The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 Communists Rap Roosevelt Housing Campaign ROOSEVELT PLAN DESIGNED TO AID | Are Tortured BANKERS, Communist Platform Pre SHARKS ovides for Decent Hous- ing for All Workers and Jobs for 5 Million In Constructi In its efforts to garner launched a housing campaign last week. The purpose of the ballyhoo is to persuade the wo and to convince the small modernize his home. Tf we contrast the plan of gram that has been worked out by @ the Communist Party, we shall see that Roosevelt's program is in the interests of the mortgage sharks and landlords, who are guaranteed 10 per cent on mortgages and loans. The plan of the Communist Party on the other hand, would provide decent housing for every worker and farmer and give jobs to the 5,000,000 unemployed workers who are depen- dent, directly and indirectly, on the construction industry or jobs. The facts about the housing situ- ation in this country reveal a truly appalling condition. The magazine Fortune claimed in 1932 that more than 50 per cent of the houses and homes in America were below mini- mum standards of health and de- cen¢y. In New York City alone more than a million people live in fire-trap tenements which were con- demned as being unfit for human beings more than 30 years ago. Recent government surveys dis- closed that 20 per cent of the na- tion's homes had no bathtubs or shoWers; 72 per cent had no hot water facilities; 38 per cent had no gas, electric or cooking facilities; over 50 per cent were in need of repairs. Brought Overcrowding ‘The crisis has brought overcrowd- dng and the forced doubli workers’ families. The gov reports that 17 per cent of homes that it investigated in 64 cities had more than three persons living in every room In these same cities some 440,000 houses were reported as being unfit for. human habitation. More than 450,000 homes, for example, did not have toilets. It is these conditions that have léd housing experts to declare that ‘American slums are the worst in the world, far worse than the most | ble slums anywhere else in| ‘alist: world. The greed of the landlords is di-| rectly responsible for the fact: that workers ‘anti ‘farmers have to live | in rat-traps. There are availabie enough equipment and skill so that everyone could live ina decent home. But the government is com- mitted to protecting the profits of | the landlords. Consequently it has done nothing in the way of better housing. Its work to date has been devoted to giving subsidies to big builders, and guaranteeing the mort- | gages and investments of the land- lords. While it has given billions to the bankers and industzialists, the ad- ministration hes only allotted about $145,000,000 for housing. This a ridiculous sum when we remember that this is only 1.5 per cent of the sums spent for construction an- nually during the years 1926-1929. And even this pitiful sum was on - used to erect apartment houses for -the upper middle class—not for the | workers, who are so desperately in need of decent housing. The present housing plans of the Administration have no other pur- pose than to guarantee mortgages and loans at 10 per cent interest. Roosevelt naively proposes to per-| suade people who haye money in} the bank to build new homes, on! which they are to borrow money at | usurious rates. New Program Will Not Help Since the unemployed and even/| the . employed workers have no} money, the new program will not help them in the least. It will help no one except the mortgage sharks, provided they can persuade some} .Middie-class home owner to burden | himself with new debts by buying a new home. The best indication of _ thé failure of this scheme is that the present volume of residential ‘building is at a new low for the __crisis. Roosevelt’s acts have shown very clearly that the administration in- tends to perpetuate the evils of the slums in orde: to guarantee the “rents of the landlords. It will not i protect the home of the poor owner ! who cannot pay his taxes or meet ; his interest. It will do nothing to Provide jobs for the millions of un- } employed building workers. The C. P. Program In contrast to the capitalistic pro- * gram of the administration, the Communist Party has worked out : housing plans that would provide * for the needs of all workers and = farmers. It has worked out plans + in conjunction with the Unemploy- ; ment Councils, trade unions and other workers’ organizations, and groups of azchitects and technicians, + that call for the immediate inaugu- i ration. of a national slum clearance i program that would provide jobs for * millions of workers. This program i would be financed by the federal > government with sums raised by + taxing the rich and the big cor- porations. ‘ * The new homes would be rentea » to the workers at a sum that wouid * be a fraction of their wages. The unemployed would not have to pay + rent, but would be given apartments _ rent-free as a social insurance right. ‘In addition schools, hospitals, ze- home owner that he should on Industry the votes, Administration | rkers that they will get jobs, the government with the pro- creation centers, parks and the like would be erected in working-class districts for the benefit of the work- ers’ children and families, A Communist Governor, for ex- ample, would immediately press tne housing needs of the workers. His first step would be to open the un- used buildings and apartment houses to the homeless and unem- ployed. His second step would be to fight for the housing program of the Communist Party, This would give work to the unemployed, and, in connection with the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill, would raise the living standards of the whole working class. To vote for the capitalist candi- dates is to vote for the continuance of the slums. It means that you are satisfied to condemn your children to the horrors of firetraps. It means that you appsove the herding of homeless men in cellars and door- ways, No worker can afford to abstain from voting Communist. To vote for Communist candidates means to strike a blow for better housing con- ditions; it means that you are strengthening the fight against the slums and the firetraps. On hous- ing, as on all other issues, it is only f\the Communist Party which has a | We were forced to leave. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934 ‘Scottshoro Boys (Continued from Page 1) in the presence of Clarence’s mother, Mrs. Norris. Threatens to Kill Boy “Then the warden rushed Mrs. Norris and myself out. ‘You better get out of here before I kill that god damn mean nigger,’ he said. You can imagine what happened to Hay-| wood after we left, when he was beaten in the manner that he was right before our eyes. Those are the methods used by the State au- | thorities, working hand in glove) with Leibowitz, in their attempt to|at Kilby Prison Saturday a week of your own free will and we are get the boys to renounce the LL.D.” | ago,” said Davis. “We immediatey | not trying to influence you.’ They Davis then described the frequent | went in to see the boys, Heywood | said furthermore, ‘We have talked conferences of Leibowitz’s agents | Patterson and Clarence Norris, and | the whole situation over among our- with the authorities of Alabama, | asked them whether they knew the | selves and with Mr. Leibowitz, and particularly with Attorney General | seriousness of the step they had | we agree with Mr. Leibowitz that Knight. The gangster Terry, Lei- bowitz's aide in Alabama, seemed even though he is not a lawyer. ference. of the very officials of Ala- bama who had framed up the boys and condemned them to death, with Leibowit2’s aid.” said Davis. “While all this was occurring, I was denied all right to meet the boys. After my life was threatened by Terry, I discovered that, to keep me away from the boys, to prevent me from telling them the truth of the maneuvers that were being car- ried on around them, Attorney General Knight and Terry had cooked up a statement, which they said was signed by the boys, for- bidding me entry into the prison to see them, Doors Closed to Davis “The boys knew nothing of such a statement. In fact, they repeat- edly asked why I did not come to See them.” As the attorney for Angelo Hern- don, the Scottsboro boys have a/case and we had already retained | the I. L, D. high regard for Ben Davis, and looked to him for advice and guid- ance in their fight for their lives against the vicious frame-up. “When I was in Atlanta,” B allyhoo | people of America who could do the | see, most for them.” While these conferences were go- | ing on with the mothers of the Scottsboro boys, the state and prison authorities were bringing the greatest pressure against the boys to get them to line up with Leibo- witz and his supporters in New York. The prison officials gave the boys all sorts of papers saying the Communists, I. L. D. and Interna- tional Workers’ Order representa- tives were being locked up in At- lanta; shpwing the police drive against the reds in Alabama and Georgia. They told the boys so long as such people as these had charge of their defense they were sure to burn in the electric chair, while if they took Leibowitz and his backers they would get out. What Boys Said “Mr. Ida Norris and myself arrived taken in signing with Leibowitz. “They said this impression was | to have open access to the State | yery vague in their minds; they had | getting any consideration from the Capitol, and to the State prison, | an idea that Leibowitz was still with | Alabama courts.’ In other words, the I. L. D, They had a sort of | the fourth main argument used was “The mothers told me of the con- | hero-worship for him because of his | the red scare. tricks and antics in the Decatur | court rooms, and felt that it would be quite necessary for them to sign these papers for Leibowitz in order to keep him in the case. “Then I asked them whether or not they still wanted the I. L, D. They said certainly they did want the L.L.D.,, because it had saved their lives for three and a half years or more, and it came to them at a time when they were unable to help themselves. “I asked them, were they willing to sign back to the I. L. D. their complete defense and leave to the I. L. D. the question of getting law- yers for thheir case in the Supreme Court of the United State, and they said they were. I tod them that the | same man, who had been used by the I. L. D. in the Supreme Court, Mr. Pollak, was going to argue their | him. They were very glad to know | this, I explained to them also how Mr. Pollak was used before Leibow- itz was even considered by the LL.D. program that will benefit the work- ” Davis | to come into the case, and that the you want decent people of | America to help you. You fool around with these reds and we can- not help you. You know Mr. Leibowitz is a great man, and it was all we could do to keep him in the case to help you mothers and the boys. We have all faith in him and as a matter of fact the Min- isterial Inter-Denominational Con- ference in New York voted to keep Mr. Leibowitz, and these reds should be gotten out of your case, they are not helping you at all. If you moth-| ers will just put your trust in Leib- owitz and god your boys will be saved and Leibowitz and god are the only ones that can save them now. Now, mothers, just as sure as you sit in that chair, your boys are going to be burned on Dec. 7.’ But then, after he said that, he |said, ‘We are not trying to influ- }ence you, we are not trying to per- suade you, we want you to do this | the reds have to be gotten out be- | cause the reds will keep you from “Then the fifth main argument was Leibowita’s alliance with the court system itself. Terry told the mothers that Mr. Leibowitz had talked the whole thing over with Tom Knight, with Governor Miller, | and they assured him that if he got} control of the case that the boys would get life and as soon as they served a few months, they would get out by a pardon. Of course, this is absolutely impossible, but. the mothers did not know it, “So they told the mothers all these things and the mothers be- came. panicky, naturally, and signed over. Mrs. Patterson signed, Mrs. Wright signed, Mrs. Williams would have signed but she was sick in bed at Mrs. Patterson’s house and could not get down there. But she did finally make a cross mark and some- one else signéd her name. That was the first statement repudiating “Deliberate Misrepresentation” Davis, from his investigation in Alabama, affirmed that many docu- ments were presented to the boys ers and farmers of the country. Vote for workers housing and the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill! Vote Communist! Anti-Faseist Unity Parley Is Arranged (Continued from Page 1) come a part of your movement. for the liberation of political prisoners of Italy and for the sending of an international delegation to Italy. “We invite you, therefore, to nominate a committee which should be empowered to reach an agrec- ment with our execifive committee in order to agree on the work to be done. Please let us know soon the names of your representatives and the date on which the first meet- ing can be held. It is to be un- ders'ood that the preliminary meet- ings will be held in Chicago at the headquarters of the Italian Social- ist Federation. “Confident that this will be the first step toward a complete agree- ment, “Fraternally yours, for the Execu- tive Commission of the Socialist Federation. “(Signed) CLEMENTE.” In reply the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party sent the follow- ing communication: C,. P. Bureau Replies “We have read with pleasure your let‘er of the 8th, in which you inform us that the executive of your Party has authorized you to participate with us in the move- ment for the liberation of political prisoners in Italy, and for the send- ing of an international delegation to Italy. We second with enthusi- asm the expression of hope that | this will be the first step toward a complete agreemen‘. Your invita- tion to nominate a committee to be stated, “I visited the boys frequently in Birmingham jail and had no trouble gaining admittance. And often I protested against the vicious treatment of the boys inside the | Jail. The boys knew it and had a | great deal of confidence in me, and looked to me as one of their closest friends. “But after Leibowitz began his plotting with the lynch authorities against the boys and their connec- tion with the I. L. D., all doors were closed against me, as the rep- resentative of the I. L. D. This was deliberately done, in order to create an atmosphere of fear and terror against the boys. to. force and intimidate them into signing state- ments favoring Leibowitz as repre- senting them. “It was done also to keep me | ‘0 Kilby first and signing up those | from finding out that the boys in | boys, and then coming around by | Jefferson County jail were still in | solitary confinement, and had been there since last March,” Davis said. | Davis, who made a thorough in- | they just got the consent of these | vestigation of Leibowitz’s trickery | and co-operation with the Alabama authorities to break the Scot’ sboro | boys from the International Labor | Defense, told of the forces which were working toward this end. Scheme Planned In N. Y. “The scheme was concocted in New York between Leibowitz and a group of Negro ministers. They des- igna'ed Rev. Richard Bolden and Rev. Lorenzo H. King to go to Ala- bama to confer with the state offi- cials, ‘as well as with the. mothers | of the Scottsboro boys to poison them against the I. L. D. “These two treacherous Negro ministers, playing into the hands | of the enemies of the Negro peo- | ple, went first to Kilby prison and fed the boys poisonous propaganda. lying against the I. L. D. They told them that the ‘reds’ were not in- terested in saving their lives; that they should rely upon the ‘decent’ Communist es I. L. D. with its mass defense, and using Pollak as a lawyer, had been able to get a reversal on their cases, so they signed up with the I. L. D.” After detailing the intricate web of plotting, promises, threats, and almost unbelievable intrigue re- sorted to by Leibowitz and the Ala- bama lynch authcrities against the Scottsboro boys, buried in their prison, away from all contact with their friends and defenders, Davis “I think it is very important here to note the fake arguments used by Leibowitz, and all of the lies. The matter first. started by Leibowitz's secretary, Terry, and an assistant | named Raymond Reilly, an attorney, and two Negro ministers going down Birmingham and getting the con- sent. cf those boys to go over with Leibowitz. The boys did not sign; boys. Then they came back to Chat- tanooga to see the mothers, and there a conference was arranged between Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Patter- son, Terry, this attorney Reilly, and these Negro ministers. “The main deceitful arguments used were: first, the Cohen-Swift ‘bribery’ business. Leibowitz said that Brodsky had sent Sol Cohen and Swift down to Alabama to ‘bribe’ Victoria Price. “The next lying argument used was that the appeals in the Ala- bama State Supreme Court has been hopelessly bungled by Fraenkel, that if Brodsky and Fraenkel had taken Chamlee’s advice this whole thing would have been avoided. “The third vicious, fake argument used, was that the I. L. D. had collected hundreds of thousands of | dollars and had practically not given |the mothers anything. | “The ministers kept saying, ‘You tribution today to the $60,000 drive. by the Leibowitz crew, and to their | mothers, with deliberate misrepre- | sentation, | “I will say that the mothers, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Patterson, neither one of them knew what they were signing when they signed the Lei- bowitz retainer the first time; and the boys certainly did not know the effect of what they were signing, because they could not sign these papers to keep out our lawyers and still maintain the warm; friendly and enthusiastic. relation they ~did with me and the I, L, D. at all times.” Now that the Scottsboro case is up before the United States Su-/| preme Court’ on ;appeal, with the | death’ sentence against two-of the boys set for Dec. 7, the efforts of the Alabama authorities to drive! the I. L. D. out of the case was | made plain by Ben Davis from his | first hand investigation of the in-| tricate threads of the new plot against the Scottsboro boys. The framed-up. defendants realize that it was the I. L. D. that has saved} their lives thus far, that has rallied millions of workers all over the world in their defense. Despite the trojan efforts of the state lynch authorities, now cooperating with Leibowitz and his forces, despite the fact that the boys are maltreated, bulldozed, beaten, intermingled with | promises, they cannot be torn away | from their allegiance to the I. L. D., | no matter what tricks are used to | get them to sign papers under | duress and threats. | | Every day of the Roosevelt New Deal shows the growing need of the Daily Worker. But ‘the Daily Worker needs $60,000 ‘to be able | to deal more fully with the strug- ‘gles of the working class. Support \ the Daily Worker! Send your con- Fraenkel Prepares FEDERAL REPORTS . Appeal toUS. Court (Continued from Page 1) from the clerk of the Supreme Court the printed material. This consists of the Opinion and other proceedings in the State Supreme Court. In the meantime, I have drafted a brief for use on the application for certiorari and have been in conference with Mr. Walter H. Pollak with regard to the same. I expect that this brief will be ready to send to the printer by the end of this week. In conclusion, I wish to say that all the communications I have received from the defend- ants are to the effect that they desire me, together with Mr. Pol- lak, to handle this appeal to the United States Supreme Court. ‘You can be assured that we are doing everything possible toward this end and will continue so to do. Very truly yours, OSMOND K. FRAENKEL,. Paterson Dyers Strike Tomorrow (Continued from. Page 1) up. Pickets were sent to the shop | in compliance with the Mayor's proclamation, only to find that not even the pickets would be allowed. Two workers were arrested, Bill Reich and Larry Heimbach, mass picket line organizers. This morning more: than three hundred workers formed a picket line determined to smash the proc- lamation of Mayor Lewis and strike the shop for union recogni- tion, Police made a vicious attack. Steven Puckonics, Communist candidate for Congress, was picked out by the police and viciously beaten and afterwards arrested. Puckonics had just been released ¢ from jail for distributing a leafiet | exposing the sellout of Gorman. | He with two other workers served fifteen days. Several other workers | were arrested today, some from the | Unemployed League. | ‘The workers are talking about a | general strike. Officials of the Amalgamated Union ‘state that | they are prepared to use every pos- | sible weapon to stop the bosses | from smashing the union. The | worke:s are asking that all’ the| shops in town be called out in a/| Beneral strike. It is very probable | that due to the pressure of the} workers for such action the om. | cials will be forced to act. ~~ 1,300 Woolen Workers Strike BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 23.— Thirteen hundred woolen textile | workers walked out on strike here and in Winooski yesterday, in defiance of the telegraphic orders | from the national office of the nd of fair profit is a sine qua non) United Textile Workers Union. The | strikers are in local union 2026 of | Burlington and the Winooski local | of the U. T. W. and are employed in mills belonging to the American | Woolen Company. 1 The immediate cause of the strike was discrimination against | union members who were fired by | Schmauski, a boss in the mill. Louis J. Guilment, general or- ganizer for the U. T. W. and busi- | ness agent of the local union, was | opposed to the strike. After the strike began, George Whitney, agent for the American Woolen Company, was forced to declare the factory closed in all branches of production, | Communist Candidates Are | Leaders in the Fight for the | Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. — Par ty Improves ‘Farm Relief Bill charged with establishing an agree- | ment with your executive commit- | tee, and to come to an unders‘and- | ing on the work to be done, has | been acecpted by us, and we also | Clarifies Program of | prices for the commodities they sell Struggle Against A.A.A. Policies and high prices for what they buy as a result of the growth of monopolies: are in accord with holding the pre- liminary meetings in Chicago, as you propose. “We wish to inform you that the international delegation has already left for Paris, on its way to Italy (Oct. 10), with a delegate repre- senting the United States who was already in Europe at the time. This was due to the fact that we received the invitation to participate in this action too late, and did not have time to develop agitation in this country and elect our own delegate here. Calls for Support There is left us, however, the work of supporting the delegation morally and financially. This does not prevent us from putting our forces and efforts together for other actions for the liberation of polit- ical prisoners in Italy. We cannot inform you of the names of the comrades who will constitute our negotiating committee and the day they will be in Chicago. This will be determined days, and we will inform you im- mediately. “With fraternal greetings, for the Italian Bureau of the Communist Party. “(Signed) TOM DE FAZIO.” There is every possibility of the negotiations leading to definite united front actions against I‘elian fascism, against war, and the many working class in this country. Auto Workers! Vote Communist Against N in three or four | Presenting a program of struggle against the Roosevelt A.A.A. farm program, which has brought ruin to thousands of small farmers, the Communist, Party has revised cer- tain provisions of its Farmers Emer- gency Relief Bill. Calling for immediate cash relief, | production loans without interest, and an end to all evictions and sheriff sales, and for the cancella- tion of all mortgage debts, the Bill in its early version left the im- pression that the proposed Farmers |Committee were to become govern- | mental agencies. | Sharper Demands Made The new, revised draft makes it clear that the farmers committees are to remain responsible only to |the farmers themselves. This is now made definite in Section 10. Other improvements in the Bill make it clear that all loans shall be on a long-term basis. Otherwise the Bill remains essentially the same, the most nowerful weapon for winning improvements in the well- being of the impoverished farmers. The revised text of the Bill fol- WS > | | | lo Farmers Emergency Relief Bill | To meet the emergency caused by | the crisis, greatly intensified by the | drought, to prevent -further ruin |ond dispossession of tenants, share- croppers end operator owners on rent payments, and because of low | to any farmér who owns more than | eviction, foreclosure, seizure, levy, Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con- gress Assembled, That because the operation of the Agricultural Ad- justment Act has resulted in intensi- fying the already-existing critical conditions of the farmers, by: (a) Eviction of tens of thousands of tenants, sharecroppers and oper- ating owners of farms, from their farms and homes through the re- duction of acreage programs, (b) Imposing the full burden of the cost of benefit payments upon the farmers and workers through the processing tax, (ce) lands and the return to laborious, primitive and subsistence methods of production. while millions of un- employed workers are starving, (a) Further strengthening and fostering mononolies among the distributors and processors of agri- cultural products through the marketing agreements and licenses, |—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is hereby revoked and repealed. Section 2. The term “farmer” as used in this Act means any indi- | vidual who is engaged in tilling the | soil, whether a tenant. sharecrop- | per or owner, who operates his farm |primarily by his own labor. None ‘of the benefits or rights of exemp- tions from taxation granted by this Act shall apply to any landlord or burning questions confronting the | iccount of debts, enormous tax and | absentee owner or corporation or The waste of fertile farm) one farm, or who operates primarily with hired labor, or to any manager or foreman of a farm. Sec, 3. Under no circumstances shall any farmer be evicted from the farm on which he has tilled the soil or from the dwelling house on that farm for the non-payment of any debt, rent, taxes or other obligations, or because of the ter- mination of any lease or contract. To secure the farmer in possession of his land, home and equipment, all debts and other obligations threatening such possession are de- clared cancelled: Sec. 4. No farm equipment, farm improvements, livestock, or produce on any farm shall be attached, seized, levied upon, or removed from such farm for the non-payment of any debt, rent, taxes or other obli- gation or because of the termina- tion of any lease or contract. Sec. 5. Cash relief for the neces- sities of life shall be afforded to all farmers in need of relief. Sec. 6. Long-term crop produc- tion loans in cash and kind shall be made without interest to all farmers in need of such loans. Sec. 7. Farm, home, equipment, and livesteck long-term loans shall’ be made without interest to all farmers in need of same due to the fact that they have suffered the loss of farm, dwelling house, farm equipment, farm improvements, or livestock, through foreclosure, evic- tion, seizure, attachment, levy, or removal. Stich loans shall be made to the individual farmer to revlace | \such losses as have been suffered | by the individual farmer through | | Committees T ‘o Remain Responsible Only To the Farmers attachment, or removal, since 1921, and to an amount sufficient to re- place such farm, house, equipment. or chattels. i Sec. 8. No discrimination shall be made in the administration of this Act because of the age, sex, race, color, religious or political opinion or affiliation, or nationality of any farmer. Sec. 9. The moneys, feed and seed furnished under this Act shall not be subject to attachment, garnish- ment, or execution for any debt, taxes, rent, or other obligation. Sec. 10. The needs for relief and for the benefits of this Act shall be determined by the farmers desig- nated in this Act, through commit- tees which they themselves elect from their own number. The secre- tary of the treasury shall, promptly upon receint of a certified request from the farmers of a community, furnish to any individual farmer in the community, such amounts as the farmers shall certify are needed by any individual farmer in the community. Sec. 11. There is hereby appropri- ated the initial sum of $2,000,000,000 for the purposes of this Act, which sum shall be raised by the taxation sharply graduated upward of in- heritance and gifts and the taxa- tion of all incomes (whether of trusts, individuals, corporations or | foundations) in excess of $5,000 per year. SHOW BIG IN JOBS, Bureau of Labor Stati Employme | WASHINGTON, (Cet. 22 employment and wages were Bureau of Labor Statistics, July and August. bureau reports on, the numbe ‘NRA for Bankers, | Convention Is Told (Continued from Page 1) formed his listeners that “we look to you confidently for an intelligent conservatism.” In discussing the fact “that bank- ers are a conservative group,” Crow- ley declared: “This is necessarily so because such a great public re- sponsibility is placed on them in handling other péople’s money. I wouldn’t have them otherwise.” Other- points in Law's address were: 1, Making it clear that he was opposed to anything even faintly re- sembling a system of unemployment insurance for the 16 or 17 millions | of unemployed, he said the bankers natural. forces of the country, in themselves, will in due time bring of business recovery.” 2. the present - administration of our National Administration and with the national legislative bodies effec- tive and harmonious working rela- tionships with respect to those things vitally affecting banks. In this policy there was nothing polit- ical.” 3. Ignoring the plight of the many thousands who lost their sav- ings to the bankers, Law was “re- minded that everywhere people are returning to such old time habits as thrift, self-denial, hard work and living within their incomes. There- in lies one of the greatest. advances which has been made toward recov- ery. Perhaps the greatest.” 4. “Unanimous assent is ac- corded to the sentiments recently expressed by Mr. Donald Richberg, Director of the Industria! Emer- gency Committee. He said: ‘It is desirable and necessary to balance the Federal budget at the earliest Possible moment’.” 5. “There is a feeling among |bankers and business men every- | where that a recognition of thé vital need of individual initiative (indispensable—Ed.) to recovery.” 6. “Superabundant bank credit is available” to the business man, “but the demand for credit is distressing- ly low. Many lines of credit put at the disposal of business men by banks are lying unused. It remains for business men to shake off their timidity and uncertainty and to in-| dicate ability and willingness to borrow.” Law, of course, said noth- ing about using this “superabun- dence” for unemployment insur- ance, 7. “In conclusion: All of us want to help the other féllow. As a people | we must realize that our social, bus- | iness and political interests should jall be considered and brought into | accord. Bankers, in common with other thoughtful and forward-look- ing business men. agreé to the prin- ciple that sound, liberal business doctrine and rational humanitarian- ism should go hand in hand in any program of real and permanent recovery.” Crowley announced that “from 1920 to 1933, more than 14,000 of the 30,000 banks in the United States had closed their doors. Four billion, five hundred millfons of dol- Jars were tied up.” He failed to say, however, how many banks did not open their doors after the end of the Roosevelt March 1933 banking moratorium. Nor could his office give this correspondent that infor- mation. Paul Butt, Communist Candidate, In Relief Fight in Washington PINEHURST, Wash. Oct. 23— Meeting with the stock excuse of welfare station attendants that “no one here has authority to grant your demands,” a determined com- mittee of 17 workers, among them Paul Butt, Communist candidate for Sheriff, and Jemes Kelly. candidate for County Commissioner, District Two, from the Pinéhurst Relief Workers Protective Association, took matters into their own hands. At 12 o'clock, the usual closing hour for the station, Butt closed the door, the committee being in- side, and remarked, “Well, the door is shut.” From 12 until 4:30 the committee and the welfare attend- ants waited for someone in author- ity to come from the main office. At 4:30 the officials arrived ac- companied by deputies, who re- mained outside the station. In a short time 50 of the demands of the workers were granted, includ- ing shoes, grocery orders and med- ical attention for a sick baby. Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! : Shows Wage Drop Is Greater Than In manufacturing industries, which the ® while wages were slaShed 6.8. per “assert unshakable faith that the) about a full and complete measure | “It has been the endeavor of | association to maintain with the) DECLINES |} PAYROLLS istics September Survey nt Declines -Sharp decreases in September reported by the United States following similar declines in r of jobs dropped 4.7 per cent, cent during the same period for the entire nation. Although aggregate figures are given, a comparison with past és- timates made by the National In- dustrial Conference Board, an em- Plovers’ agency, shows an approxi- mation of the number of jobs lost. The National Industrial Conference Board reported’ a July drop of 3.7 per cent in industrial employment, @ total of 675,000 jobs lost. Included in the September drop was the two-week strike of some 500,000 textile workers. This, fig- ured on a monthly basis by Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins, gives a loss of 246,000 jobs for the monthly period. Perkins’ figures, which are usu- ally inflated ballyhoo, 4dmit, how- ever, a drop in employment. re- gardless of the textile strike for a period which has shown a seasonal increase every year since 1920. Perkins, in estimating the, em- ployment drop of 246,000 in. tex- tiles during September, admitted that the number did not. represent the_total men on strike. While some improvement was found in the non-manufacturing industries, decreases in jobs and wages were shown in both the durable and non-durable goods in industry. Most notable of all, the index of factory employment was 5.2 per cent below Sept., 1933, and payrolls were 2 per cent lower. The iron and _ steel, automobile and shoe industries showed the greatest declines during the one- month period between August and | September. £ One Out of 4 Live on Florida F.E.R.A. Relief One fourth of all the people in Florida, 340,350 persons ‘out’ of a population of 1,468,211, are living on relief which averages about $3 a week for each family during’ some months, while at other times drops to as little as $1, F. E. R. A. re- ports show. Nor is the wild fluctuation in the amount of relief granted the only characteristic of relief to the desti- tute workers in the palmi-studded playground of the wealthy. While some months show as high as 23 per cent of the people on the relief lists, other months show less than 7 per cent. Included \in the average relief payments, of course, are high ad- ministrative expenses often running to 20 per cent of the total money spent by relief. During the entire period of ‘the crisis, Florida has never enacted any relief legislation; not a penny of State funds has been expended for relief purposes. And ‘city ex- Pendlitures have dwindled to an al- most negligible figure. : As a result, all relief paymerits have ben haphazard, dependent en- tirely upon what Federal moiiies are allocated. A recent order from Harry L. Hopkins, Federal’ Relief Administrator, cutting off all “un- employables,” sick, blind, aged’ and crippled, has left an entire section of the destitute population without any source of sustenance whatso- ever. bi The very existence of tens of thousands of workers is a hap- hazard matter of chafice. In’ the week of May 3, for example, 27,020 heads of families were on the work relief jobs at an average wage of $7.20. On the following week, more than half were fired—only 11,284 retained on the jobs. The following table, showing the number of families on the relief lis's during 1933. and January, Feb- ;Tuary and May, 1934; shows the | Steat number of families. which are | dropped from the rolls during one- _Month periods and the haphazard |manner in which relief is adminis- ; tered wholly on the basis of the amount of the Federal. appropria- tion: ‘ Oct, Dec. dan. Feb: May Jacksonville 22,017 5.608 4,858 5,491 19,969 ‘Miami 10,979 853 995 “4036. Tampa 11,351 12,901 6,524 6.547 13,886 Eight thousand “unemployables,” lame, blind, sick, disabled, recently cut off the F. E. R. A. relief rolls on the order of the Federal admin- istrator, face starvation in Jackson ville while the City. Commissioners debate how to tax the working Population to provide relief funds. The Welfare Depar:ment has asked $21,000 a month, an’ average of $2.62 a month a person, to pro- vide shelter, food, clothing: and medical aid for these 8,000 desti- tute persons. ps The City Council has under con- sideration various tax measures, in- cluding ten per cent on all electric and water bills, for financing the relief, Federal relicf agencies here demand that ail persons on the re- lief rolls must work for their relief budgets. cere ee | | | i R.A. Sellout Arbitration and for the Right to Strike