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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Financial Writer)


 New York, (UP)-American busIness in 1893 started steady pun out of the rut of four years Repression, aided by physical de- velopments within and psychologi- cal development without.
 Millions more men are at work. Relief rolls have been lessened. Great industries particularly the steel industry--have given signs of sharp revival from the lows that served as q constant deprcs- sant in 1932.
 The industrial barometer is not at it's 1893 high at the years closing. Greater struggles are Immediately ahead. But the late simmer and early fall recession appears to have been stopped and rising note of industrial &C., tivity reinstated.
 Workers have been benefited by shorter hours and added pay as q result of the NRA codes. The Public Works Administration and Civil Works Administration have opened outlets to the unemployed, the latter now providing work on various municipal proJects--road Improvements. town clean ups, etc which will absorb 4,000,000 workers. Thousands of young men were taken from idleness to work in tho Civilian Conservation Corps camps scattered over the nation.
 The improvement began shortly after President Roosevelt was in- augurated in March. The days were dark then. Business was at q low ebb Banks nationwide were closed by proclamation, owing to Weaknesses in structurcs of many great banking institutions. Hoarding had become tremcnd- ous.
 The banking holiday was fol- lowed by rapid-flre Legislation to alleviate conditions. The nation went off the gold standard. Busi- ness Improvement legislation was rushed through 6 congress that stood behind the presidents re- covcry program. Imitation talk swept the nation.
 Recovery Swift in Spring
 The swiftncss with which &C., ton was started in congress had a vast psychological effect on busi- ness itself. Electric power pro- duction always a significant bar omcter of the nations business, started picking up. Steel produc- ton increased. Motor car output began to take on life. Store sales picked up. Railroad car loadings started improving. As the banks reopened there was q vast change in the acceleration of business.
 The upsweep was fast. Stock and commodity markets scared. But the advancement was too rapid, and there came fl sudden break in the late summer which carried away about 50 per cent of
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OLD SHOE MAN
 DIES IN LOWELL

Lowell. Mass, Jan 1l--UP)- - Henry Bccchcr Reed, 80, shoe manufacturer and reputedly the first man in the nation to sell shoes by displaying sarnpics, died at q hospital yesterday.
 A native of South Weymouth, he was owner of the II. r. Reed Shoe company there for many years. and in 1870 he crossed the con- tinent to display samples from his factory.
 He leaves three sons. N. C. Reed of Wheeling. W. Va. Captain Charles Sumner Reed of Hawai-. and Theodore W. Reed of Lowell. and one daughter. Mrs C. F. Bart lett Of Germantown, Pa.
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LOS ANGELES IS
 IN MILK STRIKE

Los Angeles, Jan 11--OP)- Fears of major outbreak of vio- lcnce in the local milk strike were increased to-day after two officials of the California Milk Producers association received death warn. ing.
 The threat was crudely written on a note which was tied to a brick and hurled through window of association headquarters. It was addressed to Earl Maharg, general manager, and an assistant, and read:
 You both on the spot. Beware. You killed one of our men and we get you"
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games. The couple were arrested ln Springfield q week after they had attempted t0 pass forged check for gt2 on tho Nhmrl TO. bgoe0 company on Meadow mrent. A cheek 0bi1lned from Inc %nugn. tuck Naiiobal bank and slgned suppOaell, by SnuRatnnB drug. Risi wns Uhed ln tbe attempted rst"
 To morrow lA the third aDnlyer.
 .fb co her mnrrinRe Nra lifoed |. ing told court officials Co dss. khH lidnili 0J ihni she Obi1lned 70 good brsnh. fer police record Hi8ss hnf Hhe Hefved one year ifl fan QI inilu prison Co California.
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LATE REALTY NEWS

The following real estate trans actions have been filed at the town clerks office:
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Mortgage IIccsIe

Patrick ]. and Sarah A. Hanley 10 Inc Plymouth Realty Co. prop. erty on Washington strct, $700.
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Warranty Deeds

Sarah C. Foucks to Florence r. Sherwood, property on Newton street.
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Mortgage ltclcnscs

l, r.. Smith & Co, Inc, tO John and Elizabeth She1rOn.
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GANCSTERS WERE
 ALL SENTENCED

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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Terror Strikes Twice

History does repeat itself and terror can
strike twice in the same place.
A few days ago newspapers reported three
persons seriously injured and seventy arrested
as Governor Lehman's New York troops swoop-
ed down upon q delegation OF unemployed en-
tering Albany the state capital with demands
for unemployment insurance and relief.
This bloody, unprOvoked attack upon de-
fenseless men and women who seek to exercise
their constitutional rights of petitoning the
legislative bodies OF the state-an attack which
descended upon them before they had even
entered the eity-is not unusual. After all it is
the same thing that happened on the last WASH
ington State Hunger March to Olympia 1t is
the thing that has happened in dozen other
states.
The reason for calling special attention to
1t lies in the fact that il repeats exactly the
treatment of the first state hunger march since
the depression the march of jobless upon Al
bany in January 1881. The writer of this editorial
was an organizer of that march Of hundreds of
men and women who trudged through the Ice
and snow to the capital. who were attacked
then within the capitol building by those same
New York state troops. Women were unnercf-
fully beaten, crippled ex-sOdier lay on hos
pital bed for days near death, all because a
spokesman of the unemployed dared ask for the
floor of the New York Legislature.
Why this editorial? Because the man who
sent troops against the hungry on that first
hunger march was the arch promiser Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, then governor of New
York
With another winter of hunger coming
Roosevelt tries to fill empty stomachs with an
other flood of empty promises, but those of us
who know will depend only upon a militant
mass movement of the employed and unemploy-
ed workers to demand unemployment insurance
to feed the millions who need relief,
Saturdays Seattle Pr headlines: "Roose-
welt Gives Lehman Blessing in Governor Race"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Meet the Challenge

The conviction of young Don Cluster, the
trial OF Dirk DeJonge. hurl challenge to every
liberty loving man and woman in the north
west
Persecution OF militant workers under the
vicious criminal syndcalism laws rushed
through state legislatures in the postwar per-
iod of red-baiting hysteria, must be stopped!
The cases now on in Portland and the two
coming up in Kelso are the test. Bring the mat
ter before the members of every organization
to which you belong without delay Direct their
protest and your individual letters as follows:
To Judge Kenzler, Portland Oregon de-
handing that he dismiss the eight criminal
syndicalism defendants and fire out of his
court Larry" Doyle special prosecutor sitting
in on the DeJonge case as a representative of
the Commanders Council. an organization of
the bureaucracy of the various veterans posts
in Portland.
To District Attorney Langley, Portland, Ore
g0n, demanding that he cease prosecution.
To Prosecuting Attorney Hallin, Kelso,
Washington, demanding he drop indictments
against Max Farrar and Arne Plsila.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Use Public Library

One of the most powerful weapons that the
proletariat has for building up and extending
its strength ad influence, is the press-news-
papers, magazines, books.
Many workers can't afford to buy the best
books and magazines. But in Seattle the prole-
tariat has an able ally Though an unwilling and
unconscious one) in the distribution of much of
the best proletarian literature. This ally is the
Seattle Public Library. The library buys most
OF the proletarian books that it gets only after
several workers and intellectuals have made a
demand for the purchase of that book. Through
such demands some of the best books pub
lished recently have been bought
The Chinese Sovets," by Yakhontoff for
mer general in the Czarist army and now most
able writer on the true conditions in the Far
East, has just been added to the library So has
that excellent little book Russia, Youth and
the Present Day World" by Williams. Addition
al copies of Marx Capital" are continually
being bought-through mass demand.
A friend of the library and the Seattle
working class has given to the library subscrip-
tions to three of the best proletarian magazines
published In America: The New Masses Soviet
Russia Today, and Fight Against War and Fas-
cism Every Seattle worker who can't afford to
buy these magazines should feel it his duty to
himself and his comrades to go to the library
regularly and read these magazines.
But more than that: every Seattle worker
and intellectual should feel that it his duty
to demand Of the library that it continue to buy
the best proletarian literature that is publish
ed. Demand the purchase of "Dalectical Mater
ialism, by Adoratsky, head of the Marx Engels-
Lenin Institute; Fascism and Social Revolu-
ton" by Dutt-said by John Straehey to be the
best book on fascism yet written; The Life
and Teachings OF Lenin" by Dutt; and the La
Dor Fact Book" which Is itself very mine of
information on the present day world. These
books and others will be added to the library
only through mass demand
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
The American Red Cross

One of the finest articles to
come out of the bourgeois maya
zine press in long time is SHADY
Business in the Red Cross" by
John Spivak in the November
issue of the American Mercury.
Spivak is one of the worlds abb
est proletarian journalists Tor OF
all kinds, for that matterl who is
publishing a most able expose OF
the rise of gOvernment-aided fas-
cism in America.
In the present article he makes
20 damning basic charges against
the Red Cross-and he backs
them up with an army of facts.
Here they are:
The Red Cross is essentially a
war machine preparing for the
next war 1t is largely dominated
by military and banking group.
1t is neither neutral nor nOn-com-
Blatant, as the treaty of Geneva,
signed by the U. s., requires.
Nurses Sign Military Oath
It's nurses sign a military oath
that places them in the combat
ant class. The banking group
which largely dominates it is J..
p. Morgan and Co. Most of the
money gathered from workers
and school children goes into Nor
gan banks. Even more of it is in
vested in Morgan-controlled bus
inesses.
Much of this money is invested
in businesses that are controlled
by Red Cross directors, who are
chiefly army and navy men and
Morgan and Co. officials.
The Red Cross has a secret
agreement with the Morgan con-
trOlled New York Trust Co., which
it refuses to disclose because it
would show that poor securities
have been unloaded on the Red
Cross thereby, through which
bank the organization invests its
moneys. The Red Cross refuses
to tell how much it has paid out
to this bank for handling its
business.
OF the $3,5OO,OO0O collected last
year from school children and
workers for relief work. $1,000
went for relief; the rest was eat
en- up by maintenance of the
war machine, office expenses, and
other overhead.
War Fund
"The Red Cross set aside four
million dollars last year, collect
ed from the people ito feed hun
CRY Americans" for special war
fund.
While forever prating about
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

JAPAN - By fostering Pan
Mongolian and Buddhist confer
ences in Tokyo. by organizing the
Mongol princes and lamas, Jap
anese imperialists have been try
ing to secure control over Inner
Mongolia, from which, as from a
spring-board, they can leap into
an attempted conquest OF Soviet
Siberia.
But these tactics are solidify-
ing the Chinese against their jap
anese oppressors; the rising Chin
ese armies OF defense are called
bandits" by the japanese.
SOVIET CHINA - Continued
successes are reported: Soviet
power has been established In
seven districts along the sea-
coast. the first time such victories
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
BY IDA NEIGH

From the position of chattel
and slave-without rights, with
out freedom, without education
to a new level of existence in
Guiding economic independence
and social equality; that is the
tremendous forward step which
the women of Central Asia are
taking under the impetus OF the
new order established by Soviet
Russia. Customs and laws, age
old, are gradually being broken
down and replaced by saner, more
humane, more wholesome modes
of living.
The story of how this change
is being effected in the districts
surrounding Samarkand an d
Tashkent follows
The work is carried on through
the Women's Department, estab-
lished October IL, 1919, by the
Regional Committee of the Com
munist Party. It's function is
preliminary education, agitation
and organization among the ma
tive women"
Progress at first was slow,
since prejudice. fear, supersti.
ton and the habit of submission
had firm hold on the women.
THE VEIL
The paranja became a symbol
OF the fight. This is the uncOm-
Portable and degrading garment
which the MOslem woman is
forced to wear, often from earli-
est childhood. 1t includes a dark
head covering with thick net OF
black hOrse-hair suspended be-
fore the face from the top OF the
head to the waist. These coffin
like face shields are dirty, insect
ridden disease breeders, largely
responsible for the high percent
age of lung, eye and skin disOr-
ders.
The Department found that at
tempts to force the women to
bare their faces to the healing
sunshine and the gaze of passers-
by only provoked violence and
distrust. Confidence had to be
gained, minds re-educated. Then
the paranjas were removed vol
unfairly though not without
risk of reputation and even life
at the hands of the reactionaries.
FIGHT PoLYGAMY
For centuries, abuse and con-
tempt have been the lot of the
women in Central Asia. Polyga-
my. buying, selling and transfer
of wives frequently only child
rem are allowed by native law
and religious codes. Torture, ev-
en- manning, is not sufficient
cause for divorce. Women are
confined to one section of the
house. On the street they dare
not stop, or cough, or loiter or
look behind. Marriage VOWS are
exchanged through a closed door
and neither party sees the other
until the ceremony, binding to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Emancipation Of Women

the wife for life, is over.
In 1921 Soviet DEGREES made po-
lygamy and compulsory and child
marriages criminal Offenses. But
rigid enforcement in the face of
almost universal opposition was
impossible. Those who were
fighting for the new social order.
both men and women. were Os-
tracized, and threatened with VI
olence. On WOmen's Day, March
Z, in 1927 and 1923, there were SER
iOus uprisings against them.
From March to November in
1928, $50 unveiled women in one
district alone. were slain.
NEW IDEAS
The task of the Women's De-
partment has been to develop
a new psychology on which to
build a new social culture. Their
approach has had to be practical.
For instance: In Tashkent, in the
old city, women weavers were
being given the poorest of mater
ials and paid miserable wages.
The Women's Department got
them better cotton and won for
them a higher price on piece
work. Interested, the MOslem
women began attending the De-
partment's meetings, lectures,
plays, concerts. No men were al
lowed at any of these events.
News of the gatherings spread
to rural districts and more and
more women began asking for
help and instruction. A club was
started and had membership
of 1926 within two years. Scores
of such groups now exist through
out the region.
Schools, Orphanages, coOpcrat-
ives, have been established. A
sewing artel gives employment to
many. There is free medical serv-
ice. There are specialized med
ical schools, schools for nurses,
for mid-wives, for doctors assist
ants. Others teach hygiene, dem
tistry, pharmacy, etc.
NEW DEAL
The Department opened tex
tile factories and cotton ginneries
where women earn more than
they can through primitive home
crafts. Kitchens, nurseries, dis
pensaries, were established with
in the factories. On the collective
farms women were put on basis
of equality with men. Thus, be-
coming economically independ-
ent, women were freer to abandon
old restrictions.
The fight is not over, but the
gains made seem permanent.
These new women could not cas-
lily be forced back again into
the seclusiOn and inertia of the
harem. The Revolution FORCES
ahead" says one of the native
workers, freeing all of us, men
and women of Central Asia, from
the memory of past that seems
too horrible to have ever been
real
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

its "humanitarianism" the head
of the Red Cross admits that the
organization is to be used first
for the government, and second
for humanity.
In its post war relief work the
Red Cross collected millions to
feed Starving foreigners; but
millions were used in making
the Red Cross a supply train for
the counter revolutionary forces
of Russia and other nations
that were straining every nerve
to overthrow the Soviet govern
ment.
Starving Americans have often
been forced to work for private
employers for meagre relief funds
that are supposed to go to the
unemployed free. The Red Cross
has collected money from workers
to buy food, and then used it to
discriminate between strikers
and non-strikers." Starving strik-
ers are often left to starve by the
Red Cross.
Profits for Storekeepers
"1n distributing relief after a
disaster the Red Cross will spend
much more money than is neces-
sary in order to give profits to
local storekeepers in the disaster
area"
When the government gave
the Red Cross millions of dollars
worth of wheat to distribute to
the unemployed, one-third of this
wheat was used by the Red Cross
for expenses.
Even in relief, in a disaster
area, the Red Cross draws dis
tinctions between the poor and
the well-to-dO, the instructions
being to distribute relief accord.
ing to the pre-disaster living
standards of the recipient"
During the World War the Red
Cross was governed by a War
Council appointed by Henry p.
Davidson of the House of Nor
gan. This group of finance cap
italists has ruled it ever since.
In 1881, out of ten million dol
lars collected from the American
workers, one million went for dis
aster relief and four million went
into a special fund in prepare
tiOn for war.
So close is the organizations
connection with the U. S. War
Department that this war body
audits the organizations books,
while the Red Cross headquar-
tiers building stands tax.free on
government land.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

have been achieved in the So
VETS attempt to break their
former isolation from the outside
world.
PORTO RICo-Relief is being
cut rs per cent. There are no
votes for Roosevelt to catch down
there.)
AUSTRALIA-In New South
Wales the recent elections show
a gain of 100 per cent for the Com
munist Party over 1881; in Vic
toria, a 800 per cent increase.
0ERMANY-The crushing bur-
den of Hitler exploitation has
reached the point where author
tiles estimate that the average
worker loses one-third OF his
earnings through taxation.
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lions for sucn q period may be necessary
The full significance of this betrayal can be
realized when we examine John L. Lewis own
organization. For the last Is years he has been
dictator of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. He has expelled without trial those who
disagreed with him or were suspected of being
reds"
He has revoked the charters of local unions,
replacing duly elected officials with appointed
men of his own choosing. He has maintained
himeslf in that office with a salary of $4,000 a
year and an unlimited expense account by
double crossing labor at every turn of the road.
Socialist Leaders Back Lewis
John L. Lewis came to the convention with
1900 votes He was hailed by the capitalist press,
the liberals, the employers. and the Socialists
as the new leader of industrial unonsm in the
convention.
Why?
Because the employers and their kept press
knew that he would serve them then as he had
before. Because the liberals and Socialists were
there to sell their services to the machine for
whatever they could get, and Lewis had 5000
votes.
tn Socialists supported John L. Lewis, and
in return Dubinsky was made a member of the
new executive board.
Such is the sad and sOrdid story of industrial
unionism in the Fifty-Fourth Convention of the
American Federation of Labor The rank and file
delegates had introduced two important reso-
buttons on the subject of industrial unionism
but the villainous report of the Green-appoint-
ed committee was adopted.
The result Graft unionism and its cannibal--
istic tendencies will continue to destroy and
disrupt the American Federation Of Labor for
another year at least.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

its new president. Some 10000
members of nearly all ALL I'M
ions were represented by 1863 del
egates.
William Green, super-patriot,
admits that unemployment has
risen nearly one million in the
past year.
A recent survey of the state of
Massachusetts shows a l6 per cent
decline in employment and wages
since August.
Many Southern mill men are
voting for q re-strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Did You Know
That

Negro churchmen of New York
and vicinity aid Leibowitz and
Company in their attempt to dis
rupt the lid SeottsbOro defense.
The rank and file convention OF
the ALL ended its two-day session
in Pittsburgh last week by elect.
Ing Harry Bridges, star leader OF
the West Coast marine strike, as