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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

Johnny Clark was whipped. The odds had been too great for him 6,0O0,OOO to one, as he figured them: 6.g00,000 people in the Greater City all bent on his defeat, and now he was about ready to quit. >a
 {. He heard radio blaring across the court, and winced. The or- chestra in the broadcasting station was playing the latest song hit Midnight Melody" Johnny hated it. He hated it, but he could not escape it. It was taking the cOun- try by storm.
 1t fairly burned him up -- be- cuuse he had written it.
 Yes, he. Johnny Clark. had com posed Midnight Melody" right out of thin air. It was his--every note of it. It belonged to him and he was hungry.
 Johnny Clark had composed Midnight Melody. but he hadn't gotten a cent for it. That was what ove him wild. Jovial Joe Lennon had stolen it-outright.
 Johnny Clark gritted his teeth and clinched his list as he thought Of Joe Lennon. The fat pig! and one Of the biggest music publish CTS in the business. No wonder he was prosperous!
 Johnny remembered how sym pathetic Joe had been when he learned about the theft of Johnny's other song hit; and "A Kiss in Time had been almost as popular as Midnight Melody" Johnny scowled again. Two hits and both Of them pirated. "A Kiss in Time" stolen outright and Joe Lennon had sent him cheque for $2oO afetr copyrighting Midnight Melody" in his own name. And Johnny had taken tile $200 be- cause he needed 1t.
 Two song hits. Why, he should have been famous and he was he had wrunS his inspirations dry. for a third. now that he had learned his lesson. Next time he would know enough to copyright it himself before he showed 1t to a living soul!
 NEXT TIME JOHNNY
 CLARK GRINNED
 Next time? Johnny Clark grinned grin1ly at the gas pet.
 He sat down at the table and drew sheet of paper toward him. He picked up d pencil and glanced at it curiously.
 Somehow that pencil did not seem q part of him at all. It was q. thing detached, It seemed to be waving back and forth of it's own initiative. beating time in the air.
 Johnny watched it in amaze ment = and suddenly his taut nerves relaxed. It was beating time to music. There was music in the room. He was suddenly aware that he had been listening subconsciously for :, sometime. Music in the room; and it came from across the hall. Somebody was playing a piano over there. Somebody - 1t must be Bill Stand ish who was hammering away at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

Barbs judge in Portage, Wis, threw out all courtroom cspdors and learned judge He knew the hangerson would follow soon after. It's called The Code of Fair Competition for Bankers We'll why not? As fair in love- war and banking Life insurance figures show that Canadians live longer than people in the United States probably because they didn't have to drink prohibition liquor If Emma Goldman wished to draw more attention to herself she should have taken up fan dancing If you want to feel good you might know that S00 bond now is worth 7O the 60cent dollars What? You'd still pre- fer the odtme dollar and the S100 bonds? How ungraefu
 stockholder of defunct New York band sued for q share of the oss pleads he insane when he bought his stock Now there's who's enough to admit IL. - Smithsonian Institute at Washington has received rooster without wingsof the sureostayho variety
 The old can't get much older because they exercise and play too much says the dean of Northwestern Unversit Medical School John D. Rockefeller realizes this he has stepped even giving out dimes Those sarings at the Capitol building in Washington won't De gassed after all That is, if they keep away from Huey Long Married men stand shock better than bachelors scIen tst Women however stand both the shock and the ried men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
R Tall Tower
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food Evening.
BLIZZARD BRIEFS
{ 1lz4AsAs ss rWs sAR ss riss v,wu.

 We gave you the muddy sloppy days too soon As to that-will you excuse it please? The Tower telescope missed the snow
 So therefore the Tuesday night wheeze. But so quickly does the weather change Mondays mud was soon changed to snow And ere Tuesday morning light had dawned A knockout blizzard was in tow. All day long it showed and "blowed",
 Drifts were piling high Some got out in the early morn,
 To get dug out made try. Strange sights neer met the eye
 With clothes that are ordinarily hid, Your neighbor came out untitled to the chin, Where or where did he get that lid? Folks for once were all on foot
 Some went to work skiis Those that didn't stay at home
 Made up their minds to freeze. Some wore bright snow suits
 Glad indeed to have the chance While others came out dressed to kill In dads or brothers pants There were red tams, blue and white tams Woolen hoods and stocking caps All out with shovels the whole day long, blizzard is swell-perhaps. Snow ploys, sedges and sleighs, Even some had heads in sacks, And we even read about one man
 Who came to town on horseback. All in all glorious storm LET'S GIVE THE STREET DEPT. A HAND You1don't get blizzard every day
 And this one sure was grand. Next week it will be just a memory
 As to something else we shift; So swap snow stories while you can,
 Snow again? Do you get the drift?
 -Em Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
''T-H-E-F-T''

before. Must be pretty tough on him and the sIandlady4 said he'd lost This job. Maybe--
 Johnny Clark suddenly stormed across the room and out into the hall. He took the stairs two. at a time and rapped DrfsKly on Bills door. He mustn't give himself time to change his mind,
 :, Bflls@ Standish opened the door. He was thin. sallOw youth. wear ing 4n ancient dressing gown. He smiled warm welcome. ! Why. Leilo. Johnnyi- Awfu1ly glad to see you. Come, on in. This is an honor
 Johnny Clark slipped into the room. sort Of diffidently. He edged across to the piano and opened his his hand-+a yellow back $100 bill lay across the keys.
 Bill Standisns gazed at 1t in Startled astonisiIment.
 What the hell, ClarlS---." he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
ITALIAN REPUBLICAN BANQUETP POSTPONED

The banquet of the United Ital- ian Republican club slated for to- night has been postponed until March Sth. This action was taken because of the weather. It is eS- pected that among the speakers will be Lieutenant-Govern Roy E. Wilcox. Judge Raymond John son of Manchester, County Sheriff James Geddes and Congressman E. ". Goss. Peter DcCicco is presi- dent of the club. Attorney George Crocicchia Is chairman of the arr arrangements committed. The ban quet will be held at RoXy's hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

Here's good mers for phitatelists Postmaster xes on big scale bus nst announced that there a0 be special stomp issued for Mothers Day tis year The Gte is May 12. Tue for the commemorative s proclamation for Mothers Day. President WoodroW FVilson issued t. The stump wW De of 3cent denonlna
 fion but deais to design stW missing hstlers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

Storm shots . Joe Luty tue Sonthtngton prt'h- CT aud poutrymon didn't make Waterbury until late Wednesday, ofternoon. He acalked from his home to Southington center. got ride in tue caboose ot freight traia from there to Painre aud cagt Wat- erbury-bound train ct that point Tue underposs ct Milldale Uhere the State Highwoy Department built quite fancy tresue year ago, wos completely filled in lvith snoaU until Wednesday, MAEmen ,,ere as unit n dec!oring that Waterbury househoM- CTS are most generous Tuesday dng the height of tue storn, many back door hroWp open to tue trees fee aud geterous portions of aohiskey Out in Cheshire it ,Dos common stght Wednesday, to C yoke of oren pulling oldfashoned wooden runners up aud d0,cn the main streets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

Gen. Italo Balbo's air fleet covered approximately l2,800 MILES flying from Italy to America and back. The Ukraine : is . SOVIET REPUBLIC, part of the U. 8. S.. R. UNIVERSITY OF OHIO football team scored a total of 278 points in 1883.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
THE END.
THIEVES TAKE EVERYTHING

Council Bluffs. Ia, UPo- Thieves who broke into his house during his absence took every thing but the four walls of the building. Jacob Pipestone reported to police. Every article of furni- ture and clothing was taken. and plumbing and electric wiring was torn up and carted away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
By LOWFELL LIMPUS

THE gas jet old and battered The paint had scaled
 off in spots giving it kind of eprous look The fingers of generations of rooms had rubbed away all but few remnants of the gliding which had ornamened the stop cock Johnny Clark wondered of them had used it for the grim purpose lie had in nndi
 He shifted his attention from the gas jet to the length of rubber tubing he had purchased in the drug store It was the other essential to his plan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
5 And 10" May Soon
 Sell Catholic Books Stores Expect to Put Children's Stories on Sale in Spring-Sisters Authors of Volumes

Two o2 forewOrds were written by the Rev Dr Fulton Sheen Of the Catholic University of America and by Dr Coleman Nevils. $. J., prcsi- dent of Georgetown university.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22
The Cast of Characters in
 Theft" 3

JOHNNY CLARK, who has writ ten two song hits, but both are stolen. leaving him in poverty" ;" BILL STANDISH, also song writ CT, who has q studio near JOhnny's.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

the piano, evolving strange new tune. Bill Standish was a cOmpos- CT too - and he could afford q piano. He must be working now.
 Swiftly Johnny drew a staff and began jotting down the notes as they came across the hall. He forgot the gas jet; he forgot everything except this impressive melody that drifted through the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

lie eyed tile gas it speculatively it had no place in tine parlOr. began. I'm not asking for a loan. In"
 "ft's not q loan" answered Johnny Clark hesitatingly. You're entitled to 1t. It's part of your
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-22

entitled "IIove LisBsts,v and desire 6 copyright. f ss
 Will you please send Tne tlle proper blanks, and ObIige-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
The Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill---H.R. 1898

Resolved that system Of federal unemployment
urano be Immediately established Congress
Immediately effective guaranteeing average the respective
industries and territories the unemployment
insurance shall than weekly workers 50 90
Tor dependent unemployed through no fault
Of their for the entire period Of unemployment
workers no discrimination that unemploy-
ment insurance every unemployed adult and youth
whether industrial agricultural office employees
goe Of labor native foreign-born nonczen
women without discrimination against
unemployment insurance strikers
Or to work for less than union rates Of
that provided the expense Of the
employers and the unemployment
insurance shall be raised by the
for preparations upon year
In instance shall upon the workers
in any form whatsoever for this insurance;
Resolved that the unemployment shall be admin
stered and controlled by the unemployment ns
ance commissions composed Of rank workers
organizations That unemployment insurance
powered to establish free employment registration
OF the workers the payment
of contested claims for unemployment appeals from
Awards made and be it further
Resolved that social paid workers to the amount
Of not less than $1,000 weekly workers de-
pendent compensate wages through sickness accident
old age, maternity etc; and be it further
Resolved that part-tme workers shall
tween their wages and the unemployment
shall be disqualified receiving unemployment insurance because
he refuses was formerly receiving
or below the prevailing trade union vicinity he
she be disqualified for refusing unsafe
or unheahful conditions the usual
trade standards particular or locality and be
further
Resolved that required TO accept enpo
ment the establishment employment offered is at an I'M
reasonable or her home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

RENT PARTY and DANCE TO solomon's
Recording Orchestra American Youth
Federation, l44 End Ave, cor, 9th ST., $50
pm Subscription zoe.
ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE-Amsl-
gaInsted Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union 9l5 9th Ave. pm Famous or
chsstra Benefit Strike Fund
TWO Br. 154 holds May Day mobiliza-
hon rally and entertainment, 1903 East
i4th St., Room 202, pm Interesting
Observation-Disclosures Adm free
UNITY THEATRE, 24-26 East 23rd st
presents "Credo," Glass Collaboration, "
Death Of Jehovah and Broadway 1888 %
pm Adm. 35c.
IRISH WORKERS SOCIAL, West Side
Workers Club. 324 w. 10th St, s pm.
Program Of Irish Songs and Dances Aus
Pices. Irish Workers Club
SYMPOSIUM on May Day at Tom Moo
ney Br. LID, 1923 E. 18th st. pm.
Adm. free. Discussion.
JUGosLAV WORKERS CLUB 'Petko
Miletic' mass mobilization meeting for
May LIST at 534 W 42nd St, 100 pm.
All JugoSlSv workers are urged to come.
MAY DAY SOCIAL RALLY At Mt Eden
Workers Center, 2ss E. i74th St $50
pm. Concert r. dancing - refreshments -
short talk Workers Lab. Theatre No
admission charge.
MOVIE Two Thieves" and Charlie
Chaplin Knockout" pit fremont Progress
I've Club, 8s5 E, fremont Ave $50 NJ
IN the Courts at Fcrdham Progressive
MAX ]. BERBAUM lectures on Labor
Club Z " Burnside Ave, $3.50 pm Adm.
loc Unemployed free
MAY DAY FESTIVAL and Dance given
~ Modern Thought Center, 1401 jerome
, Ave. near 10th St. pm. ADM. CSC.
ALLAN sARCEN lectures on Youth and
War. at Two. Yes, 3s3 Suffer Ave.
Brooklyn, 3 pm. Adm. 1oc
J. WANG lectures on China and the
Chinese soviets' at Ella May BIZ. LID.
4lO9 18th Ave. Brooklyn, $3.50 pm. Adm
Toe; unemployed SC.
BEDFORD CENTER. 1888 Bergen St.
Lecture by Robert Ge5sner on "Propa-
ganda for War in the Classroom" $50 r. m.
SOCIAL EVENING Discussion-Dan
Ping ng-Chess-Bridge. Prospect Pl-
Br F.S.U., 1911 Bergen st. near Nostrand
Ave Adm, free.
DR.. LUTT1NGER lectures on workers
Health in the U.SA. and u.SsRu al
Hnsdale Workers Club. SO Suffer Ave.
Auspices Cansrsis Youth Club. Adm. 25c.
with this sd 2oc.
JOHN MORRIS lectures on Significance
Of May Day Youth Builders Br Y-67
Two, 1909 winthrop St, $50 pm. Adm.
free
MURRAY BLYNN speaks on "The Men
ace OF Fascism' at Club Satanic, 5s7 z.
s3rd St., near Church Ave, Bklyn., Z nm
CHARLES MITCHELL spesks on WHY
We March on May Day" at New Culture
Club, 234S coney Island Ave, between
Avenue o and T, $3.50 pm
MAY FESTIVAL at Scandinavian Hall
Sill 5th Ave, Brooklyn pm. sport
eXhihition--songs. music. Speakers: Ruby
Bates, Dr. MarkoT
SPRING FESTIVAL and Dance given bv
6righton Unemployed Council, $500 Conev
Island Ave, $3.50 pm Program: UNITY
Theatre-WIR. Band, and Others.
DOUBLE RED WEDDING and Dance at
as Lenox Ave. cor. 131st s.. p.n1. Red
Front Drum and Bugle Corps: Harlem
stage Stars including CAB CaIi3wa
HIKE to Silver Lake in Staten Island
meet at Battery Place staten Island
Ferry upper waiting room Auspices Of
fee Workers Union ia W l4th 81 10
DAVID sIcUEIRos. Mexican revolution
airy artist, will speak on The Artist and
the Glass strugss" At irving Plaza irving
Place and z 18th St., Sunday, at 3 .. m
Admission $50
am. Daylight Saving Time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
w H A T. O N

LECTURE by Mrs John strachey on
Two Phases Of American Capitalism"
(After Civil War and After World War;
Saturday, $50, at Theatre Collective. So
w. 18th st. Adm. Csc. Auspices Theatre
Collective Club.
PARTY and ENTERTAINMENT at Hun
gsrisn Workers Home, $50 E. Slst ST.
Poetry reading by Maxwell Bodenheim
Auspices Unit IT, Sec. ?. 8 pm
CONCERT and LECTURE. Artists Union
II w. 18th 81. Robert Rosanoff Pianist;
Charles LIGHTER. violinist; 5. R. s'olomon-
lex, Lecturer $50 pm
DANCE and FROLIC, s12 Broadway
Auspices Curtain L Drapery Workers
Union. Hat Check Csc
Bronx
MAY DAY PARTY, 1548 westchester
Ave. $50 pm. C.CNY.- Monroe Ns.L.
Snappy band. Hat check Csc
ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE at 2075
Clinton Ave. Auspices Sec. Is. Adm Csc.
Good program
BANQUET at Prospect Workers Center.
Special arranged program and dance
Prizes to Shock Brigades will be given
1857 Southern Boulevard
FORDHAM PROGRESSIVE CLUB, w.
Burnside Ave. Dance, party. NJ Boden-
helm will read his poetry. Magician and
other attractions Dancing till dawn
Adm. 25c.
SACCo-VANzETTI BR. LID. House
Party at Robinsons l34s Elder Ave. En-
tertainment. refreshments Good com
rsdeship. Adm. free
DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT at 1901
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Revolution Is Only Solution,
But | Am Against t''-DePriest

since l694-commissioner of Cook
County, first Negro member of the
city council, alderman. delegate to
tnree national Republican conven-
lions. The Journal of Negro His
tory, a thoroughly non-revolutionarv
publication, recently reported his
long association with Mayor Will
liam H. Thompson, Len Small and
the rest Of the Republican politi-
clans who bought the Negro votes
from Negro leaders" for decades,
and his indictment, a proceeding
dropped two days before DePriest
was seated in the House.
His detractors," the Journal eau
tiously continues, "have represented
DePriest as practically forcing the
mayor thompson to repay him
with the nomination for Congress-
Tor certain services involving black
and tan resorts, vice-rings, 'protec-
ton, collections and other matters
in which the two are said to have
been associated. :. Despite the I'M
savory political reputation of the
man, his induction into the ofice
Of Congressman constituted another
milestone, ETC."
1t is a fact that Negroes through
out the country looked to DePriest
for a champion; he was the first
Negro sent to Congress for decades,
following the reconstruction days
and the withdrawal of Negro voting
rights promised in the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments. But when I asked him what
he had done or would do to vail
date those promises, he said: Why,
the only way that it could be done
would be through an enforcing act
and that would be 8 long. hard
problem, unless some revolutionary
outfit accomplished it,"
I asked again what he had done.
introduced proposing to furnish
pensions of $50 a month to former
slaves more than rs years OF age;
a bill proposing to provide change
of venue in trials where (white)
Federal courts decided the place of
trial, "prejudiced" the trial; and the
resolution calling for investigation
of the authority" All three are
reactionary measures which could
only emphasize DePriests accept
ance Of inferiority for other mem
bers of his people than himself.
L know there's terrific discrimin-
alton against Negroes throughout
the country" he told me, though
1 myself am not in contact with it"
Does Not Care for Social Equality
He told the House, in making for
consideration of his resolution: Il
do not give a damn about it social
equality for Negroes) This resolu-
ton calls for investigation only"
And he apologized for the fact that
many Howard University Negro
students marched to the restaurant
to protest against the exclusion of
Negroes. He said: Il might say
that I am very sorry that those
boys came down here from that uni
versity. If they had consulted me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Organizations Endorsing
House Bill H.R. 1898

NEW YORK.-Over 1000 A. F.
of l.. unions have endorsed the
Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill III. r. 1898, many
through endorsement by Central
Trades Councils, and hundreds of
others by direct endorsement by
the unions directly. Many others
have endorsed the Workers Bill,
but the endorsement has not yet
reached the Daily Worker.
The most recent of the inn
portant endorsements are those
of the Amslgamated Association
of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers
National Convention, and the
Iowa District 10 Of the United
Mine Workers of America.
The state A. F. of L. bodies of
Montana, Colorado and Iowa, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

Tear gas bombs are thrown, Police
clubs swing right and left.
But the demonstrating thousands
fight back. The tear gas bombs are
thrown back into city hall windows
by the workers. Bricks and coal
shatter windows. The police attack
is repulsed. Eight policemen go to
the hospital. Firemen cannot get
near the fire MIGRANTS. Some refuse
to squirt water on the workers. The
city council takes another vote. All
of the demands are granted. Thirty
seven are arrested, but under the
pressure of the masses the charges
are reduced to disorderly conduct.
Later the unemployed fought in
courtroom and on the streets to
force the city government to keep
these promises.
DemagOgy Worn Thin
This is the elimination Of the
Roosevelt policy of false promises
to the unemployed. The starving
100000 unemployed workers de-
manded jobs and cash relief. They
were given MIRA, P.WA., eva,
and now w. R. A. and 2.
E. r. A. All OF these have
meant empty promises, and CONT
nued starvation for the unemployed.
P.W.A. gave $172O0O,O0O to the rail-
roads alone, millions more to war
funds, but did not give the workers
jobs or relief. MIRA. did not even
check unemployment. C.W.A. Jobs,
forced from Roosevelt by the grow
ing mass demands of the workers,
gave relief to section of the job
less, and millions in graft to New
DEAL politicians, and then the c.
w. A. was quickly liquidated.
Throughout the country, the fight
to wrest C.W.A. jobs and relief from
the Roosevelt Hunger Deal, as the
promises Of Roosevelt wore thin.
spread like wild fire. Strikes against
C.W.A. wage cuts involved many
thousands of workers, in New York,
Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, ILL
nois, and many other states. In
Chicago, 5000 jobless marched
through the loop demanding Jobs
and relief, and won substantial con-
cessions. In New York City, 5000
packed into Madison Square Gar
den, white collar and manual la
borer alike, in united front de-
msnd for jobs. In Dayton. Ten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

Jerome Ave (eor. 10th 81. Adm. free
Auspices Mt. Eden Youth BIZ F.sU.
CONCERT and DANCE, $50 E. fremont
Ave fremont Prog Club Good program
followed by dancing
SPORT FROLIC and Railing Of camera
1904 SO. Blvd, Sports Youth Club, Two
Dancing entertainment, rsfreshments
Adm. Csc.
MAY FIRST YOUTH RALLY. Dance.
Movie, Senior Room. Cooperative House,
500 Arrow Ave, $50 pm. Y.CL Coop
Unit Ill.
HOUSE PARTY, 1910 Crotona Park E.
Entertainment, dancing, refreshments free.
Auspices New Youth Croup