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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-17

After 13 futile operations, treat mcnts by 200 specialists and pay ing $7,0OO for doctor bills in seven years, Kenneth w. Siard, 30, of Latrobe, Pa, pictured hcrc, has offered himself to science for ex- perimentatiOn in quest of . cure for strange inalady which has made his knee joints rigid. For nine months, in 1928, siard lay in . plaster cast. When the cast was removed he could not bend his knees. Physicians and surgeons failed to cure. him.. Finally. he drank regularly . certain radium water recently outlawcd by the government. Now he's trying min. eral baths at Mt Clemens, Mich, where he has offered himself to science.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-17

brollers. Rocks .29..35 b., Reds .1s-.29 h., LcgIlOrns .17..30 lb.j dressed, fowl .ss..ss ib, bfoilers
 LIVESTOCK and MEAT.
 Butcher stock, cows .O1..O5 h., calves .O7s.OD Ib.i fseafs, beef II. .i4 h., veal .ff..f4 h., lamb sf9' ,fD Ib.. pork, IOtns .ff.,fs Iby pork, local dressed .O7s.OD 10.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-17
Seven Ounce Baby
 Gained Thirteen Ounces Since Birth

De Soto, Mo, May 17-WP)- Catherine Richards, who weighed but seven ounces at birth i've weeks ago, has gained 13 ounces and probably will be normal within few months. physicians said te-. day,
 The baby was one of twins born prematurely to Mir and Mrs Pete Richards. The other child' died at birth. Catherine was placed h an incubator. For the first 1S days she did not gain. During the past four weeks, however, she was almost tripled her weight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23

carried over to the special session
that is expected to begin shortly
after Roosevelt's Inauguration in
March.
Thus congress and the senate de-
votes weeks to bill that cannot at
this time be put into operation, while
the masses starye.
Dems Talk Political Spells.
Supporters Of Roosevelt VINO are
in a majority in both houses of
congress are devoting their time
mostly to conferences, interviews, all
sorts Of wire pulling about the poll
tical spoils that will fall into their
hands after the Inauguration. Every
congressman and senator has his
own favorite list of political hench-
men that he wants to put into soft
government jobs, while the people
back home" that elected them are
suffering increased misery, disease
and death as a result of the refusal
of these same congressman and SEN
ators to put through bills for winter
relief and unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
BY JAMES W. FORD.

When the white landlords Of Ala
bama this week sent out their posses
to murder the Negro share choppers
who were organizing into the Crop
pers' Union, they knew that they
could count on the unqualified sup
port of the miSleaders of the REFORM
ist Negro and white organizations,
particularly the misleaders of the
National Association for Vie Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
The landlords had good reason to
know this. When, in July of last
year, the share-croppers Of Camp
Hill Alabama. heroically defended
themselves against the terror of the
landlords, the NA.A.C.P. rushed for
ward, first and foremost, to assure
the landlords that it had had no part
in the organization of the starving
Negro farmers. AS Eugene Gordon,
well-known militant Negro writer,
said at the time: "The only evidence
the Association has shown that ii
knows the struggle is going on at
Camp Hill is Mr.. william Pickens'
denial that the N.A.A.C.P. had any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
More Lynch Gangs Recruited from Outside
Talapoosa County; White Choppers Homes
Searched for Negroes
Farmers Relief Conference, W.I.R., and Others
Join Nation Wide Protests Against
Landlord Terror
NEGRO WOMEN
DRIVEN TO HILLS
Many With Babies in
Their Arms

DADEVILLE, Ala, Dec. %.
Beaten back in their first
terror drive against the Negro
troopers by the splendid soil
darity of white and Negro
choppers Of Tallapoosa County,
the white landlords and their
police are rallying additional
forces from the adjoining counties
for a new murderous drive against
the Negroes. Over $50 white men,
recruited outside Of Tallapoosa Coun-
ty, are now patrolling the Liberty
Hall section of Tallapoosa County
where Mondays fighting occurred.
Conceal Number Dead.
The authorities continue their at
tempts to conceal the number killed
in Mondays pitched battle when
armed deputies attacked the crop
pers and attempted to seize the mule
and COW of Clifford James, local
leader Of the Sharecroppers Union
at Notasulga. John McMullen and
Judson Simpson are two Of the
known dead among the troopers.
That the bodies Of other dead crop
pers are being concealed by the au-
thorities is shown in the admission
by Col. Moon, personal representative
Of Gov. Miller, of knowledge of -four
or five dead Negroes laying about
the field" Only the bodies of Nc
Mullen and Simpson have been re-
covered.
Mass Arrest of Negroes
Mass arrests Of Negroes are being
carried on in an attempt to seize
the leaders of the Share Choppers
Union which is leading the fight
against starvation and landlord rob-
berry of the already impoverished
Negro choppers. At least II Negro
troopers are known to be in Jail.
All Negroes suspected of the least
militancy are being driven out of the
county and their property looted by
the lynch gangs of the landlords.
The homes of several white troopers
have been searched for wounded Ne
gro choppers, known to have been
rescued and protected by white crop
pers. The roads to the hills are
crowded with Negro women babies
in their arms fleeing the landlord
terror.
Four Deputies Wounded
At least four deputies are known
to have been wounded in Mondays
battle. These are G.. A. Ware. C. E.
Elder, Stool Afford and j. NJ. CAN'T.
The last two are from East Tallassee
further proof that Tallapoosa land
lords we're forced to recruit their
claw and order lynch gangs outside
of Tallapoosa County on account OF
the strong sympathies of local white
troopers with the Negro choppers as
a result of the work carried on by
the Share Choppers Union and its
correct program of uniting white
and Negro troopers in joint struggle
against starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
HOMELESS WANT
CITY BUILDINGS
Delegation Goes Today
Promise Not Kept

NEW YORK. - The city govern
m ut has not kept its promise to
TIL unemployed and homeless men.
After a sharp struggle by the I'M
employed, and several delegations to
Commissioner of Public Welfare
Taylor, the board Of es imates near
5 ly a week ago promised to open up
all vacant city buildings, schools,
ETC., for them. 1t has not been
done.
Today at 10 am, committee Of
the City Committee of Homeless
Men and the Unemployed Council
cf Greater New York will go to Com
missioner Taylor and demand he
open up these buildings, also that
Committees of the unemployed have
charge of them.
A letter setting forth these de-
fnands has been drawn up to go to
Taylor, and leaflets explaining the
situation are distributed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
ORDER SUBWAY AND ELEVATED
WAGE CUT OF 10 TO 30 PER CENT
Receivers Taunt Men;
Praise Them for Aid
In Slashing Pay

NEW YORK. = Receivers
Victor J. Bowling and Thomas
E. Murray, Jr., yesterday or
dered the wages of all IR.T.
workers, on both subway and
elevated lines, cut from ten to 80
per cent, beginning in January.
Just to rub it in, they published
a statement praising the employees
for the splendid manner" in which
they "co-operated to bring about the
wage reductions"
Then, to show that it was not be-
cause the companies needed the cut
so bad, the receivers ordered She
amount Topped off the first two
weeks pay of the workers, at least
$4,000, to be turned over to the
Gibson Committee.
$3,500,O0O Lost to Workers
The amount saved" for 1. r. T
owners and lost by the workers on
the lines, is estimated at $3,500,00C
in the one year OF 1888.
The wage cut is not supposed to
apply to those getting under 500 a
week. But the largest section of the
workers get between $22 and $25.
The I.R.T. is in complicated maze
Of ownership and control, the BIN
T. lines holding stock Of the In
terborough, and making scooping up
the profits while leaving the debts
with the IRT., and the subways
carrying the elevated losses. On TOP
Of that, the New York courts APP
pointed two receivers when the COM
pany went technically into bank
ruptcy recently.
These receivers are responsible te
the courts, and this wage slash Is
therefore just another example Of
the bankers Tammany economy
drive" - all at the expense of the
workers, employed and unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
CommerfOrd. Labor
f ak err, Tammanyite
Gets One Year Jail

NEW YORK.-A year and day in
the federal prison at Atlanta, was
the sentence imposed in federal
court upon the notorious Tammany
crook and vice president OF the New
York State Federation of Labor,
Patrick j. Commerford. He was
convicted of evading payment Of
federal income taxes. At the trial
1t was brought out that this labor
faker, as local head of the Oper-
ating Engineers Union, received tens
of thousands of dollars to break
strikes Of the membership Of his own
union, to stop strikes. When he
favored strike it was only in order
that one contractor could get the
best of his competitor. Never, at
any time did this person aid the
workers who paid him a small part
of his big income in the form of a
salary of union official. He is typ
ical of all Tammany labor leaders"
The year and a day meted out to
Conlmerford in reality means from
ten and half to eleven months and
is trivial price to pay for the
thousands of dollars he got through
graft and terror in collaboration with
bosses, Tammany politicians and
Tammany police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
NEGRO REFORMIST ALLIES OF THE LANDLORDS
Hoev N. A. A. c. p Aids Boss Terror in South

this was instigated by Communists,
says Mr. Dubois, sit is too deSpicablt
for words"
Defense of Capitalists.
Then comes the browning lie.
"Thc persons who are killing
blacks in Northern Alabama and
demanding blood sacrifice are the
white workers share choppers,
trade unionists and artisans. The
capitalists are against mob-laws
and violence (D and would listen
to reason and justice in the long
rum
The reason and justice that Mr.
Dubois refers to are no doubt the
reason and justice that are starving
out the choppers and farmers; that
are doing their best to burn the
Scottsboro boys; that murdered and
lynched thousands of Negroes for
many years before the Communist
Party was organized
Who send the sheriff's posses to
kill the choppers? Who is response
Bile for the starvation of the crop
ypxSeAas~xex1svvu<u s@~x xa~-aN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
DEBT BARGAINING
AWAITS MARCH 4
Roosevelt to Use Issue
for War Maneuvers

WASHINGTON. Dec. CIV a r
debt bargaining in the interests of
U. S. imperialism will mark time
until the Inauguration of President
elect Roosevelt on March a. This
has been the upShot of the lengthy
correspondence between Hoover and
Roosevelt on the question of joint
action on the war debt question.
The talks between Hoover and
Roosevelt we're conducted in such a
manner as to create the impression
that fundamental differences exist
between them over the war debt
problem, and to hide the fact that
the final say on the question comes
from Wall Street. Both are agreed
on the main Wall Street tactic of
using the uncollectable war debts as
weapon for trade grabs and cut
ting arms of the rival powers to U. S.
Imperialism. The only difference be-
tween Hoover and Roosevelt arose
over the question of carrying on the
debt maneuvers through regular dip
lomatic channels or through a special
congressional debt commission.
In statement, issued today, Presi-
dent Hoover says: Governor Roose-
welt considers that 1t is undesirable
for him to assent to my suggestions
for cooperative action on the for
eign problems outlined in my recent
massage to Congress. I will respect
his wishes"
1t was frankly acknowledged even
in the administrative quarters that
the above statement and dropping Of
his plan for naming commission to
deal with the present international
problems by Hoover, simply means
that the debt question will stand
still until March.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
NEWS FLASH
FROM ALABAMA

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Dec. 3d.
Twelve share troopers are in jail
Seven are charged with intent to
murder.
Judson Simpson Is severely wound
ed in Jail. The sheriff refuses =
doctor or medical aid.
Lawyers of the International La
bor Defense are on the scene TO de-
fend the prisoners.
The Southern press has intensi-
fled its TRADE against the Commu-
mist Party.
Tuskegee College, an Uncle Tom"
school for Negroes, has openly sided
with the landlords in the lynch cam
paign against the Negro masses. This
college has called upon the Negro
masses to remain peaceful" in the
face of the shameful attack by the
Southern white ruling class. For
this the college has won liberal praise
from the same newspapers that are
melting the lynch spirit against the
masses Of Negroes.
The International Labor Defense
has called mass meeting at Old
Pythian Hall, 15s41a Second Ave-,
North Birmingham, at 2 pm. on
Monday, Jan. 2, to protest the muir
der and Imprisonment of Negro share
troopers and to demand their right
to organize in their own interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
ABROAD WAGE
CUTS CONTINUED
Companies Can Call
for New Cut in June

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 22.-The 1900
Railroad union chairmen agreed yes
terday to the companies proposal to
extend the ten per cent wage cut
for nine months mere, and to allow
the companies to demand a still
further cut on June Is, 1893.
The agreement to cut the wages
was made last January by the COM
panies and union heads without con-
sulting the workers. The agreement
expired Dec. 81. During the sum-
mer the companies demanded a 20
per cent cut, to take effect Jan. l..
The Trade Union Unity League re-
|oeatedly warned that this was the
Oh scheme of The companies and
ri road brotherhood heads, to ne
al late over a demand for a cut
about twice what the companies re-
ally want, then to compromise, and
tell the workers they have been
saved from more serious reduc-
ton"
An Old Trick
1t was in exactly this way that
the February cut, now continued to
Oct. 81, 1888, was put over In
February there was an additional
swindle: the companies promised in
consideration for the cut to put back
on some of the thousands of men
laid Off Instead they laid off more.
This time they promise nothing.
n Negotiations back and forth for
lveral months on the new wage cut
Inland of the companies resulted
Aally in the meeting in Chicago,
nee Dec. II, in the high priced
Inner House | hotel. Conferences
veloped a lot of oratory, finally
% days ago the managers, through
cir spokesman w. F. Thiehoff,
Featened to break off negotiations,
order to throw the discussion into
small committee of both sides.
ere the job was put through, and
1900 chairmen accepted it.
Prepare for Action
y9ae T.UU.L. and the Railroad
ptherhoods Unity Committee both
III Lid1 eiilo 10 ollly q ioh aHu :"
II months postponement OF the
KIT cut, and call for formation of
(gnnittees of the rank and file in
FRY brotherhood lodge and local
lion on the roads to prepare
tuggle against wage cuts.
Ft is very clear from these nego-
lions that the brotherhood and
IL. union heads will not do any
fg against wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23

Said w. E. B.DuBois, editor Of the
Crisis, organ Of the N.A.A.CP.;
"The final exhibit at Camp Hill
Is worthy of the Russian Black
Hundreds, whoever promoted it:
black share-croppers ,half-starved
and desperate, we're organized into
Society for the Advancement of
Colored People this is itself lie.
--J.W.F.) and were induced to
meet and protest against Scots
boro."
"A terrible crime, Mr.. DuBoisl
These backward" share choppers
dared to protest against the murder
of eight innocent Negro boys when
the well-educated, bootlicking off,
Gals of the N.A.A.C.P. staff hung
back threw doubt on the boys in
nocencel c'When we hear that eight
colored men have raped two white
girls in Alabama we are not the first
in the field TO defend them" boosted
the Crisis" in october. 1880. But
the share-croppers didn't agree with
the NA.A.CP. misleaders that the
Scottsboro boys should be left to the
ulercies Of the Southern courts! II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
Gable by Inprecorrl

LONDON England, Dec. 22.-The
mass demand for the release of Tom
Man, Elias and Lewellyn, sentenced
for their leadership of the British
National Hunger March, has forced
the Labor Party and Trade Union
Congress leaders to join the demand
for release.
The Liberal press mas also had TO
approve these demands, otherwise it
would lose influence. The general
council of the Trade Union Congress
(Which hold in England the same
relative position as the A.FL. in the
U.S.A.) has declared to the govern
ment that these arrests and SEN
fences are a "travesty on jus ice and
represent political persecution" But
the general council shows that it is
forced 10 this action for fear OF
losing the confidence of the workers,
by adding subtle attack on the
unemployed workers leaders in these
words: 1.-THE prosecutions are more
likely to imperil public peace than
any Communist incitement.'
A similar protest, largely in the in
terest of capitalism, was made by
the executive of the independent
Labor Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
STEEL WORKERS
HEAR MARCHERS
Demand Release of 4
Farrell Delegates

GARY, Ind, Dec. 22.-The steel
workers Of the Calumet Region have
enthusiastically responded to the
mass meetings called to greet the
return of the National Hunger
MarcherS and hear their reports.
Friday at Roumanian Hall, Gary
over 300 heard the report of the Gary
delegates. They heard the report
of the hardships, of the treatment
at the hands of police in Washing
ton, D. c., Of their successful march,
and the return trip.
Pledge Fight.
They pledged to struggle, with the
leadership Of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil, against the new starvation plan
of the Township Trustee, Mrs. Mary
Grace Wells.
Instead of the tickets which are
given out, through which the job
less workers on the relief lists can
buy 50 or SO worth of groceries a
week cat higher prices at local
grocery stores, the township trustee
proposes to save 20 per cent on re-
lief costs by stopping this method Of
distribution and instead delivering
baskets Of groceries to the homes of
jobless workers.
This means outright starvation
Miserable as the relief is at present,
still workers can chose whether they
shall eat beans or cabbage. With
baskets they have no choice and are
forced to accept what slop is lad1ed
out to them.
Mrs. Wells complains that with the
present system workers buy ''luxur-
ies," on 50 a week which must feed
or childrenl The Unemployed
Council is organi ng struggle
against this new system to start
January LIST.
The workers of Hammond heard
their delegation to the National
Hunger March report at K. of P,
Hall, Dec. 90 Workers of Indiana
Harbor will hear their delegation at
the Workers Hall, 3517 Main Street,
December 23rd
Farrell Report Dec. 81.
FARRELL, Pa, Dec. 22.-The trial
of the Farrell delegates on the Ma
tional Hunger March who were ar
rested on Dec. Is at the Croatian
Hall where they were to make their
report on the fight for immediate
relief and unemployment insurance,
will take place Tuesday, Dec. q at
the Farrell Court House. The Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial IN
ion and the Unemployed Council has
issued thousands of leaflets calling
upon the workers of Farrell and
Sharon to attend the trial to protest
this terror against the unemployed.
The arrested workers are Archer
and Thompson, Negro delegates and
Fox and Lonchar youth delegates
who were on the National Hunger
March. The arrests and breaking up
of the meeting were carried out un-
der the direction of the liberal" Gov.
Pinchot's state police. Mayor Frank
of Farrell gave full assistance be-
cause he knew that the Unemployed
Council would expose the purpose of
his Investigating Committee" which
is planning to cut down relief Of
the jobless and their families.
Build Block Committees.
The Unemployed Council calls for
the broadening out of the fight in
Farrell for immediate relief from the
city government. This can be done
only if the workers build street and
block committees In the neighbor-
hoods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
thing to do with it,"
Reformists Justify Murder.


The N.A.A.CP. also fastened to
justify the murder of the Negro
farmer, Ralph Gray, by claiming
that the blame was not to be placed
upon the white landlords and sheriff,
but upon the "CommuniS S" who
were active in organizing these crop
pers against landlords. In other
words, says the N.A.A.C.P., the CROP
pers should not have been SO foolish
as to organize, nor should militant
leaders have assisted and led them
in this work of organization. Had
the troopers only been content to sit
back quietly, accept their starvation
and misery and say and do nothing
about 1t. the massacre of the CROP
pers would never have occurredl
What did the Negro reformists, the
upholders of the white landlords and
white bosses and the whole boss
landlord system, have to say when
they received word of the heroic
struggle Of the Camp Hill troopers?
Here are some samples of their
treachcry:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
Congress Tries to
LoseMarchDemands
DemandActiOn Now!

The National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils calls upon
the workers organizations thru
out the country and especially the
Unemployed Councils TO mobilize
the workers and send protest re-
solutions to Speaker Garner and
Vice President Curtis and James
w. Collier. Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee demand
ing that the proposals of the Ma
tional Hunger March be taken up
in Open Hearings.
Garner has notified the Ma
tional Committee that the propo-
sails are before the Ways and
Means Committee. Collier passes
The buck back to Garner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
Mother Mooney is
Greeted in n. Y. On
Arrival from u. s. S. r.

NEW YORK--Mary Mooney, "a
year old mother of Tom Mooney ar
rived last night on the Europa"
$50 p. m. She was greeted at Pier
No. 4, Brooklyn, by delegations rep
resenting the International Labor
Defense and Tom Mooney Molders
Defense Committee.
Mother Mooney is returning from
the Soviet Union after bringing
letter addressed by Tom Mooney to
Joseph Stain in which Mooney
thanks the workers of the Soviet
Union for saving his life by mass
demonstrations of Leningrad work
ers.
While In Moscow, Mother Mooney
attended the Congress of the In
ternational Red Aid of which the
international Labor Defense is the
American section
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
CONGRESS TALKS
BEER, NOT RELIEF
Democrats Busy Pull
ling Wires for Fat Jobs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-The up
roar over the beer bill is still being
carried on to try to detract the starry
ing masses from the fact that cong
ress is utterly refusing to do any
thing to relieve suffering this winter.
The beer bill authorizing 80 beer
passed the house by a vote of go
tc 165. 1t now goes to the senate
where a favorable vote is expected.
But Hoover's veto is certain, as he
has said that under no conditions
will he sign any sort Of beer bill
Cannot Override Veto.
Since these is not two-thirds
majority in both houses to set aside
any veto by Hoover this issue will be