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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
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other special interests as their particular graft is attacked in turn, The individual voter cannot write his congressman on every proposal, but he can endorse an organization which will follow through for him and will be strong in doing so ex- actly in proportion to the number of voters who endorse it. Eacli membership card sent in is a blow struck for the stability of our fed eral financial structure and against government by minorities. Cards are >obtainable from me or at my office, or from the member of my committee, who are Mildred Har- mon, Richard M. Hunt, Timothy A. Johnson, May Murnane, James E Russell and Fred S. Smith.
 FREDERIC c. SMEDLEY,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
Our Daily Washington Letter
King Caucus Becomes Dictator
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

prisals from organized minorities. who feels compelled to vote from sectional or local viewpoint-or who doesn't want to follow his own conscience.
 there seems no hope that congress can ever be induced to reduce the annual billion dollar load of vet strongly Roosevelt might urge it. The last democratic house probably would never have passed a bonus bill had the leaders called a cau- GUS.
 Progressives usually have op- posed the caucus, as did Senator Costigan of Colorado in the recent senate caucus vote, on the ground that they shouldn't surrender their conscientious judgment to a ma chine.
 In times past they have held that an agreement not to retain open minds while pro and con ar-' guments were being made would be violation of their oaths. They objected also to drawing the veil of secrecy over important public deliberations-as caucus does and held that legislation backed va binding caucus was likely to be precipitate as well as effecting a suppression of minorities. If the majority in legislative body has 60 men out of 100, mere 31 of its members can control the entire body. passing bills or defeating them at will.
 Republican caucuses en e d when republicans began to be di- vided as between conservatives and progressives. The elder Sem ator LaFollette of Wisconsin led the fight against them and they ences," which are not binding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
To-day's Selected Poem
FINANCE IN NEW AMSTERDAM By Arthur Guiterman in the New York Times

When old Manhattan's men of worth
 Our city's honest builders, Were called to front a sudden dearth Of stivers doits and guilders, No money problem. overdraft,
 Or lack of cash could swamp 'em; They learned the simple red mans craft And cleared the score with wampum. Long Islands banks of golden sand
 Were banks that always paid them, For beads of shell were cash in hand The gentle clam purveyed them (From which arose. beyond a doubt
 By easy adaptation, The slang expression. "shelling out
 Implying liquidation.) With courage, faith and strings of beads The buyer faced the vendor; So we can meet our daily needs
 With any legal tender!
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS u-I,n D.ttlx, oS tho DotJS

Sometimes you are apparently quite broad minded, and then again you are quite narrow minded t. =. your reply to the correspondent who said her physician is of 'thc old school" .... you know you are a path" yourself. an alopath, you not? G. T. S.. D. O. s
 Answer Dear me- Doctor. haven't you heard the news? There have been no alopaths for than hundred years now. No, think all "pathists", of whatever ilk. are just using the brand to try and catch certain gull ible customers. I'm hoping to see the day when ans physicians who f.;sts himself on the pub lie 'pathist' will get nothing but the merry Ina from people who might otherwise have employed him.
 fCopvright. John F. Diile Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

Two senators opposed to air mail sub sides say. they don't see any reason why letters should go so fast. We'll, to tell the truth, in most cases there isn't much req son just now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
UP AND UP

Dreams are lights. Illuminating gloom. Lights that glow, then leave us All too soon.
 O-O-O What we want to do is put man. kind on a gold standard. Then we may be able to get some place.
 O-O-o It isn't the size of the pack. but the weight, that matters.
 O-O-o We trust some great inventor will eventually be able to separ- ate spinach from sand-and leave the spinach.
 O-O-O If you burn the candle at both ends, you'll never be able to fit it to your birthday cake.
 o-O-o A lot of people will fly in rage when they wouldn't consider flying in a plane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
O--O-O MORE LINES

The banks are open.
 So give a cheer, You can draw ten a week
 While the panic's here.
 O-O-o The sheep says life just as a gambol.
 o-O-o This concludes our regular Tues day evening program. It was broadcast by DBD and came to us through the courtesy of the Wa terbury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again to-mor. row evening at the usual hour
 o-O-O Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
A Goal Attained

The United States supreme court has accomplished something that it has been striving for since time immemora When it convened yesterday it was prepared to hear cases as rapidly as counsel could pre- sent them. In short the court has caught up with itself on hearings In the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him. care Of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

The R. F. C. is said to be trying to stop congressional inquiry. Wouldn't it be better strategy to invite one?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

ture put some teeth into the laws the state water commission could get more action than il has merely by gentle reminders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
ALL A BLANK

San Francisco-Mrs Robert P. Callahan was not kidding when she objected to Callahan's going to an ice skating party. When Calla- han headed toward the door Mrs Callahan picked up the family gun and fired a charge in his general direction. She was more shocked than he was when he didn't fall. The gun was loaded with blanks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:27 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14

The Hague. Netherlands, will hold it's 1883 international electri- cal exhibition in it's geological gar den in April.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
Good evening
 O-O-o RAIN AT MORN
"A SMILES THE THING,

l he morn was dark,
 There seemed touch of pain. A chill was there,
 Product of the rain, Few bright hellos were said, 1 didn't see smile, But then, rain passes on, It lasts little while. The morn was dull, All nature seemed in Lent, And perhaps to wash some sins The rain was sent, To wash the dusty walks, A street. a lawn, One never understands, Rain in the morn. Rain in the morn,
 Tears from up on high, Drawn from the earth, And sprinkled from the sky, Rain to wet the dust ways, To give pull to spring. It chanteth not of beauty, Though it produce the thing.
 O-O-o Roosevelt wants to legalize beer. I hope it won't be necessary for him to close the speakeasies to bring this about, something like the bank holiday.
 O-O-O
 Nowadays no strings are at tached to sale. They gener- ally tie the small bundles with elastics.
 o-O-O They say that into each life some rain must fall. But this morning, though raining, the banks re- opened. So that's something.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-14
NEW LOVE

Time was when my presence Sent your heart a-fluttering In a wild dunn dunn of joy, And left you silly, muttering. Time was when sweet time Was spent in your embrace, And felt quite secure With you most any place. But now, oh times have changed, No longer I bring awe, Your dreams are in another sphere. Your God a new jig-saw.
 ". A. M. George Bernard Shaw says dreams are impossibilities. Will he kindly tell us what isn't.
 o-O-o Now they want to divorce politics from government. But someone has said government is the science of politics. Or is it the other way round?
 O-O-o
 Pity the girl with dish pan hands-if she can't afford the cream, advertised to cure the affliction.
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O--O-O LINES

Where are those golden slippers, We talked about before, They've given way to carpet types, Which walk depressiOn's floor.
 o-O-o l suppose they consider soup as being in the category of both food and drink.
 o-O-o Water will not rise above it's own level. until it takes the form of a geyser.
 O-O-o France wants future guaran- tees against war. But the en- tire world is a unit in demand ing future guarantees against depression.
 o-O-o When the saloons open the bar towels may replace the crying towels.
 o-O-o
 so IT GOES A word to the wise.
 Is sufficient. they say, But tell me, the wise,
 In the dumb of today. O-O-O Even the well-bred baker is known to have crust peculiarly his own.
 o-O-O The bank holiday helped put crimp in the business of hoarding by the day or week.
 o-O-o The only people up to their necks in work are the collar manufac- turers.
 O-O-O
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
1.-TWO. Membership Drive.

CHICAGO, Ill.-T h Chicago
District of the international Work
ers Order is concentrating on a
membership drive to end in Janu-
airy at the time of the district
Plenum. Meetings have been ar
ranged with the language sections
as follows: Thursday, Sept. 81 at
8 p. m. with the Slovak section,
Friday, Sept. % at 8 p. m. with the
City Central Committee, Saturday,
Sept % at p. m. with the Ital-
ian Section; 8 p. m. with the Hun
garian Section, Sunday, Sept. "a,
at 8 a. m. with the English Section;
1 .. m. with the Youth Section;
3 D. m. with the Russian Section;
s p. m. with the Ukrainian and
Polish Section, Tuesday, Sept. rs
at 8 p. m. with the Pre-Plenum
Membership Drive Committee.
All meetings will be held at the
J. w. 0. Office, EAST w. Chicago
Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Armour Workers
Put Demands; Plan
Struggle to Win

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 20.-When
workers Of the pork trim department
at Armours, most of whom are wo-
men, under the leadership of the
Packing House Workers Industrial
Union, sent committee to negotiate
with the executives of the plant,
workers in every single department
stood by impatiently awaiting the re-
suits of the interview.
Several hundred workers absolutely
refused to go back to work while the
committee was in the Office. Hun
dreds of others were ready to walk
out if necessary.
The stoppage affected several de-
partments. Reports are now piling
in that workers all over the plant
were ready to go out at word from
the Union.
During the negotiations between
the committee and the officials every
effort was made to sidestep the is
sue or browbeat them into submits
sion. The committee held firm. The
committee was finally assured that
the matter will be handled by the
chief executives in Chicago.
Hundreds of workers, realizing that
their only hope lies in their own &C.
ton, are coming into the union, this
despite the cries of the company that
they will never recognize the Indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Big Bakers Announce Higher
Bread Prices; - Per Cent Rise Seen
Strike Against High
Prices Spreads in
Jersey Towns


NEW YORK, Sept. 20.--Un-
der the impact 4 the Roosevelt
price raising program, the
price Of bread i moving swiftly
upward, the latest reports re-
veal.
The aecompan ing letters, typical
of thousands of similar ones being
sent throughout the country, were
posted by thres large New York
! baking companies, the Rockwell
Bakery, Teitelbaums, and the Ar
cadia
1t is significant that the sweeping
price rise is Justified by these bak-
ing companies as part of their 10y
atty to the Roosevelt N. r. A. price
raising program. The letter of the
Rockwell Bakery declares that the
price rise is due to the fact that
"The baking industry is cooperating
fundamentally with President ROose-
velt's N. r. A. program"
The prices shown in the top let
ter show extraordinarily steep ad-
vances from the recent price level,
ranging from 20-35 per cent.
At the same time, organized re-
sistance to rising bread prices is
developing. The consumers strike,
declared several days ago in the town
of Lakewood, New Jersey, and out
lying districts, spread yesterday to
the towns of Tom River and West
Farms.
AT mass meeting of protesting
workers and housewives, M Taft,
Communist candidate for Judge in
Bronx County, New York, showed
how the Roosevelt price-raising pro-
gram is calculated to increase the
profits of the big bakeries and wheat
spectators by making the workers
pay more for bread.
He pointed out the falsity of the
bakers claims that increased wages
makes the price raise necessary. He
showed that the Lakewood bakeries
pay their workers starvation wages,
one large bakery paying its drivers
SIS a week, with immediate dismissal
for any worker who demands more.
This bakery flies Blue Eagle, Taft
I said, and has attempted to justify
the increases in this way.
The striking consumers demand a
return to the 8 cents a pound for
bread and "a cents a dozen for rolls.
The bakers have raised the prices
to 10 cents a pound and "a cents a
dozen.
Disnayed at the growing resistance
of the workers, the bakers have Of
fered to compromise at 9 cents a
pound and 20 cents dozen.
The strikers, who have succeeded
| in reducing bread purchases to IS per
cent of the normal trade, are firm for
their original demands.
The striking housewives are under
the leadership of the Monmouth and
Ocean County Consumers Associa-
ton, united front group which in
| cludes the International Workers Or
der, the Workmen's Circle, the In
ternational Labor Defense, and sew
eral local groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Shoot Picket in
WilkeSbarre, Pa.
Silk Strike Area
Strikers Seek to Close
Down Valley Mills

WnKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept. TO-
When he saw picket line of 400
strikers gather at the gates of the
Schneider Silk Mill in Swoyersville
the superintendent of the mill
stepped into the street and without
warning fired three shots into the
picket line, wounding Stanley
Bosek, a picket.
State troopers were on the scene
to protect the scabs. They arrested
the mill superintendent, who was
later released on $1,000 bonds.
The strikers at the Schneider mill
here are among the most militant in
this strike area and have been pick
citing the Hess Goldsmith mil, one
OF the largest in the section, to win
the workers out on strike. Weavers
In all the mills are involved in the
strike and are preparing to bring out
the throwers, and to close down the
entire Wyoming Valley mill region
until the bosses grant their demands.
Many of these workers are joining
the Independent Union.
Efforts are now being made by the
strikers here to connect the strike
committee more closely with the
committees in Allentown, Paterson
and Scranton to form united strike
committee for the whole national
strike front to win the demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
Rank File Opposition in A. Of Should Expose Action of
Leadership and Organize Program of Struggle for Higher
Wages, and Workers Rights

THE silk strikers, the shoe workers,
and the coal miners, to mention
few, knew differently and remained
on strike despite decisions of the
National Labor Board.
That brings us down to Green's
company union below. Green now
complains that employers are "vio-
lating" the N. r. A. by setting up
company unions in which workers
have no rights.
The New Crusader
This assumed role of crusader
against company unions needs to be
explained little. In the first place,
Green does not deny that the COM
pany Unions have had mushroom
growth under the N. r. A. In the
second place, it was the action of
the A. F. of L. officials that gave
impetus to the development of COM
pany unions. Wherever the work.
ers fought against the company
unions and established their own
unions through struggle, Green re-
fused to recognize these organiza-
tons as unions because there is no
room for any other labor movement
In the United States
There are still more important
crimes against the workers generally
and against the A. F. of L. members
in particular that DR.. Jekyll-Gr
wants to cover up on the eve Of the
A. F. of L. Convention.
William Green, John L. Lewis and
Sidney Hillman approved the open
Hillman helped put the open shop
stamp on every code of the N. r. A.
through this action.
In the coal code, Green and Lewis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
By HAIRY CANNES

As leading member of the N. r. A.
n Labor Board, and as an A. F. of
! L. official, preparing for the 53rd
Annual Convention of the A. F. Of
L., Mr.. Green is forced to take a
leaf from Robert Louis Stevensons
book, Or. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
From the destroyer of the work.
ers' rights, through his action with
the bosses on the N. r. A. admin
istration, Green suddenly appears in
the role of the staid defender of the
workers rights against the advance
Of company unions. But the trans
formation is only for the moment
and is induced by the growing re-
sistance of rank and file A. F. Of l..
! members to the National Labor
Board.
Dual Personality
This assumed dual personality Of
the same Mr.. Green (typifying all
Of the F. of L. leaders, should not
fool A. F. of L. members.
Green's latest effort to jump out
Of his own skin and get away from
the responsibility Of his own deeds
results in statement complaining
about the rapid growth Of company
unions since the N. r. A. was passed.
Labor has given the NJ r. A. full
and unqualified support" lies Mr..
Green. Just the day before he is
sued this statement 10000 textile
workers Gncluding the A. F. Of L..
members) unanimously rejected the
N. r. A.-A. F. of L. decision to re-
turn to work on five-week-truce
A few days before that 5000 Brock
ton, Mass, shoe workers rejected the
N. r. A. decisions.
To season this unpalatable bit, and
to make the strike breaking National
Labor Board appear more digestible
to the empty stomachs Of the work.
ers, Green says that "in every case
labor has been sustained by the Ma
tional Labor Board"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21
es JekylLHyde Role to Hide His MIRA. Crimes

company union; the Sinclair Refin-
ing Co. organizes a company union
Gin compliance with the oil code ap-
proved by Green; and the Pharis
Tire and Rubber Co., Newark, Ohio
falls in line.
A company union is formed in the
Newport News Drydock and Ship
building Co.
IN SHORT, the war industries are
organizing company unions. These
industries are so closely connected
with the War and Navy departments
of the United States government that
we can take it for granted they were
organized with the approval OF gov
eminent officials.
Furthermore, the basic industries
are all represented. True, smaller
plants in most instances are picked
out, as beginning, as a feeler, But
the way is opened.
With the MIRA and the auto code,
Green literally opened the door, and
the basic industries, the powerful
trusts march through.
Rank and file members of the A..
F. Of l.. should not be fooled by
Green's latest criticism. Green wants
to clamp down on the growing OPP
position against the MIRA and its re-
suits in the ranks of the A. F. of l..
He does not want repetitions Of the
silk and shoe strikers action.
Green's dual role should be ex-
posed. His crimes should be branded
by every local of the A. F. of L.,
and be brought out on the floor of
the convention. On the basis Of the
close relations Of Green and the
strike breaking bosses under the NRA
to build powerful opposition in the
A. F. of L. to fight for a program of
struggle, for a fight for workers
rights, against company unions, and
for united struggle of all workers
against the attack of the Wall Street
Roosevelt regime,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21

pledged themselves to carry out COM
pulsory arbitration, controlled by the
coal operators and the government
that has as it's aim to wreck COM
pletely independent organization Of
the workers In the coal industry
The right to strike and picket Is
wiped out by the coal code. The type
of organization of the workers ap-
proved by the A. F. Of L. officials
in the coal industry differs only the
slightest from the company union
WHEN the National Labor Board
W controlled by A. F. of L. Off
cials, voted to approve the open shop
clause In the auto code, they gave
approval to every employer in the
country to form company unions OF
run on the open shop basis. The
organization of company unions is
not in violation Of the N. r. A. The
N. R. A. merely states that no worker,
as condition of employment, be
forced" to join company union.
But the A. F. of l.. officials took
care Of that for the bosses in the
auto code. In the automobile code
they provided that the employers
have the right to hire and fire work.
ers on the basis Of Individual merit"
Smacks a little bit Of the much
reviled rugged individualism."
Where company unions are formed,
the employers consider 1t the main
point Of individual merit" whether
worker Joins the company union.
shop and company unions for the
automobile industry. Space does not
permit detailing the deliberate and
criminal manner in which, Lewis and