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New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
OFFICERS ELECTED
 BY VALIANT REVIEW
Two New Clubs Organized by WOInen'S Benefit Association

Valiant Review, No. Q. Womcn's Benefit association, has the honor of being the first outside organiza- ton to use the new lodge room in Eagles hall on Walnut street, and at a meeting, last night, officers were elected and installed, two na- tionally known members Of the or der made speeches and assisted Ill installation work, and two new branch orders of the Review were orbanizcd and officers elected. It was by far the most important and best attended meeting the lodge has held this year.
 The new officers, installed by Miss Hose Miller of Pawtucket, i. l., supreme regional director ot the Womens Benefit association, were: President Mrs, Nellie McCrann; vice president. Mrs. Mary Wagner; financial secretary, Mrs. Agnes Valentine; recording secretary, Mrs. Pauline Lay; treasurer, Mrs. Josepn- inc Bonney; Lady of Ceremonies, Miss Rose King: chaplain, Mrs. Mildred Egan; musician. Mrs Loret- ta Began; past president, Mrs Mary ,Juengst; sergeant, Mrs. Clementine Sheehan; officer of the day, Ms. Martha Guenther: outer hostess, Mrs. Nellie Maher; inner hostess Mrs. Anna Maher; captain or the guard. Mrs. Mary King; color bear CT, N. 1, Mrs. Mary Hart; color bear CT, No. ?. Miss Molly Hackett; press correspondent, Miss Rose King.
 New Clubs Formed
 The two clubs organized last night are the Pioneer club and the West Way club. The former club IS for members who have been mem bers of the Valiant Review for 70 years or more, and the latter for those who have been members less than 25 years. Members may gradu- ate from the West Way club into the Pioneer club upon reaching th'if 18th membership anniversary.
 The officers Of both clubs were elected and installed hy Mrs. kath- ryn Growdon of Port Huron, Michi- gan, supreme campaign director. The officers of the Pioneer club are: President, Mrs Mary Hart; vice president, Mrs. Pauline Lay: secre- tary and treasurer. Mrs. Clementine Sheehan; publicity representative Mrs. Mary Juengst.
 The officers of the West Way club
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
HOOVER SCHOOL FORGETS
 EDUCATIONAL LOTTERIES
Three Hs Considered Chief Need of Mountainecrs' Children
 By Teacher.

Washington. Dee. 2 LP - Brass work and basket weaving, as educa. ton, will have 10 go begging as :ai as the mountain school sponsored by President Hoover is concerned.
 why not have these children do handiwork like the soldiers at Wal ter Reed hospital?" guests from Washington. with ideas on enriching the curriculum, often ask.
 Miss Christine Vest, teacher. smiles in wise way and replies, Hand work isn what these boys and girls have been lacking. Their parents are ambitious for them to get book-lcarning.
 And the classes in reading, writ ing. and arithmetic continue.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
LODGE
 IS s YEARS OLD
0. D. H. s. Will Celebrate An-
 njVersary Next Tuesday Night

Eintracht Lodge, 0. D. H. S. of this city, will be 59 years old on Tuesday. and in celebration of this event, the lodge will have q short business meeting and a German supper in the banquet hall in Odd Follows Temple on Arch street.
 Eintracht lodge was born" in this city in December. 1871, with nearly l co members. the last surviv- ing charter member being Fred
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03

women. wives of the members, then voted to give s 10 this fund.
 After this, the members returned to their eating and dancing, and al midnight the party was reminder of the old homeland in Czecho- Slovakia.
 Officers elected last night are: President. II. F. Willametz; vice president, Charles Stepina; treasur- CT, Frank Spacek; secretary Charles Samek financial secretary, August Rosenthal; inside guard, Joseph Conrad.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
Man and Woman Start
 On Long Air Journey

Croydon. Eng, Dee. 5 IP'-MIss Winifred Spooner. 23. and Flying Officer l.. C. T. Edwards started at zoo q. m. today on q 10,300 miie air journey 10 CapetoWn in a mono plane. They are attempting Q break the nine day flight record 70 the South African city.
 The aviators intend to fly by day and by night, and alternately take turns at the controls,
 Miss Spooner has been flying for three years and has won places in several aerial contests. Early in 1880 she made q flight from South Africa to Croydon.
 FOR BEST EESl LIS USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
Strange Race ofMan-eating Sharks
 Found In Fresh Water at Equator

are: President, Mrs. Loretta Began; vice president, Mrs. Martha Guen- ther; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Josephine Bonney: publicity repre- sentative, Miss Rose King.
 Valiant Ncview will meet on the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month in Eagles hall. Meeting nights for the two new clubs will be determined between now and January l.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
Studies of Scientist at
 Straits Settlements May Result in Valuable Infor- nation On Kidney Dis
 eases in Humans.

Singapore, Strait Settlements. Dec F-A strange race of maneating sharks which live in fresh water has been found near here by Dr Hon,,r w. smith, New York University physiologist,
 This fish promises 10 throw Iig1,; on some obscure points abouf hn- man Kidneys and thereby give sci ehce another grip on disease preyen- tion.
 Dr. smith is professor of physi- oiosy at Bellevue Medical college of NeW 1ork University and is making ms expedition with the aid of the 1ohn simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
 Found Far From Sea
 At Teluk Anson, on the Peral, rlver, which flows into the Straits Of Malacca on the west coast of Ma laya.' he said. i've found rays sharks and saw fish in perfectly ireSh water 40 miles from the sea
 We set up laboratory under Il palm-leaf roof to keep off tbo for I'hc sun. and settled down to do 1o,le very exact scientific work.
 We were able to keep the fish until we wanted to use them in live cars Tn the river. The natives us, 'hese hVe-cars frequently to trans- port i've fsh to market, thus mak- ing up Tor the absence of ice.
 The Chinese know tbie tri,l- o, shlp large quantities Of young earn 10 Singapore by aerating the water "lth paddles. These are made 10 slap the water by a mechanical de- wee actlvated by coolies running on tread-mil in shifts day and night
 Few Large Fish
 we did not ourselves get any very large fish, but man-eatinc sharks weighing up to 100 pounds are said 10 come up the river some times. There are a few records of sharks and saw-fish, which are closely related, going up river 200 miles from the sea.
 This migration into fresh water occurs. for some unknown reason, only m the tropical rivers of the equatorial belt, the vast majority of this group of fishes being strictly marine.
 The immigration is the more in- toresting because some paleontolo- glsts think the group as a whole liv- ed exclusively in the fresh waters uf the Siberian continents Chat i4 about 500 million years ago) and moved into the ocean in the subsa- Quent Devonian period
 Our particular interest in thern is in the presence of large quantities of ureo in their blood, a substance which is formed by the combination of protein in the body, and which in all other animals is immediately excreted by the kidneys,
 Necessary For Fishes
 We are working on the theory that this uremia, as it is called when it occurs as a result of kidney dis ease in man, is in these fishes an adaptation which is necessary for them to live in salt water.
 Tt is hoped that q study of this may throw light upon obscure points regarding the function of the human kidney"
 From here Prof. Smith goes to Batavia for study of rare fishes and thence to Africa to take back 10 New York live lung-fsh, direct de- scendants of Devonian lung fish of 400 million years ago.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03
'G|VE US BEER,' IS
 B|NGHAM'S SLOGAN
Senator Centers Mind on 4 Per
 Cent Malt Beverages
By GEORGE II. MANNING

Washington Bureau. N. B. Herald)
 Washington, Dec. 3.-Prohibition and tariff continue to be the para mount issues" with Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. He has introduced bill proposing the legalizing of per cent beer and an. other measure that would afford American manufacturers 8 measure of protection from foreign competi- ton in furnishing supplies for the army and navy.
 While many Of the other members of congress are talking pro and con about legislation authorizing q na- tional referendum on the prohibition issue, Senator Bingham in his bill goes directly to the issue of chang ing the Nolstead act so as to author ize an alcohol content of 40 per cent in beverages in place of the "one half of one per cent restric- tion in the present law.
 It is Senator Binghams belief that this change is in harmony with pub lie sentiment. By enacting his meas urc congress could improve temper ance conditions quickly, it is argued, while the national referendum pro- cedure will cause great deal of discussion during which time con- ditions may be expected to become increasingly worse.
 Army and Navy Contracts
 The Bingham bill for further pro- tprfior 4 riran fu 1t11 in furnishing supplies for the army .anC navy is based on the experience of some of the Connecticut manu- facturers who have bid on proposals onl.' to find that the federal govern ment turned to foreign manufactur- CTS in placing the orders.
 Recently a manufacturer in Tor .ringtolts Conn.,, bid on a proposal to furnish ball bearings. A foreign competition got the business. This of course worked to the disadvan- tagc of both the American manufac- turer and the labor producing the bearings in Connecticut. Other things being equal, Senator Bing- ham believes that the army and navy as we'll as other government depart ments should favor American manu- facturers in the purchase of gov crnment supplies. This he proposes 10 require by enactment of the fol- lowing:
 That in the administration of the laws relating 10 the awarding of con- tracts for the purchase of supplies for the army or navy, the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy shall hereafter contract for or pur- chase only articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, except CD where the article is not ava.'al ,e in the United States, or @ where the article, al though grown, produced, or manu- factured in the United States, is of unsuitable quality"
 While Senator Bingham says that he will press for early action on both of these bills, he limits that passage of the one to legalizc 4 per cent al. cohol content in beverages is not likely to pass at this session of con- gress.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03

The lowest temperature at the north pole is about GO degrees be- low zero. At the south pole the temperature is frequently SO to 70 below. The south pole is generally colder than the north pole, due to it's very considerable elevation above sca level.
New Britain herald., 1930-12-03

sions. politics, business and the arts are guests of Lady Astor's manless dinner
 Vienna - Dr. Finder gives up at tempt to form government,
 Berlin - Police held in readiness to prevent disorders at reconvening of Reichstag.
 Havana - Machado confirms re- establishment of Crowder electoral code
 Sports
 Montreal Five minor leagues offer to reopen draft question.
 Chicago - Grove is American League pitching champion.
 Bloomington, Ind. - The old oaken bucket. Purdue and Indiana football trophy, has vanished. New England
 Boston - Thirty-six deer taken during the first day of open season in Massachusetts. Cambridge. Mass, Peter G. Kleine former Natick police chief and deputy tax collector for six towns, indicted for larceny. Boston - Ten sailors overcome fighting fire aboard the T.. & s. Og- lala at the Boston navy yard.
 Boston - George A. Blaney, 65. insect powder manufacturer, burned to death while performing chemical experiments.
 Otis, Mass. Perry Walker, farm hand, has both legs frozen aft CT being lost in the woods while deer hunting.
 Burlington, Vt. - Thermometer drops to zero.
 Rockland, Me. - John T. Berry, deputy marshal of police. known locally as the Millionaire Cop" ar rested with four other men for pro- hibition law violations. Waterville. Me Police search ing for unidentified young woman who got S2,000 in gems from Water vile jeWeler by switching diamonds. ABANDONS CABINE- PLANS
 Vienna, Dec. (UP)-Dr. Otto Ender has abandoned his attempts to form a cabinet, leaving Austria without a government. Ender was requested by President Wilhelm Miklas to form a ministry to sue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Los Angeles, Cal.

Los Angeles, Gal.
Dear Editor Daily WORKER
In the dress shops where / am
working we are about one hundred
workers, men, women. young boys
and girls, mostly American and
Mexican.
According to the California state
laws, the workday should be only
eight hours, but as soon as it gets
a little busy our boss forgets the
law, as "bosses are privileged to
defy law" and increases our work
ing day one hour, so that we work
nine hours a day. This also goes
for the under-aged workers.
The operators are piece-workers.
They average in season between SIS
and $25 per week. This includes
men who have families to support.
The youth workers earn between
So and $12 per week. working very
hard.
We are ordered. to come to the
factory before eight o'clock, so that
when the bell rings we must all be
be at the machines and not waste
any time. When someone happens
to come in a minute late, even a
piece-worker, oh, boy! Don't envy
him. Then the manager is right
there, forgets that time is so valu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Coast Needle Workers Driven Hard

able and keeps that worker a long
time, lecturing him and raising hell.
We piece-workers have no price
committee. We have no say as to
how much we should get for our
labor. Sometimes we work a whole
week without knowing how much we
earned, and if one dares to ask the
price for a garment before pay
day he is branded as a trouble
maker" and treated accordingly. To
get kicked out of the shop for such
a "crime" is no news.
We work very hard, because the
manager and the forelady are al
ways behind our backs, so that we
never have a chance to take deep
breath or raise our eyes from the
work without meeting the angry
looks of either of them, which seem
to say: Come on, work faster,
harder, we need production"
We have no sanitary conditions,
not enough lights and poor ventila-
ton. Though in Sunny Califor-
MIA" we have to use artificial lights,
because q loft Of that kind is a lot
cheaper, and the health of the
worker surely doesn't matter to the
boss. When worker of the shop
gets sick for a few days he loses
his job. -DRESSMAKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Diamond Towel Strike Is
Still G oing Strong

cut and for better working condi-
tions. The boss who runs the filthy
place, where his slaves toll locks up
the toilets during working hours and
forces men and women to use the
same toilet, and when a belt breaks
forces the workers to make repairs
without pay and employs young boys
to do the work that men can hardly
do. The women employed there
have been speeded up and told if
they would be blacklisted and as
most of their husbands get such
miserable wages they must work.
The National Textile Workers
Union is going to take active part
in this struggle and as the strikers
are electing committee to go to the
teamsters and truckers union and
other independent unions who will in
the future join in a sympathy strike,
to broaden the struggle and win the
strike.
The scabs who are daily taken
home by the police are going to be
affected by a wage cut and speed
up even they won't be able to stand,
and talk is going on among them to
join the strikers and fight the
! bosses. W. c. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily WORKER
The Diamond Towel Mill at
Mascher and Diamond SITS. is af-
fected by a strike. The owner, who
tells his workers he is a socialist,
is about as yellow a one as there
is and his slaves must toll longer
hours and receive less pay than
even hard-boiled capitalist gives
them.
The men on strike are members
of the Turkish Towel Weavers'
Union and number of them have
joined the National Textile Workers
Union, as they find that only by or
ganizing with fighting industrial
union can they hope to win. A num-
Der Of stool pigeons and scabs now
work and are trying to break the
strike. These scabs, such as Joe
Yarnall, Alberta Bucht, others, &C
cepted the unions benefits and even
went as far as to advocate strike and
they now act as stool pigeons in
forming the police and plains clothes
men who are protecting the boss and
scabs.
The strikers are militant and
fighting against 30 per cent wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
5000 STRIKE AGAINST
WAGE-CUTS IN BELGIUM

About 5000 metal workers are re-
ported to have gone out on strike
in Client, Belgium. The workers
struck against a wage-cut which the
bosses tried to pull off under the
pretext that the cost of living has
gone down. The workers, however,
point out that while the cost of food
may have gone down slightly, all
other living expenses have actually
increased very considerably through
out the country.
1t will be remembered that the
German bosses with the help of the
socialist" trade union bureaucrats
are still attempting to do the same
thing in Germany. There, over g.
100000 workers are affected. The
American capitalist press immed-
lately picked up this action of the
German bosses and Socialist" trade
union officials as an excuse for in
tersifying their wage cutting cam
paign here. No doubt they will also
try to use the event in Belgium.
This shows how closely bound up are
the interests of the workers all over
the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
Today in History of
the Workers

July l, 1S68-Extensive eight
hour strike in Pennsylvania. 1876
Michael Bakunin, European an
archist leader, died at Berne,
Switzerland. 18S5-SteeI rolling
mill workers in Cleveland, Ohio.
began So weeks strike against
wage-cut. 1905-Action commit
tee against war in Morocco set
up in France by Communist Party.
1922-FOur hundred thousand
railroad shopmen and some MAIN
tenance of way men struck
against wage-cuts by Railroad La
Dor Board. 1925-Sixty thousand
Belgian metal workers struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
FINNISH SOCIALISTS,
POLICE CONNIVE WITH
FASCIST TERRORISTS
Faseists Abduct Workers Lawyer and Police
Become Astigmatic
Social Fascists Give Tacit Approval of Anti
Communist Laws Now Pending

the legal proceedings against the ascists
having destroyed the printing works the prOearan
in Obo moonths the fats carried out They
Kidnapped the the of the workers
the SalO him off the
of police who interfere Only aferward did
the president of the whereabouts the
missing although knew full well what had
lonely
to civilization well he could
rapidly
thoies nothing
violence prominent workers.
leaders and officials the breaking meetings. devastating
workers rapidly increasing frequency without the
authorities moving a finger.
June meeting of five
Hesngo the completely
authorities
the united the
The resolution nails the responsibility the
leaders who with
fascist putsch The meeting also appeals the
the world
against fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01
SAILORS JAILED
IN PEST HOLES
IN PORTO RICO
Kept Incommunicado;
Get Bad Food

New DIRK.
Daily Worker Editorial,
We are in receipt of letter of a
Finnish speaking sailor imprisoned
in San Juan, Porto Rico, when leav-
ing the ship:
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.-So far
the laws of Porto Rico are concerned,
the sailors are supposed to have the
privilege to stay on land go days
after they have left a ship. In prac-
tice this is, however, not lived up to.
Quite the contrary. When a sailor
leaves his ship, he is Immediately
dragged in the Jail for an indefinite
period and held in the miserable, fill
thy dungeons month upon month. Of
course the treatment is most in
human. Without any reason what
soever thus imprisoned sailors are
submitted to smuggling. And the
food! Oh boy! Rice and peaches
and peaches and rice-twice day!
In this intolerabIe filth the pris-
oners are over covered with all pos
sible small domestic animals, one
may think of, and fever is the every
dav guest in these dungeons.
Here are all possible nationalities
represented. Here are French, Eng
fish, German, Scandinavian, Ameri-
can sailors. Some ones have spent
here already over six months, others
less and it seems to be almost i'm
possible to make the respective con-
sulates to act in behalf of sailors
thrown in this hell The most diff
ficult task is to get even a slip of
paper to become in position to in
form anybody in the outside world
about ones whereabout. And when
one insists upon ones right to appeal
to the representatives of respective
states, one may be sure of getting
a most brutal licking from the beasts
called the guards.
1t would be a high time for the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
and for other labor organiza-
tons to organize a protest movement
against these insults and the en-
slavement of the sailors and to in
sist the release of us. And further
more it is necessary to spread the
word amongst sailors about this
manhandling so that sailors know
to stay away from here.
IMPRISONED SAILOR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-01

this year.
"The production Of agriculture,
including timber and fisheries, IS
row IA PEI c.nt above pre- war fig
ures. Industrial prod lction is s."
per cent above pre-war level.
Freight transport on railroads
is SO per cent Dove the pre-war
total, and railroads have increased
(new lines) $4,000 kilometers, or
36.7 per cent.
"Cotton production is PIT per
cent, as compared with the pre-war
total; flax, 125 per cent; sugar
beets, 1869 per cent; vegetable oils,
260 per cent.
"The market surplus of grain
from state farms this year is 2,000,-
900 tons; from collective farms,
100000 tons; from individual
farms, about 100000 tons---from
100000 to 100000 tons will be
available for export.
"There are now 11,500,000 organ
lied workers in the Soviet trade
unions.
"Real wages have RISEN 81 per
cent above pre-war Level.
"The death rate mas fallen 3S per
cent, as coni AIRED with the pre~war
rate, and the child death rate has
fallen 42.5 per cent. 1llterctes now
compose 80 Ter cent of the popu-
lation, as compared with 62.6 pei
cent before the war"
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today it is $4,000, 900. Literacy is
steadily increasing.
The problem of industrial admin
istrative cadres requires special at
tention. Connections of the Cen
trail Committee with provinces have
been improved. The social COM
position of the Party apparatus is
improved. Forty-three per cent of
the district secretaries are prole-
tartan and 50 per cent old guard
Bolshevists.
The Party membership is 1852
000 At the Fourteenth Congress,
rs per cent of the membership were
workers; at the Fifteenth Congress,
40 per cent; at the Sixteenth (pres-
ent) Congress, 48 per cent. Inner
Party democracy is tremendously
increased and the theological level
has been raised.