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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

brothers had smarted at the un- willingness of the then powerful Valley gang, composed largely of boys from their own neighborhood, to admit them into membership. So when Crawford and Heeney, pa roled, submitted theirs and Tom my's plan, it was embraced with enthusiasm. e
 Prohibition was well under way, and the chief occupation of the underworld was stalking out claims in the gold mine that was the boot leg liauor industry. Despite the crash of sawed-off shotguns which accompanied many of their strikes, there was gold for everybody. And when the newly organized Touhy gang sunk their pick into the vast and hitherto unmined suburban area northwest of Chicago, no one From 1924 to 1883 they cashed in handsomely on the illicit booze gambling machine and vice busl- ness f1ourishing throughout the Skokie Valley, without attracting
 With their, money, the Touhy brothers and the from 30 to 50 erstwhi!e safe blowers associated with them, bought homes In quiet residential suburbs.
 End of the Pfckings.
 Roger Touhy, himself, built pleasant but unpretentious house with a green tile roof near Des Plaines. There he has lived with his wife and only child, a 10-year- old boy.
 Tommy, with his wife and four children, settled down in modest bungalow on Marion avenue, in the home suburb of Oak Park. Eddie, the bachelor of the family, divided his time between his brothers homes.
 So long as prohibition endured, the Touhy mobsters were content to live and labor obscurely. From their far-from-sumptuous hideouts, they emerged only to collect their handsome tributes from the vice and liquor industry, or to hold a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
JAPANESE WAR OFFICE PLANS
 NEW SYSTEM
Reserve Recruiting Point
 ed Toward Training { of Officers ..

Tolxio - (U.P.)-The Japanese war office will carry out a new system of recruiting reserve mili- tary cadets in 1888. It expects to train 5000 reserve and non-com- missioned officers year under the system. The new system has been introduced primarily for filling the growing need for trained officers, acutely felt in the recent cam paigns.
 Briefly, 5000 young men will be singled out from recruits. They vii receive special training for three months under a committee of officers.
 At the end of three months they will be divided into A and B class es. depending on their respective showings. Those chased as A, ot whom there will be. $500, will be qualified as reserve officers upon receiving their discharge.
 Those designated as A class will be appointed to the rank of su- perior private, and will be pro- noted two months later to corpor- al. and in another two months will again be promoted to sergeant Those designated as B class, ot whom there will be 2,500 will be appointed superior privates, 1T which rank they will remain unti discharged.
 The new system is elastic. Even those who are promoted to the rank of sergeant may be denoted to B class the moment they art found not up to par. or those wht are designated as reserve military cadets, may be dropped to tht | ranks of ordinary recruits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
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washington, Aug 11.-(UP)-- Blackhaired John l.. Lewis, presl- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, and veteran of bitter inter-union fights as well as scores of mine strikes, is known from one end of the coal belt to the other, hui he never takes a chance on not being recognized.
 He stood up to speak at the sec ond day of coal code hearings. III his hand was a bulky address, run ming about 5000 words.
 Deputy Administrators simpson, presiding introduced him simply:
 eve will next hear John l.. Lewis. president of the United Mine Workers" Simpson said. Lewis came forward. He looked at inc stenographer, then at the large audience of operators ara
 He stuck his chin out and spoke:
 "My name is Lewis-John L.
 Then he methodically Tipped the cover of his manuscript and be- gan reading.
 Secretary of Interior Ickes is be- ing thanked by newspapermen cov- ering the department for clearing them out of cubby-hole of a press room into a commodious or | flee.
 With a shrewd knowledge of their wants he furnished the office with a comfortable couch, easy chairs, two or three tables and four extra desks.
 ap~& ed the ball rolling to make 1ckes secretary of interior was Newton Jenkins, a rising political figure in Illinois: Jenkins is being sug- gested by friends now for secretary of treasury should that cabinet post became vacant.
 l Jenkins is a var veteran and a lawyer. He has run for the re- publican senatorial nomination three times as a progressive re- publican. In 1924 he received 114,000 votes, in 1880 (against Ruth Hannah McCormick) 161,- 900 and last year against former Senator Glenn, 405,000 votes. | Jenkins started speaking for Roosevelt after he failed to get the nomination last time. After the election he telegraphed pro- gressive senatorsr to boost Ickes for interior secretary. Ickes at tbat time had his eye only on the post of Indian commissioner. | When Ickes went to see the president hoping to become In- dian commissioner, the cabinet post was thrust at him. Now he is regarded here as close to being the No 1 cabinet member in in- fluence because he has $3.300,oo 900 to spend on public works.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

council of war.
 Then came legal beer. Unlike the Capone crowd who had made the best of the waning days of pro- hibition by buying into legitimate breweries and organizing a nation wide beer pobbing syndicate, 1t found the Touhys unprepared.
 "Cut in" on Labor.
 To bolster up their suddenly de- pleted incomes, they set out then to muscle in on the $1O,OOO,OOO teaming and trucking racket. con- trolled by the Capone crowd. And their method was dramatic.
 Twenty-three strong, the Touhy mob under the leadership of Roger Touhy, stormed headquarters of the "union" one afternoon last May, taking machine guns with them, and remained in control or the offices for a couple of hours l When they departed they took a couple of Capone men with them. Contrary to gang custom, now, ever, the terrible Touhys released these hostages later without ran- som. But the released hostages carried a. message to Humphries and his crowd that the Touhys threatened war unless they were immediately cut in on the esti- mated $1S7, 100000 of extortions to .be collected in Chicago this year.
 Further to balance their budget, so the police suspect, the Touhys went in for Kidnapping. But sus- picions are not grounds for arrest: So, thought the list of 'snatcneo persons steadily mounted, Hoger and his mob went unapprenendeo.
 They went unapprehended, that is, until Harry Ward. unarmeo rookie policeman of Elkhorn, Wis., picked up four of them for crash ing into telephone pole.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

Kovno, Lthuania, (UP)-Rising nationalist sentiment in Memel has sharpened official measures. and, under the threat of continued riots and disturbances. the direc- torate has forbidden further poli- tical meetings.
 Among the assemblies banned was one sponsored by the clergy man Baron von Sass, at which banners were to be displayed bearing the legend "Memel Awake" slogan reminiscent of the Nazi Germany Awake"
 On his part, Sass complained to police that he knew of a plan to break up the meeting by spiriting into the audience a group of op- ponents armed with ''stink bombs" Authorities, who on sev- eral recent occasions had prevent ed serious disorder only by calling out all available forces, decided to prohibit further meetings.
 The Evangelical Consistory of Memel has taken violent exception to Sass political activities. As a disciplinary action he has been suspended from office and it is planned to remove him entirely Ocial efforts to prevent dis. orders were stimulated by a re- port from the commandant of the Memel district that the Christian Social Workers Union,' a Nazi organization, planned to recruit further shock troops" in the vicinity. The commandant de- manded that the enlistment be prevented
 In thaht hope that fall vii lbrine
 at least a partial solution of the
 present troubled political situa. tion, the authorities ordered in. definitely postponed the elections to the agricultural board.
 Meanwhile, the jurisdiction oi MemePs courts has been sharply restricted. Under the new Lithu. anian lawcourt' constitution, vio. lations of the military service and National Defense laws have beer removed from their competence They will mo longer be permitted Ito pass judgment on punishable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
AFFECTS ALL DEBTS. 25 Per Cent Reductions in The Face of Rising
 Market Prices

Taking us at our word, literally thousands of economical minded people have swamped us in the past week to take advantage of the tremendous saving opportunities that have been presented by this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
DIPLOMATS TO LEARN COUNTRY

Madrid (UP)-Having decided that touring, like charity, should begin at home, efforts are now be- ing made for the Spaniards to ac- quaint themselves with the historic and natural beauties of their own country.
 Students in the school for career diplomats are being taken for an extensive tour of the Peninsula, SC when later they go abroad they will be able to talk convincingly about Sevilla, Granada, Cordoba Malaga, Cadiz, and other centra points in Spain.
 Up until the era of good roads for which the late Dictator Gen. eral Miguel Primo de Rivera is 1T large part to be credited witf starting-Spaniards in genera knew little of their country. Many of the aristocrats knew more abou London, Paris, Biarritz, and sucl places than they did about region. in which they owned extensive properties.
 But now that there is a curren of touring heading towards Spain the inhabitants of the country it. self are becoming more, and more interested in acquainting them selves with its points of interest More recruits are being enliste, in Great Britain's territorial force A -s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
SEE PASSING OF COOP FARMS IN
 THESOUfHWESI
Highways Were Worked
 By Organizers s-Busi-
 ness Bucked Move :!

Russell, Kan, (UP)-Certain in@ dications are pointed out here that cooperative farming is passing from Kansas and the southwest as quietly but surely as 1t came 10 this agricultural area when "co- operative'' was a mighty big wart to the wheat farmers.
 It is seen as the beginning or the end, and there is none to shed a tear.
 Legal notice of sale of the prop- erty of the Southwest Co-opera" tive Wheat Growers association. the Kansas Cooperative Wheat Marketing association and the Kansas Wheat Pool Co-oper9tlve Elevator association, has been published in the newspapers. The sale affects property in tnis and a dozen other counties Of the state; city property in Leaven- worth: two memberships in the Kansas City Board of Trade; one membership in the Salina Board of Trade, according to available information.
 if 4High Pressure" Move
 The cooperative movement was said to have been "hfgh-pres- sured" into this area. It was said organizers worked up and down the highways getting members. Several business firms here in no way connected with the market ing of wheat counseled against the movement. The farmer was obliged to agree to seel his wheat, or a large por- tion of it, to the pool elevators. He drew down some money at that time. Later, if his. wheat tested up to certain standards, he got some money. The procedure was involved.
 The notice of sale includes two elevatorsr in this county; in some 2O others, real estate, machinery and city lots.
 Increasing numbers of tourists
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

created. to further gain the good
 wishes of the people of Waterbury and vicinity. .~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
Forbid Politics
 In Distant Memel
Official Order Issued to Prevent Any Outbreaks = Al F r.V Assemblies Are Banned

acts of Lithuanian officials in Memel.
 The. Lithuanian Minister of justice in the future will decide all conflicts between the Memel and Lithuanian courts, and will be empowered to pass on the ad- mission of all new lawyers, a function which hitherto has been filled by the lawyers council.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

needs. Because buying now really means saving later
 Everywhere you read of rising values because of raw material costs going up, and this holds true in the furniture industry as we'll. but, adhering strongly to our poll icy of 22 years standing of honest dealing, we as one organization, are willing to permit the public to be the gainer through our wisdom Gin early stock purchases) by giving them the advantage of the low prices.
 We are sure of the public's re- sponse to this ideal that we have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
Courtesy Car Available Any Time
Telephone or Postal Brings Service
 to Your Door

Waterbury. Conn, Aug. H. (AB)-Making 1t easy to shop is one of the newest features of AL bert's service to it's customers. Without incurring any obligation to buy, telephone call or postal brings this service to you at once,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

August Sale of Furniture which of- fers the generous discounts of 25% or over.
 In the face of rising prices they find it good business to take care of all their furniture needs for many months to come. Naturally, as more people are put back to work they are investing, not spending, money for these essential home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
PAPER INDUSTRIES PROS-
 TERED

Harrisburg, Pa.-(UP)-The de pression apparently had no effect on the paper industry in Penn sylyania, More than 550,00C cords of pulpwood were consumed in the state during the past year
 a. report to-day revealed. f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
THOUSANDS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALBERT'S
 AUGUST SALE PRICES
ALBERT'S JOIN N. R.. A.
 ALL STORES A N D ID E P TS. GIL o S E
 PROMPTLY AT 6 P. M.

Waterbury, Conn. = (AB) - Aug. Hive are enthusiastic members of President Roosc- veIt's N. R. A. plan as well as the local organizations grouped together for uniform closing hours. The public can rely on Albert's to cooperate 100 per cent. $Y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

More recruits are being enlisted in Great Britain's territorial forces than at any time since 1925.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11

Increasing numbers of tourists are visiting Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
STAIN DEVELOPS TEACHINGS OF MARX and LENN

Lenin further deve.oped the teach
ings of Marx and Engels for the
epoch of imperialism and proletarian
revolutions, analysed the problems of
monopolist capitalism. the proletasian
dictatorship, the hegenaony Of the
proletariat III the revolution, the
role of the national-colonial Ire
volutions, the Party and the
problem of the successful con-
struction of Socialism IN the pc
Rod Of the proletarian dictatorship,
and gave to the world proletariat the
experience of tllG frs proletarial
revolution and the first proletarian
dictatorship in the world. leading
them through the. most dangerous
and difficult years Of ruin caused by
the imperialist and civil wars and
of intervention and at the same time
laid firm foundations for the con-
struction of Socialism in the U.S.S.R
The great name OF Lenir is linked
with Leninisnl as Marxisrn OF the
epoch of imperialism and proletariasa
revolution. "a ~
In the minds OF the toilexs of our
country and of the International pro-
letariat the whole period OF Socialist
construction and its victory in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

is now under the leadership OF Com
rade Stain. The entire work of
strengthening the internal and in
ternational position Of the U.S.S.R.,
the whole of the stupendous work
Of Socialist construction carried out
during the past ten years in the con-
ditions Of capitalist enlightenment
which demanded the greatest Lenin-
ist firmness and flexibility, combined
with steel-like determination, bears
the direct impress Of the mind, the
will and the actions of Stain.
Marx and Enge1s gave to the in
ternational proletariat the theory of
scientific Socialism-Marxisln, and on
the basis of analysis of the laws of
capitalist development and of the de-
velopment of the class struggle, re-
vealed the historic mission of the
working class as the grave-digger of
capitalism and the inevitability of
the dictatorship of the proletariat by
means of which the working class,
after breaking the resistance Of the
exploiters, and leading the oppressed
masses Of the whole people, will or
ganize planned socialist industry and
prepare the ground for classics soci-
alist society. O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

feet completeness, With the treliel4ei-
Gus industry almost at a standsttE,
with $4,000 900 totally unemployed at
least, (who can tell how many mill
lions atlthis time p With Z tremendous
confiscation of the middle class and
what money was left In the working
class being decried through the sf1nif-
ing and willing mouthpiece Roose-
welt, with wholesale, indirect wage
cuts through Inflated currency high.
er prices starting to do Into effect
are not these bound and viii they not
soon bring to fruititAor that. active
and working alliance wfieh Marx
spoke of in t8T72, At no 5preVious time
In American history did; the, flame
under the, boiling kettle bum With
such intensity Jr'.s 80.
~ Potential Allies .e@ =, Z, :. ~.
The potential allies Of the Working
class are more numerous. The Negro
people and the Farmers are speaking
with greater decistYene$S than iF
1877 even during the populist revoits
of the 'nineties. To these are being
added the petty bourgeois, masses Ia
the cities and the colonial masses. Of
the Philippines and other cotontes
oppressed by American Imperialism
All these currents can become directly
revolutionary, can be made TO flow
in one united stream against capt
talisnl, precisely nov. when capitsas
ism is weak, when 1t is breaking.
/. Only the working class uihder the
leadership Of an independent poll
teal party. can coalesce this stream.
can direct It. III the proper direction.
And the only Party to-day which c4n
fulfill, this role, which is the ~ Ia
dependent political Party =, Of the
working class, is the Communist
Party. X. -. ,y5,ss,4 !slNss
= The devastation OF the crisis s the
creation bysit Of deep channels In
which the revolutionary stream can
flow, confronts the Communist Party
with its great historical stask--that
of becoming tile commander In chief
OF the revolutionary forces. r.
To-day, even more than ever before
in this country, each act Of resistance
by the masses against the gathering
and frontal attack Of the ruling Class.
carried within Itself the germs OF
great mass actions: The step from
little" acts for relief to great mass
actions for unenlplo yment inSlra rice
can become g. seVen-league stake;
resistance to the cuts In veterans
compensation can become "a Z move
nient Of great proportions against, the
Roosevelt regime, ia a.. K y :,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14

U.S,S.R. IS linked up with the name
OF scorhrade Stain. on basis OF the
Law OF the uneven development Of I'M
perislisnn, he worked out and car.
RED into operation the Iknilist
teachings on the building up,oy Soci-
alisln IN q single country. r+fns this
Stalinist position, which is understood
By the whole OF the Communist m
ternational, the, task Of preparing the
International proletar1at for new
round Of wars and revolutions is ac-
tually' being carried out. .r... >
STRUCK. BLOW ATs
PRESENT MENSHEVISM . - Il. I'd
Under the leadership of Lenin, the
CPS.U. detected Menshevisn, which
stood In the path OF the proletarian
revolution in Russia; under the lead.
ership OF. Stalip, in, the period OF
Socialist construction, a decisive blow
was struck at the Meilsheyts,n of oal
epoch wlaich sometimes appears In
the fenas OF counter -reyoiutictIary
Tyotskyist.a and sometimes In the
for, Of the Right opportqnist aeWa-
ton. -; Z, ~ = " ~ - 3 ,S4l;., &
IN the struggle against these Ssvis;
tons, Stain not only SUCCESSFULLY de-
Tended M2rxfsra Lenini0p from Tyot-
skyist and Right opportyniss atstqr,
tioias. Ia. his reports spascaS5 ahd
articles. he developed the tssxhtnss
Of Mar and Lsnia and adepteS ther,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
"The executive of the modern state is but comm
Hillqrtit DiStorts Marks Teaching on.
the State and Revolution

wreSt, BY degrees, all capital from the
bourgeoisie, to. centralize all instru-
Inents OF production in the hands OF
the state, i.e., Of the proletariat or
ganiSed as the ruling. class, this has
been accomplished by the proletariat
Of the Soviet Union and partly by
the workers and peasants of China
Marx said: "of course, this cannot
be, effected except by means of des-
potic inroads on the rights of pro-
nerty and on the conditions of bour-
geoiS production, this has been &C
lconplished by the proletarian dicta-
torship in the Soviet Union which
while representing the greatest de-
rnocracy for the toiling masses that
ever existed represents despotic
power Of suppression in relation to
the exploiters. Marx said that when
the proletariat will have become or
ganized as the ruling class it will
make 1t its duty ito increase the total
Of productive forces as rapidly as
possible. This has beer accomplished
under the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat in the first tlve-year plan
and this is being accomplished in the
second five-year plan which also puts
into practice another one of the Marx
ian thesis, Gradual abolition of the
distinction between town and coun-
try. -.,...-,-,.
3 4.--.t-.
$ Marx said. IF the proletariat dur
ing It's conteSt-With- the bourgeoisie is
compelled -. to. organize itself as
class; If, by means of revolution,
ite-n1akes itself the ruling class
then 1T will, along with these condi-
tons, have swept away the conditions
for the existence Of class antagenisms,
and of classes generally, and will
thereby have abolished its own sup
remacy as a class"
The working class In the Soviet
Union has already swept away the
old conditions of production and has
smashed the old classes. The second
flve-year plan, will sweep away the
remnants of the old classes. A class
less society is being completed before
our very eyes. The proletarian die
tatorship is still there 1t is neces-
sary as long as there are remnants
Of the bourgeoiSie within the US.SR.
1t is necessary as long as the pro-
letarian state Is threatened by cap
italist robbers. But the cJeSslesS So
ciety, Is a, living historic tact.