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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-08

new paid fireman and ok appoint ment of new paid policemen.
 It ia expected Milton Calvin and possibly Joseph Reynolds, both of whom helped sheridan at the democratic town convention, will receive gomc rewards. Mir Reynolds withdrew he Q candidate for waf- den releasing hin delegates.
 Some fo these, led by Calvin, swung Co Sheridan and gave him the support he needed to defeat Frank Green, the other candidate. However despite this defeat, Mir, Green worked hard For Mir. Sher- ldnn, delivering stirring speech ut the democratic rally last week In Millvlllo which undoubtedly helped the democratic cause con- siderably.
 1t 10 believed Robert D. Boards Icy will be appointed to i'll the borough engineer position. Mir. Beardsley has been borough ep- gineor for many years previously and is known to Dc quito capable. Reports have it Henry Freeman or Martin Calne may get the posl- ton of borough attorney. Mr. Caine ls now prosecuting attorney. Both nre members of the third ward.
 Mr. Sheridan said he has not yet had any appointments In mind, some persons are wondering If Mir. sheridan will seek to secure with tho help of the board which VIII have democratic majority the busting of Thomas Walker as fire chief. Mir. Walker was appointed several years ago under the TO. pubilcans. flo has proven q popular chief among the fremen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-08
wm. .. IlaxieF. CoFVsspOnIlent.

Naugatuck, May s.--Tho whole town was talking with mixcd efilo- tlons today about the surprisinG and smashing triumph of John (Jackio' sheridan, the lighting burgess from. the third ward" who was elected warden of the borough yesterday by margin of 36b votes. The whole democratic slate of cam dldates was swept Into office and democrats were beginning to view with relish the sweets Of victory after two very arid years.
 Some persons had anticipated . democratic victory but many dope sters before the election could sec nothing but a republican victory with the margin comfortably large. Not even the most optimistic dem- ocrats picked Sheridan to win by the large plurality he did secure.
 And at that, MT Sheridan ran be. hind his ticket by some 20 to 30 votes. one of the surprises too was the huge plurality which James Fitzgerald, popular candi- date for reelection as tax collector on the democratic ticket piled up. MT Fitzgcrald gathered 2,b0s votes or 163 moro votes than the can. didate for warden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

Under Banner Of Nahonam Capitalists Speed Fascism and Wa

Nazis brutally repreSs the workers
movement and prepare for irnpe-
rialist conquest under the slogan of
Keep pure the 'Aryan' race-the
natural rulers of the world" De
fend the Fatherland' gives way to
Defend the Nordic race interests"
and for the same gold-greedy pur-
pose.
The voice of Japanese imperial
ism joins in this racial" nlasquer-
ade of its aggressive imperialist pol
icies in the Far East. Japan sud-
denly blossoms forth as the pro
tector of the oppressed dark peo-
piles" as pretext for its plumber
of Manchuria, in its struggle to get
the lions share of the imperialist
partition of China, and in its pro-
vocation against the U. S. S. r.
III.-Capitalist Nationalism in the
u. S. A.
Nationalism has always been
strongly developed in America. The
tcp-dog position of American fl
nance capital, geographic isolation.
and many other reasons accounted
for this strong development. The
extensive propaganda system
Schools, press, movies, radio, etc.
was effectively used to drug the
minds of the youth and children,
especially, with the poison of ma
tionalism, patriotism and race
hatred.
We have seen, however, that the
crisis has induced the ruling class
to make even more strenuous eff
forts to develop these ideas. Roose-
velt's New Deal" particularly, was
dedicated to the purpose of raising
"Old Glory" to the highest skies
Not since the war mobilization of
19l7-l8 has there been such an orgy
Of flagwaving, and patriotic prop
sganda-"America will lead the way
out of the world depression"
The reason for this campaign is
clearly seen both in the conditions
at home and in Americas position
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

as wider sections of the farm youth
and bourgeois youth (stu-
dents. In the main, the economic
situation, hunger and total in
security, which the crisis has
brought upon them, serves to de-
velop the leftward movement and
rehabilitation. This is clear.
However through skillful dema-
gogy the capitalists utilize this
situation (of their own making ,
to convince the youth that greater
patriotism is necessary as the way
out Of their misery. Thus we see
the wide movement to support the
government and its policies c'Give
Roosevelt a chancel"). The artful
maneuvers of Roosevelt to appear
as the st. George who will STAY
the Wall Street dragon and the
big industrialists ("ChiSelers'D have
also had an undoubted effect. And
even despite the crisis in America.
propaganda is still spread of better
conditions in America Workers
iidNC btE1 uEbid W IEindl A.
Christ. if its so bad in America
you can imagine what it is in the
other eountries!"
2. The basis for the race"
theories of nationalism already find
deep roots in the whole system of
oppression of the Negro people in
the U. S. A. Indications of the
growing attack upon the Negro
people, especially the youth, is seen
in the mounting lynching wave.
The N. r. A. in the South at
tempts to drive even wider wedges
in between the white and Negro
youth by the increased discrimina-
ton against Negro youth in indus
try-throwing the Negroes out of
the shops which flaunt the Blue
Eagle.
The recent exposure OF the "ques-
tionaire' submitted TO students in
a New York state school show the
increase of race hatred propaganda
in the educational system under
Roosevelt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
June Is Order to Slash
Cleveland Relief
by a Social Worker)

CLEVELAND. Ohio.-Drastic re-
lief cuts are to be handed the Cleve-
land unemployed on June is when
food orders are to be cut % per
cent. While the capitalist press
admits that food prices will soar
upward about 20 per cent, because
of the drought the Cuyahoga
County Relief Administration plan
% per cent relief cut. Even this
does not satisfy the relief board
deductions will be made for milk
and ice from the regular food order
Under the new plan, the food
order for a family of five will be
slashed from 81 to $5.46 a week. If
the family gets two quarts of milk
daily, this will further reduce re-
lief to $4.34, and if ice is included,
the food allowance becomes 81 a
week-80 cents a week for food for
one person.
On top of this, with food prices
increased 20 per cent because of
the drought buying power will be
reduced from 80 cents to about 81
cents. Thus, the % per cent relief
cut becomes a As per cent actual
cut, reducing the buying power from
t111 to Ga cents week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Moore, Burlak, Taub,
Will Speak at Mass
Meeting for Herndon

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting to
protest the verdict against Angelo
Herndon, young Negro worker SEN
fenced to serve 20 years on a
Georgia chain gang and the terror
in Georgia will be held tomorrow,
g pm. at the Imperial Elks Lodge,
100 w. 10th st.
Speakers at the meeting will be
Richard B. Moore. of the National
Committee Of the international La
Dor Defense. Ann Burlak of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, Don
West, Communist Party organizer
in Georgia, and one Of the Atlanta
Six" indicted under the same slave
law that was used against Herndon.
Allan Taub, of the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners, will be chairman.
The meeting is under the auspices
of the Herndon Defense Committee
which is made up of the I. L. D.,
National Committee for Defense Of
Political Prisoners, National Student
League, Young Communist League,
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
and the Unemployment Councils.
The proceeds from the meeting will
go for the defense of Herndon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
End Rochester Strike:
Rank and File Affiliate
With Councils

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June IL
Fully 500 unemployed Negro
and white workers stormed
the Board of Aldermen cham
bers here Friday, forced a full
hearing on the Workers Mu-
nicipal Relief Ordinance, and
won hearing for next Friday when
the board meeting will be devoted
entirely to open discussion on the
ordinance.
Mayor Dickman, the aldermen
and the police department received
the mass delegation with 300 fully
armed police. Faced with 300 work
ers, the Mayor was forced to yield
and met the workers delegation in
his chambers.
The st. Louis Workers Municipal
Relies Ordinance, drafted and
adopted by thousands of workers at
neighborhood meetings h e / d
throughout the city in the recent
period. provides for 81 weekly cash
relief for every unemployed worker,
Negro and white, plus S. for wife
and SO for each dependent, with all
relief to be adjusted upward in &C
cordance with the rising cost of liv-
ing. On work relief it demands
union wages, in no case less than
S. for a seven-hour day and a
guaranteed three day week. It fur
Their demands free rent, gas, cleo
tricity, free lunches to children of
the iobless and provides for the
psrt-time workers.
When the jobleSs presented their
demands, Mayor Dickman three
times tried to force the delegation
to select a spokesman other than
Samuel Dukes, Negro organizer of
the Unemployment Councils.
Sharply condemning this Jim-Crow
attempt to split their unity, the
Negro and white workers demanded
that Dukes be their spokesman.
Before the delegation entered the
City Hall, Peter Chaunt, district
organizer of the Communist Party,
was arrested in front of the City
Hall. He was released after the
demonstration was over.
Among the speakers at the City
Hall meeting were w. R. Bradshaw,
member of the Missouri National
Guard; John st. Clair, a railroad
worker; NJ. Biel, student, and E
Pulley, secretary of the L. S. N. r.
The workers voted unanimously
to mass at the City Hall on Fri
day, June Is, at ] noon, when a
discussion is held on the Workers
Ordinance.
The offer to pay As cents an hour
to Negro workers and 68 cents to
white wss unanimously rejected
and full union rates are demanded
for all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Open Letter to
AFLPlumberSASks
Unity for Strike
Call On Local 463 Men
Not to Send Scabs
To Struck Shop

NEW YORK.-The Alteration
Plumbers, Steamfitters and HELPERS
Union issued an open letter yester-
day to all rank and file members
OF the United Association of Plum
bers and GaSfitters, Local 463 OF
the A. F. of L., calling on them to
take united action to halt officials
OF the A. F. of L. from sending
strikebreakers to the shop of Sam
uels and Dickstein, which has been
on strike since May 10.
The Alteration Plumbers
Union is aware of the fact that
officials of your union have used
all forms of descriptive and mis-
leading statements in regard to
other unions or associations in or
der to befuddle the minds of the
rank and file membership of the
A. F. of L., in order that they
may be used against their fellow
workers as strikebreakers and
scabs," said the letter.
The letter proposes that the rank
and file of Local 463 elect a COM
mittee over the heads of the Off
Gals to meet with a committee Of
the Alteration Plumbers Union tt
work out ways and means of stop
ping the strikebreaking activities Of
the A. F. of L. officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12

in relation to the other imperialist
powers. It is not necessary for us
to deal with this in detail-the facts
are known. 1t is sufficient to say
that the shock of the world crisis
hit American capitalism most Sc
verely precisely because of its
greater development C'the bigger
they come the harder they fall"D
and that Americas position of trade
domination in South America and
the colonies has been greatly under
mined both by the crisis itself and
the greater aggressiveness OF the
other imperialists england, Japan
We have seen recently the state
ment Of the Roosevelt aide, Mr.
Peek, who called for a greater
struggle for the world market when
it was seen that for the first time
since the war England's exports
surpassed Americas.
". Nationslism and the Youth
The greatest emphasis has been
given to the winning Of the youth
Of this nationalist America First
program. This is the same policy
as in other countries. as was pointed
out by the January plenum and
resolution.
At that meeting Bella Kun spoke
at length on this problem and on
the weaknesses and tasks of the
Leagues. He pointed out that the
capitalists centre their nationalist
activity and propaganda upon the
youth because the young generation
does not know from life the ex-
periences of the last world war.
If this is true for Europe, the ac-
tual scene of the bloody slaughter,
it is certainly more true of the
American youth. Besides this. there
are other factors which serve as
the basis Of developing nationalist
ideas land organizations among
the youth. Some Of the chief ones
are:
l. The distressed economic situa-
ton of the working youth. as we'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Rargemen Return in N. Y.

NEW NOTWITHSTANDING bargemen
returned to work Friday following
a meeting of the United Boatmen's
Union where VIM. c. Maher, bust
ness manager of the union, told the
men they had better go back be-
cause he could not keep the tow
Boat men out in their support.
Although the strikers were guar
anteed that they would return with
no discrimination and an increase
in wages. a large number Of barge
men were not taken back by the
companies.
The two companies on strike were
the Goodwin and Gallagher, and
the OBrien Co. The men wanted
to spread the strike to a general
strike throughout New York Har-
Dor and were promised official sup
port in this move by Maher, but
when the test came Maher called
the men together and railroaded
through a settlement for the two
companies.
The Marine Workers Industrial
issued a call to all the bargemen to
organize on the barges for fight
against discrimination and for an
$50 a month wage scale. with ex-
ira pay for trimming and cleaning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Conference Will
Fight Jim-CrOw
Law in St. Louis
l.. S. n. r. Calls Meet to
Draw Up Proclamation
For Rights

ST. LOUIS. Mo. 49, In line with
the continuous fight being waged
against Jim Grow tactics and Negro
discrimination, a mass conference
for the purpose Of drawing up a
proclamation for the rights Of the
Negro people will be held Tuesday,
June II, in Peoples Finance Hall
here.
Harry Haywood. National Secre-
tary of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, who is making tour
of the country, will attend the con
ference which is called by the l.. S
N. r.
The committee expects one Of the
largest crowds ever to attend a con-
ference present and calls on all
trade unions, organizations, frater-
nal lodges, professionals intellec-
tuals and individuals to elect dele
gates.
Communications and contribu-
tions for the expense Of the con-
ference should be addressed to the
L. S. N. r.. 1243 N. Garrison Ave.
St. Louis, Mo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Two Die Repairing Heated
mgOtS In Illinois Steel Go.
Wages Staggered Under N. r. A. In attempt to
Split Workers Ranks

sent home without putting in any
time at all.
N.R.A. Aided Company UuiOnism
We we're supposed to be given
certain rights under Section IA Of
the N.R.A. But instead Of letting
us join q union of our own choice.
they had us to vote for the COM
pany union. They had q method
Of known company suckers standing
around soaring the workers into
voting against their will.
Since the MIRA. the wages in the
mason department we're divided into
three groups; the mason handy
man, the brick mason and the mason
leader. Although we all produce an
equal amount of work the wages
vary. The mason leaders get the
most pay because they are the ones
to push us and are mostly related
with the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
As to Face ROslyn Strike
Riot Charges This Month

ROSL YIN, Wash. - Forty five
pickets, men, women and children,
of this small soft-coal mining town,
95 miles from Seattle, will face riot
charges late in June for their par
ticipation in the strike of the West
ern Miners Union, an independent
union in the Roslyn-Cleelum coal
field.
The arrests were made after COM
peny guards and 10 state police ter
rorized the strikers and broke up
their picket lines, using guns, clubs
and tear gas. Due to the isolated
location of the field and the pink
Continental Congress Socialist lead
ership of the union the strikers
withdrew their picket lines. The
strike is practically broken.
Several of the riot cases will be
handled by the International Labor
Defense. To rally mass and finan-
cial support behind these workers,
the I. L. D. is sending two young
miners, Mark Halter and Milton
Kairis, Young Communist League
members, on tour of the Northwest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Workers Cheer
Candidate in Seattle

SEATTLE, Wash, June 11-One
thousand workers cheered George
Bradley, Communist Party csndi-
date for U. S. Senator, when he
spoke at picnic held at Peoples
Park, Sunday, at the inauguration
of the campaign.
Bradley outlined the Communist
Party position on the farm bill, the
Negro Rights bill. He stated that
the only way out was the revolu-
tionary way.
Resolutions were passed support
ing the striking longshoremen and
seamen, against the fascist methods
used against striking workers and
demanding the withdrawal of all
troops from strike areas. Resolu-
tons demanded the release of Mark
Halter and the dropping of charges
against Harold Brcckway, both mill
tant workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Rochester Packing
Strikers Reject
Company Promises
Vote to Stay Out Till
All Their Demands
Are Granted

ROCHESTER, N. Y. June II (By
MaiD Strikers at the Rochester
Packing Co. voted unanimously
against returning to work Monday
on the company's promise to ar
bitrate. They also voted to add pro-
vision for closed shop to the other
demands, Is per cent wage increase
and a 4O-hour week. The company
tries to excuse the fact that it is
hiring strikebreakers by saying that
'it is against the N. r. A. for us to
have closed shop" Workers point
out that wages paid are far below
the N. r. A. codes, and have been
cut three times since 1929.
Truck drivers who went out on
sympathy strike are militantly help
ing the meat cutters. A sympa-
thizer, Arthur Hobson, is in st.
Mary's Hospital as q result of in
juries received when run over by
one of these Scab trucks, which are
under protection of police asked for
by the company. Strikers wives and
children are around the plant at all
hours, since there are both day and
night shifts.
Picketing under the leadership of
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Local 255 is conducted only
by couples wearing the signs, I'm
fair to Organized Labor" and 1--WE
can't live on promises" Interna-
tional Organizer James Mellen is
trying the usual arbitration" ma
neuvers, confusing the membership
which joined the union within the
past few months.
The Rank and File Relief Work
ers Organization, to which a COM
mittee of strikers came for support
advised the following organizational
program: l. Election of broad
strike committee representing all de-
partments proportionatelg. 2. All
negotiations to include entire strike
committee, and no settlement until
all strikers vote. 3. Mass picketine
with banners containing all de-
mands, and daily strike meetings
4. Spreading of strike to other
plants and meat markets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Railroad Labor" Press Hides
And DistOrts Vital News

CHICAGO.-The June issue of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers journal, in reporting the
several state union meetings, for
gets to report that the Midwest
Union meeting, representing nine
states, went on record as endorsing
H. R. 1898. 1t also fails to state
that the Northwest Engineers went
on record as being opposed to COM
pulsory arbitration.
In Kansas City, Assistant Grand
Chief Edrinton prevented the meet
ing from opposing compulsory ar
bitration by telling the members it
was a bill only for the purpose of
enforcing some few local agree
ments on some of the smaller rail-
roads. that it would not be used to
compel the workers but would
only operate to compel" the rail-
road companies!
Edrinton failed to state how an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Y. C. L. PRECoNvENTIoN DISCUSSION

the heroic Austrian workers, and
prepares for the war against the
Soviet Union as the center Of world
proletarian revolution and interna-
tionalisn.
Under the same banner, Japanese
imperialism plumbers Manchuria
and crouches for the attack upon
the Soviet Union.
Buy Americana" BUY British p
Buy French!"
In these Slogans are seen an ex-
preston of the sharp economic war
fare which is now raging between
the imperialist powers. And never
before in peace time" has the
struggle for world and colonial mar
kets been SO heatedly and desper-
ately fought by the imperialst
monopolies. Such are the signs of
the new cure-all for capitalism
Economic Nationalism. We snail
deal in greater detail later on about
nationahsm in the United States.
1t is clear, then, that our League
iuuSb dCqulIe Ct6dI ullOeTSbdHQlIlg
of nationalism in all Of its forms
and DISCUSSES and learn how to
struggle against it in order to really
rally the masses of youth against
war and fascism and for our pro-
gram.
Nationalism is the very heart of
the war preparations, the express
sion of the acute contradictions of
the world capitalist system.
III. Nationalism's New Disguise
Race Theories
Capitalism has been forced to
adopt new methods of rallying the
masses to its nationalist-wa pro-
gram. When old slogans, like a
threadbare dress, can no longer
conceal the true class character of
imperialism. new ones are readily
put forward.
Thus. today, the capitalists of
Germany and Japan cloak their
robber schemes and deeds with the
cover of race" theories. Hitlers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-12
Make Special Efforts to
Win the Working
Class Youth
Part /
BY WILLIAM JONES
I. The Relation of Nationalism to
War and Fascism

War and Fascism
The January Plenum of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Y. c. L
emphasized that the struggl
against war and fascism must be
made the very center of the
Leagues activities among the work
ing class youth. The discussion of
how this is to be carried out in
reality must be the main problem
of our convention discussion
and the work Of the Seventh Con-
vention itself.
Nationslism contains within itself
the theories and ideas with which
thecapitalists carry out their prep
arations for imperialist war, their
pre-war commercial and diplomatic
struggles, and their fascist policies.
Under the banner of nationalism
gather all of the enemies of the
working class and poor farmers, all
of the enslavers of the colonial peo-
pies.
During the years of the crisis. all
of the imperialist ruling classes
raised higher and more boldly the
reactionary banner of nationalism,
chauvinism, patriotism. The failure
OF the international conferences of
Geneva and London show clearly
that the imperialist powers are re-
sorting more and more to a policy
OF fierce, arrogant nationalism in
an effort to find way out of the
crisis and its attendant spectre of
proletarian revolt.
Under the banner Of nationalisn.
fascisrn strikes bloody blows against
the workers in Germany, borbards