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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
20 PER CENT FOR TAXES

An Illuminating article on the heavy
burden of taxation borne by the American
people appeared in recent issue of the
United States News, which shows that 20
per cent, or one-fifth, of the entire ma
tional income is swallowed up by federal,
state and local taxation
This is more than is spent for food,
and much more than is spent for clothing
and rent on homes combined. Careful esti-
mates indicate that the average citizens
dollar of income is spent as follows:
Taxes, 20c; food, tie: clothing, &c.
rent, Sc; automobile, &c; fuel and light.
Sc; household furnishings, &c; insurance,
&c; medical attention, travel and recreation
and the movies. about &c each; tobacco
and laundry, lie each. This leaves about
19c for miscellaneous expenses and saw
ings These figures are averages, and
vary greatly according to Individual in
comes and spending habits.
Persons who own little or no property
may imagine that they do not contribute
much in the way of taxes, but it should be
borne in mind that all taxes are finally
passed on to the ultimate consumer of
goods or services.
The nations tax bill is now more than
nine billion dollars year, and the fed
eral government, as well as many state and
local governments, are still going farther
and farther in debt. What the tax bill
will be little later can only be guessed,
but it is sure to be much higher than at
present if government spending on it's
present lavish scale continues,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
TODAY'S WEATHER



The Gulf disturbance has de-
veIOped into a storm Of great ~.
tensity and i central this morn.
ing off the Texas coast IN the
vicinity Of Corpus Christi. u g.
attended BY shifting gales over =
considerable area and probably ~
winds OF hurricane force near the
center. Pressure Is hiGh aver the
Northwest. Willist0n. North Da-
kota. 3O.2s inches.
Rains were general during the
last "a hours in Gulf coast see
lions and Florida. showers and
thundeFstOrms occurred also 80
the Dakotas and in the north Al
lantic states.
The heat wave has absted
slightly in the West bat l. more
intense in the Ohio Valley. south.
ern Lake region and middle Mis-
sissippi Valley. All-time hiah
records for temperatures were -.
tablished yesterday ~ s. Louis
with 10 degrees; at Chiea9o wa
IO4 degrees and at Detroit vita
IO4 degrees where the record was
eaualed. Other high tempeta-
lures were: Louisville. Little
Rock and Abilene, io2 degrees
Huron. 100 degrees.
s. NJ. GOLDSMITH,
Temporarily IN Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

At the luncheon of the inter
city Rotary Clubs held yesterday
in the navy yard, Senator VIM. IL.
Malone was the principal speaker
and took as his subject, key
West, The Gibraltar of America. 4"
He stressed the Importance of in
creasing the personnel of the sta
ton sas well as that of the army
barracks. He pointed out that
there are Accommodations and facil-
tiles for several hundred men
whereas at both the naval station
and the barracks the complement
of officers and men is at a mini
mum. Visiting Rotarians. who
are aware of conditions in Key
West heartily favored increasing
the forces and stated they would
be glad to do all in their power
to sees that the needed increases
were made.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Cul prices on cigarettes, which some
stores have used as bait to attract trade for
ether merchandise, are placed under the
ban Of the NRA. The giving of coupons is
also 10 he discontinued, the practice being
considered equivalent 70 a rebate, hence a
species Of unfair competition. Even the
Quantity Of matches that may be given with
cigarette purchases is strictly limited. In
slme a may become unlawful to give a
fellow smoker a light.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Arriving az Manchester, Pa, to adj
dress = farmers rally on their new farm
mortgage law. Senator Frazier and Con-
afessman i.emke found no crowd as
semlled. Inquiry disclosed that the rally
waa being held in Manchester. Nd. 20
miles away. where they hurried in time TO
speak a. 2.000 waiting citizens
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Insurance against kidnapping is MT
written ~ companies in the United States.
hnt can be obtained IN England. This
seems AL the more strange when we ne
iltet that this country has more kidnapings
than any other. while England has never
bad case of kidnapping for ransom in all
IL history.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Attorney General Cummings has or
deFed an investigation Of an alleged ''di-
vofee racket, in which certain American
lawyers are said to have obtained Mexican
divorces for their clients by mail. These
have generally heen declared invalid by
state courts this resulting in many legal
complications over property, bigamy
charges and Legitimacy of children.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Girl golf caddies have been banned by
an ordinance passed by the city council of
iaehlne, Quebec, the employment of girls
n that capacity having been declared 'im-
moral" hy Judge Robillard of the Juvenile
eoart Coli language OF our northern
nelFhbofs must be bad as our own.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
Today's
Anniversaries
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1750-Henry Knox, the Boston
bookseller who was an artillery
general in the Army of the Revo-
luton of 26, Secretary of War
from 1886 to 1875. born in Bos-
ton. Died in Maine, Oct. o..
1906. ~.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
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Today In History


1914 - Historic battle of
Lundy's Lane, Canada. between
Americans and British.
1868-Act of Congress created
Wyoming Terrific Y out of several
other states.
1894 - Chinese-Japanese War
began.
l9O9-(25 years agol Land
mark in aviation-Louis Bleriot
of France flew the English Chan
mel in 81 minutes-epochal for
that day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
SIDELIGHTS
~ MARCY q. DARNALI-
gesmss Edsas Il TIE KEY West citissn

Al Smith Is said 20 have made this
crack when someone asked what chance
foes u the New Deal had 10 organize their
nppoaltlon "No chance az all so long as
The government keeps giving away money; ;
nahody shoota a Santa Claus"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Irrigation companies near
Heber. Utah. pump water from
long closed mines 70 supplement
an agricultural supply which
diminished on account ~ drought.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Many citizens today stated that
Key West was fortunate in secur-
ing a top price for the bonds
disposed of at the meeting of the
board of public works night be-
fore last. For the issue of $780,
900 the price accepted was
$1O6.83 each while for the issue
Iof last July the price paid was
I$1G3.50 or $2.33 less. This is a
great difference in price and in
Dictates not only that the bond and
Stock market is at the top of the
peak but also that bonds of Mon
roe county are considered healthy
investments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

A monument to Thomas A. Edison
was recently unveiled at the Iwashimizu
shrine IN Japan II was from bamboo
esuVu near this shrine that Edison made
the iiiamenis first used in the development
oi the ineaudescent lamp some SIS years
ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

After suffering two defeats by
the Liberty team the American
Legion aggregation yesterday
turned the tables and administer
ed a decisive. defeat to their for
mer conquerors. There is no ques-
ton but that the legionnaires had
the Liberty team beat from the
start, outplaying them at every
turn and showing themselves
superior in both batting and field
ing. The score was 6 to l.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

+ At a meeting of county COM
.missioners held at 2 o'clock this
afternoon the contract of the
Tidcwater Construction company
to buiGd the roads and bridges
from Stock Island to Boca Chica
and also at Saddle Bunches was
signed by the board. The COM
pany has until August 81 in which
to begin work at each end of the
county and it was said at the
meeting that work will be started
before that time. All of the ma
ehinery is ready to start at Key
Largo and at Boca Chica or Stock
Island and will have the equip
ment placed there in a few days.
That this contract has been Sign
led and work begin in a few days
viii be good news to residents of
Key West and Key Largo, as we'll
as intermediate points.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

1834-(100 years ago) Viii
liam +. Hatcher, Virginia Baptist
clergyman and writer, born in
Bedford CO.. Va. Died at Fork
Union, Va, Aug. "a, 1912.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

1854-David 'Belasco, New
York dramatist-producer and Gre
ator of stars. born in San Fran
cisco. Died May ID 1881.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

are claiming that woman suffrage.
lis a failure. Many politicians who
have been left at home by the
woman vote will agree.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

I844-Thomas Eakins, noted
painter of domestic life and stu
dies in sport, also sculptor and
teacher, born in Philadelphia.
Died June %, 1916.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
WEATHER FORECAST

Till 8 p. M, Thursday
Key West and Vicinity: Fair
tonight and Thursday; gentle to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

1857-Nat c. Goodwin, popu-
lar actor of many-wives fame,
born in Boston. Died in New
York, Jan. 81, 1919. i
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

1856-Charles Major, popular
novelist. born at indianapolis.
Died Feb. 13, 1913.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Ed. Goehring, who has been
connected with the Candy Bridge
company for the past several
years as construction foreman,
was recently awarded a. gold
watch bearing the following in
scription. "To Ed. Goehring from
Dad George L. Candy, for excel
lent work on Candy Bridge, July
4, 1924"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

1848-Earl Balfour, English
statesman, born. Died March 10,
1880.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

A cablegram received from
Cuban Consul Domingo Milford an
|nounces the death of his brother
in-law, Federico Toledo, in Ha-
Ivana Thursday. The body viii
arrive on the Steamship Governor
Cobb this afternoon and will he
taken to the Benjamin Lopez
Chapel. Funeral services will be
held from there tomorrow after
noon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

There were Is ships going west
passing Key West yesterday and
three going east. This report is
published through the courtesy of
the u. S. Weather Bureau sub
station at Sand Key.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Watson of
915 Southland street, announce the
birth of son in the home Thurs
day afternoon. The young man
has been given the name of Roy
Morse Watson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25
RainfaIfe

Barometer at 3 a. M, today;
Sea level, 30.0l.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-25

Editorial comment; Some people
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Philadelphia Labor Board
Rules That Lees Mil ReODen
Today, Barring 900 Strikers

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. AFTER
having killed one young worker on
Oct. q and gassed a large number
of others, including women and
children, through their special dep
utieS, officials of the Lees Wooden
Company called on the Philadelphia
Regional Labor Board to finish
their strike breaking job.
The Board ruled that the diff
culties" would be settled by the
mill re-opening. But close to 900
workers are not to be re-hired until
conditions warrant" and 10 others
are to come before a special COM
mission charged with violence, etc.
This is exactly the same kind of
decision the Board made in the
Budd strike, which kept 800 men
on the street for almost year, and
In the taxi strike, which blacklisted
Is men forever.
Charlotte Carr, State Secretary
OF Labor, was present at the hear
ing, and Mrs. Cornelia Bryce
Pinchot announced she was ready
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

to come on the picket line next
week, if differences are not set
tied by then" However, workers
remember very clearly her per-
Torrance at the Collins and AK
man mill here two weeks ago, when
she headed more than a thousand
pickets, and then told them to go
home or to their strike hall.
Workers packed the court room
in Norristown on Oct. 4, and sew
eral thousand others surrounded it.
while the five thugs who started
the shooting were given a hearing.
So high was the sentiment of the
workers that the magistrate held
the thugs in no bail. But their at
torney spirited them out of the way,
and got Judge Knight to release
them in $4,000 bail, in spite of the
fact that Elwood Quirk, young
worker whom they shot, had died.
Workers here are carrying on mill
tant agitation against the City
Council, several of whose members
are foremen of the Lees Mill, with
relatives scabbing there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Philadelphia Councils
Smash Discrimination

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. T.
Smashing down fragrant case OF
Negro discrimination, a committee
of IS workers, elected at a meeting
of the Unemployment Council,
forced the relief Office here to grant
immediate relief to Ruben Jones
and his wife, an aged Negro couple
who had been denied relief for five
years.
Immediately after the case was
brought to the Councils, a commit
tee of Negro and white workers
placed demands with the local re-
lief supervisor for an end to the
discrimination against this family
and all unemployed Negroes. They
demanded that the slurs and in
suits hurled at the Negro unem-
ployed be stopped at once and all
committees of the unemployed be
recognized. After the workers stated
that picket lines would be thrown
around the relief station unless the
demands were granted, the relief
supervisor was forced to accede to
each point.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Rally Called For
Spanish Masses
Continued from Page u

road left open to them in the
struggle against starvation and
worse, slavery-that is, the road of
revolutionary struggle for establish
ing workers and farmers govern
ment.
This united action should be an
inspiration to the Socialist workers
of New York to unite with their
Communist comrades in the strug-
gle against the hunger, fascisn and
war program of the New Deal
"The Communist Party and
Young Communist League of New
York call upon the workers and
youth of New York to support the
struggle of the Spanish workers, to
defeat the forces of fascist reac-
ton. Members of the Socialist
Partyl Members of the Young Peo-
pies Socialist League! Members of
the American Federation of Labor!
Join in a mighty demonstration to-
morrow-at IL nOon-in front of
the Spanish Consulate-53rd Street
and Madison Avenue.
crush to the defense of our Span
ish brothers! Socialists and Com
munists, unite your forces for the
victory of the revolutionary general
strike, and for the defeat of the
forces of Spanish reaction and fas-
cism!
COMMUNIST PARTY,
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE,
NEW YORK DISTRICT"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Rank and File
.AFL Delegates
toSpeaki

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting to
hear the report of rank and file
delegates to the American Fedora
ton of Labor Convention, now 60
ing on in San Francisco, will be
held in Webster Hall on Oct. Is.
The meeting has been called by
the A. F. of L. Rank and File Com
mittee for Unemployment Insur-
ance and Relief, whose national
headquarters are at Union Square,
this city.
The call has been iss1ed by the
committee for the national confer
ence of the A. F. of L. rank and
file, to be held at National Slovak
Hall, 516-518 Court Place, Pitts
burgh, on Oct. q and Is. All local
unions of the A. F. of L. are urged
to elect delegates to this national
conference, at their next meeting.
Questions to be taken up by the
national conference will include
report and analysis of the A. F. Of
L. convention; the campaign for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill; activities of local A. F.. of L.
rank and file committees; the Rank
and File Federationist; election of
a national executive committee;
and organizational questions.
The A. F. of L. Rank and File
Committee reports that a mass
meeting in Philadelphia of A. F. of
L. members has telegraphed the A.
F. of L. convention calling for the
passage of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill and
condemning the Wagner-Lewis Bill
as inadequate. The meeting was
held Oct. 6 in the Kensington Labor
Lyceum with Frank Mozer of the
Plumbers Union as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Atlantic Seamen
To Strike Today
Continued from Page y
ments that refused to remove the
strike breaking placards.
AxteI Pushes Scab Actions

mentS that refused to remove the
strike breaking placards.
Axtel Pushes Scab Actions
SilaS Blake Axtel, counsel for the
International Seamen's Union, con-
tinued his strike breaking maneu-
Vers yesterday. He announced that
leaders Of the I. S. U. were exert
ing every effort to halt the strike.
The New York Times said yester-
day that sit appeared likely
that some Of the lines would hasten
to announce wage increases to
strengthen the case against the
Communist agitators." Commenting
on this statement, Roy Hudson,
chairman of the Joint Strike Prep
arations Committee, said that it is
wage increases that the Communists
are demanding as are all seamen,
Communist and non-Communist
affiliated with the Joint Strike Prep
arations Committee.
IF the shipowners give wage in
creases they will be forced to do so
by the militant activities of the
Joint Strike Preparations Commit
tee, which is backed by thousands
Of seamen, officers and longshore-
men," Hudson declared. THE strike
breaking agreement signed by Vic
tor Olander, secretary of the I. S. U.
said nothing about wage increases.
1t was only after the shipowners
saw that the Joint Strike Prepare
tons Committee was going ahead
with the strike that they began to
talk about increased wages. A strike
will make them give us what we are
demanding"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

greater than seasonal decline in
output is due to the collapse of the
retail market. Tens of thousands
of automobile workers are being laid
off and the number of relief de-
pendents in Detroit is threatening
shortly to break all records for the
economic crisis.
In the fact of this situation,
County Welfare Administrator John
F.. Ballenger Friday answered the
demands of the unemployed by an
nouncing plans for putting into eff
feet the proposals made by DR.. Will
liam Haber, State Welfare Admin
istrator, for slashing nearly half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Young Seamen Affected

Thousands Of young seamen who
have begun to go to sea in the re-
cent years are walking off the shirs
in solidarity with the old timers all
along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts
IN common fight for the improve
ment Of conditions aboard ship. In
the past few years the ship owners
have followed policy Of recruiting
masses Of youth into the industry,
using them to lower the standard of
living Of the men going to sea.
These youth were also recruited
with emergencies, such as the West
Coast strike and the present At
lantic and Gulf Coast strike in
mind.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union is making every effort to in
volve this important section of the
industry in the great struggle being
undertaken. Demands affecting
those ratings where youth are en-
ployed have been drawn I'D. The
strike demands include $50 a month
Tor Ordinary Seamen with SO in
creases at the end of the first and
second year Of sea experience. This
will do away with the mad scramble
for A. B. tickets which results in
men holding jobs for which they
really are not qualified. The de-
mand for the abolition of the deck
boy rating, which forces beginners
to work for SIS month, has been
raised.
The Youth Committee of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
has issued a special appeal to the
youth, raising these demands, and
calling upon the young seamen to
stand by with their adult brothers
The Youth Committee has also
taken the initiative in calling a con-
ference of all working class youth
organizations in support of the
strike. This conference is to take
place on Wednesday at the Textile
Trimmers Hall, 40 w. 18th st.
Attention, Y.C.L. Members
The greatest maritime strike on
the East and Gulf coasts has al
ready begun. This strike requires
the most effective and energetic
mobilization on the part of our en-
tire league in the New York dis
tr1ct. The following steps must be
Immediately taken by all league
units and members of the Y.C.L.
AL comrades available must
Immediately report for active strike
duty each morning at 7 o'clock at
the following points. All of Brook
Ign mobiles at Is Union st. All
OF Manhattan and Bronx at sos w.
10Th st.
2-All youth organizations must
be visited in the neighborhoods, Sc
curing the active and financial sup
port from these organizations. All
organizations must be urged to
send delegates to the conference in
support of the marine workers
strike being called by the Youth
Committee Of the M. VIII. on
Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the Textile
Trimmers Center, 40 w. 18th St.,
at pm.
3-The broadest agitation and
propaganda in support of the strike
must Immediately be developed
throughout the entire city. Street
corner meetings, issuance and dis
tribution of leaflets, collection of f.
nances as well as the collection of
relief must Immediately be devel-
oped by the units and individual
numbers.
DISTRICT SECRETARIAT,
7. G. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

workers, the government announced
that all wage contracts were can
celled.
Street car workers in Madrid and
other cities were ordered to go back
to work Immediately on pain of
being discharged en- masse. The
workers did not return, but made
every effort to stop the running of
the cars by strikebreakers.