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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
Democrats Abandon Hope
For Balancing Budget AT
This Session OF Congress

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1s.-con-
gressional democrats today aban-
'doned hope for the enactment of
any budget balancing legislation
at this session, and acknowledged
that plans are set for the special
session of the new congress to
tackle the task.
Twelve strategic.lly situated
house members belonging TO the
ways and means committee, that
has jurisdiction over all revenue
legislation, agreed to drop all tax
proposals between now and March
4.
Asked by Eewspapermen when
the special session will be sum-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
POLICE HOLD
JAPANESE IN
RAID STAGED
MOVABLE PROPERTY AND
VALUABLE RECORDS DE-
TRoYED At YOKOHAMA
BRANCH OF SEWING CO.

YOKOHAMA, Jan. fs.-Police
held 1913 japanese today following
a raid on the Yokohama branch Of
the Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany.
All movable property and yalu-
able records were destroyed.
Richard MeCleary, representa-
tive of the company. who l. in
Japan in connection with IT'S labor
difficulties, said the loss will
likely reach several hundred
thousand yen"
A yen is equivalent TO about
90 cents.
Seven persons were injured.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
]. Mendoza Observes
His goth Anniversary
As Pharmacist Today

j. A. Mendoza, on the pharma-
cist staff of Gardeners Pharmacy,
is today observing his Twentieth
anniversary as a registered phar-
macist in the state of Florida. He
is also one of the oldest pharma-
cists in Key West.
Before coming to Key West,
Mr.. Mendoza rracticed his pro-
fession in kentucky and several
other states of the Union.
For the past year he has been
employed at Gardeners Pharmacy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
Mysterious Sayings In
Hollywood Attributed To
Operations OF Cangsters
Believed To Have Been
Result Of Attempt By
Gunner To Control Ii
quor Supply
my Associated I'ress)


HOLLYWOOD, Jan. Is.
Three mysterious STAY
ings today sent police
squads into action to pre-
vent further blOOdshed in
what they said was an at
tempt of eastern gang
sters to control the film
cOlOny's liquor supply.
Only one of the dead
men were identified. He
was Harry Meager, said
by police to have been a
leading bOotlegger here.
He and his companion
were killed when Meager's
car crashed into an cleo
trio light post after sever
al shots were fired and the
third man was found shot
to death near Long
Beach.
Police said the latter an
swered to the description
OF a Former bootEe as
sOciated with Meager.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18

to inaudibility, the signals assum-
ed a slow and deep fading and
maintained an average intensity up
to 10 miles from Rocca di Papa.
They became progressively weaker
then, and were heard for the last
time on the yacht 125 miles away.
In one test, the angle of recep-
ton was investigated by titling
the reflector. The conclusion
reached was that of the waves
from the distant station came to
the receiving station from a hori-
zontal direction.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
To Return Here Today

Dir. and Mrs. Henry Howard
are expected to return to Key
West this afternoon on the light
house tender Ivy from trip 70
ToFtugas light. Mrs Howard Is
president Of the American Mer-
chant Marine Library Association.
The Ivy left Tortugaa $40
o'clock this morning and win stop
At GlamA Wreck and Sand Key
light station before returning 20
port.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
HOLIDAY NOTICE

Thursday, January 10. 1888,
Robert e. Lees birthday. being q
legal holiday in the State of Flor
ida, we will not be open for lusi.
ness on that day.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
KEY WEST. sanfs-ii
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
TECHNOCRACY'S
BIG SHOT WAS
UNDER CHARGE
OF SABOTAGE DUR
ING TIME HE WAS ENGAGED
IN WORK OF CONSTRUCTING
GOVERNMENT PLANT
(By MARCY B. DARNALL in the
Florence, Ala. Herald)

This new thing called "Tech-
nocracy," which is getting such
widespread attention just now,
takes on a certain local interest
from the fact that Howard Scott,
its chief exponent, is said to have
been employed here during the
construction of Plant No. 2, and
was charged with wartime sab
otage in connection with his job
as a workman in a cement gang.
According to Allen Raymond,
who has written'a series of articles
on the subject of democracy and
its sponsors for the New York
Herald-Tribune, this man Scott
was later associated with the I. w.
w. and other Communistic activi-
ties.
At a congressional investiga-
ton into the building of Plant No.
2, j. X. Mckenzie, a government
inspector of construction, testified
that Scott was an incompetent
workman, employed for a short
time and then discharged because
his fellow workmen insisted that
he was really q German spy. This
was confirmed by w. 8. Landisf q
superintendent of the American
Cyanamid Company.
It appears that Scott made this
disclosure inevitable by his foolish
claim to having been the "chief
technician" during the construc-
ton of the Muscle Shoals project,
as set forth in press agent pub
Lefty when democracy was first
sprung upon an unsuspecting
world.
Scott also claimed to hold the
degree of doctor of science from
one of the greatest universities, a
claim since discovered to be false.
In fact, he holds no degree of any
kind, but, according to the Herald
Tribune writer, he has had IAN OBJ
scure career of twenty-odd years
on the outer fringes of the en-
gineering profession"
So much for Mr.. Scott for the
present-but what about Techno-
crazy?
What L. democracy?
This writer has read everything
he has been able to get hold of re-
garding ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
articles, news dispatches, speeches,
special newspaper reports, edi-
torials and what not. But he con-
fesses his inability to tell what it
is all about-and most writer's
seem to be in the same boat.
1t appears, however, that its
idea is that the machine age is re-
sponsible for the depression and
most of the other ills from which
we now suffer, and that a COM
plete overturn of our economic
system is necessary before we can
obtain relief. It pretends to offer
some sort of miraculous panacea
for all these ills.
Among other things it declares
that the capitalistic system is
doomed, that the price system
must be abolished, and so on. 1t
also predicts, or at least Scott pre-
diets, that unless its theories are
put into practice we shall have
twenty million unemployed in the
United States in two years. But
just how to put those theories into
practical operation has not yet
been disclosed. It seems evident
that some form of Socialism or
Communism is suggested, but the
Continued on Page Fourl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
kid CHOCOLATE
DUE HERE TODAY
ENRoUTE FROM HAVANA TO
NEW YORK FOR TITLE
BOUT

thy Associates FFe~MD
HAVANA. Jan. 1S.-kid
Chocolate. recognized in New
York State - the feather
weight champion. sailed 10
A N. today fer Key West en-
route 60 New York and viii
hit a title match January n
With n seAmaz, Toua Watson.
Enxlish titlshnider.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
ANOTHER STORM
FOR CALIFORNIA
SmUDcE POTS USED IN CIT.
RUS GROVES TO PREVENT
FROST DAMAGE
(By AssoeIated Pressl

tBy Associated PressD
Los ANGELES. Jan. Ia
Lowering bArometers indieas-
ed q new storm bearing down
on Southern California.
Smudge pots were used in
citrus groves TO prevent treat
damage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18
DECLINED TO
DISCUSS VISIT

NEW YORK, Jan. 49,
President-elect Roosevelt
today declined to discuss
the visit he will have with
President Hoover in
Washington Friday.
He. only would admit to
newspapermen that he
had been invited by Hoo
yer to the meeting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-18

moned, Speaker Garner said 81
could tell you but ! WON'T,
The threat of cloture to limit
debate on the Glass banking bill
was met by a little band Of filibus-
terers in the senate with asser-
tions no business will be trans
acted by unanimous consent from
now on.
A challenge was hurled by SEN
ator Thomas, democrat, of Okla
homa, when Senator Watson, In
diana, republican leader, arose to
ask unanimous consent to make a
previously announced speech on
Disarmament without displacing
Senator Glass, democrat, of Vir-
ginia, from the floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
Exposes Bank
Closings; Paper Must
Not Cl0se~Rush Aid.

ALL banks closed in Michigan. The bank
"A ers, the federal and state government
and the capitalist press are trying to hide
the reason why. Yesterday S Daily Worker
told you. The Michigan banks are on the
verge of collapse and "the eight-day mo
ratorium,' said yesterdays Daily, lis
for the purpose of enabling the stock
holders and bankers to get all they can
and leave the small depositors holding the
bag"
Only the Daily Worker told you this
Only the Daily Worker exposed the fierce
struggle for control of the auto industry
between Ford and General Motors that is
behind the closing of the banks. Only the
Daily Worker told you that this so-called
moratorium shows that the capitalist
crisis is hitting new depths.
THE DAILY WORKER has no stock
holders Of banks among its readers
and supporters. Some of them are small
depositors, all of them are suffering in
some way from the capitalist crisis, from
unemployment, from wage-cuts, part time
work, etc. But despite this, all of them
e1AS uSbNA tudI thSIC Sudu Uc tiO CIUS-
ing down of the Daily Worker even for
single day. The Daily" needs, not mil
lions, but $35, 900 to keep going. 1T MUST
AND WILL BE RAISED.
If every reader did what only COM
paratively few readers have been doing:
sending in their own contributions, col
Letting among friends and in organiza-
tions, arranging parties and affairs, the
$4,000 fund would be raised in a short
time. -r-7-t
In an old peoples home in New
York state $13.25 was collected for
the Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
.FOLTIS-FISCHER
STRIKE SPREAD
Fight Mass Layoffs
and Long Hours

NEW YORK.-The cafeteria work
ers in the Foltis- Fisher stores at And
st. and Third Ave, 43rd st. and 9Th
Ave, Goth st. and 4th Ave, and 1913
E. Seth st, have walked out on strike
against the mass lay-offs and the
lengthening OF hours.
The strike is being led by the Fol-
tis-Fisher Strike Committee and the
Food Workers Industrial Union. The
first shop was struck on Monday,
Feb. 10. The Strike Committee Is
making intensive preparations for the
spreading of the strike to all the 9TH
er II cafeterias in the Foltis-F Fisher
chain.
The strike at the 43rd st. store was
called on Monday as result of the
policy pursued by the company and
the receivers of wholesale firing of
their workers and trying to bring in
new crews at lower wages and long
err hours. Shop strike Committees
are being elected in the shops, and
these committees will comprise the
General Strike Committee. The
workers in the shops are already
formulating the demands for the
general Foltis-Fisher Strike.
Two workers picketing the And
st. store were arrested on Tuesday
on charges of disorderly conduct.
These arrests did not intimidate or
demoralize the picket line, but in
stead gave more spirit to the strikers.
The workers we're bailed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
CALL SPREAD.
FOR ALBANY
CONFERENCE.
Sc ndin g Delegates
from All Parts
Of State
TAG DAYS FEB. 24-25-26
Urge Socialist Ranks
to Elect Delegates

NEW YORK. - Spreading
like a prairie fire, sweeping
aside political, religious or any
other differences, the call of
the New York State Pro-
yisional Committee of the Workers
Conference for Labor Legislation, to
be held in Albany March 5 to 7, is
maSsing workers all over the state
for united battle against the muir
derous starvation front of the bosses.
The conference will broaden the
movement for immediate unemploy-
ment relief and many other workers
demands.
ALL. carpenters Local PIT Of
New York, the Nimuno Lithuanian
Benefit Society of Schenectady, the
Abruzzese Society, whose leading
body is the Italian Federation of
Benefit Associations, are typical OF
those backing the conference, voting
to send delegates, and joining the
fight.
Three tag days, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, Fep. a, Is and g. have
been announced yesterday by the Pro-
visional Committee. Funds must be
collected. The news of the conference
must be spread. Every mass organ
ization and every individual worker
is asked to call for COLLECTION boxes
at the office of the Committee, Room
224 at 1893 Broadway.
Thousands of learlets are being dis
tributed all over .ne state to Social
list Party 81. aches, at ALL. halls,
etc, urging the workers to immedi-
ately elect delegates to the Albany
Conference. Despite the treachery Of
the Socialist leaders, workers IN their
organizations are flocking to the
united struggle.
Arrangements are now being made
| to bring the cost of the trip to the
| state capital down to minimum. Or
CARNATIONS and workers in them
should take the initiative in urging
the immediate election Of delegates.
! Send for credentials to the Provi-
sional Committee Of the Workers
Conference for Labor Legislation, 1893
Broadway, Room 224, New York City.
Volunteers to assist in the work OF
the Committee are also needed. ANY
worker who has any time to spare,
| come to the above address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
Protest Meeting
for Tom Scott of
South River Strike

NEW YORK.-As a protest
against the brutal suppression of
the recent strike in South River and
against the arrest of Tom Scott,
one of the organizers of the strike,
the South River Defense Commit
tee and the LID, will hold mass
meeting at Irving Plaza, Is Irving
Pl., on Friday, Feb. II, at 8 pm.
Scott. because he led the workers
in fight for better conditions, was
charged with Constructing justice
and causing the people to perjure
themselves" He is now being held
in jail on $4,000.
George Powers, facing a trial for
leading demonstration of unem-
ployed workers to the New York
City Hall, will act as chairman and
Clarence Hathaway, member of the
Political Bureau of the Communist
Party, will BE one of the main
speakers. -'--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
AID SCOTTSBORO
DRIVE In FRISCO
Youth Groups k
Up Natl Tag Days

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. b.
Forty delegates, representing II or
carnations and eight branches of
the International Labor Defense, met
Feb. 10 in California Hall to map
out the next steps in the fight for
the Scottsboro boys, and to elect
delegates to the coming State Con-
ference in Oakland on March a at
7 pm. in Odd Fellows Hall at 18th
and Franklin SITS.
An executive committee of 25
was elected including representa-
tives from Negro organizations.
Resolutions were sent to Cover
NOR B. M. Miller Of Montgomery,
Ala, protesting the continued i'm
prisonment of the nine Scottsboro
bows and demanding the charges
against the Tallapoosa share-crop-
usrs be dropped. Another resolu-
lion was sent to the Governor of
Georgia against the railroading of
Angelo Herndon to 20 years on the
chain gang for organizing the un-
employed workers Of Atlanta, Ga.
Support Scottsboro Tag Days
NEW YORK.--The Young Com
munist League and a number of
other youth organizations are ener-
getically supporting the prepara-
I;ons for National Scottsboro Tag
ksys, Teb. ~ and rs. 70 raise funds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
1000 R. R. TOILERS
TAKE OVER SHOPS
Demand Release of
Communist Leaders

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Feb. 15.-
Demanding the release Of IL Commu-
mist leaders, 1000 railway workers
this morning barricaded themselves in
the Government railway shops here.
They announced that work would be
suspended until the working class
leaders we're released. Troops and
police have trained machine guns and
rifles on the shops.
Officials Of Klausenberg have asked
the government to rush additional
troops to that section and declare
martial law. Martial law already has
been declared over most Of Roumania
in an attempt to crush the tremend-
GUS strike struggles of oil field and
other workers against wage cuts. Yes
terday, 1000 strikers, supported by
700 unemployed workers stormed the.
railway work shops at Cluj and Fore
ed the reinstatement of four workers
discharged as Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
PROVE FRAME UP
OF WEINSTEIN
: Testimony" Against
Him Slashed


BULLETIN
Sam Weinstein said late yester-
day Regardless of what verdict
is brought in by the capitalist jury,
leave the question OF whether /
am guilty or innocent to the work
ers."
NEW YORK.-The outright frame
up of Sam Weinstein, charged with
assault and manslaughter because OF
his activities in strike at the Mus
kin Manufacturing Co. last summer
became apparent yesterday during the
second day of his trial in the Bronx
County Court, when under sharp
cross-examination by Joseph r. Brod-
sky, chief counsel for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, witnesses for
the prosecution crudely contradicted
themselves and practically admitted
that the Identification" OF Sam
Weinstein as the assailant was &
forced and tricky one.
Detective Violated Procedure
Detective Solomon who arrested
Weinstein was forced to admit that
Weinstein was brought into a room
alone to be identified by a Mr. Mich
aelS, who owns a candy store near
the scene of the alleged attack. The
usual procedure is TO have number
Of men in the line up from which an
accuser must choose.
In the direct examination, the pro-
scouting attorney, Morton Frank
tried to have Solomon state that on
being arrested Weinstein had con-
fessed to him that he had assaulted
Harry Weissglass. Under cross ex-
animation by Brodsky, the detective
was forced to deny that Weinsteir
had made such confession"
Witness Draws RidicuIe
Another witness for the prosecu-
ton, Morris Paris, testified that the
union headquarters of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union which con-
Quoted the strike at the Muskir
Company, was filled with Communist
literature and Communist placards.
Gan you read English?" Brodsky
asked him in cross-eXaInination.
NO. Paris answered.
Would you recognize a Commu-
mist placard if you saw one?" Brod-
sky then asked.
mo" Paris said, drawing laughter
from the workers present in court,
and smiles from a number OF the
jury men.
Paris, who had been kept under
custody for seven months with pay
of So daily as a material witness for
the prosecution, stated under direct
examination by the prosecuting at
torney that he did not know why the
workers at the Muskin company had
gone out on strike.
In cross-examination Brodsky fore
ed him TO admit that he knew the
workers had gone out ON strike
against wage-cuts and for equal dis
tribution of work among the employ
es. Paris was also forced to admit
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
$50 FUR OVERS
HAIL NEW GAINS
10 Shops Organized,
Wages Increased

NEW YORK. - Six hundred and
fifty workers, members of the fur
dyers' section of the Needle Trade
Workers Industrial Union, gathered
last night at 100 Broadway to hear
the report of their accomplishments
and plan a wider organization cam
paign than ever.
Morris LANCER reported that so FAR
10 shops have been organized, with
employees totaling LOO, and that in
these the workers have won wage in
creases of IS to Sc, in some cases
eliminating wage cuts put in effect
since the crisis began, Other condi-
tions won include an unemployment
insurance fund Of per cent Of the
workers pay, to be contributed by
the bosses and controlled by the work
ers, and a reduction in hours from
so to A hours week.
The meeting hailed these victories
with enthusiasm, and passed reso-
luton not TO stop the campaign until
the entire fur dyeing industry was
organized, including the A. Hollander
shop, which is the biggest fur dyeing
shop in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16

ration day, one long to be re-
membered by the capitalists
and their hunger government.
McNutt's refusal to consider
the plight of the hungry men, women
and children of the state, followed
an interview with delegates repre-
senting the Indiana State Unem-
ployment Conference here yesterday.
There were sixty-siX delegates repre-
senting thirty-four organizations
from the fourteen principal cities of
the state Demands were adopted
for immediate relief and unemploy
ment insurance to be made upon the
legislature. A committee of fifteen
was elected to appear before the
legislature. Governor McNutt, who
has been hailed as Americas first
dictator" decided for the legislature
that they should not listen to the
representatives of the unemployed,
but that ne would receive" a COM
mittee Of three.
Demagogic Replies Don't Work.
When the committee placed the
demands before McNutt, this former
head of the American Legion, let
loose a flood of words about his SYM
pathy for the unemployed and sought
to cover up his anti-working class
policy with such talk. He was pres
sed for a definite answer, which re-
suited in flat refusal to present
the demands to the legislature and
a further lecture to the delegation
about waiting for the regular pro-
cesses of law not making big dis
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-16
q BATH BEACH
TENANTS STRIKE
Fight Effort to Raise
Rent Is PC.

--+. = BULLETIN
NEW YORK--Around 500 rent
strikers marched from Vyse Ave.
and 174th st. to wilkins and Jen-
nings where they were met by 700
additional narchers. Carrying
piacardS, banners and torches and
led by the Red Front Band, the
paraGsrs proceeded to Public School
81, at Freeman and Intervale.
where Carl Winters, Secretary of
the Unemployed Council was seized
uled to speak.
NEW YORK.-A militant rent
strike has been going on fro the past
three weeks at 10 Bay 31st Street
Brooklyn, with the q tenants Of the
house fighting against the owners at
tempt to increase the rents 25 per
cent.
All the tenants surrounded the coal
bins of the house just before ths
strike began and prevented the coal
company from taking back ten tons
of coal which the latter claim viii
not be paid for because the house has
gone into the hands Of receiver.
Police attempted to force the work
ers to give up the coal but met with
resistance in the form of one cop
beaten up. Three tenants we're ar
rested. held on $4,000 bail, but were
released the next morning. Attorney
Schriftman of the international La
Dor Defense defended them.
Mr.. Brill, the receiver, has now IS
sued 81 dispossess notices to the ten
ants. He is using a stool pigeon,
Feldman, who has q dry goods store
in the same building, to lie to the
court that the tenants paid high rents
to the former landlord.
Workers in the neighborhood have
boycotted this storekeeper, the en-
trance to whose store is at 22l7 Bath
Ave.
Picketing continues under the lead
ership of the House Committee and
the Bath Beach Unemployed Coun-
Gil.