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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29
PARIS LEGION HALL
 HOUSES FAMOUS RUG

Paris --- (UP) -- The American Legion's new home here, Pershing Hall, contains many interesting relics and souvenirs of United States military history.
 One of the most interesting Is the rug which was on the floor of the room in which Generals Grant and Lee met at Appomattax In 1865.
 At the close of the negotiations the rug was taken. by & young officer who was present. He car ried 1t back home with the idea Of keeping 1t as souvenir.
 A present officer of the Paris post of the legion was given the rug by his uncle, who was that young officer. The nephew pre- sented 1t to Pershing Hall and 1t has been renovated and placed in the Masonic Room of the new le- zion building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29
JAZZ REVIVED

Jazz music of century ago, written as a satirical burlesque by the great Italian composer Rossini, will be heard in public for the first time since it's initial performance, when revived by Cesare Sodero on the Through the Looking Glass program over an NBC-WEAF net work tomorrow from 9:15 p. m. to 1O:15 p. m., F. D. T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29
RARE BIRDS REVISIT NEST

Spearfish. S. D., (UP)--Water Ouzels, birds extremely rare in all parts of the world, have returned to a spot under the caves of the Homestake Hydro Electric Light plant of this city, where they have built their nest for the past five years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29
TEXAS ROADS CALLED
 ..TERRIBLE.

Dalhart, Tex = Northwest Pan- handle roads were decried as "terrible' by the wife of Governor H. P. Long recently. She and her party. arrived in Dalhart after be- ing stalled in the mud for several hours between Hartley and Chan ming in Hartley ciunty. They were en route to the mountains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29

Lincoln, Neb, (UP)-During the first seven and g. half months
 there were 358 persons killed in
 accidents in Nebraska. Of this
 number. 176 were killed in auto mobile crashes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-29

the whiskers increase. but the hair tonic salesmen are doing . land office business as the more unfortu- nate members of the organization attempt to cajole decent growth upon reluctant shins.
 The campaign goes on for g. month, and at the end of that time the Whiskerino club practically guarantees & swell crop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
What's On


THURSDAY
Metal MOulders
will hold an important member
ship meeting at 5 E. 18th ST., as part
Of the drive to build up the MWIL
International Labor Defense
Brownsville f3r.
will hold an open-air meeting at
oswin st. and Dumont Ave, at pm.
international Workers Order, Br 500
will hold a regular meeting Sep
TENDER 18th, p. m. at 80 r. 18th St
There will be a discussion on the
militarization Of the American Youth
All are invited.
Printing Workers Industrial League
The regular membership meeting
Of the PWIL will take place Septem-
Der nth at p. m. at T., 18th st.
Al members are urged to attend.
PLUMBERS HELPERS BALL
Young and Adult Workers Attention!
Are you out for a swell time?
Are you interested in seeing the
First American Youth Union grow
and succeed?
Come to the Plum bers Helpers Ball
10 be held Saturday night. Septem-
Der 2, at Hoffmans Mansion, l42
Watkins ST., Brooklyn. Phil Conn
and his famous Variety Club Or
chestra win entertain with some
spappy music There will be dane
ing and all the rest. Attend and
you viii not forget it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Labor SPORTS Union
Students to Leave
For Training Friday

Students to the District Training
School of the Labor Sports Union
meet on Thursday at the L. S. U. Of
flee at 8 p. m. All mass organiza-
tons and unions that have not yet
taken care Of sending their students
to the school have until this meeting
to send them. On Friday, the 18th,
the students leave for camps to work
in the camps for a week. to close
the mdown for the winter. This is
both to prepare themselves for the
intensive training that they will go
through at the school and to earn
their stay in the school camp for two
more weeks all to themselves
The course is drawn. up with the
aim of developing forces to carry on
sports work in clubs and organiza-
tons that have sent them to the
school. Only through preparations
such as this can we start the inpor-
tant work of developing sport activ-
ity in the working class organiza-
tons and draw the youth to our
movement.
Every organization should get in
touch with the L. S. u. now and
find out how they can still send COM
rades to this training school. The
phone of the L. S. U. is Tompkins
Square 6-9774. Call at any time dur
ing day and evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
PARENTS DEMAND
FREE FOOD FOR
SCHOOL KIDS
Mass Protes st Will
Delegates
In Making Demands

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 16.-A
committee of Is Paterson parents
composed of strikers and unemployed
workers has been organized, includ-
ing two Negro mothers. The COM
mittee will make demands upon the
Board Of Education in Paterson, Sat
urday, II o'clock, for one free meal
each day for each child of the I'M
employed and strikers. The deIega-
ton will be supported by mass
meeting and demonstration which
will be held before the city hall when
the committee makes its demands.
In preparatino for the presenta-
ton OF petition to the Board of
Education on Saturday, a parade of
children will be held through the
working class sections on Friday
afternoon. So far hundreds of sig
natures have been secured on a Pc
tition and the committee is working
hard to get as many signatures as
possible to support them in their de-
mands on the Board of Education on
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

"Fres-food and clothing for the
children Of the unemployed! will be
the demand of thousands Of workers
and workers children who will dem
onstrate tomorrow, Friday the 8, at
the Board of Education, seth st, and
Fifth Ave,
Demonstrations will also be held a.
the Brooklyn Boro Hall, at Court and
Fulton SITS, and ct the Bronx Boro
Hall. OH fremont near Third Ave.
A picket line before the Board of
Education and mass meetings before
the Boro Halls will be held.
Indoor mass meetings will be held
tonight in the following places to
prepare for the Friday demonstra-
tionsf In Downtown at 1874 E. It'll St.,
in Brownsville at 313 Hinsdale St.,
and in Red Hook, with open air
meetings, Warren and Hoyt Sts.,
State and Columbia, and Court and
Carroll SITS.
Thousands of workers children
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
C(GIJNCTF NYED
BY WORKERS WIN
EVICTION CASE
Tenants to Form in
League; Fight High
Rents and Evictions

Refused aid by the bosses Char
tiles" and evicted into the streets
with her five children, Mrs. Comele
NGacaloso, widow living at lis East
Bird Street called on the Unemployed
Council for assistance. The council
Immediately modified together with
members of the Young Communist
League to put Mrs. Macaloso back
into her rooms. First meeting was
held outside the house, the entire
neighborhood was aroused and crowd
ed around the speakers, who showed
them by Mrs, Macaloso's case and
hundreds of other instances that the
workers could get no relief except
through an organized fight, the
struggle of the workers alone could
get relief. The workers responded by
joining in with the council and
league members to put back the fur
niture, Even the children particip-
ated, With this completed the house
was canvassed and it was found that
the workers we're living in miserab BILE
holes for which they had to pay the
eXhorbitant rent of $26 monthly.
Many workers we're unemployed, the
others could hardly pay this high
rent. The tenants were told by the
Unemployed Council about forming a
tenants league to fight for reduced
rents, and against evictions, through
rent strikes. They were enthusiastic
about the idea and the basis of
forming tenants league in this
house was laid right there and then,
the workers having seen through the
eviction victory what organization
could do.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil is arousing the workers of this
section, scene of many eviction vic
tories for a huge demonstration to
demand immediate relief for all
workers, putting up special demands
for school children of the unemploy-
ed. The meeting will start Friday,
September 10, at pm. from 18th st.
and Avenue B and will march thru
the East Side, where some of the
poorest and most exploited workers
in the city live, down to Rutgers So.
and back to 7th Street and Avenue
A. The Red Front band will lead
the parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
FUR WORKERS TO ACT ON
QUESTION OF UNITY TONITE

NEW YORK, - The Industrial
Union has issued the following call
to the FIR workers to come to the
Cooper Union meeting tonight to de-
eide on the answer to be given by
the Industrial Union to the invitation
by the Joint Council Unity Com
mittee.
To-day, Thursday, 6 O'Clock, you
are called to Cooper Ufiion to dis
cuss and act on the invitation which
your Industrial Union received from
the Joint Council Unity Committee.
"Furriersl No overtime tonight! Let
no fur worker remain in the shop
after o'clock. Come as a body from
your shop. March to the Cooper
Union meeting where the fur work
ers will have their say about the con-
ditions of the workers in the trade
and will decide the program and plan
for uniting the fur workers and or
ganizing one union in the interests
of the workers.
THE decision of the fur workers
at the Cooper Union meeting will be
the answer of the Industrial Union
to the Joint Council Unity Com
mittee.
"Furriers: Come en- masse! Come
on time! The meeting will start
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
JAIL 2 WORKERS
IN WHITE PLAINS
Bosses Rob Workers
For AFL Leaders

Albert Martinez and William San
chez will be tried on Friday before
City Court Judge Doherty in White
Plains, for distributing leaflets.
These workers were arrested cpon
the complaint of Reigel & Son, gen.
eral contractors, of White Plains.
This firm had retained IS from the
wages Of about 10 workers. When
these workers received their pay en-
velopes they found IS shortage to-
gether with notice that this sum
had been deducted as initiation fees
to membership in the A. F. of L.
local No. 60.
Martinez and Sanchez distributed
leaflets to the workers of Reigel &
Son calling upon them to fight the
deduction and the bosses union and
calling upon the workers to join the
Construction Workers Union OF
Westchester County,
Martinez will defend himself. San
chez will be represented by Attorney
SEXUAL, International Labor Defense
lawyer. The defendants will expose
the treachery of the A. F. of L. All
workers who possibly can should
come to the City Court, Municipal
Building, White Plains, and expose
this frame up of the bosses and the
ALL, leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Laundry Workers
To Meet and Lay
Basis for Union
Bosses Now Try to
Force Company Union
On the Workers

The Organization Committee of the
Laundry Workers Union elected at
the emergency meeting which was
held last Thursday after the racket
GERS broke up the so called Greater
New York Laundry Workers Union,
Inc, is working fsveri5illy prepariuo
for a mass meeting and is calling ell
laundry workers to help to rebuild
the union
Many shop meetings we're held this
week at which the workers pledged
their support, promised to soHdify
their ranks and make Thursdays
meeting big success.
The bosses, fearing the organiza-
ton Of Union that will really fight
for the workers, are trying to put
forth the American Federation of
of Labor organization. Some bosses
are urging their men not to join any
union but to have clubs in the shops.
But the workers know that the
bosses want the A. F. of L. because
they can always buy the corrupt Of
ficials. The workers know that only
union controlled by the workers,
without corrupt officials, will fight
for the Interests Of the workers.
All laundry workers are urged to
come to the mass meeting today
Thursday, September II, $50 pm. at
Ambassador Hall, 1861 Third Ave
near Claremont Pkway., to lay q
sound basis for a real union, by and
for the workers.
Workers of the laundry industry
drivers and insiders, are urged t.
bring their complaints to the organ
iSation committee temporary head
quarters at $50 Prospect Ave, Bronx
which is open every night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
RELIEF ORGANIZATION GOES
FORWARD; MANY TAG DAYS

throughout the United States. In
New York most likely motion pic
ture performance will be arranged
for the 26th and 9th of September.
Datailed announcements will be
made at later date.
Workers in the various relief or
carnations locally should at this
time make strong efforts to organize
branches of the Workers Information
al Relief
AS a result of the Conference of
the Workers International Relief
which was held in Pittsburgh on Au-
gust % and 80. WIR secretaries have
already been elected in number of
states and workers in New York and
vicinity should follow the example.
A mass meeting will be held on
Thursday, September IT, at the Will
liamsburg Workers Club, 795 Flush
ing Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y, under aus
pices of the Penn-Ohio Miners Re
lief Committee, Williamsburg Sec
ton. This meeting is for the purpose
of Transforming the Penn-Ohio Min
ers Relief Committee into branch
of the Workers International Relief
A report Of the delegate to the Ma
tional Conference of the WIR held in
Pittsburgh, August 90 and 80, will be
made. Plans for future work will be
discussed. All workers are urged to
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Workers, Children to Demand
Free Food in Protest Friday

will start the new school term on
September % without enough food or
clothes. The unemployed workers
cannot afford to give their children
the necessities of life. Many children
tainted away in their classrooms last
winter. and this year the conditions
of the children will be even mech
worse.
Unless the workers and children
put up a real fight for relief, and
free food and clothing in the schools,
the capitalist politicians will con-
tinue their fake promises of relief.
The Unemployed Councils are CO.
operating with the Young Pioneers in
the Free Food Campaign, and call
upon all workers to take part in the
meetings and demonstrations.
Workers! Don't let your children
starve! Join the fight for free food
and clothing for the children of the
unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Needle Shop Delegates
To Join In Ratifying
Communist Candidates

NEW YORK.-The Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union yesterday
issued a call to all the shops to send
delegates to the ratification meeting
OF the Communist Party Friday at
Cooper Union. The call points out
the role Of the Communist Party in
the struggles of the needle trades
workers as well as in every militant
struggle of the working class as a
whole. 1t asks the workers not only
to fight against the bosses on the
picket line but to fight the boss class
as a whole by supporting the Com
munist Party. 1t is expected that
many delegates from needle trades
shops will be present at the ratifi-
cation meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

In the mining area between ten
and fifteen thousand miners and
their families rely mainly on the sup
port from the relief stations OF the
Penr-O Ohio Miners Relief Commit
tee throughout the strike area. The
same is true Of the textile strike in
the New England states, and in Pat
erson, N, j. The betrayals by the
A. F, of L. in the textile strikes are
too numerous to mention, but they
are responsible for the present de-
moralized situation in Paterson.
The National Textile Workers
Union is making all efforts to organ
lie the struggle but without relief
it will be difficult.
This relief organizations built by
the Workers International Relief
during the miners and textile work
ers' strikes must continue, says the
WIR. Workers in charge of these
committees should begin to arrange
local affairs such as dances, motion
picture showings, concerts, etc, in
order to activize relief work. Tag
days should be arranged in small cit
les in New Jersey and in the vicinity
of New York.
Saturday, September 10, there viii
be a tag day in Linden, N j. All
workers are asked to participate. A
National Tag Day is arranged by the
Penn-Ofio Miners Relief Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
CALL TO PICKET
5 NEEDLE SHOPS
All Millinery Workers
Meeting Tonight

NEW YORK.-Frances Schwartz,
one Of the active strikers Of the G..
I. Fngle shop was arrested yesterday
when re came on the picket line.
She was held in 500 bail and is de-
termined to go on with the strike.
Nettie Kaplan. arrested yesterday,
was sentenced to one day in jail.
Three workers were arrested IN
front of the Vanity Mill which has
been on strike for the past 8 weeks.
The arrested workers are Liza Lukow,
Sam Geller and one other, Geller is
out on SIS bail, the others are still
awaiting trial.
Needle Trades Workers are called
on to come on the picket line at the
following shops:
NJ. X. M. $50 6th Ave.
Hawsiness Dress, 14S w. 25th ST.
Tailor Made Dress, ISL w. 25th st.
Yanf v Knitting Mills, 140 w. 2lst
St
Engel g. Rosen Shops, AZ w. seth
st.
Millinery workers will meet tonight
at Bryant Hall 10 discuss the results
Of the organization campaign ana
intensity organization work in the
open shops. The meeting will also
discuss the progress of the strike
against the Engel and Rosen shops.
All millinery workers of union,
open shops and company union
shops are invited to attend and to
discuss the plans of the Industrial
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Socialists FAIL Con mYnists
File Candidates in Racine
Collect Surprising Number" of Signatures
for Elections In Socialist Town

The signatures we're gotten in Ra-
cine, Wis. where the Communist Par
ty and the Unemployed Council have
been leading the struggles of the I'M
employed against the socialist party
mayor. The republican. democratic
and Communist Parties will be in the
field.
Workers here will carry on Whirl-
wind election campaign shaking up
five industrial and farming counties
in the district.
A United Front Conference has
been set for wednesday. Sept 80,
Workers Center, 214 State St, Racine,
Wis,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
EX-Servicemen's
League Greets
British Sailors

The Workers Elk = Servicemen's
-c1~ue sent a cable hailing the mill
.2nt British sailors in their struggle
against the wage slashing of the i'm
ccrialist Macdonald Government.
Soldiers and sailors of all capitalist
nations" it said, I'VE call upon you
10 unite with the workers in a strug-
gle against hunger and war, Down
with the wage-cutting war-monger-
ing imperialist governments.
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
New York, u. S. A."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
'Rubicon,' Soviet Film,
Opens at Cameo
Theatre Sat.

Life in Russia today, and the work
ing out of the great Soviet plan
forms the background for an intense
ly interesting and highly enlighten-
ing film, "Rubicon". produced in So
Wet Russia with English titles, and
showing on the Cameo Theatre
screen beginning Saturday. The story
concerns an English stoker, whose
only thought of port after the grind
ing hours in the steaming hold, is
the waterfront saloon and the dives
it harbors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
3 Workers Camps To
Aid Paterson Strike

Special entertainments in honor of
the Paterson textile strikers will be
held in three proletarian camps over
the coming week end.
At Camp Kinderland there will be
a movie and banquet on Saturday
night, at Camp Wocolons there will
be movie and mock religious cere-
mony on Sunday night, and at Camp
Unity there will be a movie and ban
quet on Sunday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
SCORE EVICTION
2.ARE ARRESTED
LID. Defense Wins
Workers Dismissal

Alice Ward and Ed. Stevens, men,
bers of the Unemployed Council, were
arrested for holding a protest meet
ing in front Of 426 w. 53rd St., pro-
testing the eviction of Smith and his
family from the house.
The International Labor Defense
Immediately came to the defense of
the workers. Buitenkant, the I. l.. D.
lawyer, defended the workers rights
to stop evictions, before Judge Burke
of 7th District, and succeeded in OBJ
tanning a dismissal for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Many Workers Wages
Cut In New Jersey

RIDGEFIELD- PARK, N. j., Sep
TENDER 15.-The federal Paper Co. of
Bogota, N. j., the Continental Paper
and Board and the Flintkote, of Lit
tie Ferry, have given their workers
10 per cent wage cuts. The Flintkote
and Federal are working only two
days a week, while the Continental
has laid off many employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
IMPORTANT TUUC MEETING TO-
NIGHT.

A very important meeting of the
Trade Union Unity Council of Great
err New York will take place tonight
at 7 pm, at 5 e. 10th ST., N.Y,C.
Some of the most important points
on the agenda will be the furniture
strike, report OF the Bureau and cleo
ton of delegates to the Ratification
Congress of the. Communist Party.
All delegates must be present and
come on time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Telegram to the Daily Worker)
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. i6-So-
cialists failed to file petitions in the
first congressional district election to
fill the vacancy Of H. A. Cooper, on
october 18th according to a Madison
dispatch, although they only needed
a few hundred, being legal party
The Communist Party filed over
twenty two hundred signatures for
John Sikat, Racine unemployed ma
chtnist last Friday in spite of two
days notice. This is great achieve
ment, "a surprising number for the
district as the Milwaukee Journal
puts it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
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s7th st. and Third Ave, and to back
I'D this demonstration with an Elec-
ton Campaign Tag Day, on Satur-
day and Sunday, September 1920
Immediately following the ratifica-
ton meeting.
The Communist Party calls upon
the working class of New York to as
semble at Central Opera House and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Party Will Support Demands
Of Ex-ServiCemen at Meet

show the fist of the workers and its
organizational strength which will be
modified for the struggle against the
Tammany, Republican and Socialist
leaders of fascist terror against the
working class. All workers organ
izstions and workers in shops and
factories should come in a body and
bring with them the banners of their
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Workers Correspondence IS the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for h
about your day-to-day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

promptly at o'clock.
Fur Department. Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Wants volunteers to bring posters
to headquarters and to distribute
throwaways at meetings. Apply at
S5 u. 18th S.. 3rd floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Workers Ex-servicemen's League

Branch No. 1.--T0 r. 10th street
The regular membership meetings
have been changed from Friday to
Thursday nights TO allow for more
visiting Of other organiza lions. The
old members are urged to get back
into the life Of the League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
BRONX secIon-ElectIon B,nouet

A banquet hds been prepared to
ratify the Bronx Communist Party
candidates and to celebrate their
being placed on the ballot. There
will be proletarian entertainment
and the main speaker will be Mich
ael Gold at 500 Prospect Ave. Ad-
mission so cents.