbacks, | Was passed in 1932 while the bonus declared that there is a good chance Marchers were assembled on Capitol of enactment of Senate approval,| Hill?” ; despite the threat by Democratic) “Oh, the House didn’t pass the bill Leader Robinson that administra-| because the veterans were here,” tion followers will kill it in the) Patman declared. “If the veterans Senate. | hadn't been here, the Senate would Senate Would Kill Bill | Rave passed the bill also, in 1932. “If the Senate Finance Commit-| As Patman knows very well, the tee gives us a hearing, the Senate| reason that the bonus bill was not will pass our bill,” Patman in-| passed by the Senate in 1932 is that sisted. “Of course, they can bring the veterans themselves were di- it into the floor without a hearing vided, and their leadership sold out before the Committee, and lynch it.”| to the Hoover Administration. “What about Robinson’s warning | Doesn’t Want To Face Vets that the Senate will kill the bill?”; “Of course, anybody's entitled to he was asked. | come to Washington,” Patman has- “Of course, Senator Robinson is| tened to add. “If they come to see the Majority Leader and I don’t) me, I'll treat ‘em nice. They acied want to dispute him, but I think/ like gentlemen last time, and I the bill will pass the Senate—” “What is your attitude toward’ (Continued on Page 2) | Pay taken away from Government | employes under the Roosevelt Econ- |omy Act. For two hours, then, the | Congressmen hectically quarrelled | over the amendments to an appro- priation which the 4:nate already had approved. In no case would all benefits and pay be returned, how- ever, and the partial return still | faces the final vote in the House and the veto of President Roosevelt. | The veterans amendment would | restore only about $100,000,000 of | the approximately $338,000,000 worth |of benefits taken away by the Economy Act. During the debate Representative Connery of Massa- chusetts announced niggardly con- | cession was preferred by the lead- ership of the American Legion and the disabled American veterans to | the bonus-cashing bill now pending. Connery declared that the reac- tionary leadership of these veterans’ organizations “are not asking for” | the bonus. Just before this it has been made clear that the White House is still unalterably opposed tosthe bonus- cashing bill. The excuse of the admin: ion is that the bonus- |eashing bill calls for printing | money to pay for cashing the bonus. | The veterans’ amendment now | being discussed would not restore disability allowances which were taken away by the Economy Act from 470,000 veterans who accepted them in lieu of pensions. It would discriminate against remarried world war veterans’ widows, providing no pensions for them, but restoring these of Spanish American war widows. It would discriminate be- tween soldiers and officers, pro- viding no return of disability al- lowances to soldiers, but to officers $100 to $140 a month,