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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

Movement Of 5000 carloads of
pineapples over the East Coast
railway company from Key West
has inst been completed. This
has been banner year for grow
ers OF the fruit in Cuba and all of
the fruit has been handled expe-
ditiously from the time it reached
Key West, was transferred to re-
frigerator cars and arrived at It's
destinations in the north.
Edwin Gordon Lawrence. writ
ing in The Chronicle of Athol,
Miss. tells OF Key West and the
Florida chain in one of the most
interesting stories of this famed
section ever written. He graphic
ally describes the fertility of the
soil on the keys, and holds out
to the prospective settler in Flor
ida abundant proof that there is
a great future for the families
who make their homes on the
keys.
Editorial comment: In the lam
guage of Jonah, office porter,
mosquitoes only hangs around
folks they think is too lazy to
kill 'em."
AT an enthusiastic meeting of
the Exchange Club held in the
Victoria restaurant this after
noon, j. Lancelot Lester led the
club in singing number of songs,
Arthur Sheppard wes invited to
give discourse on the art of col
lecting taxes and did so to the
discontinue of Mr.. Lester. On
motion it was decided to send
resolutions of sympathy to Mrs.
Harding, ON the death of her hus~
band, the president.
The card party which it was in
tended should be given tonight in
the army barracks by the Women's
Auxiliary of the American Legion,
has been postponed until some fu-
ture date.
The body OF Walter p. Curry,
who died in st. Augustine few
days ago, arrived on the morning
train. Funeral services will be
! held this afternoon o'clock at
: the residence. Duval and Caro-
line streets. DR.. j. N. Fogerty,
Mrs. Fogerty, and the widow and
children arrived with the body.
! j. F. Busto, who held the posi-
ton of police justice four years
previously, has announced his can
| didacy for the office again to be
voted on in the coming city cleo
ton. Judge Busto was also a
member of the state legislature for
four years and has an excellent
| record.
90
Samuel McChntock. and Israel
Knowles enter the lists for SEX
ton of the cemetery and their an
nouncements are to be found i'm
4I,;, ,ss,,n - IT, r;+s,nx,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

1914--Germans entered Liege,
Belgium.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

Edgar Jadwin, 14th
Lieutenant-G General of the Army,
born at Honesdale, Pa. Died in
Panama City, March 2. 1881.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07
Today In History
soaeae . . = . o Q . . = . . q

1607-First settlers landed in
Maine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

The card party which it was in-
tended should be given tonight in
the army barracks by the Women's
Auxiliary of the American Legion,
has been postponed until some flu
ture date.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

lS43-Charles w. Stoddard,
welI-known author of his day.
professor of English, born at Ro-
chester. n. Y. Died April "a,
1909.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

lS56-Lew Doekstader, popular
minstrel and vaudeville actor, born
at Hartford, Conn. Died Oct. 90,
1924.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07
Rainfall*

Barometer at & n. III. today:
Sea level, 30.03.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

commend good done by individual or organ
izaticn; tolerant Of Others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
knd not cOntaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
every governmental officer or board
that handles public money should publish
at regular intervals an accounting of it,
showing where and how each dollar 10
spent. We hold this to be fundamental
principle of democratic government"
-----------~----
Hats off to the past; coats off to the
future.
The bright side of human misfortunes
is that they cannot last forever.
.4.+--------~-.-u4--
The man who says more than he thinks
is apt to make others think more than they
say,
Peace has her defeats no less than
war, if further pressure is put on strug-
Cling newspapers.
Both busy housewives and mischie-
vous children agree that the hair brush
salesman is pest.
-----
This depression has made folks who
are considered to have more money than
brains mighty humble.
Most quiet people get reputation for
brains because they look wise. But they
are found out eventually.
-
A college freshman rarely comes to
college trained to think properly. Yet
number of them think lot of themselves.
Before marriage man declares he
viii be master of his home or know the
reason why, After marriage he knows the
reason why.
Ohio paper-"On April 9th, Mrs. H. ].
H., formerly Miss Jane c., present
ed herself with small son" An exclusive
gift-Boston Transcript
Some of the bakers. il appears, do not
yet understand that the government ex-
poets them to use yeast in their bread. not
in their priees,--Buffalo Courier Express.
.--~~@-~@+---~-
My husband, ]. L. Witzkorn adver-
tiseS that he will not be responsible for my
bills. Anybody who knows him should
get a laugh out OF tnat, (signedl MI J. L.
WitEkorn.
There is brewing company which is
broadcasting the statement that its know
ledge of engines is exclusive and that
makes other brewers hot under the collar
and they are launching a combative cam
paign, which won't make newspaper men
mad bit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-07

Editorial comment: In the Ian
guage of Jonah, office porter,
mosquitoes only hangs around
folks they think is too lazy to
kill 'em."
Evening star., 1933-12-01
Silk Lingerie

Fift h Avenues
smartest "shOe-calf"
bags. Some suede
and cloth, including
boucle in the ass0rt-
ment. Re-
markable Ct OS
values at. Sl.SO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
.MOreTaxes Com 'ng;;
Workers to Pay for
us. Aid to Wall St.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. - With
Government revenues estimated at
$780, 100000 for the coming year, with
government expenditure running at
the rate of more than twice that
amount, the question Of new, heavy
taxes loom again as certain question
for the coming Congress in January.
The Roosevelt government, to con-
ceal the growing budget crisis as a
result Of the huge war expenditures
and the enormous subsidies to Wall
Street monopolies, publishes its bud
get in two sections, the normal and
the emergency" The emergency"
section includes the billion dollar
loans Of the r. F. c., the $1,000, 00o,-
600 mortgage refinancing program for
the mortgage holders, hundreds OF
millions for the crop destruction pro-
gram, etc.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means has already rumored the ad-
dition Of $400,0oO,0oo of new taxes,
mostly to fall on the small business
sections and the consumers.
The Roosevelt government has Just
repealed the emergency surtaxes on
large incomes and corporations. 1t
has, however, extended the Hoover
excise taxes on gasoline, radios, medi-
cines, etc, which take 100000, 900 out
Of the consumers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
5000 West Virginia
Coal Miners Strike;
Eject UMWA Leader
More Threaten to Join
If Miners Demands
Are Not Granted

LOGAN, w. Va. CBy maid ON
Dec. Q around 5000 coal miners
were on strike here. Thousands of
,tfler miners declared if the COM
pany does not grant the miners
demands, they will join the strike.
The miners of Holden and Whit
man picketed Mine No. on Dec.
Z because these miners were not
notified that the four locals went
on strike and therefore went in
to work. Close to 5000 miners
marched into Holden to picket Mine
No. Z, when the miners came out
right there at the entrance Of the
mine, removed the leadership Of
the local and elected new ones in
their places.
On Dec. 8 a big meeting was
called at Mine No. where a UNI.
WA. organizer wanted to speak in
the name of District President Van
Bittner, but the miners kicked him
off the platform and stoned him
until he could only run away after
pleading for his life.
President Van Bittner sent a whe
to the president of Local IA in
structing them to go back to work.
After the reading Of the telegram
by the president, the miners repu-
dated it and rejected the leader
ship Of the U.M.W.A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Pittsburgh C.W.A.
Men Demonstrate,
Demand Back Paw

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. IA. - The
calling OF police failed to quiet the
spontaneous demonstration Of 1850
C.W.A. workers in the County Build
ing here Saturday, who were de-
manding one, two and three weeks
back wages, not yet paid them. The
workers were forced to wait in line
from nine am. until two pm, and
then, growing impatient, stamped
their feet, and shouted for their
money. Police were called. The c.
w. A. authorities grew alarmed and
sent for the money. Several hun
bred of the C.W.A. workers then
received one weeks pay, and some
were promised pay the following
Wednesday on the job.
The Unemployed Councils of Alleg-
heny County are getting out leaflet
to all C.WA. workers, raising con-
crete demands and including an APP
plication card to membership in the
Relief Workers Protective Associa-
ton. The demands of the C.W.A.
workers will be taken UP Friday, Dec.
20 at the Western Pa, Conference
Against Unemployment at pm, at
the Labor Lyceum, IS Miller st.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. The conference will
take up also the question OF dele
gates to the National Convention
Against Unemployment in Washing
ton, d. c., Jan. 10, IA, Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
n. Y. Acts to Get New Press!

NEW YORK, which has already
~ raised over $17.50O, pledges to full
fill its $4,000 quota within two weeks
New York District makes this pledge
as an assurance to the Daily Worker
that everything possible will be done
to help us get the new press. At the
same time New York workers are on
the job mobilizing forces for the
tenth anniversary of the Daily Work
er, and for mass sale Of the 100000
copies Of the 24-page, tenth anniver-
sary edition Of the Daily" of Jan.
9th, which they have already ordered.
THIS is the sort of revolutionary
l action, comrades, that should spur
every worker in every city. The fact,
comrades, Is that unless we complete
the $4,000 drive successfully, we will
not be in position to secure our new
press. You want to see our new press
installed. You want to read better
Daily Worker, q paper you will be
prouder than ever to show to your
friends and fellow shop workers. We
appeal to you to help us get this
new press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
A Sinister Nazi Move

fdE fascist murderers for the blood of
German Communist Party and working
They playing release
Popoh and Tanefto them to the
But the whole world knows that all of these
fire. The whole world knows that the Nazis themselves
this they
quiet the world protest Of the
THE workers of the world
to make this retreat the
danger Save the heroic defendants all Of whom nnocen
Togr Demand safe release for Dimtrof and his
for the freedom OF the Rechstag dendants
Organize actions
delegations pTotestsl
The four defendants
working brother
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Shops Vote to Stop
Work in Defense Of
GermanDefendants
Two More Shops Voted
Yesterday, More
Expected

NEW YORK. = Two more
shops voted yesterday for a
Is minute stoppage of all work
as protest against the Leip-
zig fire trial fralne-up, and many
more shops are voting today.
The 200 workers of the Durable
Metal Co., and the Is workers of
The Century Silver Co., are those
Who voted yesterday, under the
leadership of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
Yesterday when a delegation of six
workers called upon the German
ConSulate-Gsneral in New York to
protest against q frame-uD the Nazi
consul categorically declared that five
defendants are grflty, and that the
highest court in Germany cannot be
wrong in finding them guilty.
Twelve delegates of the Lithuanian
workers organizations OF America
also made a protest at the New York
German Consulate yesterday.
The Shoe and Leather Workers In
du5trial Union has called a special
membership meeting Monday at the
union headquarters, n 5th Ave, at
II am, to protest against the Reich
stag t-Lal franle-up and to mobilize
tbs members for the demonstration
on Tuesday. The shoe workers plan
to send a delegation to the New York
consulate on Monday,
The National Committee to Aid
the Victims of German Fascism has
just received word that the Inter
national Committee of Inquiry into
the burning of the Reichstag will
meet again in London between the
fifteenth and twentieth of Deem
Der. For the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the calling of wit
nes1es, etc, more funds are ur-
gently needed. Funds should be
sent at once to the National Com 4
mittee, at $40 Broadway, New York,
care Of Alfred Wagenknecht,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
ALL Officials Act
To Keep eirton Go.
Men from Striking
Workers Urge Strike
to Win Their
Demands

WEIRTON, w. Va, Dec. 14-For
the time being, A. F. of L. leaders in
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers succeeded in
rejecting proposal on the part of
rank and filters for strike to force
the Weirton Steel Co. to grant cleo
tons for workers representatives.
A special meeting was called, but
not all the workers were present.
The proposal was made that a
strike be called of the $4,000 Weirton
steel workers to protest against the
fake action of the N.R.A. in prom
Using elections and the action of Pres
ident Weir in refusing to permit Cr1e
elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
TUULCalIS Workers
To Demand Release
OF Four Defendants
Urges Mass Protest to
Save Lives of
Communists

NEW YORK. - The Trade Union
Unity League has issued a statement
to all members of the T.U.UL., to
A. F Of L. members, and members
of Independent Unions to act at once
against the attempt to murder the
leaders Ct the German working class
The statement continues:
Thru this execution of the work
ing class leaders, the fascists hope to
cover up their own guilt and use it
as a means to gather into their brutal
and bloodthirsty hands more fighters
for the working class to be executed
or imprisoned, as was already the
fate Of tens Of thousands Of the best
Of the working class fighters.
There is no time to be lost. WE
MUST ACT AT ONCE. Fellow trade
unionists. We have a great obliga-
ton to the German workers and to
ourselves. A struggle against the
fascist terror in Germany is also a
struggle against the spread Of fas-
cism in the U. S. Already we are
faced with the growing violence
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Another Printers
Chapel for Strike
World Telegram Men
Vote for Demands

NEW YORK.-The regular meeting
of the World-Telegranl Chapel, Wed
nesday, unanimously endorsed reso-
luton calling for strike action if the
three basic demands, 30-hour week
1929 weekly wage scale, and per
cent levy on payroll for unemploy-
ment relief, are not obtained by the
International president, Charles P
Howard, who has been called in by
Big 6 to mediate the points in con-
troversy.
The Evening journal, American and
the Mirror have adopted similar reso-
buttons. Other newspaper workers are
expected to follow suit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Communist Party
UrgesWide Protest
To Save TorgIer
Plans Mass MEETINGS.
in All Sections of
Greater New York

NEW YORK.-F'ollowing the news
OF the death sentence demanded
against Ernst Torgler, German Com
munist leader, yesterday, the New
York District Of the Communist Par
ty, in an urgent call to all its mem
bers and to all revolutionary workers,
stressed the life and death i'm
portance of turning out en- masse in
protest actions throughout the city
The call urged especially the call
ing of immediate notifications for a
mass protest before the German con-
sulate at II Battery Place, and for
mass meetings in all parts of the
city.
Scores of such meetings have beer
arranged for Monday night, Dec. 10.
The list appears on page 2 Of this
issue.
The statement of the Communist
Party District reads, in part:
To All Members of the Communist
Party and Young Communist
League;
To All Revolutionary Workers;
To All Anti-Fascist Elements:
Flood the bloody Nazi Consulate
with protest kilograms, Adopt protest
resolutions in your shops, trade
unions! Send delegations to the Ger
man Consulate from each organize
ton, from every meeting!
Turn out in mighty numbers to the
mass protest meetings throughout the
city on Monday night, Dec. 10. Pre-
pare for the mighty mass demonstra-
ton on the International Day of
Struggle against the Nazi murder plot
of the working class heroes, Dimitroff,
Torgler, Popof and Tanev. Tuesday,
Dec. 10, at 1890 p. m, at the German
Consulate, II Battery Pl.
"All Party members are urged TO
report at their respective section
headquarters tonight, Saturday and
Surd-y," confines the statement.
For leaflet distribution, for active
1re---at'o1 fer to Monday nirht
and Tuesday mass protests against
the Nazi executioners of the work
IS md .y--7'sh ncr-,'e. frr the free
dom OF the Scottsbcro boys, for
death to lynchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Unpaid Bronx CWA
Men to Hold Mass Meet

NEW YORK.-Bronx relief work
ers who have not received pay for
many weeks will hold a meeting
Friday, Dec. Is, at pm. at the
Herman Ridder Junior High School,
173rd st. and Boston Rd., to discuss
their grievances.
An organization will be set up TO
help all relief workers to safeguard
their jobs not only until Feb. Is,
but all year round. Notices Of the
meeting have been distributed on
most Of the Jobs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
IOWA Men Force 1Oc
Per Hour Wage Rise
Led by Lincoln Jobless
Federation

LINCOLN, Neb.-C. w. A. workers
under the leadership Of the Lincoln
Unemployed Federation, won ten
cent wage increase, from 40c to soc
an hour, and back pay for time
worked the last three weeks.
When a committee from the Fed
Grafton appeared before the Governor
protesting the 40c an hour wage
scale, he answered: 1.-THE reason for
the 40c when the C.WA. rules called
for soc was because the contractors
on P.WA. were on 40c basis and to
pay C.W.A. workers SOC would cause
strikes among P.W.A. workers and
force the contractors to pay SOC and
bankrupt them all" The C.W.A.
workers, however, got the SOC an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
MarcherS Ask for
CWA Jobs or Relief

CHARLESTON. w. Wa Hunger
March Of 1000 workers led by the
West Virginia Unemployed League
demonstrated at the state capital
here protesting the delay in starting
@. w. A. projects in the state. Only
, q few men hove been put to work
Under the G. W. A.
Among the demands presented to
the legislature by the Hunger March
erS were: Direct relief equal to work
relief, to those rot employed on the
promised g. W. A. jobs; repeal Of the
eviction law: schoolbooks and cloth
ing to children of the unemployed;
representation OF the League on coun-
~ and state Welfare Boards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

II is not difficult task to complete
the drive now. About $4,000 more
and we will have raised the re-
quired $4,000. If every reader of
the Daily Worker sends in only rs
cents we will be OVER THE TOP!
We will then be sure of installing
the new press. TAKE ACTION
NOW, COMRADES! Rush what
ever amount you can afford. No
matter how small IL may be, added
to what other workers will send in,
1t will help us get our new press.
j. Hoffman, a worker from Chi
cago, sent dollar yesterday for the
new press. would send more If
could" he writes. Who will equal
his contribution?
If you cannot contribute ask your
fellow worker to do SO. have your or
ganization make contribution. ONE
MORE EFFORT, COMRADES, WILL
PUT THE DRIVE OVER THE TOP!
WILL ENABLE US TO INSTALL
OUR NEW PRESS!
Thursdays receipts ....... s14S.41
Previous total .....s....... S5,31l.11
Total to date ........... $S5, 1882
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
S10,000,0 900 More
For u. S. Army to
Be Spent by Govt

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-As part
Of the rapid increase of the mill
tary forces, the Roosevelt govern
ment, through the War Depart
ment, will spend another 10000
900 for the motorization of the U.
S. Army, it was announced today.
McAe than 7,776 military auto
mobiles and trucks are provided
for.
Motor trucks are considered the
latest development in rapid mill
tary advance technique.
Recently the U. s. Army per-
fected a method of moving troops
across deserts by means of auto
trucks.
The U.S.S.R. boundaries pass
through several large deserts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Anyone Employed in
Previous 30 Days
Not to Get CWA Job

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Fearful that
they are losing their abundant sup
ply of cheap labor working part time
by their desertion to C.W.A. rolls,
manufacturers here complained to
Miss Wood, head of the local C.W.A.
The result was a quick decision to
bar anybody from C.W.A. jobs who
had work within a period Of 80 day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
National Labor Board
Drops Case Like
Hot Coal
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker, Wash. Bureau)

Dy NIAIbOO GAeAA1 AOOAN0
DAILY Worker, Wash. Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. -
The National Labor Board to-
day dropped the live coal that
is the Weirton Steel Case into
the cold waters of the Depart
ment of Justice and there At
torney General Homer S. Cummings
announced fatty that whether they
will act depends on whether there
develops any interference with the
SECTION tomorrow"
Chairman Wagner of the National
Labor Board said that Weirton's
f1agrantly open and absolute refusal
to allow its workers TO select union
representatives under labor board SUI
pervision is Gin my opinion q clear
violation OF the National Industrial
Recovery Act" but instead Of acting
Wagner merely passed the back to
he Department Of Justice.
OEhe hope--SbElA6
It is now abundantly clear that the
Weirton workers have but one hope
another strike.
Almost every one of the group Of
press representatives to whom Wag-
her announced his program today,
gasped: why aren't you seeking an
indictment of Weirton since you say
it has openly violated NIRA?"
I'VE want an injunction SO we can
hold an election" Wagner said. He
sent his legal counsel to confer with
Cummings and said that he would
consider the election which the COM
pany is holding tomorrow null
why is it," asked, shat you have
TO go through all the red tape of the
Justice Department when everybody
knows that department always means
interminable negotiation, and yet en-
ployers go straight to court for in
functions against workers without
any ado whatsoever"
Orderly Process
The chairman merely murrnured.
we've got to follow orderly process
es.''
Wagner professed great annoyance
at the situation that has resulted
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Weirton Steel Co.
Unmolested by NRA
inDenying Men Vote
Promise Jobs to $500
at This Date; $50 Get
Them, in Cleveland, o.

CLEVELAND, ohio.-Out of the
promise to employ $3.50 workers on
C.W.A. projects by this time, comes
the almost complete collapse of the
S22,000,000 C.W.A. program here
with only 800 men employed to
date. The state has the money
with the workers holding the empty
promise.