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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

decision to postpone the strike indefi-
nitely was received with caustic re-
marks by large groups of car men
and conductors who were waiting at
the door of the mayors conference
to hear the outcome Of the negotia-
tons. A feeling is current among the
men that they were sold cut by the
A. F. of L. officials.
Union misleaders and company
men in giving reasons for calling off
the strike claim that it will spoil the
success of the Police and Firemen'S
Field Day on Sunday" that "chil-
dren will not be able to go to school"
''the Washington arbitrator was not
here" workers will lose wages dur
ing the strike" and ut will tie up
the progress of NRA." The workers
smile with ridicule at these excuses.
The company argues that wages
were raised per cent recently. But
even Fred Schultz, union misleader,
admits that the raise actually
amounted to a cut because the MIRA.
had reduced the hours with a reduc-
ton in pay to the extent that the
men get less now than before.
Officials of the union are willing to
drop the demand for Is per cent
wage increase if they can only get
recognition for the union.
The Joint Council of Industrial
Unions issued circular to the men
today calling them to strike for their
demands, to elect rank and file COM
mittees and GUST the Schultz and
company officials from their midst.
The council advises the men not to
look to conciliators but take matters
into their, own hands A good re-
Spouse has been shown to the pro-
gram of the joint council.
Street-car men are urged to get
in touch with the Industrial union
headquarters at 1887 Payne Ave. for
assistance and advice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

20 consider the demands of the union
Today the arbitration proceeding
under the NRA continued with rep
resentatives of the Silk Association
! OF Manufacturers, the United Tex
tile Workers, the National Textile
Workers Union and Senator Wag-
ner of the National Labor Advisory
Board, present The A. F. of L
raised no demands for wage increases
or other conditions at the meeting
Their chief concern was for recogni-
lion of the union.
Senator Wagner proposed that he
go to Paterson to talk to the work
ers himself. Although protesting
great pity for the plight of the ex-
plotted silk workers, he nevertheless
wants to convince the workers to
end their strike and to go back to
work, on the basis of the present
conditions until the silk code hear
ings are held. This temporary ar
rangement is for the purpose of
smothering the strike and then fore
ing upon the workers the low wages
of the code against which they are
striking.
Ann Burlak, of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, fought this pro-
poSal vigorously as well as one by
Mcmahon suggesting a secret confer
ence with Wagner to arrange a SELL
out. The N.T.W. delegation consisted
Of Ann Burlak and rank and file
strikers, 3 having come from Allen
town.
At the same time the strike of the
silk dyers definitely entered the Pas
sale area when a demonstration of
1900 pickets at the Lodi plant of the
United Piece Dye Works, led by the
National Textile Union called upon
the workers to strike. The picket
line, given send-off by 5000 Pater-
son workers, had the support of thou
sands Of workers who damned the
sidewalk around the Lodi mill AS
we go to press the workers are coming
out on strike and it is predicted that
the great Lodi plant employing 5000
will be drawn into the struggle soon.
A commit &c Of dve strikers elected
light from the picket line presented
Hheir demands to the United Piece
Dye Works management at the main
| Office at Lodi simultaneously with the
huge denlopsorat ton The workers
waited outside the mills for the re-
pert. A heavy guard of police were
at the mill gates but no attempt was
made to interfere with the picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

35 hour week campaign early in
the summer. After a decision to
struggle for the 35 hour week was
made by the, unions Trade Board,
shop chairmen's conference was
called early in August, followed by
a mass meeting at Cooper Union to
mobilize the workers.
A conference to negotiate 80
hour week was called with the Fur
Trimming Manufacturer Associa-
ton with which the union has an
agreement followed by a second
conference at which the manufac-
turers declared their intention of
adhering to the 40 hour week until
the hearings on the fur code ex-
pected by September IL.
But the Needle Union did not
stop at this. At least 600 indie
pendent shops, many affiliated with
the Associated Fur Manufacturers,
which is strong for the A. F. of L.
coransnv union. were stopped and
only when The bosses conceded the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09

"a company union. The workers In
the grinding department steadfastly
refused to join for days. One Of
was called into the Office and asked
by the superintendent, What's the
matter with a company union7"
When this worker voiced his objec-
ton he was told to go back to work
with the warning use your head.
The company then declared that the
organization would not be called
company union, but an N.R.A. Asso-
ciation.
The discharge of the 400 workers
has caused great resentment among
the workers in the plant who are not
satisfied with merely appealing to
General johnson for aid. They ars
ready to strike to back up their de-
mand that determination must stop.
If the A. F. Of L. officials refuse to
act. rank and file committee Is pre-
pared to call mass meeting to take
action. The Auto Workers Union
pledges its fullest support m the
struggle that is developing.
The company has been trying to
goad the workers into producing as
much in 7 hours as they formerly
did in hours. Foremen are coutinu-
ally demanding more production and
curse and swear at the women. Many
times women have been seen leaving
the plant crying.
In the electric welding department
the men have to handle high voltage.
Although the men wear asbestos
gloves, the hot metal burns right
through. Yet the foremen are con-
tinually demanding more production.
The men are determined to strug-
gle, having joined the A. F. Of L. for
this purpose. If A. F. Of L. officials
continue to hold them back, many
say they will fight under rank and
file leadership not only to stop VIC
limitation, but for more wages and
better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Hospital Amputates
Workers Arm; Hurt
on Hop to Freight

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. - Albert
Gurdi, on his way to New Mexico
from Boston hoped on freight and
slipped under, sustaining injuries
which made it necessary for the
hospital authorities in Albuquerque,
New Mexico to amputate his right
arm.
Mrs. Gurdi, who is in Boston, re-
quests that sympathizers or friends
of the movement. visit her husband
in the Albuquerque hospital, and that
information regarding him be sent to
her through the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Beaver Now Replaces
Buzzard in Ontario

LONDON, Ontario. -London, On
tario, is following American meth
DDS. The blue buzzard seems to
have appealed to the bosses, and
they plan a balTyhoo all their own,
with stickers, trimmings, and
slogans.
The Taxpayers Protective As
ISOLATION plan calls for the words,
PLAY Fair-Pay Fair" A beaver
will decorate the London stickers in
place of the blue buzzard of the
American N.R.A. We seem to re-
call that the teeth of the beaver
are as sharp as the talons of the
buzzard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Many Injured in Car Collision

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept 9-Nineteen
persons we're seriously injured, and
scores of others suffered cuts and
bruises when two street cars, filed
with passengers collided at a street
crossing on the north side.
The impact of the cars was heard
for more than mile. Both cars
were derailed. Most of the 10 injured
we're suffering from internal injuries
reported the hospital authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
$4,000 Missing in Jersey
State Department.

TRENTON, N. j. - Auditors en-
gagged in an inquiry into the accounts
of the State Department of Labor re-
ported today that shortages I'M
covered up to the present time ag-
gregate $4,000 The irregularities
were confined to the funds of the
Workmen's Compensation Division.
The auditors have not as yet finished
their Job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
NatiOna
Events
Milwaukee W.I.R. Picnic.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-The Workers
International Relief is holding pic
mic Sunday at Milwaukee Woods.
The Picnic is for the benefit of the
strikers now out in Chicago. En-
tertainment will take the form of
Workers Laboratory Theatre skits,
chalk sketches and pictures to be
taken by the WIR cameraman. Ad-
mission is free to all workers. The
Milwaukee car to the end of the line
and following of the WIR signs
will land you at the grounds.
Contribute to the Daily Worker
Sustaining Fund! Help to keep mp the
6-page Daily!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Keeping Up With Paris Styles.

NEW YORK CITY.-Miss Mar
jorie Howard reported to group
of six hundred women here, that
the latest in Paris was the wear
ing of silver and gold sheaths for
the finger nails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Deaths Rise in New York.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The births de-
creased by 305 last week from the
previous period, it was reported yes
terday by the Department of Health.
The total was 1,741. At the same
time there were II more deaths than
the 1907 reported a week before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
M0ley Defends Brain Trust.

BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pa, Sept. g.
AT his first public address since his
resignation from the brain trust"
Raymond Moley defended Roosevelts
use of academic talent, but declared
that they were by no means consid-
cradle in number nor dominant in
their influence"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
.2OODETROlT AUTO WORKERS
FIRED WHEN THEY DEFY
COMPANY UNION, JOIN ALL
Workers Ready to Strike Against Victimiza-
ton; Refuse NRA Company Union; Auto
Workers Union Pledges Support

DETROIT Mich, Sept 8yctimzed activity
F. Of L. 200
200 percent of joined Fl
L..
week the had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
NEWS BRIEFS
They Don't Put the Same Foot
Forward.

WASHINGTON, D. Goo, 900, 600
postage stamps were issued by the
Post Office Department, carrying a
figure of capital, which walks with
its left foot forward, and one of labor,
which puts its right foot forward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Parkhurst, Reformer. Dead.

NEW YORK.-Dr. Charles H. Park
hurst, long foe OF Tanlmany inter-
eStS and of LeXow investigation fame
was killed yesterday when he stepped
off the roof of his home during a
somnambulist trance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Union Officials Sell Out
Cleveland Street Carmen
Workers Bitter at Betrayal; Joint Council
Urges Rank and File Control
Council

CLEVELAND o. Sept Seetng behind
officials and Mayor Miller representatives of the Amaamated
Street Railway affiliated
Labor decided decision
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Silk Meet Tomorrow
for Code Hearings
in Washington Soon
National Conference in Paterson to Gather
to Frame Demands for Union

PATERSON N
called by the National Textile
September TO- 612 River
the silk scheduled
present
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
The Other Americas

Josephus Daniels, ambassador designate to Mexico, says in speech to the Pan- American society in Washington; With the introduction of the air-plane and the radio and other means of swift transpor tation and communication. all Pan-Ameri can states are now near neighbors The virtues of united needs and helpfulness have taken the place of lack of knowledge and lack of brotherly agreement. "Propinquity helps, but it must be propinquity of the heart as well as of the land or seas. Most misunderstanding, whether between indi- viduals or nations, are based upon the premises of failure to know each other and to make adjustments which are dependent upon understanding.
 This is we'll said We may as well recognize, however, that the friendship which we and our Latin neighbors have so long bragged about Automatically has never been much more than oratory. It is by no means so real as our friendship with Canada, Australia. England or Germany. Latterly our relations with Mexico and some other countries to the south have been better. May Mir Daniels improve them further! We may get along with all the Latin-Amerieans by being more "smpati- CO., treating them all as human being and not bulldozing the little fellows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
Highbrows Debunked

The terms highbrow' and 'lowbrow" are based on error. So says Dr. Ales Hrdlieka anthropologst of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the worlds most dis tinguished skull scholars. After measuring and comparing thousands of skulls of many races, modern, ancient and prehistoric. over period of thirty years, he reports that there is no intellectual differences between the fellow with high forehead and the fellow with low one. He found bulging fronts about equally among white Americans O. our best and aldest stock. native Indians, American Negroes and Eskimos. He found that his colleagues of the American Academy of Sciences had almost exactly the same kind of foreheads as our backward Tennes- see highlanders and immigrants of l6 nationalities at Ellis Island.
 This result is puzzling when you look at portraits of great philosophers. Their fore heads are usually high, particularly those of Plato and Lord Bacon. But maybe the painters have exaggerated the height in such cases. under the influence of this old tradi ton. Any way don't despair of your child if he hasn't dome-like forehead. Some of the biggest foreheads belong to morons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
Realistic Debt Collection

A survey of Congress shows that three fourths of the House members eampaigned last fall on a pledge to collect the war debts in full Many senators are similarly pledged. This pledge now hangs over the heads of the legislators Many of them are probably wishing they had never made it. For it must be evident by this time that it was very rash promise.
 Moderate as the existing debt settlements have appeared to millions of Americans, there never was much chance of collecting them in full. especially while we refused to buy from the debtors. There is obviously less chance now. with the debtors prostrated like ourselves by world depressien in which most of them have been wallowing longer than we have. The Allies. too. have given up ali hope of German separations. and Germany herself has refused them. so that money paid us must come out of the Allies own pockets. Our principal debtors have been saying unoffieially for som: time thai they were going to stop paying a'-osether.
 There will have 10 be some downward reyix;on. pfobshs pretty drastic one' 10
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20

The death of Clinton w. Gilbert may have passed unnotieed by many people. but there were a great many who connected him with the writing with which he attained some fame. It was Gilbert who wrote ''The Mirrors of Washington" that first expose of official life at the nations Capitol which undoubtedly led to the more outspoken ''Washington-Merry-G -Go-Round' and its se- quel Under the title of The Gentleman at the Keyhole," Mir Gilbert was weekly contributor to Golfers Later on he was persuaded to write under his own name. He had good background for such work. He entered the newspaper field in 1891 in New York city. He went to Washington in 1918 and remained there as a correspondent and an excellent one. too. He worked for the Philadelphia Public Ledger while at the Capitol, also covering the Versailles peace treaty for that paper. All in all notable career was his.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20

There have been many proposals to the legislative judiciary committee that it ap- prove amendments to the state liquor con- trol act reducing the $l,000 bond demand cd of applicants for licenses to such sums as $500, $200. etc. The general idea is to reduce the bonds so that small store owners won't be embarrassed in securing them. As it now stands man must actually have the full amount of the bond in good firm collat- eral or his reputation in business must be exceptional before surety companies will bond h.n It is charged that people who have engaged in such illegitmate business as bootlegging in the last thirteen years are able to post bonds. but that small store owners can't raise the money or collateral. Probably to sorse extent that IS true and consequently lower bond is indicated. But on the other hand if it was too easy to ob- tain the bonds would mt beer be sold in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
Taxes Are o. K.

Some people are now finding fault with the tax returns from the sale and manufac- ture of beer. They are claiming that the huge sums that proponents stated would &C., crue are far from an aetuality. To be sure that IS the truth. but as yet there has been no real opportunity for us to find out just what will be the correct amount of taxes taken in month or during the first year of legalized beer. It must be kept in mind that beer was not legalized until April 6. And then, too, there were some states, like Connecticut, which did not authorize its sale until a month later.
 Up to May the beer and wine taxes were $9.860,4o6. An anticipated tax of S12,500,000 had been expected. We think that 1t will be few months, perhaps even a year. before we actually know what conservative estimate of the taxes will be. In the meantime we must not lose sight of the fact that Uncle Sam and his political subdivisions are receiving income which they would not be getting if we hadn't softened the prohibition laws. And in these days we need every additional cent of rev. cnue we can get. Certainly the return of beer has worked no hardship on the average man. as dire may be his condition.
 Legalized beers. not wines will eventu- ally constitute rich source of government income. And if the bars on prohibition are dropped completely the nation will be in fair position to redeem itself in the next five years. We don't believe that taxes on whiskey. etc.. will wipe out all indebted
 
 its ability to restore prosperity. We are merely claiming that it will serve good purpose in supplying governments with cash that they need and which otherwise might not be forthcoming as speedily. If ever a new tax was devised to solve problem certainly the beer tax was.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20

children's> book in "Gulliver's Travels" deserves honorable men tion; finally, Adolphe Sax himself cannot be omitted from this roll call of celebrity.
 For Sax did not deliberately in vent the saxophone-at least, not the saxophone of the jazz bands So far as one knows, he was q. kindly man. What he really tried to do was to make definite con- tribution to musical science by pro- ducing a serious instrument that would combine something of the qualities of the older reeds and of the brass. What he achieved was the instrument that every dance enthusiast knows so well.
 Adolphe Sax was not a French man, but a Belgian, who came to Paris in 1842. An authority states that he invented the saxophone after only three years work" What sort of instrument he would have produced had he taken twice the time is a problem that the im- agination prefers to avoid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
Our Daily Washington Letter
 Debt Defaults Likely to Join World Farley
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

a tough choice between hazarding the economic conference by invit- ing default and risking his own administration by fighting con- gress.
 Issues Are Linked / Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull know that the debts are in- extricably tied in with the other issues of the conference. even though they are officially no part of it. They also think the best thing to do, both from the stand point of the desirability of 8 suc- cessful conference and from that of this nations stake in the debts, would be to salvage as large a DOT tion of the debts as possible through some lump settlement which might cover half or even only a quarter of the amount.
 But a lot of congressman made those debts an issue in their last campaigns and pledged them- selves against revision or cancel lation.
 If Roosevelt tried to make an issue of debts in congress now he would be likely to jeopardize important items of his domestic program, none of which are now in any danger.
 There Is some chance that the president is playing 8 deep game, waiting until congress has nearly finished its job and then suddenly springing 8 debt message at the last moment, at a time when Him. ited debate won't tie up every thing else, in the hope of jam ming the legislation through with a rush.
 Copyright, 1893, NEA Service.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
Inverted Mountains

Captain C, B. Mayo. commanding the U. S. naval oil tanker Ramapo. recently reported finding a new deep in the bed of the Pacific which is only 1,200 feet less than the greatest known depts. It is trench in the oceans floor near the coast of Japan, directly across the Pacific from San Diego, California. By repeated use of the sonic depth finder depth of 33.0O6 feet was measured.
 The floor of the ocean generally re- sembles a rolling plain. It averages less than l4,000 feet below sea level. The trenches which extend to such great depths are like inverted moutain ranges. They drop off sharply from the ocean bottom. A number of them have been located, the greatest being northeast of Mindanao Island in the Philippines with depth of 34.2lO feet The deepest charted trench in the Atlantic is off Puerto Rico and has been measured at 27.972 feet
 These trenches compare very we'll with the 29,000 feet of Mount Everest, highest mountain in the world. From Everest's crest to the lowest point measured in the oceans floor there IS span of IF miles. Man has scared above the topmoSt peak of the earths crust. He has gone only little distance beneath the sea. The disturbances which have created mountains and ocean valleys have given him interesting subjects for scientific study and observation, but they have not interfered greatly with his more or less humble routine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-20
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Golden Age In The West Of Long Ago

In "Ranchero" Stewart Edward White spins another tale of the American west of a century ago and a swinging, romantic, he-man- nish tale it is, too. If you read "The Long Rifle, " you'll remember Andy Burnett, the lad from Pennsylvania who took his Dan'l Boone rife, became a fur trapper in the west, and compress sed a lifetime of high adventure into a decade along the unknown slopes of the Rockies.
 "Ranchero" finds Andy heading into California. The Mexican flag flies there and Americans are not welcome; but Andy makes his way, strikes up a friendship with the son of a rich Spanish landowner, establishes himself as Californian and, in the end, is the settled squire of broad acres, a peaceful advance guard for the host that IS eventually to make California part of the United States.
 I don't know just why it is that this novel makes such good read ing. It shas abundant faults. It is often more than little obvious. But somehow it is exceedingly en- tertaining.
 Perhaps it is because we have already made golden age out of that far-off era when the west was young-when those trappers like Andy Burnett, as MT White points out, found the west uncomfortably crowded ten years before the first "explorers'' came along. Those were great days, and MT White has given us something of their favor. "Ranchero" is fine stuff.
 Published by Doubleday, Doran and Co, it is priced at $2.50.