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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, Aug 27.-(UP)-- Forecast for Thursday and Friday:
 Maine: Probably showers tonight and Friday; warmer in interior Fri day. Probably showers tonight and Fri day; warmer Friday.
 Massachusetts. Probably showers o-night and Friday; warmer in west portion Friday.
 Connecticut: Cloudy with show CTS tonight and probably Friday morning; not much change In tem- perature.
 Rhode Island: Showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27
98O,OOO MORTGAGE
 ON BRIDG EFFORT CHURCH

ON nkNAOunzEO ONl CH
 The Bridgeport Savings bank has taken $90,000 mortgage on the church now being constructed in that city by the Roman Catholic parish of Our Lady of Pompei The mortgage deed was signed by Bishop John J. Milan and by Rev Joseph M. Daly. pastor of the church. The property deeded to the bank fronts 200 feet on East Washington avenue and 125 feet each on William street and on Har- riet street. The money is to be paid by tine bank to the church in installments as the construction of the edifce progresses until the whole sum of $90,000 has been paid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

the house and not believing that the boy was badly injured. drove away. As for refusing to give his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-27

We urge you te come ia during thsse last two daysi Diseounts sf 10% that ACTUALLY mean sa0iass ef zoe sn the doiiarl Come h = see the kundssds sf supev.Vaiuss sn dis. play st ssmsrkably lsw psiessi (A fsw nationally sd0srsissd itsms sxesptsd.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
SEND TROOPS TO
PERU OIL STRIKE
Cerro Repays British
for Support

Another strike has broken out In
the oil fields Of Peru in the Talara
oil region. Associated Press reports
state that troops have been sent
against the strikers.
"True to its real function, the San
chez Cerro government. which is aid
ing American and British imperial
ism, has issued an order against the
strikers reading:
1.-THE government is taking steps to
put an end rapidly and easily to such
a state of affairs"
The Talara oil fields are worked
largely by British and Canadian in
terests. The Prince of Wales has
just made visit to Peru, and the
Sanchez Cerro government wants to
show his royal nibs that it is not
unmindful of the aid British inlper-
ialiSm gave in aiding to overthrow
the Leguia regime, and that the new
Peru fascist dictatorship will repay
The oil magnates by shooting down
strikers. s~-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
REBELS CAPTURE
RADIO STATION
OverpoWer G u a r d S
and Capture Gracias

Reports from Nicaragua to the
army headquarters at Colon, Canal
Zone, state that Nicaraguan insurg-
entS fighting against the Wall Street
marines in Nicaragua overpowered a
detachment Of Nicaraguan National
Guardsmen in the town of Gracias
a Dios and captured the place. Ora
ciaS a Dios has a powerful radio sta
ton which is now in the hands OF
the Nicaraguan insurgents.
The close connection between the
large imperialist corporations and
the armed forces was strikingly
shown in this instance when the
United Fruit steamship Nicaro was
ordered to the scene of the fighting
to aid in recapturing the city.
In recent months there has been
a great increase in the armed strug-
giles against United States imperial
ism in Nicaragua. Eleven marines
were killed in an encounter with Nj
caraguan insurgents. The economic
crisis in Latin America has impover-
ished thousands of Nicaraguan peas
ants who are joining the INSURGENTS
and militantly fighting against Wall
Stre domination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Jobless Councils, Nems Clubs Keep Up the
Tempo OF Circulation CAMPAIGN; Gain $50

Excluding extra bundles, tables for this week
show a solid increase of 432. With special Or
ders boosting the Daily Worker circulation by
another 3,o00 some of which will remain next
week. With Chicago and Philadelphia retain
ing their special district pages once week, the
drive for circulation is maintaining its pace. Old
figures are used for District 2, New York since
the latest, which would probably show an in
crease, have been difficult to obtain. The solid
gain last week reflects q strong movement on
the part of the Unemployed Councils and the
Red Builders News Clubs in the campaign. In
the last two weeks alone, the Unemployed Coun-
ellis are energetically pushing the circulation in
Baltimore, Allentown, Salt Lake City, Portland,
Stockton, Milwaukee. Akron, Erie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Special Issue Labor
Unity For Feb. 18th
All Bodies Should Put
in Orders Now

NEW YORK.--Wednesday, Feb. %
is International Fighting Day Against
Unemployment. Workers, employed
and unemployed, throughout the
world, will demonstrate. Mass DEM
constructions will be held all over the
United States. New York will wit
ness one of the largest mass demon
STATIONS against unemployment ever
held in this city.
The Trade Union Unity League, the
organizer of these demonstrations
throughout the United States, is
making all efforts to mobilize the
employed and the unemployed work
ers, and for this reason the Official
organ, Labor Unity, will come out
in 100000 copies. New York has been
assigned a quota of $4,000.
The Trade Union Unity Council is
calling on all unions, r. U. u. L.
Leagues, Unemployed Councils
Workers Clubs and other workers
organizations to order their bundles
Immediately and give the Labor
Unity the widest distribution possible
This special issue sells in bundle Or
ders at IL cents per copy.
This issue will be off the press
Wednesday, Feb. 18. Order your
'r'ndle at once from Labor Unity, 16
W. 21st st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
OUTSTANDING INCREASE IN
DISTRICT 8, CHICAGO

District 8, Chicago, shows the highest solid
gain for last week, l42. This Is largely due to
a raise of so for indianapolis and to the in
creased membership in the Chicago Red Build
ers whose order jumped from 300 to 500 within
ten days. District 9, Minneapolis, helped by the
Milwaukee Red Builders just organized, comes
second with solid increase of liz. District IL,
Seattle, put on gain Of 88, stimulated by the
new order for the Portland Unemployed Coun-
Gil. District 5, Pittsburgh. has shown consid-
cradle activity recently, and has now put on a
solid gain of rs assisted, principally, by the
bundle order of 100 daily Of the Herminie I'm
employed Council. In District 4, Buffalo the
Unemployed Council in jamestown orders $50 a
day, which is largely responsible for Buffalos
increase to 70. Butte, Mont. District 49, went
up go.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
DISTRICT PAGES TO BOOST
FIGURES NEXT WEEK

District pages will boost the solid circulation
next week, and tables for Chicago and Phila-
delphia, who now receive district pages once
week, will show considerable increases Sacra-
mento received its special page for February is
and Connecticut expects a special issue on
Feb. 20.
We want to hear from such districts as Cali
fornia, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Seat
tie, Immediately. None of these districts should
allow another week to go by without preparing
a district page of worker correspondence, local
news, district campaigns etc. The offer is for
four columns of space on the second page at
So per 1000 for not less than 1000 copies of the
particular issue to be paid in advance. Send
your orders in! Push the national and distrio
circulation figures to the top!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
SIS a Week Officials
of AFL Union Gust
Man for 2 Month Dues

PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 16.--Officers
Of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plas-
terers International Union of Amer
lea (AFL) get SIS week. Out Of 45o
members in Local IL, Passaic, only 80
are working, and 90 Of these are on
job in Passaic. They are mostly
henchmen Of the officials.
But Louis Rabinowitz, member of
the union since 1905, always paid up
until last November, since which he
has got behind two months in the
$3.50 a month dues because he has
been out Of work for a year, was ex-
PEELED by these officials with sudden
ruthlessness for "non-payment."
The reason is that he has been a
militant rank and filler. and the Of
ficials didn't like him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
BOSSES ORDER
BURNING OF 1900
CHINESE MINERS
Pitheads Closed to
Save Property

That imperialist mine owners de-
liberately ordered the burning of 5000
miners trapped in a mine fire, in
order to save the property of the
owners, is the report contained in
two capitalist newspapers in Peiping,
China. The news was wired there
from Mukden by the correspondent
of the YuHgg -Pae and the Taking
Pao.
When a fire broke out in the Flu
shun mines, owned by Japanese i'm
perialistS, in order to keep the fire
from spreading and destroying mine
property, the bosses ordered the
mines to be sealed, condemning the
5000 Chinese miners working in them
to death inside the roaring furnace.
The correspondent Of the two Chi
neSe papers gave details Of the pa
thetic scenes at the pithead when
relatives begged that the mines be
thrown open SO that the miners be
given a chance for their lives. But
the imperialist masters, to save
money, refused to let the mines be
open, insuring the death Of the Chi
nese miners.
At the same time, the Taking Pao
recalls that 1000 miners persisted I'M
der similar circumstances in 1917 at
these very same mines.
The imperialist masters feel that
human flesh is very cheap and much
less valuable than their dollars, and
cold-bloodly burn 5000 workers to
death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
McKeespOrt Jobless Forced to Sleep In Jail

I and three others said yes. The
captain took us down the cellar
and told us to peel potatoes. 1t
was two days work there and we
said, what shall we get for doing
this work? The captain said: I'll
rive you two bowls of soup instead
of one" Did we take that job?
Fell, no.
We Must Fight.
Workers, how much longer are
VIC going to stand for this rotten
capitalist system. Are we going to
put our hands in our pockets and
starve? No. Let's put a finishi,i..
touch to this rotten system so our
.,drcn won't have to Sufie
when they grow up.
Let's have cur children say this:
look what cur fathers gave US by
fighting in an organized manntl.
a workers and farmers govern
ment."
Join the Unemployed Council at
1874 Locust Street. F. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
JOBLESS COUNCIL
MAKES DEMANDS
Workers of Collinwood
Demand Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent


CLEVELAND, O., Feb. II. - The
lSher Body Collinwood Unemployed
Council organized a demonstration
.oday at the Community Fund at
Collinwood The council elected a
| committee of five members to 60 to
the Community Fund Office and de-
mand adequate. relief for the unem-
ployed workers.
Many cases have been brought to
the unemployed council in regard to
he way the fund treats unemployed
workers. When worker wss sen
st Thursday, the reply was "Iet him
wait A week before a VIC wa
ID that. three-and- half dollars a
week was enough for any worker with
few children. Discrimination is
7racticed against the Negro workers
ID they are given no relief.
When the committee accompanied
by 100 members of the council and
oout three-hundred other workers
reached the fund office, they found
B police squad cars and about so COPS
modified there. The police refused
to allow more than 3 to enter. In
The meantime the workers waited
outside the building for the report
of the Committee.
The head of the Community Fund
office tried to split the ranks of
the committee by telling them "why
DO thirty of you march around like
,his?" He was quickly shut up when
a worker asked him why did you get
so cops, there is only 80 of U.s." This
was the biggest mobilization of police
that Collinwood has ever seen.
The Unemployed Council will use
the reply of the Community Fund
TO prove to the workers that no re-
lief is Forthcoming without struggle.
In the meantime every case that the
council forced on the Community
Fund the council managed to win
some better conditions for the work.
erS.
Next Friday night the council will
hold mass meeting for both the
Fisher Body Workers and the unem-
ployed workers of Collinwood to mo-
billie the workers for the Interna-
tional Unemployment Day and
against the terrific wage cut drive
initiated by the Fisher Body Corp
grafton. Already workers quit in large
numbers in every department and
there is great possibility for a mil
liant strike against the wage cuts.
The workers of Collinwood, employed
and unemployed, will not starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18

thing even remotely resembling
forced labor.
On the contrary they had observed
that the working masses were taking
voluntary part in the general con-
structive work and enthusiastically In
support of the plans. The signatories
appeal to all other foreign engineers,
technical workers, ETC.. to join in the
protest and to demand in their home
countries that the INSCRIPTIONS cam
paign against the Soviet Union in
connection with the forced labor
scare be stopped Immediately.
Amongst the signers are, the ia
nous German architect, Professor
Ernst May frankfurt am Main), the
Dessau architect Scheper, the Amer
lean engineer Falk, the American en-
gineer Roerup-Oelsen Detroit), the
German engineer, DR.. Otto Knoll
(Hanover), the German engineer G..
Vetter, the German engineer, DR..
Gustav Luetgen and the Hungarian
engineer, DR.. Georg Balog (Buda-
pest).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Lawrence, Mass, Alderman Piles Up Money
While JObless Roam Streets Hungry

family a very tidy sum that enable
him to possibly retire for life. In adj
dition to this the writer who is a
mill employee and a citizen Of this
city feels that it is unnecessary to
add insult to injury by employing
his sons in municipal job making
three members of the new alder
mans family working and drawing
good pays while many walk the
streets.
The so-called stagger system is also
put into effect in this department
when men are hired for two weeks
and then laid off and walk the streets
for another indefinite period. If they
are lucky they may be able to secure
a couple of days work while the rush
lasts.
It is things like this that makes
a person feel different about things
and when the time comes many q
mill worker will remember this in
sulting move.
Not Red Yet, Bat. ).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
LIT. COPS PRO
lCT JOB SIThRNI.'.
Attack. Protest Meet
at Agency

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. II. - The
unemployed cocrcils Of Baltimore
modified at the Maryland Help As
scciation on 108 Clay Street to pro-
est against the robbing of workers
7ho apply there for job.
Ethel Kennedy, young Negro
Girl worker, had been given a maid
Job through that agency and charge
Of $500 was taken out of her first
pay. The job turned out to be a
regular slave job instead Of the type
of job promised. She was supposed
to get So a week, but for nine days
work she received only $3.50. After
quitting her job, she went back to
The employment agency to demand
ne $500, but was refused by the Job
sharks.
A committee was sent down to the
agency with Ethel Kennedy, but the
demand was ignored, so a special
leaflet was issued and workers were
modified there. The police came out
in large numbers to protect the "job
sharks. When the speaker of the
Unemployed Council, Rothwell, be-
gan to speak, he was dragged off
the box, and a fight ensued. Riot
squads were called in from all parts
who were laying in waiting. The
most brutal methods were used
against the workers. A young Negro
worker, who was arrested was treated
so roughly, that even some South
ern ladies" were horror struck at the
police treatment. Five workers were
arrested including a girl worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
ANTI-RED TROOPS
MUTINY IN CHINA
500 Railwaymen Go Out
On Strike

Significant news of more mutineys
in Chang Kai Shek's troops that
were sent against the Communist
forces is contained in a special cable
dispatch to the New York Times.
"Peiping legation circles learn -
says this cable that Sun Liz hiang's
troops "a part Of the Nationalist
army sent against the Red forces),
on the eve of their departure for an
anti-bandit campaign in Kiangsi, mu-
tinted near Tsining on Wednesday,
cutting railways and telegraph lines. +"
At the same time news is given of
strike of 800 discharged railway
workers on the Peiping- Tientsin sec
ton of the Peiping- Mukden railway
on Friday which para1yzed traffic.
The strikers were fired pending
settlement Of their grievances" and
blocked the traffic until they got
promise Of action on their demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
WINONA JOBLESS
MUST ORGANIZE
Victims of Boss Char
ity Rackets
(By a Worker Correspondent

WINONA, Mimi, Feb. 15.-Nearly
three thousand unemployed in this
little city Of twenty thousand are
facing starvation under the hunger
rationing charity takers scheme.
Explained by the cheating rackets
OF the bourgeois, workers had to sell
honey, apples, coupons, etc., in order
to get few pennies to save their
families from starvation, while the
Poor Commissioner paid the few be-
longing to her clique $40, while most
of the workers with whom the COM
missioner is not Interested are left
to starve on the streets.
An unemployed sterilization COM
mittee was formed under the aus
pieces of the War Vets, Eagles, and
Trades and Labor Assembly Ian AFL
OUTFIT to fool the unemployed with
promises for jobs Gobs, where no jobs
could be created.
This committee did not function
very long because the workers re-
voted against Sucn a silly Lot OF
nonsense.
Comrade Gangh went to Winona
Feb. 5 and now has a. large Daily
Worker circulation among the work.
ers. He has suggest . - organize
under the auspices of the TUUL and
its Unemployed Councils to present
their demands to the city for an
Unemployment Relief Fund to be
created by taxation upon the bosses
of the city. He is urging with the
workers to unite and fight for real
relief.
Workers in Winona should DEM
onstrate February Is along with the
countless billions who will take rart
in the demonstrations scheduled for
this day all over the world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18

LAWRENCE, Nashville the I'M
employed march the streets day at
5er day and are at all times tossed
around like animals and not like hui
man beings they are very much sur
brised and also disguised to pick a
ocal daily and to be greeted by a
hews item announcing that the newly
elected alderman of the Health and
Charities Dept, the department that
lives the small sum Of a couple Of
iollars a week to the poor unfor-
unates as they call them when they
pply for aid or rather ask for some
hing that rightfully belongs to them,
loves into the city home and then
ppoints himself as superintendent
nd his wife as matron at a salary
I $50 month and keeps.
Whole Family Profits
Being the father Of 10 children
is only natural that the children
along with their father and moth
and also be fed by the taxpayers
the city, thereby saving the Budke
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
omaha JObless to
March for Relief
On February Is
(By a Worker Correspondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
Omaha is organizing to demon
Strate. After the enthusiastic
meeting of Feb. 10 at which VIM.
2. Foster was the principal speak
er, the workers of Omaha seem
to realize more than ever the need
Of organization and demonstra-
ton. Every day since the meet
ing, the workers come up to the
Center, at 1171a N. 10th st. and
are joining the TUUL and the
Unemployed Council.
The workers in Omaha are plan
ming a large demonstration on
Feb. rs and the present indica-
lions are that Omaha will see the
greatest demonstration in its his
tory on that date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Worker Correspondence
Class in Chicago School

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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNISM. Farley;
dia Bennett, Bechtod
Friday 1885 Tuesday; Friday
2457 West Chicago Ave. Wednesday, 1O4 Milford pm
2. PRINCIPLES PROBLEMS OF PARTY ORGANIZATION L.
Lift Every Tuesday 1880
PRINCIPLES E. Gardo Every Tuesday
UNION FUNCTIONARIEs Instructor Phil
Frankfeld. Every Wednesday $780,
S. CORRESPONDENCE COURSE Instructor Barbara
Rand. Every Friday
Besides
Saturday at dealing following subjects
History the Communist Geber
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History of the Instructor
Eugene BechtOd
dmissO to IS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Office Workers Now Ready to Fight

couldn't get me drunk enough to loci.
the door and make things go well"
Another job I had for two months
with music house. One of their
branch offices closed, due to the gen.
eral slump and my job was given to
woman who had worked in the
branch office for 20 years. I had
just about finished paying the agency
for the position.
Am ready to fight? I am! I
hope you Of the Daily Worker can
tell me some way can personally do
my bit. I'm ready to do anything
from selling "Dailies" to soapboxing.
Clara G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Daily Worker, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gentlemen:
I've been reading the Worker and
seldom see anything by an office
worker and am registering herewith
my vote against the system" I'm
b stenographer and have been out
of work year. When tell a pros
pective employer that I've only had
temporary jobs they seem to think
there is something wrong with me,
that can't get permanent job.
Recently worked a week for a
publisher of pocket joke book. He
told me if things went well' the job
would last. 1t didn't last because he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Foreign Engineers In Soviet Union
Issue Letter Scoring Lies About
Forced Labor In the Soviet Union
Technical Experts from America, Germany
and Hungary Deny Forced Labor Yarn
In Capitalist Press

MOSCOW.-A group Of foreign en-
gineers and other technical experts
in the Soviet Union have issued an
open letter to the press roundly con-
demning the slanderous allegations
nnncarninQ forced Ia hnY. In g14a-ssa
Wet Union.
The letter declares that the under
signed are in the employment of
various Soviet institutions, that they
have worked all over the country and
that they have never observed any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
Communists Plan
to Put Ticket In
Field In Columbus
tBy a Worker Correspondent

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 1.-THE
Communist Party has nominated a
worker candidate for mayor in this
city. Petitions are now being circu-
lated to place the name of w. F..
Eaycock on the ballot for the fall
election on Nov. 8.
1t will be necessary to secure 1000
signatures of registered voters. All
workers are urged to aid in this work.
Ratification meetings will be held in
the near future.
Nominations for city clerk and for
three councilmen were deferred until
a later date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
SAN FRANCISCO SHOWS
TEMPORARY DECREASE

The largest drop for the week is shown in
District 49, California, which fell down to 1852
after cut in bundles in San Francisco. This
is due to the fact that twice as many we're
ordered than could be sold Now. actual sales
are going up A Red Builders News Club has
been formed. the district is paying bills every
week. and increases are promised on a solid
basis. District 6. Cleveland, took tumble Of
CT this week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-18
1000 Out of 11,OOO Left In Mccormick Works

place." So we got to take it or leave
1t as long as we are unorganized.
1 see in the Chicago Tribune that
the company has "given" 100000
to the Red Cross Drive. The Red
Cross wants to use the money to
give crumbs of charity to the far
mers to try to keep them from or
ganizing and fighting. The COM
pany is very generous with our
money. Now they'll cut the wages
in all their plants and get back the
money 10 times over.
Mccormack Slave.