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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Candidates To Meet

All candidates on the demo-
cratic ticket will meet tonight with
the town committee in the town
hall and plans for the campaign
will be discussed. Chairman Frank
Green will preside. The meeting
will be at o'clock. 4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
plav Scores Hit

The play, 1.-The Worlds All
Right" scored quite a hit on the
initial presentation last night. II
proved amusing and most enjoy
able. The various skits were en-
PERTAINING and the chorus singing
was good. 1t will again be- present.
ed tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Vets Meet Tomorrow

Further action by Word War
Veterans in town in regard to the
coming election will be taken sat
urday night at a meeting or vet
Grams in the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars rooms on Rubber avenue. All
veterans regardless of connections
with societies are eligible to at
tend.
At a meeting last Saturday more
than 100 vets pledged themselves
to support John Sheridan. demo-
cratic candidate. for warden, and
James Fitzgerald. democratic can
didate for tax collector. 1t is pos
sible an effort will be made to
swing support to Harris White
more, present warden. who Is also
a sveteran. 1t was stated by q vet
who attended the meeting last Sat-
urday that the gathering felt Mr.
Sheridan would be more favorable
to vets needs and Mr. Whittemore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
SchooIs CLOSE TODAY

Public schools in the borough
today closed for weeks vacation
Pupils will return to school Mon
day, May 7. A seven weeks term
will then be held until June IL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
MilI Accept Reslgnatlon

1t is expected the--board OF eau
cation will accept the resignation
of Miss Jennie Twitchell. who has
taught In public schools In Maui
gatuck for SIS years and who has
submitted her resignation to the
board. The board will take up
tile matter at its next meeting,
May 3. and II 1t is accepted, VIII
take affect In June. She has been
principal of Prospect Street school
Miss Twicheli began teaching al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Credit Not Rccciycd

The federal relief credit issued
from state headquarters and due
the borough for the last quarter
of the year. that is, of the last
year, has not yet been received:
Superintendent N. Hadley Cox or
the public welfare department to-
day said. This credit had been ex-
pected in March. but did not ma
terialize. 1t is now expected almost
daily, but no definite word con-
corning it has yet been received.
1t will probably be at least $4,000
probably more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
No Court Cases

There were no cases in borough
court today, no arrests having
been made last night. No acci-
dents were reported. This is the
third successive day. that no bor-
ough court has been held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Praises Teachers

He received the form of guild
ance here under Naugatuck teach
ers, mentioning Mrs f. B. futile,
who was Miss Sloan then. and
Miss Anna e. Hopkins in par
ticular, which stirred his ambition
to continue further.
'It is that kind of teacher that
we need now," he said. There is a
possibility of growth of advance
ment of inspiration in practically
every child, he said. The teacher
must realize this and strive to find
just what it is that will bring it
out.
1.-THE willingness Of teachers to
devote themselves to youth to en-
able them to forge ahead, and to
cdjust themselves to ever-changing
orders, is what is necessary. I
found that feeling here. owe a
great deal to this community. I am
sorry my paths didn't lead me back
here more often" he said.
II think Naugatuck has been
particularly fortunate not only in
having a teaching staff, which is
working to bring out the best in
the pupils but also because part of
the citizens provided on the ma
terialistic side what the community
probably didn't have the vision to
provide, facilities in which the
teachers could carry out their
work."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Effects Of Ignorance

Effects of Ignorance
He cited an impressive illustra-
ton of the effects of a limited
educational system. In st Johns,
| Newfoundland, there was no pub
lie school system of education
there was a church system, persons
going to schools run by the church
| denomination of which they were
a member.
Also, all boys and girls in the
| upper classes received a certain
type OF education, a good brand,
but boys and girls of the lower
classes were kept in virtual ignor-
ance for a selfish reason on the
part of the government.
Most of the wealth of the COM
munity was derived from fishing
off the Grand Banks. 1t was felt
that the boys of the lower class
could not take the time to be edu-
Gated and work on the boats at the
same time SO they did not receive
the education in order that they
might help in adding~to the wealth
of the community.
Girls of the lower class were
kept ignorant, the educator said,
because If they received real ed
marry the boys of their class.
Educated Glass Killed
In one day the boys of the upper
class in this community were en-
tfrely wiped out fighting with their
regiment in the World War. Then
for the first time the members of
the upper class began to realize
lao ~ h,,1 to
school education, DR.. Englehardt
said.
There were no leaders except
group of unframed boys. Even the
teachers of these boys, were I'M
was rich in minerals but didn't
realize it. A European country Sc
cured and still enjoys control of
some of the minerals there. Eng
land took the fine forests and used
them for pulp because the natives
didn't know what to do with them.
Trained Americans come in and
get minerals and the natives don't
know how to do this. Recently the
St. Johns government turned con-
troll of the city over to England.
DIR. Englehardt was sent by For
mer Secretary of War Patrick
Hurley to investigate educational
systems in the Panama Canal zone,
he told the audience. He found
most of the children there did
better than children in the states
in their studies. A group of chill
dren outspeled colleg graduate stu
dents with him. They did very well
in arithmetic, spelling, compost
ton, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Marion Keeffe And
Lucy Hampson Give
Talks At Exercises
Mrs Loretta FOley's PrOteges HOnOred at Commence.
ment Program Last Night Democratic Candidates
Meet Tonight EngIehardt Praises Teachers
NAUGATUCK
Phone Naugatuck 1922

a comparatively younger age thar
teachers start now. She taught
in the Groverside school on lower
South Main street which was called
the Middle district school. She
was later transferred to the old
Prospects Street school at the cor
ner of Golden Hill and Prospect
streets and later taught in the old
School Street school. When the
persent Prospect Street school was
erected, Miss Twichell was sent
there. She has been principal
there 10 years. Hundreds of local
residents were instructed by her
She is held in high esteem.
More Made Voters
A total of 81 more men and
and women were made voters at
the session of selectmen in the
court room yesterday. Thirty-five
were men and 81 women. The to.
tai is now 213 and there are still
353 of those who applied who have
not been made voters. Saturday Is
the last day. The selectmen did
not meet today.
DIR Englehardt Pleases
heard DIR Nicholas Englehardt, bor-
ough native, speak in the high
school auditorium were to-day
proud of him as representative
of the borough for DIR Englehardt
gave as fine a talk as it has been
the privilege of local audiences to
hear in many years.
He was inspiring and instructive
and he had the gift of making his
talk seem not an impersonal, for
NAL address but a discussion of a
personal problem that concerned
the speaker, every one in the audi
ence and every person in the COM
munity. DR. Englehardt is a CO.
lumbia professord, is rated among
the foremost educators of the
country.
When he was a boy in Salemn
school and in high school in Maui
gatuck he said, he received that
personal attention, that develop
ment by the teacher of his boyish
ideals and ambitions that helped
considerably to make him progress
in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04

activity Of the government openly expressed in the
Roosevelt auto decision. and have become more and
more suspicious and impatient with the A. p. Of L.
leaders actions
The result Is that all these strikes have been
directed against the N.R.A. and its arbitration
boards, and most of these strikes have been forced
over the heads Of the A. F. Of L. leaders.
New Forms of Struggle
What has especially alarmed not only the en-
ployers and their government but also the A. F. of
L. bureaucrats is the forms and methods of
struggle that the workers developing The strike
of the building trades workers in sympathy with
the striking truckmen in Minneapolis the desire for
a general strike of the Toledo A. F. of L. rank and
file in sympathy with the Auto-Lite strikers the
strikes of the seamen in sympathy with the long
shoremen, the generally growing desire of the work
ers everywhere to act together with their fellow
workers in struggle, all this shows the trend of the
labor struggles.
The workers are awakening TO the necessity for
united action to meet the united challenge of the
employers who are out to crush the workers and
their organizations, to enforce the company union
plan, and to enforce lowering of the standards
Of living of the workers
The militancy the determination and sacrifice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Strike WaUe Aganst NRA Meets With Teactery of Officials
WIN THEY ORGANIZE

gestures only in order to deude the textile work
ers to get them to continue their reliance on these
leaders. Mcmahon, Of course, was always willing
II he could not stop the strike, to place himself at
the head of it, only that he might effectively end
1t and defeat it.
The Communist Party and the revolutionary
trade unions pointed out again and again that rei-
ance upon McMahcn means defeat. They called
for the immediate election of rank and file COM
mittees from the workers own ranks. This policy
has again proven to be correct.
THE A. F. of L. leaders especially nervous at
this time. They see the workers becoming more
and more convinced that the policy of the A. F.
OF L. leaders, which from the beginning urged
against strikes preached reliance on the NRA and
arbitration, has brought only worse conditions than
ever before
The strikes of the last few weeks in Toledo
Minneapolis the strikes of the ongshoremen of the
West Coast and the Southwest show that none of
the tricks of the bosses, the government. the A. F
of L. bureaucrats can stop the fight of the workers
for their needs and rights
The workers have grown weary Of the NRA
promises, have hostile to the strikebreaking
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shown by the recent struggles in the face OF the
mobilization Of great forces of police private
pany deputies and the National Guard, further show
that new stage in the struggle has been reached,
that the workers ready for real struggle for
their demands The ability Of the workers of the
Auto-Lite to force the cos-g Of the plant. even
though it was filled with scabs has shown tn <
ers their power.
Lessons for Steel Workers
The manner in which the McNfshons called off"
the strike order" the method used to divide the
workers in Toledo to stop the general strike, the
shameful retreat in Minneapolis, in which the
Trotzkyites played not small part, at the very
moment when victory was at hand, all this shows
how treacherous is the role of the A. F. of l..
bureaucrats and their allies. All this points to what
is the main problem before the workers if they
to win the victories that lie within their grasp
The refusal OF the striking longshoremen on the
Pacific Coast to accept the strike settlement pro-
posals which would rob them Of their victory even
though it was originally backed by Ryan the Presi-
dent OF the l. l., A. shows that there is beginning
TO be some understanding on the part of the work
ers what the real danger to their fight really is.
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Textile Strike
Called Off,
No Gains Made
Mcmahon Signs Away
Workers Demands in
Deal with Johnson

WASHINGTON, D. c.. June s.
Thomas Mcmahon, president of the
United Textile Workers Union has
undertaken to call off the general
strike demanded by the textile
workers, and also accepts the Is
per cent curtailment Of machine
hours of production without any
corresponding increase in pay in an
agreement signed with Gen. Hugh
S. johnson. N.R.A. head, yesterday.
The curtailment goes into effect
Monday with McMahons agree
ment.
The demand for increase in wages
is to be investigated" for IA days
by the NR.A. Division Of Planning
and Research in conjunction with
the revised Industrial Relations
Board.
Johnsons accompanying state
ment declares that the textile en-
ployers cannot afford" to give the
increases demanded by the workers.
Mcmahon had called the strike for
Monday, under pressure of the
workers, but made no efforts at
strike preparations, and it was obvi-
GUS he would betray the workers,
dropping their demands. and agree
ing to the MIRA. decisions of cur
tailment which means a virtual re-
duction of Is per cent in their
wages.
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{ A n ED IT. RAID

AN EDIT ORIAL)
WITH every day bringing new evidence
W of the resistance of the workers against
the capitalist employers, there develops a
corresponding increase in the treachery of
the A. F. of L. bureaucrats.
The Infamous agreement which Thomas
F. Mcmahon of the A. F. of L. textile union
has just signed with General Hugh johnson is an
expression of this 1t is betrayal of the needs and
interests of hundreds of thousands of textile workers
Against the Is per cent reduction ordered by
johnson, Mcmahon made ceries of empty threats
These clustering statements of Mcmahon were
hailed by the Socialist Party leaders and the Trot-
skyites as joyful evidence of a change of heart on
the part of the A. F. of L. leadership This pro-
claimed these elements proves how uniustifed are
the attacks which the Communists make against
the A. F. of L. leaders
But events have shown that the policy and
criticism of the Communists are again proven cor
rect
The Communists and the revolutionary trade
unions pointed cut that Mcmahon made militant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
By JOHN WILLIAMSON
Special TO the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 3.-Twentg
thousand Toledo workers marched
and demonstrated here last night,
turning what was intended by A
F. Of L. leaders as tame demon
stration into a mass demand for a
general strike, with speakers repre-
senting the rank and file taking
the platform for over one hour, call
ing for general strike.
After the A. F. OF L. leaders spoke
in front of Memorial Hall, follow
ing the parade. delegate Parker
member of the Hudson Motor local.
elected from the united front con-
ference held in Detroit, initiated by
the Auto Workers Union, was finally
introduced. Parker brought greet
ings and pledges Of solidarity from
the Detroit workers to the Toledo
strikers. Parker denounced arbi-
tration and called upon the work
ers TO beware of the leaders who
would sell out the strike. The A.
F. of L. leaders at this point at
tackled Parker and pulled him off
the platform. The workers. how
ever, called out, demanding tfa5
Parker be heard. There was con-
sternation among the A. F. Of l..
leaders, who have been postponing
the general strike.
The president Of the Central La
Dor Council, who was then intro
duced began denouncing all radicals,
but the crowd would not hear him.
The cry of immediate general
strike" was taken up by the crowd.
What about the general strike" the
workers called out from all sides.
The A. F. of L. leaders found it
impossible to quiet the crowd and
withdrew and Parker then spoke.
Try to Prevent Strike
The A. F. of L. leaders continue
their policy of trying to scuttle The
general strike. Bennett and Myers,
leaders of the Electrical Union have
finally put over the proposal in their
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upon those now facing trial. Unable
any longer to put off the iobleSs
with promises. he laid the basis for
future attacks upon the living
standards Of the jobless.
Stripped of its demagogy, La
Guardia's attack upon James Gay
nor, chairman of the Committee of
100, is tacit instruction to the
police to attack and even murder
the jobless who dare to raise their
voices against organized starvation.
1t is the beginning of more con-
certed attack upon the relief work
ers' organizations. the Unemploy-
ment Councils and the Communist
Party.
Picket Welfare Dept.
Resisting all attempts at police
5000 workers, shouting
slogans and carrying banners.
picketed the Welfare Department
Saturday, maintaining solid probe
tartan ranks while 500 police and
scores of mounted cops strained
every effort to provoke disorder.
After picketing for more than two
hours. the workers marched to the
City Hall, where, reinforced by adj
ditional hundreds of workers, while
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of workers and in favor of
collaboration with corrupt,
treacherous officialdom of
the American Federation Of.
Labor, who are part and parcel of
the Roosevelt N. r. A. apparatus.
AS the convention progressed, it
revealed more clearly the hypo-
critical, demagogic role of the So
called left" groups, "militants" and
the revolutionary policy committee,
the latter influenced and directed
by the Lovestone group of rene
gades from Communism.
These people who mouthe phrases
about proletarian dictatorship in
the distant future, have alread
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
AL Ends Toledo
Strike; Green Aids
Steel Mill BarOns
2 0. 600 Demonstrate:
Cheer Communist
Speakers
HOLD BIG PARAD E
Parker, Detroit Union
Member, Gets Floor
BULLETIN


NEW YORK. June S-The lead
ers of the A. F. OF L. have sue
ceeded in forcinga n agreement
on the strikers Of the Electric
Auto-Lite Co., news dispatches re-
port. The agreement includes a
compulsory arbitration clause, to
exist for the duration Of the con-
tract, a six months period and
also includes a provision that
those employees who were working
during the strike shall be taken
back first. and then the strikers,
to he followed by the outside
strikebreakers. The agreement
calls for only five per cent wage
increase and a minimum wage Of
IS cents an hour. The agreement
is signed between the company
and the union negotiating COM
mittee."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Frisco Seamen Meet
With Striking Dockers
Especial to tbe DajIv Workerl

Especial to the Daily Worker)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-Eight
hundred seamen met here Thursday
under the auspices of the United
Front Strike Committee despite at
tempts of the A. F. of L. leaders to
break up any form of joint action in
the longshore strike. The seamen
elected their own strike committee
Of so and a negotiations committee
OF ten to work in cooperation with
the striking longshoremen. The de
mands of the seamen include the
1929 wage scale and centralized
shipping bureau in each port under
the control of the rank and file sea
men.
Police terror against strikers was
answered today by mass united
front parade up Market Street to
the Civic Center.
Sentiment for a general sympathy
strike in San Francisco is growing.
A final check-up on the police at
tack on the Youth Day demonstra-
ton on the waterfront shows that
twenty-five workers were injured.
The protest movement for the re-
moyal of Chief of Police Quinn has
taken on a wide scope.
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capitulated on every question of
immediate action, despite the fact
that they control all committees.
Undoubtedly both groups, espe-
cially R. P. c., are attracting some
of the healthiest, most militant
rank and file elements in the S. P,
who want real struggle on a
united front basis. But the con-
vention clearly demonstrates that
the function of these groups is to
prevent these honest workers from
following the line of logical devel-
opment-out of the S. P. and into
the. fighting ranks of the Commu-
mist Party. The leadership of the
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The Committee of One Hundred
today called upon all employed
and unemployed workers to mass
ut the City Fall at pm, when
LaGusrdia meets with the repre-
gentatives of insurance companies
and bankers to discuss" the COM
ing relief policy of the city.
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PARIS, June 3.-Professor Otto
Schmidt, leader of the Soviet ex-
petition that continued its scientific
work while waiting on an ice-paek
in the Boring Sea for rescuers. ar
rived here Friday and was greeted
by a mass workers turnout.
The Professor was still suffering
from pleurisy.
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LdGuGrdia in attack on
JobIess Lays Basis for
More Police Brutality
Unemployed To Mass at City Hall at Noon Today,
Picket Lines To Reform at Pm.
BY HOWARD BOLDT

NEW YORK.-Mayor La Guarda Saturday took fur
her steps to lynch sentiment against the
ployed of New York City.
While 1000 unemployed workers picketed outside the
City Hail. La Guarda in to the demands of the job
less that they be represented at forthcoming relief
ference laid the basis for continued police attacks upon the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
No Basic Change in S.P.
Policy Despite Many
New Radical" Phrases
''MiIitants'' and Revolutionary Policy Commit
tee Back Down on All Vital Questions
BY A. b. MAGIL
Especial to the Daily Worker,

DETROIT, June 3-As the eighteenth national Socialist
Party convention meeting at Hotel Fort Wayne here
the end it becomes clear that the convention win make no
fundamental change in the Partys program and policies
Despite sprinkng of radical phrases in the speeches
and resolutions the convention has already gone on record
against proIetaran Dictatorship against real united front
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JUVItfS'
He attacked the workers
arrested at the May rs demon
stration in such a way as to
virtually instruct the city nagis-
trates to inflict savage sentences
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Bargemen Strike

NEW YORK.-Over two hundred
bargemen, members of the United
Boatnaen's Union, struck Saturday
for wage increases. The strikers who
are from the Goodwin and Gala
CHER and the O'Brien barge com
panies, are demanding an increase
in wages. Captain Maher, head of
the union. is doing his best to sabo-
tage the strike by warning against
picketing and advising the men to
pin their faith on the MA.
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N.Y.Seannen
W ak OutIn
Support OF
StevedOres
B arg EN- en- Strike for
Wage Increases in
Two Companies

NEW YORK. - Supporting the
longshoremen of the West Coast, the
crew of the S. S. Texan walked out
on strike here Saturday, under the
leadership of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union.
Delegates from the union boarded
the ship at am. and called meet
ing Of the crew, which voted to
strike for the 1929 wage scale and
in support Of the West Coast long
shoremen.
Seamen picketed the Bush Ter
minal pier throughout the day, de-
spite attacks by police and delegates
Of the International Longshoremen's
Association. LILA. delegates told
the longshoremen, who were ready
to strike with the seamen, to go to
work. Picketing continued until the
ship was pulled away from the dock
and anchored in the middle of the
stream.
AL Robinson, a seaman, was ar
rested and held on a, trumped up
charge of illegal picketing."
The strike here is q signal for
the seamen all along the Atlantic
Coast" said Roy Hudson, National
Chairman of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union. The crew Of the
S. S. Texan has blazed the way for
seamen in the port of New York.
SO effective was the picket line
around the dock that only four
scabs could be shipped to take the
ship into the middle of the stream.
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