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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: Nay congratulate
the editor of this department for devoting much space
to Conmecticut's precautionary stamp I am intensely
interested IN the and certainly hope that
tors and representatives a0iU do all IN their pocer to
assure us of such commemorative issue. Phia
telist perhaps the announcement in another item
tonights Tower oM interest Philatelist. We refer
to the contention IN NeoO Haven. The Ed.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26
By ALMA and PAUL ELLERBE

TT WAS the afertheater hour Broadway The current
of the great Mississippi River of human beings eased
itself best it could by pouring its people into anything
and everything that could receive Them automobiles taxi
cabs surface the steps to the elevated and down the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26
RUBBER IN ROosTER's CRAw

Crane, Mo. (UP)-A story that
ranks near the top of odd ones re-
garding discoveries in stomachs Of
animals and fowls was furnished
here by Mrs B. r. Biller, who said
she found q 13!inch strip of rub
Der in the craw of a Rhode Island
rooster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Barbs Mia Cram Crooks latest ambition is 10
live in an airpane and down to earth only by para
chute would be experience for her get her feet
on the ground An electrical woman is mystifyng en-
gneers in Italy Many woman not electrical has often
shocked people coming in contact with her. Lndberg
points that he made less than half million since his ia
Highland he might wonder why he didn't accept
the million dollar offer of the movies and not become ia
nous. So-and-So Club has been organized at Mt
Union Kansas Everybody is eligible who has argued
with anyone. "A huge spot says astronomers por-
tends storms coming earth. Let them This
last winter has prepared us for the worst
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: May l call your atten-
ton to the fact that Waterbury IS still a0ithout to0n
forest. I'd like to interest you your paper move
asent to procure for WATERBURY, NoaOs the time to
create interest 1T aOhen lamd forest land, be
willing to be interested, COmservationst. Just let
have your information. The Ed.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Did you know there's inn down Asbury Park,
N j. in which everything is someway connected with Ben
jamn Franklin? Wonder the city got hard could
sell the Franklin statue in Library Park to the proprietor
man is exhibiting collection of $4,000 match box
labels at the hobby show in New York this week, Wa
terbury represented in the metropolitan world
by gallant galaxy composed of Cross Slocum Parker Cas-
sin, Hurley, Murphy Reardon and Sobol. One of the
exhibits of the show mentioned above is huge
collection of speakeasy cards obtained during the days
Prohibitions reign Waterbury is of the few cit
the 100000 population class that does not provide
recreation field for its high schools the three of them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Aunt Mary's Inn on the Thomaston Waterbury road
comes in for nice boost in the AAA guide The author
tells its readers take route g. and drive until the inn is
reached if different turkey dinner is wanted Aunt
Mary is Mrs Edward Murphy of Torrngon sister of the
well known Waterville Dan Sullivan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Remember the days when you used to sing -. I'VE
were sailing along on Moonlight Bay" Then somebody
would demand "Red Wing" "Hiawatha" . "That
Mysterious Rag" also favore when ragtime dtties
started to make their appearances also Eveybod
Doing It" and "Ragtime Violin" Sentimentalsts
failed harmonic Im Afraid to Go Home in the Dark
or Everybody Works but Father" If you wanted a
bit of comic opera you turned to The Red M "Red Feath
err. The Spring Mad any of several others, such as
'The Pink Lady" they came into popularity. Then
every band in Waterbury, and there
era fine in those days. always included the Second
Connecticut March and the National Emblem all their
programs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26
THE VETO
Good Evening.


We did not need a pension
When, in our youthful prime,
We sailed forth as rockies
And needed at the time.
We fought, with gallant Summers,
And Willis, Heath and Wells,
To free some blooming heather,
And braved the nauseous smells
Of sinking meats and morass r-
We caught the dobie itch;
Our bodies looked like zebras
From iodine and pitch.
We ate canned horse and gullion,
And rancid pork and beans,
Feeling like millionaire
With peso in our jeans.
We slept in swamps and rice fields,
And got malaria, too;
And those who took black smallpox
Their PENSIONS never due.
l most forgot the fighting
We had to do at times,
The bolo and the Mauser
Sang many tuneful rhymes.
But they were merely playful,
Compared with dread disease,
Which lurked in ev'ry mud hole,
And spread on every breeze.
To those who say mo pensions"
In our declining day,
My answer to each Stacker
Is what the lizards say
Amt that telling 'em? Well say it is.
(Contributed) as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Editor Tall Toa0er Topics: At fire Monday
noontime on Chpan street noticed the fire apparatus
from Brooklyn could not make the small grade Foo
street aUithout three four attempts 1t looked to
as If the city could spend fen dollars to good ad-
vantage i'm purchasing meo truck 1t could SAGE the
cost in ohat time it might maize in arrivng at the scene
of fires. Or any old tig good enough for the Brook
lynites? Observer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

Answers TO Previous Questions
HARVARD first was known as
! 1.-the Indian Coolidge" and
received It's permasent name
later from its first patron. Rev.
John Harvard, who left half Of
his estate .(about 800 pounds)
and his library to the college.
Orville Wright was the first to
make q successful airplane hight.
at Kitty Hawk. IN. C. Consuls
long preceded any higher oiElcfals
as SonsuIs general. for the United
States. Z.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26

of a forcflnger on his chest. "That
will do! You'd better go along now.
Up to the other end of the car.
and stay there. I'd have you run
in without the slightest hesita-
ton -
"And I'd help him. burly
strap hanger in corduroys and
sweater SAID solidly i.
.'BY (sOI.LY, AND
SO WOULD z" :;
BY golly," a curly headed, bull
necked college student chifned in.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26
The Cast of Characters in
Subway Pickup"

A GIRL In a subway.
A BOY who gets "fresll."
A MAN who Lcfriends the girl.
A TAXI CHAUFFEUR who causes
climax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-26
AND DON'T FORGET

The following special equipment
(Which costs from $500 to $500
more on other cars) is furnished on
Ford De Luxe models-at no extra
charge. 4.
! Safety Glass throu3hout Twin Tail lights
Two matched -tOne horns Twin cowl lamps
n gallons Of 3As In tank Colored wheels
ClAar -Iifhter and Ash Receptacles
Rendefs that match the body
Two adjistsble sun-visors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Many Ne'O England Picket Lines Hold
In Fight to Break Do,0n Discrimination;
LockOuts Of Militants Fought in Soutl,
'Sedition' Is Charged Against Three
WhoGaVe utHathaUayP Pamphlet

NORWICH, Conn, Sept For distributing copies of the pamph
written by Clarence Hathaway editor Of the Daily Worker
the
Wiley organizer
charged with sedition
Danielson here.
after Joseph West district secretary Of the International
Defense talking textile
giving them copies of Hathaways pamphlet
ST. defendant.
IT
The desperate attempts of the local authorities here
Hathawa pamphlet from the textile workers is due to the terrific
the
threats strike every
opposition leadership growing steadily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

A WONDERFUL army, the army of the striking
textile workers in the North and South, was be-
trayed by its generals. The strike was called off
at a time when it was daily gaining strength. The
strikers sent back into the mills without hav
ing won a single one of their strike demands.
THE greatest victory'-that is what the Cor
mans and Greens call this betrayal But the call
ing off of this strike must be characterized as the
greatest betrayaLcarried through by the Germans
and Greens.
wave of anger and hatred against such labor
leaders is rising in the breasts, not only of Com
munsts, but of all honest workers They tricked
and drove strikers back into the mills without even
extracting guarantees from the employers against
discrimination.
They not only shamelessly surrendered the
workers strike demands but they practically sur
rendered their own militant fighters to be
slaughtered by the enemy AS a result, reports
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25

from all strike today show, thousands of the
best union men, the heroes Of the strike being
fired out of the mills. They blacklisted. They
are the victims of yellow, bootlicking leadership
which sold out to the workers class enemies to the
textile bosses.
IT WAS with such tactics that the German trade
union leaders aided Hitler's ascent to power 1t
is with such tactics that the reformist trade union
leaders of all countries disorganze and demoralize
the workers.
With such leaders, the employers company
union campaigns advanced With such leaders,
misery, Generalization fasciSm, inevitable. With
such leaders, there be only defeats and no VIC
tories.
These scoundrels dare to accuse us with irrespon-
sby organizing strikes merely for the sake of strk-
ing When we Communists propose strike we
do it in order to really win the workers urgent
economic demands. We strive by all means to hold
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Silk Strikers
Show Anger
Over SeIlOut
Especial to the Daily worker

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. "a
Thousands of Paterson silk work
erS maSsed in the streets outside
union headquarters this morning
in protest against the sellout poll
cies Of German, Keller and the
other United Textile Workers
Union officials.
Although Eli Keller had an
nounced that a mass meeting
would be held this morning, silk
workers found the doors of strike
halls were locked. No explanation
was given by any Of the leaders.
Earlier in the morning some shops
were reopened when workers were
sent back to their jobs by Keller
Rank and file workers who
wanted to hear why they were or
dered to go back by the leaders
without their own consent took
things in their own hands when
1000 workers massed in a va
cant lot on Harrison St.
At this meeting the workers
showed their anger against the
sellout and cheered their own
speakers, who denounced the be-
trayal put over by German, Keller,
Smith and other U.TW. leaders.
One of the workers told how Kel-
Ter ordered workers this morning
to scab on themselves. Another
worker told how Keller had ex-
PEELED him from the union because
he had fought against scabS. A
motion was unanimously adopted
by the workers that g. rank and
file committee of 25 be elected and
be instructed to demand that a
union membership be called
tonight.
The Communist Party calls upon
all silk and dye workers in Pater-
son to attend mass meetings to-
morrow night at O'Clock. when
Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the
Daily Worker, will speak on How
the Communists Would Lead the
Textile Strike" in Carpenters Hall,
Van Houten Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Mill OWNERS BLACKLIST THOUSANDS
AS PART OF G0RmANS VICTORY DEAL
Anti-War Delegates
Are Called to Report
With Railroad Fares

NEW YORK.-Delegates from
New Jersey, Connecticut and
other Eastern states who plan
to leave for the Chicago Anti
War Congress by special train
and at special rate must make
their reservations Immediately,
the New York League Against
War and Fascism announced
yesterday. At least $50 reser-
vations are needed to charter q
special train at special rates, the
League announced. The train,
if secured, will leave on Thurs
day morning, and delegates were
asked to be at the w. 23rd st.
Erie ferry not later than 1920
a. m. daylight Saving Time) on
Thursday.
All delegates were urged to re-
port to the City Committee of
the League, 213 Fourth Ave,
Immediately, with their railroad
fares. Tickets cannot be OBJ
tanned after S pm. tomorrow,
nor can they be bought on the
train.
The City Committee also
asked that Congress funds be
turned in Immediately and that
all delegates report to Mecca
Temple tomorrow promptly at
7 pm, where the send-off meet
ing will be held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Providence Workers Angry

Especial to the Daily Worker)
PROVIDENCE. R. l., Sept. "a
Spreading confusion and splitting
up the workers as much as possible,
the mill owners and the U.T.w.
leaders today we're breaking tbs
backbone of the biggest strike in
the history of the American Labor
movement. Some mills opened up.
Some remained closed until tomor-
row. Others worked with part
forces. None of the mill owners
granted any concessions as the
strikers fIocXed back through the
mill gates.
The workers knew it was SELL
out. In Olneyville, the mill section
of Providence, hundreds of workers
stood on the streets around the mills
discussing the calling off of the
strike by German. I'VE didn't win
a nickel" one worker said. Its just
another sell-out by the U. T. w.
leaders, that's all"
The giant Atlantic Mil, largest in
Providence, kept the workers watt
ing out on the sidewalk. Instead of
opening the gates, letting the work.
els all come in and sending away
those for whom there was no work
today. the Atlantic management
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
BY EARL BROWDER
General Secretary, Communist Party, U. S. A.

the ranks of the workers together until victory is
really won.
But what do the Germans and Greens do? The
textile workers fought on against heavy odds for
three weeks. They were hungry. They fought
against armed forces Sixteen were killed Hun
dreds wounded. But the morale of the strik-
ers not broken. Even the Germans, themselves,
had to admit this at the moment of calling of the
strike But despite this, they called off the strike,
without winning a single concession, and without
even protecting the militant workers against the
blacklist.
Certainly this was unheard of betrayal
EERE one question arises which every worker, and
Al especially every Communist, must ask himself,
That the Greens and Germans would try by every
means to break the strike known to every class
conscious worker. They always do that. But the
question to be faced squarely is t5ltss How 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
SellOut
Is Rejected
In E stOn

EASTON, Pa, Sept. "a. A mass
meeting of strikers here on Sun
day, after hearing Trumbull and
Pitt, N.T.W. representatives, speak
on the United Front Strike Com
mittee, voted to reject the Winant
Board report and Germans pro
posals.
They decided also to hold shop
meetings and to draw up local
demands and grievances, to be
presented to the manufacturers.
The strike at present is 80 per
cent effective. The strikers of the
Onandaga, the largest mill here,
plan to draw up demands on the
basis of the national demands, and
to confer with the boss on these
demands. Other mills are still out,
holding meetings now to take sim
liar action.
Charles Spencer, Daily Worker
special correspondent, was arrested
yesterday for selling the Daily
but later released. The United
Front Committee was informed
that the mayor Will decide whether
the paper can be sold. The COM
mittee will meet with the mayor
on this question tomorrow.
The National Textile Workers
Union is issuing a statement for
wide distribution on it's position
on the German Sellout.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Workers TO Assemble
As Delegates Present
Demands tOLaGuardid
Deaea strati0n at 10
a. m. Called by United
Action Conference

NEW YORK.-A call TO all work
ers Of New York, employed and I'M
employed, 10 mass at City Hall at
l am. today, when open hearings
are held on the relief tax bills of
Mayor LaGuardia, was issued Sun
day at the sixth session OF the
United Action Conference on Work,
Relief and Unemployment.
Representatives OF the organiza-
tons affiliated to the conference
will present tax proposals for
financing Winter relief in New
York City, and will place the I'M
employed and relief workers de-
mands for adequate relief before
the Board of Aldermen.
Speakers at the meeting of the
United Action Conference pointed
out the insufficiency of the new tax
plans and the certainty of more
relief cuts and future taxation on
the working population if these tax
plans are permitted to go through.
The tax plans to come up for
public hearing today call for tax
on incomes paying Federal income
tax equal to Is per cent of the
Federal tax, a tax of one-tenth of
one per cent on all business gross
ing more than $4,000 year for
need which even LaGuardia has
placed at $50,O00OO0 to carry
through present relief at the pres
end standards.
The first plan, for an income tax,
falls most heavily on the middle
class groups The second plan, for
a tax on business, place the same
rate on the small businessman as
on the giant department stores and
chain stores. The municipal lot
terry, a plan used in many Euro
pean countries in which the masses
are the most impoverished, is de-
signed to give working class appeal
and saddle relief costs on the backs
of the masses.
Representatives of the groups af-
filiated to the United Action Confer
ence will present tax plans at the
open hearing today for taxation on
corporations and utilities, a steeply
graduated tax on the larger in
comes and inheritances, taxes on
stock transfers, large realty hold
ines and the present tax exempt
church property. The abrogation
of the Bankers Agreement, under
which the CITY earmarks 100000
a year to guarantee payments to
the bankers, and a moratorium on
the debt service under which one
third of the city budget, 1852 900, 900
a year, flows into the Golfers of the
bankers are also demanded.
Homeless men will meet at the
headquarters of the Council of
Unattached Men, SIT East Four
tenth Street, today at 9 am. to
march to City Hall. East Side
workers will assemble at Rutgers
Square under the leadership of the
w rkers' Committee on Unemploy-
nient, Locals and 3, and the Rut-
gers Place Local. After being joined
by the homeless men, they will
march to City Hall, where spokes-
men of both groups will place re-
lief demands before the Board of
Aldermen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Frisco |. L. A.
ElectsBridges
By Big Vote
Militant Strike Leaders
Win Offices from
ReactiOnaries
SAN FRANCIsCo. Cal. Sent. q

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. "a
Harry Bridges, militant leader of
the west Coast longshoremens
strike, has been Overwhelmingly
elected president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association
local, by vote of 1888 as against
432 for Joe Johnson, the machine
candidate. The rank and file rallied
behind Bridges and other leaders of
the strike and voted them into Of
flee.
Bridges moved Johnson under in
the vote, piling up majority of
851. His victory was reputation
by the unions membership of the
I. L. A. machine which, since the
termination of the strike, two
months ago, has attempted to keep
the men from chasing scabs from
the docks, and from building dock
committees to protect their rights
Fred Frater, endorsed by the rank
and file, was unopposed for finan-
cial secretary and received 1892
votes Jack Creary won over Klei-
man, rank and file candidate by
only $40 to 433 as vice-president.
The business agents who were
elected were Charles Cutwright, who
was reelected with 1,149 votes; E..
G. Dietrich, 781 votes and Jack
Mcclellan, TIT.
In the rest of the offices, the
rank and file slate was endorsed
with but few exceptions.
Harry Bridges is the rank and
file leader of the longshoremen who
prevented the strike from being sold
out by the official Ryan-Lewis ma
chine. On several occasions the
machine has attacked Bridges, but
each time the membership has
voted full confidence in him.
His victory is of great Importance
to the whole membership of the 1.
L. A. 1t will add strength to the
fight that will be waged in the
State A. F. of L. convention at
Pasadena later this month, where
the rank and file will demand the
endorsement of sympathetic and
general strikes as g. weapon in the
workers fight against capitalist at
tacks on unions and strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-25
Southern Strikers Angry
at SellOut and Mass
Discrimination
BY Harry Raymond
DAILY Worker STAFF Correspondent

CHARLOTTE. N. c., Sept. "a
Wide spread discrimination and
wholesale blacklisting of the best
union forces in the South was the
result of Francis j. Germans
treacherous agreement to settle the
strike on the basis of President
Roosevelt's arbitration proposals.
1t was estimated early this after
noon at the headquarters of the
North Carlina State Federation of
Labor that more than 10000 union
members in the State of North
Carolina alone were told to get out
of the mills when they reported for
work this morning. The number of
black-hSted workers far exceeds this
figure, for this estimate ives based
on the first scattered reports that
came in from the far-flung local
unions. AS this is being written,
new reports of discrimination are
piling up at the State headquarters.
A typical picture Of the blacklist
in operation could be seen in Gas
ton County this morning. Workers
were at the mill gates at O'clock
under instructions from their lead
ers to return to work. When the
gates swung open they surged in,
but it was not long until large num-
bers of union men and women be-
gan to troop out, having been told
that there is no place for you"
Troops Still Out
Despite announcements Of Gov
ernor Ehringhaus that the troops
would be withdrawn, I saw soldiers
at the Loray Mill in Gastonia and
the Knit Products Mill in Belmont.
Every mill entrance was guarded by
heavy detachments of sheriff's dep
uties and police.
About o'clock workers began
coming back out of the Loray Mill
gate. Foremen in the card room
and the spinning department had
told the well-known union members
that their jobs were occupied. After
about 100 blacklisted workers had
gathered in front of the gate, a
young overalled rank and file leader
shouted: Stay here, I'm going in
there and bring every union man
and woman out Of there"
The young militant strobe through
the line of deputies and into the
mill. In a few moments he re-
turned with several hundred cheer
ing workers from the card room.
The foreman told us he was not
goin' to make any changes" the
leader shouted. We'll, We'll make
some changes. Everybody to the
union hail."
Hundreds of workers marched
past the line of National Guard to
the Union Hall. They were talking
about strike. But their top leaders
told them to wait until we hear
from German"
In CASTOR County the most mill
tant union members we're discrimi-
mated against in the following mills:
Loray, Parkdale, Groves, Trenton,
Textiles Incorporated, Arlington,
Modena, the Three Hanover Mills,
Ozark and Flint Groves. In Bel
mont, scene of the brutal Staying of
Ernest K. Riley, the Chronicle Mill
took on one shift and Disseminated
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