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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
NEW YORK PIER
fire CALLS FOR
FIVE ALARMS
Steamship Cali fornia,
Ready to Sail Saturday,
Was Just Moved Out Of
Danger Zone

New York, May 6-(UP)---A
hve.alarm fire today destroyed q
pier at tho foot OF f4th street on
the Hudson river, threatening tho
Steamship California, scheduled 70
sail at noon tomorrow.
All available Manhattan apparnt-
US was called out to combat tho
flames, which started beneath the
pier. The California was moved out
to midstream and was out OF
The shin 10 Of the Anchor limo
ana In due TO sail for Glasgow, via
Boston, tomorrow.
Tho pier, considered ono Of the
finest In Manhattan, was that used
by tho Cunard line for it, trans.
IAtiancit liners tho Mauretania and
tho Auquitana. II was nearly 1000
Several Aremen wore injured or
overcome by smoke In fghting the
blaze which, because Of Its intcn-
sity beneath the pier, was extreme.
ly difioult TO combat.
Three hreboats, tho James Duane
the John J. Harvey and the Thorn.
M Willard, Joined IN pouring wnter
onto tho burning pier and drench.
IuB uuJolHlnE pieTb W VruNeht INV
spread OF the blaze.
Assistant Chief Thomas r. Dou.
Rhcrty,, who assumed charge OF tho
situation, gave up hope OF saving
the pier shortly when tho flames
at times leaping so and 90 feet
In tho air. He directed firemen TO
concentrate efforts on the adpoln-
Ing piers.
A compressed afr drill crew,
wearing gas masks, went on the
burning pier In an effort to ma
some way Of reaching tho source
OF the blaze. wv
Fire officials said the crcosote-
soaked piiinEs beneath the pier.
highly infiammabie, caused tho hre
TO ret out OF control.
The heat was no intense near tho
burning pier that windows In nd.
Joining pier sheds were either
blown out or melted.
Thousands OF persons gathered
on West street 20 watch tho con-
Migration and motor trafIic on the
elevated highway nearby was DC.
moraiised, due 20 tho dense clouds
Of smoke which lay 10 the level OF
the street IN the vicinity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06

Issued. In fact, the man who issued
Il has not yet bcon found. Some
believed that the federal land.
,stapefs had decided the year round
green OF grass and shrubs---un.
broken by gaudy flowers In the
summer or drab earth In the win
tpr---was the most satisfa ctory set
ting for outlying federal buildings.
Others were OF the opinion that the
order was horn OF efficiency. Fed
oral employees are not supposed 70
have time enough to tend flowers!
they contend.
Likeea weed that thrives In BAR
rem soil, tho press agent Ia q per.
isniai bloom In Washington. Each
government department has ono or
more Of them and many private,
religious and political interests
keep others lowering around tho
capital.
- Into the ofilco OF tho United
Press he came with a story about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06


Club at their annual banquet at
tho Central Y. M. c. A., traced the
history of the games from their be-
ginning In 776 u. c. UP to, the cur
rent writing. He narrated the
original purpose behind the games,
that of fostering good Will among
the nations OF the world.
Principal Joseph p. Kennedy,
Frank Shehan and Joseph Mem
brine of Wildly were the other
speakers on the program. John
Mellon, president. was toastmaster.
Reports were read by the secre-
tary and treasurer before the meet
Ing adjourned to the gymnasium
where dancing was enjoyed until
1880 o'clock.
Trumpet selections were rem
dered by Joseph Ranaudo. Viola
solos by Carl Copeland and sax
ophone numbers by Angelo Dad
dona. They were accompanied by
Miss Emily Ranaudo ut tho piano.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
Court. Considers
Sum Modest For
Work Involved
EIeaIey and NortI1rop Conclude Work With Sandtz &
Traurig and Kazenlekas & Go Receiver to Re-
ceive Securities From State Treasurer By Order
fUudge Jennings

Attorney Frank T. Healey and
Edwin G.. Northrop Of the Dime
Savings bank were allowed $1,000
apiece for the appraisafs of the
sanditz G. Taurig and the Kazeme-
kas q Company banks assets under
an order passed In superior court
to-day by Judge Newell Jennings.
In commenting on the order Judge
Jennings stated that the amount
was not only very reasonable but
modest.
The appraisers were allowed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
AUSTRIA LOST
ITS MINISTRY

Vienna, May e.-(UP) The
Austrian government headed by
DR. Kari Buresch resigned to-day.
The ministry was formed June
20, 1921. and reorganised last Jan"
uary.
The resignation was due 10 the
refusal Of the Heimwehr to con.
tlnue cooperation with the coalition
regime unless they were given 9
cabinet pcst. Pan Germans ana
socialists also threatened 70 over
throw tho government unless new
elections were held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
WILL DE DEPORTED

Halifax. N. s., May 6--(UP)-
Four communists, accused Of par
ticipating In May day disturbances
were brought here to-day from,
Vancouver. Sudbury and Montreal
and will be deported. 4f
Police said they are still search.
Ing for Arvo Vaara, editor OF tho
Finnish newspaper at Sudbury
Ont who also Is scheduled for de-
.portation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06

5000 for the appraisal OF the Kaze-
mekas bank and $500 for the San
ditz e. Traurig bank. Considerable
investigation and overtime work
was necessary In both jobs due to
the amount OF mortgages that had
to be examined. This was partic.
ularly true In the Kazemekas bank,
Judge Jennings also granted THE
order authorizing the state treas-
urer to turn over to the receiver
the securities representing the Ger.
tificntes of deposit in both banks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06

No obligation on your part. EACH DAY until
further notice. VIC will select THREE names ~
random and award choice rift 20 each one.
These names will bc mentioned In our ADVERTISE
incnt each day and the articles placed In our
show window with the PERSONS name on u. Cut
out our advertisement every day and send u ~
for which, we thank you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06

tho completion OF the Tomb Of the
Unknown soldier. His story had all
the facts and history Of the tomb,
Jis description was tersc and me-
curate. He hadn't padded.
''Thanks" said the desk man.
"hut would you wind telling me
why you wrote H."
II Just wanted TO bring out the
fact Il was made of Marble" said
the press agent. you see. ] repre-
y, MT the Marble Quarricrs' Assoc'-
u,ionn le
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
Steele C. Smith
With Travellers
Local Dartmouth Grad An
nOunces Insurance
AffiliatiOn

steele G.. Smith has announced
his affiliation with the Travellers
Insurance company with offices
ut III West Main street. Mr. Smith
IN we'll known In investment and
brokerage circles In this city hav-i
ing been associated with Hincks
Brothers since his graduation from
Dartmouth In 1929. t
As one OF the local representa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
Bruening Cabinet
Much Disrupted
By Resignation

Berlin, May g. (UP)l-- The
breach among members of the
Bruening cabinet widened today
when President Paul Won linden.
burg accepted the resignation OF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, May 9-Up)--The
weather forecast for Tonight and
Saturday:
New Hampshire, Vermont and
Mostly cloudy ana
warmer tonight and Saturday,
probably local showers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
Chemistry Club
Annual Banquet
j. Francis BOIand and
Other Speakers at
Central Y

J. Francis Boiand Of Crosby
High school, In his address last
evening on the Olympics to the
wildly High School Chemistry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-06
Minister Of Economics Hermann

Minister Of Economics Hermann
Wambold. fatt'
Meanwhile van fiinderburg be-
gan his second seven.yenr presi.
Dental term today without cere-
mony, announcing that the oath OF
allegiance to the republic no took
when he assumed office In May.
1925. was rtill binding and that a
second oath would be "superfu-
GUS"
Radio advertising has been pro-
hlbited by tho Netherlands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
ARREST LID. ATTORNEY

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 25.-Samuel
Menin, International Labor Defense
attorney, was arrested in county
court of appeals here yesterday on
order of Judge Luxford, when he OBJ
jected to illegal procedure in the
hearing on a motion for new trials
for George Kaplan and Charles
Guynn, arrested in connection with
the Washington Park anti jim crow
demonstration. The motion was de-
MED Judge Luxford upheld the SEN
tence of two hundred dollars and
costs imposed on Kaplan and denied
him bail. Kaplan is district organ
izer of the International Labor De-
tense.
Sentence of fourteen days origin
ally passed on Guynn on framed
charges of vagrancy was increased to
ninety days by Judge Luxford.
Guynn, reporter for Federated
Press was arrested after he testified
to the police brutality in the original
trial Of twelve workers who took part
ia the anti-Jim Grow demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
Roosevelt DodgeS
Workers Protest
.Astor Hotel Meeting
Scheduled for Today
Is Called Off

NEW YORK.-Roosevelt Demo-
cratic candidate for President, came
into New York yesterday. He had
been scheduled to arrive today, and
employed and unemployed workers
were preparing to come in front OF
the Hotel Astor, where he was sched-
uled to be at pm. tonight, and
demonstrate in protest against the
Democratic Party program, as shown
in its administration of this state
and this city. The demonstration
tonight is therefore called off.
Workers were going to denounce
Democratic officials clubbing Of the
Albany hunger marchers and many
jobless in New York City. They were
coming out in protest against the
absence of relief in New York, against
strike breaking injunctions by Tam
many Democratic Parity magi-
strates, against clubbing and shoot
ing of pickets fighting wage-cuts.
War veterans were coming to de-
mand their back pay, which Roose-
welt promises only, perhaps, and only
latter the budget is balanced Me-
gro workers and white workers alike
we're ready to demonstrate against
the candidate of the worst Jim Grow
and lynch law white landlords of the
South.
But Roosevelt changed the sched-
ule. Reports from his encourage are
that he didn't want to face the work
ers of New York-who know what a
Democratic administration is like
only too well, and know that it is as
bad as the Republican.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
Cullen, Negro Poet, 2 Other Leading
American Writers Also Denonnce
Conditions Revealed in Book

that the press, controlled by the mil
lionaire class, is trying to keep the
conditions which Spivak has ex-
posed from becoming known. A doc
ument such as Spivak's must be TAX
en- up by the workers and broadcast
until this shame stinks to the heav-
ems. These Negro slaves will find no
other fighters for their freedom
than the revolutionary working
class. Every other group is too busy
saving its responsibility and its div
idends. Georgia Niger is symbol
of the whole capitalist crime against
the Negro people. 1t proves the cor
rectness of the demand voiced i'll the
Communist election program for
equal rights for Negroes and self
determination in the Black Belt. Ev-
cry honest writer and artist, every
honest intellectual must raise his
voice in protest at these horrible
conditions and at the suppression
of Spivak's exposure by the capital
list and socialist" press"
Scores Press Ban
81 find it difficult, even as a Ne
gro and thus habituated to revela-
tions of horror" the statement by
Countee Cullen declares, ito realize
that such conditions as pictured in
Georgia Niger do actually exist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

fully suppress all mention of the
facts in the regular routine book
reviews? Why won't they publish
the sensational first-hand pictures
of these brutalities? Where is the
Socialist Party press which is al
ways full of such high-sounding
phrases as humanity, "decency",
etc? Why is it that only the Commu-
mist press-the "Daily Worker"
giving these revelations full pub
licity?
Hit Lies About U.S.S.R.
"The capitalist liars and war
makers have on more than one occa-
sion raised the cry of forced labor
in the Soviet Union. The Russian
workers are more free than any
in the world, but the capitalist mas
tiers have tried to fool the western
workers with tales of Soviet slavery.
Nobody can manufacture forced la
Dor in a land ruled by the workers;
right here in the United States,
however, there is forced labor of a
kind unparalleled in Rome or Egypt.
The Negro peasants and workers of
the South are living in a slavery
worse in many respects than that
prevailing before the Civil War.
ut is because the American CAPT
talist class has done these things
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

a constructive step to the Socialist
goal the Milwaukee Leader proc
lained one day before the declara-
ton of war.
"When the conditions necessary
to prosecute the war with any
success shall be established, we
shall have established the ground
work for better conditions of
peace. There will be no return to
the old order, once we shall have
started on the path of collective
activities A people welded
in the hot fires of the worlds war
to common purposes will not will
ingly return to the individualism
of Every one for himself and the
devil take the hindmOst.'
This was the American Socialist
Party translation of the Lloyd
George slogan: "a land fit for heroes
to live!"
Meyer London, the only Socialist
in Congress, supported the Liberty
Loans. In the New York Times OF
April 122, 1918, he said:
1.-THE government of the United
States having called upon the
people for loan, there would be
no better way of helping the enc
my than to refuse that loan"
This partial record of Socialist
Party support of American imper-
ialism in the World. War can close
with another quotation from Morris
Hillquits article in the New York
Times, February II, 1917:
1.-The Socialist attitude has always
been this-to oppose war regardless
of circumstances, and when war did
come in such countries as were in
yaded or in real danger of invasion
to go TO the defense OF the country
as has happened in Belgium and
France and Germany and Austria
And" Mr. Hillquit might have
added prophetically" as will happier
in the United States.
The left wing of the Socialist
Party of America, which opposed the
official leaders and Wall Street;
war, uniting later with other re-
evolutionary sections of the working
class, formed the Communist Party
of the United States in 1919.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

we must obey it. OF course, we
are pacifists, but far from OppOs-
ing the draft law, we have es-
tablished a paid bureau Of in
formation, under my personal SUI
pervision, for the purpose Of ex-
planning the law and teaching
obedience to it, and that bureau
has served from 500 to 100 day.
There are 1000 Of our boys at
Camp Upton now, and many of
them have written us regarding
the law. Our reply has invariably
been: You are an American SOL
dier, Be a good one Suppress
your views II they don't agree with
the views Of your country, tell
them"
The Milwaukee Leader declared,
following the declaration of war, on
April 6:
"The Socialists are loyal today:
loyal they have ever been, and
loyal they will remain"
But Victor Berger and the Mil
waukee Leader had not waited for
American entry into the World War
to protect the billions of Wall St.
loans to the allied governments in
order to declare loyalty to and sup
port of American imperialist aims.
AS early as 1915 the Milwaukee
Leader and Berger were calling for
the conquest and annexation of
Mexico.
1t was "perfervid Illusion" said
the Milwaukee Leader, to believe
that American Intervention can
and must be prevented" 1t con-
tinued to boost BLACK Jack" Per-
shing as the organizer of Mexican
workers for the American Socialist
Party:
IF Mexico is annexed, the Mex
lean people will lose their national
independence, but they gain adj
mission to the American labor
movement and the American So
cialiSt Party"
Decking out irnperialist war in the
tawdry tinsel of Social-patriotism is
the particular job of the Socialist
Party and its press. 1t did not fail
Wall Street imperialism in 1917.
Imperialist slaughter was in itself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

This refutes conclusively the
claims of the Socialist Party
that it had an anti-imperialist
war record. Moreover, this is only
the background of the Socialist
Party which, at the present time
through its pacifist phrases is ac-
tually helping the capitalists pre-
pare the way for a new bloody
slaughter.
Workers-give your reply to this?
Vote Communist on November 81
MORRIS HILLQUIT, national
W chairman of the Socialist Party
and its present candidate for Mayor
of New York City, stated over his
signature in the New York Times
of Feb. IL, 1917 three weeks before
President Wilson declared war:
Socialism in the United States
will not handicap the government
by strikes. If the armies are raised
by CONSUMPTION, of course, we will
have to serve as other citizens.
do not believe that the Socialists
will advocate any general indus
trial strike to handicap the coun-
try in its war preparations, and
1 do not believe there will be any
such strike"
Mayor Hoan Of Milwaukee was out
in front in preparing the registra-
ton for the draft. Just as Hillquit
assured Wall Street and it's govern
ment in advance that there would be
no resistance by the Socialist Party,
SO Mayor Hoan did not wait for
June S, registration day, to pledge
his support.
On May %, 1917, the Milwaukee
Leader stated;
Mayor Hoan announced Satur-
day, s p. m. he would be in posi-
ton to wire Governor Phillips that
everything is in readiness for the
registration"
Abraham Cahan, editor of the
Jewish Daily Forward, the most
Influential Socialist Party paper in
the United States, announced in an
interview published in the New
York Sun, Oct. 8, 1917:
"It has been my policy for IS
years that once law is passed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
5000 HEAR AMTER
IN GARMENT AREA
Prolong Lunch Hour
20 Minutes

About 5000 needle trades workers
in the garment district at 18th St.
and Seventh Ave. greeted Israel
Amter, Communist candidate for
governor of New York State, at the
noon hour election rally yesterday adj
dressed by Amter.
When the meeting lasted after one
o'clock, about 5000 of the workers in
their enthusiasm, did not return to
the shops till 20 minutes after one,
when the meeting ended.
Jack Lippman, a needle worker,
was chairman of the meeting, Burt,
manager of the fur department of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, read the endorsement Of
the N.TW1U. of Amter's candidacy,
which was greeted with cheers and
applause.
Amter, when he rose to speak, was
6hceered for about Is minutes. He ex-
posed the treacherous role Of the
Socialist Party in the needle trades
struggles, and pointed out how the
s. p. leaders work hand in hand with
Lehman, Democratic candidate for
governor, to sell out strikes in the
garment trade through secret EAR
bitration.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

Four leading American writer's
yesterday Joined in issuing state
ments protesting against the inhu-
man conditions revealed in John l..
Spivak's book, Georgia Niger
proving that thousands of Negroes
in the Black Belt are living under
system of chain gang terror and
legalized slavery The writer's are
Michael Gold, author of Jews
without Money" and one of the
editors of the New Masses; Countee
Cullen, noted Negro poet; Robert
'Morss Lovett, an editor of the New
Republic and head of the Depart
ment of English at the University
Of Chicago; and John Cowper
Powys, novelist, lecturer and critic,
author of "Wolf Solent".
Gold and Cullen also condemned
the campaign of suppression being
carried on by the capitalist press Of
the country against the revelations
made by Spivak, which are backed
by official documents, photographs
Of tortures and prisoners letters.
The "Daily Worker" during the past
few days has broken through this
conspiracy of silence, in which the
Socialist, the American Federation
of Labor and most Of the Negro pa
pers joined, and has broadcast
among the workers of this, country
the startling facts that Spivak has
uncovered. The "Daily" is also the
only paper in the country which is
publishing the statements of these
four leading writer's.
Michael Colds statement follows:
John L. Spivak has revealed the
misery of millions of slaves of the
road gangs, turpentine camps and
plantations in his book, Georgia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
British Hunger
Marchers' Song

But now's the day of reckoning;
No longer we'll endure;
Starvation we'll conquer now,
And victory is sure.
We are strong determined band,
Each with weapon in his hand.
We are the hunger marchers Of the
prOIetariat.
We are the hunger marchers OF the
proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
.JOBLESS GO TO
CITY HALL TODAY
Delegation to Demand
Winter Relief

NEW YORK-A committee from
the Unemployed Council will be at
the Board of Estimates hearing on
the budget at II a. m. today. 1t is
by law, an open hearing in which any
citizen can make amendments and
speak.
The Unemployed Council delega-
ton. in the name of over a million
jobless workers here, for whom the
budget makes no provision whatever
will demand:
Ten dollars a week for each
family of two, and additions for de-
pendents.
Appropriation of Sloo,0Oo,0oo
for winter relief to the unemployed.
To raise the funds needed for this
the Unemployed Council delegation
will propose:
Cut salaries of all officials to
So 500
2.-Hold back payment of interest
on the city debt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

life as depicted in the lives of the
Scarlet Sister Marys! and the "Por-
gys" of modern fiction. The press and
literary editors will not admit that
Simon Legree still plies his nefarious
fortunes, but Georgia Niger is as
much a revelation of our day as
Uncle Toms Cabin was of its era"
C"Scarlet Sister Mary" by Julia
Peterkin, and 'Porgy," by DuBose
Hayward ARE recent novels which
present false, ruling class picture
of Negro life. Simon Legree is the
slave-driver in Harriet Beecher
Stoves famous novel, Uncle Toms
Cabin.-Editor.)
Says U. S. Responsible
In his statement, Robert Morss
Lovett shows that not only the state
of Georgia, but the federal govern
ment must be held responsible for
the conditions exposed by Spivak.
He fails to point out, however, that
behind the state and federal govern
ments stands the capitalist class, and
only the revolutionary struggle for
equal rights for Negroes and self
determination in the Black Belt,
which is one of the chief demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27

with no apparent concern to the law
of our land" (Actually capitalist
IaU is Uery much concerned, as these
conditions erist 1Oith its official
sanction and support.-Editor.)
Commenting on the efforts of the
capitalist press to suppress the expo
sures in Georgia Niger" Cullen
saws: "The raw, incontrovertible evil
dences of penal cruelty, of peonage
and oppression, of slavery as definite
as that of the pre-Civil War period,
do not apparently fit in with the
romantic episodes Of southern Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-27
In the Days
NeqvS
NE W S FLASH
Riot Squad Clubs
City College Students

The Riot Squad broke into Room
1875 Of the College of the City Of
New York last night, beat two girls
unconscious, injured about 20 stu
dents and beat up several speakers,
including Donald Henderson.
The meeting was held in protest
against the political dismissal of
Oakley johnson, professor of Eng
fish.
The students had picketed the
main office, and then had marched
in a solid body into the room. DIR.
Linehan, director of the evening
session, called the police.
Four were arrested, including
Donald Henderson.