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New Britain herald., 1930-04-24

Correspondence also was read had been active before the New York legislature at the same time.
 Curran testified that Walter G.. Hooke, his assistant, had spent con- siderable time in Illinois and New York working against prohibition and had spent a day or two' in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
 Lamont Once Member
 It also was brought out through a letter from Benedict Crowell of Cleveland, O., to Curran. that Sec rctary Lamont had resigned from the association's board of directors when he became secretary of com mcrcc.
 At the outset of the hearing, Cur ran denied that letters written by Thomas w. Phillips, candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, 10 Jus tice Stone of the United States su- prcmc court and the late Justice Sanfor lad constituted lobbying in tn" sense of tho word"
 Sal Robinson, republican, In diana. N.lo yesterday charged thc association with Lobbying directly with the United States supreme court" said today the action was "indefensiblc."
 During the hearing letter from John J. Raskob, chairman of the democratic national committee, to Curran was read which congratu- lated the latter upon the Splendid progress that the association is mak- ing"
 Raskob Big Contributor
 The letter was written in June, 1929. Raskob, a director of the as sociation, has testified before the committee that he had contributed sG5,000 over a period of five years to the organization.
 This was Currans sixth day on the witness stand and he was di- rected to return tomorrow for fur thcr questioning.
 II think you ought to make me a member of the committee" he commented smilinglE, when directed to return again tomorrow. The disputed letters. read into the record yesterday, were sent to Jus tice Stone and the late Justice San- ford last year.
 They consisted largely of an at tack on prohibition.
 Phillips is a director ot the Asso- citation Against the Prohibition l Amendment.
 Senator Robinson. republican, h. diana, who yesterday charged the association with "lobbyinS directly with the United States supreme court" said today that the action was indecent" and ''reprehensiblc. '
 Judges Under Glass Case
 Just because a man is q judge, ' | CurrGn rctortcd, you cant put him under a glass case like a bunch ol asparagus"
 Curran said Phillips merely wrotr i friendly letters to Stone and Sanford and there was no thought Of lobby. ing.
 Robinson said he was surprised that Phillips had not been halcL : into the supreme court on a charge of contempt of court.
 Why don't you ask Justice Ston, about that?" Curran inquired. "Hc soWed no resentment"
 Senator Blaine. republican, Wis. consin, said he had requested tho supreme court to permit an attorneN to appear before it to argue tn, i OFallon railroad valuation case.
 Do you mean the senate wa, trying to lobby with the supreme court ." Curran asked.
 ''l was just bringing that out, l Dl@inc said,
 Questioned by Robinson, thc wit. ness said he thought Senator Grun
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
MERCURY 2OIN WINDSOR

Windsor, April A Pl-Gentie spring was absent from these parts last night for the second time this month and mercury went to 70 here and 16 at Norfolk.
 Old timers thought it was about for this calendar date.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
Curran Still on Stand

Washington, April A P,-DriNing ahead with it's investigation of wet and dry organizations, the senate lobby committee today received testimony from Henry IT. Curran, president of the Association Against t'' Prohibition Amendment. that Ns organization had "lobbicd" 'f.9 nst the dry laws in Illinois last year.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
HOOVER CONFERS
 ON TARIFF BILL
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in the house embody rates on sugar, cement, lumber, shingles, and sil- yer; and the senate provisions for an export debenture, legislative instead of an executive flexible tar if, and complete reorganization of the tariff commission within 90 days from enactment of the bill.
 Democrats have insisted that the house act first on the report. inas- much as the senate already has gone on record on the sections in dispute.
 Two Points Hoover Opposes
 The export dcbcnture and legis- lative flexible tariff provisions were incorporated in the bill by the sen- ate coalition of democrats and re- publican independents over the cX- pressed wish of President Hoover.
 Should the overwhelmingly re- publican house reject these two pro- visions, it would pave the way for final disposition of the measure.
 Those in attendance at the break fast were Senators Watson, Indiana; Shoot, Utah; and Shortridge, Cali fornia, the three republican senate conferees; Representatives Hawley, Oregon; Treadway, Massachusetts, and Bacharach, New Jersey, the three republican house conferees; Speaker Longworth, Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the house floor leader; Chairman Shell of the house rules committee, and Sena- tor McNary, Oregon, assistant re- publican leader of the senate.
 Walter H. Newton, one of the presidents secretaries, also attend cd the meeting.
 An official statement issued later at the capitol said:
 At the breakfast at the White House this morning the president was informed by the majority con ferccs on the part of the senate and house on the pending tariff bill that they reached an agreement on near ly all items in dispute between the house and senate, and that under the usual procedure, the senate
 
 report would be considered by that body first.
 Upon conference it was agreed that the senate should deliver the papers 10 the house and the confer encc report be first considered in the house.
 To Be Ready Tuesday
 ''It Vas expected that the confer cnce report would he ready not later than Tuesday of next week and that it will be taken up in tho house or Thursday of next week."
 Representative Tilson said il would take probably two or three days to dispose Of the report in the house.
 All items in agreement will be voted upon en bloc, then separate ballots will be taken on the higl, points of difference.
 Should the house refuse to concul in any one of the senate rates ol administrative provisions in dis agreement the bill will be returned to conference.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
Called to Conference

Washington, April @4 tR-Repub- lio1n congressional leaders were call cd to the breakfast table today by President Hoover to determine the final steps of the long tariff contro- vtrGy.
 Senator Watson of Indiana, the
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
| MOB KILLS NEGRO
 TAKEN FROM JAIL
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TCUIIlITU UVU Y TOIII T lToL IdsVI had other injuries of the head and shoulders.
 Sheriff Thomas was Clubbcd when he refused to surrender d negro prisoner to the mob. The mob over powered the officer. took the negro from the jail and lynched him.
 Tho negro, Allen Green, was charged with attacking an IS year old Oconce county white woman.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
VTSCOUNT APPEALS RULING

Washington, April A (P) - Nis- count Louis De La Bassetiere ap- pealed today to the secretary of la bor from the ruling of a special board of inquiry at Ellis Island re- fusing him admittance to the United States as visitor from France.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24

If l were a guesser and were asked to guess, would guess there would be none"
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
COACH ROPER SAYS DRY LAW FAILURE;
 LOBBYING PLAYED
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(Continucd From First Pagc) ton law was not enforced in that state.
 Replying to a question, Buck said he took a drink now and then, but never had been intoxicated.
 Representative LaGuardia, repub- lican. New York, asked whether, under a dispcnsary law. people would not inform on those who at tempted to violate it.
 The witness said that was true, adding that under prohibition there was a hesitancy 10 give such infor- nation.
 Representative Clancy, republican, Michigan, the next witness. called at tention to recent votes on prohibi- ton at the University of Michigan and Detroit University. He urged repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
 Roper told the committee he was alarmed over drinking among young mon and women. In this, he said he spoke as the father of q boy and girl.
 He added he hcsitated to send his boy to college.
 Smart Thing to Drink
 Tt seems now that to drink is the smart thing to do,' he went on. "A boy wilt think he's not in the swim II he doesn't drink. I'm wondering whether the breakdown of this prohibition has not caused a disrespect for laws" Roper said he felt the break doWn' had originated with the older people. He himself, he said, was a tcctotal!er
 Just before and just after the war, said the witness, there had been less drinking in colleges.
 T think that anyone is foolish to either drink or smoke" l:o said. but young people are impression able. If you don't give them right ideals, they will get wrong ones"
 The most alarming part is drink '' G 'N -ll i'5. Itl tlit u6 ; SOit bN II T girl was asked 10 college and some one offered her a drink her escort would have felt that she had been insultod.
 Girls Drink Openly
 "Now girls drink openly. They seem to think it biz thing to do
 There also is drinking in high schools. I could give you the names of several young mon from promi- ncnt families who have been ex- pelled from schools for drinking. do not. however propose to give the ramec.'
 As chairman Of the Football Coaches association Roper said he had observed conditions at many schools.
 Representative Moore. republican Ohio, asked if. under Q dispensary .ystcm. the youth would not be ablc to obtain liquor. Roper answered he assumed a dispcnsary plan would ba operated with some judgment.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24
FOUR IN ELEVATOR
 PRISON HALF HOUR
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Of th0 pcrsons Involved brought oal} thr info"r@'t2n that }jr.-. Ii@,,ci ;r ; ;.-i.t"Ht to l)t [. r. DGrH. Wa cu, 0. l.'a "oln"a. Dr, Dnly-s oC-c l. Oil the sixth floor of lhr building.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24

The Herald Classified Ads will sell your car for you.
New Britain herald., 1930-04-24

On IVY nYnY TINY Nf. Ripley will furnish KY anything depicted by hm). xAkk xkx4 |
 Pat on5
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
INDUSTRIAL BOARD ASKS
ALL WAGES BE SLASHED

UNIVERSITY, Va. - President
Magnus w. Alexander of the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
open-shop outfit, threw choice pearls
of wisdom before the Institute of
Public Affairs at the University of
Virginia while discussing industrial
relations. Reductions in wages, he
said, "would be advantageous to
both business and wage-earners in
this country" Lower wages, he
said, would enable American capi-
ta;ists to compete better with low
wage countries and afford work
ers here "better hope for regu-
larity of employment"
Alexander declared that "labor
policies must be left primarily to
the individual judgment of business
executives" and that workers should
understand and appreciate man
agerial policies and work cheerfully
under them,"
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
Typewriter Company and Bosses Work Hand
in Hand to Fleece Girls

alton of labor was not as cruel as
it gradually became.
Speed and more speed were de-
manded of the operators, and fin
ally girls alone, because they could
work cheaper, and promise more of
al adventure in the business mems
office, were used. The Typewriter
companies gave this service as a
courtesy" to the customer. But
just within the last few months in
all the history of the Typewriter
companies, the girls themselves
must pay for going into bondage.
Let me prophesize that this fee
is just tentative move on the part
of the typewriter companies and
within short while one week and
two weeks wages will be demanded.
Each day their telephones are
busy with outgoing calls, checking
up on the girls and soliciting busi-
ness, and it has always seemed that
business houses have been in league
with paid employment agencies to
become quickly dissatisfied with
help and ding ling, another weeks
blood money of wage slave is
banded over to the employment
agency.
-Office Worker
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
PHILADELPHIA SHOE
WORKERS MEET FRIDAY

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. IL.
The shoe workers here have already
elected an organization committee
which is to conduct a very ener-
getic campaign through the press,
leaflets, mass meetings, shop gates
meetings, building of shop com.
mittees and other means of organi-
zation. A mass meeting of shoe
and leather workers has been ar
ranged for Friday evening, at 1908
Taser st.
The leather workers, whose wages
during 1880 have been cut to al
most half, are also actively on the
job. A meeting of representatives
of several shops has taken place re-
Gently in which all the delegates
reported unbearable conditions in
the shops and the desire of the
workers to build an organization.
Organizer Lippa of the Independ-
ent Shoe Workers Union was pres
ent and when the floor was granted
to him, he suggested concrete
plan to be carried out Immediately.
His suggestions were fully accepted
by all those present and he was
elected organizer of the leather
workers, by thu Provision Leather
Workers Organization Committee.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
WAR DANGER IN LATIN AMERICA is
HEIGHTENED BY FIGHT FOR MARKETS
international
Notes

PRAGUE-Comrade Schwab, sec
retary of the Communist Party Dis
trict was arrested in Znaim for dis
tributing leaflets.
BERLIN-The Communist editor
Georg Stibi received a two-year
sentence on the charge of "betray-
ing military secrets" He had pub
lished soldiers correspondence in a
Communist paper.
MOSCOW-The feminist Young
Communist League and Young Pho
neers of the Soviet Union sent their
warmest greetings to the Second
World Children's Meet which opened
in Berlin July %.
SHANGHAI-A strike of rick
shawmen in Tsingtau, Shantung
took place recently. The police ar
rested the union leaders. The strik-
ers demanded higher wages.
4
MOSCOW-In the Armavir, Kub-
an and Salski districts no less than
1000 peasant farms have Joined the
collective farms. In the German
Volga Republic 1000 Individual
FARMS Joined up. The process is con-
tinuing.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
New York. n. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker:
One of the greatest instance that
capitalism is all washed up is in
the payment for jobs at typewriter
company. They have all become
very efficient in their employment
department and to fool the young
girls who apply for positions now
adays they will talk of test. They
give the test and make the applicant
feel kindlier toward the company
and more in humor to pay the fee.
1t is only SIS now for position
below $50 per week and $40 for a
position over 500. When one con.
siders that the typewriter companies
have been the main clearing houses
for office help for the large cities
Of the country, one may see what a
source of revenue can be gotten
though the employment department
since the sales have caught up with
progress"
History of the Typewriter.
The history of the typewriter has
been short in years. Not so long
ago young men clerks were the anne
nuesis of business men. and they
used ink and quill. When the
Typewriter was invented its exploit
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
POOR FARMERS
DIE OF PLAGUE
Spectators Doublin G.
Prices in Cities

Continued From Page One.)
the American Railway Executives.
one of the worst profit-gouging
lunches in the country, called on
Hoover to say that, while the rail-
road companies were "ready to CO.
operate in every way" they were
anxious not to "lend any assistance
to any profiteering in distributing
livestock feed" Which means that
the railroads will not cut freight
rates if they can help it-and if
they do it will be for profiteers who
split the steal with them.
congressman say that Kentucky
corn and garden crops are prac
tically ruined, and tobacco dam
aged, while Louisiana cotton is two
thirds destroyed, hay and corn a
total loss and sugar cane six weeks
late. But these may be exaggera-
tions usual to congressman.
K
NEW YORK.-Taking advantage
OF the publicity about the drouth,
New York commission merchants,
who in June dumped $50 carloads
of green vegetables into the sea to
hold up consumers for high prices,
are raising these prices as high as
100 per cent, because they say there
is shortage 'due to the drouth."
Hoover Saturday sail that there
was no shortage of food stuffs. and
that only livestock feed was short,
but in New York and other eastern
cities the robbers of the farmers
are putting the screws on the prices
to rob the working class which has
thus to reduce it's already low
standard of living due to unemploy-
ment and wage cuts.
Although the Health Department
OF New York City says there is
plenty of milk, the Dairymen's
League. which milks farmers but
not cows, added another cent on the
price of each quart of milk Monday.
with the excuse of "the drouth."
The daily worker., 1930-08-12

'HtS thdI keep tne WOrkerS gong at
the same time but this gives the
company a profit of $780,.
Some time ago Ford stated "the
money l have accumulated is not the
product of downtrodden underpaid,
bloodsweated labor" We say this is
damnable lie! Here is one incident
to prove it. Having speeded our
selves out of work, in addition to
this we have discrimination, unsani-
tary conditions, accidents, plenty of
dust fumes, smoke and very made
quate ventilation. Floors We're never
scrubbed but once in two years, oils
and grease around machine is un-
speakable, stock fills the place and
in case of fire it would be mass
murder. Cranes carry their loads
over workmen's heads.
l came to the opinion that as long
as men are economically enslaved,
they cannot be politically free. 1t
becomes clear to me that the work
ing class would never bring about
form of society guaranteeing
work, bread and happy life by
means of the ballot. Men of labor
arise!
-NALOB.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
Today in History of
the Workers

August II, 1S05-Karl Johann
Rodbertus, first scientific Social
list economist in Germany, born at
GreifswaId. 1SS9-Great success
full strike of London dockers and
riverside workers began, 10000
involved. 1922 -" "Arbeiter lei
tung," Independent Socialist paper
at Bremen, Germany, suppressed
by Social Democratic government.
l924-Left wing of German Social
Democrats Joined Communist
Party. 1925-Hundred and fifty
thousand textile workers of Sax
Ony. Germany, struck,
The daily worker., 1930-08-12


and belt system where exactly so
much work is calculated to be turned
out per minute and failure means
the gate.
Ford Lies.
Ford declared that reducing the
number of men employed per unit
of output by substituting machine
power for hand power had made for
more employment and not less, at
least not in the Ford industries. He
also declared that none of his men
would be thrown out of work. Men
and women workers are worse off
than they have ever been.
Let us see what has happened
in Department 401. We are bull
dozed continually by Toppa, boss
and foremen. Two years ago there
were some 100 men working on
job No. 1879 and 1880. One man
used to turn out 32 pieces of A
1879 and 1880 tire carriers in eight
hours. After deducting our wages
it gave the company S39.0S clear
profit. Now after the false promises
of raise and intimidating speed
up a man turns out $50 pieces in
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
FORD LAYOFF
is EXTENDED
More Speed-up Plans
Up Ford's Sleeve


Dear Comrades:
After a two weeks lay-off at
Ford's, in Chester, expecting to go
to work this morning, we find that
this lay-off was extended to August
IL. Only very small number of
men are working, putting in new
conveyors, so that when we do go
back to work, if we do, they will
be able to use less men, the rest
will be thrown on the streets with
the rest of the eight million unem-
ployed.
This is an example of Hooyer's
capitalist prosperity" that we work
ers are getting.
With the recent attack upon COM
mercial relations with the Soviet
Union we have nothing to look for
ward to but more lay-offs. Are we
workers going to stand for this I?
Previously we have been shipping
steamer load of trucks to the So
Wet Union. If they break off COM
mercial relations with the Soviet
Union the workers who have been
working to fill this order will be
thrown on the streets.
Workers! 1t is our duty to pro-
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
T.U.U.L. BUREAU IN
SOUTHERN DRIVE
Record Gains; Shows
More Must Be Won

NEW YORK.-The last meeting
of the executive bureau of the Trade
Union Unity League worked out a
general analysis of the present sit
uation and tasks of the unions af-
filiated with the league. 1t found
there is more unemployment. Wage
cuts are more frequent and more
severe.
There is no change in policy re-
quired now of the T.U.U.L. unions.
The slogans, "0rganize and fight
Strike against all wage cuts" are
still correct, as they were at the
previous board meeting. The reason
the T.U.U.L. unions have not had
the success they should have had,
and the workers have not won the
victories they should have won, is
because of a failure to completely
carry out the program attached to
these slogans.
More Could Be Done.
But the bureau considers mex
cusable the failure of the T.U.U.L.
unions and leagues to win more than
10000 new members in the recruit
ing campaign which ended June 30,
instead of the $4,000 quota set. 1t
sees the union leadership too hes
liant, too much inclined to pas
sivity in the face of great oppor-
tunities for service to the whole
working class,
There have been, along with these
fundamental right wing mistakes,
some ultra-leftist errors, such as the
failure to carry on completely the
work inside the A. F. l.. unions.
Its executive board is now
charged with the special task of di-
recting the organization work espec-
tally into the South, among the Ne
groes, women and young workers,
the most exploited sections of the
working class. The fight against
the Musteites and socialist party
takers must be intensified, and the
leadership of the revolution ary
workers never allowed to fall into
their treacherous hands.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
Byuenlng Govt
l hreateNS TO
Fire 5OOOMOye
(WireLess bp Inpreeorrl


BERLIN, Aug. 11.-Coming hard
upon the heels of a growing unem-
ployment situation the threat of the
Bruening government to dismiss
five thousand municipal employees
will increase the number of unem-
ployed in Berlin.
LEIPZIG, Aug. 11.-Karl Lichev-
ski, editor of the Communist daily
Tribune was sentenced yesterday by
the supreme court sitting at Leipzig
for an indeterminate number of
years in the fortress. The charges
brought against Comrade Lichevski
were in connection with two articles
appealing to the workers to organ
ize political strikes and demonstra-
tions.
HAMBURG, Aug. 1.-THE Com
munist election drive opened yester-
day with two mass meetings here,
one addressed by Thaelmann, noted
German Communist leader.
KOYNO, Aug. 1.-THE minister
of the interior has ordered the with
drawal of the privilege of receiving
books, parcels, and letters from one
hundred and sixty political prison
ers for one month as punishment
for the anti-war demonstrations on
August First.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
Greet Five-Year Plan
In dus trial Loan

MOSCOW GPS).-The new state
industrial loan give Year Plan in
Four Years" has been received by
the workers of the Soviet Union
with great enthusiasm. Numerous
staffs of factories and institutions
signed blocks for the loan before
its emmission. The workers of the
Amo automobile works signed
blocks amounting to 250,00O rubles,
and other factories likewise. In
Leningrad alone the workers have
already taken up over five million
rubles.
The daily worker., 1930-08-12
WOrkers-Pe Win
in Polls h Election

WARSAW (IPS). = The Seym
elections took place in the middle
of July in the districts of Kovel
and Svenciany. Only 27 per cent of
the total electorate went to the poll
in Svenciany and only 18 per cent
in Kovel. 10000 votes in all were
polled in Kovel and 2S,500 of these
were given for the workers and
peasants bloc "Selrob." The bour-
geois jewish -Ukrainian bloc of ma
tional minorities received 10000
votes.
In Svenciany the Polish author
tiles declared the list of the West
White Russian workers and peasants
bloc to be invalid. Despite this fas-
cist trick, 10000 votes were given
for the list. The list of the Polish
socialist party received 5000 votes.