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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
TOKYO ROCKED
 BY EARTHQUAKE
Struck There Last Night and Property Damage May Be Very Great

Tokio, June 17.-(UP)-Tokio and vicinity were rocked by a se- were earthquake starting at 9:1O o. clock tonight. Authorities be- lieved considerable property dam age would be reported.
 Several sections of the city were in darkness due to the failure of power lines. Telephone and tele- graph lines also were damaged. Some damage was reported at To- kohama, the seaport city IS miles from here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
NURSE QUERIED
 ON DR SUICIDE
Physician Dies in Cell From Overdose of Drug Given Him

Brockton, Mass. June b7.-CUP) Mrs Helen B. Pease, 50, a nurse who had been questioned in con- nection with the suicide of Dr Thomas w. Shaw, Whitman physician, was arrested here to-day on a secret indictment charging possession. of narcotics.
 The woman was one of three per- sons who visited Dr Shaw in his Whitman police cell shortly before he committed suicide by swallowing narcotics. He was awaiting arraign- ment On an illegal surgery charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
BUNKER HILLDAY
 HAS HEAVY RAIN
Boston Celebration Given Hard Blow on the Out- door Exercises

Boston, June 17-(UP)-Rain to- day marred Boston's celebration of the 156th anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.
 It had been expected that 100000 persons would witness a parade of 7OS0 marchers, but downpour this morning indicated that the lines of spectators along the route of this afternoons procession would be ma terially thinned.
 Most of She days exercises were to be heifin the Charlestown dis trict. sce&e of the battle of Bunker Hill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
MII,IJON TO ~. OF P

Philadelphia. June i7--tUp-An unrestricted gift Of ''Homething over si 1000, ,000" from Cyrus II. K cur' tis, magazine and newspaper puhs fisher, Co tho University of PennAyi. vanla was announced today at the UnivtraIty's i7bth commencement exercisea,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
nIiRNEn TO DEATH

-Mrs 'SSsss.s s.ismmis s''ii Siss"m, sS" 50. was burned Co death when she feIl Into on epen fireplace ai her home here last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
aIFnITnN AgIfrInE.

Shelton. Conn. Juno if--(Upl-- Henjamin Warner, 4i, committed suicide at hla home here last night by dFlnklns hy poison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. June 17.-(UP)--The treasury net balance for June l5 was S3i.4s2.6 .626.32.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
W0 STATE HUNGER MARCHES LEAD TO May FIRST
Takamatsu, Get Out!

cEcRETARY sson monarchs
y against welcoming
foreigners" arrange
sale deportationS of oegnborn workers with the other
bloody the
visit these shores.
foreigner worker
Haiuch organizing
farm workers in California On the the distinguished visitor"
OF MI sunon Crown Prince Takamatsu brother OF the mperast
millions peasants
feudal oppressed
Formosa and subjugated China.
welcomed at the Port of New York and
Secretary sson whose flair for
which can afford not
ten million American job financing
swarm OF experts 10 each no lesser dar1es than Professor Nicholas
Butler precisely say
what kind of the
publicity by Department
given out by Mr. Son only in relation the workers
in spite of this of supposed tight censorship
of the police
murders OF japanese workers by the barbarian hencmen
baran prince
American workers will demand to know
japanese Parliament was mr-
deed in cold blood the
american workers WI" hur the accusation OF assassin
waanabe Secretary Japan m-
deed by the hiings of the N1kado
stmson Grown Prince of
this constitutes to tell this
royal Of the epes and robbers millions
OF Japanese imperialism that he is not wanted this couny
simson deny working class its inherent
right to demonstrate its international
to screen the preparations against
east behind Mr. Stmon polite hypocrisy possible com
mon cause with imperial Japan against =
The American challenges right all mperss
to rob workers.
last week under despoc law which makes
organization Of workers justify reception to Mr.
smsons guest And the American workers
thr op and dstaste They going to shout that
can hear--Takamatsu Get Quit
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
MACHADO ADMITS
FEAR OF UPRISING
Stays Clear of Havana
AS Congress Opens

While the Cuban Congress opened
Monday, with the supporters of Ma
chado present. ready to do his and
Wall Streets bidding, with 10000 paid
troops at the command of the but
cher-president of Cuba, Machado
said he was afraid to appear because
OF sriots.''
Not many months ago Machado
issued statement to the American
capitalist papers saying he feared no.
body, as the Cuban people loved
him. Now he admits he fears mass
uprisings. and is staying away from
the Capitol.
Several days ago Machado offered
a truce to the opposition among the
Cuban bourgeoisie, but the truce was
rejected. The rejection Of the truce
did not come about because these
oppositions most of whom would be
ready to unite with Machado, are
against a united front. but the mass
es Of Cuba are becoming more reyo-
lutiorary and a truce would not ytayc
off The e9wips sharp conflicts.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
DOCK STRIKERS
PICK C0MNITTEEI
Ficketing at Pier s
This Morning

NEW YORK.-A meeting of a good
part of the SO strikers who walked
out last week against wage cuts at
the Green Coffee Warehouse of Laf-
ayette Lightering Corp, Pier 8,
Brooklyn, was held yesterday at 70
Myrtle Ave, and a strike committee
of four elected. The meeting drew
up demands for: IS cents per hour,
coffee piles to be only sacks high,
and recognition of the warehouse
committee. The Marine Workers
Industrial Union called the meeting.
Scabs have come on the job due to
the absence of real picketing, but the
strike committee and the Marine
Workers Industrial Union will Or
ganize the picket line, today at 8 a. m.
Yesterday morning several strikers
who tried to go back we're stopped
by the others.
When the company saw the strik-
ers were beginning to organize, they
called the police to chase away the
organizers, but the committee is still
on the job.
Much interest is being shown by
workers of New York dock ware
houses, most of whom get only A
cents per hour Real organization is
coming, and these will support the
strike and fight soon for their own
demands.
Temporary strike headquarters are
at 73 Myrtle Ave.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
Intensified Organization Of the Unemployed and Linkin
Their Struggle With That Of Wage Cut
Workers in the Factories
Day-tO-Day Struggle Against Evictions and tn
Force Relief From Cities Must Increase
Mass Meeting at Philadelphia City Hall at 9 NJ Marc
IL to Start the State March, llnemr,oyed
Score Pmchot As Liar

Interest in the fight to win relief CENTER
at present on two most important state hunger
marches in Pennsylvania and Ohio Both these
states of heavy industry have their hundreds
of thousands of iobless, and their more hum
dreds OF thousands of part time workers. starv,
ing along on one or two days week of work.
The Pennsylvania marchers, starting from Pbiladen
and Chester April IT, and from Pittsburgh few days ate
VIII concentrate on Harrisburg and their demands
the safe legislature and Governor Pincho on April 81
The Ohio marchcehs coming from five drec o,s rar.;
The daily worker., 1931-04-08


York and North Jersey--117 plants
are prepared to supply chemicals for
war. Supplies for the next war,
Captain Unmacht said, would cost
twelve billion dollars.
To advance the war preparations, to
build up the army, against the work.
ers at home and in the Soviet Union,
the capitalists have spent billions of
dollars. There is never any scarcity
of money for war preparations, But
when the workers demand food, when
the unemployed demand unemploy-
ment insurance. then the capitalists
refuse to give one cent.
On May Day, the workers will rally
against the capitalist war prepara-
tions. Demand that the war funds be
turned over to the unemployed in
the form OF unemployment insurance
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
SEND OFF FOR MAY
| USSR DELEGATE

NEW YORK-A Latin-American
agricultural worker of Palo Alto, Ca
lifornia, has been declared the win
ner of a subscription contest held
during the past few months by the
Spanish organ of the Communist
Party, vida Obrera."
r. Gonzales Soto, the winner of
the prize, trip to the Soviet Union
with the delegation which is going
under the auspices of the Friends of
the Soviet Union to witness the sue
cess of the 5-year plan and the May
Day celebrations in the Workers
Fatherland. showed through his ac-
tivity that he as well as many other
latin-american workers in this coun-
try have learned lot from the work.
ers of the U.S.S.R.
A Farewell Rally and Ball has been
arranged for Saturday evening, April
IL, at the New Harlem Casino Cup
per large halD 116 st. and Lenox
Ave, at $3.50 pm.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
JOBLESS DELEGATES
DEMAND INSURANCE
FROM LEGISLATURES
SEND 2 NEGROES
TO CHAIR IN A
LYNCH HOLIDAY
7 More Young: Boys
Face Death Verdict

SCOTTSBORO, Ala, April THE
first two of nine Negro boys, all
under 81 years of age. were convicted
today by a jury which was out only
so minutes, and which recommended
death in the electric chair for them.
This is the beginning of legal
lynching, held as an added attraction
to the fair now going on. Hundreds
of white lynch advocates are in town,
and the capitalist news services re-
port "the national guardsmen at the
court house we're forced into mild ac-
ton to quell five minute demon
stration staged by the crowd in ap-
proval OF the verdict"
The Negroes sentenced to death are
Clarence Norris, aged 18, and Charles
Weems, aged 20. Almost immediate
ly after the sentencing, the court
turned to the trial of third, Hay
wood Patterson, aged IT. The first
two are from Atlanta, and the third
from Chattanooga.
This slaughter Of Negro young
workers is being conducted at the in
stigation of two notorious white pros
titutes who are evidently advertising
themselves by claiming that they
were raped by the Negroes
There will be special mass pro-
test meeting against the lynching,
legal or otherwise, of nine Negro
young workers at Scottsboro, Ala.
The protest meeting will be held at
st. Luke's Hall, 125 West 1870 ST.,
at 7:30 pm, Friday.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08

Some of the locals whose del
egates to the General Grievance
Committee voted at the last
meeting to end the strike have
now removed those delegates
and sent others instructed to vote
to carry it on.
However, the Tomicheck- -NIaloney-
Davis gang of local politicians, who
are trying desperately to betray the
strikers, put over a new maneuver at
the secret session.
Forcing" A Sell Out.
They elected committee of ten to
force District President Boylan to
settle the demands" and to force
International president John Lewis
to come to the Anthracite to settle the
strike" Since both Lewis and Boylan
have been outspoken in condemna-
ton of the strike, have ordered the
miners to go back to their slavery
and wait for very improbable redress
through the conciliation machinery,
this action of the Grievance Commit
tee is sure to bring a fresh outburst
of anger from the strikers.
AT previous secret meetings, large
numbers of rank and file miners have
crashed the door and filled the hall
bowling down the open traitors and
embarrassing those who still work Sc
cretly. This time, in spite of a
drenching rain. hundreds of miners
stood in the streets all day, but could
not get into the hall because of heavy
police guards at the entrance. The
police broke up the crowds.
Fight in Locals.
Many locals of the United Mine
Workers of America meet tonight.
Rank and file opposition groups in
these locals are meeting prior to the
union meetings, and planning bitter
fight on the strike opponents. These
groups are also nominating worker
candidates for the coming union
elections.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
COURTS SPLIT ON
FOOD PICEETING
A F L Admits Bosses
Pay Union Dues

NEW YORK.-Mass picketing in
violation of the injunction continues
at Sun Market and other tSruck food
shops. The strike is being spread
widely through all II districts here
of the Food Workers Industrial
Union. The good effects of this tao
tic are apparent from the picketing
in the Bronx Saturday, which lasted
four hours without an arrest because
the A. F.. of L. strike breaking Local
1913 of the Retail Grocery and Dairy
Clerks was SO busy serving injunc-
tions and having pickets arrested in
Kings Highway at the time.
Monday, mass picketing continued
and five were arrested at 194th St.
and st. Nicholas Ave. (Sun Market; !;
three were arrested at Osstrowsky
Bros 148th st. and Broadway, and
three more at another Osstrowsky
Bros. place at 2434 Creston Ave.
These arrests we're made through the
A. F. of l., strike-breakers.
Eight of these cases came I'D in
the magistrates court at 151st st.
and Amsterdam Ave. and were post
poned to Thursday, the judge order
ing the defendants not to picket.
Three cases came up at West Farms
Court, 18lst st. and Boston Rd., post
poned to Thursday, and the Judge
specifically rules they can picket!
Juggling With 600.
Fourteen cases, previously taken up
under Paragraph 600 violation of
Injunction, went to special sessions
where they were dismissed. Now the
magistrates are again binding over
cases OF .pickets to special sessions,
in spite of the acquittal! Seventy
eight pickets have been arrested
since the Sun strike started.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union, leading all the above strikes
has also called strikes to enforce
union conditions at Rural Butter and
Egg Market, which has three stores
at 272 E. 169th ST., 2434 Creston Ave.
and l4lst st. and Second Ave. Strike
are on at stores at Freeport, L. l..
and Central Ave j, Far Rockaway.
Boss Pays A. f.. of l..
The business agent of Local 328 ad.
mits his close connection with the
employers by scolding the workers
through the columns Of the Jewish
'QaE" ., ~ .,.s y ..e. ..e
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
Industries and Army Ready for War;
Will Put Doqvn disorder, Says Wilbur

WASHINGTON, April How the
army is used and will be more and
more and more used against the
working class in this country when it
finds capitalist starvation unbearable
was contained in speech made by
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, on
She fourteenth anniversary of Ameri-
cas- entry into the World War, cele-
brated as "Army Day."
Wilbur's speech was broadcasted
lver a nation wide radio hook up He
id the greatest stress on what he
He'd the peace time functions of
he army. He termed the army sin
5urance" against disorder, aggression,
and even total collapse"
What is behind these general
pAEsssS2 What do the bosses mean
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
Demon natrate Friday
eainst Killers of
'ananese W~r'1ere
Voice Protest A gainst
japanese Princes

NEW YORK. - Hundreds of New
York, American and Japanese work.
ers will stage protest demonstra-
tion against the bloody reign of ter
ror Of the japanese /imperialists, on
the occasion of the arrival of the
representative of the japanese ruling
class, prince Takamatsu, who comes
in on the Cunard liner. Acquitania,
which docks at the pier at West
l4th Street, April 10.
More than one thousand militant
fighters of the labor movement in
Japan are in jails facing either the
death penalty or long prison terms.
They have been in Jail since the
raids on revolutionary workers or
ganizations which took place in
March 1928 and April 1929 The
Japanese socialists helped in the
passage of the imperial ordinance, :"
under which the revolutionary work
ers were jailed.
The increased terror against the
revolutionary movement of Japan is
a result of the sharpening economic
crisis and the war preparations of
japanese imperialism. The hands of
these princes who arrive Friday are
stained with the blood of Comrades
Jamamoto and Wattanabo, militant
workers of Japan, as well as thou
sands of other workers beaten and
murdered by the Japanese imperial
lists.
All workers should turn out in this
demonstration against imperialism
and the war danger against the
bloody rule of Japanese imperialism,
for the international unity of the
workers in their fight against cap
italism. &
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
400 STRIKE AT
O'GARA MINE OVER
LAY OFF OF HALF
National Miners Union
Urges Mass Picketing

ELDORADO, Ill, April -Four
hundred miners of O'Gara No. 10
mine in Saline County are on strike
against the company's plan to simply
starve half of them to death when
it put in new labor displacing ma
chinery. The strike started April l..
The strike was forced by. the rank
and file, as both the Howat and
Lewis outfits are strictly against the
miners doing anything to improve
conditions.
The National Miners Union calls
on these workers to throw a mass
picket line around the mine, to or
gapize rank and file strike com
miotee and to spread the strike to
other mines.
Roy Groves. National Miners
Union organizer who got 81 votes in
the last election on the Communist
ticket, has been arrested and charged
with disturbing the peace and at
tempting to fight because he resisted
the eviction of the family of another
miner, Ed Gwaltney. Groves is out
on bail and will be in the lead to
organize the miners now in rebel
lion against both Lewis and Howat.
The family of this worker was
theatened with eviction by an ex-
bootlegger while the miner himself
was in Jail. The N. M U. members
decided that if this eviction was at
tempted they would oppose it.
Groves himself has been black
listed since the December 1929, strike
here
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
l,227 DEPORTED.
FROM N.Y.C. ALONE.
Boss Courts Hail Drive
AS New Weapon

NEW YORK.-Since Jan. ID the
q. S. government has deported 1,127
foreign-born workers in this city
alone in the drive of the bosses to
deport militant foreign born workers
and intimidate the foreign born as
whole from taking part in the
struggles of the rest of the working
class against starvation and for un-
employment relief and insurance.
Although these attacks against the
working class are being carried out
under the pretense Of drive against
racketeers and criminals, the obss
press admits that of the 1,127 de-
ported only "some 1907 were Grim
inals. The rest we're workers whose
militancy ha6 offended the bosses.
The bosses courts have hailed the
deportation drive as powerful
weapon" in the hands of the capi-
/! alist authorities. A statement to
tp,iis effect was made by Judge Col
lii1s on March 81 in General Sessions
i1 ordering a worker charged with
assault to be turned over to the inn
migration authorities for deportation
to Latvia. Collins said at the time
that the courts would exploit depor-
tation to the fullest extent.
The City Committee for the Pro-
lection of Foreign Born has issued a
statement denomcing these mass de-
portations as a vicious attack on the
working class, and calling upon the
workers, native and foreign born,
white and Negro, to demonstrate
May Day in Union Square against
starvation and wage-cuts, against
persecution of Negro and foreign
born workers and for support of the
struggle for unemployment relief and
insurance.
The City Committee has started
campaign to translate into organiza-
tionaI strength the influence gained
on the Day Of Struggle against de-
portation and lynching. The most
outstanding phase of this campaign
lis the affiliation drive which, during
the month of April, must be .intensi-
fled all over the city in order to
widen the organizational base of our
movement. To organize and spur
this drive meeting of the entire
CITY Committee has been called,
which will take place at 80 Union
DqRsals Room sos April IS, at spm.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08

through all the most ind. .strial sec.
tons of the state, will meet in Col
umbus, April %, and hold q 81
conference, where the unen1ploylne~ 4
insurance bill will be finally adopts1.
and delegation sent to present it II
the state legislature, probably Ap.l
27th
All Out May 1st.
: These demonstrative marches reach
their high point at the state capita'1
only a few days before the worl
wide demonstrations against unern-
ployment and for relief of the mil,
lions OF starving jobless. May is
this year as usual a day of inter-
national demonstrations against the
capitalist system, particularly day
OF protest against starvation. wage
cuts, and speed-up. The numerous
industrial towns which these hunger
marches pass through, and the other
hunger marches held in other states
within recent months, will each hold
their own demonstration May /.
Build Councils:
The success of the hunger marches
and of the May actions largely
depend on the mass support in the
towns through which they pass, and
this mass support must be organized.
The main task of the movement to
win relief for, to save the lives of,
the millions of jobless is now, in spite
OF the hunger marches, the organiza-
CONTINUED an PAGE THREEl
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
Cockroach Tries To
Hold Out $40: Jobless
Council SpOils Game

NEW YORK-Alfred Weber, a food
worker unemployed for months, and
member of the Down Town Unem-
ployed Council, couldn't pay his rent
and took his radio to the Sunbeam
Electrical Licensed Electricians and
Radio" 81 Third Ave, to have it sold
on consignment.
The Sunbeam" outfit sold it all
right, but when Weber wanted his
money they gave him an ''I. o. u"
instead.
Weber went to the unemployed
council, which sent committee to
reason with the Sunbeam swindlers,
and made them turn over $40 to
Weber,
The daily worker., 1931-04-08

refuse to starve any longer and act
as class against capitalism.
To show the advanced preparations
of the American imperialists for war,
Captain George F. Unmacht, execu-
tive officer of the armys second
chemical warfare procurement dist
rict, in a speech Monday at the Ho-
tel Astor listed the industries which
are all ready to be used for war pur-
poses.
He said so per cent of the factories
in the United States districts can be
turned over for war purposes at any
moment. In. his own district-New
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
LONDON NAVAL TREATY AGAIN

What's become of the London
naval treaty that was supposed to
have settled all matters of naval
armament? What's become of it's
still-born child, the Franco Italian
treaty? We find now that Arthur
Henderson, British foreign minister,
is now talking about European
disarmament" conference. What is
more likely is that this is to be an
armament conference, with Britain
trying to line up its allies in the
next war against its foremost rival,
the United States-or to take the
leadership in the anti-Soviet war
'front.' with the U. S. included
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
May Day Demonstrations to Demand Millions
Used for War to Go to Unemployed

by disorder" and emergency"
When the 100000 unemployed re-
fuse to starve any longer and fight
for food, this is disorder" and the
army is called in to shoot down the
workers. When capitalism reaches
total collapse" when they call their
army and fascist murderers to attack
the workers. This is what Wilbur
was referring to in his general
phrases.
The bosses know the function OF
the army in preparing for war against
the Soviet Union and for the
llepgAter Of the workers when they
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
Jersey Workers Rally
Against No Picket Rule

The vice chancellor of Paterson, N.
j., has set the ruling on picketing
of the Wright Airplane Factory for
next week
Nearly six hundred workers are on
strike at this factory against the in
famous bonus system set up in the
factory. The judges ruling will de-
eide for the bosses of the factory
whether the workers can be legally
clubbed on the picket line. The de-
termination of the workers, neverthe-
less, will make the picket lines at the
factory go on despite the injunction.
The daily worker., 1931-04-08
PUSH FOREIGN LOANS

An appeal to push foreign loans
was made by DIR. Stephen I. Miller,
executive manager of the National
Association of Credit Men, in a
speech before TOO credit men at the
Hotel Commodore, New York, few
days ago. Miller said that this was
a way of getting out of the crisis,
increasing American imperialism S
hold on the colonies and piling up
more profits for the investors. The
matter is not quite SO simple as DR..
Miller put it, however, as the crisis
in other countries cannot be wiped
out by loans -uu,iGnGrff-- huu1\a.