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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
Water Pollution
 Transcends Politics
Connecticut Faced With Problem to Clean Up Coastal Waters and Rivers

dustrial waste problem has been carried out at Yale university. Meanwhile, changes in plant pro- cesses since 1880 are said to have reduced appreciably the volume of strong acid liquors discharged into the stream.
 "The lower reaches of the Pe- quonnock, which enters the Sound at Bridgeport, are heavily pollut- ed with both domestic and indus- trial wastes. The condition of the Norwalk river has recently been improved by the treatment of acid pickle liquors from a large metal- lurgical plant and sewage treat ment at Norwalk.
 "The Noroton river is relatively clean down to Stamford. Stam- ford has preliminary, sewage treatment and, progress has been made in correcting pollution from Q number of industrial plants lo- cated there. The Byram which enters the Sound between Port chester and East Portchester is relatively clean.
 "In planning sewerage and sew age disposal works, the early ten- dency was for each community to act for itself. In many instances such individual action is short sighted policy. It is apt to in- crease the cost per capita and it multiplies the foci of nuisance.
 Viewed in the broadest light, 1t is the needs of a metropolitan area or sanitary district which requires study, if satisfactory re- suits are to be, achieved. The linn its of a. sanitary district seldom coincide with those of transitory or arbitrary political subdivisions.
 "They usually include popula- tion groups contiguous to city boundaries which are likely to be annexed in course of time. They often include separate municipali- ties whose future annexation or consolidation is improbable.
 Any comprehensive program should contemplate ultimate pro- vision for suburban population which may later be annexed. It should also have in view the pos- sibility of integrating groups of civil divisions which have common sanitary problems demanding joint solution, in such way that the joint problems may be solved and the cost apportioned in the interest of all."
 MT Hill points out that in 1893 appreciabiy less than To per cent of the population of the United States treated their sewage wastes. Since then the population of the country has substantially doubled.
 "Despite immigration restric- tions," he adds, "the numerical in- crease in the decade just passed was greater than in any preceding one in the past fifty years. The population of Connecticut has more than doubled in forty years, as has that of New York.
 "Connccticut has grown at a more rapid rate than any other New England or North Atlantic state except New Jersey. The stream flow and volumes of dilut- ing water, into which sewage or sewage effluents even ally find their way, have not incl sased. The problem. therefore. which was con- sidered urgent forty years ago is more urgent today.
 "Much progress has been made during this period. Accurate data are not available as to the percent- age of the population of the United States who now treat their sewage. A committee of the conference of ytate sanitary engineers attempted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
Heat Caused Main
 Street to Buckle

Sayre, Pa-(UP)-This town has a hot weather story all of its own.
 While other Pennsylvania cities and communities were boosting of high temperatures, workers here were busy repairing a stretch of street that had buckled under a blistering sun.
 Intense heat caused a heave in the pavement on Main street about 10 feet long, three feet wide and about seven inches high.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

of how minimum wages affected his own workers.
 q did it because it was good business he explained. "It is just as good business to-day as 1t was then, good business for everybody
 "There have been times when high wages at the Ford plant sim ply enabled our workers to go out and buy the cars of some other maker who was perhaps paying poor wages, while his workers couldn't afford to buy either his car or ours. That is the sort of thing that can't happen under the Industrial Recovery Act. Good minimum wages all around will mean good business for everybody. And I think tho government in- tends to make it stick.''
 Technocracy
 You cant pin labels on Henry Ford. But he is at least little bit of technocrat. He doesn't be- lieve in technocracy as 8 ruling caste system or as plan of gov ernment, but "they had one idea, at least" he admits. "The idea of production for use. That is abso- lutely sound. A business ought to make money, yes, but not for the sake of the. money. To put back into expanding, building up, re- search. and the safeguarding of the business itself"
 Ford still retains an evident life time respect for the skilled me- chanic, his love for machinery and those who design 1t. "rhe best work today" he explains with en-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

to make such census as of 1880, but has not as yet found it possible to complete their work.
 "Howeyer. it is probable that not more than 10 per cent to 15 per cent of the urban population are served by treatment plants at the present time. There are now some type. in thirty-seven states. some of them, of course, very crude and inadeQuatc." .-. ;za
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
Old Rules Governing Law Students Found

Cincinnati. o. UP)-Archaic rules and regulations that governed students in the old Cincinnati Law school. now the College of Law. Cincinnati university have been found here.
 Among the old rules are:
 "Dueling among students is prohibited"
 No student or group of stu dents shall be permitted to enter a tavern or other drinking place without the company of a member of the faculty"
 The old rules were found in an ancient catalog of the law school circulated among prospective stu dents almost 100 years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
The Future

But aren't those very men by their ingenuity and skill the ones who are cutting down the oppor- tunity to work, the number of jobs, and creating technogolical unem- ployment? Ford shook his head Nemphatically.
 "So-called technological unem- ployment is largely myth" he said. There are more men at work building automobiles than there ever were carriage There are more typists writing letters to- day than there were writing them by hand before the typewriter was invented. There are more men at sea in steamships than there ever were under sail. Those inventions enabled more people to use trans portation, more letters to be writ ten, more commerce to be carried at sea. Eventually there is a net gain."
 Thus hopefully Henry Ford speaks at 70, after 30 years in the very vortex of industrial competi- tion. They are the words of a man who has done much to change the world, sand who has an evident eagerne9s to do still more.
 NEXT: What Ford has done in the past, and how he looks on the changes he has been big fac- tor i'm accomplishing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
MAN WAS WED TO FOUR
 ALTCES

Cairo, III - U.P) - Willard Potts, 57, has been married four times, each time to girls whose first name was Alice. Its a pretty name," he said in applying for a license to marry Mrs Alice Brown- ing the No A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
SEVENTY ARTICLE 2~~ FORD, 70, FACES FUTURE BRAVELY
Motor Genius Scoffs at Worlds Fears And Backs New Deal
 For Capital And Labor

by chaotic world affairs Henry 7o eagerly seeing opportunities on of changes the relation of capital and Waterbury fin the second of three intensely interesting articles by Willis Thorn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
By WILLIS THORNTON
(NEA Service Writcr)

25-Henry Sunday, and 
  brain Y beginning the gold deal for capital and labor at a that people shaken unstable and uncertain future
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

practice schools which serve as laboratories for the department of education. The practice schools enroll 400. The grounds and build ings of Talladega are valued at approximately $2,0O0.000. It was founded in 1867. A former presi- dent was Henry Swift DeForest whose son, Dr Lee DeForest. is the famous radio engineer and in yentOr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
STATE COAL TO COST sso. 900

Helena, Mont. (UP)-Montana state institutions will use approx imately 16.00O tons of coal this year. at cost of some $60,000 to the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25


 Afraid? ?" he asks. ''What are, they afraid off"
 He dropped the foot he had propped against the edge of a desk in an office in his Dearborn plant and leaned eagerly forward in his chair.
 Opportunity t
 "What is anybody afraid of? of course we are now at the end or an era" he wents But what is there about that to be afraid of? There is @ place in the world for everybody! That's basic under any system. Why, the changes that are taking place make to-day even bet ter as q time of opportunity. Op- portunity is always the same. ex- cept that 1t becomes more numer- ous.
 "This talk about the end of in- dividualism is nonsense. You'u no- tice that only the strongest kind of individuals talk that way. There will always be opportunity for the individualist.
 Some things are being destroyed LO-uayt UQt LucIo dES SOIH0 tHAH6o that ought to be destroyed. The wrecker and the builder both have their place. Sometimes 1t takes a wrecker to make a place where the builder can build. But there is a place for everybody in any scheme of things we might adopt"
 Money
 Many people are worried, sug- gested, because of the world -wide- confusion over money.
 Suppose we come to an entirely new conception of money, and of banking? Something all new, with out any connection itwh gold? What of ?" Ford's quiet voice be- came more emphatic. "What of 1t? Nine-tenths o fall business is car- ried on by check. anyway and what is a check? Tho credit of some- body who has produced something! I've no objection to letting any body who wants gold, have 1t. The rest of us can get along without it."
 It becomes cleaf that Ford re- gards money not as a solid some- thing to be put away in q sock, touched, hoarded, handled, but as a sort of life blood flowing through productive industry. recalled how
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

Belgium's chemical trade Is inc creagips' in volume.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

izing spreading small indus tries throughout the country. so that people may have double se- curity, one in the land, another in their jobs. People are leaving the cities to go back to the land. The tidal wave that swept them there is receding. But as they go, they take with them not only the same abilities they had when they came to the cities, but new abilities &C., quired there. They are better trained, better thinkers.
 "As industry decentralizes, which we have already begun to do, peo- pie will find new way of combin- ing native abilities brought from the country with new skills learned in the cities. Then they won't go around demanding that somebody give them q job. They will make their own jobs. They.wil be free of the payroll habit. Just because a man if off the payroll, he needn't be out of a job."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
Wages

With the government now seek ing to enforce as part of the New Deal" minimum wage codes in all leading industries, any converse ton with Ford must naturally turn to his own pioneering along min- imum wage lines. Many have seen a prohpetic touch in the "revolu- tinary" stroke of a few years ago when Ford adopted $5 minimum wage in his plants, and later raised this to $6 and $7. But Ford disclaims the role of prohpet. and gives a simple. concrete example
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

thusiasm, lis being done on the machinery to make the machinery to make goods. Those are the fel- lows, the leaders, who are showing the real skill these days"
Evening star., 1933-10-11
JAPAN IS FEARED
IN TRADE REALM
EXPANSION Regarded as
Greater Threat to World A.
fairs Than Policy in China.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 11.-Potentially
more disturbing to world affairs than
the forceful Japanese extension Of its
political power in North China is the
vigorous extension of Japan's trade
through the Far East, in the opinion Of
some Wall Street financial authorities
Failure of the big textile firm Of
Currimbhoy, Ibrahim & Sons in Bonn
bay yesterday was regarded as perhaps
deeply significant, in view of the trade
war between Great Britain and Japan,
which has developed in the East as
result Of japanese inroads into the
British cotton goods trade in India.
The Lancashire cotton textile trade,
cradle Of the cotton textile industry,
saw japanese exports of cotton goods
surpass its own this year for the first
time in history. Sale of japanese goods
in both British and Dutch territory in
the Far East has become decidedly dis
turbing to both London and Amsterdam.
See Struggle Looming.
Some financial commentators see
Japanese inroads into the trade of these
powerful European commercial coun-
tries with their colonies as the begin
ming of a great commercial struggle be-
tween the Occident and the Orient, with
Evening star., 1933-10-11
NATIONAL RECOVERY
SUCCESS PREDICTED
Nation Headed Toward Tremendous
Betterment, Senator Byrnes
Declares in West.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 1.-THE
opinion America is pulling itself out
of the depression "by the bootstraps,"
with the national recovery program
headed toward tremendous success, was
expressed here yesterday by Senator
James F. Byrnes, Democrat, Of South
Carolina.
Senator Byrnes arrived here as a
member Of the congressional party sur
veying naval facilities along the Pa
cific Coast.
IF the N. r. A. program fails we
might just as we'll get tent up in
the hills and hunt gophers for liv-
ing he said mo future program for
recovery would have such complete con-
fldence from the people.
THE spirit Of the people will brook
no delay in the program of recovery"
Evening star., 1933-10-11
PARKING SERVICE

The CAPITAL GARAGE maintans a branch service
the curb adjacent Street Entrance Upon request
of owners, uniformed employees of the Capital Garage
will take the their garage for parking and will
when wanted the GARAGES regular parking
Evening star., 1933-10-11
their contrasting living standards and

their contrasting living standards and
labor costs.
This Far Eastern trade war interests
American financial quarters for the
moment chiefly in its threat to cur
rency stabilization. The Japanese yen
has already deprecated from its gold
parity much more jharply than either
the pound sterling or the dollar. Sta.
bilization of the dollar on any sort OF
a gold standard, it is felt. must be ac-
companied by stabilization Of sterling,
but whether England can agree to sta
bilize sterling, without stabilization OF
ven is regarded as doubtful.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

John L. negoaes
what the results of the negotiation results still
ditons-the ordained strike, not work
DUT enough To vet the chains slavery still tighter
the miners, the coal code provides:
"The of the the direction the working force
and the right to hire and discharge vested exclusively the
and the United Mine shall not bde these
rights"
contrary operators
be fired without question union
approved in advance by the UNfWA officials
The right of the
strike He has no right to protest his slavery He must remain at
the boss wishes under conditions he fred
untated reason, if the boss
This the poisonous fruit applies
but is blow worker A L
officials approved the shop unions
strike boards They tried strikers
back to work under starvation conditions.
this reachery
EVERY every L.
Labor Board of the the
MIRA has chains working
No se-out betrayal
n
vcousness in this charter of slavery
will be followed similar
the and coal preparing
down the Pennsylvania miners resisting this pact
WITH to open in washington
" F. piece reachery
openly committed history answer
should reach into Of local. should become
fight through powerful rank and file opposition
the lead this unity
united front march into Pennsylvania
the beginning Party branded
the Every has
confirmed this estimation
slavery provisions purpose of the NRA
should be clear to all Full responsibility for
of L. leaders.
workers determined effort to
organize to fight against this slavery
rights by the broadest united front struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
NMU Urges Miners
to Extend Strike,
Fight Slave Code
Reject Strikebreaking
Pact Statement
Tells Miners

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 22.-Urg-
ing the miners to drive out the UNI
WA officials and to enlarge the strike
Of 10000 miners in order to defeat
the slavery code, the National Min
ers' Union, through its officers, Tom
Myerscough. president, and Frank
Borich, secretary, has issued state
ment today on the present strike Sit
uation. The statement reads:
while 10000 Pennsylvania miners
are striking and making definite
preparations to spread the strike to
West Virginia, Ohio and Central
Pennsylvania, and while strikes loom
in every coal field in the country
ag ainst long standing starvation,
John L. Lewis, in order to break
these strikes and save the coal oper-
ators profits signed an agreement to-
day that fastenS a new slavery on
the miners.
1.-THE wage agreement made public
today outlaws the present and all
future strikes.
THE very heart of the agreement
says: "A strike or stoppage of work
on the part of the mine workers
shall be a violation of this agree
ment. Under no circumstances shall
the operators discuss the matter I'M
der dispute with the mine committee
or any representative of the United
Mine Workers during suspension of
work in violation of this agreement.
THE Lewis agreement has for its
purpose to break the present historic
strike and to attempt to make all
future strikes impossible in order to
enslave the miners.
1.-THE miners so far have rightly
and correctly defied Lewis and have
organized an historic strike to end
starvation.
THE National Miners Union calls
on all miners to reject the strike
breaking agreement and to continue
and spread the strike.
THE NNIU urges the miners by
their own action to win an agree
ment for their own demands.
Lewis and his lackies in the UNI
WA have openly exposed themselves
as strikebreakers and tools of thu
coal operators. They should bt
driven out of the union.
1.-THE miners should take the strike
in their own hands, build their own
rank and file committees, and defeat
the new slave deal"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Chemical Thrown
on Gallup Pickets
Arkansas, Oklahoma
Miners Vote Strike

GALLUP, n. M, Sept. 22.-After
resisting the attacks of mine COM
pany thugs and federal troops, strik-
ers on the picket lines this morning
faced an attack by Bill Reese, organ
izer of the United Mine Workers of
America. A dangerous chemical was
sprayed at the men, women and chill
dren, causing severe burns of the
eyes and faces. Six had to be taken
to the hospital as result.
FORT SMITH, Ark.-Two thou
sand miners at a meeting in Labor
Temple greeted with cheers and
shouts of approval resolution to
suspend work" until a living wage
was granted them under the MIRA.
The decision to strike was made after
the coal code was signed. 1t will affect
5000 miners in Arkansas and Okla
homa.
The meeting was called on the de-
mand of the rank and file members
of District No. 81 of the United Mine
Workers. None of the leading Off
Gals were present. A group under
the influence of Fowler, who Is dis
trict president, kept out all attempts
to repudiate openly the Lewis SELL
out.
Meetings are being held in both
states in preparation for the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Lindberghs Arrive
in the Soviet Union
Flyer, Wife Warmly
Greeted in Leningrad

LENINGRAD, Sept. 22.-Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived
here at $50 p. m. today after a 200
mile flight from Helsingfors, across
the gulf of Finland.
They landed at the seaplane air
port and were warmly greeted by
aviation officials, number of scien-
lists as well as representatives of the
Foreign Office at Moscow.
A luncheon in honor of the Lind
berghs was arranged at the Astoria
Hotel In attendance were military
and civil aviation officials and repre-
sentatives of Amtorg. A man who in
1921 was deported from the U. S. as
an undesirable alien" acted as one
of the hosts at the luncheon. He
was Gregory Weinstein, representing
the Soviet foreign office.
After the luncheon Col. and Mrs.
Lindbergh motored about the city in
sightseeing tour, accompanied by
Weinstein and other Soviet officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

are beating their way across the
continent to New York, 1t was re-
ported yesterday to the Arrangements
Committee of the U. S. Congress
Against War by Harold Hickerson,
of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League.
Barbusse, Browder Among Speakers
Efforts by the Arrangements Com
mittee of the United States Congress
Against War to rally to its support
A. F. of L. labor are meeting with
considerable response, with Emil
Rieve, President of one of the largest
American F. of L. unions, the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers, claiming membership of
$4,000, accepting an invitation to
speak at the opening public mass
reception of the Congress in Mecca
Temple and In St. Nicholas Arena, on
Friday evening, Sept. 20, on the same
night that Henri Barbusse, noted
CONTINUED ON FACE TWol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
MINERS DEFY U.MW.A HEADS, CODE; SPREAD STRIKE
Roosevelt Gives Billion For War AS Millions Are Starving
Coal Code Proves That ~ r. A. Means Slavery

after the adoption
signed operators
agreement is to be approved by President Roosevelt
What is the meaning of this light
of ROOSEVELT A.
bait of collective support
the NRA In his last radio the
they had certain rights which would them.
workers they could elect their representatives
right to belong to unions of their choosing
We test these
ment under the coal CODE this fulmnt
promises? On the
yestge of the workers rights
WHAT written
" the country because elimination of the breaking policy
Right the agreement
ing:
shall be violation of this
the operator discuss the matter dispute with
mee representative of the United
suspension violation of this agreement
This is slavery
ditons the mines matter what the
matter how much cut the forbidden strike
matter with the workers elected mine committee
discuss with representatives
stay the job
slavery conditions They shackled
What the collective
has become of the right strike?
to unions of their choosing?
All lying
officials concerning the NA
And behind this stands all
ernment-the courts, police, and the
puT ocials general and John Lewis in particular
the
operators still
make agreement that
matter what the conditions grev
differences"
Everything exactly explo It, They can
cut They increase hours any
they please the stay