The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935 Pag 4 RAILWAY LINES GIRD, FOR ‘FIGHT TO FINISH ON UNION DEMANDS Bividends of ‘Broke’ Limes Are Huge, Records Show GHICAGO, Mil, F Feb 1.—Asserting that a strike on the railroads would be “more dangerous to labor union leaders and strikers” than to the railroads and the gubdlic, Samuel O. | Dunn, editor of Railway Age, speak- ing before the Winston-Salem Traf- fie Club, Jan. 2, threw down the gauntlet to organized railroad labor | on the question of wages and work- ing conditions. | “The time has come to fight the | railroad question out to a finish,” | said Mr. Bunn., “It should be fought | out by the railroads making the | most determined effort to establish | wages and working conditions jus- tifiable under present economic | conditions.” The same issue of Railway Age | which reported Mr. Dunn’s speech | flatly states in its leading editorial: “The railroads must oppose the six- hour day, train crew and train- limit legislation with every means in their power. They must do more. They must start a movement for a reduction of wages soon after they are restored to the pre-depression level on April 1.” The program adopted by the rail labor unions at Chicago against the wishes of Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman called for the six-hour day, a full crew law which would put more men on long freight trains, a train limit law which would limit trains to 70 cars, | holders, amendment of the federal compen- | sation law to protect railroad work- ers and their families, and reduc- | tion from sixteen to twelve hours of the time a rail worker in trans- portation can remain continuously on duty. Rail Events in 1934 | A review of railroad affairs for | 1984 shows the following: 1, Railroad dividends increased 29 per cent in 1934 over 1938. A total of $194,876,721 was paid in this manner. 2, Railroads continued to pay almost three-quarters of a billion dollars in interest, rents, etc., the tion. 3. Carloadings increased 5.4 per per cent, while employment rose only 3.9 per cent, showing an in- tensification of the exploitation of railroad labor. = - 4, Wage increases totalled only 1% per cent for the year (214 per cent of the previous 10 per cent cut was restored July 1). 5. Cost of materials used by the roads increased as follows due to the inflation policy of the Roosevelt administration: Coal, 17 per cent; fuel oil, 15 per cent; ties, 28 per cent; iron and steel, 9 per cent; miscellaneous, 8 per cent. 6 Scrap brought an increased profit of 15 per cent, mainly ex- Ported te Japan for munitions. 7, Loans made to railroads by the R. F. C, during 1934 totalled $53,189,014, 8. Loans made to railroads by the P. W, A. during 1934 totalled $193,276,500, 9, Nineteen hundred and ninety-five mites of track were abandoned in 1934, the largest amount of mileage abandoned in any one year of railroad operation in the United States. 10. Between July 1, 1934, and January 1, 1935, the railroads laid off 93,657 railroad workers, with- out any provision whatever for their support. The above revealing information did not find its way into the Con- ference of General Chairmen, to whom Mr. Eastman, federal railroad co-ordinator, pleaded for sacrifices on the part of railroad labor to make the roads solvent. Although the labor executives at that meeting, pushed by demands from the rank and file, flatly re- jected Eastman’s proposals for mass layoffs to rehabilitate the railroads, their advice to lodge officials is: “We had better take what we can get; a ‘dismissal wage’ and some form of pension and unemployment relief. because the roads are in such bad shape they cannot go on.” The New York Times (Jan. 18) shows just who is to blame for the WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Workers Chorus Concert, EN etion LL Feb. ath, Garrick Hall, Concert Pianist, ans ering Quartet. Talk by J. ede on Music and the Workers. Adm. 5c. Come to the mass meeting on Pri- day, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m, at Broad &. Mansion, Broad and Grand Aves, Prominent speakers. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Friday, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1704 N. Broad St.; Nadia Ohilkovsky in a series of revolutionary dances; well known violinist; entire Freiheit Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; in advance through organizations 36c. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207. Fascist Development in the United States Exposed! Hear John L. Spivak on “Wall Street Fascist Conspiracy.” | on Tuesday, Feb. Mercantile Hall, streets. Auspices, LL.D. Adm. 25c. Unit 108 ts daving one of its swanky roe again on Ser ties Feb. 9 at wee 8th St. Price 1 0c. Everyone is Chicago, mM. Save February 16 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris. A three-hour of Theatre, Music 12 at 8 p.m. at and Chicago Ave, Adm, 35c., 100 tickets at 25¢. Organizations Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- has been arranged. Kindly keep date open. Newark, N. J. Cabaret Night—Sat., Feb. 9th, p.m. at 901 Broad 8t. Ni jpipreial_entertainment. ing wardrobe, Arranged London Club of Newark. 8:20, | | annual cost of over-capitaliza- | | | | | | | Broad and Master | | exchange commissions, | this road which bought, [ Jobless Worker Fined $250 by Kindly Judge For Turning On Gas CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (UP).— Christmas Eve came, and Joseph Valentino’s home was cold. Seven children whimpered in inade- quate clothing. Valentino sat up late, and when the holiday morning came, although there were no presents in stockings, nor even enough breakfast, the house was warm Yesterday Valentino was fined $250 and sentenced to three months in jail for breaking the seal on a locked gas line in his basement. “Tt was worth assured the judge. it,” Valentino condition the roads are in. “The records of the roads,” states the | Times, “show that, as a group, the losses from unfortunate investments by ‘railroads overshadow their ad- mitted gains in efficiency and econ- omy in the last ten years!” This was followed on Jan. 27 with a statement made by a committee of bondholders of the Missouri- Pacific, largest railroad in the Van Sweringen group, accusing J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn-Loeb of so juggling the affairs of this road as to get the money for themselves and leave it bankrupt, The bank- ruptey of the line, write the bond- “is no business-made oank- ruptcy, no depression-made bank- ruptcy, but a financiers’ and pro- moters’ bankruptcy .. , out of which the bankers made millions in stock promoters’ commissions and flotation com- missions.” It will be recalled that it was in 1929, the Union Terminal Railroad Co., a | nine-mile railroad with three loco- | motives, | ample, for $4,300,000, paying $920 a share, when it was worth at the most $100 a share. If the railroads, with their treas- uries subject to raids by financial | pirates through speculation and in- flated capitalization, are to cover even their present fixed charges, they would require increases in | gross operating revenues, absolutely impossible of realization. For ex- the Atlantic Coast Line would require a 73 per cent in- crease in gross revenue; the Wa- bash a 45 per cent increase; the C. & N. W. a 43 per cent increase; the Central of Georgia a 37 per cent increase, and so on. Prospect for Workers Therefore, not to inconvenience stock and bondholders, the railroad workers are expected to take it in the neck. Wages are again to be cut, although a 2 per cent deduc- tion is now being made for a con- tributory pension, and this assess- ment will no doubt be increased to cover increased costs, when the bill is finally remodeled to suit the roads, The cost of living has gone up some 25 per cent on the necessi- ties of life; food, clothing, etc. Rail- road wages, which on April-1 will be restored to within 8 per cent of what they were before the cuts of 1932-35, are actually considerably lower, due to the sharp practices carried on by the roads: demotions, reclassifications, work sharing, abolition of jobs requiring men to take work at less pay, etc. It is true that the Railway Labor Executives were able to disband the Chicago Conference which met to hear Eastman’s proposals and the counter proposals of the railroad unions, without giving the 1,500 General Chairmen a chance to discuss how to effectively utilize the strike power of the twenty-one railroad Brotherhoods against the Plans of the roads terminal by ter- minal, and nationally to defeat re- peal of amendments to the Emer- ey Transportation Act, remov- ing all restrictions on layoffs, Pay Rise Won In Pittsburgh Glass Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 7.—The strike of 4,200 glass workers was ended early yesterday when Glen McCabe, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers of America (A. F. of L.) agreed to a five per cent wage increase and ordered the strikers back to work at the Creigh- ton and Ford City plants of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, The workers were striking for a 20 per cent increase in wages, the check-off of union dues, and better working conditions. No statement was made by either McCabe, the committee of ten from the union, or the company concerning the checkoff. The contract signed by McCabe runs till next fall, it was announced to the press today. The walkout had been 100 per cent effective in the two local plants since Jan. 25. A similar stoppage at the Libby-Owene-Ford Company plant in Toledo was averted through the work of McCabe. Gratt Charged On U. S. Job WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7-— So persistent have rumors become about graft and corruption in P. W. A. funds, that a special grand jury has been convened here to investi- gate, the first since the Teapot Dome scandal. The specific case being investi- gated involves fraud in the building of a $4,000,000 canal in Texas, -| financed by government funds. P, W. A. officials are involved in the graft, it was said, | Statements jintention of ignoring. Tighe Moves! To Expel Steel Rank and File) A. A. Besiioa Tries to! Stem Revolt of Militants By Tom Keenan PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 7—In issued to the capital- ist press yesterday, Michael F. Tighe, traitorous 76-year old pres- ident of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers tried once more to stem the tide of rank and file revolt against the bureaucracy now sweeping the Amalgamated by another “red scare” and more “expulsions,” which the workers have announced their Tighe told reporters how he is go- ing to “crack down” on the rank and file militants. “Those who attended the Moose Temple meeting must go,” stated the old sellout artist. | Then he had his picture taken, his hand holding a pen piosed over an expulsion notice, and said: “By holding the meeting and splitting with the organization they [the rank and file] have played into the hands of the steel trust more than anyone else in the world.” Haile Sha y Spurs “Daily” Drive In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7. — With Jack Johnstone, District Organizer of the Communist Party, taking personal charge of all drive activity, the Daily Worker subscription drive here is fast picking up steam. Thirty-five delegates, represent- ing Communist Party units and mas organizations, attended the conference which mapped out the campaign in the Pittsburgh district. The conference assigned quotas to the Party sections and set up @ broad District Daily Worker Com~ mittee. It called for every Party section to establish a special drive committee in its territory, Prizes will be given to the mass organizations and Party units which secure the highest number of sub- scriptions. First prize is a set of Lenin’s collected works, The Hill territory has been chosen as one of the main concen- tration points for the drive. A com- mittee of Daily Worker Agents and Daily Worker Builders has already been organized to direct activity there, Every Party section is to enter workers in the contest for the free trip to the Soviet Union. Ohicago, Cieveland and Detroit. are already in Socialist. competition —and Detroit has just challenged Pittsburgh, making it the biggest race among the concentration dis- triets every held in any Daily Worker drive. Strike Closes Troy Shirt Mill TROY, N. Y., Feb. 7—The Lion Brand Shirt and Collar Company’s plant, employing 400 workers, has been shut by a strike. The cause of the walkout was when the com- pany declared that the general 10 per cent wage increase for all cot- ton garment workers, which is now to go into effect, will be deducted because the company was forced to grant the raise last May. Fifty workers of the Troy Novelty Company are also on strike, de- manding wage increases ranging from 20 to 30 per cent. Several hundred youth delegates, representing tens of thousands of youth in the midwestern states, will meet in St. Paul, Minn., on Satur- day and Sunday. They are coming in response to a call by the “League for Independent Political Action” to organize the Midwest Youth Con- ference. This “League for Indepen- dent Political Action” is closely re- lated to Gov. Olson’s Farmer-Labor Party. The aim of these youth delegates is to form a movement to win bet- ter conditions for the Midwest youth —and if possible, to develop political action towards this end. Young Communists everywhere support the struggles of the youth for a better and happier life. They believe that this conference, reflect- ing the desperate misery, growing discontent and political conscious- ness of the youth, comes out of the pressing need of the youth to find a way out of their miserable con- ditions. After five terrible years of crisis—the American youth see no future, We do not need to go into a windy discussion of the fact that Roosevelt, and his N. R. A. and A. A. A. have worsened the living con- ditions of the working and farm youth. Mass misery among the youth in the Middle West is fright- ful. It demands a fighting program cf unity and action. A Program for Youth As a youth who is active in youth struggles, I would like to suggest a few ideas that may be of some help. Such a program of struggle as youth needs already does exist. It is the program of the American Youth Congress, formed in New York City last August. It has over ninety-five national organizations ACTIVITIES DOWN cl IN MEXICO! l'Red Shirts’ Cover Pro-Fa Groups Above are Mexican youth, organized in the Red Shirts, countenanced by the Cardenas government. opposition to capitalism, the Catholic church, drinking and smoking, these bands are actually organized to resist the Mexican workers and peasants in their struggle for more bread and land. Using the demagogic slogans of In the United States, Senator Borah has introduced a resolution in the Senate trying to provoke imperialist intervention in Mexico, under the pretext of “investigation” of the religious situation, The Catholic church in Mexico, which has oppressed the peasant and toiling masses for centuries, tries to use the sham struggle against it by the Cardenas govern- ment and the Red Shirts in order to invite U. S. imperialist moves to crush the Mexican masses. For This Seventh Soviet Congress Workers Marks Enormous Increase In Industrial Technique Pa WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (UP).— All-Union Congress ry, the Soviets the word “cadres,” For defense of the Congressional Record: $500. That item is not entered in the budget which President Roosevelt submitted to Congress but it just as well could be. It represents the approximate cost so far this session | of printing the speeches of Con- gressmen and Senators in arguing against the printing of even more costly speeches, newspaper articles, eulogies of each other, etc., in the Record. The Government printing office estimates the cost of the Record at about $45 a page. So far this year 24 issues have been printed totalling | 1550 pages. That has cost the tax~- payers about $69,720 or around $2,- 900 a day. Congress has been meeting for just a month. If the session runs until Jume, as many expect, the Record will have eaten up around $350,000, Rhode Inland AFL. Backs Jobless Bill PROVIDENCE, R. q., Feb. 7—| The State Federation of Labor, at| its regular meeting here, unani- mously endorsed the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2627 and instructed thetr legistative committee to take the| proper steps to introduce the Bill in the State Legislature of Rhode stand. By. UE OT and local branches of such organiza- tions as the Y.M.C,A,,Y.W.C.A,, American Federation of Labor, Stu- dent Christian Movement, Young Communist League, Young Negro Co-operative League, Young Peoples Socialist League, C. C. C. Boys Pro- tective League, National Student League, and many others with a total membership of 1,700,000 youth, The American Youth Congress program fights for such burning needs of the youth as: unemploy- ment and social insurance, Workers Bil 2827; abolition of all militariza- tion-schemes in the C, C. C. camps; adequate medical and dental atten- tion for jobless youth; for an im- provement in daily conditions of the youth in C. C. C. and transient labor camps; equal rights for Ne- gro youth; against use of National Guards in strikes; federal laws abo-~ lishing child labor under the age of sixteen with government main- tenance for children displaced from industry, farming or street trades at no less than three dollars per week; vocational training in a graduated seale for youth between sixteen and twenty at expense of the employers and government, with training un- der workers’ control and full wages for work performed; for the peace policies of the Soviet Union for complete disarmament. Political Action Needed Political action towards this end is good. But this political action should not be on the basis of “youth against adult.” The youth should unite to win these needs under the leadership of the militant working class, supported by the impover- ished farmers and middle class. This political action, in my opinion, should not be based on “co-opera~ tion” between “workers and em- ployers.” Such schemes of “co- operation between capital and | MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (By Cable) —Throughout the Seventh (lead- ing skilled forces) was continually repeated. The mention of this word is another key to the change in the Soviet Union from a backward peasant country to one of the most ad- vanced “metal” precedented short time. The Soviet workers and farmers, and their dele- |gates to the Congress, have never forgotten the jibe formerly made by bourgeois economists abroad: “You may buy modern machinery, but you can’t operate it.” The Soviet work- jers are rejoicing over the obvious evidence that they can manage in- dustry, can learn technique. For example, the Director of the Kirov Mill, formerly the Putilov Mill at Leningrad, drew great ap- | plause from the Congress when he | declared “Every day sees an increase in technique, raising the enthusiasm |of the masses. How great a joy it |is to work for our own country, un- | der a leader like Stalin!” Tribesmen Gain Skill Delegate Rosit from Cherchek- stroi Chemical Combinat, in Vzbe- kistan, told of how in one year 600 members of a primitive tribe be- | |came highly skilled workers, With their help, it was possible to fulfill \the construction plan 109 per | cent; 158 buildings and 36 miles of railroad were also constructed. | All turbines and chemical appa- ratus are now made in the Soviet Union. “We are building not only a@ combinat,” declared Rosit, “we are building a conseious, trained | proletariat for big industry.” | These new cadres of trained workers have grown wp under the HOMPSON Jabor” are always traps for labor | jand its friends. Between these two forces there can be no unity. Gains for the |youth can be won only at the ex- |Pense of the profits and incomes of the employers and the rich— and of course they will fight against us, which means we must be pre- pared to fight against them. Neither should our political ac- tion be iimited to mere legislative drives. It should be extended to include all questions affecting the youth, We should fight, for ex- ample, for the right of all youth to vote at eighteen. The student youth should support the national anti- war one-day strike on April 5, All youth should come out on the streets to take part in the huge unted front Youth Day Anti-War Demonstrations being organized by May 30 (Decoration Day). Unity Is Keynote Unity and action should be the keynote of this important meeting. Full democracy should be prac- ticed with complete rank-and-file control, with no discrimination be- cause of color, nationality, religion or political opinion, with the right of recall, democratic elections, etc. Young Communists have a pro- gram which goes much further than the above named immediate needs at overthrowing the capitalist sys- tem and setting up a revolutionary workers government. But the Young Communists realize that the ma- jority of the youth are not yet ready to accept this full revolution- ary program, For this reason’ they support the program of the American Youth Congress which is so broad that it can unite all sections of the Amer- ican youth in a common program for immediate needs. We are in countries in an un-® the American Youth Congress for | of the youth. This program aims | leadership direction and of the Communist Party. For example, a woman textile worker, | Ivanova, from the Kalinin T¢ Center, told the press of how she worked as a house servant for a kulak at the age of twelve, entered a cotton mill at 16, and now is a of the Kalinin Soviet and a ber of the All-Union Congress. She says: “My life started only when Soviet power was born, though I am 47 years old. There are 48 machines and many people under my influence. I study and read the | newspapers until very late at night |I would rather not eat than not study.” The same development has taken | place among the collective farm- ers. gress, and already elected to the next, is a collective farmer from near Kiev, Deputy Filinenko. He was one of the leaders in the appli- cation of the decisions of the first | congress of collective farmers, to | kick out the kulaks, His kolkhoz was formerly one of the most backward. In the last two years it achieved 500 pounds per acre of grain and during the drought had a surplus of 65,000 pounds, which the co-operative sold, and bought a truck, built two stables, holding 100 horses each, also 180 hogs, a good piggery, and the same number of big cattle in the cow barn. | Youth Urged to Shun ‘Cooperation’ with Capital favor of such a program of unity and struggle. It will improve the jimmediate conditions of the youth. |It will help to break the youth away from~ the old discredited leaders and parties who have miserably failed to relieve our suffering. Not only should youth accept this fighting program of the American with the American Young Commu- nist. It would be a great inspira- youth to know they are an im- |Portant part of one militant united |front movement of 1,700,000 youth. sand-fold. Affiliation would not mean giving up independence. It would be a giant step forward. Contest: the ten Contest winners. able prizes will be awarded their equivalent. DAILY Present g this Soviet Con- | Youth Congress, it should affiliate | tion and attraction to the Midwest | It would strengthen them a thou- | Ten Prizes for Contest Winners Ten vacation prizes will be awarded to In addition, valu- ants securing five yearly subscriptions, or (In the event of a tie, duplicate prizes will be awarded.) WORKER Crisis Toll: Shown In. Schools MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. The effect on the school children of the crisis is plainly evident in statistics on the health of the Min- neapolis school children, submitted by Dr. F. E. Harrington, director of hygiene in the schools. of 33,334 children that were exam- ined by school physicians from Sep- tember, 1933, une, half of them are suffering from “gross or retarding effec! in the words of Dr. Harrington. The exact number of children so classified is 15. Of that number 3,819 children are suffering from “nutritional de which in plain English they are starved, and “nervous derangements, doubt is the result of parents in Minneapolis undergo. | Eighty thousand adults and chil- dren in Mimneapolis are dependent on public relief, and the allowance by the city is five and one-half cents per meal per person. the misery Inquiry F oreed | Into Torture InBirmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 7.—Re- sentment against “third degree” methods used by local police to co erce Negro workers into fake con- fessions has foreed a grand jury in- vestigation of the terrible beating administered by police to Sylvester | Holmes. Holmes, a Negro youth, was ac- costed by four policemen while walking through an alley back of & grocery store on the morning of Jan. 18 and accused of robbing the store. Protesting his innocence, he was taken to the basement of City Hall where Patrolman Dixon, De- tectives F. S. Salser and R. B. Tuck- er stripped and beat him uncon- scious with a whip. Holmes brought charges against the police thugs through his at- torney, Roderick Beddow. An open admission by the officers that they had beaten Holmes, brought a hint of disapproval (of |the admission) from Judge Aber- nathy, who heard the complaint. Police Chief Luther Hollums has refused to take any action against the guilty officers. See to it that a bundle of Daily Workers is on sale at every mem- ' bership meeting of your union, | that here again was the ha Hunger Gro In U.S. Islands Of Pacifie Spent for Constabulary te Break Strike By HELEN MARCY “The spectre of the so-calied Red Menace again rears its ugly head in our midst. When Manila’s present labor strike of 13,000 cigar Large Sums Are workers pers used to give up the espite the adoption of aggressive measures to suppress it, the police authorities unanimously of the Communist Free Pres Strikes of and the refuse fror or the m downtown. restaurants Others make a few centavos a day by selling papers or gathering waste paper and boxes in return for a crust of bread or coffee. Many resort tealing, and se who obi guardians find themse! expe: to beg on the streets or they severely beaten. et place are Of a total}! 1934, almost | wiping out and the intense conc mono} y in the hand: few large producers is not or period in the but in the colonies of the small pro- ntration of a States [In the Philippine Islands the Jor | Costigan sugar law restricting the | production of sugar is driving thou- sands of small planters out of busi« y Canin recent close« lipped maneuvers in certain quarters to scram the McDuffie-Tydings Biil, the so-called “independence” bill for the Philinvine Islands, four Amer ican Senators visited the Philippines in December, 1934, supposedly to in~ vestigate what the economic effects of the bill would mean, once p: . They conducted their “investigation” by attending cock fights, grand balis ven in their honor, champagne , leisurely travel to various and otherwise having a hell of a good time. They were wined, dined and fawned upon by the upper classes. The results of their “inves tigation” dealing with the conditions of the peasant and working masses should prove very enlightening. Performs His Duty The chief executive of the Philin« pine Islands, the Honorable Gover= nor General Murphy, whom liberals of the nation claim own, performs his “duty’ Philippines in the traditional ‘ eral” manner—in the intere: imperialism. Out of 75 bills voted upon by the P, I. legislature in the last session he vetoed 23. If we look closely into the nature of those bills approved and those vetoed we shall see a consistent policy of strengthening the yoke of the United States and the vetoing of bills for the industrial development of the Bet, He approved a bill which provided 1,025,000 pesos (a neso is about 50 jcents) for strengthening the con- stabulary, and another which ap- propriated only 50.000 nesos for the aid of the unemployed He anvroved an aporopriation of 120,000 pesos for controlling the lo~ cust, which is eating the peasants out of house and home; an appro< priation of 519,000 pesos for estab- lishing a constabulary aviation unit; 200,000 pesos for the construction of aviation fields, and one providing for gratuities for American em- ployes retired upon establishment of the commonwealth. If we look at our own United States, with its millions of unem- Ployed, its potential powers of pro- duction in comparison to the limited world market, it is not difficult to jimagine the plight of a small col- jopial country like the Philippines. These islands were develoned as a |source of raw materials — sugar, |hemp, cocoanut, tobacco, for the ,sreat industrial empire, the United States. The P. I. were not permitted to develov industrially but bought their manufactured goods from the U.S. Today, through the Tydings- McDuffie “independence” bill, the imports to the U. S. of the raw materials produced in the P. I. is cut to a suicidal degree. Before they were able to send their prod- ucts into th U. S. duty free, but now sky-high tariffs will shrivel up the exports to the U.S. In vain do the Filipinos look for markets in other countries. with the You Can Win a PRIZE! Enter the Special Daily Worker Subscription Visit your friends and fellow-workers; canvass your neighborhood. 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