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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
FLOWERS & GARDENS PAINTING EXHIBITION

The Mattatuck Historical society announces a fall meeting Wednes- day evening, october 11th, at S:15 it the society headquarters. 119 West Main street. At this time Richardson Wright, editor of House and Garden will speak on the Mod ern Garden and its historical back ground.
 The society also announces an exhibition of decorative paitings. Flowers and Gardens. from October 1e to 31. paintings by Rachel Ruysch, Jan Van Huysum, A. An dre. c. d'Espagnat. B. Morisot, O.. Redon and P. Renoir.
 The committee on special exhib- ifs of tho Mattatuck Historical so- eiefy is composed of Albert sterner. Gardner symons. H. Dudley Mur- phy, Carie J. Blenner, Dorothy ochfman, Sigurd skov. Paul Roh- land. Matilda Brown, M. Elizabeth Price. Elsie n. Chase and Joseph Stella.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
General Armistice Day Committees Named By Aylwart
PARENT.TEACHER TOHEAR MISS FOLEY
At Mill Plain Union Church Next Monday Evening
 at O'Clock

Miss Frances Foley, assistant supervisor of health education and a member of the state board of education, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Chase Parent Teacher association Monday evening in the Mill Plain Union church at o'clock. She will take for her subject, Recreation and Leisure Time"
 All association members have been requested to wear sleeve less dresses at this gathering, A play period will be conducted at the conclusion of the meeting. The membership committee headed by Mrs w. Dean Clark, assisted by Mrs N. A. Rogers, Mrs Ralph Rosa, Mrs sherman Hickox and Mrs Burto' Stigberg, have decided to open a membership campaign at the October meeting in the form of a contest to be run for month. Members who bring in the most paid members by November will be presented a membership pin. Anyone interested in child well fare in the community is eligible to join, regardless whether they have children in the school or not. The association will welcome all new candidates for membership.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
SUGAR BEET HARVEST
 REEVIN

Helena, Mont, (UP)-Harvest of the Montana sugar beet crop has Started in the Billings, Sidney, Chinook, the Missoula areas. Su- gar refineries located in those cities report prospects of record production this year with acreage under contract to the various plants the greatest in history. Most of the refineries will operate on a 24-hour basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
THOMAS H. SUTLIFFE TREASURER OF CLASS

Thomas H. Sutllffe of this city was elected treasurer of the sopho- more class at Connecticut State college last night. Phillip A. Greasley of West Hartford was chosen president; Everett E. Champlin of Hartford, vice-oresi- dent, Margaret A. Fraser of Hart ford, secretary, Francis A. Witkin of New ritain, historian.
 Sutliffe and Champlin are both
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

Hartford, Oct 6--In a special bulletin issued to-day, the State Department of Health urged Con- necticut communities which have not already done SO to avail them selves of National Industrial Re- covery Act public works funds for the construction and improvement of their public water supply sys- tems. i-i
 waterworks projects are among those which have been placed up- on the preferred list by the MIRA and the desirability of long range planning for water supplies was stressed recently by the federal engineer assigned to Connecticut when he addressed the annual meeting of the New England Wa ter Works Association at Bridge port, the bulletin points out. Under the terms of the MIRA, such pro- jects may be financed with federal funds, only about seventy percent of which need be repaid. Thirty per cent of the cost of labor and materials takes the form of an out rirht rrafit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

track men and members of the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity. Miss Fraser is member of Gamma Sigma sorority and Wit kin a member of Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Greas1ey was star on the freshman basketball team last year and also a member of the track team.
 Robert E. Shure of New Haven challenged the election of sutliffe as treasurer on the ground he did not have a majority of votes. There were five candidates for the post. Class officers stated they would look up the class constitution and probably settle the point. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06

Grand Rapids. Mich, (UP)-Al- most a month after 50 per cent of their deposits in the defunct Grand Rapids National bank had been made available, nearly half of the depositors had failed to call for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
AFL Strikebreaking
Business Agent Held
-- for Racketeering

NEW YORK. - Philip Rothberg,
business agent of Grocery Clerks Lo-
cal 338 of the A. p of L., and active
in helping the bosses break many
strikes conducted by the Food Work
ers' Industrial Union, was arrested
Thursday for racketeering and
placed under 5000 bail by Judge
Nova in the Kings County Court
The charges were brought against
Rothberg by grocery store owner,
Sidney Ulberg, at 1919 18th Ave. VI
berg told the court that he was forced
to put Rothberg on his payroll when
the latter threatened to place pick
cts at his store. Ulberg paid him
steady graft Of $40 a week. He de-
cided to stop paying the graft when
his business became very bad, but
was again threatened by Rothberg
The court placed Rothberg on
81 900 bail, and later raised 1t to
5000. Police have been well aware
of Rothberg's activities without tax
ing action. They are probably not
getting sufficient rake-off now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
OHIO MARCHERS
WILL PRESENT
DEMANDS TODAY

COLUMBUS, O., June 26.-The
Ohio state Relief Marchers issued
the following statement through
their Columbus headquarters. plans
are proceeding for the presentation
ct the demands of the Ohio Relief
Marchers to the State Legislature,
Tuesday, June az, at p. M, at the
State Capitol Delegations are now
arriving in addition to the advanced
guards of the seven scheduled COL
unlns. Many organizations are plan
ming to send delegates on June n.
The outstanding features in the
preparations is the unity achieved
among all unemployed organizations.
The Ohio Unemployed Leagues
headed by President Traux and the
ployed League have fully endorsed
the demands of the Relief March
ers and have called upon all their
members and sympathizers to be
present June 81 when the demand
will be presented.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
Longshoremen's Union
ID e | e G a t e S Carry
On Job Sale Racket

NEW YORK Fifteen men were
hired Friday morning on Pier Is in
Brooklyn after having paid 81 each
to the A. F.. of L. delegate of the
International Longshcremens Union.
After one hour they were fired and
another gang Of is men were put to
work who had paid 50 each to an
other delegate. The first gang was
fired because the delegate who hired
them did not split with the steve
dores' boss, while the second delegate.
did. ),
The longshoremen in Brooklyn,
South Brooklyn and Red Hook are
in a fighting mood. Groups on the
waterfront are discussing the fight
against the rackets.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union is leading the fight against
the rackets, for the driving out Of
the racketeers and for rank and file
control
At the convention of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union on July
is, 16, II and IS, special longshore-
mems session will be held, in which
conditions and problems Of long
shoremen will be taken up. Prepara-
tions will be made for a struggle
around a program of action, with the
following demands: For full gangs.
against the racketeers. for rank and
file control OF the union, and for IN
insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
HOW LABOR CLAUSES OF INDUSTRY ACT WORK IN PRACTICE

the strike breaking Industrial Advis-
ory Board, with Hugh s. Johnson, Of
the scab employers of the Moline
Plow Co. at the head.
Where no agreements have been
made, then Roosevelt is empowered
to investigate" and set the rates.
Under this clause the law states.
The president may differentiate
according to experience and skill of
the employees affected and according
to locality of employment.
This means that attempts will be
made to strike sharper divisions be-
tween every category Of workers.
Sharp divisions will be drawn be-
tween skilled and unskilled, with
greater attacks on the unskilled (the
81 a dsyy president has already been
set; next there will be discrinlina-
ton against young workers, starva.
ton wages for women workers. The
most vicious division of all is that
referring to locality of employment.
AS the code Of the textile cartel has
already shown this means a discrimi-
nation against the Southern workers,
a recognition of the feudal. slave
like conditions imposed by the South
ern textile barons. But that, plus the
unskilled class, means a sharper d.
vision between white and Negro
workers.
In order to make the rift between
the workers even greater, there is a
special clause which reads:
But no attempt shall be made to
introduce any classification according
to the nature of the work involved
which might tend to set a maximum
scale of hours as well as a minimum
wage"
Stripped Of its legal phrases this
means, that If rate is established
OF $40 a week for workers in Pitts
burgh machine shop, that this rate
does not have to be the minimum for
the same kind of work in Birming-
ham, even in a mill run by the same
corporation. 1t means that the wage
scales for the same kind and dura-
ton Of work can differ greatly ac-
cording to the needs of the various
cartels, or the same cartel in diff
ferent sections of the country.
In order to prevent the agricultural
laborers from "benefitting" from the
bill altogether, provision is made
that the Roosevelt forward looking"
bill shall not be applied to asricuh
ture
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
BY Burck.

Red Press Carnival The doors of
Starlight Park, which has been en-
gagged for the occasion, will~be opened
to workers at 10 am. Saturday. The
management committee assures all
workers that "the program arranged
for this affair will be remembered for
a long time.
"Our whole proletarian cultural
front will be represented All the
workers choruses will unite in one
big international song ensemble,
singing revolutionary songs. Several
orcheStras will provide music in diff
ferent parts of the park. Our prole-
tartan athletes of the Labor Sports
Union will give sports exhibitions and
supervise all sorts of games.
THE workers who come to the
carnival will have the opportunity
of seeing for the first time a new
Soviet movie which has never before
been shown to the American public.
The climax of the carnival will come
in the evening, when everyone pres
ent will participate in the dance be-
ing arranged in the Coliseum. Dane
ing will continue until early morn
ing"
A big restaurant will supply food
at proletarian prices.
The management committee, in
urging workers to turn out for this
Carnival, stresses the Ife-and- death
importance of the affair. 1t points
out that the summer months always
cause a drop in income and that the
means of continuing to publish our
papers must be provided in other
ways. THE success of this affair"
they insist, means the continued life
OF our two greatest organizers and
agitators-the Daily Worker and the
Freiheit."
Workers can get tickets for this af-
fair from their organizations. When
this ticket is presented at the gate,
only an additional 20 cents will be
needed for admission. Otherwise adj
mission will be 80 cents. Workers are
urged to secure their tickets imme-
diately, and to make sure of being
present at Starlight Park on Sat
urday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
FOUR FURNITURE
STRIKES ARE WON
Get Wage Increases of
Is to 10 P. c..

NEW YORK. -Four strike victor
les, resulting in wage increases of is
to 40 per cent are announced by the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union.
The wage increases were won at the
Blumenthal, Ovington, Livingston,
Feldstein and Ficarri Bros. shops.
The Furniture Workers Industrial
Union is carrying on campaign in
the rest of the furniture and uphol-
stery shops in the city for similar
demands.
The strike against the Parlor
Frame Co.. Bronx, for an increase of
wages is holding solid
Fifteen workers of the Cornell Up
holstery on De Kalb Ave, corner
Broadway, Brooklyn, are on strike
for the following demands: Rec
ognition of shop committee; 2-In-
crease Of wages; Equal division of
work.
A mass meeting will be held Thurs
DAY at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th
st., of all workers working in the
furniture industry.
The National Industrial Recovery
Bill will be explained and plan Of
action will be proposed.
Speakers will be Ben Gold. ]. Ru-
bin, OSWALD Eusepi and M. Pier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27

important point With initiation ad-
vancing, with the cartels they pro-
pose to form aimed primarily at
raising prices and profits, the cost of
living will sweep up by leaps and
bounds if the act ever reaches the
point where the basic industries are
involved before it breaks down. This
will mean that if the bosses in an
industry in which unions have a
closed shop, propose a scale a few
cents higher, with stagger- plan
working week actually making the
total weeks pay lower, that nothing
short of strike or other form of mass
struggle on the part Of the workers
will save them from a wage cut.
Once the code is approved, the
wage rate becomes a matter of the
law, matter of jurisdiction of the
labor hating, injunction issuing fed
eral courts.
The second point we mentioned
above, insures the open shop and the
company union. 1t provides that any
boss can hire any non union worker,
under the code (Which is now sup
ported by the Industrial Advisory
Board and the Federal Courts, two
great friends of labor in a closed
union shop, and that the union can
bring no pressure on such worker
to join the union.
Furthermore, in those plants where
a company union exists, no pressure
can be brought to bear to urge the
workers to quit the company union
and join class struggle trade union,
union which will fight for better
living conditions, against wage cuts,
and for unemployment insurance.
so Far As Practicable!"
There is little phrase that APP
pears again and again in the law.
Whenever the law contains some
misplaced propaganda that i'm prac-
tice may be taken seriously by some
mislead workers. the phrase is thrown
ili-"So far as practicable" 80 far
as practicable" to the program of
American capitalism under the new
deal mutual agreements of workers
and bosses for maximum hours and
minimum wages" may be made. The
Judge of the practicabihty is always
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
Notorious ZauSner
Steals Painters
Council Elections
Bosses, Underworld
Pad Ballots to Elect
Him

NEW YORK Philip Zausner, no
torious thief who stole 100000 from
the treasury of Painters District
Council No. In 1927, was elected"
secretary treasurer of the Painters
District Council at the election held
last Saturday. 1t is reported that
the Master Painters Association, to-
gether with the Washington Heights
Association, paid $4,000 to elect"
zausner.
How the Election Was Stolen.
According to the ballot count of
the official machine, Zausner re-
ceived 1900 votes, only "a per cent
didates received between 800 and
1000 votes each. Besides mobilizing
the whole underworld under the lead
ership of Jake the Bum, 300 books
we're issued by Zausner's gang for
members who were non existent, and
each person was given bride Of $5
or $40 to vote with the book.
Last year the General Executive
Board, the Master Painters Associa-
ton and the politicians in the Dis
trict Council combined to bring
zauSner in as an appointed man
ager Of the District Council, but the
mass revolt was so great that the
Executive Board we're forced to
withdraw him. This year they de-
cided to put it over by stealing the
elections.
Rank and file painters are up in
arms against this election and are
taking steps to Gust zausner and his
gang. Every local union is urged by
the rank and file to adopt resolutions
of protest demanding the ousting of
the agents of the bosses in the Dis
trict Council and to take organiza-
tional steps to put honest rank and
file representatives in this office who
will fight for the members against
the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
Commodore Striker
Tells of Conditions
Boss Pre- IS Refuse
News on Strike
(By Food worker Correspondent

(By a Food Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CIry-The strikers
at the Commodore Hotel went to the
Daily News, the Daily Mirror, etc. to
get publicity on our bad conditions
and the strike. and they are silent.
Some of the workers told me that
you would publish our letter.
I myself worked in the Laundry
Dept. First of all our wages we're
cut to $3.50, six days week. We
never get it because we were working
3 and days a week That means
we were getting $375 and $6.25 a
week.
We were supposed to get meals.
But what kind of meals2 Anything
that could not be served TO guests or
their cats and dogs was put into one
pot, plus some vegetables and onions,
and they called that a meal Some
days we were getting corn-beef and
cabbage, and in this we find some
worms Many of us got sick from
such meals.
We were forced to work three or
four hours overtime, with no pay.
Mr.. Thompson, the manager of the
Laundry Dept, a slave driver who
knows nothing else but hurry up or
somebody else will take your place.
forced us to finish the work one day
in order TO give us the next day off.
1t is against these conditions that
we are organized in the Food Work
erS' Industrial Union, and about 100
of us are striking for the last four
weeks
The management Of the Hotel
Commodore knows that we have no
money and they hope to break the
strike through starvation, but we or
ganized relief for the strikers and
their families
We call upon the hotel workers OF
New York to do two things-one to
organize where they are working and
prepare themselves to fight with
us against the terrible conditions;
second to send contributions to the
strikers Of Hotel Commodore and
help us out to defeat the schemes
of the management to break us
through starvation. Send all money
to the Food Workers Union, 4 w.
18th st. Come to the picket line.
G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
ROOSEVELTS NEW DEAL AND HOW IT HITS THE WORKERS
LIVING STANDARDS

used for-not bailing out the pools
of unemployment, but filling them up
more.
Before it touches on what should
be done with the workers under the
codes which are supposed to rule the
cartsls, section &C of the industrial
recovery act gives the federal courts
the right to force the workers, under
penalty of violating the act, and by
the Injunction TO be used in a man
ner never experienced before, to abide
by the wage schedules of the cartels--
that is, the wage schedules of the
biggest corporations which will domi-
nate the cartels or monopolies.
The district federal courts have
the right to uphold the codes (Which
include wage scales. These district
federal courts have a long history of
strike breaking, most notorious of
which was the action Of the federal
court in Chicago in the 1921 railway
strike. A federal injunction was used
to smash the strike and beat the
workers back into submission. This
experience, and this weapon, Green
approves for the workers as the new
deal.
When the cartels formulate their
codes, one of the conditions for &C.
ceptance by the presidents industrial
recovery bureaucracy is a so-called
minimum wage rate and maximum
hour schedule. This is a far cry from
the palayer Of Roosevelt and Green
about decent living standards"
about increasing the purchasing
power Of labor. This is where one
Of the great divergences appears be-
tween the propaganda about the bill,
and the bill itself, divergence which
in action, in life, will be still greater.
The minimum wage Of $40 and $11
for textile workers approved by
Hugh S. johnson, the director of the
industrial recovery burc cy,
could not be twisted into the des.gna-
ton of decent living wage" even
by the most glib of Roosevelt's lyri-
cists.
The Labor Clauses
The three most famous clauses, re-
garding labor in the bill are the fol-
lowing;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
Demonstrate Support of Red
Press at Carnival Saturday!

NEW YORK.-Next Saturday, July
l, is to be day on which workers
of New York and vicinity will dem
onstrate their solidarity with the
Daily Worker and the Morning Fret
heit-the two largest working class
papers in the United States.
From Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn,
Long Island and all other metropoll-
tan neighborhoods, tens of thousands
of workers will surge in steady
streams to Starlight Park, E. fifth
St, Bronx, where the days festivities
will begin.
In the evening, the Bronx Coliseum
will be the scene of action. Here the
workers will dance until dawn to the
music Of large dance orchestras.
All preparations have been made
to insure the success of this huge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27

ing at Bryant Hall, where cloak1nak-
ers packed the hall to hear their rank
and file action committee report on
how Dubinsky had rejected their de-
mands that his help the cloakInakers
in their struggle for the retention of
week work.
Referendum Thursday
The fake referendum called by Du-
binsky on the question of piece-work
will be held on Thursday. The work
ing of the question on the ballot
shows how Dubinsky is trying to
swindle the workers into accepting
piece work slavery.
do the workers." the question
reads, "insist on week work under all
circumstances, or will they author
ize the conference committee to ne
gotiate an agreement on a piece
work basis with safeguards"
Dubinsky tries to spread the illu-
sion among the workers that they can
get piece work with safeguards. t"
The word safeguards" is the bait
IN the referendum trap set by Du-
binsky and the bosses.
Afraid to Face Workers
Dubinsky dares not come out
openly at a mass meeting of work
ers, such as is demanded by the rank
and file, and see at an open vote
whether or not the workers want
piece-work. Instead he wants a Sc
cret" ballot where the counting will
also be done in secret by Dubinsky's
henchmen.
The cloakmakers showed in yes
terday's demonstration what they
think of this Shiny attempt to in
troduce piece-work. In Thursdays
referendum, they must be prepared
to block Dubinsky's attempt to fall
sify the results of the vote.