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New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Another Grass Fire

The Planville fire department was called out on an alarm yesterday morning at 1o:30 o'clock 10 oN- tinguish a grass fire on Shuttle Meadow avenue. Twenty-Five men answered the alarm. The fire was quickly placed under control before any damage was done. March has
 been visited by numerous grass fires but fortunately the firemen eN-
 tinguishcd them before damage was l done.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Withholds Decision

Rev. Arthur A. Ball, pastor of the
 Methodist church, has not yet decid
 ed whether he will remain here for another year. He was invited by the congregation two weeks ago to re- main as pastor for another year. He announced at last Sundays services | that he had held a conference with Rev. Dr. William Beach, district superintendent of the New York East conference. and there was possi- 1 bility that he would make change. The New York East conference starts it's session this Thursday and l appointments of pastorates for next year will he made. Many prominent
 local people have expressed the hope | that Rev. Mr. Ball will decide to ac-
 cept the invitation and remain here l for anOt her wear
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Cars Stopped Here

State policemen were stationed at Hlossom's corner late Saturday eve ming and stopped a number or cars as the result of an investigation started to apprehend the murderer
 of a 1S-year- old high school boy m
 Hartford. After glancing at the oc-
 c1pants of the machines, the drl-
 vers were allowed 10 proceed on heir way
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
East Berlin Items

Rev. and Mrs. l.. E. Adkins and family left this morning for Chicago to visit Mrs. Adkins parents. From there they will go to Kentucky to visit other relatives. On May fl they will leave from New York on the $, s, Europa for England from
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Bowling Meeting

l | There will be a meeting of tn i ICosmopolitan bowling league to morrow evening at T:50 o'clock q Hart's bowling alleys on Whiting street. All members of the leagu are requested to be present Plan will be made for q banquet.
 Plainyille Briefs
 The parish guild of the Church o Our Saviour will hold q clam chow der supper Wednesday evening fror 6 ii 7:S0 o'clock. The guild will hol it's regular meeting Thursday after noon at o'clock in the paris house.
 The We-Uns club will meet thi evening at the home of Mrs Gllber Nettleton of s Park street.
 A months mind requiem hig mass will be celebrated Saturda morning at o'clock at the Churc of Our Lady of Mercy for Mis Marie Prior.
 The condition of Mrs. C. F. Roick of Broad street is reported as beln improved.
 Two parties were held at the "Ol Milestone recently. A two-tabl bridge was enjoyed, Mrs. NJ. Me Quigan receiving the lady's pr'z' and E. Clark the mems award. Tn Chess club met Wednesday cVcnln among those present being Rev. an Mrs. Davis of Forcstrille, Elo Thernbloom, Mrs. Emma Monro and Ronald Pond.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. Walker Of Ne
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

Pythian temple, Pythian Sisters will give a bridge and whist party in the l. Q. o. F. hall "Wednesday evening. Prizes will be awarded the winners in both games and refresh mcnts served. The party is opened 10 the public
 On April the grand officers will make their official visit to the local temple in the I. o. o. F. hall. A hot supper will be served at 6:5O o'clock. All members are requested 10 attend the supper and greet the officers.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Candidates Initiated

A large class of candidates was initiated at the club rooms of the Bell City Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, on West street yesterday afternoon. State officers of the or
 ganization were present. Luncheon m eet inC
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

fined s25 and costs by Judge Merritt o. Ryder on a charge of speeding The court remitted s10 of the fine.
 The motorist was arrested by State Policeman, Zekas who testified that he was going at the rate of 55 miles an hour on East street. Prose- cutor Charles r. Conlon represent ed the state.
 The state police have been very active in Plainville during the past month and number of violators Of the motor vehicle laws have fallen into their net. The police are deter mined to end the practice of speed ing on the new East street highway.
 Grange Meeting
 A regular meeting of Plainville Grange will be held in the Grange hall on Pierce street tmorrow eve ming at 8 o'clock. The first and second degrees will be conferred on a large class of candidates.
 The first degree will be given by the regular officers while the Ladies degree team will confer the second dSrce. ptainville Grange has been invited 10 visit Union Grange in Southineton on April to neigh bors night program and to Crom- well Grange on April '.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31

iTCTTt T dSS INdIIIS
 George Pfab, swimming instruct or at the Bristol Boys club, has an- nounced that eight of his pupils have passed the tests in life saving given by the American Red Cross and will soon receive certificates and badges. Brone Kiminsky, F. Of l01 Green street, is the youngest boy ever to pass the examination in Bristol. The other boys who pass ed the tests arc Thomas Santone, 15. ICnnfinnnd nn "a cn 1SA
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Ralph W. Williams

Funeral services for Ralph w. Williams, infant son of MT. and Mrs. Ralph A. Williams, of 2S Pearl street, who died at the New Haven hospital Saturday, was held this aft ernoon at his parents home. Rev. Lincoln F. Frye, pastor of the Church. of Our Saviour, oaiciatcd.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
Police Board Tonight

A meeting of the board of police commissioners will be held in the council chamber tonight starting at 1:$0 o'clock. Matters pertaining to the reinstatement Of four suspended police officers will be discussed and. it is believed. some definite action will be taken.
 Mrs. Annie Bator
 Mrs. Annie Rator. G6. of 10 Bethel street died at her home this morn-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
A Company Spy Exp sed

THE Central Control Commission of the Com
munist Party of U. S. A. has approved the
expulsion of T. S. Rawlings ct. L. James) Of
Birmingham, Ala, as company spy.
1t has been definitely established by the
Party District Bureau of District II that Rawl-
ings in 1922, was engaged in hiring scabs for
the Florida East Coast Railroad Co., and that
he is now connected with an industrial detec-
tive agency, the Corporations Auxiliary Co.
Also, that he acted as stool-pigeon against
the Party since he succeeded in becoming
member of the Party this spring.
Rawlings, machinist by trade, is of slight
build, about feet, inches tall, and weigh
ing about 120 pounds age, about 45 years, has
a receedng chin and very prominent front
teeth stained with tobacco, smokes cigarettes
slightly bald, wears shell-rimmed glasses
He appears to have some connections in the
labor movement and claimed to be correspon-
dent of the Federated Press.
All workers organizations are warned
against this spy.
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION,
C. P. OF u. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
Holy "Wheels of Chance"

Over in Brooklyn where things happen, the
following occurred: The Williamsburg Post
of the American Legion and the Hadassah Sis
terhood Gates of Prayer, and the Catholic Big
Sister, all were having bazaars and other blow
outs, and the police (you know the police!
They're always doing somethingD interfered.
So the Gates of Prayer Sisters and the Legion
boys and even the Big Sisters all went down
to court to get an injunction out against the
naughty police, who claim, it seems, that the
Gates of Prayer Sisters, Big Sisters, and Le-
gionnaires, too, were all running "wheels of
chance" butting in on the regular gambling
games which are supposed to get the protec-
ton they pay for. The dishonorable judge who
knows "What Price Walker?" refuses the
sanctified Sisters an injunction, so we suppose
that Brooklyn Catholics and patriots have to
get along with the regular gambling houses.
Gettin' to be heck of country when Catholic
sisters are forbidden to play poker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
&4<~.4
Imported Goods
BY JORGE .

We have always had the idea that the rea-
son why an ordinary worker has sinking
feeling when told gruffly to report to the su-
perntendent, is because that boss holds eco
nomic power, the power of sentencing the
worker to death by starvation by firing him.
From our esteemed contemporary and name
sake, the "Day Worker" of England, we
learn that we are all wet 1t seems that the
organ of our brother party in Britain thinks
it we'll to run a column on physical training
And it's not bad idea. And the writer there
of thinks it we'll to advise the British prole-
tariat to wash it's feet daily, and not fail to
open it's bowels. Yes, it's all there and re-
peated for emphasis. Now, we are not for
constipation as Party policy, but when the
physical expert of our namesake in London
hands out the following, our bowels are I'M
moved by mercy and we must raise our hand
in protest He says: "Why have many work
ers an unconscious dread of the power and
superiority that the boss exudes? Because
when you are 'on the carpet his teeth are
white and his hands neat and fresh--your
teeth are stained and your nails-well, look at
them!" This does not appear to us as way
to bring the horny handed sons of toll to
Bolshevism. Let the workers, yea, even the
unwashed,' stand before the boss with clean
class struggle and unity, and if anybody's
bowels must move, let it be the bosses. Hail
to the working class, may it always be clean,
but clean or dirty, the working class!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
By SAM NESIN.

NITTO MANIA, an unemployed food worker
~ his wife and three children, have been
dered evicted by the bosses court of Brooklyn
for non-payment of rent The case of Mania
is one of 100 evictions which take place in
the city of New York every week. That is the
number officially reported in the capitalist
press. If these figures are as reliable as the
figures given out by the state labor depart
ment on unemployment there must be at least
twice that many. This throwing of unem-
ployed workers families and their few broken
pieces of furniture out on the sidewalk repre-
sents the final kick in the face which the boss
class and its government gives to the worker
as reward for his labor.
On September list, so-called Labor Day, the
day which the bosses of the United States have
set aside as a special day for spreading the
poison of class collaboration, the A. +. l..
takers will be busily engaged. At this time
when million workers are unemployed and
this army is increasing daily, when the em-
ployed worker is being speeded up and HIS
wages are cut, when thousands Of workers
families are being evicted and thrown on the
scrap heap, such agents of the bosses like VIM.
Green, Matthew Vol, John L. Lewis and their
kind will assemble in military camps and
other such places together VITA the bosses and
imperialist mongers who call themselves
colonies, majors ana rear alNllrals win en-
phasis on the rear, to give US the usual biah,
blah. about cooperation between capital and
labor, the principle of high wages, etc
A Classical Example.
The most classical example of what :he
workers can expect from this policy of class
collaboration is the so-cslled emergency con-
ference called together in Washington several
months ago by our worthy president Herb
Hoover, where miracles were to be performed
This conference was composed Of representa-
tives of large corporations and the A. f. L.
takers.
It's purpose was TO cover up and if possible
TO pacfy the workers resistance to the at
tacks that are being made against their living
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01

about 100000 walk the streets unemployed.
Thus, deeming the workers unable to success
fully resist, they go ahead reducing wages at
an increasing tempo.
1t is a most important situation and great
tasks and responsibilities devove upon the
Communist Party and the t. U. U. L. The or
ganizaton of the workers and their mobiliza-
ton for struggle becomes of the most supreme
and immediate Importance. The workers will
fight They will not passively submit to all
this pressure. They will fight bitterly. But
it is up to us to give them organization and
to lead them in struggle in the teeth of the
systematic betrayal of the A. F. of L. and S. P.
We must unite the employed and unem-
ployed to make joint struggle. Especially
we must take advantage of the present cleo
ton campaign to awaken and organize the
workers. The struggle against wage cuts and
for the relief of the unemployed will become
especially acute with the onset of winter We
mu~t therefore prepare for real struggle on
mass scale. We must counter the employers
wage cutting by m liant strike policy.
Workers.. Demonstrate September ]! Or
ganize and strike against wage cuts! Fight
for unemployment insurance! Build the Trade
Union Unity League! Vote the Communist
ticket!
written at Harris Island Penitentary.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
WOOdenheads

We see that Mexico, so says the boss papers,
is Cleaning its house of undesirable foreign
ers" While we stand like a rock of Gibraltar
for the right of any worker to stay in any
country he feels like, we nevertheless must re-
mark sardonically on the net result of all this
woodenhead deportation mania that falls on
the bosses of this and other capitalist countries
The reader will recall that Machado of Cuba
deported seven Spaniards back to Spain ~
Gently through New York. A revolutionary
situation is rapidly ripening in Spain and these
Communists will be needed.
A brutal roundup of Mexican workers in the
United States is throwing thousands, penniless
and sore It Yankee imperialism, across the
Rio Grande The American 100 per centers
think they are thus making the country safe
for Wall Street. But what these Mexicans
will do to American imperialism in Mexico
sooner or later! Will Matte Vol sleep sound
err after knowing that, let us say, Red from
Poland is sent back there? While he's dream
ing, that Polish Red can do more real dirt
to American imperialism in Poland than he
might in the good OF U.S.A. So it's all a
woodenhead business, though we don't expect
head, he wouldn't be in it. Incidentally, Mex
lean authorities" say, excuse to deport
Reds, that Mexico has been overrun with for
eign prostitutes, and that's why there's got
to be lot of folks deported. But that excuse
would seem insufficient. Why run out for
eign prostitutes and leave Ortiz Rubio, Portes
Gil, and the rest of the Revolutionary
family?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
Fight Against Starvation, Build
Unemployed Councils

standards. Now the United States Labor De-
partment is compelled to admit that of the
very corporations that were present more than
sixty of them have violated the so-called agree
ment and have cut the wages of their workers.
1t is also stated in this report that there seems
to be no way of enforcing the understanding
which they have reached.
The bosses with the aid of the Wolls, the
Greens and the Thomases are putting into eff
feet their understanding, which is wage-cuts,
speed-up and lay-offs.
We, the workers, can enforce our demands
not through class collaboration but through
class struggle. The Trade Union Unity
League, an integral part of its organza-
tional campaign, is building the Unemployed
Councils on an industrial basis. Unemployed
workers of every industry are called upon to
organize into these councils which are linked
up through the election of delegates to the
shop delegates council of the industrial union
or league of the respective industry. We must
also carry on an energetic struggle in the To-
Gals of the A. F. L. to win over the rank and
file to the support of these unemployed coun-
ellis of the Trade Unien Unity League The
councils are composed Of all unemployed work
ers of the industry whether they be members
of the T. U. U. L., A. f. l.. or unorganized.
This task of rallying the employed workers in
support of the organization of the unemployed
must be conducted in all shops and factories.
Workers, Unite!
We must unite the employed and the unem-
ployed in the struggle against unemployment.
For the Unemployment Insurance Bill as pro-
posed by the Communist Party and endorsed
by the Trade Union Unity League and the
Unemployed Councils. This bill calls for the
turning over of the billions of dollars APP
propriatc for war purposes to the unemployed.
We must organize and fight against wage
cuts, speed-up and lay-offs. For the 7-hour
day and the 5-day week.
Against evictions and for the release of the
Unemployed Delegation. The r. u. U. l.. and
the National Committee of the Unemployed
Councils have declared September LIST as a day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
Bv HARRISON GEORGE.

THE present outbreak of revolutionary fer
ment in Latin America will appear differ
emily to many workers of the United States,
whose views have been shaped by capitalist
propaganda. Some, in spite of all Communists
have said, and still infected with notions of
American imperialisms "exceptionap power,
will regard the present revolts as "another
joke" and will cite many of the opera bouffe
instructions of the past to "prove" it.
Others, who have sheltered the same error
in form of phistine sentimentalism that
wept over those victims of imperialism with
out any conception of the oneness of their
struggle with our own, with the world revolu
ton, may be.qute at loss to understand what
it's all about, this wave of revolt.
To Communists, however, who have the key
of Marxsm- Lennsm to the understanding of
social forces, the Latin American revolts are
but another proof of the correct analysis of
the Communist international of the present
period as one of and revolution.
Let us explain briefly what are the chief
forces at work
Imperalist Rivalry.
/. Imperialist penetration: Before the world
imperialist war, England led in imperiallst in
vestments and political influence. Since then,
American Imperialism has advanced rapidly
so that now their investments are about equal.
ShN's1SiSAA ~
it's rival is the chief concern of each imper-
ialism.
q Native class relations: In the past the
ruling class has been predominantly feudal, not
of the category of feudalists who are tenant
landlords, but rather great estate holders, with
thousands of wage workers often half serfs
and sold with the land.
A partial development of some light indus
try and native trading bourgeoisie nourished
a bourgeois stratum which seeks to develop ma
tive industry, become big bourgeoisie and
control government.
Complication Of Class Relations.
Imperialist penetration, interested only in
raw materials profitable investments (public
utilities railways etc. and markets for i'm
periast manufactures breaks up not only the
normal" capitalist industrial development him
dering manufacture, but shatter as well the
normal class relations development the con-
solidation of either feudal or bourgeois classes
in political parties of national scope, striving
for political power
In Latin America, somewhat differently than
in China. mperialist penetration in some cases
conflicts with the great feudal landhoders in
those places where imperialists themselves be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01

Communist Candidate for Governor OF New
York State)
THE Daily Worker of a few days ago publ
lished the following quotation from the
"Iron Age the organ of the great steel
interests.
eve are in for wage reductions How
sweeping they will be is another story. The
doctrine of the consuming power OF hlgh
wages is losing ground. There is too much
rehirng at reduced rates, following recent
shutdowns to prevent spread of the wage
revising practice. What has occurred is
largely outside the metal working fields, but
the prolongation of this depression provides
the sentiment that fosters all sorts of wage
cutting"
This is an important statement, considering
its source. First, it is a practical admission OF
what we have been saying all along, namely,
that Widespread wage cuts have already taken
place in the industries generally. Large
masses of workers have had their wages cut
from 10 per cent to 40 per cent by the in
sidious method indicated. The assertion that
such wage cuts have not taken place IN the
metal industry is lie; the steel, automobile
and electrical manufacturing sections beng
leaders in the wage cutting, especially OF the
unskilled, unorganized masses
The New Boss Offensive.
But most important, the Iron Age" state
ment is definite threat of further drastic
wage cuts. 1t presages open, sweeping, horl-
zonta wage reductions in many industries, in
stead of the policy Of cutting rates depart
ment by department or by small groups OF
workers. This authoritative trade paper would
not make such statement unless the big capt.
talists, whose policies it voices, were deter
mined upon wholesale wage cutting policy.
Indeed this campaign is already well under
way.
The capitalists deem the occasion opportune
to further slash the standards of the Amer
lean working class. Of course they totally
disregard their solemn" no-wage-cuts pledge
to Hoover. The deepening economic crisis
bears down upon them intensfying competition
and price-cutting in the home markets, and
wage cuts in England, Germany, ETC., put them
at a disadvantage in the struggle for world
markets So they press on with wage cuts.
The big employers think they can get away
with the proposed heavy wage cuts. They
hold in their pocket the A. f. of +. leadership
as their chief strike-breakng weapon; the
great masses of workers are unorganzed;
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ing group dominated by British imperialism and
against the "liberal" group (backed by Amer
lean Imperialism now opening armed fight for
power.
g. So long as revolts merely place new mil
itary dctators in the saddle, as in Bolivia and
Peru, American Imperialism, though hard hit,
does not regard the case as hopeless. In both
countries the new military regime has declared
that all foreign interests will be respected. But
should the masses rise independently and seize
power, as is possible in Brazil, both imperialist
rivals, without slackening their rivalry for
moment, will agree on savage Intervention
to crush the revolutionary masses. Every Amer
lean worker must stand ready to prevent such
countcr-revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01
The New Wave of Wage
Cutting
By VIM. z. FOSTER.
Prisoner No. $3.50.

Communist Candidate for Governor of New
York State)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-01

for demonstration against unemployment.
On this day we will throw the lie about
harmonious relations between the bosses and
workers into the teeth Of the contemplate
takers AMI the boss class which they represent.
In New York the workers from the shops
and factories, from the unions, fraternal or
CARNATIONS and the Unemployed Councils will
rally to Union Square at twelve noon under
the banner of the Trade Union Unity League
and demonstrate their determination 90 build
the militant industrial unions and tho coun-
ellis Of the unemployed in the fight against
for unemployment insurance.