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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
100000 A Day

APPROXIMATELY $500,000 day will
IA be given the Wall Street bankers Of
New York from the city treasury during
the next year, according to the budget
proposed by Mayor LaGuardia last week.
This astounding fact should be i'm
pressed indelibly upon the minds of the
workers Of New York City, employed and unem-
ployed, and the small home owners, already stag
gering under the crushing load of tax burdens.
The great liberal Fiorello LaGuardia, the st.
George who was to Stay the dragon of Tammany,
is seen again through the maze of budget figures
in his true light-aS defender of the bankers and
the uninterrupted flow of gold into their Golfers,
even as O'Bren and Walker before him. The S179,-
41685392 which the bankers win receive their
debt service is almost third of the city budget
for next year!
While the winter will bring miseries for the
jobless of New York City, Mayor LaGuardia, that
sterling representative of the people, coldbloodedly
sets aside almost one-third of the budget for the
Morgans, Rockefelers Aldriches and other bankers!
In the meantime, let us note the Departments of
Education Health and Welfare instead of having
appropriations for their phases of work steppedup
have been offered reductions.
XUE COMMUNISTS do not demand either
do demand, however that the budget of sup
posedly democratic municipal government be based
the principles of deriving the major portion of
its funds from those who have wealth and dis
ribung these funds to meet ali the social needs of
the masses of the people. This is the La Guardia
budget does ret propose. It. as every other budget
Of capitalist party, puts the central question
the regular payment Of interest to the bankers The
heaviest weight Of taxation is to be laid on the
shoulders of the workers and the middle class of
the city.
All this lends especial point to the demands of
the Communist Party in the forthcoming elections
a moratorium the debt service and the turn
ing over of these funds for unemployment relief
and the increasing of taxation of those in the
higher income brackets with the greatest part on
the bankers.
smashing vote for the Communist Party in
New York will be a direct answer to LaGuardia
who so calmly plans to turn over one-thrd of the
city's income to the bankers. Against this class
budget-capitalist class budget-every worker and
small home owner should protest. One of the best
ways to show that protest will be by voting the
Hammer and Sickle at the forthcoming elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
10000 Attend Funeral
Of Young Communist
Killed by Fascist
by Burck

paign for autonomy in Catalonia,
and especially in the industrial
Basque province in the North. In
the Basque province elections were
held in favor of autonomy and
large meetings were arranged, to
which CATALONIA sent delegations.
The government began using re-
preSsive measures, made arrests,
and the latest move is that as a
protest all of the mayors of the
Basque cities have resigned.
On Wednesday of the same week
the Communist Party of Spain an
nounced that it had decided to join
the "Alianza Obrera" on the condi-
ton that they could keep their own
political line. The "Alianza Obrera"
is the Socialist united front vehicle.
United Front Meeting
The following Saturday, Sept. Is,
the government permitted, or rather
was forced to permit, a united front
meeting of the Socialist and Com
munist youth organizations in the
new university stadium as a pro-
test against the latest government
decree forbidding youths under %
years of age from joining political
parties without consent of their
parents.
From all of these occurrences
there is of course one fact which
stands out clearly, and that is that
the Spanish masses who, up until
about the time of the funeral had
been for some time on the defen-
sive are now once again on the Of
fensive. More than that they have
gained important victories and they
have been greatly encouraged and
consolidated by the fact that they
have gained the victories. The
united front is, of course, OF great
est Importance and the increasingly
left position of the Socialist Party
made it possible in its present form,
although it would have been made
by the workers themselves in any
case. Furthermore, it is increas-
ingly evident that the center repub-
lican parties are, becoming OF less
and less importance and it is not
question today of republic or mon
archy, but Socialism against Fas-
cism, bourgeois versus workers, in
other words, the day of the tricky
Jesuit method of slipping Fascism
in gently is nearly over.
The Anarcho- syndicalist group
leaders are still doing all in their
power to prevent the united front,
but there are signs that the mass
of their party will force the issue.
OF all the former leaders of the
Socialist Party the only one left
with any prestige at all is Largo
Caballero who is still believed to
be real revolutionary leader by
his party. The Socialist Party,
which some time ago denied the
necessity of partial struggles, is
more and more entering into them
when they themselves are attacked
and are in danger.
The Spanish workers and peas
ants are beginning to see for them
selves what the CommunisI Party
has been saying right along, and are
going over into the offensive
against Fascism toward the path of
the Bolshevik revolution of October.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Tells of Wide Growth
Of Communist Party
Influence, Strength

From one of its two cOrre-
spOndentS in Spain, the Daily
Worker has just received very
important article on the situation
in that country just before the
present armed struggle against
Fascism. The article follows:
MADRID (By MaiD-Conditions
are such in Spain that the final
struggle against capitalism must
come soon. Hunger plus recent
events in Europe, plus the prop
uganda and organization of the
Communist Party of Spain, have
made a great deal of difference.
When the revolution occurs in Spain
you can be sure of one thing, there
will be no more playing around with
Socialist reformist laws and other
forms of parliamentary nonsense.
1t will not be another wordy, good
natured revolution. It will be the
dictatorship of the proletariat in
some form or other. The Spanish
worker and peasant knows what he
wants, and I think he is going to
get 1t in the near future.
Republic Discredited
The democratic" republic has
been a sad experience for Spain
and it is very much discredited, any
day may see it collapse completely.
The repression is becoming stronger
and stronger each day and with it
the rising temper Of the masses.
The socialist, communist and
anarchist press is being conflscated
nearly every day with the object
of running them financially. Lately
the government has been announc-
cling the discovery of socialist arms
and ammunition. This looks like a
prelude to the act of declaring them
Illegal. The simplest acts take on
an exaggerated political Importance,
as for example, the transferring of
the remains of Galan and Garcia
Hernandez, the heroes of the late
revolution from the town of Jaca
to Madrid, where they were supposed
to be reburied with republican
ceremonies.
The amazing feature of it is that
the present supposedly republican
government which organized the
whole thing and was supposed to
march behind the collins leading a
republican demonstration, was
forced to call it off because they
knew that they would have march
ing behind them Q hostile revolu-
tionary mass. The separatist rcove-
ments in Catalonia and the Basque
province have been converted so
that today every one knows that
they are phase of the class
struggle. :.
The Fascists have for nearly a
year been trying to establish a mass
basis for themselves and it has cost
them a lot of money with little re-
suits; not counting what they had
to spend on the last election. In
that year the Communist Party has
grown to an astonishing extent not
only as far as moral influence is
concerned but as to actual strength.
So that as far as the Fascists are
concerned it has nearly reached the
point where it is a case of a brutal
military dictatorship or nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Correspondent Describes Situation
In Spain Before Armed Fight Began

Conditions in Spain have their
own peculiarities; a more or less
weak degenerate and semi colonial
bourgeoisie faced with a vigorous,
wide awake and highly educated,
from the political point of view,
working class; together with an in
Ihammable and revolutionary peasant
class. These are not favorable con-
ditions for Fascist dictatorship. Of
course, there is the police but they
have had them right along and they
have not succeeded in holding their
own. There is no reason to suppose
that the police will do any better
in the future as the economic con-
ditions become worse and worse and
the contradictions reach the break
ing point.
What Will The Army Do?
And the army, what about the
army? The Spanish army is very
different thing from, for example,
the Reichswehr or the paid troops of
our own country. The adventure in
Morocco with its grating generals
was an eye-opener. The Spanish
army has demonstrated time after
time that it will not fire on it's own
proletariat, in fact it has shown that
it is more inclined to fire on the
police. After all is said and done,
the Spanish soldier is nothing more
than working man in uniform and
with rifle. There is a reason for
removing the triggers from the
rifles of many Spanish regiments
during times of revolutionary out
break.
In the early part of September
some Fascists, surrounded by their
professional thugs, attempted to
distribute literature in "Cuatro
Caminos," a working class district
of Madrid. These leaflets prom
ised work to the unemployed If
they would join the Fascist Cath
Ole unions. The workers gathered
and stopped this sort of business
at once, but one of the thugs, be-
fore leaving, shot and killed the
unarmed Joaquin del Grade, a
member of the Communist Youth.
No less than 10000 attended
the funeral, Communists, Socialists
and Anarchists, the Socialists wear
ing red shirts and blue ties and the
Communists blue shirts and red ties.
The discipline was excellent and
among the crowd were distinctly
visible a number of soldiers. The
police, as you can imagine, were
present in full force with collec-
ton of their latest weapons, and
you can gauge the state of their
nerves when 1 tell you that one of
them fumbled his rifle to such an
extent that it went off accidentally
and wounded a captain and another
police private.
While the coffin was being low
cred into the grave an aeroplane,
piloted by a former military flier
and decorated with red streamers,
dropped wreath of flowers on the
coffin. The aeroplane was, Of
course, heavily cheered and it was
amusing to hear the Madrid working
man cheer what he called the first
of the future red air force of Soviet
Spain. The aeroplane incident, of
course, reused the extreme fury of
the conservative papers, and the
aviator has since been fined 5000
pesetas, which amount is being
raised by popular subscription.
There has also lately been an
other decided outbreak of the cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

July 81 at the station on the alb
surd charge of "wrecking, in favor
of the U.S.S.R" and were impris-
oned in the quarters of Man
churian police detachment.
During their imprisonment Koz-
loWski and Vakhroushev were sub
jected to brutal tortures and beat
ings by White-guard police and also
BY the japanese in order to force
them to give false evidence, as alb
surd as the charges preferred
against them; such as "organiza-
ton for preparation to mutiny,"
preparation for attack upon the
japanese military MISSION" etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

Contributions received to the
credit Of Harry Cannes in his So
cialist competition with Change
the World" and the Medical ADJ
visory Board in the Daily Worker
$4,000 drive.
G,rcSo csOO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Soviet Societies Help
Japan's Storm Victims
Especial to the Daily worker)

MOSCOW, Oct. (By Wireless).-
The Soviet Red Cross and Rcd
Crescent Society have sent to
the Japanese Red Cross Society a
message Of coincidence on the oc-
casion of the severe typhoon
which struck Japan recently.
The Soviet Red Cross and Red
Crescent placed 100000 yen at the
disposal of the Japanese Red Gross
to aid the suffering population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Manchurian Officials
Send 2 Soviet Citizens
Over Border to USSR

VVF0V17-I FtUrHUrT
MOSCOW, Oct 7. = japanese
Manchurian authorities have trans
ferred eros the Soviet from
tier into the territory of the
U.S.S.R., two Soviet citizens, en-
ployes of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way.
1t was learned that Kozlowski
and Vakhroushev weer arrested on
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
Return To Old Fundamentals
Seen In Housing Plan Loans
Reversal OF Whole Mod
ern Trend On Prin-
ciples On Which Bank
ing First Began
By BYRON PRICE
'Chief of bureau, The Associated
Press. WashingtOA)


'Chief of bureau, The Associated
Press. WashingtOA)
Unlike many of the Roosevelt
policies, which spring from
theories new to American thought,
the banking aspects of the hous-
ing program represent essentially
a turning back to old funda-
mentals.
The program proposes to make
character, rather than collateral,
the accepted security for loans.
That is a reversal of the whole
modern trend, but a reversion to
the principles on which banking
first began.
In effect, the government now
says to the banker: Here is
John Jones. He wants loan, but
can give only his word that he
will repay. He is an honest man,
with a good record for keeping his
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
OF
BEER In FLORIDA
SHOWS INCREASE
AUGUST TAX COLLECTIONS
BY BEVERAGE DEPART
MENT EXCEEDS ALL PRE-
VIoUS MONTHS

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Sept.
25.-Consumption OF 80 beer in
Florida is still on the increase,
and August tax collections by the
state beverage department topped
any previous month since the
brew was legalized in May, 1888.
j. A. Cormier, beverage de.
partment director, reported Aug
ust collections of $45,84 Sc.
against collections of $2S,553.1O
in the corresponding month of
last year.
Collections for other compare
tive months, Cormier said. were
$42,315.94 in July of this year as
compared to $26.658.7S in July
last year; $4O,S99.S7 and ST.
7S8.41 for June, and $4O,230.3S
and $24,73S.5O for May.
Total collections in May, June,
July and August of this year were
$3.50, 296.O5, an increase of SOL
557.26 over the corresponding pc
Rod last year.
So far this year. the beverage
department has issued 3,945 beer
dealers licenses, an increase of
293 over 1898.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25

over the door reads, unless you
are back by GOO we will lock you
OUT"
Sheriff Thompson discussed
this matter with The Citizen TODAY
and said he is looking for the
representative of the Associated
Press responsible for sending out
such an atrocious lie.
There are times" said the
sheriff, when we have allowed
prisoners to go to see their fami-
lies. However, this has been al
lowed only when it has been clear
~ proven that it was an urgent
necessity, such as severe illness
or possible death.
And whenever such privileges
have been accorded prisoner the
prisoner has always been accom-
panied by deputy sheriff or in
sstsfeM instances by the sheriff and
brief time limit set on their alb
sence from the Jail"
Asked if there had ever been
any irregularities noticed by The
Citizen. the reply given the sher-
iff was that for the past four
years or more The Citizen has
been a daily visitor to the court
house and Jail and has never motto
cd any action on the part of the
sheriff or his force to indicate
there was any truth in statements
to the effect that prisoners were
allowed any privileges other than
those provided by the laws gov
erning prisons and inmates.
The sign which has been on the
door in the wall surrounding the
jail for years is still there and
reads: "Visitors allowed from 5
to 6 P. NJ"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
THREE ARRESTS
EFFECTED CITING
PRIMARY FRAUDS
LEARNED ON GOOD AUTHoRl-
TY GOVERNOR WILL BE
ASKED TO APPOINT sPE-
cIAL PROSECUTOR

Three arrests in the matter of
alleged fraudulent conduct of the
First Primary election at the
Fifth and Seventh Precincts were
consummated yesterday after
noon.
Freeman D. Hall, E. c. Gomez
and w. B. Curry were apprised
of their alleged culpability by
sheriff's officers and Immediately
made the bond of $100 which was
fixed by Judge J. Vining Harris.
w. E. Huston, for whose ar
rest a capias was issued, did not
wait for service from an officer,
He saw the announcement in The
Citizen of the capiasses having
been issued for the arrest of
clerks and inspectors and his
name among them. He reported
to the office of the shriff and at
once made the required bond.
1t was learned on good author
ity that Governor Sholtz will be
requested to appoint special
prosecutor to assist County Solici-
tor Aquilino Lopez, Jr.. in con-
Quoting the case.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
MANY TAKE PART
in DOLL CONTEST
WINNERS IN COLORED PARK
EVENT HAVE BEEN
ANNOUNCED

More than two dozen negro
children participated in the doll
show held Saturday at Nelson
English Park under the supervision
of the parks and recreation de-
partment.
The winners were: For the
prettiest doll, Mercedes Hannibal,
Geraldine Ming and Elva Carey;
Best dressed, Mercedes Hannibal.
Geraldine Mingo and Janice
Thompson; largest, Mercedes
Hannibal, Margie Evans and Rosa
lie Henderson; ugliest, Eugenia
johnson, Evangeline Suarez and
ROsalie Henderson; smallest. Col
leen Henderson, Louise Suarez
and Elva Carey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
Great Interest Now Conferred
In Big Celebration Contest
Toward Selection OF Queen
Quite A Number OF En-
tries Already Made In
Outstanding Feature OF
Coming Event

When the coronation of a king
and queen takes place as the first
event in the twO-day celebration
Of FL Critic de Ysra here October
Q and 10. one Of IA Key West
young ladies will be crowned
queen with AdoIfO Naranjo, se-
isessd by the National Associa-
lion Of Hotel Representatives in
Cuba - prince for the eelebra-
ten.
The period for registration of
contestants in the campaign
closed Last Saturday, and today
those whose names had been reg
istsred for the contest were an
nouneed by J. S. Moore. CON-
msnder Of the local Legion post,
In charge Of the contest.
Ballots have been distributed
By Legionnaires to a score of mer-
chants who are giving them out
with purchases made at their
stores. and customers should ask
for ballot tickets, il was shown.
Each ticket has a value of 25
votes. and for each cents value of
a purchase. a ballot is given. ex-
eept that tickets have been printed
only In the denomination of %
votes.
II a person makes a 20 cent
purchase at a store, he should re
ceive one ticket which is good for
IS votes; IL he makes a 80 cent
purchase. he should receive two
tickets, good for go votes.
Here is the list of candidates
for the honor which will come the
evening % October o. when the
coronation ceremony starts thu
tNo-day celebration: Nela Arno.
Martha Carhonell COnsuelo Car
mona Anna Louise Castro, Solita
Cobo. Rosa Crusoe. Ida Kerr. Mo-
Faima OchOa, Virginia Perez,
Grace Rivera. Catherine Saun-
ders. Anna futile, Josephine
ubieta and Josephine Vascos.
The first tabulation is TO be
made the latter part OF this week
Il was announced. aud pictures are
60 be taken of the three high con-
testants. The photographs are to
be sent DO Miami and Tampa. il is
planned. where there Is consider
able interest ia the approaching
celebration here of III Critic de
Nara.
u g. absolutely necessary that
persons start turning in votes at
the key West Administration at
once. Ia order that the first tab
ulation can be made, 4 was shown.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
LEGION TO ELECT
OFFICERS DURING
MEETING TONIGHT
AMENDMENT TO BYLAWS OF
POST GOVERNING DRUM
AND BUGLE CORPS TO BE
TAKEN UP AT SESSION

Among the matters of interest
and Importance to come before
the regular meeting of Arthur
Sawyer Post No. %. American
Legion, tonight will be the annual
election of post officers, it was
stated today.
Officers to be elected are post
commander, first vice command
er, second vice commander, adj
jutant and finance officer, chap
lain. historian, sergeant at arms
! and three executive committee
men.
An amendment to the posts by
laws, governing the Drum and
Bugle Corps, will also be voted on
at this meeting, it was learned,
and in view of the fact that only
those World War veterans in
good financial standing are eligi-
bic to hold office or have the
privilege of voting, the command
er urges that all such veterans be
at the meeting tonight, which will
begin at 8 o'clock. and elect of
ficers who will function to the best
interest of the post and it's MEM
bers, and also determine, by their
vote, the disposition of the amend
ment to the bylaws.
Veterans can qualify for eligi-
bility to office, and all other priv
ileges of the organization, up UNI
til the time the meeting is called
to order, Commander Moore
states. and he urges all who can
do so to take advantage of this
fact tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25

By GEORGE TUCKER
NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-It is a
p. m. in Greenwich street and the
steel gates that barricade the en-
trance OF the valuted courtyard of
Greenwich police station buckle,
but do not give, as the mob strains
end tugs to catch a glimpse of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the
man who is charged with receiv-
ing the Lindbergh ransom money.
But they do not see Haupt-
mann. he is high in a secret
chamber, ringed by aceusers, tight
Tipped, adamant.
They see, instead, scores Of men
with yellow cards in their hats,
and scores of others with rectang-
ular contraptions with flashlight
bulbs attached. These are the re-
porters and photographers called
TO the spot to record the climatic
chapter i'm the biggest kidnap story
the newspapers ever ran.
Nightsticks Welded
They see dozens of policemen
mad plainelothes men come and GO
in a continual stream. They see
stout eOppers rap skulls with their
nightstieks when the crush at the
barricade becomes too great.
Inside, in the courtyard, the re-
porters and photographers are
tense and waiting. They take
stock of the surroundings, won
dering how they will manage to
break through that crowd and
reach telephones when the flash
comes.
Heavy footsteps resOund i'm the
hallway. But it is only plain
clOthesman. He goes directly to
four detectives who stand at the
door of a 1882 model car-the
automobile that was said to have
been stolen somewhere in New
Jersey the night before Charles
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-25
MAKING STUDY OF
BOOK RELATIVE TO
TAX COLLECTIONS
F. II. LADD, COUNTY OFF,
GER, MAKING STUDY OF
ITEMS AS PERTAINS TO AS
SESSMENTS

In the new issue of the volume
Of the Compilation of Laws Re-
lating to the Assessment and Col
lection of Licenses and License
Taxes are many changes.
This book has just been receiv-
ed by Tax Collector Frank H.
Ladd and he is giving it much
study before the first day of
October when licenses become
due.
In the volume are the enact
ments of the legislatures of 1929
to 1888 relative to licenses, the
contents are more comprehensive
than any heretofore issued and
contains many changes.
Many businesses are listed
which have not been carried in
former volumes and a number of
side lines which have been carried
in stock i'm connection with other
merchandise are listed separately.
In the former compilation of
laws the index of the contents is
contained in four and one-half
pages. In 1.-THE present issue the
index covers twenty and half
page and lists separately and in
dividually every conceivable form
of business that can be entered
into,