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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-06
Weekly Stock Market ReUie1U OfConditions
Wall Street Was Thrown Off Balance By the $IO,OO0,- ~ 900 Proposed Loan of President

In advance of the automobile show and then sell for profits as the show opens. It got under way to-day and will last until next Sat- urday.
 Price of Gold
 Washington, Jan 6-CCP)-The government held it's domestic gold buying price unchanged at $34.OG per ounce to-day for the 14th suc- cessive business day despite 8 slight rally in the American dollar abroad.
 This was $1.7O above the world price set in London to-day at 126 shillings til pence off pence from yesterday. Based on the opening pound sterling exchange rate of $5.10, this was equal to $32.36 an ounce.
 The dollar remained at 60.G9 cents.
 Trading Mixed
 New York, Jan 6-(UP)-ForA elgn exchange trading was mixed to-day with the dollar easing slightly in relation to sterling and the French franc.
 Quotations included:
 Sterling $5.11 Is. up 5-8 cent; Canadian dollar, $1.00 Is, up IS cent: French francs, 6.15 cents, up 1 1-2 point; Italian lira. 823 cents, unchanged. Belgian belga, 21.80 cents, up 10 points; German mark, 37.22 cents, off points; Swiss franc, 30.35 cents, up 10 points: Dutch guilder, 63.10 cents, up 10 points
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 AT GOOD FIGURE

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answer his questions, demanding an
attorney of my choice. I was third
degreed and placed among dope adj
diets, murderers, ETC., deprived Of
all my privileges including mail and
visitors for over forty days, and
only after great mass protests to
Washington, D.. c., was I allowed
visitors, in the presence Of guard.
AS I was very sick at the end of
fifty days, the workers collected
money among themselves and got
me out on a thousand dollars sur
ETY. bonds.
On about August 1, 1888, I was
tried in a justice court, before a
jury of six men. I defended my
self and again great mass atten-
dance forced the court to let me
go, after the jury was tiS1 up five
to one in our favor.
The Frame
The immigration officials took
almost two months to frame me.
All they could find out was that
I was member of the Unemployed
Council. They called a hearing
with about ten officials Of the relief
department, plus four vigilantes and
one renegade from the Y.CL. I
had always been active among the
unemployed, and led some of the
demonstrations of workers for bet
ter relief. I also called on Yugoslav
workers in my neighborhood, for
whom we won many victories, such
as light, water, rent, clothing, etc.
These relief heads, stomach rob-
bers," decided to get rid Of me, so
they all testified, including the Wig
ilantes, that they believed was a
Communist.
On June 7, 1884, I was arrested,
taken to Seattle immigration sta
ton where I was held AZ days, and
put in solitary confinement for pro-
testing the prosecution of several
boys for demanding sugar in their
coffee. After four days of hunger
strike, was taken to King Co. jail
and held there three months, the
last few days in solitary. The LID.
made every effort to stop my de-
portation, but not enough mass
pressure was present. On october
"a I was put aboard the prison.
train, and on the 29th. for the
second time in % years saw the
statue Of liberty
Little did I dream in August 1905
that I would be condemned to tor
ture and death at the hands OF
Mussolini by Miss Perkins. My only
hope lies with the toiling masses
to whom appeal for help.
Comradely yours,
JOHN UJICK.
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wA8C-Fray and Braggiotti. Piano
Si5-WJZ-Dick Lieoert. organ; Arm
bruster and Kraus, Piano; Mary
Courtlandt, Songs; Male Quartet
WABC-Edwin C. HILL Commentator
s:3o-WOR-Katsman Orchestra; LuciiiSs
WOR-Hillbilly Music
.: 00-WEAF-Lyman Orchestra; Frank
Peterson, Songs; Cho-isters Quar-
tet
wJz-Goodmsn Orchestra; Jane
Froman and AL Bowley, Songs
WABc-Court OF Human Relations
Drama
WABC-March of Time-Drama
9l5-WJz-The Bonus--Representative
Wright Patman Of Texas at Vet-
Grams of Foreign Wars meeting.
St. Louis
3o-WEAF-Bonime Orchestral; Pic and
Pat, Comedians
WOR-Lum and Ahner-sketch
WJz-Phil Baker, Comedian; Marths
Mears. SONGS; Bslasco Orchast--
WhBC-Hollywood Hotel-Sketch.
With Dick Powell Jane Williams.
Ted Flo-Rito Orchestra and
others; Clark Gable and Stuart
Erwin, Guests
9;45-WCR-Garber Orchestra
Town of Bethlehem
Sketch
WOR-Elaine Jordan, Songs
WJz-Minstrel Show
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Eyents-H. z. Read
IL 30-WEAF-Symphcny Orchestra; Frank
Blac., Conductor; Mixed Chorus
WOR-Varlety Musicale
WjZ-The Jew and Ameries-Rabbi
Morris Lazaron
WABC-The O'Flynn IA asical
WCR--News
WJz-Duchin Orchestra
WABC-Nelson Orchestra
MISUNDERSTANDING Orcnestra
Mumm. Tenor: vivienns segaL
WOR-Moonbesm Trio
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Hope Lies in Masses, Says Militant Worker
John Ujick, Fighting Deportation Frame-Up

As an aftermath of the great
West Coast strike, a number of
foreign born workers were sched-
uled for deportation, and brought
to Ellis Island charged with "be-
longing to an organization PLAN
ming to overthrow the govern
ment." Segregated from the other
deportees ut Ellis Island, they are
appealing their cases. John Ujick,
one Of the workers, has sent the
following letter to the Committee
for the Protection Of Foreign
Born, In which he gives a graphic
account Of his life of hard toll
In this country for the past thirty
years, and the circumstances I'M
der which he was framed.
Ellis Island, N. Y.
Dec. Is, 1884
Dear Comrades:
AS a victim of one of the dirtiest
frame-ups by immigration officials
of the U. S. at Tacoma, Wash, and
now held for deportation at Ellis
Island, wish to convey my sin
cere thanks and appreciation for
your quick and splendid work in
preventing me from being delivered
into the murderous hands of Mus
soiini.
! think / owe you and the rest
of the workers who are carrying
on a heroic fight against discrimi-
nation against the foreign born, the
story Of how and why my deporta-
ton took place, and what crime I
have committed to make the friend
of Labor" Miss Perkins, want to
condemn me to death.
In August, 1905, as youth Of
is years of age, 1 left my home
town, Vele Mune, Austria (Which is
now under Italy), and arrived at
New York, legally, paying my head
tax. When / first saw the Statue
of Liberty with her flaming torch,
I was filled with hope and enthu-
siasm. Need tell you how / feel
now, when I look at the same statue
from the prison of Ellis Island,
after as years of toll and five years
of misery and starvation?
I left New York for Tacoma,
Wash, within "a hours after my
arrival, and went to work in the
lumber camp of Aberdeen, Wash.
We worked IL hours a day at wages
of $3.50 a day, living in shacks and
sleeping on straw, which was often
infested with vermin. Board and
other fees came to SO cents day.
After working there for about three
months I was forced to go to a
hospital for So days. When I came
out it was the beginning of the
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Short WaUe Radio News

The events of our times prove
that we live in period marked
by widespread struggle against
want and oppression, a period
marked by world wide imperial
ist threats to the welfare Of the
land Of working class rule, the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics.
Now, that some of our amateurs
have hoen contacted in various
parts of the country, we are faced
with new perspectiveS. We must
begin to deal with the widespread
discomfort with the American Radio
Relay League. 1t is up to the class
conscious amateur to crystalline
this discomfort and to show way
out.
The most common criticism of
the A. f. r. L. is that it does not
sincerely defend the interests Of the
amateur. The much boosted or
ganization of. Tor and by the
amateur" has allowed the status of
the amateur, the real father of
radio, to be degraded so that now
he has only four narrow useful
bands in which to operate. The
situation below 20 meters indicates
the trend of clipping the amateur:
in the past, as the lower limit of
useful waye-lengths lowered itself
due to the efforts of the amateur,
he himself was driven down into
the whole Of the UNEMPLOYED and
therefore useless region, Now, al
though the region below 90 meters
has not as yet been found COM
mercially useful, the amateur there
is already limited to narrow bands.
The fat salaries and the extrava-
CANT expense allowances have all
been collected ESQ by $50 from
Woodworking amateurs and near
amateurs. In spite of the technical
excellence of the organization, the
amateurs still should and do resent
feeding a fat top bureaucracy
Shades of the A. F. of LID.
THE amateur is patriotic" What
does this patriotism" of the A. r.
r. L. officialdom mean? The an
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swer is found in the policy Of re-
crmting into the naval and army
reserves and in the gloriflcation Of
the despicable recruiting. role of the
A. R. R. L. in the last Morgan war.
Could any other policy have been
expected of its president, Hyram
Percy Maxim. of the Maxim
Silencer interests?
NEW YORK.-There were about
twenty members present at the last
meeting Of the club. FRIDAY
nights, AZ Union Square, one flight
up Most of the time was spent
in fondling the new, shiny a -kilo-
watt xnitter and trying to figure
out where TO find the two thousand
volts required for plate supply. 1t
was decided that in view of rapidly
growing membership, full time
headquarters must be obtained.
That, however, requires money. Ac-
CordingIy, dues of ten cents per
week for employed members were
decided upon as a temporary
measure.
CLEVELAND. - We have on
hand a report from Cleveland.
Comparing the situation with that
of last year, it says: This group
has been formed on a more sub
stantial basis. Attendance Of seven
members has been perfect. At the
first class, majority were interested
in amateur radio-those who came
to the class to learn theory were
willing to go along with the rest.
First eight classes were devoted al
most entirely to theory and then
an abrupt change was made as we
realized that we were not making
much Roadway toward getting cur
licenses. Now we are reading the
questions in the License Manual
and answering them from the
Handbook. AS a club, we meet in
homes. Until we have a definite
place TO meet don't think that
there's much chance of our having
club rig" Evidently, Cleveland
joins New York in cry for bigger
and better club rooms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
BY HARRY KERMIT

THE Newspaper Guild Of Amer
l lea is celebrating its first ami
versary, and the lessons in political
economy which its members re-
ceived during the past year may be
of future importance to American
workers whose strike struggles have
been ssbotaged consistently by an
employer-dominated press.
Probably the most sensational de-
velopment Of the year was the story
which came over the wires from
Washington a fortnight ago. Lead
ers of the Guild walked out Of a
newspaper code hearing in anger,
following an outrageous strike
breaking step by the National Re-
covery Administration which sum
marily ordered a re-hearing in the
Dean s. Jennings case after the
National Labor Board had ruled the
latter had been forced of the San
Francisco Cau-Bulletin, a Hearst
paper, because Of his Guild activi-
tie'.
Confronted by this evidence that
the N. R. A. is nothing but a strike
spiking agency, Haywood Broun, ma
tional president of the Guild, told
the N, R. A. officials that news
paper men knew now what sort of
justice they could expect from the
present government. Morris Watson,
chairman Of the national press as
ISOLATION, declared the newspaper
code was simply "a sham to cover
special privileges for publishers"
The entire Guild delegation walked
out en- masse to go back to the
picket line, where, in the words of
their president, "the air is cleaner"
The picket line referred to is in
Newark, where forty newspapermen
are striking the Newark Ledger to
enforce their right to organize.
SENSATIONAL and dramatic as
y this denouement was, it fol-
lowed naturally from the relations
of the Guild with the publishers
during the past year. From the
start the overlords of the press
fought against this attempt at or
ganization by their employees. AT
first this opposition took the form
of speeches in the city room, then
the screws were turned on more
brutally. There followed a series Of
dismissals as callous as ever any oil
or steel king attempted.
The dismissals were too detailed
for enumeration here. In every
section Of the country newspaper
men were fired for trying to union
ize their craft. The first dismissal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Venezuela in Grip Of Most Vicious
Dictatorship in All Latin america

that these roads are constructed
almost exclusively with forced pris-
on labor. The kidnapped" are
among the first to be sent to work
on the roads. Chained to iron balls,
they are forced to work at back
breaking toll from sun-up to sun
down, under a broiling sun or in
driving rain. If they stop to rest
they are beaten. The food and
treatment accorded the prisoners
on the roads is even worse than in
the prisons. In general, the condi-
tons that prevail in the chain gangs
in the South of the United States
find their counterpart in the forced
labor gangs in Venezuela.
Because of the brutal treatment
accorded them and the malaria
infested swamps in which they are
forced to work, the prisoners seldom
live longer than three months after
being set to work on the roads. For
this reason the government is con-
stantly compelled to recruit new
prisoners to replace those who have
died. When recruits become scarce,
unemployed workers in the cities
are rounded up, put through the
savage prison regime, and eventu-
ally sent to work on the roads.
Gomez 'Magnanimous" Gesture
Recently it was reported that
Juan Vincente was ready to free
FIVE thousand political prisoners
provided they left the shores sacred
to Gomez and the Standard Oil
Company. This magnaninous ges-
ture was made just a few weeks
before Dec. 10, 26th anniversary of
Gomez rule and an uncomfortable
date for the dictator of Venezuela
because of the wide protests it
always occasions throughout Latin
America. The Venezuelan workers
remember, however, that Juan Vim
cente made the same gesture some
eight years ago, when he liberated
all the political prisoners, only to
start his kidnapping" all over
again.
Some of the political prisoners
are reported to have been freed
However, the only guarantee that
the thousands Of Venezuelan polit-
ical prisoners will be released is a
wide protest movement throughout
the world, but especially here in the
United States, home of the impe-
rialism that dominates Venezuela,
In promising to free the political
prisoners on the condition that they
leave the country, Gomez shows
that he fears the protests of the
masses against his savage dictator
ship. He can and must be forced
to release the prisoners uncondi-
tionalIy by the mass action of the
workers OF the United States and
Latin America.
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Political Prisoners Are Starved, Robbed and
Tortured in COmez's JaiIs, Often Leading
to Insanity and Death

the prisoners. Funds are provided
for this purpose in the municipal
budget, but they are robbed by the
governor and warden Of the prison.
The prisoners must buy their medi-
cine, even If it has been sent them
by their families, at q store main
tanned by the warden, where he
dispenses the medicine and other
gifts sent by relatives at prices
ranging anywhere from 100 to 800
per cent above those prevailing out
side.
The kidnapped" see the sun only
when they are sent to work on the
roads, and light and air is usually
restricted to that which seeps in
through cracks around the windows
or the door Of the cells.
CHASTITY fortunes
For INSTRUMENTATION" which can
be almost anything, and as means
of extracting confessions, the most
fiendish tortures are inflicted on the
prisoners. One Of the most brutal
of these is called 'knotted cord in
the stomach To effect this tor
ture, the prisoner is first beaten to
a pulp, his clothing is removed and
two parallel incisions are made in
his stomach. The skin is then
raised and a knotted cord passed
under 1t from one incision to the
other. A guard then grips each end
of the cord, which is pulled back
and forth through the incision
while the flesh becomes entangled
in the knots.
Another torture is the "tortol,"
which consists in placing knotted
cord around the head Of the victim
at the height Of the cheek-bone
and slowly tightening it. The knots
sink slowly into the flesh, producing
intense pain and the ears of the
victim are torn to pieces. Some die
under the agony. Others emerge
with disordered minds.
THE iron hat" torture practically
always results in death. 1t is
accomplished with an iron helmet
fitted with turnscrews that can be
frightened simultaneously.
Other widely used torture meth
DDS consist in hanging prisoners by
their feet or testicleS and beating
them with a lash.
Back Breaking Toll
Gomez likes to point to his ex-
tensive bodybuilding program as
proof of the "progressiveness" Of
his regime, but he fails to mention
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21

year 1907 and was laid off due to
the depression.
Brother Killed BY Speed-Up
From Feb, 1907 until May, 1908, I
worked for board and shelter only,
and when I didn't work was not
allowed to eat by orders of the
Portland relief board at that time.
I worked in the logging camps of
the north west, barely making a
living, until 1918, in which year I
went to Alaska, searching for work
along with several hundreds of un-
employed. I finally landed job in
mine at So a day, paying $45 a
month for board.
Three months later, my brother,
in spite of my warnings, joined me,
also working in the mine, until in
1915, through gross negligence on
the part of the bosses, and due
to the speed-up, he was criminally
killed while at work, leaving a
widow and four children in that
far-off land on the Adriatic. 1t
was the Alaska Gastineau Mining
Company that killed him.
Rented Small Farm
Since I had been injured several
times as a result of the terrible
speed-up, decided to leave Alaska
in 1917, and with the few dollars
had rcrtod q e,,,o1l farm OF
Enumclaw, near Seattle, Wash.
During the war I registered for war
service, and was placed in class
paragraph e and told to keep up
my work on the farm.
But since farm products are con-
trolled by bankers (so-called Co.
operative Trust), in spite of Is
hours a day of work for over a
year and q half, I could barely
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or simply look dangerous In order
to be rounded up, thrown into
prison without benefit of trial, sub
jected to torture and finally set to
work at forced labor on the roads
needed by American imperialism
and the native rulers. Practically
all the political prisoners are "Se-
cuestrados" (kidnappeO, the term
applied to those who are impris-
oned without any sort of legal pro-
ceedings. Once In Jail, they are
beaten, tortured, starved, robbed
and, because Of the incredibly vile
conditions, fall prey to serious ILL
ness and frequently death.
The largest Of the Venezuelan
prisons, La Rotunda at Caracas,
Puerto Cabello and Castillo Liber-
tador Uiberator CastieD are dun
geons that were inherited from the
days Of Spanish rule. These dank,
unsanitary dungeons form a fitting
background for a prison regime Of
medieval barbarity. The governors
and wardens Of the prisons are
bound by no rules of human de-
cency, but torture and exploit the
prisoners according to their whim.
Prisoners in Chains
La Rotunda is typical Of the pris-
ons throughout Venezuela. ALI the
kidnapped" prisoners in this Jail
wear irons weighing from 20 to IS
pounds that are never removed ex-
cept to be substituted by heavier
irons for punishment. The prison.
ers sleep, eat and work at forced
labor on the roads carrying their
heavy burden Of iron. At night the
changing Of the irons Of the pris-
oners as they walk to the pals
which serve as latrines, or as they
turn in the cramped spaces allotted
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make enough for rent, income tax,
etc. I quit farming and in 1919
I again went to work in the logging
camps. After 1925 I worked for
some time on the saw-mill, and
the three years before the crisis I
worked in Tacoma as smelter, car
penter, plumber, whatever could
find to do.
In the beginning of the year 1928,
I started to build me a home, COM
pleted at the end of 1929, estimated
value of house and two lots $1,000,
with a $3.50 mortgage on the prop
ertl. I held of the payments on the
mortgage by paying 7 per cent In
terest monthly on $3.50.
In 1881 the real-estate sharks
succeeded in cheating me, and
through the courts took complete
possession of the property while I
continued to live in it. In May
1888 was arrested by the Tacoma
sheriff, charged with tsmpering
with the Puget Sound Light Trusts
wires, supposedly connected by me
for an unemployed worker.
In Jail
was taken to jail and placed
under a 500 bond. When the
workers came within an hour to
bail me out, the bail was increased
to $500. The next day fifty work.
ers who still owned some property
came and offered to go on bond,
one of them putting up the saw
ings Of ten years. $4,000 certificate
of the Savings and Loan Bank. On
the third day, in spite of the pro-
tests of the workers of Tacoma, I
was still held in Jail.
An immigration official called Nc
Namara arrived, but I refused to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Jose Iturbi Recital

In 1929 Jose Iturbi, Spanish
pianist, first played in America. He
intrigued New York audiences in
that and succeeding seasons with
programs usually of Mozart, Schu-
mann, Brahms, Ravel and De Falla.
For these works his admirable con-
troll of piano dynamics and clear
tone, incisiye or melting, as the
mood demands, have served very
well. But the loftiness and inten-
sity necessary to the works Of
Beethoven, for example, are lack
ing.
So again, last Saturday night,
Iturhi opened his New York season
at Carnegie Hall (under the aus
pieces of Hadassah, the Zionist
women's auxiliary with the deli