“Share Cro; pers The f forgotten
EoonoirJc
Highlights
and this provision caused the most
bitterness of all among financiers,
inasm 'a. it w ,uld force the li
quidation of thousands of existing
accounts, including millions in bank
loans- All corporations with listed -
stocks must furnish to the exchange.
and the Federal Trade Commission,
voluminous data concerning salaries,
bonuses, options income etc. To en
force th bill drastie penalties are
provided—i nthe case of violations
on the part of exchanges a $500,000
fine may be levied* l/i iividuals can
be hooked to the tune of $25,000 plus
ten years in jail.
Mainstay pi opposition to the bill
is urban, cool-headed artistrocratic
Richard Whitney great power of the
New York Stock Exchange- He sum
moned the heads o'f all the big brok
erage houses—and'wires went out to
ali their branch managers, instruct
ing them to point out the dangers of
the bill to friends and clients- Next
Whitney step was a letter to the
head of each of the 800 corporations
whose issues are listed on the New
York exchange/ Those corporations;
include the bulk of the great busi
nesses of the country, which furnish
most of the jobs and investment op
portunities- When Mr. Whi-tney went
to them he was aiming not only at
Big Business, but at the small stock
owner and the worker.
Biggest Whitney gun-'however, is;
of a different .character- ‘than most
would anticipate- It lies in; appealing
to the small corporation man; owner
of firms with small stock issues
which never appear on a major ex
the bill would ,make this stock irMfi-'
change. According to Mr. Whitney
gible for collateral -for-, loans either
at banks or exchanges,.- would thus
pinch the little fellow as hard as.itj
would pinch his big brother, the sup-]
er-capitalist
Supporters of the bill, so far seem
limited to the Senate and minor left
wing New Dealers- • Mr- Roosevelt,
who will have the final word in this
as in so many matters, has said lit
tle and the belief is that the Act is
not a White House measure, that
much of the sting will be taken out
of it. He wants to put a bit on spe
culation—'but he .doesn’t want to hob
ble it entirely. And Lawyer Samuel
Untermeyer, crusader extraordinary
for many years for financial legisla
tion of this nature, on reading the
bill murmured sadly that it went to
the opposite extreme from uncon
trolled speculation, was impractical
and impossible.
Notes on business, taken principal
ly from government reports follow:
COMMODITY PRICES: Following
the December recessions, an advance
started which has been maintained
without deviation
RETAIL TRADE: January fi
gures show less than seasonal de
cline- Substantial gains in dollar
volume are reported from all parts of
the country, as compared with 1933.
EMPLOYMENT: Is registering
more than seasonal decline- The dis
solution of the CWA will release 4,
000000 more people on the already
glutted labor market- TRANSPOR
TATION: Constant improvement is
shown in car loadings- Complete fin
ancial returns of railroads for 1933
show substantial improvement over
1932. Railroad expenditures however,
remain low and the railway supply,
business is dormant- AUTOMOBILES
The only adequate word for this in
dustry is “booming.” Employment
and wage levels are very high- Un
filled orders are the greatest in sev
eral years- Allied industries are pros
pering accordingly.
AGRICULTURE: Better than
might have been expected, in view of
the disturbances of a few months
ago- Markets are fair and prices
stable- Buying power of the major
agricultural districts is better than
that of urban areas.
LUMBER: In January production
was a third higher than in the same
month last year.
STEEL: Railroad and public uti
lity orders have been low and the in
dustry has lagged on that account
Rising automobile orders have done
much to offset this- /
Continued From Page one j
_____
Urge Letters to Senate
Judiciary Committee on
Anti-Lynching Bill.
Following the sensational hearing
February 20 and 21 before the sub
committee of the judiciary commit
tee of the judiciary committee of
which Senator Van Nuys is chairman
Mr- Van Nuys announced that the
subcommittee would come before the
senate at this session of Congress it
must be reported out soon by the
whole committee.
The N. A. A. C- P- which is behind
the bill urge correspondent to be sure
to write Senator Ashurst then to pick
out the senators on the committee
who happen to be from their, state
and write them and if possible to
writ* every member of the commit
tee- . _• »
“It Should be remembered" the N
bill and letters should not be written
them in r.a apt agonistic spirit- There
A. A- C- P- statement said “that all
these men are not ‘enemies’ oi this
will be plenty of time for anta.gn
ism an 1 pressure later after the in
dividual si natcrs have taken a stand
or failed to take a stand on this bill
“For the present these letters to
the judiciary committee should state
(1) that lynchings increased 180 per
cent in 1333 from 10 in 1932 to 28 in
1933; (2) that two lynching? took
place in January 1931; and (3) that
four white persons were lynched in
1933 indicating that lynching is more
than a racial problem.; (4) that testi
mony before the sub committee Feb
ruary 20 and 21 showed a complete
_• vakdown in state and local enforce
,n< nt of law and proved the states
and counties helpless to prevent' or
punish lynching; (5) that you (or
your organization) believe the fed
eral government must step in to halt
lynchings and that you believe the
Ccstigan Wagner bill S- 1978 is the
best method for federal action-”
A syndicated daily newspaper1
column reports that some southern
senators are trying to get Senator
Van Nuys not to report tfye biU even
cbt of the sub committee but the In-1
diana senator is firmly convinced the t
legislation is necessary.
Continued From Page, one-;,
Food Not Race Galled Gjrew
to TubcTculosis ' - j
’• • “CdnsYdc-Ving .the .^egyv.v.c find bt»3
diet-' eb'hsists ipf . ttieatK. which ‘ is, ah
most entirely etcealp, .sijhh 'as
hominy maize, ij^ce'.^Tfhetel.; ba'r&and';
oleomargarine gliT/white. breacf-andJ
potatoes. This }*$& v^hfbh has an in
:ciden£fee,5f sik 'tfeat% -ftpmetubercu
losis /-to-one white-'^^a'fh.it'om that
disease, also, in the public hospitals
and .clinics of our city has: an incid
ence of approximately six children
with rickets to one white child 'with
that disease.” . !
The- average healthy person should
profit from the foregoing, Dr. Gold-j
berg said, by eating greater quanti-;
ties of fats, liver, cod-liver oil milk
and eggs
Continued From Page one
Frank Crosswaith—to
Speak Here!
Active Negro Trade Unionist
During the war Frank Crosswaith
was a special organizer for the Bro
' therhood of Sleeping Car Porters in
j its figh tto rescue the Pullman port
’ ers and maids from terrible slave
labor conditions- He has also been
j associated with the Elevator Opera
tors union the Elevator Ceastructors
j the Mechanics; Barbers; Laundry
: Workers and Motion Picture Opera
j tors. In 1925 he founded the Trade
Union Committee for Organizing Ne
1 grc Workers- For the past three
i years he has edited the Negro Labor
News Service.
Part of Educational Drive
Frank Crosswaith’s tour will take
him from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and back to the Atlantic- He will
j come to Omaha from Minnesota and
J from there will go to Denver before
starting the far western part of his
tour- His tour is part of a consistent
educational drive of the Socialist
Party to acquaint the working peo
ple with the democratic ideals of So
cialism including racial equality
Doctor Berman of The Uni
versity of Illinois in Re
cent Survey of Wages of
Pullman Porters States
That Issuance of Pullman
Stock in Last Six Years
Sufficient to Pay Porters
Wages of $160.00 For
Forty Years.
NEW YORK March 7 — With the
rapid rise in the cost of living and
the consequent progressive decrease
in the purchasing power of the dol
lar in addition to the recent legal de
valuation of the gold content of the
dollar the porters and maids being at
the lowest scale of the industrial
wage ladder through the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters were
able to enlist the interest and co
operation of Dr. Edward Berman of
the Department of Economics of the j
University of Illinois tc make a
study of wages and working condi
tions of the porters and maids states
A. Philip Randolph national presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters and it is discovered in:
this study that the Pullman Com
pany issued in stock dividends alone '
in the last six depression years a
sufficient amount of wealth to pay
Pullman Porters a wage ONE HUN
DRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS
($16000) a month for the next
FORTY YEARS
In order to pay the wage scale the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
demands for the porters which con
sist of $140.00 minimum: $145-00 for
two to five years service: $150-00 for
five to ten years service: $155.00 for
ten to fiften years service and $160
00 for over fifteen years service it
would cest the Pullman Company
approximately $4000000 additionally
annually says Mr- Randolph.
The SHARE THE WORK PULN
which .the big .business interests
develop with the advent of the de
pression as the SCAPEGOAT for
avoiding reducing hours of work i nd
’raying a living wage has been work
ed overtime by the Pullman Com
pany- which has resulted in porters
being kept merely on the pay roll
while receiving practically no work
adued Randolph.
The ciy by the Pullman Company
that it is as POOR AS JOB’S TUR
KEY and is unable to give porters a
decent wage and reduce their work
time to that of other railroad work
ers namely ddO hours a month is not
home out by the munificent luxury
salaries paid the top officials and the
cash and extra dividends apportioned
among the stockholders Randolph
maintains
Ford And Ades Ousted
From Anti-Lynch Hearing
WASHINGTON March 7— (CNA)
—James W- Ford former Nt
Communist candidate for Vice presi
dent in 1932 and Bernard Ades white
Baltimore lawyer facing disbarment
for his! militant defense of Euel Lee
were last week’ at the hearing of the
bill. „-...
The Senate Judiciary sub commit- j
tec listened “patiently” to the variety
of professors “liberals.” writers pro
fessional., womeit; and ‘others air- their
legal social economic and political
reasons for desiring the passage ojt'?
U5&.' C.b&tig&n •^YaignrS^ranij'Llyhchmg.
bill. flloWeVer i\^Jien.:.th6'i^Wo hiiliferit
spok'fisnienof Itro^ilKegro: and- w'hite
.workers sought-to' press their viewp
Thcy wefiij accused , of'•••‘^making- a
: : vpagan.da\ i;fsro ' out of the pro-'
cfeedrhg and were ordered Lf£Om- the
: •? f , tv , •* f* .j
Witness chair.' -I-.- , - . .~-xv- -
Lord Vice-President of the .League
(1 Struggle for Negro Rights assort
ed , that the' bRI would NOT stop
lynching, unless it struck at the roots
of lynching; jitirrcr&Wism arid all dis
criminations against Negro peop-la
Ade« the white International Labor
Defense lawyer who. had been active
in the fight against the Maryland
lynehings declared that the lynchings
spring from the efforts of the ruling
class to “turn the anger of the work
ing class inward upon itself instead
of against these who deprive it of its
rights.”
Johnson Gets Told in Plain
Language That N. R. A. Is
A ‘Ghastly Farce/
WASHINGTON, March 4— (CNS)
—The second day of the “First Round
Up of NRA Critics” found two young
Negro protestants sharing the glar
ing spotlight with Mrs. Gifford Pin
chot, the red-haired wife of the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, who told N
R. A. officials that enforcement of
their labor program was a “ghastly
farce-” She stated she still was for
the NRA but “I can’t make the
speeches that I used to and I will
send in no more complaints until we
have a different policy.”
But for the strong ease presented
by John P. Davis and Nelson H
Nichols. Mrs- Pinehot would have
“stole the entire show.” As it turned
out Nichols, a young Negro lawyer,
caused a flurry when he charged N
R. A- officials,whom he named, with
drawing the color line against him
when he sought a job after having
served the organization extensively
as a speaker-without pay.
He proved his entire case with do
cumentary evidence- He introduced a
letter addressed to him from General
Johnson, which said, in part: “You
know as well as I do that there are
some situations in which the races
can be mixed and some in which they
cannot • • ■ The case in your leeter is
one of the latter.”
Assistant Administrator for Labor,
Edward F. McGrady, recognizing the
barefaced effrontery of Johnson and
his assistants asked Nichols if he j
would take some other job besides a
legal one. When Nichols replied “I’ve j
been to school 20 years and I don’t
want to sweep floors but I want to J
make a living, he got a “big hand”
and cheers from the audience in the
crowded “gold fish bowl-” Nichols
charged that he had applied for a job
and had been endorsed by prominent
Democrats- In answer to a letter
written to Congressman Ben Cravens i
of Arkansas, by Lincoln Collins of
the NRA, Nichols stated that he re-)
ported to an NRA office and was j
told to go and see J. C- SLnnigen, as
sistant personnel director of the N
R- A He did so and upon reaching!
Mr- Sinnigen was bluntly told that!
he could not get employed because he
was colored.
Mr. Nichols turned over to the I
committee a stenographic report of I
the conversation he had with Sinni
gen, and a letter from General Hugh
S- Johnson, administrator, upholding
Sinnigen’s stand- The testimony of
Nichols before the committee fol
lows:
“On August 31, 1933, I made ap
plication for a position under the
National Recovery Administration,
outlining qualifications and with the
proper references as to Character
Requested to Report .,
“On February 16, I waa requested
to report to the office of J. C. Sinni
gen, assistant personnel director of
ttaa? N- R- A.^for personal inter- .
view. Mr. Sianlgefi said to me.
“ ‘I’ll just cut the Gorman lai - .
with you and be frank- When I slat- j
ed you for this position, I was a - j
aware—I jjid not know that—er—you ;
were a man of color- Your ability i. ;
not in doubt, and your qualification i
are all good and in order. You ar
qualified for the position. But it is a :
position which can be filled only by j
a—er—white man.
“ ‘That is the only reason why
cannot put you in this position- Per
sonally, I have no feeling in the mat
ter and if I pray ever be able per- j
sonally to do anything for you, you
may rest assured that I shall keep
first time you have run into this, ba
you in mind. I guess this is not the
I thought I might as well be frank
with you and tell you-’
Writes to Director
“Under letter dated February 16, 1
protested the policy of racial dis
crimination made manifest by. the
above statement directly to General
Hugh S. Johnson, administrator ci
-sm.i.mu Recovery program, and
I received a letter signed by him
which reads as follows: - 'Dear Mr
Nichols: Replying to yours of Feb
ruary 16, you know as weH as I da
that there are sortie situation in your
letter of February 16 was one of the
latter.
fe. O
“ ‘I am gratified for,what you have
dv.n^. I hope’ the change to use your
fine services; here arise again- Sin
,c<;re}yf-^fiaVh»*S. Johnson. Adminis
trator:’ :*£»" • 'V' t',
j“This Jejtt'er enclosed a memorand
um purpdi'jing to show the good re
: stilts sTlegod. to be directly attribut
. v ~ - - v _ r ,»
able to the'effort of the National Re
cover}? .Administration-.
“My complaint goes far deeper
than a saffsjpe code prepared for the
direction and regulation of industry.
It ' goes to the very fundamental
basis and challenges the very nature
' of the; spirit of the Whole movement,
and is, in my opinion far more im
portant- ’
Was N. R. A- Speaker
“I was a ‘four-minute speaker’ for
the N. R- A-, appointed under Major
George W. Beasley’s division of
speakers, and I went before my peo
ple and spoke to them from platform
and pulpit, urging them to ‘fly to
prosperity with the Blue Eagle.’
“I received no pay for making
those speeches; I asked none- I did
my bit with the firm conviction that
the cause w-as worthy of my best ef
forts, or the best efforts of any loyal
American- But when a chance comes
for me to take a job in the N- R. A.,
■ and my qualifications are good and
- sufficient, my character is good and
{ my loyalty to the cause is unques
I tioned, what kind of perversion of
human nature, what kind of subtle
purpose could make you deny me an
opportunity to support myself and
I three dependents? Why should the
authorized agents of the government
affirmatively undertake to turn good
citizens into bad ones?
“No nation or cause can prosper
which improperly denies recognition
of the elementary civil rights of citi
zenship to the humblest of its loyal
citizens, who have laboured to sup
port it, — the United States and the
National Recovery Administration
none the less so- If this proposition
is wrong, then are nature, history
and reason likewise so
Dscrimination Illegal
“I do now, and I will actively pro
test with every resource at my com
mand, this vicious, arbitrary and pre
judiced policy of unlawful discrimin
ation on the part of this administra
tion, and I will do so from no other
mtive than because I think I am in
the right. If I am wrong, I stand to
be corrected.”
Negroes Injured Not Aided
John P. Davis, representing the
Joint Committee on National Re
covery also made out a strong case
against Johnson and the N. R- A.
“Ten out of 13 Negroes in the cotton
textile industry are just as badly off
as if there had been no N. R. A.,” he i
declared- He specifically criticized
the hotel, textile, restaurant laundry
and lumber codes because they es
tablished wage differentials based on
different costs of living- “It is a dif
ference between standards not costs
of living,” said Davis, who charged
that Southern manufacturers raised
a large fund to propagandize Negro
es for a fight against high wages in
the codes because with high wages
they would be displaced by white
workers.
•Mr- Davis said that complaints of
Negroes to the compliance machin
ery had been ignored, despite the
statements of General Jonson that all
responsible organizations would be
heard. The N- R. A- he asserted, has
not a single Negro employe above
the grade of clerk, “and the one that
had been there above that grade was
dismissed-”
He requested a place for Negroes
on the Labor Advisory Board and the
Consumers’ Advisory Board.
Wanted
Anyone having knowledge or wit*
nessing an accident occurring Octo
ber 20 1933; 8:30 p- m. at 16th and
Nicholas. Car involved traveling
soutl} collided with pedestrnins at
north cross walk of said intersection
.Writ* Box 168 Qmaha Guide Office
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Bishop John A. Gregg ! ..
\ Kerr Bishop John A. Gr; eg, Presiding Bishop of the
Distryc of the .A. M. E. Church He will speak at St. John
A.'M. E. Church at 22nd and Willis Ave. Thursday March
oth at 8 p. m.
Negro Sprinters And Broad
j u m p£rs, Ca ptu re Seven
Out of Eight Places in
National
NEW YORK -CITY, March t —<0
NS) — Seven young Negro athletes
made a cleanup in the National
Amateur Athletic Union meet in
Madison ' Square Garden. Saturday
night" February • 24,'. when they won
seven out of the eight places in the
60-meter sprint and the running
broad jump. V - ' - • — :
Owen Sets Broad Jump Mark
Jesse Owens, the 1938 Cleveland
schoolboy phenomenon, now an Ohio
State freshman, had the crowd cheer
ing with his amazing leaps through
the air- Successor to the Sol Butlers,
New Gourdins and DeHart Hubbard
among the Negro jumping champ
ions, Owens eclipsed Hubbard’s eight
year-old indoor record of 24 feet
7Vi inches on two successive leaps
On his third effort Owens cleared 24
feet 10 inches, then he zoomed out
25 feet 3 V* inches—the first 25 foot:
1 leap in America in a couple of years
Owens also eclipsed the champion
ship record of 23 feet 11 inches, made
: by Ted Smith
The Negro jumpers swept all four
I scoring places. Owens, who now holds,
both national outdoor and indoor
titles, was followed by Eulace Pea-,
cock, New Jersey boy of Temple I
• University, with 24 feet 3Vi inches;
John Brooks, of Chicago University
with 23 feet 11 and three quarters,
all three beating the title standard,
and Ted Smith, with 23 feet 6Vz inch
es
Another outstanding event of the;
evening was the equalling of his own i
record for the 60-meter dash by'
Ralph Metcalfe, who won in 6-7 sec
| onds closely pushed by Owens and
Ben Johnson, the Columbia Univer
sity freshman, who placed second and
third respectively. Sam. Manici, white I
also of Columbia, was fourth
Calvin Baskett of Marquette; andj
Fritz Pollard, Jr. and Deotis Taylor I
were also-rans in the meeting
NEGRO BUSINESS MAN SUC-!
CUMBS AT MAYO CLINIC IN
MINNESOTA
ROCHESTER, Minn- March 4—(C
NS)—Tollie J- Elliott, 59 years old,
owner of a prosperous department
store in Muskogee, Oklahoma, died
her« at the Mayo Brothers’ Hospital,
last week
Three months ago Mr. Elliott came
here for treatment and left after he
thought he had fully recovered
While on a trip East two weeks ago
he again fell ill and came to the
Mayo clinic February 19
Mr- Elliott, known as “T- J.” was
the owner of a women’s ready wear
to-wear shoppe as well as the depart
ment store in Muskogee and called
Open from 2 P. M. until 3 A. M
Saturday and Sunday,
, Close at 4:00 A. M
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Caldwell‘s Books Banned in
Columbia
NEW YOI?K-?.farch’7 —*'(CNA)
Erskine Caldwell's /• novels -“ToSa’cc o'
Road” and “God’s Little Acre” were
banned last week-- by tHe library “Of
the Teachers College Columbia Uni
versity although they are on the re
quired readings list of'the school’s
cfesses Tn American literature
When an attempt was made to es
tablish responsibility for the censor
ship nobody could be found to assume
the burden although one of the assist
ant librarians Miss Eleanor Whitman
ventured an opinion that certain
members of the faculty had protested
■gainst the books’ tendency to cor
rupt-”
The university’s faculty was in
complete disagreement with the ex
pulsion order. Professor Van Doren
authority on .American literature re
marked “it seems silly to me I heart
ily disagree with those who ordered
it”.
“Tobacco Road” a pay drawn from
the Caldwell’s book is now showing
on Broadway- It deals with the op
pression of the Negro masses and
their life in the South.
Asks Probe of Race-Hate
Quiz
ALBANY, N. Y. March 4—Assem-'
gyman Robert Bernstein of the 21st
Assemby District has introduced in
the Assemby a resolution calling for
an investigation by the state Depart
ment of Education of a “true-false”
questionnaire given grade 9—B pup
ils in the junior-senior high school of
Nyack, N- Y., recently characterized
as “grossly improper and revolting”,
and an injustice to the Negro race
The resolution asserts that the quiz
creates prejudice and racial animos
ity.
The offensive questionnaire put
such questions as: “No Negro should
hold an office of trust honor or mer
it.” “I place the Negro on the same j
social basis as I do a mule.” “No Ne- i
gro has the slightest right to resent
or even to question the illegal killing
of one of his race,” and pupils were j
asked to indicate whether these
statements were true or false.
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CHICAGO* March 4— (CXS); — “I
admire President Roosevelt, and re
1 him n - an : me n . !y a bit* man,
but his r-r\hu~i cannot succeed- It is
kccniiinj down everywhere,” says
X 'man r homes, who has just re
' uj n d from a prolonged speaking
Loevin the Middle West and South
west.
Hi describe1 i the relief situa'i-.n as
serious and incapable of reit :dy by
the President’s new plan. Ife drew a
. y pjigure of the operation of the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
. 'ation among the share crop-pars of
the South and as -others have, he
few a gloomy portrait of the fu
ture.
Th-' color line divides the share
croppers into two classes, differ
entiated in ho "other way- The sLiua
caiding to Mr-,, Thcupas, is no belter
ticn of the' wuitjj..share .cropper, ac
• mo l!y. - jc r'-edaejitioitailyT than
chat rf J'ie •Ncgvo, yet thy two groups"
-if. e difficult to-* combine. .
< ’ A
“Meanwhile--1 the -g.wernm. riit. pays
money to til * landlord's. 'n t the‘crop
pers, mind you” tcontinued 'Mr! Thb-*
mas- “For it they take* shite?’of their
land out of cultivation, thus leaving
•a certain proportion of IFieir crop
> r- -vi; 1, -it; *r.'.e::rs -Vf v;: p -| .and
then-.'they usd'if to’ buy fertilizer. so
that the rest of the land will produce,
ns- much as all of it did lyefor. The.
gc-wjsjment may limit producti&p it
self, 3s .they plan "to do, bint in .will he
the same thing'all over again. Boot
lgggjng will be universal, just as bad
price-fixing .is under NT JR. A The ■
answer is that, you can’t cohbe up
our economy- Nothing can be done
before .the basic means of product
ion are socialized”'
Mr. Thomas is reported to have
found what he described as the “fee
gotten man” in the cotton country in
Arkansas- In Poinsett County, Ark
ansas, a typical cotton county of the
South, he entered cabin homes, shook
hands with the occupants ami talked
with them about their fate under the
Federal crop reduction program.
“Never have I laid eyes on such a
deplorable state of affairs a-s that of
the share croppers,” he said- “It is a
feudal system, this system under
which the share croppers live on cot
ton farms.” he added “end the Fed
eral agricultural relief program has
overooked the little man, the man
most in need. As cotton acreage is re
duced, fewer share croppers are
needed”
Poinsett County has more than
1,000 of the State’s 75000 share
croppers about equally divided be
tween colored and white tenants and
the AAA crop reduction program has
further impoverished these hitherto
poorly farm tenants
“There is not the remotest chance,
in Mr. Thomas’ view that industry'
and agriculture will be able to absorb
the workers let out by the termina
tion of the CWA, and moreover dis
content is more widespread among
the masses than ever
You can keep a dog hungry, but
you can’t take a bone away from
ham,” he said- “The CWA was not a
very adequate bone but its taking
eway is a bitter blow- Then, the
workers are bearing the brunit of the
N- R. A- There is not enforcement
worth a whoop of the code provisions
benefiting them, and any one ’an see
that prices have gone up ”
As the Socialist leader talked he
stopped ever so often to shake hrs
gray head and exclaim: “Deplorable!
