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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
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In Other WOrds-War!
By JORGE

In the N. Y, Herald Tribune of June H. a gent
by the name of Joseph Stage Lawrence who is
ce-President of the Board or Industrial Coun-
sellers, Incorporated, lets in on what he thinks
is a cause of the crisis, and hints, broadly, at
what ought to be done about it. He says:
1.-THE greatest consumer of capital goods Is
war. Since we have fully repaired the destruc-
ton of the last great conflict, the world is now
able to go ahead and accumulate exclusively for
its peace time purposes. 1t is probable that this
particular adjustment is one of the major cons
tributng causes of the present depression"
Clear, isn't it? "The world" that is to say ths
capitalist world, has accumulated" too much
capital goods. TOO much" because the consum-
ing forces (Which are the masses of workers and
farmers besides the capitalists adding new fac
tories and machines to production) fail to use UP
goods as fast as they are produced.
And since this Mr.. Lawrence admits that
peace time consumption is inadequate to keep
up, and therefore there is an unused "accumu-
lation" and since "tle greatest consumer of cap
ital goods is war'-lets have a war and every
thing will be jake
Only a war will consume" few millions Of
workers. i'll additionl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
BY TOM JOHNSON


THE fact so often stressed by Lenin in his
L speeches and writings, that the best forces
of the working class develop and come to the
fore in the course of mass struggles, is again
confirmed in the Scottsboro defense campaign
in the South.
1t is no exaggeration to say that in Chatta-
nooga our Party is now for the first time
reaching and drawing into its ranks the best
and most courageous fighters from the ranks of
the Negro proletariat One example of this from
personal experience:
went last night with Negro worker, the
leader of his Naborhood Scottsboro Defense
Committee to Negro community over in
Georgia to speak at meeting he had arranged
there for the defense campaign. In our con-
versation on the way over I learned that he
was an old timer in the labor movement having
Joined the l. w. w. on the Pacific coast fol-
lowing his discharge from the army there in
1915 He had gone thru the red raids and
police terrorism of the war days member of
the Wobblies and had only left them when he
became convinced that the organization was no
longer a fighting revolutionary force Since
his return to Chattanooga several years ago
he has followed the revolutionary movement in
the press. He spoke with knowledge and en-
thusiasm of the Year Plan in the Soviet Union
and the new world the workers are building
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
New Forces - A Product OF the
Scottsboro Campaign

This worker has in the course of few short
weeks, developed into one Of the real local lead
ers in the Scottsboro campaign. He leads the
meetings and the activity of his Naborhood
Committee and he does a good job of it. On
his own initiative he has arranged not one but
many meetings in Negro churches and COM
munities. He has personally drawn scores of
workers into the movement to save the lives
of the Scottsboro boys. He has courage loyal
ty and initiative. He is typical of the splendid
revolutionary material everywhere about us,
which we unfortunately have not yet learned
sufficiently well how to draw into our move
ment and to utilize.
Why is this worker and many more like him
only today coming into the ranks of our Party?
The answer is clear These splendid fighters
are coming close to us today, are joining our
Party because Of the fighting mass campaign
waged under our leadership to free the Scots
boro boys. In this campaign these elements
see the Party in action as real Party of revo-
lutionary action, modifying masses for de-
termined struggle against oppression These
fighters, the best of our class, will develop and
come into our ranks only to the extent that
our Party initiates, organizes and leads such
fighting actions Of the workers for their most
pressing needs and around those burning issues
which most agitate the whole class The organi-
cation and leadership of such struggles is today
the first task Of our Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
TRIBE, Two Bits q Pound

One of those godGwfU detective magazines"
callyed the "Real Detective" which assures its
readers that every word is absolutely true
is out early with it's July edition with a lot of
plain and fancy fertilizer about THE Red Terror
in the U. S. A." Listen to this tripe:
Fearing neither Cod nor Devil they (the
Reds) do not hesitate to resort to tactics from
which Christian people would turn in horror"
Again: Murder was the measure of his Glen
in's) power. He could kill because he knew no
God"
1--WE are Christian people," said the United
States Supreme Court in denying citizenship to
Professor Macintosh and Miss Bland, precisely
because they wanted to support capitalism with
out killing people. Christianity demands that
you KILL SO long as you kill for captalism's in
terest,
In Alabama, a woman named Laura Wright,
who murdered her husband, tries to escape pun
ishment by saying that he was an atheist Asso-.
ciated Press May I'D. And if you examine the
list of murderers in any American State, you'll
find almost all of them good Catholics or de
vout ProteStants."
In fact, here in New York, the gangster- boot
logger wars result in murders by Catholics with
such tiresome regularity that when the moron
girl, Starr Faithful, who was both rich and batty,
took an overdose of dope and jumped in the
ocean, it was the first chance the Catholic ed-
tors of the capitalist daiies had a chance to
play up a Protestant murder"
So they did themselves proud, and are sti1l
selling oddles of papers to the scandalized Chris
tians, though it is the common talk of news
paper row that the girl killed herself, incident
ally, like Christians do The Chief of Staff of
the U. S. Army recently wrote a letter to thu
preachers, qeuting Scripture to prove that Chris
tianity definitely O. KS killing folks. Talk about
killing those who know God" beat atheists four
ways from the jack on both murder and suicdel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Three in One

Three items have come to our desk and des
reader, if you can read this without getting MAJ
all through, something is wrong with you.
First, circular letter sent out by Theodore
Roosevelt, the sap-head son of Teddy the Ter
rible, who is, by the grace of Hoover and the
National City Bank, Governor of Porto Rico
1t is letter asking for contributions to feed ths
hungry children of PoPrto Rico. a
No doubt they should be fed But by whoms
Roosevelt says that they are Loyal American
citizens but have been the victims of poverty,
disease and a disastrous hurricane"
American imperialism, which since 1t grabbed
Porto Rico has taken out of it in profits over
nineteen times its present national wealth, ac-
counts for the poverty" and the poverty ac-
counts for the disease and imperialism has
been worse than dozen hurricanes. Let the i'm
perialists who have robbed Porto Rico feed the
Porto Rican children
But Roosevelt says something else: He says.
Child hunger under the American flag is in
sufferable."
Sol How does it happen then that Hoover
himself manages to bear up under the fact he
himself cites that there are some 100000 chill
dren in United States suffering from ailments
traceable to "malnutrition"? And what about
the following concrete case, told in the Buffalo,
N. Y. "Times' of June 8, of man who told
to come and see. The grocer went to the work.
er's home, and
'The wife and mother was pale and enact
ated and the children were ragged and half
famished On the stove some meat was cook
ing. The man said he had killed q dog ana
they were cooking it,"
| We note that there 504 capitalists in tho
| United States according to income tax reports
| who don't work but who get" an income of
| Million Dollars or More per year, And we re-
member that Hoover said, when the crisis began,
that mo worthy citizen would go hungry"
| These children of the worker who had killed a
| dog to feed them, no doubt we're not "worthy"i
| The worker himseF certainly wasn't, for had he
| not killed dog And dogs ar eprivate property
| To eat the private property of somebody else is
| crime
| Such criminals are condemned In the third
item we have before us. A circular from w. T..
| Van Alstyne, Secretary of the "Sons of the Revo-
luton, who calls all patriots to arms against the
| Communists, who, says he Are avowedly press
ing ruthless campaign to destroy private own
ership Of property, religion and the personal lib
erty for which our fcrefathers fought"
Religion and hunger! Personal liberty and dog
| meat for workers. babies! Private ownership and
Imperialism which, for the profits of a few para
| sites, starves the American workers children
| just as it starves those in the oppressed colony
| of Porto Ricol -4.4--1
Sons of-No. not the Revoiution-a 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Help the AntiImperialist Struggle
in the PHILIPPINES

thing more than riot guns and determination
with the bosses is needed. The reformist con-
ventions accordingly sanctioned the formation
of a Socialist Union "as means to prevent
the propagation of sllbversive Communist
ideas" in the Philippines. Thus the Philippir
Greens have been inconspicuously blended int,
Philippine AIusteitesl The main commandmer
of this brand new species of Philippine labor
traitor is Keep faith in God and in the in
dependence of the people of the P. l. which
sooner or later can be attained through the
proper development of their natural resources"
Against all these nlanouvers Of Philippine re-
formism designed to keep away the masses from
the revolutionary class struggle, the Pan-Pacific
Trade Union Secretariat calls upon the Philip
pine Proletarian Labor Congress to organize the
working class in their daily struggles against
the bosses. 1t calls upon them to fight for
the legality of the revolutionary trade unions,
for a revolutionary proletarian press as the
powerful organizer of the masses; against gov
eminent interference in labor disputes and strike
arbitration against the white terror and the
suppression of working class organization The
Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat draws the
attention of the Proletarian Labor Congress to
the necessity of establishing "the closest con-
nection with the revolutionary proletariat IN the
USA. (the Trade Union Unity League) with
whom Joint action and solidarity will be most
effective in the struggle against American i'm
perialsm"
1t is the task of our Communist Party and
the revolutionary trade unions in the USA,
as well as the American Anti Imperialist League,
to show through action that we vast and de-
serve the confidence of the revolutionary masses
of the Philippines 1t is our foremost duty to
help them to throw off the yoke of American
imperialism. Right here in the United States
there are tens of thousands of Filipino workers
who suffer from discrimination and terrible eX-
ploitation. We must prepare them for the COM
ing struggle in the Philippies by organizing
them on the basis of their immediate demands
We must explain to them the revolutionary
issues at stake in their home country. urge them
to give moral and material support to the re-
volutionary organizations in the Philippines
And, above all, a nationwide campaign for the
| release of the class war prisoners who are nov
rotting in the jails of Yankee imperialism II
the P l., for the legality of all working clas
organizations there, for the freedom OF speech
! and assemblage, must be iitiated without delay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
By SAM NESIN


THE shortcomings enumerated in the previous
article are contributing factors which account
for our organizational weakness. However the
outstanding weakness is that we are still iso-
lated from the neighborhood and its every day
grievances against high rents, high cost of food,
electric gas, coal unsanitary housing, lack of
play grounds for the children, starvation and
evictions. We must entrench ourselves in the
neighborhood and become the leaders in these
daily struggles linking them up with our gen.
eral demands for immediate relief and unem-
ployment insurance. Uniting these forces with
the employed workers in struggle against wage
cuts, Speed-up and for the shorter work day
with no reduction in pay. The fight against dis
elimination against Negro and foreign born
workers must be carried on to much greater
extent than in the past, particularly on the
issues of rent and relief
In many instances we found neighbors coll
1ecting money among themselves to help family
threatened with eviction Also collecting food
and money for starving neighbors In Harlem
Negro woman cooked stew for the unem-
ployed members of the branch. Clothing was
brought into other branches by sympathetic
neighbors These gtnuine expressions of work
ingclass solidarity have not been taken advan-
tage of organizationally. We failed to realize
that these masses were expressing themselves in
a very practical way. These very same families
that show their interest in the struggle by
bringing food, clothing or money, will ALSO help
to resist evictionS accept as part of neighbor-
hood delegations to demand relief from the boS-
Ses and the CITY government and participate in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1881
Pollution Eliminated

The trunk line sewer that has been built up the bed of the Naugatuck river is practie- ally completed. Waterbury has wielded one link in its plan to eliminate pollution of the Naugatuck river. In this respect the city might serve as model to other large com nunities of Connecticut that have, as yet. made no effort to end pollution of streams into which they pour sewage and factory wastage. The scheme which Waterbury started few years ago is prodigious one and involves expenditure of a considerable sum of money. However it is well worth what we will pay for it.
 Eventually this trunk line sewer up the .Naugatuck will carry all waste directly to the disposal plant in South Waterbury. The sswhite elephant" of thirty years ago may at last be put into working order and the city De repaid something on its original invest rnent A second trunk line is to extend up the Mad River. Into these all laterals will run SO that every bit of domestic sewage can be carried to the disposal plant where it will be neutralized before emptying back into the Nsugatuck river. Such plan as this, exeeut- cd on large scale. should certainly encourage other cities and towns to follow suit.
 Waterbury was long considered the worst offender in the Naugatuck valley as far as stream pollution is concerned. Of course the entire Naugatuck river wasn't affected by the sewage and wastage from this city. Every city and town in the valley offends in this respect to the best of our knowledge. We don't know any that treat sewage before de- posting it in the stream. Nor do we know any that have put into execution such plans for elimination of the evil as has Waterbury For that matter there are few cities in the state that have adopted the progressive pro gram of pollution elimination that this city has.
 When Waterbury finally Completes its task of diverting all sewage to disposal plant for treatment n will De time for Director Wad- hams and his associates on the state water ecmmission to turn their attention to the fac tories of the valley. They must follow the example of municipalities and .neutralize the poisonous chemicals and the like which are de- posted in the Naugatuck river now. causing just as much pollution as domestic sewage. Cleaning up of the streams and ponds of Con- r,ectieut, not to mention Long Island Sound is one of the great problems of the day. he time may not be far distant when cities and towns will be forced to purify polluted river water. especially so if private corporations ,cohtinue to grab up all available water rights
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22


 be the republican candidate for the position of congressman-a in 1o32. Certainly # he is elected Speaker of the House in Deceni- Der of this year the chances of his being nom- mated for this position will increase Con- nectieut republicans will be encouraged not to take any chances of the House Speaker being defeated. Of recent years Mir Tilson has had close race in the third district. In another year there is no telling which way sentiment in the third district might sway and MT lii- sons position can't be endangered
 If it is the intention of the eneral Assembly to postpone to its next session the task of re- districting Connecticut there can only be eriti- cism of such an action. There is no need to postpone the inevitable. As far back as l9Zl the state was ready to redistriet. The Bowers bill could still have been adopted in l93l with slight modificatlons. If redstrieting IS put off until l933 it is safe to say that suc- cessive Legislatures will likewise procrastinate until l940 and another federal census is here. It is stated that in l940 Connecticut might lose its sixth representative under the decen- nial reapportionment which now is auto matic The chances of losing the extra rep resentative are slim. We might better have redistricted. dangerous at is may seem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22
A SINISTER BILL.

(NeW Haven Journal-Courier.)
 The Judiciary committee of the present general assembly, one of the most important of the legislative |committees, has for its presiding off, cer Raymond Johnson. who Is also assistant attorney general of the state. To him, as the statutes direct. lthe state tuberculosis commission confided their plans for eniargins | the grounds of the Seaside Sana- ltorium at Mantle and thereby inc creasing the states ability to care for her children crippled with tubercu- losis of the bones. Last Friday the judiciary commit- tee sent into the house with q favor- able report. bill of it's own devising q bill on which 50 far as can De learned, no public hearing was held q bill which purported to be an ef' fort to help the state to secure the land needed for its proposed new Seaside buildings, but which really was a bill intended to prevent the state from securing hardly more than a third Of the necessary land and which continued the following Remarkable section:
 tsec 3.-Any authority to take ans other land of the aforesaid tract un
 der any other jaw is revoked. ant humber 3b6 of the Special Acts o
 logs. and number S74 of the specin
 Acts of 1895, arc repealed"
 ln othor words. these Bpiomonn q line present general assembly, ordniI IthsA ths siAis shait eAlEseneer it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22
Quiet Reigns Along The Shore

Representative Joseph P. Lawrence. demo- crat, of Stamford says that the recall of the bill creating special commission to buy and develop seashore park in Fairfield county and appropriatiiig S750.000 for this purpose IS due to the vast amount of publicity that the press of the state gave this attempted steal, termed by many veteran politicians to be the worst ever conceived in Connecticut. In major credit for its speedy and happy demise must go to an alert. unbridled and public part Representative Lawrence said, The minded press. acting with unusual unanimity Thank God for the Fourth Estate.
 In this writers experience he has never seen the press of Connecticut so united as it was in condemnng the action of the Legis .latpre in creating a special body to super sede the state park and forest commission in buying and developing a park and also in appropriating so large an amount as was intended to be used for this one seashore park Why our entire state park and forest system probably was bought for $75O,OOO. Of course some such grand sum would be needed if the state did purchase the site at Roton Point where an amusement park now operates Of course with gambling devices doomed to go at such resorts after this year the operators of Roton Point might well like to unsaddle their property on the state at fancy figure.
 Now the state can proceed with its plans to develop Sherwood Island which has been- intended for state park purposes since 1914 when we acquired it. The state park and forest commission can probably carry on the fight in the future if it is given little legis- s;y. hsrL;no whirh involves of course some financing A new park can't be developed properly when the appropriations committee only allows the board S50.000 for new parks and forests. A special appropriation could be voted next Tuesday when the Legislature meets to wind up this sessions business A S50.000 appropriation has already been ru. mcred but Elsie Hill, well known in Fairfield county public affairs says that won't be enough. It would permit start, which IS something after seventeen years of inactivity
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22
TODAY IS THEA
 ANNIVERSARY &5lgAKA
REPLY TO HEFLIN

On May 22, 1917, President Wilson wrote a letter to Representative lief lin of Alabama expressing surprise that the presidents position regard ing the attitude of the United States in the war against Germany had been misunderstood.
 The letter was written in response to one by MT Hefiin to the president In which Hefiin called attention to speeches made in the house by two who claimed that the president had said that the United States had mo real grievance against |Germany.'
 Hefiin. therefore, suggested that the president. to correct false im- precision, make q disavowal of the latitude accredited hi mby the two |consressmen. In reply the president wrote, in part:
 .Tt Is incomprehensible to me how any frank and honest person lcouid doubt or question my position with regard to the war and it's ob. jects. have again and again stated the 4. |. wrongs which the | imperial German government hni perpetrated against the rights, tho Icommerce. and the citizens of tho United states There is no hate
 in our hearts for the German peo' Iple, but there is c resolve tt overcome the pretensions of ths |autoeratie government which aoti Iupon purposes to which the Der. Iman peania have never eony%"sH"''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22

Frederick P. Latimer, the peripatetic colum- ist of the Hartford Times. was in this section of the state last Saturday while on his way to the regatta on the Housatonic. He found the going irksome in and around Lake Quassa- paug where the new road is now under way. He wasn't sure about the name of the hill leading down into Woodbury. Mir Latimer thought it might be Adams mountain. but the natives of Waterbury and environs refer to it as Ben Sherman Hill. In recommending detour around Quassapaug MT Latimer referred to the Oxford road which is the first maeadam road on the left after leaving Mid dlebury. It's well worth travelling and isn't known to many motorists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-22
A Real Estate Bank

Real estate has suffered in the general slump of values but it has held its own better than ]. almost any other form of property, says Harry S. Kissell. president of the National Assoca. ton of Real Estate Boards. Real estate, fur 'thermore, is fundamental It is the final base of all other material values. It is also, more than most kinds of property. base of moral values Its values must be preserved. or the other values vanish.
 Wherefore. in its present plight. while there are so many efforts to do something for other forms of property Mir Kissell thinks some- thing should be done for real estate to help it through the crisis. What he suggests partieu- larly is national mortgage bank which would discount real estate mortgages in much the same way that Farm Loan banks handle farm dle commercial notes. It is worth thinking mortgages and the Federal Reserve banks han about.