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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
COURT 10 GET EVIDENCE IN GOLD MINE CASEI
Al Smith Refuses To
 Blame 'Phily' c. o. P.
Lays Cause of City's Financial Troubles at Doors of of People Themselves for Emergency Expenditures

lieves in capital expenditures from borrowed funds, and the other stands for the -as-you-go policy. For permanent public improve ments which have a lifetime, out lasting even the bonds that must be issued to pay for them, and for self-sustaining and self-1iuuidatifig projects, I have myself advocated policy of long-tefm borrowing. I have never believed that the tax payers of one generation should pay for the permanent improve ments to be enjoyed by the several generations which follow them.
 Tt is true that in the adminis- tration of the construction of pub He works, there may be many shortcomings, and much to be de- sired in the way of more business like and efficient procedure. I have no doubt that in Philadelphia, con- struction of public works has been subject to all the difficulties which arise when politics mixes with public construction. It must be re- membered, though, that during the last fifteen years the country passed through a period of high costs affecting everything. Build ing materials, the general ~cost of living, wages. transportation-cos all rose together. The government had to meet the same problems encountered by the individual. Ris- ing costs to the individual are re- f1ected in rising costs to the govern ment. Where expenditure is not wasetful, there has been justifiable increase; and when everything was going well, little or no attention was paid to the functioning of gov ernment, and heavier costs were considered to be all in the days work.
 T do not say that some of the public Improvements which were l made were not absolutely neces- sary, and 1t would be difficult for me to say that there was anything in the form of municipal govern- ment of Philadelphia that could have changed the result. Philadel- phia's problem, like those of many other municipalities, finds it's most : troublesome expression in the low prices which it's municipal bonds will now bring.
 -"It is of course, true that people will pay their obligations for the education of their children, even if everything else in the world must be sacrificed. They will even cut down on food and clothing, but the children's education must be main tained. This probably explains why the Philadelphia education board is able to carry on its work. The Independence of the school author 1 ities was probably happy solution some years ago. when it was estab-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09

ike e1tra-heavy oil on my valves. h no time at all. my cough stopped; my coldgot better and I Ihavebeenh hittingor all cylinders ever since" R. w. Combs
 64Si Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, Ill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09

New York, Dec 9.-Declining to discuss the political administration of republican Philadelphia, former Governor Alfred D. Smith blames r the city's financial troubles to blindness of the taxpayers. The only way to avoid such crisis is for the citizens to know that they will have to pay some day for the irn- provements they applaud; for the official budget expenditures and to issue bonds with full regard for the life of the Improvements, de- clares former Governor Smith in the Redbook magazine.
 When city is growing rapidly, as Philadelphia has done in the last twenty years, and the taxpay- ers' pockets are conveniently near, it is hard to realize that some day bills must be paid and budgets balanced.
 Philadelphia. like many other growing American communities, undertook great public improve ments on the basis of borrowed money. Such a program is per fectly sound, if you anticipate cor rectly what your income is likely to be for a number of years ahead We paid no attention to our gov. ernment. Too many people forgot to find out how much money theii | governments were spending. Not only did they neglect to find oui how much money was being spent but they were not even interested | in how 1t was being spent, ant whether 1t was being used wisel, or extravagantly.
 I Extensive public Improvement l are almost always undertaken witt the applause and approval of tn, l citizens themselves. Popular senti ment Is stirred up for g new street or new park, or a new subway and the people, even when the, have an opportunity to vote or these expenditures, rarely turi :. them down. They nearly alwayi vote to spend money. It is no un common thing to find people of { given neighborhood appearing be fore their local councils or othel governing bodies concerned witt the expenditure of funds, and with out any regard to the needs O the rest of the city, urge the fur therance of their own particular improvement projects.
 ''In municipal or government i'm, provements of any kind, there arc two schools of thought: One be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09

year after Mir Hoover's retirement.
 An appropriation of $6,00D is recommended for transporting bullion and coin by registered mail or otherwise between hints and assay offices" The job cost $4,- 900 last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
John Monaghan
 Buried To-day
Funeral Largely Attended With Services at t|ie
 Immaculate Conception Church

The funeral of John A. Monag- han was largely attended this morning from the home of his mother. Mrs Mary Monaghan. A Ayers street to the church of the immaculate Conception where Q solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated at nine o'clock by Rev William Monaghan, brother of the deceased, assisted by the Rev Luke Fitzsimmons of New Haven and Rev Francis Egan as sub-deacon. Rev James Donaher of Cheshire.
 Seated in the sanctuary were the
 Revs Gerald Corrigan, Francis Monahan of Bridgeport; Thomas F. Lawlor of New Britain, Leo M. Finn of Oakville, John F. Murcko, Southington; David Brady. J. J.. Duggan and J. R. Quinn of Mer- iden. Thomas M Garrick of Hart
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09

ford. and F. M. o'shea, JRnes ,. Tyler, John J. ,Connor, John H. Dial, Francis P. Breen. Nathan J.. Conklin, John C. Glynn. James J.. O'Connor, J. l.. Loughran, T. F. McCuen, ]. J. Hayes, Thomas q. O'Connell. Joseph R. Mccarthy and Joseph A. Sweeney of Waterbury
 During the offertory. John Mc- Leliand sang "Pie Jesu" and after services William O'Brien sang "Oh Fry Those Tears" During the mass special music was sung under the direction of Professor K. F. HaT- mon. Interment was in L-w St Jo- sep.i's cemetery, committal serv- ices being conducted by the Rev William Monaghan assisted by the visiting priests. The bearers were Maurice and Timothy Healey, John Manning. John Nolan. Frank Mon- a han and Jeremiah Murl.ily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
STARVED FOR
 FIVE DAYS

Derby, Conn. Dec 9-(UP)--Mrs Mary w. Whiting was recovering at Griffin hospital today after five days starvation.
 She was stricken with shock while visiting her hair dressing establishment Sunday. Late yester- day tenants in an adjoining office heard her noans and found her lying on the floor in a closet.
 Her condition was reported to- day as "comportable."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
Perdal, Alleged z Owner, Testifies
 Tomorrow Morning
Frank PiIaveschi Who Parted With 5000 Trails Ac- cused to Philadelphia and Secures Arrest
 Judge Continues Issue at TO-day's Session

The case of Frank Perdal of 134 IIi1l street was continued in city court to-day until tomorrow. Per- daI is the gentleman alleged to have sold part interest in a gold mine to q local friend. The mine was supposedly located in Mexico, not Missouri and Perdal started to take his interested customer south of the Rio Grande where he could see the hired help digging out for tunes while one waited.
 Frank Pilaveschi, who parted with $1O0 as deposit in Water bury and $500 more of his savings in New York city, wanted to see the mine before completing the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
First Shipment of French Gold
 In on the Way

Cherbourg, France, Dec g. (UP) -The first great shipment of French gold to the United States since the gold flow started to Europe was put aboard the Liner Bremen to-day.
 It consisted of 15 cases valued at $3,00O, 900. ..consigned by French banks to American banks. It was made possible by the increased value of the dollar, which makes it profitable to use gold for dollar transactions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
WIFE HELPED
 KILL HUSBAND

Hackensack, N. J., Dec 9-UP) Mrs Anna Romaine /Zabriske briskie was held today on a charge of murder in the staying of her husband, Abrama Zabrikie, 5S, found yesterday on a lonely road near his home.
 The victims stepson, Everett Romaine, IA, and Peter Clapamut, 43, Of S2 Paterson St. Paterson, N. J., also were held after police quoted them as confessing that they beat Zabriskie then ran over his body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09

payments. When an effort was made to lose him in New York city he became suspicious and trailing Perdal to Philadelphia had him arrested. The accused was brought back to this city in charge of Lieutenant Matthew J. Ba! 2anda.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
DEADLOCKED

London. Dec 9--(UP)-The In- dian round table conference here was understood today to be hope lessly deadlocked. and was ex- pected to end after a few more ses- siofls. Indian representatives, ex- cept the Moslems, were said to be- Ieve further progress impossible fn view of the British attitude.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
Mechanic Fixes Cough FAST

"Crawling under cars in a drafty garage is almost . sure way to catch
 coughs. Every win.
 ter, so far, I've had my troubles. This winter, on the boss recomrnendation, ] got abottle a o. Smith Brpthers Cough Syrup. Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
rORD ON 5DECK

Dearborn, Mich, Dec 9--(UP)- Apparently fully recovered from his recent critical illness Henry Ford appeared at his office here yesterday afternoon and spent nearly two hours checking over re- ports and reading mail,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Anthracite Strike
Is Going Strong

SCRANTON, Pa.-W While Ma
loney, so-called insurgent leader
of the anthracite coal miners
strike, is already negotiating with
Boylan, U. M. w. A. sellout expert
and Maloney's arch enemy" the
rank and file committee is con-
tinuing to spread its program Of
struggle throughout the field. The
capitalist press is spreading the
lie that the strike is broken. This
is untrue. The strike is going
strong. The Rank and File Com
nittee is rallying the miners to
repudiate the sellout negotiations
of Boylan and Maloney and con-
tinue the struggle under rank and
file leadership.
The Rank and File Committee
has been warning the miners that
the demand for equalization of
work is merely a means of setting
the unemployed against the en-
ployed and at best would divide
the hunger among the miners.
Against this the rang and file pro-
gram demands a minimum Of
three days work for all miners and
unemployment insurance to be
paid by the coal operators and the
state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

the Emergency Unemployment Relief
Committee asserting: :.
THE condition Of the hungry
unemployed would not be improved
Immediately even if there should be
an upturn in business.
Family Reported Starving by
NeighbOrs
The Welfare Council of New York
City in January issued the following
memorandum on a typical case in
the Brownsville workers section of
Brooklyn:
Investigator found 5 small chill
dren home while mother was out
looking for vegetables under push
carts Family had moved into one
one room. Father sleeping at Nun
icipal Lodging House because he
could get more to eat there than at
home and frequently brought food
from there in pockets for children
and wife. Only other food they had
for weeks came from under push
carts. When investigator returned
to Home Relief Bureau, applications
had been temporarily discontinued"
Comptroller Charles w. Berry had
ordered the bureaus closed because he
said relief was not necessary.
Charles H johnson. State Commits
sioner Of Social Welfare, officially
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Governor Roosevelt "OverlookS"
Starvation in NeW York State

appointed by Gov. Roosevelt himself,
speaking before the New York Section
of the Women's Department Of the
National Civic Federation (of which
Matthew VOL is chairman admitted
the situation in all the larger cities in
the following,
"The larger cities, including New
York, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester,
and Albany-having a total pop
ulation of 0,30S,000-have reported
they need outside aid to meet the
heavy demands for relief. Building
concerns in New York reported that
building construction is Is per cent
lower than it was in 1881 and 81
per cent of skilled labor is I'M
employed nOw!" - World Telegram,
Feb, rs, 1882.
Desperate conditions in villages
only 100 miles from New York City
are described by Gertrude Springer,
social worker, writing in the Survey
of January Is, 1882
They have no resources, no leader
ship, no vitality . What will become
Of them no one knows. They nted a
good deal more than fod and fuel and
clothing"
Jobless Textile Worker a Suicide
In the textile city of Cohoes. this
welfare agent found a typical sit
uation, with more and more people
daily joining the ranks of the des-
tittue
"The out-Of-wOrk people who had
lived long enough on dried beans and
water were growing articuIate. On
November IA an unemployed man,
despairing at the plight of his wife
and three children, killed himself"
Such suicides are recorded daily in
the New York capitalist press. Men
and women have killed themselves
rather than starve and see their chill
dren starYe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Amter Speaks Today
To Delegates At T.U.
U.C. Anti-War Meet

NEW YORK.-Comrade I. Am
ter, district organizer OF the Com
munist Party, will make the main
report on the struggle against
imperialist war at the Trade
Union Unity Council meeting
today, called for National Anti
War Day.
The following comrades must be
present at the meeting: all TUUC
delegates, members of executive
committees and trade boards Of
unions, leagues and opposition
groups, secretaries and chairmen
of shop groups, secretaries of
opposition groups, secretaries of
Unemployed Councilss.
The meeting will take place at
the TUUC headquarters, S East
10Th Street, at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

NEW York;. P. Morgan
admitted over the radio that
there was mass starvation in
New York City, even though
his tool, Senator Bingham got
80 governors to wire that there
was mo starvation" in the
United States.
Governor Roosevelt Of New
York reported with regard to
the starving jobless in his
state "that accurate statistics
were not available" New
York Times, March II, 1892.
Jobless workers themselves
could Civ e Gov. Roosevelt
plenty of information as to the
numbers that are starving in
this richest Of all the states,
but we will let capitalist well
fare bureaus and official relief"
agents tell the story.
Less than week after Gov. Roo
sevelt's evasion of the question on
starvation in his state, the New York
Times carried an appeal by Chair
man Peter S. Duryea of the Food
Relief Division in New York City, as
follows:
'Mr. Duryea explained that
survey of 24,16O unemployed families
had shown that 1926 were sub
sisting on starvation rations and
asked the housewives of New York
to bear this In mind as they do
their daily showing"
Thus the Official food relief agent
himself admits that nearly $4,000
families - over 10000 persons - are
barely existing on starvation rations
in the worlds richest city. His ap-
peal was accompanied by statement
from Chairman Harvey D.. Gibson Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

savage ueaCn VerdlcCS handed out In
a tense lynch atmosphere by the
lower court at Scottsboro, Ala. Chief
Justice John c. Anderson in dissent
ing from the opinion of the majority
admitted that the defendants did not
get a fair and impartial trial. He
wrote in part:
"At to whether or, not these de-
PENDANTS are guilty is not a ques-
ton of first importance, the real
one being did they get a fair and
impartial trial as contemplated by
the bill Of rights.
'It may be that neither of the
foregoing reasons, Is standing alone,
should reverse these cases, but
when considered In connection with
each other, they must collectively
impress the judicial mind with the
conclusion that they did not get q
fair and impartial trial that is re-
quired and contemplated by our
Constitution"
While admitting that the trial was
unfair, Chief Justice Anderson has
nothing to say on the denial Of the
basic rights of the Negro masses and
of the Scottsboro defendants in the
refusal to permit Negroes to serve on
juries in the South. The other JUS
tees secuted this fundamental right
Of the Negro masses, hypocritically
declaring that the exclusion OF the
Negroes from the venire" did not
deprive the defendants of their rights
under the Fourteenth Amendment.
These justices brazenly declared that
"the State of Alabama has the right
within constitutional limitations, to
fix the qualifications for jurors"
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
ILA. CHIEF JUSTICE ADMITS SCOTTSBORO TRIAL UNFAIR
The Negro and White Masses
MustSavetheS cOttsbOrO Boys!


Aabamais CHASTITY confession intention put through
Negroes-et
this declaration against the ng massesl
araon which overshadows the famous decision than three
the slave bred Scott
Supreme
to his But that final word" OeuIed by the of
in the American Civil War of 1861!
The murderous decision Of the Alabama Supreme Court will also be
actions of the white workers all
working
has aTsao scored pes" tn t IN t SECURING f even t s S
ninon the capitalist courts slaughter these innocent Negro
from the caIous the majority decision declared that the
Empress judicial
impartial contemplated
of the that
Struggle for Negro Rights and by of black and white workers
leadership o Party.
blind the which the
giving air of fairness capitalist which nevertheless
certain
otherwise
second the division of the
onsran of the fact that the heaess
class to withhold its in some of the worst of the murder drives
appeal Supreme
by support
the Communist capitalist
capitalist court and the hatred toward the Negro the
working will actions
Supreme Court but the must the ruling
hesitate in this contemplated historic murder of
children of terrorzing nation
In every street in every city and town. in industrial center
this of the ruling class the the
heard not against the direct
children but also against the oathm assistant
the type
Coored People" All the
the
cPwho support capitalism the
of the Negro peop Let the
the attitude agreements pro-
secutors assist booming business of
ton of framed Niger trial. and the death
the of Negro and white workers what think
Walter White William Pckens responsible
honest defense attorney openly joined refusing
in the jurors
nocen boys!
Let the denlmcaon bloody ring
Out the reetsl Hold
town. Negro workers and white
sands in the demonstration of April which
ton against imperiast nstradon
against
boro!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Help Daily Worker
Guild Up Mass Fight
s0r. ScOttsbOro Bows

THE fate of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys
Il is in the hands of the masses of workers of
America. Mass demonstrations, mightier than
ever before must be the immediate answer of the
workers to the brutal challenge flung down by the
Alabama State Supreme Court. The Daily Work
err our only nationwide daily paper, must continue
and intensity its fight to swell the mass demon
stration for the release of these Negro children
of the working class The Daily Worker must not
go under in this critical time.
Send in your half dollars comrades, to keep
our paper alive Send in your half dollars to keep
up the fight against all boss murder and terror.
More Japanese troops advance to the Soviet
border. The bosses have just loaned S8,00O,000 to
Poland to speed up the preparations for war
against the workers fatherand in the West. The
Japanese socialist" betrayers, who have just voted
war credits for the robbery and butchery in Man
churia, are repeating the betrayal of the yellow
socialists" in the last war, and are showing how
these takers will act in all countries when the
bossse launch their attack against fatherast.
Yet today, when the Daily Worker must be
EXPANDED to intensity the fight against every
form of boss terror and treachery, today the Daily
Worker has to be cut from six pages to four pages
Valuable news, valuable explanations of the work
ers fighting front, have to be cut out because lack
of money has cut out two pages of the Daily
Worker
And the danger to the existence of even this
four page Daily Worker is growing.
Your coupon is on page three. Cut it out and
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your fellow worker and mail the coupon with dol
lar bill. Fight boss +o~-'o~ D'rht boss war plots.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
LYNCH DECISION
ROUSES FURIOUS
MASS A N GER
1000 in Angry Protest
in Detroit; Soviet
Workers Cable

Angry protests against the
upholding of the Alabama SUI
preme Court of the savage
lynch sentences against seven
of the Scottsboro boys are al
ready pouring in from all parts Of the
world.
In Detroit, last night, 1000 Negro
and white workers joined in denounc-
ing the murderous decision Of the
Alabama Supreme Court and ir
pledging the most active support to
the mass fight to save the boys and
against the rotten capitalist system
which is attempting to carry through
this vile act of terrorism against the
working class and the enslaved Negro
masses Of the South. The workers
greeted Mrs. Violet Montgomery,
mother Of one of the boys, and Mrs.
Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, with
a tremendous ovation, rising to their
feet and cheering for over five min
utes the two working class mothers.
The meeting was held at the Cass
Technical High School, under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense, the organization which Is
leading to smash the frame-ups
against Mooney and the Scottsboro
boys.
From Soviet Karelia, OF the United
Soviet Socialist Republics, where the
masses have wiped out capitalism
with its race hatreds and national
oppression, comes the following cable
to the I. L. D. and the workers Of the
United States:
1--WE, the women workers residing
In Golijowja and UritzIi In the city
OF PetroLawodsk cable our most em-
phatic protest against the barbarous
terrorizing of our class. We. de-
mand the immediate release Of the
Z Negro youths sentenced to be
electrocuted by the tyrannical class
justice Of the American capitalists.
We also demand the release Of Tom
Mooney, serving life sentence La
California in spite of the general
admission Of his innocents.
I'VE came to Soviet Karelia b
build Socialism and are always
ready to defend the first workers
Socialist Fatherland and to help
all class war victims In capitalist
countries by strengthening the hand
Of our international organixatic
the International Red Aid. -"
Hands off the innocent Nexre
youths! Amnesty for all class wnr
prisoners! Long live international
solidarity"
From Moscow comes the following
protest cable from the magazine and
newspaper workers:
"A meeting of the united maya
zine and newspaper workers Join
in protesting against the ScottsboroH
lynchers, race persecution and fas-
cist terror. We demand uncondi-
tonal release Of innocent Negrs
youths. We send greetings to
workers Of all nationalities and
races In America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Vote Down Sales Tax;
Prepare Neav Robbery Scheme

WASHINGTON. - The sales tax
clause Of the new revenue act, under
whose provisions tn eworkN"S, f."
and middle class would have been
forced to bear the u IA, "a 49,
Treasury crisis, was defeated in the
House of Representatives by vote Of
223 to 1853.
The defeat came as a result of tie
pressure exerted on the represents
tives by the Electromagnetic and tbs
small manufacturers. With tx :seey-
ening crisis and the rapid narrQviE :
purchasing power OF the maAan, II
would have made it more difhCaat "
pass the tax on to the MASSES, To
bear the tax completely - svuA -