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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
DUELIST'S GRAVE
 NOT NEGLECTED

Baton Rouge, La - (U.P)- A crumbling little tombstone in the old Highland cemetery here stands, after more than a century, a mon- ument to the gallantry that was Dixie.
 Buried there is Philogene, fa- vorite son of Pierre Joseph de Fa- vrot, a prominent figure in Revolu- tionary history. Philogene, com missioned as major in the army by President James Madison, was a famed duelist. He died by agree ment, according to the custom of theI day, because one of his chal- lengers was married man. and honor demanded that the married man be spared.
 His grave lies to the right of that of his father, the great Pierre. It was Pierre who was biven the command of the forts captured from the British during the strug- gle with England.
 Son of a lieutenant in the French army, Pierre, like all sons of off, cers, was born with a commission as cadet in the army of France. He was named commander of the troops at Baton Rouge. where the Grenadiers wer located and in 1795 he was named lieutenant-colonel.
 The de Favrot burial plot is car ed for regularly by a great-great- grandson, J. St Clair Favrot. For the many years when the Highland cemetery was abandoned to ver- itable wilderness of cane and un- derbrush, the surviving Favrot made regular trips to the place and kept his ancestors graves cleared off. Recently the city renovated the whole cemetery, which was deeded in 1919, and strengthened the crumbling tombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
WOMEN CONTRIBUTED
 SERv-

Duluth, Minn. (UP)-Nearly $500 Duluth women donated 42.- 06s hours of their time and pro- duced nearly 24.000 articles of clothing for the Red Cross be- tween November and March 22. according to Mrs A. c. Schafer of the emergency relief committee. Over 14O women'B organizations Iparticipated in tho Wexk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Serrice Writer

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-01

Han Anderson of Racine, Wis, pic tured here in regal robes after her coronation. The 125.pound. 5-foot 6-inch blond beauty took the e5,- 900 first prize from 50 fair com- petitors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Roosevelt Cabinet
Member at Nazi
Meeting Tonight


NEW YORK-The New York Hit
critics, whose meeting was forbidden
IL Mayor O'Brien before election, are
holding their meeting tonight in
Madison Square Garden under the
guiSe of the 250th anniversary of
German immigration to America. 1t
is being held in the name of the
Steuben Society, and is really rally
ing center for the Nazi activities in
the y. S. The Steuben Society, which
has many Nazis in its ranks, invit-
ed all German organizations to CO.
operate in tonight's meeting. DR..
Hans Luther, representative of Hit
ler's regime in the U. S., is listed as
a speaker, as well as Major General
Preston of the U. S. Army and Rear
Admiral Stirling of the U. S. Navy.
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper
of Roosevelt's Cabinet, will speak.
The New York Committee to Aid
Victims of German Fascism, in a
statement condemning the Nazi
meeting, with which the federal au-
thorities are collaborating, calls on all
workers and intellectuals to intensity
their activities for the release of Di-
Torgler, Taneff and Popoff
from the fascist courts and against
the mass execution of German anti
fascist workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

that he was guilty He emphasized this
omission with the comment that SIN
not drawing the color line either
DR.. Bridges, who was the first Wit
ness yesterday, testified he found no
bruises, cuts, or wounds on Victoria
Price other than a scratch on wrist
and forearm, when the Negro boys
were arrested. Her pulse and respira
ton was normal. one hour and half
after the alleged rape, he said.
The second witness, Gilley an
swered a series of leading questions
put him by Prosecutor Knight. After
an absence of nearly three years, he
said, he came to Huntsville to see how
Victoria and her mother, whom he
never knew, were getting along. AL
though he described himself as an en-
tertainer in hotel lobbies, he could not
name q single hotel where he recited.
Later, Lester Carter corroborateo
the deposition of Ruby Bates. He said
he was held 10 days in Scottsboro jail
and never called as witness by the
State.
The testimony of Luther Morris
that he saw the girls being attacked
IN the gondola after the fight were
proved improbable by photographs
by the defence.
Elias Schwarzbart Of defense coun-
SCI testified that when they took pic
lures, they could not see into the car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Daily Worker Forces Wage
Raise in Cleveland Shop!
Lag in Drive Shows Workers in Shops Are
Not Being Approached
CLEVELAND DISTRICT

CLEVELAND DISTRICT has the
v same quota of $4,000 in the Daily
Worker drive as Detroit. Similar in
dustrial conditions prevail in both of
these territories.
Yet on December /, Detroit had
raised 87,2 per cent on its pledge,
and Cleveland only SOL per cent.
Is it because workers in Ohio do
not realize the Importance OF the
Daily Worker in their struggles? Facts
show this is not true.
A worker who posted a strike story
from the Daily Worker on the bull
letin board Of the Cleveland Sterling
Press Company reports that this re-
suited in an immediate increase Of
10 per cent in wages, and following
this, ten of the workers contributed
a dollar each for the Daily Worker.
The Daily Worker agent in Erie re-
ports that his customers, some of
them new readers, await impatiently
the arrival of the Daily" In Euclid
Village, where no Daily Workers were
previously sold, house to house cam
vas in only four streets resulted in
the sale of 100 Daily Workers.
A worker, J, g., from Lorain, Ohio.
iobless for three years, living on cit,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
5000 CWA Workers
Who Won Strike;
Form Relief Union
VIII Organize on Job
to Win Demands from
Government

NEW YORK.--Three thousand Civil
Works Administration workers, en-
ployed at Bear Mountain, who struck
and marched on the state C.WA. Of
flee Monday were able by their Or
gained mass pressure to win ten
cents an hour increase and other de-
mands.
Under The C.WA. they were told
Saturday that they would receive a
flat rate of so cents per hour. After
their strike they have won an in
crease to so cents per hour and the
right to work four days per week in
stead of five days, thus saving an
additional so cents in train fare.
At the state C.WA. office today,
statements were given to the capital
ist press that since this wage increase
had already been authorized by Wash
ington, the workers had not won
wage increase by striking. This is
said in an effort to cover up this
victory of the workers, who had been
told Saturday that under the C.W.A.
their wages would be SO cents per
hour.
After the strike, to consolidate the
victories won and to organize the
Bear Mountain workers for struggle
for greater demands, a group of the
strikers met at Irving Plaza and
united under the Relief Workers Pro-
tective Union. An organization COM
mittee of five was elected to organize
the workers on the job.
AS tentative demands covering the
immediate need and demands of the
workers, the Relief Workers Protec-
tive Union is putting forward the
following program: A minimum wage
OF SIS per day; no discrimination
against any worker for trade union
'et,yitie5; workmen's compensation
to apply on the job and during the
period Of transportation; free trans
portation to and from the job; full
pay for time lost during rainy wealth
er; adequate medical attention on
the job for injured workers; and the
application of Roosevelt,s promises of
wages up to $120 per hour for skilled
workers.
The Relief Workers Protective
Union calls the attention of the work.
ers that although the Bear Mountain
workers won an increase Of 10 cents
per hour, the promises of Roosevelt
that skilled workers would be paid
union wages has not been kept.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

ton to foreign journalists to the ef-
feet that the Indictment of the
four Communist defendants had been
fully maintained by the trial pro-
ceedings." The prosecution, he de-
clared, will propose death sentences,
despite the overwhelming mass Of
evidence which has been presented
at the trial proving their undouhted
innocence.
The examination Of witnesses,
former Communists taken from prison
continued today. The chief question
was whether an armed uprising was
intended for the end of February and
whether the Reichstag fire was meant
to be a signal for this instruction.
Witness Felix, expelled from the
Communist Party in 1929 for' en-
bezzling Party funds, admitted steal
ing explosives and buying arms. The
witness had obviously been maltreated
either in prison or by the storm
troops. At frequent intervals he
cried Historically. He declared, how
ever, that nobody had dreamed Of
an armed uprising, but only of de-
Tense against the Fascists. The pre-
siding judge interrupted him to state
that he had previously admitted
preparations for an uprising, but
Felix adhered to today's statement.
Dimitroff Accuses Na1is
1.-THE people who prepared an
armed uprising for the end of Janu-
airy or the beginning of February
were Nazis," declared Dinitroff, i'm
mediately receiving the reprimand of
the presiding judge. Felix, by this
time in Mysteries refused to make
further statements.
The public prosecutor indicated that
he planned to speed-up the proceed
ings by dropping number of prose-
cution witnesses. The next witness
was a sub-district leader of the Com
munist Party in Freienwalde, named
Jessel. Testifying for the second
day, he declared that the theft of
explosives reported by Felix was done
on the individual initiative of some
Communists without the knowledge
Of the Communist Party leaders.
Action for Self Defense
A long discussion followed on the
planned storm troop march on Berlin,
the united front, mass mobilization,
etc. Dinitrof asked Jessel if the
had Planned a protest
strike of o certain length in February
Continued on Pdqe q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

tanned by the international La
Dor Defense protested vigor-
ousIy, on the ground that it was his
understanding that the remaining
trials were to be postponed pending
appeal Of the Haywood Patterson case,
as well as Of Clarence Norris in the
event Of a guilty verdict against hin.
After argument by Attorney Cen
eral Thomas E. Knight, who wanted
to go on with the trial, the LID. won
It's point.
When Leibowitz demanded that
bond be set for Glen Montgomery ana
Willie Robertson, Callahan refused.
Habeas corpus proceedings to force
setting Of bond viii be taken, the law
yer announced.
Judge Callahan today assigned two
more deputy sheriffs to guard Lei
bowitz. He gave no reason for this
action.
Callahan's charge to the jury yes
terday in the Norris CASE, as he de-
livered it, differed in only one or two
details from the 1ynch-inc1ting charge
he made in the Patterson case. In
stead Of forgetting completely to in
struct the jury on how to render a
verdict of mot guilty" he paused after
he had presented what he himself
termed "the states side Of the case.
Then he add just one sentence. to
conform with the law, telling the jury
it was possible also to bring in a
verdict of mot guilty"
Informed that under Alabama law
a general exception to the judge
charge such as he made in the Patte--
son case was not valid, Leibowitz in
this case took Is specific exceptions,
demanding that he amend his charge
on these specific points. In most cases
Callahan refused to do so, or re-for-
mulated the point in a manner scarce
ly different from what he had used
in the first place.
Callahan omitted from his charge
the expression he had used in his
instructions in the Patterson case, to
the effect that il a Negro was charged
with rape the presumption must be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Spanish Fascists
Gain Cortes Control

MADRID, Dec. 5.-The left-repub-
lican government today ordered troops
held in readiness under a decree de-
claring state Of prevention and
alarm" as wave of mass anger swept
the working-class districts through
out Spain as the results of Sundays
parliamentary run-of IF elections
showed a sweeping victory for the re-
dictionary coalition, obtained by fraud
and violence at the polls.
The decree was endorsed by the
three Socialist Ministers in the pre-
sent government who, with the So
cialist fraction in the Cortes, helped
through their attacks on the revolu-
tionary workers and peasants to pave
the wave for the Fascist reaction that
is now setting in.
The run-off elections gave the COM
bined right and centrist parties 376
seats in the Cortes. The cleft" par
ties obtained 81 seats. The Socialists
carried Madrid and the province of
Huelva, winning 10 seats to the Cor
ties, as against four for the coalition,
but were decisively beaten in the
other districts.
Reports from the city of Cora, 200
miles from Madrid declare that
general strike has been called against
the government. Indignant workers
have cut the telephone. telegraph,
electric and gas lines. Troops have
been ordered to proceed to Cora.
The Martinez Barrios government
is expected to be replaced with a CEN
trist coalition government headed by
Lerroux.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

relief, sent the first dollar he has
had in a year to the Daily Worker.
Unit 1886, Cleveland, had no trouble in
raising its quota.
These are only a few of the nu-
merous examples proving that work
ers in Ohio are devoted to the Daily
Worker, that they will support our
paper IL asked to do so. Yet Section
II, with a large Negro population
stirred by the Scottsboro case, realiz-
ing that the Daily Worker is their
weapon against the lynchers, failed
to raise one penny for the Daily"
in the two week period of Nov. 1925.
Similar poor showings have been
made by youngstown, Cincinnati,
Dayton and. East Ohio. The Jewish
and HUI gar-an larguare crown, much
smaller, has done good work
COMRADES of Cleveland! TIL e
v 10000 necessary to the very life of
the Daily Worker can be raised only
if each district does not fun snare.
Tuesdays receipts .....,..s $50 IS
>reYious total ..,.......s. 31003 rs
fetal to date .. s3i, e93,5l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Tannery Striker Is
Dying After Police
Attack on Pickets
N. Y. Thugs Used in
Attack on Norwood
Strikers

NORWOOD, Dec. 5.-Truckloads
OF thugs, imported from New York
by the Bergoff Detective Agency,
led the attack on the picket line
Of the tannery strikers here, which
sent eight to the hospital, one of
whom is dying. Most of these hired
thugs have criminal records. The
state police as we'll as Boston po-
lice were called out against the
picket lines today. One striker has
suffered a fractured skull. The men
who are on strike are members of
the National Leather Workers
Union.
The strikers brought action in
the Superior Civil Court in Boston
against the company. Former Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, Frank Allen,
owns the factory. and Allen was
responsible for the importation Of
the thugs who assaulted the picket
line in front Of the Lithuanian
Hall, headquarters of the strikers.
Governor Ely threatens to call out
state troops against the strikers.
(Sec picture on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
5000 French Miners
in Hunger Protest
Civil Employees Plan
Strike on Cuts

PARIS, Dec. 4.-Three thousand
unemployed miners, one of the con-
tingeuts Of an army of 10000 hunger
marchers, which began moving on
Paris a week ago, paraded today in
st, Etienne, near here, in a vigorous
demonstration against the govern
ment's plans for new cuts in the So
cial services, relief, etc, wages of civil
employees and increased taxation.
AS the Finance Commission of the
Chamber of Deputies studied the
plans of the new Chautemps Ministry
FOR balancing the budget at the ex-
ponse of the toiling masses, groups
Of civil employees renewed their pro-
tests against the proposed pay cuts
and called on their fellows to prepare
a nationwide strike against the pro-
rosals.
The bourgeoisie are making des-
perate efforts to split the united
front Of the workers and farmers
and yesterday succeeded in organiz-
ing a nter-demonstration of o.
900 farmers at which resolution
favoring the Acknowledgement Of civil
employees was adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
80 CWA Union Men
Prepare to Strike
Camden Bldg. Trades
Men Object to SOC. Hr.

CAMDEN, N. j., Dec. 6.-Thirty
skilled workers employed under the
Civil Works Administration on
school projects are preparing to
strike unless paid union wage
scales, according to Ernest r. Lewis
of the Building Trades Council
here.
The men are Directing to the so
cents. an hour they are being paid,
which is supposed to apply only to
unskilled labor. They are asking
the scales set by the Federal Labor
Board be applied to them on the
CWA projects, instead of the star
Walton CWA minimum.
A number of complaints had been
sent to Col. Joseph B. Sears. deputy
relief director, that skilled workers
are being hired as unskilled and
then assigned to skilled jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
1900 MORE
c. ". A. men
WIN STRIKES
Win Same Pay as Bear
Mountain Strikers;
Form Union

YONKERS, N. Y. Fifteen
hundred Civil Works employ
ees employed at the New York
State project at Hook Noun
tain struck on the job yester-
day, demanding and winning
wage increases of 10 cents per hour
and a promise of better transporta-
ion facilities A committee Of seven
was elected to meet with the local
c. w. A. officials.
Promises of better conditions on
the job were made to the committee.
All Hook Mountain employees are
urged to come to a union meeting
tonight at p. m, Immediately after
return from work, at q Hudson st.
All Hook Mountain workers should
come to this meeting to work out q
program of future demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
RFC Gives Subsidy
Of S5O,OOO,OOO to
Morgan City Bank

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-A huge sub
sidy Of $5o,O0o,0OO will be given to
the National City Bank through the
RIG, it was announced today The
RF.C. has agreed to buy $50 000, goo
worth of the banks preferred stock.
At the same time, the Bank writes
off s56,ooo,ooo OF its assets as hope
lessly lost.
Thus, the Roosevelt government,
through the REC. steps in with
its s50,000,000 subsidy to take care
Of the capital loss of the bank in
the writing off of its assets.
The Stockholders Are protected
The National City Bank is a Nor
gan bank. with the Morgans holding
the collateral of the former president,
Mitchell.
Its profits, after all expenses, sal
aries, etc, amounted last year to
shout s15,ooo,ooo. 1t pays dividends
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06

To-Day
The same survey also showed
that compared with 1926 taken
as 100, wholesale prices are now at
II while wages are at 81, indicating
that the spread between these two
is now far greater than even during
1926.
These figures prove that the Roose-
welt price-raising program has et-
fected a 10 to Is per cent wage cut
in the pay envelope Of every Amer
lean worker.
Get Less Food.
The result of this sharp clash IN
the purchasing power of the wage
workers dollar is reflected in the
latest report of the U. S. Department
Of Commerce which reveals that the
largest groceries of the country have
sold 10 per cent less groceries than
last year.
As for department stores, the survey
showed that the workers can now get
only 10 per cent less goods in these
stores for the same money, compared
with last year.
II the Roosevelt government sue
ceeds in lacking up retail prices to
the 1926 level, then the buying power
ST the workers will be even more
sharply reduced than at present.
Big Profits,
The Roosevelt government is now
engaged in an attempt to raise prices
through it's purchase of gold, and
through other inflationary measures.
AT the same time, the MIRA. codes
are for the purpose of keeping wages
at fixed level, the net result being
an increase in profits for the employ
erS.
The recent report of a $50 per cent
rise in net profits for the ABS biggest
corporations of the country is evil
dence of the effect OF the Roosevelt
price-raising. program and the NR.A.
wage-hXing codes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Terror and MIRA Used
Taxi Strike

PHILADELPHIA. - The Regional
Labor Eoard is planning to refer the
ta,licsb strike now in its second week
to Washington II 1t is unable to sell
out the Strike BY itself.
This mihtan strike Of the taxi men
has been NAKED by gansters attack
ins ard bu"ni-g cabs and smashing
thcm up Win bricks. Four drivers
were seriously injured Yesterday.
number Of cabs damaged and several
stolen IN an effort TO break the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
18th Amendment No
Longer Part of Law

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. S.
BY official proclamation, issued
from Wa shington by the Acting
Secretary of State, the 18th Amend
ment was officially repealed to-
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
1000 in San Jose
LyncherS,
ROlph in Mass Meet
Meeting, Called by LID,
Held on Spot Where
LynchingsOccurred

SAN JOSE, Calf, Dec. 5.-A mass
meeting of 1000 people here Sunday
afternoon denounced the actions of
Governor Rolph ON the very spot
where the lynchings of Thomas H.
Thurmond and John Holmes, degen-
crate kidnapers, took place on Nov,
20.
The mass meeting, held under the
auspices Of the International Labor
Defense, heard speakers representing
the Communist Party, the I. L. D.
and the Trade Union Unity League
link the lynch provocation of Cali
fornia's governor with the situation
in Decatur, today, where the entire
proceedings of Judge Callahan and
the Alabama court are intended to
rush the trials OF the innocent Ne
gro boys through to death verdicts.
Governor Rolph'S praise for the San
Jose lynchers was cited as open en-
couragement to the Southern ruling
class which intends to lynch, legally
or otherwise, the Scottsboro boys.
A local minister and John Barry.
a newspaper columnist, also addressed
the meeting.
Speakers pointed out that the
lynching here was the work of only
a handful of drunken hoodlums, or
ganized by local bosses. The huge
attendance at this protest meeting
also indicated this. The conniYance
Of Governor Rolph with the police
and the lynchers was exposed. and
Rolph shown TO be the cause Of the
lynching.
Governor Ralph, it was pointed
out, had the prisoners taken from
San Francisco to San Jose, without
any resistance on the part of the
San Francisco police, Rolph per-
mitted this transfer to be made de-
spite repeated warnings about the
outcome for days in advance, warn
ings which he refused to heed.
Feeling against the lynchers and
Governor Rolph is running so high
here that even bourgeois arts-Rolpa
groups are already beginning a polit-
ical campaign against him fos the
Veterans Expei Rolph
NEW YORK. J a m s
Rolph OF California has been e.-
PEELED from the National Advisory
Board of the National War Veterans
Association "for his actions and
statements in connection with the
California lynchings," it wa5 an
ncunced yesterday. The rsso'0 on.
made at n meeting OF the executive
committee Of the association. also
urged the citizens OF California TO
take immediate steps to impsach
their present nominal Governor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
ScOttsbOro Protest
News on Page Two

News of mass protest actions in
many cities throughout the coun-
try against the Decatur lynch YER
dict VIII be found on page two OF
to6ay'S issue. Turn to this page
to sec what is being done in your
city.