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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

.s Thirteen civil actions asking $24,- 900 damages were started in local courts today. Eight of the actions begun in the common pleas court resulted from automobile acci- @dents in which damages of S13,- 500 are sought. The city of Water bury is named defendant in a suit for $5000 by Edward Morris aris- ing from injuries suffered in fall on an alleged defective sidewalk on Phoenix avenue. Two divorces, two foreclosures and two common count actions round out the re- maining suits.
 Among the automobile actions, the Connecticut Go. Is named de- fendant in a suit started by Jennie D. Mulha1l, 50 years. of age who claims she was severely injured last Feb 21, when the Highland avenue bus driver failed to stop the bus from which she was an alight-, ing passenger near the curb at the corner of Ledgeside avenue.
 Edward Mcdonald of this city is named defendant in two actions asking $6500 damages. Louis Dwy- CT seeks $500 and Fred H. Hig- gins asks $50o0 as result of in juries suffered when Mcdonald permitted his car in which they were passengers, to strike a fence post on the Middlebury road last June 14th.
 Catherine E. Daly asks S1,000 from Rose Fernandes for damage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
AUTO ACCIDENTS LEAD IN CIVIL ACTIONS
Three Sizes in
 Legal Notice
City Election to Be Held
 Oct 6 From 6 to 6

The legal notice for the city election to be held next Tuesday was published to-day. This means that the real test of strength will soon come off, and not until after the votes are counted will it be definitely known who is ahead. The battle will start in the morning and continue until 6 in the evening.
 The republicans are doing a good deal of sparring, going into an- cient history and evidently de- pending much on accusations, which, whether true or false, can- not be charged to the present ad- ministration. On the other hand Mayor Hayes and those associated with him are not trying to glorify themselves by comparing their work with that of those who pre- ceded them. They appear content to give an account of their man. agement of city affairs since they assumed the reins of government, and trust to the intelligence of the people to decide wisely when they 20 to the polls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
Predicate Health
 on Environment
Scientists to Examine Babies in Effort to
 Prove Point

Cleveland, O.. Sept 30 (UP)- Western Reserve university scien- lists announced plans to-day to ex- anime 100 three months old babies in an effort to prove child health is more dependent upon environ ment than prenatal influences.
 The babies all born in the uni versity maternity hospital, will be subjected to physical and psycholo- gical examinations when they reach the age of three months.
 Outlining the plan, pr Todd said each child will be studied every three months of the first year, every six months during the period between one and five years and once a year thereafter. The study is expected to extend over a period of 10 years.
 Babies to be observed are not selected from any one group or class of society, the scientist said. Some of them come from wealthy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

1 homes, others from less comfort able circumstances. Their mothers have agreed to assist science in ob-
 serving and tabulating details of behavior. Family histories as far
 back az the maternal grandfather
 will be recorded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
Police Save Life
 Of Baby Girl
Form Human Chain of Respirators and Mother Goes
 on Her Way Rejoicing

New York, Sept 29.-(UP)-A taxicab jerked to a stop in front of the Greenpont police station, Brooklyn to-day just as a detail of 20 policemen was preparing to march out on patrol duty.
 A woman with baby girl in her arms leaped out of the cab and stumbled into the station house.
 My baby" she screamed. My baby's dead!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
Seni-P Pro On Vigil
 At Shibe Park
Calhoun Will Remain at Bleacher Gates Until Seat
 Sale Starts Monday Morning

Philadelphia, Sept 30-(UP)- The first game of the world series in Philadelphia is a Hong way off for George Calhoun. 20, semi-pro- fesional baseball player, who awoke at dawn to-day outside the bleacher gates at Shibe park. ]
 Wearing his baseball uniform, Calhoun took first position at the gate when he arrived last night at 10 o'clock. He promised his team mates that he will remain there until the $1 seats go on sale at 10 a. m. Monday, the day the Phila- delphia Athletics and the St Louis Cardinals are scheduled to play the third game of the 1881 classic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

A policeman stepped forward and took the baby from the fran tic mother, Mrs Anna Gillinos. The other policemen took off their blouses, piled them on a table and made a soft bed for the baby.
 Then, one of the patrolmen bent over the child and breathed into her mouth while others slowly moved her tiny arms and legs.
 For 15 minutes the policemen re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

His teammates have wagered with another semi-professional club that Calhoun won't "give up the gate."
 It is part of the proposition that he should wear his baseball uni form. Every member of his team has volunteered to keep him sup piled with food, reading material and other articles of necessity.
 ''It was cold last night" he said, despite the fact that I had large robe and heavy sweater. I hope I get some company soon." And he probably will.
 Calhoun is out of work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

lieved each other. Finally a faint cry arose from the child. She moved bit, An
 ambulance surgeon arrived, treat ed the child for internal conyul-
 sions, and the mother, rejoicing
 at her baby's recovery carried her home,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
NEW pRor AT HARvARD.

Cambridge, Mass. Sept 30-(UP) --Appointmeut of Dr Charles Franklin Brooks of the Clark Uni versity faculty as professor of me- teorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory was announced by Harvard University today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30

One movie theater in Spalding, England, reports that the amount received for admissions during the last financial year represents an average of 50 cents a week for every family in the town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
PHEASANT BREAKs

Las Animas, Colorado John Rice, 22, was severely cut when pheasant flew into the wind 2 shield of his machine. breaking the glass. The pheasant was killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-30
Middlebury road property is in-
 

Middlebury road property Is in- volved.
 On common count writs, Dr Richard J. Hinchey asks $500 from Herman and Edna Toepke and McCoy's, Inc, seek $500 from Frank A. Collella. Anna Haght asks $1,000 damages from the Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank, executor of the estate of Lucy J. Thomas. 1he plaintiff seeks to recover for services she alleges rendered in the Thomas home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
No Tin Cups. You Vets!

jor General Hartford has given the Amer
lean Legion orders that its members should be-
ware of demanding the balance of their tomb
stone bonus in cash. That, says the Major Cen
eral, is holding out lineup"
Wen bet our left eye that SO per cent of the
veterans haven't much use for Major Cen
erals anyhow but let them listen to this, which
was published in the N. Y. Journal, September
IA the day before Harbord got Mortified over
"tincups";
Legion Can Use Any Discards'-said the
headline. Then the story began: "The Kings
County American Legion through its welfare
committee has issued call to all persons who
contemplate moving this season net to threw
away any old furniture, clothing for men, wo-
men or children any other material that
can be used this winter to aid veterans and
their families who may find themselves in
want. Funds of the committee have been ex-
hausted by the tremendous demands for as
sistance made on the committee, but large
part of this demand can be filled by utilisa-
ton of waste material Of every description"
Now, veterans isn't that perfectly lovely
Waste materials Evidently the Major General
is against tin cups because you can't collect a
busted rocking chair in it, or any other waste
matter" So lay to- you "heroeS' (of 19l7-16)
and stand by to take on garbage for yourselves
and families. The Major General probably in
tended to add that rather than tin cups, gar
bage cans are better
But if you vets want to know what the Major
General was really and honest-to-god worried
about just pipe this news item of a gent who
doesn't need tin cup:
"Covington, Va, Sept. Is associated Press
The marriage On April Is Of George Hunt
ington Hartford, heir to The S2O3,0Ga 600 Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune, to
Miss Mary Elizabeth Epling Of WEIGH, W. Va
has been disclosed ~ records here"
It seems that t',= soang blood has mother
who hired a certain dame called Miss Mildred
King ito divert the sons attention from an un-
named New York woman in whom he was lie
terested, to some one more suitable to the
mother''-or so says Mildred King in a suit TO
collect 100000 from the mother for the "dl-
verting" job The item adds ......
Hartford is a sophomore at Harvard where
he has considerable reputation as a squash
racquets player"
Now. vets, THAT is what you fought tor And
the prize squash racquets player with 200 0oo,-
600 smackers must NOT be approached with
high taxes to pay your cash bonus or furnish
you unemployment insurance And THAT, vets.
is what Major General Harbord calls "tn curg"
The moral of this story is that you vets should
line up with the Workers Ex-sevice Mems
League. 70 E. 10th St, New York City, for the
cash bonus and unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

The N. Y Times of Sept. IS. by way of pre-
pairing for the Disarmament conference at
Geneva next year, and in order to put pleas
ant face on the huge expenditures American
capitalism is making for war, gave us the fol-
lowing:
Money costs in the United States are 50 much
higher than elsewhere that inevitably we should
appear as the most n1ilitaristic of all the ma
tons
SO, money costs here are higher, eh? But the
Times "forgets" all about that when it tries
to tell American workers hlsv much better off"
they are than workers in the Soviet Union, and
they prove" it by comparing the money wages
of the Soviet workers in roubles to American
dollars, at two roubes per dollar
Yes money costs are higher here on every
thing, which makes all such comparisons false.
Look on page three Of the Daily Worker Of
Sept 49, and see there letter from an Ame.t-
can worker in the Soviet Union where he tells
how he is going on a vacation, taking ten day
train ride for rs roubles. That's about $3.50
U. s. money. But tell us, where will you ride
ten days on trains in this country for that
price9 Yes and where do you get vacations to
have the time to take such trips2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

the gunner, and the courts we're working hand
in hand on every new outrage against the
miners.
"One after another the A. F. of L. and the
+ w w union leaders have sold the miners
out. Ike Lane, who organized the I. w. w.
locals, was released and vanished after he told
the sheriff where to find his charters and a list
of members in his unions.
When Ike Lane was being taken downstairs
to the judges office, Mrs. Wakefield asked the
taller, Leslie Ball, rs Ike Lane going to get
out?" Ball answered: He'll get out if he turns
over his I w W. charter and the other stuff
he has.
Although Lane was taken back to jail that
night the deputies went directly to the place of
concealnent of the L W. w. membership lists,
ETC. They we're buried clear under his house,
and had been entirely safe during three previous
raids
immediately after securing the lists the price
was paid: Lane was released and the sheriff i'm
medately announced that he would get out war
rants for the 200 names on the list.
Mention the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea and the Harlan miners spit. But they are
desperately eager to join the National Miners
Union, for they see these leaders facing death
every day and they have confidence that this
time they won't be sold out
Little by little by underground methods and
stealth, they are defeating the gangster terror
of the coal operators. They find ways of dodg-
ing the road patrols so that t.-ey can get to
meetings. Sometimes a few carloads of thugs
show up but when they see these grim miners
in a mass, they turn and chug away as fast
as they can go. The miners are determined to
fight They know they can get no justice from
the courts The deputy who murdered the soup
kitchen operators in cold blood was released i'm
mediateIy on $4,000 bail Union men falsely
charged with murder have all been held all the
hot summer without bail
Let miner be caught reading the Southern
Worker and he is flung in a cell without hope
of release When one of the most vicious gun
men, Jim Daniels, was slain in an open battle
on a highway AZ miners were indicted, though
most of them have proved albis that they were
nowhere near the shooting. The judge and the
sheriff are out to get the leaders, of course. In
this way, they hope to cripple the organization.
Il don't believe they will succeed. But we are
desperately in need of money to defend the
miners still in jail and to feed their starving
families Me? Oh I'm going back to Kentucky
soon. No sheriff can tell me to stay out Hon
est, once you see those people and what grand
fight they are putting up and how they suffer,
you just have to go back"
This is Jessie Wakefields story
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
&!a'"@<-
Busting Tradition

Shocking amazing, Supplying paralysing
And what's worse still, 1t violates tradition
Listen at this patriotic horse-radish taken from
the news:
I'm the wardrooms and flag-officers' quar-
tiers an atmosphere of consummate grief is apo
parent while an attitude of humiliation is
keenIy felt because of the unprecedented blow
which has been struck at the prestige of tbs
traditions of Britains glorious elder service"
Well If the blow" had no precedent, fu-
ture blows" surely have one now! And all the
blooming "grief- stricken" admirals and impe-
rialistS headed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, can
just go ahead and cry gobs of tears.
And with good reason; a British High Sea
Fleet which goes on strike costs untold hundreds
of millions of dollars but isn't worth a farthing
to lombard Bolshevik coastal cities The capt.
ta1iSts can't depend on It, No wonder the N Y.
Post opens its editorial by saying: Almost ev-
erything has been turned upside down since
1914" Only it neant-since 1917, and Noyem-
Der of that year.
Let no one get the idea that mutiny in the
British Fleet is happy event for American inn
perialisn, just because the two imperialsns are
preparing for war against each other. Mutiny
is highly infectious disease. More, capitalist
war depends upon the enemy" acting regular
and not violating traditions" by say-wig-wag
ging the American jackes the question:
what are you Yanks fighting us for? For
the foreclosures on your Dads farms, for the
Unemployment Relief your brothers are not get
ting, for wage cuts given your sisters, or whatP
Please explain, because we're not fighting for
wage cuts"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
By JOHN sCHNnEs.

The following is a quotation from the capt.
talst newspapers. boosting Murphy for City
Mayor:
Enough tomatoes to make 10000 quarts of
canned goods were purchased at the Eastern
Jacob, acting for the Food Committee of the
Mayors Unemployment Committee. This
the first step to provide needy Detroit fani-
lies with some of their food during the
winter"
i of over 100000. This of course, does not in
clude all the dependents of this army of unem-
poyed We have a still larger army of work
ers who are working only part time. Misery and
starvation is growing rapidly in Detroit. Among
many families actual hunger is the order of the
day. Thousands of families are being evicted
thousands of workers are losing their homes
The public schools were closed for 2 weeks longer
due to infantile paralysis which develops due
to the lack of proper nourishment and over
crowded housing among large sections of the
population. This fact is even admitted by the
leading doctors in the city, including doctors
in charge of the City Health Department
If one compares this frightful situation devel-
oping among the masses and then reads in the
papers that the canning of 10000 quarts of to-
matoes is to relieve these conditions, one can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
"Reliet" According to the Y

you hold these jobs. We only used these
jobs an example of the kind you could get
If you had the training. The best thing q work
er can do these days" says Whitehead, lis to
trust in god and be careful of his company"
what do you mean by that statement" asked
the worker. why, mean he should stay
away from the Reds and other radicals that
are trying to undermine our government If a
will do this he will come out on top even
tually, in spite of the depression
You will take these three tickets downstairs
and get yourself something to eat Then at five
o'clock you will report at the desk and get as
signed to your bed At eight-fifteen you will
report for your medical examination Tomor-
row morning you will come back here and will
give you five hours work around the building
If after you have been here few days, you
should get job you will pay the ~ for your
bed and food at the rate of 80 cents a day
You will not be allowed to move your clothes
until the full amount has been paid This bill
starts today and comes out of your first weeks
pay. So the quicker you get yourself job the
less you will have to pay.
But I thought I was paying for my board
and bed by working these five hours a day.,
said the worker.
These are the rules of the house. If you
want to accept them, Q. K. if not, don't ever
expect any help from us again
Having no other alternative the worker asked
where. the dining room YVES and was told to go
downstairs and turn to the left and he would
find it. Doing this, he found himself in nice
large we'll lighted dining room However he
had no more than stepped into this place than
he was told that this was the dining room for
people who could afford to pay for the food
they got and that he would have to go into
the next room. When he got into the next
room he saw an altogether different picture. The
room Yves dark the tables dirty, and the food
was laid out on the counter where it was
posed to the dirt and flies. Being half starved
he bought bowl of dirty soup and bowl of
some stuff the counterman called coffee He
was given a couple of slices OF bread to go with
the soup. The food" was so dirty and taste
less that he could hardly keep 1t in his stomach
Fellow workers, this is the kind of unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
BY A. B. MCKENZIE.

BY A. B. MCKENZIE
THE other morning unemployed worker was
walking down the Bowery when he noticed
the sandwich man of the "Y'' walking in front
of him He read the sign advertising the "Un-
employed Relief" restaurant, and decided to see
If they would help him He applied at the desk
and was, told to see a Mr.. McNfenanlin who is
the interviewer of all applicants for aid AS the
worker entered this mans office he was greeted
as follows: whats your nameP Where do you
live? You say you live in Pennsylvania? Why
did you come to N. Y? Because YOU are broke?
Is that any reason why N. Y. should have to
support you? Don't you think we have enough
to support here with over eight hundred thou
sand unemployed? Well, it isn't our fault that
a firm had you come here to work and then
didn't hire you You should have made them
sign contract before you came here How old
are you? How much education have you had?
Married? Divorced, Ell? Why? All right, re-
port at the desk and the man out there will
give you your meal checks for lunch and then
you will see Mr.. Whitehead in the other office
Your number will be 81"
While waiting for Mr.. Whitehead the worker
noticed sign on the bulletin board advertising
number of jobs to be filled Here is par
tial list of them:
Collection Correspondent Asst Engineer and
Fireman, Duco Sprayer. Auto Mechanic, Lii
csnsed Engineer, Sales Manager, Stenographer,
Private Secretary. The wages ranged from $75
per month to $50 per week
Being an experienced correspondent and sales
manager, this worker, when he finally got in to
see Mr. Whitehead, Who by the way, was a
short well fed looking individual asked about
these jobs. Mr. Whitehead looked very much
surprised and said, why, We haven't had any
jobs in here with the exception Of one day,
part time job for over six months and as fer
as 1 can see there won't be any" The worker
asked him what the "Y" meant by the sign on
the bulletin board advertising these jobs
whats the matter with you asked Whitehead,
cant you read? On the bottom of that sign
It tells you that these jobs are for people who
have education enough to fill the requirements,
and that we are starting night school at which
you can get the proper training In order that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
BY FRANK E. O'BRIEN

~THE Legions on Parade" This is not the first
time that the American Legion has paraded
itself as the enemy Of the working class, but
now its hostility becomes more open, more pro-
nounced. This week the American Legion is
launching a fight against the payment of I'M
employment insurance to the millions of starving
and hungry workers. To be sure, the Legion
terms its Washington conference "Jobless
Farley. Capitalist politicians farmer-labor dem
agogues, bankers and a whole galaxy of para
sites are to meet with American Legion heads
to map out a campaign of strategy to be used
against woskers fighting for the right to live
The "war plans" when completed will be dis
patched to some 10000 commanders of Legion
posts scattered throughout the country and or
dered carried into execution
The real fascist character of the conference is
best illustrated by statement issued by Ralph
T. O'Neill national commander of the Legion.
ONeiu says in part
THE unemployment situation presents an
emergency comparable to that of 1917, and our
membership will function again it did i'm
191z-the gangster and the racketeer look
zig for recruits and their seductive whisperings
will be poured into the ears of hungry men.
Unrest and fear are abroad in the land and
the ranks of the unemployed fertile fields
for the fallacies of Communism. Lawlessness
and Communism are more direct threat at
the integrity of the government which we are
pledged TO maintain than was the threat of
autccracy in 1917"
Commander ONeil1 has doubts that cure for
Unemployment can be found under the present
capitalist system, but intends to employ every
means at his disposal to force the workers to
endure their sufferings under the existing social
order. ONoill states,
eve want to be of assistance not only in re-
iieving the immediate distress incident to the
present depression but hope to find the cause
and the cure, if there be one, and to inaugu-
rate campaign that will help to furnish some
permanent relief"
The American Legion's conference cannot and
will not remedy the present economic crisis
This parey, as I have stated previously does not
have that as its real purpose. The American
Legion stands out today, more clearly than ever
before as an arch-enemy of militant workers
-.rugglng for unemployment insurance and inn
mediate relief for themselves and their fami-
lies The only solution that the Legion will find
for the unemployment situation will be street
corner apple selling and odd Jobs about the paa-
tial mansions of the idle rich
An article from the pen of william K Hutch
irson International News Service Staff Core
spondent says
"AI controversial Issues have been banned by
Legion officials in charge of the conference.
This taken to mean that such subjects
the soldiers bonus and proposed increases and
extensions of the world war pension act viii
be tabooed.*