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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

long period of time, and that we have responsibility to protect the owners investment during the initial driving period"
 With o6.500,000 motor cars and trucks in use in the United States, the normal replacement require ments for 1891 will be greater than the actual reproduction of new cars was in 1930, it was pointed out today by C. IT. Bliss, sales manager of the Nash Motors company. Less than the usual number of cars have passed out of service in the past year. he said. This surplus replace ment, added to the normal replace mont requirements in the next twelve months. constitutes com- fortable market for the year.
 Nearly 100000 miles of Ameri- can highways have gone under the wheels of four Nash cars piloted by Jack Graham. chief road scout of the Chicago Motor club since 1921. This driving record is made even more remarkable by the fact that the pathfinder cars have not figured in single accident, although they have travelled every type of road and have operated under practic- ally every condition known to mo- toriSts.
 The big. nine-bearing crank shafts which feature the mechani-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
President Waterbury Nash Company

cal makeup of all three of the new Nash eight cylinder series of cars for 1881. are balanced on machines so sensitive that they vii register the weight of a human hair. The precision methods employed in their making limit the variance of the bearings to one thousandth of an inch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

Plymouth wanted its trademark t emphasize and that is why it chost the word Plymouth.
 The ruling Is taken to mean, ofi- cials of the corporation point out, that the federal court recognizes the
 simile between the qualities of the Plymouth motor car and the attri- butes of the sacred things which the word Plymouth means and calls to
 mind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
CLAIMS HITCu.HIKE RECORD

Greensboro. N. C.-(UP)--A re- cord for transcontintental hitch hiking is claimed by Wayne Snow. He arrived in Greensboro in less than a week after he left Los An geles, where he is junior at the University of Southern California.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

Auburn, N. Y.-(Up;-The city of Auburn claims a worlds record for having no cases of diphtherio re- ported to city health officers during 1880. Auburn also has not had a death from that disease for nearly four years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
NO APPLICANTS FOR THIS JOB

Memphis- (CP)-A job was of- fered here recently and there were no applicants-at least for some time. Despite heralded unemploy- ment and give a job" campaigns. cold weather stood in the way of models here who were offered jobs to pose in the nude for the Artists Guild.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
PLYMOUTH WINS
 PATENT CASE
Court Recognizes Quality Things Which Name
 Calls to Mind
IA MOST UNIQUE RULING

Although an elementary legal doc Urine states that mark consisting merely of geographical name or term may not be registered, the curt of customs and patent appeals, recently made a ruling which per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
TWO UNUSUAL CATS
 CALI. MlNOT HOME

Minot. Me --(CP) - This town boasts of two unusual cats.
 Isaac Childs. 63. a PenobscOt h. dian. owns a vegetarian cat that nev- CT has eaten meat but which likes carrots. corn, beans. potatoes and an occasional saucer of coffee
 Ed Cannon has cat with 40 toes. Each leg is double-footed. with 10 toes to the foot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
MILK AND FISH MIX

phis-(UP) J. Carrigan. sea food dealer here. recently said there was no truth in. the saying that eating fish and drinking milk will give you ptomaine poison. My family have been doing it 20 years" " he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
GOVERNOR TO BORROW TAXES

Jackson. Miss-(UP) When ask ed how he was going to pay his taxes this year. Mississippi's gover- nor, TheodoreG. Bilbo, replied, I'm | broke, too, and will have to borrow | some moneysomewhere, like every l body else. and pay en-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
GROWS FRUIT DESPITE COLD

Worcester Mass Rugged New England weather has not prevented Miss Anna Anuspigian from growing two orange trees and one grapefruit tree. This year she harvested four dozen oranges and two dozen grape fruit from each tree.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY
 REPORTS 1880 AS BUSY YEAR

Omaha, (UP).-Omahans read 818.275 public ibrary books during 1880. This is a sufficient number of books to supply every man, woman and child with three and one-half books in the course of 8 year.
 There were 16, ,540 new borrowers making the total number 4S,953 or ,25 per cent of, the total popuation of Omaha who are patrons of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

High pressure oiling system. which deliver fabrication to all vital motor parts, and fully automatic chassis fabrication requiring no more attention from the car own CT than the periodical filling of a conveniently located oil tank. are features of the new Nash cars for 1881 of particular interest 10 auto mobile show patrons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

NEW YORK.-Further steps will be
taken on Friday to cut the wages of
all the railroad workers in the coun-
try. The railroad presidents of all
the roads will meet then with rep
resentatives of the 22i railroad unions
and plans will be worked out, as the
New York Times put it, for wage
adjustments"
AL the financial papers in Wall
Street state that the railroad bosses
are sure the union leaders will help
them put over wage cut, and in this
way turn over $35O,00O0Oo out of the
workers wages for profits and stock
dividends.
Presidents of the Western railways
are suggesting that wage cuts be in
stituted Immediately, and that nego-
'tiations go right on with the union
misleaders so that no time will be
wasted in attacking the workers.
The National Railroad Industrial
League, which IS organizing the rank
and file OF the railroad unions to re-
sist the wage cuts, is arranging for
a series of meetings and conferences
among the railroad workers to Or
ganize TO rstrike against wage cuts.
Meanwhile, unemployment is grow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

for organization of the unemployed.
The police used tear gas so literally
that they killed one of their own
number Detective Sergeant Floyd
CBuster') Combs. The chief OF po-
lice, Police Lieutenant O'Brien and
Detective Ray Cashel we're all made
so sick from the gas they shot at the
workers thcy tn, lieutenant had 10 be
taken to hospital and the others
are little better off.
Arrest Negroes Whites
The sixteen workers at the meeting.
which was held indoors, we're all ar
rested, and are held on vagrancy
charges, with bail set at $1,000 each.
Those arrested include five Negro
men, four Negro women and nine
white men. Among them are:
Abraham Nina, who said he was
secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League, his son, Sol Milman, news
boy Pete Logue, Earl Molaer, Frank
Rcwden Harold Sisco and Alex Hor-
rath.
Mayor Doyle admits already re-
ceiving kilograms Of protest from tht
International Labor Defense, the City
Committee of the Unemployed Coun-
CONTINUED ON FACE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Only~One Day Left to Tear
Ross from Electric Chair

NEW YORK.-'rfle stay Of execu-
ton granted by the governor of Texas
to Bonnie Lee Ross, young Negro
farmland sentenced to die in the
electric chair Dec. Is on a framed
charge of rape was revoked two hours
after it had been granted evidently
under strong pressure from the rich
landowners in that section. A last
minute appeal was also refused.
Only the widest mass protest
meetings all over the country save
Bonnie Lee Ross from burning in the
electric chair Friday. Two such
meetings were held yesterday in
Kansas City, Mo. They were viciously
attacked by the police who arranged
Twelve workers including Herbert
March District Organizer of the Young
Communist League.
A series of mighty protest meetings
- series Of mighty protest meetings
have been scheduled in Omaha City,
Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Okla
Roma City and Houston, Texas These
meetings will be followed by many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

lngly patron1zing and hypocritcal
article starts out: 'All America has
rallied to the cause of the unem-
ployed."
Then it lists and adds up every
scrap Of money collected in every city
OF the country. 1t includes city funds,
collections through check-off of the
wages of city and private employees,
some contributions of bankers and
others, proceeds of foot ball games,
and absolutely everything, and arrives
at total for the entire country of
$94,50O,SS$.
This means 7.S9 approximately,
for each of the 100000 jobIess in
this country, with no special provi-
sion of any sort for those who have
families, and taking 1t for granted
the jobless will get the money. But
this last can not be done. Included
in the Post summary are the funds
for mass work." and public i'm
provements, and of this the jobIess
get precious little. Most goes for
contractors profit and building
materials, and lot Is grated, as
witness the Philadelphia scandals
and those of other cities.
Stark hunger, starvation and mass
misery is the actual answer in the
Posts summation of relief funds.
Against this brutal and cruel muir
dering Of the unemployed workers,
more organization, more struggle,
must be conducted. Build the I'm
employed Councils; demand relief;
prepare for nation wide demonstra-
tions on February 4; demand I'M
employment insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Kentucky Miners Prepare to Strike


Cheering and appIauding,
the miners, attending the first
District Convention of the Ma
tional Miners Union held in
Pineville, Kentucky, on Deem
Der 18th, unanimously accepted
the proposal of the scale COM
mittee to strike throughout the
state on January LIST, 1882.
After delegates representing
$1,000 miners from all over
Kentucky took the floor, each
demanding strike as the solu-
ton, graphically described
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

The official unemployment relief cam
palgn" in the various cities of the United
States which was declared completed over
week ago by Hoover's Mr.. Clifford, head Of the
Iederal Emergency Unemployment Commit
tee has brought less than So for each UNEMPLOYED worker
On TINS the governments national and city, propose he
snail i've and support his family for the entire course of 1882
lhls fact became known through the publication in J. P
Morgans New York Evening POST Dec issue of scken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

administration is severely hit.
Never before in the his
tory of the United States, or
any country in the world
have SO many banks crashed
as this year. In his annual
report, issued just two days ago,
J. w. Pole, Controller of the Cur
rency, declared that up to Oct. 80.
2,342 banks failed this year, with
deposits of over S2,O0O.O00,O0O in
voIved. Last year it was after
Oct 80 that the larger banks, such
as the Bank of United States,
crashed, depriving hundreds of
thousands of depositors of their
hard-earned savings.
The failure of the Boston banks
began with the closing down of the
Federal National Bank of Boston,
Tens of thousands of workers are
clamoring in vain for thier deposits.
Many who had served all year for the
so-called christmas fund.- will not
get q cent this year.
The Boston and Massachusetts, au-
thorities are issuing their usual lies
about the "soundness" of the banking
institutions. Whenever some large
banks fail the capitalist authorities
repeat this line.
When the Lawrence Trust Co. of
Lawrence, Mass, crashed, depositorS
in nearly all other banks demanded
the payment of their deposits.
Bank crashes took place in other
parts of the country on the same day
the Boston banks closed. In Marion,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

others in different parts Of the coun-
try as the united white and Negro
working class pour forth in thousands
to protest against the legal lynching
of Bonnie Lee Ross.
Ross was charged with having at
tackled white woman in Denoer-
field, Texas. Investigation by 10 In
ternational Labor Defense workers
uncovered complete proof of Ross
innocence. The woman who accused
Ross was found to have been a drug
addict and subject to fits under the
influence of which she made her &C
cusation. Nine children testified to
the investigators that Ross was seen
to have left his house and to have
gone in a direction opposite to the
wolnan'3 house at the identical time
the attack was supposed to have
taken place.
From beginning to end the case was
proven to have been frame-up and
the hour trial at which Ross was not
given a chance to defend himself, was
shown to have been farce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
statement says:

statement says:
In the attempt Of the employers
to prevent the growth of the revo-
lutionary unions of the Trade Union
Unity League, their evident determi-
nation is to treat them as Illegal or
CARNATIONS. This is again manifest
by the statement of the chief labor
lackey of the American capitalist
class, Doak Secretary of Labor, who
says in the New York Herald Tribune
of December 18th, that the Trade
Union Unity League is an outlaw or
ganization. This is an indication of
further attempts to suppress the T.
y. U. L. by various violent measures.
No union Of the TUUL has suffered
more from the imprisonment of its
leaders than the National Textile
Workers Union Even as these lines
are being written, comrades Devine
and Murdoch, both former general
secretaries of the N. T. w. u, are
now at Ellis Island, awaiting depor-
COMMITMENT ON PAGE T'HREEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

their conditions in the mines,
at home, and the terror of the
operators, the miners went
wild, cheering, stamping their
feet.
The demands of the miners on
January LIST will be:
1. Fifty cents for machine coal
four feet and over. Additional two
cents per inch on ton below four feet.
.. Sixty-fivecents per ton for pick
coal four feet and up-additional two
cents per inch ON tons below four
feet.
3. Twenty-Five cents a yard for
wet places.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Philadelphia City
Employees Get N O
Salaries Dec. 18th

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Some
twenty-six thousand city and county
employees did not receive their SAL
aries December IS when it was an
nounced that there was no money
in the city treasury.
The city treasurer said that all tax
receipts are being used to meet pay
ments on the more than half billion
dollar city bonds.
Talk of floating loan is now going
on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Demand Release OF Edith
Berkman, Strike Leader

NEW YORK. - Demanding the
immediate release of Edith Burkman,
Lawrence, Mass, textile strike lead
er, the Trade Union Unity League in
a statement issued today signed by
william z. Foster, exposes the attacks
made by the United States govern
ment, through it's Wall Street lackey,
Secretary of Labor Doak, against the
Trade Union Unity League. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
A. T. |. WORKERS
HELP MARCHERS
FIGHT TERROR
Kalamazoo Cons Break
M e e tin G; REYNOLDS
Speaks from Window

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Dec.
16.-Police attacked the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers of
Column Three when they came
through here on Dec. 18th on
their return from Washington. The
mass meeting at the court house was
smashed by the police. But the
marciers are veterans now. They
held thei rlines intact, and moved
slowly in parade through the streets,
with hundreds of workers attaching
themselves tothe parade, singing and
shouting for unemployment insurance
and booing the police
The police continued a sporadic
terrorization Of those in line. until
after many blocks march. the column
stopped in front of Carpenters Hall,
quarters of the Hunger March del
egates here. Carpenters hall was ar
ranged for by a committee Of the
local A. F. L. unions.
Oslo Westgate, secretary Of Car
penters Union Local 297 opened the
office and threw up a window on the
second floor, from which Phil Reyn-
ODDS, auto workers leader from De-
troit and one of the National Hunger
Marchers, spoke for ten minutes to
the crowd outside,
Westgate held the door Of the Of
flee for ten minutes against the local
police. until state troopers also ar
rived and forced the door. and jerked
Reynolds away from the window.
Outside 900 workers were jeering
the police and cheering the speaker.
No one was arrested. but the police
occupied the hall
The Carpenters Union is arranging
a mass meeting for the Hunger March
delegation to report tomorrow at T30
p. m. The hall is at 326 Rose ST..
kalamazoo. The meeting is also
protest against the police attack on
the marchers.
Reynolds spoke at the local Fed
Grafton of Labor headquarters,
thanking the A. F. L. members for
their assistance, and donation of food
and ball.
Events in Kalamazoo show more
clearly hat has benevolent through
out the march, that the rank and file
of the A. F.. l.. and in places whole
locals and city central bodies, repu-
diatethe war waged on the unem-
ployed by President Green, Vice Pre-
sident Vol and other high officials
of the A. F. L. and denounce the
stand taken by the A. 2. L. VAN
couver convention against unemploy-
ment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
WELCOME
MARCHERS BACK
INTO CHICAGO

CHICAGO, III, Dec. IS. = Five
Thousand workers assembled in seven
mass meetings throughout Chicago
yesterday to greet the National Hun
ger March delegates OF Column Three
and hear their reports. A large
number of the delegates were elected
by the jobless of Chicago. This COM
pletes their march,, and it was the
opinion loudly expressed by the
Thousands who heard them report last
night. that it was some march" De-
mands for unemployment insurance
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

4. Top day-men; $4.8o-helpers
$40 per day. Unclassified labor
$3.50 per day.
S. Machine men IS cents per ton
s. Payment for all dead work, to
be based on top daymen's rate.
Z. Any miner that cannot make
his day work because of the COM
pany's fault to be paid full shift
8. When any miner is taken off
the face for other work, he shall be
paid full shift.
9. Delivery of all supplies into the
working place by the company.
10. Cars to be placed and pulled
CONTINUED ON FACE TrHREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Mass Anti~Imberialist
Movement Continues
Forward Surge in China
Armed Peasants and Irregulars Spread Fight
Against japanese Troops in Manchuria

The mass anti-imperialist movement which
swept from office the Wall Street Butcher.
Chang sKai-shek, continues to surge forward
IN China The students who on Tuesday
storn1ed and wrecked the Marking FOREIGN
ee and the Kuomntang headquarters have reinforced
by tens OF thousands arriving from Shanghai Peipng and
other cities 10000 students are reported now in Nann
Thousands of others their way to the capitol on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

About SO rank and file u are in the field
organizing locals January LIST strike Three new
locals we're organized yesterday meetings held
between and the strike follows:
friday p Arpay Glendon Mine
Tor the United Mine Workers America
effort to get the to leave Union
Saturday the including Liberty
sland '''
sunday p m Clear Fork Section
Seven kitchens the pend
and will be opened
ADDITIONAL NEWS ON PAGE 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
East st. Louis Police Kill
Own Man i'm Raid on JObless

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Dec. 16.-
Chief of Police Leahy, acting on his
announced threat that all militant
workers meetings would be broken
up here, raided "a workers meeting
Friday. 1t was called TO plan the
against police terror and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17

Ohio, the Marion National Bank with
deposits of $l,143,o94 failed to open,
In Medina, N. Y. two banks closed.
The People Trust Co. at Annville, Pa,
With s385,0oo in deposits crashed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Aid the Mass Fight for Chin
csc independence! Defend
Soviet China Against
Imperialism!

THE coapseor exactly Chang
Marking Government the Kuonang
important maturing antmpeial revolutionary struggle
China leader
ership of Communist Party.
The action of the students spectacular
attained the objective of arriving Marking had not
hey peen supported OS 'ne rising Oh eo"~0" ns %
sudens-and all friends of Chin
ese independence from beware o. is the accepanc
resignation the end of their desires and the fall
victory action to attain real victory
Where these students and the masses behind Them must ask
themselves the hopes of national unity and ndependence promised
Kai-sk ALL the Kuomintang under the
leadership the Chinese bogeoe Landlords and the help OF foreign
oppressors9
promises disgusting themselves revoutonis
the Ruontang hundreds Of thousands
peasants vle assassnated Communists as
luaonary"-and to what resultq
The result is that the opened complete
meben Of China the mpeast wolves and every senblance
boothcking
0 other of the imperiaIst powers.
Japan se anchur with mpmty And in jusfying
North chaos And
the French the of bandits to invade from the
as Japan in North
deep student
the last days evts But
deeper the Chinese
that has overwhelmingly defeated the greater and
mercenary Marking.
revolutionary rayng rapidly
to the immediate dsembemen Of all China BY the perast plum
not the least of which is the American impeais
imperialism directly responsible for Chang Kashek and
imperialism armed and its advisers have guided Chang
Kahek in all his and eacery American Imperialism has
consented to the japanese seizure of Manchua
that the French invasion
washington officials
grouping OF tnperialst forces
British interests
Washington officials the Star" cites
saying:
which
pretends not to be-but reality, involved.
subject shftngs inherent
rvaries aims
revolutionary led Chinese Soves against
periaHsm; preparation especially using Mnchua
basis against the Soviet Union.
attack
endangered will actively engecaly
imperiast
The socad left wing OF the Kuoang that takes
Marking savageln
than Chang Kaihek tendency
Cinwe its political
Fakwe its cleft" mitar have repeatedly
boycott against the Manchurian
openly
old" of imperialism ruthless
than mperiast
Wall
ngtor servans
Workers America
attempt
students of China in-blood
off China! in
Withdraw
munitions shipments to the Chinese mts
the national independence
and the war preparations against the Soviet Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Important Article
On German Crisis
to Appear Friday

Due to pressure of space an i'm
portant article on the German
situation and HitIer's latest mani
festo has been omitted from to-
days Daily Worker. This article
will appear on page four of tomor-
rows issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Rail Union Heads Plan Sell
Out Friday, Meet Big Bosses

ing among the railroad workers. The
Interstate Commerce Commission In
its latest report states that 103,421
railroad workers lost their jobs in
October. Those still left on the Job
have had their wages cut through
part-time work and speedup.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17


I6-S Of the
National convention
of strike in the Kentucky fields
Mine Array,
The others active important committees.
G. Green Negro MINER Middlesboro
tbutng N NJ u leaflets The against him
Polly
publicly told Meek that backd
he lied by firing additional
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-17
Cops Terrorize storckeepers

JACKSON, Mich, Dec, i6.--LocaI
authorities and agents of the big cor
porationS went around threatening
any storekeepe-s and oil and gas
filling station keepers If they sold
enything to the Nationcl Hunger
Marchers going through Some
obeyed the orders of the authorities.
One OF the filling stations which re-
fused oil and gas to the marchers' for
their trucks is lettering Shell corner
OF Michigan Ave. and Brown st.
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