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New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
DRY LAWS BLAMED
 FOR COURT CLOG
Wet Group Also Plays Cost Of
 Enforcement

Washington, Doc. -a lP-Cpon in, dry laws rhe association against the prohibition amendment today byaped the blame for all federal court congestion and for che "netro increase in the number of federal prisoners since I@-0,
 A statistical pampblr released uE The association estimated th, num- 0er Of prohibition prisoners now in federal. state and county p,lJI Iu- s'i-uuous ar 5n.uaQ. Ii cOutenG"d prison and penlt.utiary statistics did not -.y. ufrasurc of the crime rrobl,m tor "onIy small propor- ion Of those convicted are @tVn felony sentences"
 It termed "a0 example of ruiS0n- formation" an assertion made last year by pr~sidcu Hoover that oalN small proportion O. felony oa~' could bc attributed 10 ta, eighteenth amendment for # add.5 ">> pr c~u- Of rha prohibition v5o,ators s.or~nrgl ru federal courts @r" nas- QeIDeanalts and not taIou-."
 Catalog~ Gases
 "PromUuon cases now aetoum for rwo-inirds O. all criminal cases in tha federal courts" said the asso- ciauou. aiding inc total last yeW vas 56.455. The increase n civil ra,es with inc United States pari- opurng. since 1920 was se- a, @47 DOT ccut but excluding prohibition actions the gain was counted as only IT per eenr.
 "From ninety Q nilyry-.iyn p.r cent ot all the criminal convictions secured In prohibition cases are on ul,as Of 1utlry" saId the association "trom tight 10 Ion thousand pending prohibition cases a year have been .aoI. uro-s-d." vel n spite ot this wnoIesaIe weediug out ot inactive eases. pending cas,- still nump~r between 15,uut and -In".. This brief summary indicates tua' thc 1 vlofe process Is utus and uoscn-'
 Estimates Cost
 The pauphlcr presented an c-'i- mate of the cost Of "adc4uat" pro- nln.uon eufoream.nt' rora.jna $luoaDo.a0o year nith abolition o' jury trials in all dry law cts.- 1nd S35nte4pou with jury hearing.
 Apart from war ume eases based ou the espionage act and 7e, Iecrfye draft as well as prohImtion' if said. the increase in norma criminal cases from 11-a-ig-' H shown 10 have been only B. p"r ccnr-lcss than half fne rate Of u crease m the population of th' Limited States"
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
Flashes of Life

By the Associated Press
 New York-''Prcpare now for prosperity is the slogan announced for national thrift week, January 17-23 by Adolph Lewisohn, chair
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26
Let them who are disgracing the party get out of it.
 Borah Amazed


 Borah expressed amazement at the statement of Representative Wood, republican, Indiana, endors ing Lucas attack on Norris and de nouncing him as a demagogue.
 T suppose that applies to the whole group of progressives," Borah said. but I would not want to claim the honor. I think it was rather bad thigh to announce it on the door steps of the White House.
 Norris countered sharply with challenge Of MT. Hoover's republi cauism and a direct charge that the president was responsible for Lu- cas- action.
 The fact that Wood makes this outburst just after talking to the president" said Norris, lis another indication that AIr. Hoover himself is willing 10 lend his name to the conspirators in their disrcputa bie methods of party control.
 The republican party belongs 10 tho rank and file and Mr. Wood and Afr. Lucas, and even though backed by AIr Hoover, do not con- stitute the republican party.
 Raps Hoover
 T was fighting for the purihca- ton of the republican party when Mir. Hoover was a resident and voter of Great Britain. Opposition to me comes entirely because l have refused 10 follow the president when I thought him wrong. His op- 1 position 10 me is not because he 1 thinks l am not good republican that IS subterfugc. It is because on farm relief and conservation Of ] natural resources l have not agreed with him"
 Lucas contributed his hird state ment in three days to the dispute He insisted that his contribution ] 10 the Nebraska campaign against i Norris was personal and reiterated it amounted only 10 $S5O. "I shall demand" Lucas added . "of the Nyc committee that a simi- ! lar inspection De mddt or jnt DOORS i of Inc democratic national commit tee and the democratic senatoria committee. Mr. John J. Raskob ans the Association Against the Prohi' riuon Amendment" He offered th, committee free access to republican national committee books. The Association Against he Pro hibuion Amendment .epljod i'm modiatcly that in all senatorial ,am paiens it spent $172S&.CG and il congressional districts $11,oS0.17.
 The Nye committcc,' tho state ! mont Of President Henry M. Curral said. "already has examined us an, all this information IS in is pos session"
New Britain herald., 1930-12-26

Some germs will live in ice or intense cold. Sufficient heat alone will destroy germs of all kinds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
GOVERNMENT ADMITS
MORE J0BLESS IN SEPT.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 49,
Thirty out of 81 manufacturing in
dustries reported decreases in en-
ployment for September as COM
pared with August according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. All
manufacturing Industries combined
showed a dro poi CO per cent in
employment and gain of O.4 per
cent in payrolls, indicating that
longer hours re being worked.
Employment gains were registered
confectionery, cotton goods, machine
tools, fertilizer, women's clothing
and other lines. Losses were re-
corded in sawmills, iron and steel,
silk, automobiles, cement, rubber
tires, brick and petroleum refining.
Employment gains came from the
eastern scrboard only.
These, it must be understood, are
figures Of the Hoover administra-
ton, made as favorable as possible.
The situation is admittedly this bad
and actually much worse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
NESSIN, JOBLESS LEADER, May DIE IN BELLEVUE WARD
$1,000 Unemployed Fight for Bea Are Ridden Tamany Cossaks
"A Public Hearing"

TAMANY gafters determined steal millions of dollars of city
billion dollar city budget but somewhat
by city charter provisions forced hold public hear
Estimate before they could jam this gaters
through These Hearings to been
yesterday Wednesday, Supposedly New York citizens
entitled proposals the budget at that time
Admittedly provided increases of s1oo0oO0Oo
expenditures Actually the increases will reach $3OooOOo
the tremendous increases for all depart
provided for the relief of the 100000 jobes
Many thousands of these workers
homeless They hungry and starving Suicides are daily
hold
City, the Socialists nothing
shows only interested in lining
their pockets while dutuly following the
srucons of their capitalist masters
The Unemployed York City, representing the in
unemployed workers. called the obes
the City Hall and their the budget
public they called them attend the
public hearings They called them before the Board OF
ruthless asng of whole series
budget of funds of which
Tammany unemployment relief fund from
would minimum of $25
the establishment of such fund they demanded free
light food and free clothing for all
poyedw their families.
Answering this call $4,000 bess workers yesterday the
Hall against the gafter budget and demand bread
They for public hearing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
Tammany Cops Supply Machine Guns
to Gangsters and Aid Them in Hod,4bs

pear, for without the collision of
cops criminal activity is almost i'm
possible.
Police Are Watchdogs of Capitalism
The first. function of the police
under capitalism is to protect the
private property" of exploiters
from workers who rightly feel that
this private property" has been
stolen from them. And so long as
the police guard the plumber of cap
italists, the latter will permit them
to engage in any activities that do
not interfere with their primary
"duty," that is, acting as the watch
dogs of capitalism.
AS such, the police do their job
we'll. When the home of a Morgan
or a Rockefeller is burglarized the
jewels or whatnot are almost in
variably returned within 4S hours,
at police request. There isn't a
capable gangster or thief in New
York who isn't we'll known to every
detective on the force and the sweet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
Norman Thomas, "Socialist"
Sees Singing, and Smiles!

ses can hope to get hearing from
the barbarian capitalist politicians
of Tammany Hall.
But here, in the very chambers of
tie city government, when four
workers, surrounded by scores and
hundreds of Tammany cops, detec-
tive and politicians, were being brut-
ally dubbed and dragged downstairs
possibly to be murdered by the
bloodthirsty horde of frenzied saw
ages-Thomas, the Socialist, sat
unprotesting and demonstrated his
satisfaction by smiling.
Let the workers remember this!
And let them note that this dema-
cog and scoundrel Thomas and his
socialist" kind, only tn week before
and again through the so-called
civil Liberties Union, declared
that the union, though it had lost
no money on the Gastonia defend
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Jobless Suicide Total Groeus
With Six Deaths in One Day

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-An over;
allied figure hurting yesterday
afternoon from the Manhattan
BRYCE into the East River added an
other attempted suicide to the long
number of working-class victims of
the bosses policy of throwing eight
million workers on the streets to
starve.
The latest victim of unemploy-
ment trying the suicide route is
Timothy Donavan, As year old
laborer. Groaning but still con-
scious, he was hauled from the
water by deckhands on tug which
happened to be near enough to eff
feet rescue.
Donavan told his rescuers he had
been out of work for several months,
and had been evicted from his home,
had no money and was starving, so
he tried suicide.
Donavan's attempt to kill himself
followed two successful leaps from
Manhattan office buildings yester-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
g Keep Moving"

TAMMANY cossack however, been appointed the mayors
committee The $4,000 workers who to the Board
Estimates public hearing told by these uniformed thugs
movng The pubc hearings only intended
of the Socialist partyMr Nor
Mr. John Haynes Holmes obless workers. without
homes apparently of the public
designated Tammany. told keep moving And
warning these bes workers pushed
dubbed herded by mounted
workers considered themselves of the cassehe
working make New York Cty public They
public And whether liked
Work
City Hall Square the City Hall
while coward Tanmany officials rushed the
challenge their daily stealing of city
Office buildings surrounding the housing brokers and
suspended While the refused to
moving They had until their committee
of Estimates their demands For two
they dubbed and hrdd but worker left the
the contrary the constantly the workers booed the
their demands
Engdah, candidate for lieutenant
coming the City Hail. brushed aside
the bess workers rushed surround him hear his report
Police called Tammany reception committee
enlarged Mounted thugs charged the crowds ob workers
Workers driven through plate glass windows Men, and
children dubbed blackaked and rampd by the horses
fighting tooth nail Engdah finally torn
from grasp superior forces He
with ncitng riot" because he led large
ton the pubc" (15 worke) public
hearings "nvd refused 'eep
ing request of a murderou of Tammany thugs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

there to greet and to listen to those
of the candidates who will on that
day be released from their term of
Imprisonment for leading the March
6 unemployment demonstration of
10000 workers. The candidates re-
leased Oct. 81 are William 2. Foster
and Israel Amter. Foster is Com
munist candidate for governor of
New York state. Amter is Commu-
mist candidate for congress from the
23rd district, Bronx.
The Red Rally and the Commu-
mist election campaign of which it
is a part carries on the fight of the
city hall demonstrators yesterday,
as that demonstration carried on
the fight of the March 6 thousans.
The Rally will also greet Robert
Minor, another of the delegation,
and candidate fo rcongress, who is
confined in a hospital now as a re-
suit of mistreatment in Tammany
prisons. 1t will demand the release
of Harry Raymond, still another
member of the delegation, who is
sentenced to prison for four months
more. 1t will demand the release of
| the workers and jobless jailed in
yesterdays demonstration.
A delegation of 27 workers to
meet Foster and Amter next Tues
day at the ferry which will bring
them from Harris Island Peniten-
tiary, has been elected by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, at a meeting of the General
Council. The needle workers repre-
sentatives will meet the candidates
with the banner of the Industrial
Union and with signs voicing the
demands of the unemployed and
employed workers in the needle
trades.
Other organizations must follow
the example of the needle workers
union which has also decided to
mobilize the workers in the shops to
march in a body to Madison Square
arden Tuesday night, after work.
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the N Y. Telegram early edition. Thursday afternoon
TAFE Conduct But only "to appear And when these workers
representing the 100000 bes of New York City, appeared they
led into trap to be beaten-probably to death!
They led into prepared by the chief of Tammany
grafters, Walker signal from him they by
bowling detectives different
ing mob of the darkest distri of the SOUTH
of Engdah separated
the remaining ourEngdah dragged off under at Walkers
order and Nesn being sugged before Walkers and by his orders
remaining workers the the
member of the Communist Party leaped Tamnany
savages!
them!" "Let them" "Gve EN- works"-such
bloohy yels literally
Tammany politicians whose commander Mayor Walker had
signal for slaughter.
slugged the
three hours later the victims have yet
been found as this is written
The Tiger, mauing
awing the bodies of the workers who given safe conduct
SATISFIED business gasped Many
heard New York has anything like it. Some
be done for these unemployed workers. But the
pyed workers there learned that the talk of the capitalists hrengs
liberty" equality public hearings "afe conduct etc.
are the phrases which their murderous
the already suffering workers These workers have learned
Of the republicans democrats and socialists shock
BOSSES They have also learned that the Communist Party
which fights for their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

>day, and today woman leaped to
death from the roof of a story
tenement house in the Bronx.
Three other suicides were also re-
ported today, Veronica Kocharigan,
at 100 Attorney ST., Manhattan,
John A. Tyson, of 304 West 1O2nd
ST.; Rose Barnett, of 1929 Bryant
Ave, Bronx; Anna Schmidt, of 81
Schaeffer St., Brooklyn.
Thus the harvest of jobless sui
cides grows by leaps and bounds
while the bosses and their politician
tools and the ALL. traitors at
tempt to minimize the crisis and
oppose the Communist demand for
social insurance of S25 a week to
every unemployed worker.
Workers! Fight the bosses star
walton policy! Support the Com
munist demand for social insurance.
Make November a day of demon
stration against the bosses and their
vicious starvation system. Vote
Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
Carry On the Jobless' Fight!
Be at The Garden Oct. Fl
Delegation of Needle Workers Elected to Meet
Released Jobless Leaders at the Ferry

NEW YORK,-Tammany's ans
wer to the starving jobless workers
demands for work or wages was
given yesterday through policemen's
blackjacks which split the scalps of
the hungry, and the trampling
rooves of police horses on their
bodies.
"Vote Communist" against this
tyranny, this callous determination
to starve the 100000 out of work
in New York! Gather in masses at
the Red Rally, Oct. 81, in Madison
Square Garden, right after work, to
ratify the list of Communist candi-
dates. Masses of workers will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

NEW YORK, Oct. II. - Again
the social fascist socialist" party
has shown lis complete unity with
the savagt Tammany police, and in
the person of the Reverend Norman
Thomas.
Thomas, the hypocritical scoun-
drel, who gables about "the rights
of the workers., sat silent, and even
smiled with pleasure, while the Tam
many police at the signal of the
unspeakable Mayor Walker, savage
ly blackjacked the Unemployed Del
egation as they stood right in the
Board of Estimates meeting.
On Wednesday evening, these So
cial fascists using the name of the
Civil Liberties Union, in which Tho
mas and his ilk are the controlling
group, issued call to the Tammany
police to permit "peaceable as
semblage" of the unemployed, in
ferring thus that the starving mas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

inexperienced. But the worship of
industrial efficiency has apparently
had it's effect, for today cops actu-
ally engage in most of the crimes
that are made possible by capital
ism-for almost all criminal activ-
ity can be defined as a disease that
flourishes only in capitalist coun-
tries.
1t was not until Grover Whalen
was appointed police commissioner
that police criminality became wide
spread. All of Whalen's working
hours were spent in red-baiting,
forging documents, working for
Observation-Disclosures had staff of
Wanamaker employees in his office
in police headquarters-and plan
ming new uniforms for the police
force, and while he was grating on
a big scale, the cops were having a
glorious, grating time, playing the
same game on every hand.
Among the criminal activities
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ness that hardboiled cops display to
leading gunner is wonder to be-
hold.
Cops have always demanded some
of the proceeds of crime. Less than
fifteen years ago there were ap-
proximately 10000 prostitutes in
New York, according to the most
reliable estimates. These, along
with gambling dens and saloons,
comprised the largest part of the
income of police. There were very
few police captains who didn't own
a part Of at least one gambli ~
house, and Murphy, who was Ta.1e
many's leader for almost 20 years,
owned the most luxurious house of
prostitution in the city.
Cops New In Crime Business.
Until recently, however, the po-
lice have rarely entered crime as
an organized business. Heretofore
they have been content to levy tri-
butte from the actual criminal and
direct him occasionally when he was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
MILITANT CROWD
REFUSES TO QUIT
JOBLESS PROTEST
Many Hurt Defending
Him While Speaking

NEW YORK.-Fifteen thousand
workers damned in front of the city
hall yesterday and demonstrated for
unemployment relief. They cheered
nightly as their delegation went up
the steps to go into the board of
estimates building. With sea of
placards, over them bearing slogans,
Work or Wages" 1925 a week for
each man out of a job" "Vote Com
munist," Support the Workers I'm
employed Insurance Bill" Down
with Police Brutality" "All war
funds to the jobless," they shouted
and applauded for minutes. Some
ten thousand more sympathetic
spectators packed the sidewalks of
Mail ST., Broadway and Parkw ay,
looking on.
Wouldn't Leave.
In spite of every effort of police,
with increasing brutality, to dis
perse them, thousands stuck. They
yielded to police pressure and
marched, but they did not leave.
They were there to pick up Louis
Engdahl, leader of the delegation,
from the Unemployed Councils,
when he was thrown out of city sail
at Mayor Walkers orders. Engdahl
was borne on mems shoulders to
Broadway, and in front of the Wool
worth building he bega to speak.
He got only as far as saying,
Mayor Walker tolh US he had no
time for the unemployed ;" when
a charge by foot and mounted police
crashed into the crowd.
The workers enthusiasm and de-
termination were marvellous. They
faced the flying hoofs, and stood
their ground until the heavy horses
bodies actually smashed dozens of
them right through the plate glass
windows of the Woolworth building.
When Engdahl was finally ar
rested, they tried to rescue him.
They refused to dispense and re-
NAMED singing and denouncing
police brutality while Engdahl and
two women workers who had been
beaten up at the same time he was
arrested were taken over to the post
office building corridor and sur
rounded by ten mounted police. At
last accounts Engdhal was still
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
WALKER ORDERS NESSIN
SLUGGED; ENGDAHL, RED
CANDIDATE, IS JAILED
Hundreds OF Cots Vlciously
Beat 10bIess Comm. IN City Hall
Walker Gives Signal for Slaughter; Workers
Taken to Basement and Beaten Some More

NEW YORK.-Riled because of
the exposure that he represented
the Tammany grating politicians,
who were spending hundreds Of mil
lions out of which they took millions
in graft, and refusing relief to the
unemployed, the despicable Mayor
Walker yesterday instructed hun
dreds of his detectives in the as
sembly hall in City Hall to merci-
lessly beat up those delegates of the
unemployed council who had not
previously been thrown out of the
hall.
Sam Nesin, secretary Of the I'M
employed council was speaking, de-
handing that 100000 which was
to be added to the police budget be
turned over for the immediate relief
for the unemployed.
Walker didn't want to hear any,
thing from a representative of the
unemployed council. Nesin said he
would rather represent the unem-
ployed workers than the grating
Tammany politicians, whom Walker
and his gang represented. Nesin
said that the Tammany judges who
pay $4,000 and up for their jobs
evict thousands of unemployed
workers.
When Nesin exposed Walker as
a grating Tammany politician,
Walker slammed his gavel down and
jumped up. He hurled epithets at
Nesin. "You dirty red" he said,
Sin about two minutes III jump
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

down there and smash you in the
face"
This was a signal for the hun
dreds of cops, plain clothes and uni
formed, to jump at TIE other men,
bers of the jobless council who were
sitting in the rear of the hall ap-
plauding Nesin's remarks. They
were: Maud White, Negro unem-
ployed needle worker; Lester Allen,
a Spanish-American war veteran,
and unemployed metal worker, Rob-
ert Lealess, unemployed food work
er, and Milton Stone, jobless postal
clerk.
They were set upon by nearly the
whole roomfull of dicks and politi-
clans who did not like to hear the
truth about themselves. Nesin was
brutally slugged and dragged out of
the hall.
Maud White and Milton Stone,
were kicked and beaten and then
thrown out of the City Hall. Alien
and Lealess were set upon by doz-
ems of other cops on the main floor
of the City Hall. Windows crashed.
The workers were thrown to the
ground and stamped on.
All the cops in the vicinity ran
to the scene, crying Let me get
my hands on him." "Slug the
bastard" Kill them Get the
niger girl" Blood was spattered
on the floor of the city hall in
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