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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-28
RAILROADS PLAN TO
 OPERATE AIRLINE
(By NEA Servicc)


 Boston.--The Boston and Maine and the Maine Central railroads plan the joint operation of new airline to take tourists into the vacation spots of Maine.
 Present plans call for operation of the line into such cities as Port land, Bar Harbor, Bangor and RockIand. The planes will carry freight and passengers.
 Schedules of the proposed line call for four trips day, with pos- sibly an hourly service if patron age warrants, with 12 and 10 pas senger planes being used. It Is reported that two other railroad companies are contem- plating the operation of two sepa- rate airlines from Boston to New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-28
COSTLY BANANA PEEL.

Pittsburg Someone threw a dqamage suit of $100,000. Glenn F. McBurney, in suit against the company, alleges that he stepped on the peeling and fell, striking his head on a marble floor and suffering concussion of the brain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-28

employment, which automatically went out of existence on July l. were taken over by the new com mission which will be known as the Connecticut Unemployment commission.
 The commission was created by the general assembly of 1881 Ito investigate unemployment in order to discover means of alieviating the same" and to report its findings and recommendations to the governor, "prior to the convening of the gen. eral assembly at it's January session fin 1882" The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars was appropriated to cover expenses.
 The old Connecticut state emer- gency committee on employment, for which then thousand dollars was appropriated in January 1881 to finance operations to July l. 1881, automatically went out of ex- istence on that date. Expenses of that committee only absorbed sixty per cent of the appropriation as shown by the following list of ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-28
CTUDEBAKER Free o Wheeling IS free m more

CTUDEBAKER Free o Wheeling IS free m more sensesthan one.
 l6gure it averages about 20 miles FREE to every 100. In other words. you pay for 80 and the other 20 are on Stude- bdke,.
 You can Free Wheel more than a fifth d thewaywhe1ever you go. and when you Free Wheel you save gasoline. oil. andwear on your motor. That's why l call # FREE.
 The1e's no earthly excuse nowfor anybody to buy a Car without tms great fun-and- ecunomyfeatme e-nowthatyou can get a real Free Wheeling Studebaker at $845.
 This Is the lowest priced Sn with Free Wheeling as stand- ard equipment - engineered from up to tall to give you the finest. fullest benefits of Free Wheeimgnitsmostpefectfom.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03

FOR SAL E-One mare; weight
about 1900; six years old; will take
young cattle or hogs in exchange. One
proven Jersey bull, coming five years
old. One young bull eligible for reg
lister; six months old. Phone 0193 etc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03

FOR SALE-cheap, good range,
two-burner Oil stove, Apiece set of
furniture, one oak table and one bed
springs. Jesse Shoots. 2tc
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03

START THE BOYS in profitable
business. See largest modern rabbitry
in Central Washington; over thou
sand priced $1.00 to $500. One buck
given free with does. Whitwer's
Fur Ranch, Hanford. 3tc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-03
Want Ads

HOLLYWOOD SEEDS for the pick
ing. Mrs. F.. E. Taylor, Sunnybank
Ranch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
MARYLAND, Ny Maryland

reader tells us that he has discovered why
the Maryland legislature and governor we're
"too busy to receive the Unemployed Delega-
ton and Hunger Marchers, so busy that they
had the police beat up about twenty and throw
them in Jail to keep from being disturbed in
their important deliberations. He says:
THE other day while going over the files
of the Washington Star of last March, 1 came
upon news item from Annapolis, dated March
ID, which reads as follows:
"Tabby the Cat occupied the attention Of
the Maryland House of Delegates yesterday,
and it began TO appear that stealing cat
would become crime. The Bill, sponsored
by the Maryland Cat Club, to make cats of
equal value with dogs as legal property in the
eyes of the law, was advanced to the third
reading file. The Bill, introduced by T. War
rem Rice, OF. the Sixth Baltimore District, would
punish theft of a cat by Imprisonment up to
three months"
Clearly legislators occupied with such pressing
matters of state have no time for the unemployed
tens Of thousands of whom throughout Mary
land may it is true, be tempted to steal a cat
and fry it for supper AS for us we are tempted
to parody:
For life or death. for woe or veal,
Thy peerless chivalry reveal,
And pass a law. a cat to steal
Gets ninety days, in Maryland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
NEGRO WORKERS! RALLY TO
SAVE "DAILY WORKER"

err Of the Liberation Movement Of the Negro
peopleo.
This is not an accident. The Daily Worker
speaks for the Communist Party The Com
munist Party is the only leader of the struggles
of the working class of America, Negro and
white, against ruling class terror and against the
starvation system of the bosses. 1t is the only
leader of the struggle of the inhumanly OPP
pressed Negro and white farmers of America.
The major part of the Negro press in the hands
of the Negro capitalists has deserted the hber-
alton struggles of the Negro masses, Their in
terestS are in common with the interests of the
Negro landlords, the big Negro preachers, the
Negro insurance men and bankers. Their pro-
fits come from the exploitation of the masses
as does the profits of the white ruling class.
The Daily Worker is leading the struggle OF
the Negro masses against these nisleaders the
Negro exploiters of the Masses these tools OF
the ruling class of America.
Can We Afford to Lose Daily?
Can the Negro masses afford to lose this
weapon in their struggle against the hell OF
Segregation jim croWism and ruling class mob
terror? Can the nine Scottsboro boys afford to
lose this weapon Of defense? Not without grave
danger to their lives. Yet the Daily Worker is
in a terrible situation. Its finances are so low
any minute may see it suspend publication.
Action at once is necessary! Only the workers
can save their paper! Every cent counts Negro
workers rally to the support of your paper. Rally
to the support of the press that is uniting the
Negro and white workers of America to over
throw the system of boss oppression, starvation
iim-crowism, of lynching and mob terror ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04

sponded to the call of the Communist Party
to come out on the streets in Seattle. Although
about three thousand workers we're in the nam
body of the demonstration, the police prevented
many thousands of workers who Jarnmed the
street corners from joining the main body OF
the demonstration.
This year the IW.W. did not even dare 10
come out, knowing that they would face the
wrath Of an Infatuated working class VINO nave
experienced the treachery committed by the l.
w. W. takers International Labor Day this year
found the / w. W. for the first time off the
streets Of Seattle and nowhere in sight OF the
thousands OF workers who came out ON the
streets.
OF what significance is May Day TO the Won-
bles when all the fascists we're celebrating
May First as patriotic holiday on which the
American child is hypocrtically glorified? The
business mems Mothers Day" is OF greater sig
nificance to the respectable IWW takers.
The absence OF the INV on the streets OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
Railroad Workers, Organize and
Strike Against Wage Cuts!

out reduction in pay and for unemployment IN
surance. 1t is also developing programs OF local
demands in the various railroad shops round
houses, railroad systems, etc.
These general and local demands are sup
ported by an intense campaign of organiza-
ton. Joint grievance committees, to include
organized and unorganized, to be set up
in the various shops, yards, etc. Local leagues
are being organized to include all NRIL sup
porters Minority groups are being built inside
the old unions. Unemployed Councils are being
established in various railroad centers All
these organized bodies, together with Sympa-
thetic local unions, are linked up locally into
Railroad Workers United Front Committees OF
Action.
The NRL has called national railroad con-
ference to take place in Chicago early in August.
Preliminary to this, local conferences will be
held in all possible railroad centers. The task
of the local conferences will be to arouse the
workers against the impending wage cut sell
out and to unite them under the leadership of
the NRIL. The purpose of the national rail-
road conference will be to give national express
sion to the entire movement.
The railroad workers are in fighting mood.
Conditions-unemploym speed-up, etc.-are
intolerable and always growing worse. The old
union policies are bankrupt and the rank and
file have largely lost faith in the union leaders.
This fresh attack by the companies, supported
as it is by the labor takers, is last straw.
Given proper leadership by us, it will provide
the occasion for great mass struggle against
the companies and the reactionary trade union
bureaucracy.
The TUUL must throw every available force
into the struggle The great task now is to
build local organization-local leagues, minority
groups grievance committees, united front COM
mittees of action. The holding of successful
local conferences is tremendously important.
The national conference, built upon delegates
from the local conferences, must represent a
real mobilization of the workers. 1t must be
able to command the attention and support of
great masses of railroad workers and unite
them for the coming struggle.
This situation is a real test of the TUULs
ability to organize and lead the workers. Let
us not be found wanting. Let every local TUUL
group and supporter take up with all earnest
ness the task of organizing the railroad work.
ers for struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04

Seattle this May Day was the final step in the
descent of the IWW into the cespool Of fas-
cism And rightly SO. After all, May First is
the workers holiday and not the fascist holi-
day. The IWW is supposed to stand for In
dustrial Workers Of the World, but this May
Day proved finally that they are not concerned
about the workers of the world nor are they
the Industrial Workers Of Seattle nor even
the Industrial Workers of Skidroad, for there
was not trace of the Wobblies as an organ
ization on the streets of Seattle on May First.
Whatever rank and file member still had any
illusions about the IWW being workers or
ganizaton, who came out to celebrate with the
IWW could not find it on the Skdroad and
showed his solidarity with the workers by join
ing with the real organization of the workers,
and that was the demonstration led by the
Communist Party t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
BY WILLIAM L. PATTERSON
Member Executive Committee, League Of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights


gle for Negro Rights
ONE Of the most vicious attacks upon the lives
of Negro peoples in America is the attempt
Of the ruling class of the South to legally lynch
nine Negro boys in Scottsboro, Alabama. The
long history of mob violence and lynchings
Knows no page bIacker than this. Yet the cap
italist press of America even in the largest cities
is silent The preparations for this mass muir
der of Negro boys are being concealed by the
press of the class that is preparing the execu-
ton. One cannot forget that this same white
ruling class press has on occasions printed news
of a lynching before it took place, even naming
the time and place.
But from the moment news of the savage
murder trial of these innocent Negro boys be-
came known, the Daily Worker, organ of the
Communist Party of the U.S.A, has done more
than follow this case. 1t sent out the first
appeal for United Front of Negro churches,
lodges and clubs with white mass organizations
for the defense of these innocent boys.
Daily" Is Champion OF Negro Masses
Not one day since the arrest of these boys
in March has the Daily Worker been without
its story of the trial its call for mass defense,
its suggestion as to the best means of prepar-
ing for a long and relentless struggle for the
lives of these boys It has analysed the causes
of the Scottshoro frame-up and the new wave
of lynch terror against the Negro people, it has
relentlessly exposed the Negro reformists and
tools Of the ruling class of America, it has de-
finitely described their role. In a word, it has
come forward openly and fearlessly as the lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04

An Associated Press dispatch last Friday
opened up as follows;
WASHINGTON, May GAS official Wash
ington views il. downward adjustment Of
rents appears necessary. There is generally n
surplus of space in all dwellings with the
single exception of family houses"
OF course you shouldn't wait for official
Washington" to do anything about it, Reduced
rents are necessary" but they never viii be
reduced unless tenants get together in Tenants
Leagues and refuse to pay any rent at all until
rents are cut You can use official Washing
ton" authority, however, TO back UP your de-
u1ands. ----- -" --~- - -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
The IWW in the Camp of Social
FasciSm
BY SYDNEY BLOOMFIELD.

ALTHOUGH Sam Gompers the arch enemy
n of the workers, who is now rotting in his
grave between the graves of Andrew Carnegie
and william Rockefeller started his career as
radical" it was at the most trying moment
when the Haymarket martyrs needed the help
of the labor movement most that Gompers an
nounced that he would have nothing to do with
these working class leaders who we're facing
the gallows.
Gompers' role as labor lieutenant Of capital"
started very early in the history Of the labor
movement in this country
The IWW has reached the point at which
Samie Goihpers left off when he died with the
curse of the working class on the lips OF every
militant working man and woman. Every mill
tant worker today curses the IW.W. which is
today an open fascist instrument Of the CAPT
talist class only it is a very weak. one.
On May Day, $780, the I.W.W had their soap
box out on the Skidroad in Seattle. In re-
Spouse to the call Of the Communist Party
thousands Of workers came to the May Day
demonstration, which was twice broken up by
the police who herded the workers over to the
IW.W. soap box where the takers were con-
demning the May Day demonstration. This same
faker who spoke for the I.W.W. stepped off
the platform and shook hands with the cops,
congratulating them on their good" work done
Last May Day the Wobblies told the workers
not to go TO the Communist meeting, where
they would get their heads dubbed but to
come TO their meeting because they would be
more safe. This is an example OF the extent
TO which the wobblies have degenerated.
~ This year about ten THOUSAND workers rs-
sH1<JX
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04
o, Shaw!

From London &se are told that there is an up
roar in Catholic church circles because George
Bernard Shaw, in a radio speech about Joan of
Arc, inferred that the Maid of Orleans was
totally lacking in sex appeal" The high church
"dignitaries" say that such a remark is "a crimi-
nal insult"
We cannot decide who is correct, never hav-
ing met the girl. Perhaps she had Clara Bow
out-classed as the protest of indignant "holy
fathers seems to imply. But what we are GER
tain of is that the Catholic church, which burned
her to death at the stake, are poor pleaders
against anyone else insulting her memory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-04

How Sam NesSin and the other delegates
of the Unemployed Council were viciouSy
beaten at the order of Mayor Walker because
they exposed grating in the Board of Estirn-
ates in New York City was shown in the previ-
Gus articles The origin of graft in the United
StateS the rise of AL Capone and his close
association with the Republicans, Democrats,
bankers AMI exploiters in Chicago was traced
AFTER Mayor Walker left New York on one
"A of his frequent vacations, early in 1881, the
Smith Roosevelt Tammany faction increased its
pressure, not to expose real conditions though
1t was necessary to bring out few of the less
important incidents, but to force the Walker
group into line or out of the grating machine
Retahating, Charles F. Kerrigan, one of Walk
er's henchman and assistant to the Mayor of
the City of New York, threatened to uncover
some of AL Smiths grating in the Bank of
United States. Al Smith and dozens of other
Tammany Hall politicians had stuck their fling
ers deep into the Bank Of United States, rob-
bling it Of millions Kerrigan published his
threat in all the New York newspapers. His
statement printed by the New York Times,
March is, 1881, warned the Smith Roosevelt
group that too indiscriminate talk of graft in
New York City would be followed by even worse
exposures against AL Smith by the Walker out
fit. Kerrgan threatened:
There are some people in high position who
will stop at nothing to prevent the orderly dis
closure of this failure Bank of United States
and the punishment of those responsible there
for. These people are working in many ways,
but working to the same end, and the end is
to prevent an expose which will shake not alone
the banking world but parts of the poll
tical world to their foundations"
Governor Roosevelt threatening the rebellious
Walker regime in Tammany Hail. used as his
lever set of charges drawn up against the
Walker administration by group of faithful
supporters of capitalism The petition for lin
vestigation" of the Walker regime was signed
by DR.. Stephen S. Wise and the liberal sky
pilot, John Haynes Holmes. Their language is
mild, careful not to scrape beneath the surface,
yet they cannot refrain from pointing out that
grating in some form other took place in
the following city departments
The Board Of Standards and Appeals.
The Department Of Licenses.
Condemnation Proceedings
Health Department.
Director Of Budget.
Department of Hospitals
The Dock Department and the Sinking
Fund Commission.
RecaIctrant Officials and the Grand Jury.
Magistrates Courts.
Police Department.
$33O00,00O More Chunk
Through Condemnation Proceedings (taking
property for city use) alone $33,0o0oo0 was
handed out in graft to friendly" property
owners whose property was required for city
purposes. AS the liberal compliments put it,
this was due to the failure to correct situa-
ton in which property owners represented by
political counsel have frequently received in
condemnation awards four and five times the
assessed valuation of their property"
Early in April, 1881, Governor Roosevelt de-
clared he would not Investigate" the charges
Evening star., 1931-12-11
Jacoby Saves Life
of Dog in Traffic
And Gets Bitten
Delays Start of Third
Bridge Session to Res.
cue Mongrel.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, December 1l.-Ossie
J2coby stopped on Park avenue last
night to save little dog from death,
For that reason, among others, the
start Of the third session in the Ienz-
Jacoby, Culbertson contract bridge
match was delayed. The dog bit the
hand that fed him, so to speak. and
Ossie went into the arena in the apart
ment OF Mr.. md Mrs. Ely Culbertson
with business finger of the right hand
literally dosed with red ointment
Running into a traffic Jam on the
avenue, Cssie spotted little mongrel
beneath the front wheels of an a1,to
He tore into the jam as IL into a foot
ball scrimmage When the rescue was
accomplished, he committed the p,,p to
the care of policeman and hurried to
his appointment.
Further delay was caused by the ar
rival OF tokens and kilograms from we'll
Wshers. Friends of Sidney s, Ienz
wired lnquring IL any more Culbertson
money was available. Mrs. william
Dwight Gilbert of New York sent Mrs
Culoertson wishbone. Another friend
sent a rabbits foot. Both were nut in
the handbag Mrs. Culbertson carried
70 the card table and care was taken
lnat neither should touch Lenz or
Jacony lest they benefit by the luck
hnotner admirer sent a corsage M
seven gardenias, and Mrs. CuIbertxon
wore 1t over her left shoulder she
nad on q black velvet gown WITH !
buckle OF white Jade.
Evening star., 1931-12-11
TRADE PACT PLAN
WINS IN BELGIUM
Continuance of Negotiations
With France, Holland and
England Approved.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, December 1.-THE
Chamber of Deputies has authorized
the government to continue negotia-
tions with France, Holland and Eng
land for the purpose of arriving at an
economic understanding and enlarging
common markets.
The Chambers action was a defeat
Tor the Socialists, who had urged that
negotiations be aimed specifically at
economic union involving Belgium,
France and Holland.
Liberals and Catholics combined to
defeat this project. The Chambers
vote was construed as an expression of
coincidence in the government. No an
nouncement was made of the vote
tally.
Earlier in the week Paul Hymans,
Belgium's foreign minister, was in Lon
don conferring with British officials
about tariff barriers erected against the
Belgian goods by the new British anti
dumping laws.
1t was said at that time that M.
Hymans opposed economic union of
Belgium with France and Holland be-
cause he believed the two small nations
would be submerged In such an ar
rangement.
1t was understood that the Belgian
foreign minister was unsuccessful in
achieving any agreement to lower the
British tariffs. Reports were the Lon
don government would not consider
even tentative negotiations until after
the imperial economic conference sched-
uled for next July.
Evening star., 1931-12-11
LABOR CENSURE VOTE
IN BRITAIN FAILS
Move to Discredit Government for
Economic Policy Beaten
by 439 to A.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December IA Labor op-
position vote Of censure against Prime
Minister MacDonalds government for
us handling OF economic questions was
defeated by a vote of 43s to A in the
House OF Commons last night.
The motion calling for the vote of
censure arraigned the government for
failure to take steps to deal with the
currency and exchange Situation and
Ior not producing a plan to cope with
the problems of unemployment and
high rent.
The result Of the voting, which came
after two days Of debate, was a fore
gone conclusion, but the debate was
MADE noteworthy by the prime minis
ters references to plans. for an inter
national conference of nations tn in
vestlgate causes OF the worlds economic
ills
Attempts also were made by protec-
tIohlst conservatives to force the gov
eTnment into adoption of iron and
steer tariffs, but these were warded off
by Walter Runciman, president of the
Board of Trade. ''''
The House of Commons adjourned
today to February 2, the motion nrov,S-
ing that the speaker may call an earlier
session should the necessity arise
BY q vote Of 2l8 to AZ. a Labor not,o,,
setting the date for resumption at Ian
uary was defeated. Several of the
extreme Tories objected to SO long an
adjournment without a definite nro-
nouncement OF the government policies
on outstanding issues, but they did NOT
vote against the governments adjourn
ment motion.