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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

The reason for Japan going off the gold basis seems to be that the mlitarists put one over on the economists and Japan is paying for Manchura.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

Merry Christmas Mary, My dear I said l would, And If it's Merry Mary, Of course 1t will be good. o-O-o
 There is a tide in the afafirs of men, which taken at the sporting tide often brings affairs with wo- men.
 One of the funny magazines says what the country needs is a good nickel o-o-o We are all creatures of circum- stance, only the circumstance Is a bit kinder to some than it is to others. iG If love can make dreamer out of Q person, then let love keep out of my sleep. o-O-o
 If you don't like the family in the next apartment, buy your kid a drum and horn for Christmas. o-O-o if an insomnia victim could change places with a sleeping
 sickness patient, what 0 break
 that would be all around. o-O-o
 BET HE WASN'T A GOOD SKATE
 Pity the fate of Fanny, In sorrow these lines I pen, A roller skater rolled into her life
 And then rolled out again. O-O-o
 If he has to get his trousers pressed twice a week, the blond stenog is sitting on his knees dur ing office hours. o-O-o All work and no play makes jack for the girls who follow the Johns. ..r-
 The trouble with the world to- day is that 1t has too much trouble. ~ o-O-0 so IT GOES
 o-O-o
 Just a thought at Christmas, Just a song and cheer, Let's try and make ft happy, It comes but once Q year. O-o-o
 It's the Christmas 'beiles" that make the Christmas bills. O--O-o The road to Reno is paved
 with snappy stories. o-~O-o This concludes our regular Mon- day evening program. It came to you over DBD. owned and oper- atcd by the Waterbury Evening Democrat and q pioneer In thia | type of newspaper work. We are 1 signing off at this time. to bo back on the air again to-mororw eveE- ing at the usual hour. fO-0-=0 Good evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 4.57 tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

A first-ciaAs sleeping coach In England weights 70 tons and cRr- ics about 12 passengers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

If you want to make a lion or elephant wild-shoot at him. -Caraveth Wells. author and ad-
 venturer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

A successful writer might in walking down the street easily be mistaken for a plumber. Sinclair Lewis. successful Ameri-
 can writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

don't care what they say about me as long as they talk. -Tallulah Bankhead, stage and screen actress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21
SAINT CHRIsToPHER's INN
Editor of the Democrat:

The inclosed article appearing in a recent issue of "The Lamp" edit ed and published by the Friars of Graymore, N. r., may be of in- terest to many Waterburians on account of the late John Reid's &C., tivities in connection with 1t when alive and his large following now as Brother Philip. Conducted up along the Hudson, opposite West Point, at Garrison, is an institu- ton known as St Cnristopher's inn St Christopher is the patron saint of the great army of the ever-un- employed and of this institution Bruce Barton, noted columnist, wrote recently in the New York Herald Tribune:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21
BROTHERS CHRISTOPHER lRY Bruce RartOnl

My A1A eNSS ~~~@@~O@.S spent the week end with my friend Bill Brown, whose famous health farm is just across the river from West Point. On Sunday morning we went to mass at Father Paul's, and afterwards the good father came to the farm for din- ner.
 He told me how he had started his church and boys school 20 years ago with little backing and how, though the bills sometimes mount to terrifying heights. the money has always come from some where at critical times.
 We live by faith" he said and his face was a benediction.
 This year has been harder" he continued, because we have 90 many more Brothers Christopher"
 Brothers Christopher" l re- peated. "That is an order with which am not familiar. Who are the Brothers Christopher" "Some call them tramps," he ar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21
DON'T FORGET

If you have gray -haircd mother, In the old home, far away, Sit down and write the letter You put off from day to day, Don't wait until her tired steps Reach heavens pearly gate, But show her that you think of her Before 1t Is too late; The chance the future leads to May vanish while you wait, So spend your life's rich treasure, Before it Is too late.
 o-O--o Chicago claims the gangs there have been broken up. Mebbe they've merely given up shooting to do shopping.
 It's the little things in life that count-the big ones gen. orally subtract.
 o-O--o Business continues leopardish, that is to say, spotty.
 o-O--o' The only way some mothers can get their children to Sun day school is to promise they won't have to eat spinach for the next three days.
 O-O-o
 A New York youth of 16 wrote out a rubber check for $2,000 and enjoyed the ownership" of high priced car for several days. The uses of rubber keep on increasing and apparently they'll be unable to "check" 1t. tt-s
 o-O-o
 After a woman cuts her wisdom tooth she's generally wise enough to hide the fact.
 o-O-o
 Hollywood stars know nothing of astronomy although some of them are sky high.
 o-O-o TA A GIRL NAMED MARY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

University clubs are those bright centers of intellectual life where the alumni cluster around the radio and hang on the words of the football announcer.
 Gordon J.. Laing, professor of
 Chicago University.
 If our governments were serving us as beneficially and as honestly as we are being served by the capi- talists, we would think the mill lennium had arrived. Albert Shaw, editor and publicist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

always knew was big league stuff. Art (The Great) shires, baseball
 player.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21
QUOTATIONS

The people of Chicago are grate- full for healthy city in which to live and in which to rear their families. Mayor A. J. Cermak of Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-21

Secretary BtIms0n'1 hecfeuAty and Eddie Savoy. DtimsOn's aged
 coIored messengers rush from the
 great mans ofzice Co get the eie-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
GIRLS REPLACE MEN OPERATORS
Get Less Than Half of Mems Wages

taking their places for the miser-
able sum of $40.
These girls, after. long months of
unemployment, were forced to take
these jobs and did not realize that
they we're taking the bread away
from these workers.
Nurses Pay Cut IS.
In the N. Y. Times there was an
advertisement for nurse wanted
Trained nurse wanted for a lady,
"a hours duty, So day" A trained
nurses standard fee is So for a 12-
hour day or night duty. The nurse
alone who works in sick, depressed
atmosphere is allowed to work the
usual IL hours at a stretch. Now
she is asked to work "a hours, and
for the sum of SO. Now, to derive
benefit from the great crisis, the rich
offer the trained nurse So for "a
hours duty-12 ID cents per hour
The unemployed and employed
workers are uniting and are deter
mined to fight against these miser-
able conditions and will establish a
workers and farmers government
here in the United States.
"A Woman Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

most OF their time luxrating and
lazing around at the European
watering places and Miami Beach,
and receive not one cent of pay
only few dollars worth of food from
the company store.
Worse Than Chattel Slavery.
The Labor Research Association, In
its mining notes for the month of
May, points out that the average
weekly earnings per worker in the
Pennsylvania bituminous region is
$3.50 a month, but fails to state
that even this little money is sell
dom seen by the workers. Those
who are working in the mines live
under the most impoverished con-
ditions, equal even to the conditions
existing in the South during chattel
slave days. Indeed the miner is
worse off than the chattel slave. The
chattel slave received only little
food and poor shelter for his work
and a beating once in a while, but
the slave owners very seldom MUIR
dered their slaves, because they were
private property and it would cost
money to get new ones. The mine
owners, however, rejoice when state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

cop kills striking mine worker, and
they have even given them medals
and citations for the job.
Famine Conditions.
According to the Federal Reserve
Board, $4,000 miners were unem-
ployed in the bituminous region In
1880. The number has increased
during the first part of this year
and the entire mining region looks
like famine struck it. Workers are
actually starving and going about
barefooted. Those who are working
are speeded up most numerically
and many Of the checks that they
receive for their work amount to
merely one or two dollars or are
blanks like the one which 1 sent
you.
The National. Miners Union of the
Trade Union Unity League is the
only organization that is fighting
against this starvation and for bet
ter conditions for the miners. Min
ers, join this fighting union and
force the bloated bosses to give us
bigger checks-checks for real money
instead of the hot air checks we are
getting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Town Of smolensk, U.s.s.R.

Town OF SmolenSK, U.S.S.R.
Dear Comrade:
I am very pleased to receive your
letter and will write you back upon
the life in U.S.S.R. I see you are
interested in our work in the country
where all the power is in the rands
of workers. In U.S.S.R. all the fac
otries, works, railways, in one word
IL the industries in the hands of
the state of the workers; almost 96
per cent of the trade is in the hands
of the cooperatives.
Workers Run Factories
You write the masters of younr
country are the rich millionaires the
aim of which is to exploit the work
ers, in order to have more profit. In
U.S,SR., it is quite the contrary; L
work in a great trust of food indus
try. This trust is led by V.S.N.H.
(the Superior Council of National
Economy. The manager of our
trust is a worker and his substitute
is also a woman worker of the fac
tory. Other managers of the trust
are also workers. All the industrial
plans were considered and confirmed
by the employees and the workers at
the meetings. We took part in every
work of our enterprise as we felt;
the enterprise belongs to us, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
No JobIessness: Workers Work Only Hours
Daily Under Healthy Conditions
workers, and not the capitalists.

workers, and not the capitalists.
Now I will tell you who receives
the profit of all state-enterprises. We
spend this money by enlarging our
factories and works, by building the
new ones, by improving the condi-
tons of life of the workers and en-
pIoyees and by building the new
houses, clubs, rest-houses. sanas,
creches, kinder gartens and so on.
You write you work hours, in your
country there are a great many men
without any jobs. We work only 7
hours. Actually nearly all workers
work hours a day. We have no
joblessness at all. Who is healthful
will find work at once. We have a
shortage of skilled workers and every
man and woman who wants to work,
receives work Immediately. This year
we will have a shortage of two mil
lion skilled workers and our gov
eminent had taken measures con-
corning the new cadres, teaching the
youth, the men and women on the
account of the state.
1t is very short letter but I
wanted only to show you the differ
ence between the conditions in the
capitalist countries with these of the
USSR. Wait for your letters.
-Kaplan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Any MEN HURT
I'M FORD PLANT
BY THE SPEEDJJ.
IF You Don't Like It,
Get Out" Say
Bosses
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily Worker:
A letter by former foreman Of
Ford's plant in Chester recently ap-
peared in the local tabloid sheet, the
Daily News. He was fired because
he refused to drive the men under
him. He also exposed the conditions
there, but what he wrote wasn't news
for everybody knows Ford is slave
driver.
Thursday, April 80, the men were
told to sign their number to state
ment saying they were satisfied with
the wages and conditions in the
plant. Most of them did not under
stand what they were asked to sign,
but, when they did, they raised hell
Well, the bosses told them they didn't
have to work for Ford, in other
words. to get out if they didn't like
it.
Now I would like to write about the
conditions in the place, for I have
seen nothing about them in the Daily
Worker. A crew is given certain
time to unload boX-car, usually
from to 8 hours. The cars must
be stripped of bracings by quitting
time. The bracings hold the ma
chinery in place in the box-car and
also keep the machinery away from
anything that might scratch it.
The bracings have large nails in
then. and because Of the speed-up
t''c b-o cings are placed on the floor
of the box-car, for there are no men
to rlc.ce them outside Many men
get these nails in their feet, and
before they can see the doctor they
must get sick. slip from fore
man The foremen refuses, because
they are given hell for allowing too
many men to leave the job. One
fellow had to seek foreman on
the jaw before he got a sick slip.
It makes no difference to the
bosses if worker gets blood poison
ing, for there are plenty of men to
replace them. The toilets are closed
by O'Clock and if the men COM
plain the straw bosses say: What do
you wear pants for?"
If man is hurt, he gets no pay
while he is in the medical office
even though it may not be the fault
of the worker, and if he stays home
because of his injuries, he may find
himself minus job. Most of the men
work only three days a week. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Shop Gate Meetings
Before Fisher Body
Tell of Speed-Up and
Wage-Cuts in Shop

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Fisher Body
Company. Twelve, o'clock. The work
ers are filing out Of the factory. Most
Of them go to the lunch rooms right
across the way. Many of them have
their lunches with them and sit on
an iron railing eating their sand
wiches. Some of them stay inside
and eat their lunch.
A salesman selling jewelry is stand
ing in the midst of crowd about
five or ten minutes past twelve. Tel
ling them what wonderful bargains
they can get. Another kind of a
salesman is on another side, dressed
up like an Indian trying to sell some
kind Of medicine. IN ~
Workers Organizer.
Then another speaker gets up on a
stone. Fellow workers. 80" Some
thing different. Here is someone who
is not trying to sell anything. The
speaker continues. Wage cuts in
the shop-in every department The
speed-up is unbearable-Lay offs
miserable conditions for all the work
ers. On the sixth floor-got a cut
from to 20 per cent-The glue de-
partment cut from 40 to IS cents an
hour-in the Press room one worker
had his hand broken in two places
We must organize against these con-
ditions. Organize grievance commit
tees in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO
resist the wage cuts and speed-up-
Down Tools on May First to demon
strate against these wage cuts!"
Read the Daily Worker,
There isn't much time. Another
worker has paper with him. Not
the Press or Plain Dealer But the
Daily Worker. Many of the workers
look at it hungrily but are in fear
Of the stool pigeons who are stationed
throughout the crowd. Most of the
workers have left the jeweler and the
Indian and are listening to the speak
er who is talking about their condi-
lions, who says he is from the Com
munist Party. The fifteen minutes
pass quickly. 1t is heartbreaking to
see how rapidly the workers are
ushered back into the slave shop. 1t
seems that they walked out of the
door for moment and then had to
run back to the ihhuman speed-up.
The speaker keeps on until the last
worker is gone and they reluctantly
leave as he finishes with Demon
strate. on May First against Wage
Cuts"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
New York cry.

New York Cry.
Daily Worker:
The capitalist papers are still try
ing to fool the workers about the
approaching end of the economic de-
preston and the fact that pros
perity is here" The press thinks
that by writing these fake news
items that they will be able to sup
press the workers, both employed
and unemployed, who are being
thrown out daily from factories,
shops, etc. These starving workers
revolt is much stronger than the
capitalist press lies.
Girls Work for $40 Week.
In a large office building on 295
Madison Ave, New York City, all
the elevator operators were dis
charged and girls were employed in
stead. The men, some having fam
lilies to support, were discharged, not
because of inefficiency, or because of
poor business-every place there is
occupied and the rent is very high.
The workers were cruelty thrown out
to Starve, wives and children in
Guided, for the reason that they re-
ceived $23 week and the girls we're
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
NEW HAVEN JOB
BUREAU DU PES
HUNGRY WORKER
Meets Auto Junk Pile
Instead of Farm; Gets
L for Two Days Work

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May g.
There is an employment Office here
in New Haven that has got the ap-
prevail of most of all the sky pilots,
and other social workers in general.
1t is known as the free employment
Office. The Evening Register calls it
an agency that is doing the most wor-
thy work. This place is run by an
expert from the A. F. of L.
A few days ago he had the mis-
fortune of going in there. The
"workingman's friend" asked him the
following questions. Can you milk
cows?" Can you take care of cat
tle?" Can you cultivate%
Worker Duped.
The poor homeless man started for
the farm, which he found was in the
town of Hamden. After he arrived,
he saw that he was duped. He found
one COW, one old plug of horse.
few chickens, on two acres of ground.
On one end of the land he saw huge
plies of junk automobiles. Instead of
fine farm, he had found an auto
mobile graveyard.
Are you ready to go TO work asked
the two employers.
yes" replied the hungry man.
The takers gave him heavy ham
mer and a cold chisel, and they star
ted him on dismantling the junk
autos. Noon time came; there was
not any invitation by them to come
to dinner He labored all of the af-
ternoon with the two slavedrivers af
ter him.
Finally evening came. He was in
vited to come into the house for sup
per. The poor famished man sat
down at the table. He saw two buns
and some stew on a plate. He took
one OF the buns. Try as he might,
he could not sink his teeth into
them.
80 Cents Day.
He then tramped to Centerville
where there is a police station. He
told his story to the police. A pol
iceman took him in his auto back
to the "farm," after about twenty
of wrangling. They gave the
poor man one dollar for two days of
slavery. w. T..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
(By a Worker Correspondent,

(By a Worker Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa.--As an ex-
ample of the kind Of pay checks the
miners who are still working are get
ting nowadays in the Pennsylvania
bituminous coal regions, I enclose
check coal miner received here last
April Is.
You viii notice the miner received
nothing whatsoever for his work
Fifteen dollars and sixty-nine cents
was the amount the miner was sup
posed to have earned, but the COM
pany, greedy for profits and with an
air of unconcern for the welfare of
the worker, put the $3.50 into their
own Golfers and handed the worker
a check good for the amount of 5000.
Company Store Gets All.
Fifteen dollars and six cents was
taken by the company store, SIS cents
for medical attention he never got
and 8 cents for repairing the tools
with which he digs out the profits
for the mine owners.
This is common occurrence here
in the mining fields Thousands of
workers work week in and week out
for the rich mine bosses. who spend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
OAKLAND COUNCIL
CLOSES "RELIEF "
3 Jobless Workers Try
to Commit Suicide
Oakland, Cal.

ohAoh4NA3 Vol
Daily Worker
Spring time has brought no prom
iSed relief to the workers as far as
employment is concerned. Emer-
gency jobs handed out by council
(Which wasn't much anyway have
been ended first of April. Soup
kitchens have been closed. The work
ers are getting more respondent and
the papers are giving little items of
here and there of suicides, attempts
OF suicide and the cause occasionally,
in spite Of the censorship. Items
writt$l below taken out of one days
issue Of the local press.
Jobless, Tries Suicide.
Donald AverilI, 80, OF -e2nd
Avenue recovering today at an emer-
gency hospital from an attempt to
commit suicide by cutting his wrists
with a razor blade. He was out OF
employment for quite a while.
Dependant over illness and unem-
ployment, Dolly Reddy, 80 of 1854
Shafter Avenue a nurse, attempted to
commit suicide by drinking poison in
her apartment. She was taken to a
hospital in a serious condition.
Mother Asks for Clothes.
Mother Of eight children, Mrs. Be-
dell, appeals for cast off clothing.
"Any kind Of clothes will do, as long
as they can be worn"
Amidst such happenings, fashions
of Oaklanders are being tailed this
week, to see what a well dressed wo-
man and man wears here. High class
stores with the cooperation of goods
at the University OF California check
latest modes
That Is q mockery to the $4,000 un-
employed workers. Rich are fiaunt-
ing styles in the face of misery. Or
ganize and demand unemployment
insurance!
Working Mother.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
TWO MINES SHUT
DOWN IN PENNA.:;
$500 JOBLESS
Conditions Worsen
Daily In Lehigh
Coal Fields
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker: Coaldale, Pa,
Conditions here in Coaldale, Pa
under the old Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
are worse every day. I was work
ing three days out of the week and
since they got that unemployed COM
mittee selected I am out of work.
I haven't been working five months
and they still continue closing down
valley after valley. There are about
1900 out Of work here. 1t seems the
more we produce the more we are
out of work. Not only that, but they
add longer hours to those having
work and cut their wages as re-
turn.
However, in Soviet Russia it is
quite the opposite, whore they shorten
the hours and increase the wages.
We workers here in America must
fight for this, too.
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in pay. There is much talk about
another Wage-cut.
Terrific Speed-up.
Then small groups of loggers are
sent to the camps to be faced by all
kinds Of bosses schemes: first a really
terrific speed-up, so that those VII
were on relief and on the "stem"
last winter are so run down t."
cannot chit the ball and make good"
as the saying goes. So it's eth
fired or go on piece work and MAJ.
of the latter actually going in the
hole.
Lumbermen Organizing.
The other side of the picture is
organization = organizers are going
out to the camps and getting a good
response in signing up loggers into
the Lumber and Agricultural Work
ers' Industrial Union. In town good
open air meetings are beeing held and
the unemployed organization is &C
tive with 1000 copies of Unemployed
Workers" printed this week. Over
$4,000 signatures were secured here
at the coast for the Workers Unity
bill for unemployment insurance.
Delegations of workers rode the
"freights" through to the East in
time to unite and present the de-
mands contained in the bill, on be-
half of the 100000 sigers to the Fed
eral government at Ottawa on April
is.
The May Day preparations were
taken up too late to be the success
they should-however a mass meet
ing was held at Powell st. and an
International Concert in the evening.
Several successful financial affairs
have been put on by the Canadian
Labor Defense League during the late
winter. All were needed where so
much class justice is being meted out
to workers on ACCOUNT of the unem-
ployed parades. Comradely,
L. F.