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New Britain herald., 1929-12-21

continue under the managership of Astor but stipulating that at the end of 90 years the heirs of the IGmerick family was 10 receive his entire estate. The Emcricks claim that the estate has grown to fifty times it's original value.
 Documents in Trunk
 The 90 years expired in 1907 or thcreabout, but the Emericks did not collect although, they claim, the AStors offered to settle at that time providing the will and trust agreement could be produced-but they were missing.
 In 1926, however, Mrs Edna Car nahan, an Emcrick hemess, discover ed what the Emericks claim 10 be the missing documents in the lining of an old trunk which belonged to her wealthy ancestor.
 Then came the organization Of the Mississippi Valley association or Emcrick heirs with eleven hundred members and tho selection of Hoy as their leader. The primary reason for their organization of conducting the legal fight.
 Months of hard and costly work followed, then came the hearing but the Emcricks lost because the court held that the suit should have been instituted long ago, But the Emericks say they had only Il tradi- ton long ago" and without evidence they could not be successful in a court fight.
 Now. during the present term oi | the United States appellate court ! the Legion of the Eleven Hundred | stand ready 10 attempt 10 overcom, another great obstacle in their tigh 1 for fortune.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21

the battle fleet subs, cost SG,40O, GOO and the two destroyer tenders Dob bin and Whitney more than S 000,- 900 each, though others have been built for as low as $5OO,0OO. The annual average operation cost of a tender is something like $1,000,0OO.
 Six submarine tenders and six de- stroyer tenders are kept in active operation. There is one aircraft lender, the 11,000 ton Wright, which was recentyly dispatched to Haiti from Hampton Roads with 500 marines. Carrying armed forces and sometimes planes is one function ot tenders.
 As all aircraft tender, however, the | Wright has spare parts, foundry carpentry. machine, fabric and mo- tor erecting shops. The Wright cost $935, GOO and has complement ol i more than 800 officers and men.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
S2,5OO FIRE LOSS
 IN OPTICAL STORE
Blaze Confined to E. E. Good wins Establishment, S27 Main

Fire breaking out last night in the optical store of Prank E. Goodwin at %27 Main street was confined to the room in which it originated, al though the contents of the store room were q total loss. entailnS damage of $2.5O0 covered by insur- anCc, according to Assistant Chiet barnes.
 The fire broke out an hour after the store had been closed for the night and had gained considerable headWay before the flames were seen shooting out of windows opening on an allcyW&y leading off Commercial street. An alarm was telephoned fire headquarters at just l0:11 and Engine No. 1 was already rolling out of the door when the alarm from
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21

The manner in which the defend ,ant was Induced to sell the book calls for all the condemnation put upon It. There would not have been a sale if it had not been deliberate ly procured with no obvious good purpose on the part of those who procured 1t. But l would mt be doing my duty if I did not impose a jail Sentence"
 District Attorney Robert T. Bush nell expressed stronger condemna- ton of the tactics of Sleymaker. who, by his own testimony, was told that the bookshop did not keep the book because of it's nature and finally procured it only by placing a special order and giving q false name, Bushnell threatened:
 If ever the Watch and Ward so- ciety goes 10 q bookshop in this dis trict while l am district attorney and procures the commission of a crime that otherwise would not have been committed. l will proceed against them for criminal conspiracy"
 Bushnell continued: The Watch and Ward society was primarily In- terested in obtaining the sale of .he book so that the defendant could be prosecuted. It strikes me as very ironical that contributors to such a society. instead of bestowing their ch rity on the poor and un- fortunate. consider it their duty 10 contribute to q private organization that hires paid snoopers 10 watch over the morals of the general pub lie. The general public is more ca pablo of taking care of it's morals than the type of man who appear. cd here in this case"
 Prominent Men Members
 Among the officers of the Watch and Ward society listed in the last annual report were: Bishop W. F. Anderson of the Methodist Episco- pal church, Rt. Rev. William Law renee, retired Episcopal bishop Q; Massachusetts; President Daniel [. Marsh of Boston University, Rev Endicott Peabody, headmaster oi Groton school, and Rev. Raymond Calkins of Boston.
 Men prominently connected with Harvard and Massachusetts politics acted in the case on behalf of the i defendants. Herbert Parker, for mer attorney general, was chief de. fense counsel and characterized tn agents of the Watch and Ward so- cictN as ''procurcrs and deceivcrs i miserable false pretenders."
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
GETS EVEN WITH COP

Walnut Ridge, Ark, Dec. T (UP} Everett Webb paid $10 for pass ing a stop sign, but he had his re- venge and it was sweet. After Po- lice Chief Homer Kell brought him into court, Webb charged Chief Ken had passed another sign in chasing him. kell pleaded guilty and paid $10 also.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21

Reichsbank. law shall not be violated,
 Taking hand in Berlin municipal finances, the governors of the Reichsbank mako the stipulation that Berlin shall not make any ad- ditional appropriations for the month of December This action automatically cancels payment of G,000,000 marks of extra Christmas relief for the unemployed, which the city council voted Thursday.
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
FATAL, HI-IH COSTS; 6, ina

Lansing, Mich., Dee. T UP)-An electric light bulb that broke in a Woriman's hand and clectrocuted him will cost the George k. Cook company~of Detroit, or its insurance agents, $5,400 in workmen's com pensation. The case was that of AL pert Jones, an employee of the George R. Cook company
New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
NITANIN \ IN GREENS

Beast Lansing, Mich, Dec. 2l LP -Nitamin A is to be had in green vegetables, says q treatise by Dr. John w. Christ and Dr. Marie Dye of Michigan State college. They warn the public. however, against making a fad of green vegetables to the ex- clusion Of q well balanced diet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14

MeV England Food Union
Fakers Exbel Mllltants

arch betrayer, at this bosses confer
ence, was, ga scheme of insurance
that would forestall any future rise
in wages"
On speaking of the coming con-
vention, Martel said, you will have
your travelling expenses paid in
Guiding Pullman; $40 day from the
time you leave until the day you re-
turn; a chance to see the country
and have a good time" Not one
word to stimulate constructive ac-
ton, for the betterment of the
workers.
A vigorous, active campaign of
propaganda among these betrayed
hotel workers would soon result in a
militant Amalgamated Food Work
ers Union, capable of organizing the
workers in the whole food industry
of New England. The Cafeteria
strike in New York is amply proving
this, and the time is now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
MANY OVERS JOBLESS
Paterson Silk Mill Workers Go HUNGRY

then turn slowly away, some tight
ching their belts a notch or two,
wondering where the next meal is
coming from.
Then they walk to the next dye
house and the same thing is re-
peated. Some go to the employment
agency, but hear the same story:
Nothing doing"
When the boss calls up there for
job the agency shark picks out
the meekest and strongest man he
can see. The boss takes him at any
price he wants to pay and you have
to accept it, rather than be out of
work for weeks more. The only way
to overcome this situation is to or
ganize the unemployed into unem-
ployed councils and to fight for our
rights A. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
WILL DEFY Steel
terror
Bethlehem Workers on
Bail by |. L. D.

PHILADELPHIA, June IL (By
MaiD The workers arrested in
the police smashing up of the open
air meeting held in Bethlehem on
Saturday are now out on bail. They
include Herbert Benjamin, District
Organizer of the Communist Party,
Rudolph Shoan, District Organizer
Of the Communist Youth League
and Jennie Cooper, District Secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
tense, under whose auspices the
meeting was held.
On Friday, the day before the
meeting the militant worker Anna
Burlack was arrested for distrib-
uting leaflets advertising the meet
ing. This arrest attracted the at
tention of hundreds of workers in
Bethlehem.
She was held in $45 bail by the
notorious labor hater Alderman
Greenstein, and this Alderman act
ing as judged, tricked her into 'for-
feiting" bail at 4 p. m. the next day.
The International Labor Defense
announces further meetings will be
held in Bethlehem whether the
lackeys County Detective Schweitzer
and Alderman Greenstein like it or
not"
A mass meeting is now being ar
ranged to be held in the very near
future at the scene of the last
demonstration. Nationally known
speakers as well as speakers from
the district will address the workers
of Bethlehem, and leaflets will be
distributed soon containing full an
nouncements of this meeting.
The trial of the 16 workers ar
rested May Day has been postponed
until September, when they will be
defended by the International Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
Lamndyv MlSleaders Prove
Readiness TO Sell Men Ont

of the ten consolidated laundries,
and his corrupt policies defeated the
strike. He stated that in the strikes
now on at the Fairview, Jerome and
Starlight Laundies in the Bronx
that the union is ready to come with
the bosses association to a peaceful
understanding, that it will pay for
the bosses to do this, thus indicat-
ing that he is ready to sell the work
crs' interests for recognition, or the
right to bleed the union members.
After this treacherous speech the
laundry workers present felt as if
ice cold water had been splashed
over them and their spirits broken.
Militant Leadership Needed.
This whole meeting was farce
and proved once more that only the
militant laundry workers, drivers
included, under the leadership of
the Trade Union Educational
League, is able to organize the
workers into a powerful laundry
workers industrial union which will
successfully fight for the better
ment of the workers conditions and
wages.
Laundry workers Of every section,
let's get together to build under the
leadership Of the T. U. E. L. pow
erful Laundry Workers Industrial
Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
Cotton Mill Women in
Boston Give Lie to
Spiel of Textile Boss

BOSTON, June 10 (FP).-Using
the Harvard business school as
sounding board, Robert Amory, mill
owner, launched into a denunciation
of Massachusetts, labor legislation
at a conference called by women
voters. He praised women workers
as cheaper and more efficient than
men and deplored the unemployment
which, he said, was caused by the
laws forbidding women to work
nights.
Two women textile workers in the
audience spoke up when Amory
finished. Speedup, they said, has
reached such limits that women are
exhausted at the end of eight hours
work in the cotton mills. Going for
glass of water is considered a
crime now by the mill bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
Takers drive
ON NON-CITIzE
CUTTERS is ON
Phila. Paving Officials
Fire Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

on u W OIhbI COTTGSDORLGUHD
PHILADELPHIA CIV MaiN.-
The controversy in the Paving Gut
ters Union, Philadelphia, regarding
the right of non-citizen5 to work on
the dirty streets of Philadelphia re-
pairing old blocks, is not settled
yet. The ultra-reactionary mem
bers of the local are continuing the
prosecution against the non citizen
paving cutters by having the cap
italist officials of City Hall, Phila-
dolphia, dismiss all who are not citi-
zens. This is Gone in spite of tn
fact that the board of directors i,
the Paving Cutters Union have de
cided that mo lines should be drawn
between citizen and non-citizen paw
ing cutters"
Union Takers Fire Non Citizens.
Today, when work started on
Richmond St., the inspectors, with
other city officials, went around and
demanded to see the citizen papers
CT everyone. who was working
there. Those who could not produce
their papers were dismissed.
Arrest Worker.
One of the cutters who had been
here in the United States since he
was two years old could not furnish
any papers and objected to leaving
the job, with the result that one of
the inspectors went after a police
man and had him arrested.
The so-called union men who
worked on the job did not protest
or show any solidarity whatsoever.
They kept on working just the same
and have the nerve to claim that
they are good, organized union men.
Blocks on the streets in Phila-
oelphia have been cut for the last
ten years, and never before has this
question about citizenship been
brought up, but when men from tbs
paving cutters bring it up to the
city officials, it is no wonder thai
the lackeys of capitalism in Cit!
Hall take the opportunity to enforce
it, because here is an opportunity
to break another labor union in the
city.
There is talk going on amongst
this bunch of reactionary takers,
some of whom call themselves $50
cialists" and have been former
scabs, and done all kinds OF dirty
work in the union, to form an indie
pendent citizens union. /
PAVING CUTTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14

As far as / am concerned, 1 can't
claim to have discovered the ex-
fstence of classes in modern society
or their strife against one another.
Middle-cIass historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles, and political economists
showed the economic physiology of
the classes. i have added as a new
contribution the following PROPOSE.
tiOns: - that the existence of
classes is bound up with certain
phases of material production; -
that the class struggle leads neces-
snriIy to the Dictatorship of the
prOIetariat; 81 that this dictatorship
is but the transition to the aboli-
ton of all classes and to the ere
alton of a society of free and equal.
Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
AUTO FIRMS FIGHT
UNION With Spies
Stoolpigeons Receive
key Questions"
By ROBERT w. DUNN.

as there any agitation in the
Plant at present or in prospect for
the future?"
This is one Of the 145 key ques-
tons on a tyewritten list handed
to labor spies operating in indus
trial plants for the Corporations
Auxiliary Co., one of Americas
leading under-cover agencies.
The list has just come to the
hands Of the Auto Workers Union
officers who are campaigning to or
ganize the 100000 workers in the
auto industry. Corporations Auxil-
larry operatives have been indenti-
fled in plants of the McCord Radi-
ator.Co. and in Chrysler plants, both
III the United States and Canada.
General Motors and Graham Paige
have also used these vermin to
snoop on workers attempting to or
ganize. When the pretty words of
the motor corporations personnel
policies are examined closely, they
are found to be camouflage for this
vicious labor spy system.
Irsidious Method.
Suggestions for Reports" is the
title at the top of the list of ques-
lions to the Corporations Auxiliary
espionage agents. Daily reports are
sent to the agency, which digests
them and incorporates them in
longer reports submitted by the
agency to the motor company. The
labor spy is asked to answer such
questions as the following in the
course of his reports:
Report the character of the en-
ployes.
What is the attitude of the men
towards the company?
Is the plant union or non-union.
What are the past labor
troubles?
Causes, and how settled.
Give names of the workmen who
are agitatOrs or fault-finde<s.
Send in names of all l. W. W.,
Reds and socialists employed at
your plant that you are aware of.
Is there any dissatisfaction in
the plant at the present time? If
so, why?
Is there any system of bonus
used at the plant? If so, are they
satisfied with it? If not, give the
reason.
Are the workmen allowed to go
from one department to another?
Is there hearty cooperation
among the workers in your plant?
I'm the interest of the company,
not Of themselves-R. W. d..
Are outsiders allowed to come
into the plant and talk to the
workmen?
These lead questions are mixed
in between others dealing with elm
nation of waste, production prob
lens and general conditions.
Agencies Active.
The recruiting agency for spies
for the Corporation Auxiliary in
Detroit is located in the Hoffman
building. Similar agencies operate
in dozens of other cities. The COM
pany operates in New York state
under the name of the Eastern En-
cheering Co. 1t has recently been
active in the textile districts of the
south, two OF its agents having re-
Gently been exposed in the rayon
strike in Elizabethton, Tenn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
(By Worker Correspondent

PATERSON, N. J. BY Mail). -
Unemployment is serious here in
Paterson, especially among the dye
workers. Dyeing is the main in
dustry here.
In trying to get job in a dye
house you have to get up at half
past five in the morning at the lat
est and go to the first dye house
on your route. When you have
reached the first shop you find 80
or more men ahead of you. After
waiting for few hours in the BIT
ter cold the foreman reluctantly
comes out and after looking around
with sneer says: Nothing doing
today" You hear this day after
isv. The men waiting in the yard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14

1t is the ultimate aim of this
work ("Capital") to reveal the
economic law of motion of modern
sOciety.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14

Not only has the bOurgeOfsis
forged the weapons that bring
death to itself, 1t has also called
into existence the men who nre to
WELD those weapOns-the modern
working cIass--the prOletarians.-
Karl Marx (COmmunist Manifesto).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
E:MPL OyMEnT
AGENTS CHEAT
SERVANT Girls
Take Their Money and
Forget About Girls
by q Vorke. Correspondent

by q Uorkp~ Correspondent
wish to tell how the servant
girls of New York are treated, for
they are treated miserably not only
at the hands of their employers but
also by the employment agencies.
Agencies Cheat Girls.
The worst of agencies are, the en-
ployment agencies on Lexington
Ave. These employment agencies
make us pay 10 per cent of q
months wages in advance, before
we can even see what kind of a
job they are sending us to. Then
they send a girl to rotten place.
If you don't like the place they send
you to, because it is so bad, and if
you come back for your money, they
will not give you back the money.
Instead they tell you they will send
you to another place.
But once they have your money.
they don't bother about you any
more. They tell you to sit down
and wait, and you wait days and
days till your clothes get shabby,
and girl can't get a place with her
clothes shabby.
Or if they do send you to another
job, they send you again to a rotten
place, and it's the same story over
again. They won't give you your
money back, but make you sit down
and wait and wait.
Religious Takers Cheat.
The Swedish employment agencies
en- Lexington Ave are the worst of
all. Some of these agency owners
are religious takers. They go to
church often, and, of course, this
often fools the Swedish servant
girls, for they think if the owner
of the employment agency is very
religious be is honest, but it is usu-
ally the opposite-the more religious
the agency owners are the worse
they cheat the servant girls.
Work as Long as Is Hours.
The servant girls in New York
are mostly Swedish, Irish. German
or English girls. There is no eight
hour day anywhere for US. We
work 10, IL and Is hours or more
a day. The hours are from $50 or
7 in the morning to and even 9
p. m. We are treated like dogs and
have to do five or six peoples work
for the starvation wages we get.
The wages are poor. Cooks get
$50 to $500 a month. A house
worker, who must do all sorts of
work, must be perfect in every
thing, and has to cook, clean, serve,
etc., and gets SIS of $50 month
on the average.
In most places they get half day
off-after dinner-every second
Sunday. Very few places give this
every Sunday.
Must Organize.
The only way we can improve our
conditions is to organize into q
union-I mean a strong, fighting
union, which will take in all the
houseworkers and servant girls and
demand better conditions. The time
to do this is right now.
SERVANT GIRL.
Editors Note:-We urge other
servant girls from all cities to write
in on their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
u. S. Court Breaks the
Oil Cracking Monopoly
for Baron Rockefeller

CHICAGO, June 13.-The U. S.
circuit court of appeals has revoked
the patent of the Indiana Oil Co.,
on the gasoline cracking process
which has been a monopoly Of this
single Standard Oil Co. for several
years. The. Standard of Indiana has
been for some time a doubtful and
unreliable vassal of the Rockefellers.
Under the previous administration
of S. o. of Indiana, there was open
war against the ether companies
owned by Rockefeller.
Rockefeller gained control of the
administration this year, but thinks
it better to break the monopoly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14

December to May. They sleep in
crude hammocks made of bags.
Wipe these parasites and imperial
lists and their tools with the Machado
government off the face of the
earth, and end your slavery, fellow
Negro workers.
u. S. WORKER IN CUBA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-20
FIRST AIR 'TAX|CAB'
STARTS IN BRITAIN
Quick Service Is Provided
for Public by Fleet
of Machines.
BY JOHN r. SINCLAIR.
al Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 20.-Great Britain
has established the first air taxi service.
The Northern Air Lines, Ltd, has be-
gun such a service from Manchester
Municipal Airport. Wallace E. Moess-
ner. United States vice consul at Man.
chester, says a feet of modern aircraft,
operated by experienced pilots, has been
made available to handle both passen-
gers and merchandise to any part OF
Great Britain or on the continent.
There are ships for all classes of
trade. Those carrying one, three, five
or eight passengers, together with their
luggage, may be obtained on q mo-
ment's notice. The single passenger
fare is so cents a mile; two passengers,
"a cents each; for parties OF eight,
special rates are quoted as low as 10
cents a mile.
Those passengers travelling only one
way will be charged for mileage both
ways. If the journey is a speedy one,
free waiting time OF one hour is
allowed. two hours for journey OF $50
miles, and three hours for journey
exceeding $50 miles. This gives time
for passengers to complete business be-
fore returning.
It will be interesting to watch the,
development of this pioneer type OF
service.
while Australia cruSades annually
against the rabbit, crusade in which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-20
HEARING ON MARYLAND
POWER MERGER HELD

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 20.-The Mary
land East Coast Utilities, Inc, was
given a hearing by the Public Service
Commission yesterday on its applica-
ton for permission to acquire the prop
critics, assets and franchises of four
power companies on the Eastern Shore.
The companies sought are the Mill
ington Light g. Power Co., the Cecilton
Electric Light & Power Co., the Love
Point Light g. Power Co. and the
Trappe Electric Light Co. The sec
lions of Maryland affected are Somer-
set, Worcester, Cecil, Queen Anne and
Talbot Counties.
The application of the East Coast
Co. was Jointly filed with the other cor
porations, who asked to be allowed to
sell their properties to the applicant.
The East Coast Corporation also asked
permission to issue Sl50,000 first mort
gage bonds under its indenture to the
Central Trust Co. of Illinois.