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"LOAN" FAKE; BANKS CRASH; MORGAN HEAD
PAGE ONE) least 100 mank failures, based statement of the editor the on Journal of Commerce, is beginning be borne out the report that to four anks crashed on the very day the Daily Worker printed this statement. Three banks, two in Iowa county, with deposits 000,000 closed their doors Monday. First National Bank of CherThe Iowa, with $750,000 in deposits okee, The Cherokee County State failed. Meridan, Iowa, also shut Bank down. Illinois the Ina State Bank smashed.
N.C. Bank Crashes. bank in North Carolina Another its doors. More than dozen closed that state have already failed last month. The latest within the doors the Bank close its Mars Hill, which had deposits over $163,000 the anking situation So serious has the United States that ebcome Thomas Lamont, partner and Co., was forced Morgan make speech the Stock Exchange quiet down the growing Monday and to attempt to bolster waning confidence. in the course of his Lamont, marks said: last week has been fespecial concern for the New because of bank York community, of considerable suspension tions."
Boss Press This. This an admission that was never made in the capitalist press. boss newspaper in the United Every States played down what Morgan's admits has caused Wall partner. "especial concern.' Even Lamont does egin to bring out the seriousness the banking situation occasioned this big bank crash. Hooked up with the rapid downward swing all basic industries, the of American capitalism black. ture In order to stiffen the masses' in the the financial system Lamont capitalist forced to say his fellow who didn't believe him for minute, know well leading banking institutions city sound, strong and the You know bulwark the Federal Reserve Bank York tower of strength." Same Hoover's Lie. exactly what Lamont, HooThis Barnes, and more than hundred other of leading about the banking system and weeks before the largest months bank crash history The same line was handed out by Hoover and Co. about the proved they liars. Facts will prove that Lamont just plain liar. Being closely connected with Wall Street, and knowing the inside of the banking situation, he knows that the truth exactly opposite to what he for publication. Lamont's statement about the banks exactly keeping with Hoover's promise of "prosperity in last March. The workers should have much confidence in Lamont they now have in Hoover's "magic promise. Killed News of Runs. At no time immediately after the closing of Bank the United States did the capitalist press admit that there was wholesale on other banks. Now this news beginning to leak out. Journal (Dec. 16) "Runs on branches of local banks in sections the city where the greatest prevailed at the end last week, chiefly where residents predominate, said to have abated markedly, and in many cases So far the capitalist press concerned they never existed. The admitted by the Jaurnal than was drawn Commerce, the past five days ohter banks in the that followed the smashing of the Bank the United States.