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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

MUSHROOM HEIGHTS, Mich
More than 300 working men and wom-
en- assembled before City Hall and
burned their slave contracts which
the welfare agency tried to enforce,
The assembled workers forced Mayor
Ed Lorenzo and the city council to
promise that steps would be taken to
eliminate these outrageous contracts.
Previously at the meeting of the
city council on June 10 workers
crowded the council chamber to over
flowing to protest against this action.
The slave contract authorizes Off
Gals TO search homes Of workers, get
ting relief. Besides the contract pro-
vides that at any time person re-
ceiving relief finds job the city is
to get is per cent of the wages in
excess of the amount received for
merly on relief
The assembled workers voted TO re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
"Smothering
in Its Oevn Superiority" -Engels

mn ow printed news typical of capitalism one
that under our present new oea
The Department Agriculture persuade large ma
the acreage plan ~
calls In return the De-
mar compensation each farmer bounty Oh
to an acre Dr. CO actually powed under
capitalism getting uoer way
millions of workers clothes capitalism has
evolved Cotton cal less clothes After the LABOR
of men in the fields begins give fruit the Roosevelt
offers bounty to those VINO WI"
under Capitalism as Engels 1neV SAID Is
in It's superfuty"
capitalism
through increasing destruction to increasing profits The pnyca
the SOIL
in order to bring prosperity farmers the grain pec
expoters and parasites at the
workers
into deeper policy of the Roosevelt government
now different the picture Union From the Baltic to
u the Polish border the land OF TIL
lnphsn thousand fronts the battle Of the
every COM
modify che and minister to the rising de-
construction
building up OF STOCKS Oh
latest Senc
continually
consumption the conditions OF life of the Soviet workers
neapaby before The workers
overthrow Russian capitalism began to
the interests OF the whole
people has been crowned with magnificent
The American workers and
profits the nsens the worsenng
Eliminating the surplus unemployed by
path before them Under the leader
Communist
the revolutionary solution Of the crisis of
capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Fight for Increased Wages
Relief To Meet Higher Prices

should agitate
tinung in bread and other food prices.
the factories should
expose prices
unemployment relief In factories workers should
the higher rapidly inflated
As the prices the
their factory committees and organizations rally all the workers
behind the demand.
against the rise in food prices
Organizations in the workers
first the bread Demand
shops
unemployed worker should mobilize behind
in
Organize against Rcoevets pcicy of higher living
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
USSR TERMS
REFUSED BY
MANChUkUO
Negotiations Blocked
in Chinese Eastern
Railroad Sale
NEW PROvOCATIONs
Japanese Seize Tw 0
Soviet Ships

TOXIC, July 5.-Negotiations be-
tween the Soviet Union and the Jap
anese puppet-state of Manchukuo
over the sale of the Chinese Eastern
Railway reveal the proyocatory at
titude of Japanese imperialism toward
the U.S.S.R. The Manchukuo dele
CATION not only refused the Soviet
governments offer to sell the rail-
way for 25o,000,000 gold rubles, but
made the impudent counterfeit of
1000, 900 paper yen, which at present
deprecated rates. amounts TO about
one eighth of the sum demanded.
This counter offer was accom-
panied by document in which it
was charged that the TSoviet Union
habitually acts only to suit its own
convenience" and which describes as
"unprincipled" the attitude of the
Soviet Union in its foreign dealings.
| The Manchukuoan statement also
attempted to inject into the nego-
tiations the question of the Tsarist
debts to Japan, and obligations in
Manchuria, which after the revolu-
ton we're very properly repudiated
by the Soviet government. That the
Manchukuo statement refers specifi-
cally to alleged japanese losses of
300,000,000 yen is proof enough of the
delegates from their Japanese "ad-
visers."
These negotiations sufficiently
show how the peace policy of the
U.SS.R. in offering to sell its share
in the Chinese Eastern Railway so
as to avoid all possible pretexts of
conflict, is greeted by the imperialist
Japanese war-mongers government.
Japan took another action of ex-
trenle provocation against the Soviet
Union in Selling two Soviet ships,
one 1000 ton steamship, and the
other smaller coastguard vessel. A
special detachment of armed police
were despatched to effect the arrests.
on charges of espionage. The Soviet
vessels we're actually on their way to
assist Soviet ice-breaker in diff
culties near Makanrushiru, one of
the northern islands on the Kurile
chain. The commander of the Jap
anese police detachment has been in
structed to bring the two ships to
Nemuro where their captains will be
examined on the charge of Spying"
and Invading Japanese territorial
waters" The former charge certainly
suggests that the japanese have
something to hide in the way of new
war preparations in these northerly
neutrality-suspicious. which could
only conceivably be of use against
| the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
No Time to Be Lost

printed the resolution Of the Central
Committee United Mass stru
gle that reports have come
relief Every woman and
that
stopped at literally of thousands of families
relief
There emphasis the resolution
IAN workersCommunst Socialist A. F.
workers unite in every locality in every factory
Fight for full social unemployment
insurance is the call Of the Com
tia Unemployed Leagues endorsed
the Unemployment Bill the Unemployed
Councils Unemployed jointly presented the Workers I'm
Bill the State Federation Convention and
Rockford Ill., conference representing
5000 But these
nationwide movement to
struggle unemployment insurance.
the Communist Party to take
organizations neigh
united front directly with the
build to recruit members that
Party lead the struggle for
Social Insurance"
committees putting this
fc Working specific for their territories by
initiative rally the united front struggles which
call special of Congress to adopt
employment insurance.
needed Communist Party
the call for this action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
ROOSEVELT GETS
SLAVE CODE FOR
OK; STEEL NEXT
Boss Sheet Says Green
Talks 30-Hours Just
to Fool Workers

WASHINGTON, July 5,-General
johnson, administrator of the indus
trial recovery" act, is now making
up his report to President Roosevelt
on the code for the cotton textile
industry, providing a sl2-$13 scale
and 4o-hour week Tor the textile
workers. The textile bosses are pre-
pairing to put the code into action
on July IT.
Rooseyelt's decision on the textile
code will set precedent for all other
industries, and General Johnson's
report will undoubtedly point out this
fact.
The first thing Roosevelt will take
up when he returns to Washington.
which will be in few days, will be
the textile code.
General johnson, together with the
textile bosses and with the agreement
of other leading exploiters, purpose
ly picked this lowest paying industry
in order to set low level to be fol-
lowed by the other industries.
William f.. Green and other A. F.
of L. leaders have stopped talking
about the low wages and are concen-
trating their record speeches and
statements on the 40-hour schedule,
asking for a 30-hour weei,.
AS the New York Herald Tribune
correspondent here wired to his
paper:
although Mr.. Green is insisting
on the thirty hour week, there is a
/ strong impression here that this is
being done with an eye on the fu-
ture and for the sake of satisfying
his followers, rather than with any
expectation that the thirty hour
week Is to be put into effect in the
industrial codes"
The Iron and Steel Institute, the
leading organization Of the big steel
trusts, controlled mainly by the
United States Steel Corporation, is
drawing up its code, and on the in
structions of General johnson has
conveniently forgotten all reference
in the act TO collective bargaining. .
Dozens Of other codes, such as those
Of the big department stores, oil,
automobiles. lumber, are ready. THEY
are waiting only for the presidential
sanction ON the starvation wages in
the textile industry before rushing
to General Johnson with their codes
for steam -rollcr passage in order to
ward off discussion in the shops.
The codes in the leading industries
are being kept secret. The exploit
ers in these industries are nlaneuver-
ing all around to make sure once
their codes are announced that they
will receive the active and real sup
port of the A. F. Of L. leaders (no
matter what these leaders may say
for publications..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Burn Slave Contracts
Raise Demand for JobIess Insurance

sist an effort on the part of the We'll
fare Department to deny relief to any
one refusing to sign the slave con-
tract.
Not only are new slave forms dis
covered against those getting relief
but in this instance an attempt is
made that worker can later be
forced to work for the city to pay
back for the relief.
1t brings out once again the need
that the federal government provide
a sufficient income to jobless workers
everywhere. Federal Unemployment
Insurance as proposed in the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill makes
these very provisions in its clauses.
In the fight against the slave con-
tract in Muskegon Heights the work
ers will demand that the city council
endorse federal unemployment insur-
snce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Florida Prisoners in
Revolt;Burn Sweatbox

BROOKSvILLE, Flat he sixty
prisoners in the chain-gang prison
camp at Tooke Lake, 10 miles from
here, rebelled, broke up the sweat
rox and tore down the solitary con-
.inement cells and set fire to them.
Armed prison guards quelled them
Five convicts escaped.
A detachment of National Guards
men was sent from Tampa TO pre-
vent further rebellion against the
intolerAble conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Veterans Stop Forced Labor
Picket Red Cross Offices in Portland

PORTLAND, Oregon.-After two
hours of mass picketing at the local
Red Cross by unemployed veterans
who have been getting relief grocery
orders from there and the program
of forced labor was defeated.
The fight started when unem-
ployed veterans in Portland regis
tered for relief at the Red Cross
received letter signed by Miss Jane
Doyle, Executive Secretary, inform
ing them that starting June Is they
would have to work two days per
week before they would get their
grocery orders, which amount to
$135 per wk. for single vets, married
men in proportion A conference
was called by the local Post No. As
|of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Eek IT IT, 4!
Report Proves Nazi
Set Reichstag Fire,
Says London Herald
AlbertEinstein Headed
Investigation

LONDON, July 5.-The categori-
cal charge that Captain Herman
Goering, Minister of the Interior of
Prussia and right-hand man of
Hitler, engineered the burning of
the German Reichstag last Febru-
airy q, is made in today's issue Of
the London Daily Herald"
Complete evidence supporting
this charge was obtained by an
investigation committee headed
by Albert Einstein, famous scien-
fist, who renowned German citi-
zenship after the Nazis assumed
power.
According TO the Herald"
Nazi storm trooper, who was among
the 30 brownshirts who set the fire,
escaped from Germany and gave
the committee part of its evidence.
The Manchester Guardian CORE
spondent in Berlin as well as other
capitalist press reporters, on the
very day of the fire, let 1t be known
that all indications showed the
hand OF the Mani In the Reichstag
fire.
Using this provocation as pre-
text, the Nazis arrested four Com
mmist leaders, Ernst Torgler,
George Dimitrov, Biagoi Popoff
and Vassil Tanev, who are soon TO
face trial on this frame EMP. Torgler
is the chairman of the Communist
deputies of the Reichstag, and the
other three are leading Bulgarian
revolutionaries who were exiles in
Germany.
Workers of the United States.
This latest information from
London confirms once again the
charge that Torgler, Thaeimann
and the other revolutionary lead
ers are the victims of a murder
Gus frame-up. Help build mass
protest meeting to save them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

League to make plans for resisting
it. The committee decided on a
-"Indigent Soldiers and Sail
ors Relief Committee" At mass
meeting on June Is another COM
mittee was elected to go before the
Red Cross and demand that there
be no forced labor. A proposal to
picket the Red Cross was adopted
and picketing started on wednesday,
June 18th.
Late ON u esdnesday afternoon, a
veteran reported there is now a
sign in the Red Cross Office to the
effect: mo work is required except
for wood! Thus ended the first
round of struggle in Portland
against the forced labor program
of the Red Cross and the New
Deal" administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
STUDY RUSSIA"
ENVOY Is TOLD

WASHINGTON. July So Tresi-
dent Roosevelt has instructed Law
renee Steinhardt, American Minister
to Sweden, to study thu Russian
situation" from the closer observa-
ton point in his post in Sweden.
Ambassador Steinhardt was sent by
Roosevelt to the London Economic
Conference to carry his latest in
structions to the delegates now at
London.
One news agency hers publishes
the report t,.at: From his post in
Sweden, he may later make per-
sonal study of possibilities of Amer
lean relations with the Soviet Union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
5000 On Strike at
Rochester Relief Job

ROCHESTER, N. Y. July Six
thousand out of total of 5000 are
on strike against an announced wage
cut of As to IS cents an hour on city
and county jobs The strike, which
started in the early part of the week,
will in another day, according to the
Strike Committee, involve all the re-
lief workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
ASKS S77,OO0,OOO
MORE TOPREPARE
NAVY FOR WAR

WASHINGTON, July 5.-To back
up Wall Streets struggle for world
markets, Secretary Of the Navy
Swanson is asking for an additional
sum Of S77,0Oo,0oo from the public
works fund to build "a fleet of bat
tieships equal to those Of any navy"
The new sum besides the $3.50, 000,-
900 already provided for the building
of 81 new battleships is asked for
'modernization" of old war vessels
The Roosevelt regime is undermining
and building up the navy in prepa-
ration for a new war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06

the attempted treachery of the A. F
of L. bureaucracy to sell the right to
strike for recognition OF the union
Workers are being urged by this rank
and file movement to work out their
demands for increases in wages and
a reduction of hours, and for sn end
to secret negotiations between Rieve
and the manufacturers. Also workers
arc being urged to demand that they
have voice in working out code
for the industry, and that an agree
ment won in the strike be the basis
for code.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Double Edged Sword

Such is the cost TO the workers Of
Roosevelt's initiation policy. Now we
can see the powerful weapon In the
industrial slavery act to keep wages
at minimum" while prices go up
without any hindrance. 1t is symbolic
that Roosevelt's double-edged sword
against the workers should first slice
off the amount OF bread the worker
will be permitted 10 eat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-04

In observance of Lincoln's birth day and as n special feature of its next meeting, Monday evening, February 18th, the Holy Name so- ciety of St Margaret's church has invited John c. Gilmartin, princi- pal of the Croft school and super visor of night schools in Water bury, to deliver an address on Abraham Lincoln" MT Gilman tin has devoted much study of late to the life and character of lead- ing figures in American history. His lectures on George Washing ton, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E.. Lee and others have excited vide spread comment. His address on Honest Abe" will be particularly appropriate for the coming meet ing of th9 Holy Name society.
 Mir Gilmartin's address will mark the commencement of a series of talks by prominent speakers, who will be invited to be the guests of St Margaret's Holy Name society at it's future meetings.
 Announcement will be made as to the progress made by the en- tertainment committee of the so- ciety in its plans for observing $. Patrick's night. A program of en- tertainment will be presented on that evening in the auditorium of the parochial school. Dancing will also be a popular feature of at traction.
 Thomas r. Bane, president of the society, is chairman of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-04
CARROLL AGAIN
 ARMORY CHIEF
Horrigan Relieved-Major Reinstated as Custodian
 of Drill Shed
HAD RESIGNED POSITION

Major James W. Carroll of this city, who resigned just before elec- ton. as custodian of the local ar- mory on Field street when he charged that the adjutant generals office was giving out work on the Waterbury structure to out-of-town concerns, has been reinstated in his former position, 1t was learned to- day. Announcement has come from the adjutant generals office in Hartford that Captain Thomas E. Horrigan, who has been tempor- arily in charge of the armory, has been relieved of such duties and that Major Carroll will take them over.
 The reappointment of Major Carroll, however, Is subject to the approval of the armory board. At the same time the adjutant gener- ais office also announced the ap- pointment of Captain William D. Thorpe as custodian of the Meriden armory, succeeding Captain Harry A. Hertwick.
 Major Carroll's resignation as custodian of the local armory was accompanied by considerable pub licity. Just before election he re- signed as a protest against the way in which the adjutant generals off flee was handling the giving out of contracts for work on the local ar. mory.
 Directly afterwards, Judge John r. McGrath of the local city court, in an address before n gathering of republicans, attacked Governor Wilbur l.. Cross claims concerning economy and pointed to Major Carrolls resignation.
 It Is expected that the armory board will act favorably on tho reappointment of Major Carroll as the local custodian.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-04
"All-Stars" In
 Second Position
Phean's "45" Team in Excellent Form at Last Nights
 Tilt

Tho eighteenth game of the big "45" tournament conducted by the St Francis Xavier Holy Name so- ciety was played last night in the church hall. The tournament which is usually played on Monday nights was postponed until last night ow- ing to the sudden death of Michael Mccormack, popular member of the "Shamrocks" team.
 John Phelan's All Stars" wero rot only high scorers of the night but also jumped into second place hy defeating "Scoopic" Carey's paredevils 38-25 and are only five games behind the leaders, Thomas Horan's Boy Wonders" "Scoopie" hasn't much confidence In his team whom he Is without tho services of his popular coach who was missing from tho lineup and he alibis that for his defeat. We don't suppose that there Is anyone who doesn't know who this great coach Is, he is nobody else but our popular and smiling city clerk, Johnny Fitz- maurice. The All Stars" lineup was strengthened considerably by the addition of Fred Coughlan whom ~"Scoopie" released, saying he was all washed up. Now '"Scoo- pie" wonders If Fred would recon sider his offer of a five dollar gold piece to be reinstated. The All
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-04

Stars" have being going big for the last five weeks since Big Joe" Coughlan got the lowdown of the game, in his few trips to New York. Father Dillon rises to remark that there Is nothing to 1t now but first place for the All Stars"
 Thomas Horah's Boy Won ders" made second highest score by trouncing Michael Goggins "Rovers' 36-27. They continue on to play their usual good game and Tommie expects that he Is going to hold the lead during the third round. Michael Goggins now stands in fifth place, and swears that whom he gets though with the Sligo-Ter- for third place. When those two teams oppose each other 1t will be nothing else but battle royal.
 Billy O'Donnell's "Galty Boys" defeated Bill Kelley's Flashes 33- 30. The boys from the mountains are still fighting an uphill battle and intend to continue next week when they stack up against Scoopie -Carey's tumbling outfit. Bill Kelley is having q tough time getting out of tho cellar but Bill is game and takes 1t with q smile and says Those that laugh last, laugh best, |" knowing that he will get the breaks in the final round.
 John Bowey's "Sligo- -Terrors" de- feated Tom Byrnes "Table Slam mers' 32-31. Chris Harmon, Bowey's coach has the team work ing very nicely now and feels very confident in landing on top. Now that he took Byrnes over he has no fear of any of the other teams. Tom Byrnos isn't bit worried about the defeat. claiming that q 32-31 score Is anybody's game and we will hear plenty from the "Ta- ble Slammers" yet.
 John FItzmaurlce's Shamrock" domoated Michael Craney's Crack or-Jacks" in another close battle, 32-31. Captain Mike" sat in him. self last night and pulled over n big score at his table and from now on he Is going to play and Is very anxious to get q crack at the "All Stars" which will be next week and sends q warning to Coach Eddie" Donohue to beware. John Fitz- maurice has started another win ming streak and expects to keep 1t up during the entire third round, and Is tickled stiff that the "Old Judge" Michael Hartnett's mind is now set on nothing else but first place, which convinces John that the judge is entirely off of New London and Thomaston until the contes is over.
 Standing of the teams: 1, Horan: 2, Phelan; 3, O'Donnell; 4, Byrnes; C, Goggins: 6, Bowey; z, Craney; s, Fitzmauricc; Q, Carey; 10. Kelley.
 Results of last nights games:
 Horan 36, Gosglns 27.
 Phelan 3S, Carey 25.
 O'DonneN 33, Kelley 30.
 Dewey 32, Byrnes 31.
 Fltzmaurice 32, Craney 31.
 Schedule for next Monday night: Byrnes vs, FItzmaurice; Horan vs Kelley; Bowey vs Goggins: O,Don- nell vs Carey: Phelan vs Craney.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-04

Ray E. Munger, 60, identified with the automotivo business In Waterbury for many years, was found dead late yesterday after- noon in Q garage in the rear of his residence, 40 Randolph avenue. Death was due to carbon monoxidc. and a formal report will be filed by Medical Examiner Dr Edward II. Kirschbaum, who viewed the remains. Mr Munger was found by his wife, Mrs Margaret Bowen Munger who went into garage to call him to his supper. He was clad in his working clothes and the hood of the machine was up. indicating that he was at work when overcome by the polsonous fumes. Dr Charles II. Brown was summoned, but 1t was a case for the medical examiner.
 The deceased was native of Middiebury, Vt. He was employed by the Helmann Brewing Co of this city for many years and later became general manager of the Waterbury Buick company. Of late he has been proprietor of tho Barlow company of Watertown. He