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INON-PARTY WORKERS INVITED TO PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEET TONIGHT TO MAP N.R.A. FIGHT America’s OnlyWorking Shall the Daily Worker Live? Class Daily Newspaper Say “YES” by Rushing Your Daily Contribution Today! .Worker Centred WEATHER FAIR AND COOLER (Section of the Communist International) wr * V vr OCC *• Vntered M HacMui matt* at Urn Pcmt Office a* 24, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents V 01. A, ifO. ZOO New York, H. Y„ under the Ae* of March *. l«l». NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER ROOSEVELT GOLD ORDER SENDS ALL PRICES SOARING Delegations Demand the Ousting Ritchie NEW INFLATION SLASHES of WAGES; PROVIDES Lynch Victim and One of His Jailers Membership Meeting j Picket Lines REAL Tonight i "" 7:30 p. m. at LYNCHERS * 900 WORKERS 1 | St Nicholas Arena Close Dye, WEAPON FOR CURRENCY WAR § \ NEW YORK.—Tonight at 7:30 j PROTECTED, I milllhlibb p.m., at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. Broadway, meeting of all RAISE Mills Daily Living Costs Rise As Government east of a S6OO Silk BB I Party members will be held to dis- New Money cuss the “N.R.A. and the Growing Prepares for World Clash Class Battles.” UTW Leaders Desert :;-igg|f» J| BB I A. Hathaway will IS CHARGE i Comrade C. FOR “DAILY” Workers in Face Speculators Reap Harvest As Inflation Sends ¦peak. Comrade Earl Browder will deal with the “Role of the Press” at of Terror Commodity, Stock Prices Upward Officials Anxious as the meeting. Philadelphia Answers members, ail work- Besides Party PATERSON. N. J„ Oct. 23.—Thou- in trade unions and other Oct. of Anger ofNegro, White ers active Scab Attack of sands of in mass picketing WASHINGTON, 23.—Continuing the policy aggres- working-class organizations are in- strikers over a six-mile strike front, between sive cheapening of the dollar, Roosevelt today announced a new Workers Grows vited to be present. Boss -League Paterson and Lodi, this morning step toward raising prices by a mechanism of governmental BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 23.—State kept the great silk and dye striio PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 23. Not one mill or buying and selling of gold. and Somerset County officials joined completely solid. More than 900 workers, rallying at a dye Undaunted, the yesterday in an hysterical attempt Friday shop opened. The net result of the proposed operations will be to give Concert and mass meeting picketed in face of huge to pass the buck lor responsibility strikers the United States government to Ignore night at Tumgemeinde Hall, hurled of police hired gun of George Dickstein mobilization and lor the fiendish lynching back an attack by the Constitutional the big dye plants a financial machinery very Armwood, as indignatnt protests from thugs, which made League on the revolutionary move- look like armed camps. The senti- Ignores Negro workers and intel- largest Roosevelt similar to the Equalization white and ment by raising over S3OO, the the for one united into a Nazi Terror in U. S. ment of workers Fund of the Bank of England. This lectuals developed nation-wide lump sum raised so far in the $50,- dyers, by the union of the proposed machinery is used by both govern- thunder of denmiciation of the 000 drive to save the Daily Worker. growing. officials res- N. T. W. U., is NRA Murder Drive; ments in the fight to cheapen their lynch-murder and the League, a reactionary organ- in Washington Quiz The own as they battle for ad- ponsible for the convenient removal spread among strik- The employers postponed their currencies ization, leaflets opening of vantage in the field of international of Armwood from Baltimore to Prin- ing custom tailors with a re-print of elaborately prepared the hours before dye until tomorrow, but Quibbles About 7-A markets. cess Anne a few the Denies That He Voted cartoon of a miner’s family, which shops news a did not reach the will, lyiiching. They likewise blocked all in the “Daily,” with of this workers Roosevelt from now on, set an for Billto Deport had appeared they the picket attempts at investigation and punish- Dies "They’ve cut off our ur.til were on lines. Gives Contradictory artificial price that the United States the caption. government pay for In ment of the known leaders of the off our gas, we U. T. W. sabotaged will gold. this Militant Workers water and turned The leaders Opinion way it will attempt to keep prices mob. can’t them stop our Daily.” Dis- picketing this morning. Hundreds on “Merit” Delegations let rising, and to keep American exports Workers Electing (Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) torting the meaning of this cartoon, of A. F. of L. strikers reporting at of State Clause in Codes to flow outward. The uneasiness the and the leaflet stated to the effect that their halls for pieket duty were told « WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 23 the plan will County lynch governments was fur- A the and the Needle by U. T. W. picket captains not to At home, Roosevelt work- Mpj§f Congressman Samuel Dickstein, they, Communists By SEYMOUR WALDMAN send soaring causing ther increased by reports that Trades Workers Industrial Union, go on the picket line, but the work- prices upward, in chairman of the House Committee (Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) another slash in the real income of ers and intellectuals Maryland, want you to give up your food and ers went in spite of this treachery. New on Inmlgration, admitted to your the American workers and farmers. New England, Pennsylvania, rent, to have your gas and water Meanwhile the N. T. W. U. leaders, WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Presi- were correspondent in an interview that dent Roosevelt today ig- Profit York and New Jersey cities shut off. but to make your contribu- Moe Brown and Ann Burlak ancl pointedly- Speculators delegations to Governor the proposed investigation by his ancl nored recent murder electing visit tion to the Daily Worker.” others in Paterson, and Fisher the activities of The Roosevelt announcement sent Wednesday with de- eommtttee on Nazi activities In the leading the coal, steel and other kaisers of Ritchie this sending dele- Sailer in Lodi, were united the prices on the Stock Exchange for the removal and prosecu- U. S. wili not cover acts of terror Workers replied by T. and U. bloodstained American slave mands with picket lines of N. W. U. zones. leaping. The stocks of gold companies for of the guilty officials and direct threats of murder. gations to the Concert pledges workers. The Newark Ledger, In a letter to N.R.A. Administrator demand. Insiders tion murder factories, T. W. were in especial penalty to the known “We’re only interested in the from shops, docks, ships, in story this morning, Johnson he takes a “position” on friend, Bernard Ba- and the death units, organizations, in- a sensational like Rooseve.i/s of the mob. The delega- movement of alien Nazi propaganda,” Party mass that the employers have the “various misunderstandings ana reaped a speculative fortune, members cluding the Gesang Verein discloses ruch, tions, which will arrive in Baltimore Dickstein said. 1.W.0., been hiring hundreds of gangsters misinterpretations of Section 7 (a) of it was rumored. i-v: I Wednesday to join a local delega- “Will the Daily Worker’s exposure Clubs and others. and underworld elements in Newark the National Recovery Act” by dis- the the That the imperialist rivals of tion, go on to Washington to of Nazi terror and espionage be in- A ship committee, whose members cussing, in contradictory phrases, Sta.es will rep.y to tills will open United a.tack place demands of an aroused troduced in evidence?” he was earn no more than $39 monthly, gave (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) shop merit clause. openly pre- the The presidential announcement, on their markets was working-class on President Roosevelt. asked. $lO. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein dicted by Senator Thomas of Okia- demand impeachment think contributed $65. concerned solely With the so-called will They will the “I so,” replied Dickstein. merit clause, already in the automo- . homa, who declared that ‘‘this Ritchie, a halt to to attempt to of Governor and “Will Clarence Hathaway, editor Following speeches by William Pat- Help bile code, states absolutely nothing cause foreign nations the plans for the legal lynching of of the Daily Worker be invited to terson, National Secretary of the I. Lubbe Had In al- check the President's program.” about this auto "merit” clause, that France will Euel Lee this Friday. testify before the committee?” L. D., who came from Baltimore, was It seems unlikely though It approved by General to maintain itself on the Negroes of Baltimore, boiling with “Yes, hell and Phil Bart, member of the Daily Johnson and William Green of the be able gold j be invited anyone Setting Reichstag standard, In the face of the Roose- resentment, are militantly supporting ' who wants to appear may do so.” Worker staff, and A. W. Mills, Com- American Federation of Labor count- organization of delega- John Armwood, being taken to cell in Princess Anne jail, following Party District Organiser, con- ing velt move. the the local “Will Albert Wiggln, munist house. tion, the attempts of the re- his convenient removal from Baltimore city jail to the lynch-lnfested j H. former tributions began to pour in. The say about the Despite his assurances of ‘sound despite chairman of the Chase National Failing to anything misleaders to the Eastern Shore town. Responsibility for his presence in Princess workers further pledged to raise the Fire, Says Expert of blacklisted for money,” Roosevelt’s plan is admitted formist disrupt Maryland Bank, who, according to one of the hundreds employees of Negro and District's quota of SI,OOO in the Drive their unions, those to carry the inevitability of further growing struggle white Anne on the day of the lynching rests with Judge Duer, State’s Attorney Dally Nazi exposures, forming own of the violent suppres- Worker's con- shortest possible time and call fired for suddenly-appearing ab- inflationary measures.
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