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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
GARRETT JURY IS STILL OUT

Boston, Feb 4|(UP)-After 22 hours deliberation, the jury in the Garrett extortion still out m. today Shortly before the jury had come in for instructions but retired again at 12 :05 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
Late Bulletins

,ord N H Eeh 4-(

Concord N. H., Feb 4-(UP)-Picking or destruction of wild flowers private land without the owners consent would be prohibited under bill passed by the New Hampshire senate to-day The measure goes to the house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
GENE TUNNEY ARRIVES IN ITALY

Palermo Sicily, Feb 4-(UP)-Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion of the world arrived here with Mrs Tunney to-day They proceeded to Taormna where they will embark for Syracuse en route to Syria.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
DOUG" PAYS $100 FOR OLD HAT

Hollywood, Feb 4-(UPl-An old green hat which Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, long had kept "good luck piece disappeared few days ago from his automobile He advertised he would pay $10O for it's return Yester day La Mar Hckenlooper newsboy took the hat to the First National studios. Fairbanks paid him the $100.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
BROKE BOTH LEGS AND ARMS

Kokomo, ind, Feb 4-(UP)-Both of her legs and both her broken when Mrs Mary Norman, 35, fell from rocking chair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
WALTER HUSTON

Walter Huston, star of Columbia Futures .'The Criminal Code" show ing at the State Theater, February 7th, was born in Toronto, Canada. and educated there at the Winchester
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Feb 4-UP)-The treasury net balance February was 153.796, ,415.4S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
BUTLER AIDED BY VANDERBII II
CITY COURTS AFFECTED BY
 NEW SCHEME

Judges, Clerks, Prosecu- tors, and Justices Here and Elsewhere May Lose Their Position If Bill Now in Legislature Is Passed -Meeting Will Be Held in Hartford Feb II
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
The Soviet Proposals


1--WE right o
have destroyed
continue ahead spite of all
THE above
same who declared that 5e men ruled America speaking at
peace" meeting New York international Will
faithfully
will which American capitalism rulers
ong the world savagery
wholesale slaughterl
proposals
voiced capitalist
forced to admit that the Soviet spokesman all
speakers"
trade just he startled them 1927 with fake
amament'
undoubtedly diplomatic
makers of mpeai gathered forward
of Union
justification opening
that the feel that the
really in Europe after Brands attempt to form an All European Union
With the most of ETopes left
The meaning of the Soviet proposals the revelation that only the
soviet system can guarantee peace 10 he WORLDS peoples speaking
whose capitalist industries with crisis and whose
preparing to plunge the tong into bloody
speaking
the heads of mperist diplomats reminding the toes of the
world that only the Soviet Union there crisis unemployment
What crushing refuaion of the "nconvaby silly" charge
Soviet dmpn Do want dumping? Then let all nations
pledge themselves TO sell no goods In the world market cheaper than
sell these goods their coutyl What could be simpler
What argument convincing?
they they voluntarily
this although the
the mperst robbers and will undoubtedly
for some hole to crawl through in an effort explain to their peoples
that Soviet proposal is "utopian"
the tong of all capitalist countries will and
accept Just as IN the London wheat where the
States Farm Board which has been totally unsuccessful
ceageand would only njure the successful
proposes TINS eaconay plan whe the soviet delegates oppose TINS
leading the lowering of the standard of living of the olng
the all capitalist
vnofs speech at Geneva that only the Soviet Union stands for world
peacel
posed that the standard Of living of the ong be raised
uxS8isA abolished and ths danger Of dspellcda - ~
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Vote POCketbOOk
Workers Strike
LeftWingUrges Broad
Strike Committee

NEW YORK. - Monday the In
ternational Pocket Book Workers
Union members packed Cooper Uni
on in a mass meeting and voted un-
animously for a general strike in
answer to the bosses lock out
The employers arr demanding re-
organization (the right to- fire twice
year,, wage cuts, cts. They have
locked out large number of shops,
the Association shops
The date OF the strike was left
to the conference committee.
AIS percent tax on the wages Of
those members who will remain at
work in the shops that have agree
ments with the union, was also voted.
The money is for use in the strike.
The left wing emphasized that the
strike should be carried on not only
against the bosses counter demands,
but for the 40-how week, and for
unemployment insurance.
The left wing also demands the
broadening of the strike committee
on a mass basis, and that the strike
leadership should consist of rank
and file workers elected directly from
the shops.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Hearing ON LID. Motions
for Neav Trials for 9 Boys

CHATTANOOGA, May 19-The hearing
on the motions filed by the attorneys of the
International Labor Defense for new trials for
all nine of the Scottsboro Negro boys will open
tomorrow May 20. After promising change
of in the Judge A. Hawkins has decided to- hear
the motions at Scottsboro instead of at Fort Payne Judge
Hawkins the trial judge in the farcica first trial
Scosboro in which Stephen r. Roddy and other defense
attorneys helped to railroad the boys toward the electric chair
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
1--WE Are at War Noav With Soviets!"
Ex~Ambassador Gerard Blurts Out

NEW YORK.-"We are at war
right now" with the Soviet Union,
blurted out x-Ambassador Gerard
at mass meeting of 500 held Mon
day night to celebrate International
Goodwill Day"
Gerard, who was ambassador to
Germany when the United States en-
tered the World War, was one of the
speakers, together with such liberals
as John Haynes Holmes, Charming
Pollack and others, at this peace
meeting"
The Rev Holmes pointed out the
war preparations exhibited by the
enormous aerial division" coming to
New York "to propagandize the ma
ton for war"
Gerard came out in favor Of these
war preparations and let the cat out
of the bag by directing his attack
specifically against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

The concentration of 672 war
planes at Dayton is the largest air
war show ever attempted by any
imperialist power. 1t follows whole
series of war preparations by both
the army and navy and shows the
nearness of war in view of the grow
ing crisis of world capitalism.
The trouble at the liberal mass
meeting broke when Holmes put in a
motion condemning the air war
maneuvers at Dayton as "a delib-
crate betrayal of the people, and an
"insult to friendly nations"
Gerard refused to put the motion
to the 500 assembled and opened UP
with vicious TRADE against the Sow
let Union, thereby completely expos
ing, from inside sources, that the
main purpose Of these war prepara-
tions is for getting ready TO attack
the Soviet Union
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

per cent.
The approval or resistance
against wage cuts by Secretary of La
Dor Doak follows a similar fake man
euvre by William Green, president of
the American Federation of Labor.
Realizing the deep going discomfort
among the great masses of workers
against the wage slashing drive that
has been going on for nearly two
years and is now entering a Severer
phase, Green and Doak seek TO pre-
vent struggle by saying strikes are
justified if wages are cut" and then
Doak comes out with the statement
that no wage reductions have been
made, and therefore, strikes are not
justified.
Every worker who has had or is on
the verge of having his or her wages
cut should call the bluff of these
takers in the Department of Labor
and the American Federation of
Labor and strike against wage cuts.
Organize shop comnitteesl Organ
ize and strike against wage cuts un-
der revolutioary trade union leader
shipl Report all wage cuts to the
Daily Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
5
HIT BAIL
TRICKERY
Let Them Out One By
One to Hold Off
Demonstration
Ask NJ a S S Support
n eW Sacco Vanzetti
Case Preparing

PATERSON, N. J.. May l9-Helen
Gershonowitz, one of the five textile
workers held in a murder frame-up
in out today on $4,000 bail. 1t has
been stated by authorities that the
others will be released lated. The
Passaic County courts rocked bail last
Saturday to prevent a demonstration
for the workers as they left Jail.
Their present trick of letting them
out one at a time on bail is also
to make a demonstration more diff
ficult.
The Paterson workers ar egiving
the frame-up victims a reception.
Exposing the trickery surrounding
the sudden refusal to let them out
altogether on bail, the five Paterson
defendants have issued the following
statement:
After spending nine weeks in the
county jail, we we're informed that
on Saturday, May 16. we we're to be
released on bail. When suddenly
just before we We're ready to leave
the bail was revoked.
The bosses thought that by grant
ing us bail, the working class would
lost interest in the case, and we could
be considered as ordinary criminals.
This would make it easier for them
to send us to the electric chair or to
Ion terms in prison.
But when the bosses saw that the
International Labor Defense and the
National Textile Workers Union we're
not fooled by these maneuvers and
were preparing a demonstration on
our release-they revoked the bail.
They then tried to force a promise
from our attorneys that no mass
meetings or demonstrations were to
be held. When the attorneys refused
to agree to this-aSsistant prosecutor
Beery said: 'If you want to make
of this a Sacco- Vanzetti case, then
we accept your challenge and we'll
show you our American colors." This
statement completely unmasks the
frame-up.
This move of revoking the bail,
involved not only the prosecutor and
the bosses, but the socialist party,
the leaders of the Associated, and
of the American Federation of Labor
which are united in an attempt to
crush the National Textile Workers
Union and railroad us to the electric
chair.
THE silence of the local press, in
spite of the manifold activities of
the defense committee, is carefully
adopted policy, in line with that of
the rest of our enemies to help min
imize the political significance and
change the whole case into a pure
criminal one. In other words, we
have become criminals, and as such
they we're going to treat us. Against
this, we protest-and call upon the
workers to line up behind the policy
fthe International Labor Defense
and National Textile Workers Union
CONTINUED ON PAGE TW0b
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

as so per cent, Doak, following the
policy of Hoover repeatedly defends
these pay slashes by stating living
standards have been maintained"
At the same time, Mr.. Doak was
forced to admit that there have been
many "rumblings" of impending pay
cuts. He went on to say in his state
ment: THE administration has done
everything possible to preserve the
existing levels of wages and resist
reductions, and as a general rule no
reductions have been made by the
major industries"
2,4O0 Strike at Pay CRts.
The fact of the matter is that on
the very day Doak issued this state
Inent, 2,4o0 workers in the Misha-
waka Rubber and Woolen Manufac-
tering Company in Mishawaka, In
diana, went out on strike against a
wage cut. Wage cuts have been put
into effect in every industry in the
United States. Just few weeks be-
fore Doak made his statement the
leading rubber manufacturing COM
parlies cut wages. Wages have been
slashed in the steel industry: in the
textile industry; agricultural wages
have been showed down from 33 to so
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Is HIRED THUGS
CLUB 10 PlCKETS
Police Look On, Then
Arrest UniOnist

NEW YORK-TWenty-five profess
sional gangsters hired by the Amer
lean Market 93rd and Gath st. and
Broadway, attacked ten pickets Of the
Food Workers Industrial Union yes
-terday, with iron pipes and block
Jacks The pickets put up stub
born fight, but most of them were
beaten up.
Five police in uniform and five
plain clothesmen we're on the scene
before the gangsters attacked, and
they chased the picket committee
away to make it easier for the at
tackerS
During the attack by the thugs, the
police massed on the sidewalk and
looked on approvingly, and when the
fight was over, they arrested the
FWIU organizer, Hyman Reich. He
had been badly clubbed, and was now
charged with disorderly conduct. Kis
case was to come up last night in
night court.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Put Back Furniture
of Evicted Worker

BROOKLYN, N. Y-Mr. Cooper
the greedy landlord of the tenement
house of 750 briggs Ave, Brooklyn,
got what he wasn't looking for.
Nick Woles, a worker, janitor for
years in the tenement house was
evicted at the order of the landlord
Monday, May 18.
The workers in the neighboring
houses and those from the same
house organized Immediately and put
the furniture back into the same
apartment it was taken from.
The landlord called the police and
got Woles arrested.
The worker Woles, upon his re-
lease on $500 bail reported to the
office of the Tenants League of Will
liamsburg, 81 Graham Ave, and this
morning appeared for trial at the
Bridge Plaza Court, with member
of the Tenants League to defend his
case.
The judge was forced to discharge
Woles.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

crlSlS, nad 10 be mace
The Daily Worker had TO meet
the test. Already in debt, new obli-
cations had to be shouldered, Ad-
ministration expenses, never a large
item in the total costs, we're cut to
the bone. The costs of publication
we're cut nearly in two.
But still the load of debt pressed
upon us. Hardly a day passed dur
ing the first ehree months of this
year when the Daily Worker was
sure that it could go to press the
following day. Appeals to the dis
tricts for emergency aid, while af-
fording temporary relief, could not
meet the need Today as we go to
press, we are not certain of publi-
cation tomorrow unless a considera-
BILE sum is received before press time
tomorrow.
Workers, all of us must meet
this situation. The Daily Worker
urgently appeals to you. In the
midst of the rising wave of strikes
against wage cuts; with hunger
marches and the fight for unem-
ployment insurance rising as never
before; in the fight for the pro-
lection of the foreign born; to
struggle against the danger of i'm
perialist war and intervention
against the Soviet Republic, you,
the workers, must save the Daily
Worker to lead these struggles!
The Daily Worker is beginning a
campaign to raise $4,000 before
July 1st. The Daily Worker hopes
by making every economy possible,
and by building up during this cam
paign an organization of Friends of
the Daily Worker, to make similar
emergency appeals unnecessary, or at
least infrequent, in the future.
But today we war nevery friend OF
the Daily Worker and of the whole
working class press, that unless we
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

Quite differently from the capitalist papers which are
suffering from declining circulation the difficulties of the
Daily Worker is crisis of growth and along with
rapidly increasing circulation.
In 1929 the Daily Worker issued 5,354,650 papers-n
930so great the demand of the workers for the
to aid in their growing struggesthe Daily Worker published
no less than 8,690,05O copies
Workers. in order to do this the Daily Worker put to
a terrible strain. It compelled to New and
pensve printing had to be bought The nationwide
campaign For Work Wages the sacrifices to meet the
first offensive of the CAPITALIST class at the outset Of the
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
ARGUE CASE OF
Ii YESTERDAY
Decision Held Up; All
Must Continue Fight

NEW YORK-The case Of T. H.
Ii whom the U. S. Government has
ordered deported into the hands of
the Nanking Government butchers,
was argued yesterday before Judge
Woolsey in the Federal court The
attorneys for the international Labor
Defense, Shorr and King, made
fight for the right of voluntary de-
parture to the Soviet Union, The
decision in the case will not be hand
ed down for few days.
In the meanwhile the LID appeals
TO all working class organizations,
Communist Party members, friends
and liberal sympathizers to rush
funds to the LID, 799 Broadway,
Room 41o, to carry on the struggle
to release Ii from the clutches of the
executioners. Collection lists for this
p9rpQse will also be available within
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
2,4OO Strike Against Pay
Cut as Doak Denies
Bosses Are Slashing Pay
Resistance Would Be Justified If Wages We're Really
Cut, Says Labor Sec'y in HypOcritical Statement

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Declaring that
the workers we're justified in striking in the
event of wage cuts, but calling on them not to
strike because there have been no general
wage reductions" Secretary of Labor Doak
issued statement yesterday which designed to help the
bosses put their sashng drive going in full
force.
Despite the fact that the Department of Labor reports
wholesale pay cuts every day. in instances pointing out
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
STRIVES FOR PEACE AND
NON-ACGRESSON, SAYS
LlTYlNOFF IN SPEECH
Exposes Lies About Dumping, Forced Labor
and Red Menace; Aim to Cover Up
Capitalist Crisis
Soviet and Capitalist Systems Struggling, Bu
Soviet Workers Don't Want War

Completely exposing the attempts to prepare bloc
of the imperiaist powers against the Soviet UnQn Maxim
Ltvnoff in his speech behalf of the Union Of Socialist
Soviet Republics at the European Federation Commission Of
the League of Nations, meeting at Geneva startled the assem-
bed diplomats Monday by putting forward proposal based
on 'non-aggression' on the economic front.
The Soviet Unions declaration has become the leading
topic of discussion and according the United Press CORE
spondent in Geneva lit gave the Soviet chief delegate lead
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Admits That Air War
Maneuvers Aimed
at u S S r

At the end of his speech, which was
repeatedly interrupted by boos from
the audience, Gerard shouted:
"The United States of America is
going to continue to go ahead in
spite of all the Soviets in the world"
Gerard made it clear that the main
brunt of the war preparations was
directed against the Soviet Union
and the socialist construction going
on there now.
Meanwhile, the 672 bombing and
other types Of war planes that have
concentrated in Dayton, Ohio, at a
cost of $3,oOo,oOo, are preparing for
the war show at Detroit. Chicago,
and then New yorb
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

>ing position in the parleys, and
again marked him IS one OF the out
standing figures at this European
conference
Call Capitalists Bluff
To call the capitalist bluff ON the
dumping" charges, Litginon pro-
posed that every country enter into
a trade pact agresing that no cem-
modities will be sold out5i..e OF the
country in which they are manu-
factured at a price below the price
at the home market, In this man
her, Litvinoff hit directly at the Dig
trusts i'll the capitalist countries that
have manipulated to keep prices IN
and in that way prolonged the crisis.
The Soviet and capitalist sys-
TENS are struggling" Ltvinoff 6e-
C}ared, "and will continue to strug-
gle against each other By the very
fact of their existence and de-
velopmcnts."
Yet he pointed out that the So
Wet Union desired peace, was work
ing for peace and the building up of
socialism and that all the charges of
forced labor dumping and the
Red Menace" were deliberately
stirred up by the capitalist powers to
hide the depths of their economic
crisis and to place the blame on the
Soviet Union.
Lityinoff pointed out that world
capitalism has been in a chronic
crisis since the World War; that only
the Soviet Union is advancing its
industries in the present crisis and is
building up socialism.
Soviets Want Peace
The New York Times report of Lit
vinoff's speech goes on TO quote him
as saying:
TT would be naive to expect a
capitalist state TO assist in the con-
struction of socialism In the Soviet
Union or for the Soviets TO further
Strengthening of the capitalist syS-
ten. The question can only be
one of economic agreements and
dealings between capitalist coun-
tries and the Soviets, mutually ad-
vantageous. for which there is
ample scope.
ut is time TO realize the Soviet
Union is fact which has got 10 be
reckoned with, that cannot be made
to disappear by incantations of
abuse and resolutions by individ-
uals still clinging to the dream of
somehow getting rid of it by magic.
Il do think, however, that some
thing might be done for the re-
moval of phenomena unnecessarily
aggravating our relations and pro-
longing the world crisis. This re-
quires the avoidance of everything
tending to an atmosphere of dis
trust. 1t seems to be that an es-
tablished identical attitude toward
all States would do much to facili-
tate the peaceful cooperation of ma
tions. l should explain that / in
no way intend TO limit the SOW
economically disposed to special
ereignty of States historically and
forms Of close relationship and
self determination, and the right to
enter unions and federations must
remain invoilable.
II may describe my proposal as
kind of economic nom aggression
pact. 1 do not know what your
attitude will be to this resolution.
but it will at least serve as evidence
Of the readiness of the Soviet Union
to adhere TO the principle of the
peaceful co-existence of the two
systems and of having no aggrcs-
sive intentions. whether Of politi-
cal or economic nature"
| -tsa,
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

Bosses Raise Purse to Aid
Prosecution.
The motions for new trials will be
defended by General George w.
Chamlee, leading Chattanooga attor-
ney who has been engaged by the
I. L. D. Chamless will be supported
by Joseph Brodsky, I. L. D. New York
attorney. The Southern bosses and
their state prosecutor will oppose the
motions. Scottsboro bosses have
raised a huge purse to hire addi-
tional attorneys to oppose the fight
to save the nine innocent boys from
the electric chair.
There is a widespread feeling
among the Negro masses in the
South that the reversal by Judge
Hawkins of his original decision to
hear the motions OF Fort Payne has
its roots in the treacherous activi-
ties of the N. A. A. c. p. leadership
in cooperation with the Southern
bosses to sabotage the defense of the
nine boys. Thousands of Negro
workers have joined the parents of
the boys in expressing the greatest
idignation against Walter White,
national secretary of the N. A. A. c..
p, and his preacher and Ku Klux
Klan lawyer allies, who have given
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

Fight iynching. Fight deporta-
tion of foreign born. Elect dele
gates to your city conference fol
protection of foreign born.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

Workers. the Daily Worker is in danger!
Only contributions given Immediately and without stint
save the Daily Worker from suspension
In spite of all efforts avoid the Daily Worker which, for
has failed aiding the workers battle against
will
The daily worker., 1931-05-20

receive immediate ard adequate do
nations, the Daily Worker will have
to suspend
For seven years the Daily Worker
has stood in the forefront OF every
working class battle. 1t must not
perish now! It's life is in your hands
ard its treasury in your pockets,
We appeal to you each and
everyone, to send every dollar avail
able at once.
Address all remittances to:
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DAILY WORKER,
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City.
The daily worker., 1931-05-20
Debts, Loss of Credit for Paper and
Wage Obligations Are Threatening
Suspension of the 'Daily Worker"
$1,000 Day 5 Essential Pay Back Loans Meet Pressing
Bills and Maintain Existence of Central Organ of arty for
Tremendous Struggles Ahead

Only Support Immediate Action Can Ensure the Conn
Appearance of the Daily Worker Friends Daily Must
Organize Into Permanent Groups Rush FWnds
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a day or two, but funds are int-
mediately needed and should be rush
Cd e the la9aI Q2 ess.aa y
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The daily worker., 1931-05-20

Will have to STOP will have to publication unless all
Is of the Daily Worker mme dately and materially