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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10

Again the little girl moved her lips. .y.
 tits Callahan"
 Yeah, but what does yer mother call yer?
 It was the ritual of New York's youth .. this interrogation i. this uncomfortable inquisiticn of the ''new kid on the block"
 No books on good behavior no formal presentation at dancing
 Down in Centre street ... at police headquarters ;. the men who conducted the examination of prisoners at the lineup used much the same method of probe in the private lives of their public.
 T said what do they call you except Callahan?" M
 Nellie - gulped the little one amidst the din of pushcart hawkers beep-beeps of taxi cabs . the rumble of trucks and the hoots of other children in the throes of a game of tag which gave mothers at windows pre- mature gray hair.
 Flaw haw :. hey, fellers! She says her names Nellie.''
 The child trembled =. her fingers clutched toward her throat. This dinning city. All its wild noises and now loud, raucous kids who always yelled. They never talked just yelled.
 The youngsters stopped their chase amid trucks and trolleys to run toward this oddity. This stranger who dared to be clean her name was Nellie.
 Grins of glee at her discomfiture.
 Then young Rocco capped the climax. "NELLIE-CHEE, THAT'S
 A DOGS NAME"
 Nellie chee .. that's a dogs name .. haw haw .. Soon the cry was going up from dozen voices all of them strident with the need for being heard over the neighborhood din Nellie is a dogs name =. haW haw."
 Tears welled up at the brim of each little eyelid. The child flushed between anger and shame. She rushed pell-mell into the dark, malodorous hallway. The admixture of boiling cabbage and oil-cooked spaghetti |. the un- dimishing penetration of garlic and fish all stabbed at her little sensibilities as she sobbed her way to the third floor back. When she tottered into the arms of Mother Callahan she was a torrent of tears.
 Sad-eyed mother tried to com | fort her child.
 The world was no kinder to her than to her young. The little farm in Vermont had gone the way of great many farms when the depression struck | America. Daddy Callahan had to start all | over again and New fork managed to provide meager salary for man who could swallow his pride and become a | porter in the great city subway system.
 A far cry from the fresh green hills of home to the smelly, smoky tenement on Third Avenue . but it wouldn't always be that way.
 some uay, perHdps,' tHeS So back home.
 But Daddy Callahan came home tired and worn the City seemed to drain the vitality of man and give none of natures goodness for sustenance.
 Nothing but dank, disinfectant- laden subway air.
 And Mother Callahan patted her little ones head as she gazed dis consolately out upon a maze. of | washlines . heterogeneous. in color, quality and condition as the masses which swarmed about her. | They said I had dogs name" sobbed the child.
 No matter, darling smart man once said :. oh, don't you know that little song sticks and stones may break my bones
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
THE DEMO- CRAFTS. Daily Short Story
 Complete in This Issue

"He's niine'- there was a mean glint in Rocco's eye "and call hin, Nellie - s " ell dog, hey2"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
BOROUGH DRIVER
 IN BRISTOL MISHAP

Bristol July 1O.-7A coupe oper- ated by Charles Provenzan of Naugatuck crashed into another coupe operated by Miss Julia Tangney of Oak street, Southing- ton, on the Meriden-W Waterbury turnpike at Pratt's corner last evening about 6:3O o'clock. Miss Julia Tangney and her sister, an occupant of the car, were treated by Dr R. E. Thalberg for minor injuries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10

From bandages peeped two dark, swarthy eyes.
 In the next cot :. was Nellie.
 ''She's going to be ail right just got little too much smoke you ought to be proud of that little one, Mrs Callahan. Woke everybody up and saved little Roc- co here and the dog. But for her we'd have had another fire-trap horror"
 The little figure murmured
 ''It was Nellie, the dog, that saved us, please, doctor"
 "Oh, Nellie," =. it was from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
The Cast of Characters in Nellie Is a Dogs Name"

NELLIE, a lonely child in a
 strange tenement. ROCCO, n neighborhood ruffian. MRS CALLAHAN, Nellie's nnder-
 standing mother A HOMELESS DOG.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
NELLIE ISADOG'SNAME

figures huddled on the second floor landing. .. !H,
 The ambulances clattered to and fro between the fire and the hos pital. The emergency ward was busy. Three figures hastily bum died into the ambulance were hastily bundled out. Then the doc-- tors found out there were two Nellies and Rocco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
By JACK HONS

s6WHAIO yer nalne rI The little tyke with the straight tightly braided curs smelling of starch and yellow soap patted the prim dress and moved her lips.
 The rumbled by overhead.
 T said, what's yer name%
 The nquisitor was grimy tad swarthy of skin and clad in the loose unkempt fashion of young America of %hoA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10

On his aoay to his daily lobors the other day Wi- Huna J. Moedebeck, handsome manager of WMoao street chain store barely missed youg deer a0hach darted into the road directly n the path o s palatot Limousine. Stepping his brakes Bl aohose youthfM training as Bog Scout has been forgotten left snau supply of lump sugar which be carries for just such emergencies at the side of the road ohere the frightened animGl had disappeared The deer mos0 nGkes regular appearance at the erac location eUery nnoraing and William stops to feed him, although be is forced to arise from his peaceful slumber tre earr to do SO. "Why a this fuss about Frank Buck ch'sps BM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10
Caught in passing.

Caught in passing. Harmon Genot was named
 member of the legislative committee Of the Connecticut Res tauran Owners association recent meeting in Hartford . Marguerite (Buddy) Stoddard is recuperating at her Fox street home after soourn the Waterbury hospital and is daily receiving visits from her innumerabe friends Hurry Bud and get better there is long swimming son ahead. Rosemary Mellon is enjoying her annual nothng-to-d at Stony Creek Leonard Warner the ideal weather on his yearly leave absence last week and this Bernce Barker is home from two weeks of vaca tioning in the scenic hills of Litchfed Aubrey Green law dorm at the Red Triangle, is Juying in Maine
 James Hefernan Infested to New Haven yesterday and spent the day spending Rockefeers on the various rides
 Frank Roach and Jim Moran have the natives agog their new sport-model Henry. George Mitchell is spending his vacation this week at Home Beach, AL bert H. Olsen of Cheshire and Felix DeLuca of fair town were recently appointed provisional leaders at Camp Wacott, CCC unit in Burrvle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-10

Pete Coye, Nea0 Haven sports impressario, a0eu noon to local sportsmen, returned to failiar yesterday after absence m New York of ve months Pete intends to spend quiet day to-day observng his 18th birthday and then depart from the Elm City, He has been actively engaged m enterprises in Neo York and has hooped up strong friendship With Champion Marie Baer. Pete yesterday displayed c framed photograph of Baer aOth the customary, "To Mn Friend Pete Coyle im Ma1es large and plain hand aUriting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
DOumergueP rOtectS
Attorney General,
Proved StayiskyAi
Ex-Premier's Kin Merely
Refused Appointment
to Higher Post

PARIS, Feb 28.-Attorney- General
G. PresSard, a brother-in -law of ex-
Premier Camille ChautempS, proved
to have been responsible for the free
dom of Alexandra Stavisky although
he was under indictment for en-
bezz-ement, was given a slap on the
wrist by way Of punishment yester-
day.
His nomination for councillor Of
the Court of Cessation was with
drawn by decree Of President Doum-
cirque.
1t was while at large by connivance
Of Pressard that Stavisky carried out
his new swindle involving many mil
lions Of francs.
Albert Daliinier, Premier during
the Stavisky investigation, and
minister Of colonies in the Daladier
cabinet which followed his, has also
been accused Of completely in Stavi-
sky's pilfering.
The Doumergue government is
carrying through a fake investiga-
ton into the murder OF Albert
Prince, Paris magistrate and key wit
ness against high-placed accomplices
Of Stavisky, which is bringing out no
facts which could lead to the muir
dererS.
Georges Bonnet, former minister OF
finance, is another high government
official who has been openly accused
Of having a hand in the Stavisky
sw1ndle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
austrian Socialist
Leaders Tried to
Stop the Uprising

NEW YORK.-The frs. hand
account of the first days fighting
in Vienna serves to emphasize the
treacherous way in which the So
cialist leaders tried to stop the
whole mass uprising Of the Aus
trian workers. The report reveals
that the Socialist workers began
the general strike, not only with
out the help Of their leaders, but
despite their express orders.
1t will be recalled that Otto
Bauer, in a public sta rement to
the world press, openly revealed
that he had tried until the very
last minute to prevent the strike
and the armed struggles Of the
Austrian workers. Bauer declared
to the press:
81 sent a message urging them
to submit patiently to search
for arms. -. asked our finance
minister and our Vice Governor
to get Dollfuss or President Mix
las at all costs to stop the i'm
minent fighting. Apparently
my message arrived too late"
The first hand reports from
Vienna reveal that it was the
Communist Party that quickly
spread pamphlets urging the
workers to consolidate and spread
the strike as quickly as possible, in
contradistinction to Otto Bauer,
who was trying to stop or break it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Toledo Arbitration DANCE,

TREMENDOUS PRESSURE Is being exerted asainvt
the 1000 Toledo auto parts strikers by every agency
OF the bosses in order to drive the workers back to
work with the promise Of arbitration Thus far the
workers have resisted magnihcently, having learned
bitter lessons from the betrayals Of former auto strikes
BY the National Labor Board They rejected the bait
Of per cent increase and arbitration of other de-
nands afterwards"
But now the workers face the combined danger
Of the action Of the capitalist press which howls in
cessantly for the breaking Of the strike the local NRA
subregional labor board their own leaders like Thomas
Ramsey the National Labor Board and the A. F. Of
L. ofhcialdom.
1t is extremely enlightening that Charles A Dana,
president Of the Spcer Manufacturing Co. the kew
plant in the strike made flying trip to washington
70 Interview William Green, president Of the A. F. of
L.. to implore him to break the strike Mr. Dana
knows OF Green's past and his present designs He
knows he has been the most faithful strikebreaker
The NR.A. has had. To help Mr. Dana to help the
National Labor Board, Thomas Ramsey tells the strik
ers: the N.R.A and the government are behind the
workers No more dangerous ideas could be uttered
against the interests Of the workers
The A. P. Of [. officials are having hard time
Of IT, They find it hard Shedding to get the workers
TO believe that the MIRA is helping them when the
workers striking against the miserable code wages
Of 40 cents an hour demanding increases to IS and
IS cents hour.
Nevertheless the local sub-regional labor board
nrough Philip c. Nash chairman has already stepped
into the strike with scab proposals under the gse
IF arbitration"
The CRY is that the workers must get back TO work
or they endanger the recovery" program It is pre-
cisey against this recovery program which is lower
ing living standards and raising profits that the work
ers are fighting.
THE STRIKE is now In decisive stage The bosses
are preparing TO open their factories and try to
break the ranks Of the workers or to impott scabs
At the same time, they are bringing up tfM heavy
artillery Of the National Labor Board with its battery
OF A. F. Of L. officials. They do not want the strike
10 spread They fear that with the auto strike in
Milwaukee, Kenosha, Racine and Toledo other auto
workers viii walk out In formidable fight to win
better conditions and union recognition.
The workers should reject every proposal Of ar
0itratonafter the strike-ke the deadest poison It
has taken its toll already Of Of thousands who
fell for it In other strikes Not arbitration but nego-
tiaons with elected committees OF the workers on the
basis Of their strike demands
The ranks must be held firm. The demand should
be negotiations between broad rank and file strike
committee directly with the bosses To insure this
the strike must be strengthened and broadened A
rank and file strike committee should be elected repre-
sorting all the factories and departments This will
guarantee that no sell-out will take place.
Nobody should be permitted to break the splendid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Com m unist Leaflets
I Quickly Appear to
Urge Strike

shooting. But again and again one
hears "At last! It's starting!"
In the evening only one paper Is
published, the Christian Social welt
blatt." On the front page is an ap-
peal of the government to "the
honest and sensible workers not to
let themselves be melted into adj
ventures that can only end by harm
ing them" The paper also publishes
the proclamation of martial law for
cases of instruction in Vienna and
Upper Austria. In Vienna all public
places and the doors of all houses
must be locked at 8 p. m.
The streets are dark now. Candles
are burning in the restaurants. A
few scabs seem to be working in one
of the subsidiary stations of the
electric works! The electric light is
working in some of the inner sec
lions. The streets are still filled with
crowds. Nobody knows what will
happen tomorrow. At any rate, the
electric works are the key point to
the situation.
AT this time leaflets of the Com
munist Party of Austria are already
making their appearance in the
workers districts, calling for con-
tinuation and extension Of the
general strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01

solidarity shown by the strikers. AS ths leanet dis
buted by the Auto Workers Union correctly says the
road to victory lies in the power and unity Of the
workers
Only your activity win DO not depend
on NA pronisesl Their business is to break strikes.
To insure victory call all strikers to elect repre-
sentatves from each department to form strike
mittee in each plant Representatives from these
mittees should be elected into general strike
mittee to be In fun charge Of the strike. All demands
should be submitted to the strikers for approval No
back stairs agreements, Negotiations should be
Quoted through negotiations committee elected by
the strikers themselves
Hold your ranks solid until the employers grant
your demsnds!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
The Balance Sheet Of One 1ear Of Hitler Fascist Dictatorship

insurance fund increased from $40
million marks to 670 millions between
1880 and 1888, an increase of per
cent; other statistics state that the
approximately twelve and one-half
millions in employment have been
added to by a further two million,
or Is per cent! Another comparison
is even more striking. The contri-
buttons paid to the employees in
surance fund amounted to 205 mil
lion marks in 1888, as compared with
288 millions the year before-a fall
ing off! Is it going to be asserted
that out of the alleged two million
persons newly employed, none of
them were employees, Office workers?
Wage Total Did Not Rise
The wages tax statistics, already
frequently quoted, prove that the
wage income OF the people has not
increased. But Hitler maintains that
the national income has increased
this year!" The Secretary Of State,
Reinhardt, states that this alleged
increase amounts to six millions.
Since the income of the toiling
masses, OF the workers and employees
in work and the unemployed, Of the
small tradesmen and of the small and
middle peasants, has not increased,
then this statement-if not a pure
invention-can only mean that in
this year of growing wholesale want
and poverty the income of the capt.
talists. the junkers and large land
owners, has increased by these six
millions. Will the millions of electors
who voted for Hitler a year ago re-
gard this as favorable item on his
balance sheet?
No Help for Peasants
Hitler followed up his fraudulent
assertions regarding reduction of I'M
employment by statement on the
alleged saving of the peasantry." In
this parliament no discussion was al
lowed, and a consultation" on law
was actually settled under Goering's
leadership in two minutes; but if
anyone had been able to ask the
chancellor what were the measures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
From Maxi Dungeons to the
Workers FatherIand!

rOAIRADESl Workers! Friendsl We have wrested
three Of proletaran heroes from the very dun
geons Of the Fascist murderersl Ditroff Popof and
Taneff safe in the Of the international
working class citizens Of the Workers Fatherland on
the soil of their own Socialist countryl
The Soviet Union, the Workers Fatherland, has
spoken directly to the Fascists on behalf of its own
proletarian revolutionary sons The Soviet Union,
under the banner Of Lenin and Stain, once again
showed itself as standing in the front ranks of the
world revolution as the fortress and outpost of the
world revolution.
The Fascist mailed fist the unrestrained brutality
Of the capitalist ruling class with all its buster and
ferocty must bend before the strength and power of
the world proletariat, which will soon destroy it
altogether
Comrades we have forced the Fascists to surrender
Dimtroff, and his comrades Popoff and Taneff Now
we must force them to give Comrade Thaelmann and
Torgler back to us.
We the class of the proletarian revolution and the
proetarian dictatorship, have struck the Fascists
crushing blow All their terrorism prejury and say
agery was OF avail to them In their efforts to eyade
the brand Of the working class. The whole world
now knows that the Nazis themselves are guilty Of
the Reichstag burning
EVERYWHERE Fascsm and capitalist rsact,on
trsmbles at the rising spectre Of the proetsrian
revolution Everywhere In the heroic struggles Of the
German working class led by the Communist PARTY
in the anti-Fascist fighting in Paris In the heroic
revolutionary struggles Of the working class on the
oarricades Of Vienna and Linz, the proletariat is
striking crushing blows at the rotenness Of the tot
terng Fascist rule Of the bourgeoisie
Comrades, We rejoice at great victory over the
Fascist curse. Now must go forward into our next
battle for the liberation Of Comrade Thaelmsnn and
Torglerl
Thaelmann, flesh and blood Of the heroic German
working class, is still in the hands Of the NaE tor
turers. His trial" soon begins They are planning
to rush him to the execuoners block They plan that
this time they will not be cheated Of their victim
Ihaelmann is our own, a working class fighter Of
our own flesh and bood He is the Bolshevik leader
OF the German proletariat. He belongs to us. We
must not rest until we have torn him from the Naz
dungeons! Comrades into the fight for the liberation
OF Ihaelmann March is the first day of inter-
national mobilization Prepare for Thaelmann's day
Sound the call everywhere where workers work or i've
into the fight for Thaelmann!
Get ready for the Saturday demonstration at 1870
before the German Consulate to celebrate the liberia
lion Of Dimttrof and to demand the liberation Of
Thaemann. Let this demonstration before the Fas-
cist Consulate Of New York be the first immense blow
for the release Of Comrade Thaelmann, Bolsheyik
leader Of the German proletariat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Socialists Imme diately
Closed Power Plants
Despite Leaders

VIENNA, Feb. Is (By MaiD AS
soon as the news about the fighting
in Linz arrived in Vienna, the work.
ers of the electric works Immediately
went on strike. In all Vienna the
electric light went out, the street
cars stopped right where they were
at the time; the electric clocks
stopped between IL o'clock and 1918,
the time when the struggle began
When the workers came back from
their lunch, factory meetings were
held in most shops where it was de-
cided to join the strike. In the early
hours of the afternoon the streets
were crowded with workers who had
started the struggle against fascism.
Here and there Nazi groups could be
seen, but they kept completely quiet.
The street-cars were pulled away by
trucks. All municipal buses went
to the garages.
The first policemen with carbines
can be seen. Those who are just on
their beats talk to the civilians in
friendly manner and give the in
formation they have about the traf-
fic standstill. One can see how they
personally dislike to be modified
against the population by Dollfuss.
The closer one comes to the pro-
letarian suburbs, the more police in
riot cars are to be seen. They have
rifles, steel helmets and bloodhounds.
In the Hernals district somebody
suddenly calls out: There's shooting
in Sandleitenl" And one hears the
rafting of rifle shots. "Quick, to
Sandleitenl" is the cry everywhere.
Sandleiten is city by itself. 1t is a
section of municipal buildings in the
district where Ottakring and Hernals
touch the hilly Vienna Forest.
Reply with Shots
The closer We get, the clearer we
hear the shooting. We can't get out
tartan Sandleiten district and had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
U.S.S.R. Forced Again to Protest Against
War Provocations of Japanese Planes
France to Increase
It's Arms as Powers
Approach War Deal
Big Program Planned as
Eden Organizes Front
Against U.S.S.R.

PARIS, Feb. 2S.-While Captain
Anthony Eden, war agent of the
British cabinet, is on his way here
after secret consultations with Adolf
Hitler and Benito MusSolini, the
French cabinet is preparing to launch
a larger armament program than eeyr
before.
The program, to be carried out
outside Of the immense war prepara-
tons budget through special loans,
partly raised in England, includes
increasing the army, navy, and air
fleet, increasing the munitions re-
serve, and building Of strategic roads
and railways.
Dispatches from Rome, where Eden
has just concluded his discussions
with Mussolini, say that Great Brit
ain, Germany and Italy are now in
general agreement as their artna-
ment programs-which also means
that an understanding has been
reached as to the employment of
their arms, without which no other
agreement on ornaments could be
made. Since all agree, it must be
understood that an understanding
has been reached toward the con-
solidation Of the anti-Soviet front of
European capitalist powers.